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Andy's Chicken Dinner

Last night Andy made me such a delicious dinner.  Being that he's a sous chef, many think I eat like a queen all of the time.  That is far from the truth.  He's at work Tuesday through Saturday until late which means I eat dinner alone and I eat whatever I manage to put together.  On the days he's off, the last thing I want to make him do is something he already does for 8 hours straight five days a week.  So I usually put something together for dinner when we can actually sit down together to eat.   

I am very far from the cooking level as a sous chef.  So when Andy does get a chance to make something, it's very special.  Last night he made his version of chicken scampi.  I just learned that scampi actually is the name of a small kind of lobster.  This dish, however, had no lobster.

I told Andy that if he cooked like this for me all of the time that I would end up as large as a whale.  I devoured this.  No correction, I inhaled this.  It was SO good!

Sunday Accomplishments

Yesterday was quite a productive day at the DeMasi house.  Excluding the fact that Andy was successful in helping to get his dad's car from being stuck at the end of his driveway, we both managed some minor tasks. 

Since we weren't able to get use of his dad's truck, we have yet to get our new bed.  I did however get a couple things done for our room.  I got our new bedding ordered.  I guess we're going with a sage, cream, and brown color.  It's got me thinking a chocolate brown or a sage would be nice for Andy's old dresser.  I also got a braided rug to lay in front of the bed. I was trying to decide on what to do on the wall above our bed, and finally decided on putting some pictures up.  I got a black and white picture of Andy and I from the day we met (which I still can't believe we didn't have a printed copy of before now) and a black and white picture of Noah.  I put these in matching frames and hung them up.  Small tasks but it's a start.

Again with my poor photography skills and this crooked picture taking result.  The pictures ARE level in person, I promise.

One of the biggest issues I have had since we purchased our used couch and loveseat was the awful pillows that came with them.  The, what you would call, decorative side was some weird looking black circle design.  I would flip them over to their tan side since the black circles depressed me.  The problem with the tan side was that it was very boring, bland, and to me made the room and furniture lifeless.  Well I FINALLY did something about it.  I found some cheap throw pillows at a local store.  I also found 3 chair cushion covers from the dollar store (I love random finds at those places) which I used with the padding from our previous pillows to make new pillows.  So now the loveseat and couch have new life brought back into them.  That simple change from the old dull pillows to the new brighter pillows really made the room feel much brighter.  Definitely not the most glamorous change, but with the primitive look glamour is not priority.

Our boring couch and loveseat before:

After:

I bought this metal thing with hooks because it matched some things in my kitchen.  I thought it would be perfect to hang coffee mugs on.  The problem, however, was that one of the hooks wasn't wide enough to hang a mug on it.  Instead of wrestling with the idea of trying to increase the size, I made a new plan of attack.  With 3 black and white wallet sized family pictures, some index cards, decorative paper, and the tie backs from my curtains cut into skinny strands I made this.  Again, not the fanciest of all things, but a nice place to display some more photos.  It took me a little bit longer than I originally thought to make.  Mostly because the concept of me and measuring things out before doing them just doesn't exist when I'm eager to have something done.  All in all though I feel like it turned out pretty nice. 

The most important tasks yesterday was completed my my sweet hubby.  He put together this AWESOME piano toy seat thing for Noah.  Once Noah's bigger and can stand/walk, we can remove the seat and he can just play.  Noah LOVED it!  I'm sure that in the middle of stomping the piano keys with only his big toe and singing a song in his cute baby voice, he was thinking, "What a thoughtful daddy I have!"

And finally after our day of success and Noah's musical production, Andy, Noah and I went to Andy's parents to watch the Academy Awards.  Noah and I almost made it all the way through without sleeping, but failed in the last half hour or so.  Once we were home and Noah was sound asleep, Andy and I enjoyed some much appreciated snuggling on the couch watching some King of Queens on Nick at Nite. 

I'd definitely say that was the perfect ending to a very great and productive Sunday!

A Big Happy Birthday!

To my adorable little niece Caitlynn!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!



Home Tour: Pellet Stove Room

I wasn't sure how I was going to do a house tour but then finally decided to break it up.  So once a room gets as complete as can be, I will post it in its completeness.  Although I know I will constantly be changing things around a bit.  So here's the first room and for lack of a better name we call it the pellet stove room.  Also, please excuse that's it is very obvious that I am in no way a photographer.

 The room wouldn't be complete without Noah's walker as added decor!

 I had to close the doors leading to the man cave.  Not that it isn't a fantastic room, but it kind of doesn't help the decor in this room.

And this is one of my favorite spots to sit with Noah in the evenings and enjoy the pellet stove!

A Big Happy Birthday!

To my beautiful big sis Becki! 



Love you and see you in about 42 days!

Random Things

I finally found a fruit I don't like, those yellow grape tomatoes. They pretty much made me gag.  I find this weird because I love tomatoes and all types of fruit.  But these things I will forever say no to!

I found a lady selling a queen sized headboard with matching dresser on craigslist.  After emailing her and getting pictures and the price she wanted for them, I decided it was not what I was looking for.  After no further response from me for less than a week, she lowered the price by 55 dollars. Maybe if I wait another week, she'll email me with yet another lower price.

I hate odd numbers.  I'm pretty adamant about having things in even numbers too.  That means we have to have at least one more kid.

We finally bought a new washer and dryer and they're finally installed.  No more washing clothes at the inlaws and better yet, no stinky laundromats where you spend 20 bucks on 2 loads!

I'm sick.  Which makes me want to curl up in bed and watch the food network and HGTV all day long

To cheer me up because of being sick, Andy sent me a cheerful picture of Noah.  Noah seems to have found his vocal chords and likes to yell at us every waking minute.  It's the most ADORABLE thing in the world!  He also enjoys how mommy blows raspberries on his belly because it sounds like a duck.

I bought a bunch of stuff at a local thrift store at lunch for only 12 bucks.  I got lots of goodies to decorate with, even a miny project which I will post about once it's done.  For some reason they only had gift bags to put my purchases in.

Finally, it's pretty sunny and significantly warmer today than it's been.  Some of the snow has even melted.  But for some reason, this makes me want to go out and build a snowman.