House Work & Fun

Warning: Photo Heavy Blog : in case you haven't figured it out- to get a better look at the pictures click on them to enlarge. they seem not be uploaded in the large file i save them in. hmm i'll work on it :)

ps: this blog refers to Saturday, i got home later than midnight. Not in time to blog on the "correct" day. OOPS.


Today was such a busy day. Got back late Friday night from the wedding. Woke up at 9 and went shopping with my mom.

I got a new shirt and headband, then we went to this cute vintage place called "The Hogshed"

They have furniture, trinckets, jewlery, frames, napkins, candles, just the most adorable stuff. It literally used to be a hog shed. Ironically enough my moms' best friend used to live at this place years back when it was actually a farm.

For lunch we picked up my dad after he got off work and went to Subway.

Got a few groceries, quietly mocked people while doing so. Then when we got back home we started with the yard work.

Planting flowers, re arranging and cleaning the porch, i mowed the lawn, and the best part of our day outside. The pressure water machine!.

Me and my dad were having a lot of fun with it :)

We are planning on re painting our house this summer, but all our old paint was chipping off and we didn't feel like scraping our whole house with a wire brush to get the loose chipped paint off to ensure the new paint will not just crack off within a year.

This poor guy lasted a lot longer with the pressure machine than i did, it was tough because the paint chips would fly back at you and with the breeze you would get wet. He got the whole side of our house done in about 4 hours, we are about 1/5 of the way done. Ha and the house looks like it has taken a beating. But it is going to look beautiful at the end of all this.

My mom insisted that SHE wire scrap the house where the deck/porch is to prevent would chips from flying in the porch. Supposedly things were flying in her eyes so she wore double protection. HA.

So after all this yard work, we decided meh nothing else to do lets load up the kitchen table that i'm getting and some chairs and head to my college city for dinner. We were outside from noon to about 400. And my parents wanted to leave the house by 430.

Remember i have paint chips and am sweaty from working, and i have 20 min. to get ready.

i am really loving these black canvas shoes that i got. They are cute comfy and match with almost any outfit. I slipped them on despite my dirty feet that were covered in grass from me being an idiot and mowing the lawn in my rainbow colored sandals.

On the way down to my place we picked up my brother in St. Paul. We ate at Pi Pizza, unloaded my stuff and back to the cities we went.

Of course we had to stop at the Blue Door Pub, Alex got a huge burger {after just demolishing a pizza 2 hours earlier} we got an order of cheese curds AND deep fried cheese cake.

If i were home this summer i would be 25 pounds heavier that is a for sure thing.