New Little Meliza

Well, we have another new canine girl in our family. She is an absolute sweetheart. She was down in Portland from Olympia for a cardiology appointment on Feb 17th. We went to meet up with the breeder, her son and the whole litter for the appointment so we could pick between 2 girls. It took us the entire hour to decide and it was SO hard to make up our minds. In the end the little one with the pink ribbon won our hearts because she was such a love bug.

It took us quite some time to come up with a name and only today have officially decided she is Bailey Meliza. Here are a couple photos of our little one.









Of course we are in the deep depths of potty training and she is really doing well. She finds the need to piddle what seems like every 20 min, but mostly she makes it outside. She has NOT once messed in her kennel, even during an 8 hour stint while we were at work. We are so proud.

Anyhow, just wanted to introduce you all. We are happy to have her :)

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

How have you been? Things have been rather quiet around here, so it's been a while since I had anything to post. But it's time to celebrate mushy love day. Every day is love day, Valentine's day is mushy cards and yummy dinner excuse day :) And also an excuse to create this CuTe sign to hang up on our mantle to decorate things up a bit for the lovey dovey day.

This has brought me such happiness this month. So simple,made out of only things I had on hand. I love this kind of project. Quick. Cheap. Cute.

On a different crafty note. We decided at work this year (since our Secret Santa fun was such a success in December) to make Valentines! I wish I had pictures of our heart baskets at work for you. They are light pink, hot pink and red with glittery names on them and they surround the whole island of computers at work. It is such a fun pop of color amidst a sea of sterile blue. Anyhow, the rules are like at school, if you make valentines for anyone, EVERYONE gets one. Thus began my journey to making 40 of these little loveys. Used Pinterest to find creative inspiration again and came up with this craft for my Valentine. All I needed was wax paper, my sewing machine and pink M&Ms. Step one above, cut out 40 matching pairs of hearts and sew together.


Step 2. Have Steve make a handy dandy M&M funnel to get those goodies into those tiny hearts.


Step 3: Fill hearts with chocolate love.

Step 4: Sew up the remaining edge. Gotta be careful to not overfill so they can still be sewn closed. I somehow failed to get a final product picture, but you can kind of see them in the background of step 2's picture (without the thread tails trimmed yet).

This was Valentines Day dinner. Surf n Turf. Starter course of Hungarian Mushroom soup in a mini roll bread bowl. VERY delicious. Dinner was a shared steak, tilapia with crab topping, mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus. Restaurant (almost) quality meal, for a fraction of the cost, no crowds and I got to eat dinner in my sweat pants. Happy? YES.

I didn't want to ruin a perfectly good dinner with my baking, so I left that to the professionals. Got us a sampler of Coconut Cream Pie and Cherry Cheese Cake. YUM-O.

Anyhow, that is how we celebrated love day around here. Hope you had a lovely day and got to spread the love with all your friends and family!