Birthday Weekend!

This weekend was pretty busy for Dave and I. Friday I had a Tastefully Simple Party, which is always fun because you basically visit with friends and EAT!! Saturday, Dave and I went bowling and to dinner with his co-workers from his old job at Amsco, which is always fun catching up witht he old crew! One of the girlfriends took pictures, so hopefully I'll have some pics to put on the blog shortly. Finally, different pictures besides the house!! Sunday, for my birthday, we had my Dad and family over to watch the Bears game...boy, was that exciting! (Dave even put on his Chicago Bears t-shirt for good luck) I can't believe the Bears actually have a chance to win the Super Bowl! Anyway, not much else to share at this point...hope everyone's doing well!

New Curtains!

Okay, so kind of a lame blog topic...but, Dave and I bought curtains for our family room windows and I was pretty happy with how they turned out. So, for everyone that keeps 'bugging' me to put updated pictures on the blog of what we've done to the house, you'll have to be satisfied with these pics for now. Although, the pictures don't really do the curtains justice since our lighting is terrible in that room, you can't even see the colors! Also, we did get a scarf to go across the top windows, but we need to get a tall ladder to put those up..so, this is the halfway complete picture!

But, silly story about these curtains. I brought in two women to look at the windows to give us suggestions on what we could do to make them look good and after I got the first quote back, I immediately went to "plan b" which was the JCPenney catalogue. The lady wanted more than $3k to do 3 roman shades and a scarf across the top three windows!! We spent less than 10% of that and I'm happy with what we did!! So, word of advice, try to bring our your creative talents yourself when it comes to window treatments!!

For those of you interested in the house, I'm hoping to get the master bathroom painted by the end of the month (January is so darn busy for us!!), so I can add those later.

Happy New Year!!

Dave and I had a great time with a group of friends on New Year's Eve! We went to Rock Bottom Brewery in Warrenville and had lots of yummy food and plenty of drinks to go around! I hope everyone had a great New Year's and hopefully we'll see ya sometime soon in 2007!!