Chicago part 1 Lego Store

I've been wanting to get this posted but I just haven't been feeling well lately. I am going to post our Chicago trip in lumps. I am starting with the fun Lego store. It never ceases to amaze me what people can do with Lego's!

I would expect this one in Florida, but here it is in Chicago.

Ok, so I put these in the wrong order. This is the middle of the Chicago skyline and yes, this is all done in Lego's.

This is the right end of the city scape.

This is the left side of the city scape.

Watch out Indy! That snake looped through the whole store.

The Windy city!

19 years

On July 29, Rob and I celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary. So what do you get your spouse after 19 years? Practical things that's what!

The faucet in the kitchen sprung a leak a few days before our anniversary and was spraying water out the side of the neck when ever we turned it on. So this is the nice, shiny new faucet I have. I like the high scoop. It makes it easier to fill my stock pot.

When it is summer and Rob starts wearing shorts for work he has to have official brown socks. The problem is that they are expensive. For 6 pair I paid a lovely $32.00. It is the only part of his required uniform that we have to pay for.

Bedroom re-do 3

When you have the most awesome dad ever you leave for girls camp and leave him a list of things to do in your bedroom. One of the things on Emily's list was to outfit her closet with 10 shelves. 5 on each side. She left the measurements she wanted and this is how it turned out.

The UPS man hard at work.

Left side

Right side

Bedroom re-do 2

On Thursday, July 28th, my sister and her daughters came up to paint Emily's room. It was a fun day. Emily has decided to have a traveling theme so you will see that carried out in the room.

Erin and Emily paint the Eiffel Tower Carribean blue.

We went for the optical illusion with the closet. This closet sticks out into the room so from the hall it looks like it is just one solid wall.

The rest of the walls are painted Ultra white.

Bedroom re-do switcheroo

For part of Emily's birthday my sister Yvonne and my mom gave her a gift card to re-do her room. Emily has had the master bedroom for the last 10 years so with the drum set gone I seized the opportunity to re-claim my room! So, you are now entering a no judgement zone. My bedroom has had this paint scheme for 10 years and is very outdated. Yes, it is purple and yes, it is sponge paint. I had already prepped to paint for Emily's new colors when I remembered to take the pictures so the blue tape is a current addition.

Farewell drum set

Emily made the choice to sell her drum set. I was surprised that she wanted to do it. She has been playing the drums since 5th grade. She is ready to focus on getting ready for college and the older the set gets the less they would of been worth. She got $10.00 less than her asking price so she was super happy.

One last jam session.

PLEASE MOM!!

This is my two silly children. They wanted Dairy Queen one night and I didn't say yes fast enough so they started begging. How could I resist these two cuties? I didn't, we went.