Give Away Day!

Today I am excited to share one of my favorite shops on Etsy!!!

 

Corner With Love!!

 

Ashley who also blogs over at Corner With Love has agreed to do a give away on my blog. She asked me what I had in mind and I couldn't help to say chevron and polka dot!! My favs!!

 

She met my needs and made two! One for me and one for one of my lucky followers!!

 

Here is what is up for grabs:

 

 

 

It even has this cute little lens cap pocket! I am forever losing my lens cap!!

 

These make great gifts as well!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

Good luck!!

A Sneak Peek At The Kitchen

Soo remember when I said M had a fire course this past weekend? Well it was cancelled because they had no power!! Soo many people were without power over the weekend! 4 days... flooded basements and all! But we are lucky! The neighbours across the street - not so much:

 

But on the upside... it is +18!!! Gorgeous out!!

 

Friday night rolled around and believe it or not my partner and I won the prizes!! I also found this new wine:

 

Saturday M started to tear up the old kitchen counters...

Here is a look of what used to be:

 

Retro...

 

Topless:

 

Gracie and Lily did fine with it all until the vacuum came out... 2 beds... 2 dogs.. 1 vacuum

Can you guess who hates the vacuum more? Lily!!

 

We had to make a trip to Costco to buy a faucet and you can't buy a new faucet without a new sink. Right?

 

Well I didn't the faucet I wanted, and the sink is a bit overkill:

 

Everyone needs an industrial size sink right?

So we had to get an industrial size faucet too. We named her!

 

Introducing Farrah:

 

She is soo big she needed a name!

 

I told M as long as he does the dished he can pick what we get. Overall not a bad deal right? And the prices were right!

Don't worry that curtain came down!

 

M didn't finish until 11 PM Saturday night and was back at it Sunday and I am happy to announce we Phase 1 of the Kitchen Reno is done!! I will get a pic up of it soon!

 

M took me to the farm store on Sunday as well because he needed new coveralls for work, so I found these for myself!

 

Some nice new rain boots!! Its soo muddy at the farm I think they will come in handy!

 

I got a call today from the vet and Lily's blood work came out excellent!! We were all surprised!! Our vet is going to talk it over with an internist and see if we can cut back on some meds!! I almost feel relieved!!

High Freezing Five

We are covered in ice over here... the worst of the freezing rain storm happened last night and left us without power for a while over night and a lot of flickering last night and this morning. M got a call at 5 AM this morning and could barely get into his truck! It's solid out there! But I guess it's not snow...

 

1. We had a bank appointment last night! Remember when I said I was working on a budget to go over how much we were spending, well it turns out we are balanced. This was music to my ears! We went over some upcoming changes with our finances and everything still managed to work out. Yay!!

 

2. Gracie is doing well with the leash training and the doors! Here is to hoping it sticks when we try off leash!

 

3. Our kitchen counters will hopefully be installed by the end of the weekend!! M is finishing up his fire course this weekend, so hopefully on Sunday we will be saying goodbye to the old ghetto counters and hello to our new ones!

 

4. Looking forward to spending time with friends tonight for Games Night!!

 

5. It's the weekend!!

Thoughts On Thursday

What a "lovely" ice storm we are getting...

We all survived the vet appointment. We are waiting for some blood work on Lily, which will hopefully come with good results!! Now we need to work on losing some puppy pounds!! Not that my vet is concerned, but it would be nice!

Gracie is still being a pin head... she is just soo darn stubborn when she wants to be... instead of walking through door ways she runs... like she has some sort of door anxiety or is too excited to go through them. So we are working on curbing that behavior by using a leash on her when going through doorways...

Insert stubborn face....

 



Moving on to the kitchen counters... we have them... in the garage! Not sure when they are going to be in the kitchen!! Mike has the rest of his fire course this weekend. So he told me to go buy a faucet... this is what I am thinking:

Oh and it's on sale!! Save 45%!! I'm just a sale shopper, what can I say? I love a good deal!



Well I need to go organize my bedroom... the new duvet will be premiering, as well as clothes being folded and put away. I know it sounds fun...

Ugh... It's Vet Day Today....

Today, I have to take the dogs to the vet. I have avoided going to the vet myself ever since this day when I had to leave Lily there! My heart literally broke and continued to break as her health issues unfolded. It doesn't help that the last time I went I had to take Binx and leave her too!

The fact that we almost lost her, and I remained strong and fought back those thoughts, makes me think I just knew it wasn't time. But the fact that we almost Lily still scares the crap out of me! We have our very own little miracle on our hands!

Crazy that it has just about been a year (2 days short) since she was soo sick. But on the flip side, it's almost been a year and she has completely turned her health around! She fought soo hard just to be with us! Dog's don't usually survive liver failure!

But she is here today, she gained her weight back, but she is happy and has energy, is eating, she has finished the hard medications and is pretty much on maintenance now! So here is to hoping she is healthy!!

So I am putting on my strong face and heading to the vets with both Gracie and Lily again today, and I plan to leave with both of the them as well!!