Yum!

We've been grilling! Adam and I have been using our craigslist find a bunch lately. This week we made pizza and corn on the grill. Yum! And it was all pretty easy.

I also made a strawberry pie this week and took it to Bible study. It was a big hit. Thanks for the recipe mom!

Trip Plans

In a few weeks Adam and I will be taking a trip to celebrate our one year anniversary. It has turned into quite a busy trip and here are the plans....

August 15- 25

Friday 15th - Fly to San Diego
Saturday 16th - Ryan and Carlee's Wedding!
Sunday 17th - Fly to Chicago
Monday 18th - Drive to Caseville, Mi
Tuesday 19th - Hang out in Caseville
Wednesday 20th - Drive to Mackinaw Island, staying at The Island House
Thursday 21st - Tour the island, drive to Petoskey, staying at The Perry
Friday 22nd - Hang out in Petoskey and Harbor Springs
Saturday 23rd - Drive to Elk Rapids for family reunion
Sunday 24th - Hang out in Elk Rapids and then drive to Chicago
Monday 25th - Hang out in Chicago and then fly to Cali

It will be busy but it will be a ton of fun. We are so excited!!

Sweet Deals

Adam and I have been thinking about getting a new couch for some time now. Adam really didn't think that our couch was very comfortable but I wasn't quite ready to part with it (espically after making that slipcover!--- but after washing it with a pen :( I decided that it was no longer the masterpiece that it once was). We decided that we would go take a look at some couches and start getting some ideas. So last weekend we went to Crate and Barrel and checked out all the different couches. We decided we liked the Potomac the best but weren't quite ready to spend $1600 on it. We left saying that we would continue to look around and maybe buy one in August. Well later that night, being the bargain hunter I am, I got on craigslist to see what was there. To my surprise there was a Crate and Barrel Potomac for sale in a neighboring town for $100!!! Adam suspected that it was a typo and it should have read $1000. So he called and the price was correct. We went to look at the couch on Tuesday and then Joel and Adam picked it up Wednesday. Yea!! New, cheap, nice, couch!!! There is one stain on the skirt but other than that it is in great shape!

Peach likes it too!

And in other super craigslist deals.... we bought a $350 grill for $75 last week also! It was pretty dirty but Adam gave it a good scrub and we grilled some brats last night and are going to grill salmon, corn, and tomatoes tonight!

Yea craigslist.com!

More Peach!

Check out her paws... three black and one pink. And look at that spotted belly!

And she just *might* be named after Princess Peach :)

Kitty!

We have a new addition!! Meet Peach!

She is a little shy right now and likes to hide behind the mattress. But she is getting used to her new surroundings and to us.

She has had a rough day. I got her from a co-worker who brought her to work this morning from Modesto (100 miles away!!) She spent the morning in her crate at the dental office. She did ok but was crying some. I didn't want her to be meowing all afternoon in the crate so I brought her home at lunch. She is tuckered out!

Stevie Wonder!

Stevie Wonder came last night to Shoreline Amphithteatre in Mountain View, so Courtnay and I went to go see him with a couple that we're friends with. It was so awesome! I (Adam) had been a big fan of Stevie Wonder since high school and had always wanted to see him in concert and this was a really great chance. So we bought some lawn seats and met up with our friends for the show. As you can see, we didn't have the most amazing view, but it didn't really matter. They had video screens of the band and the sound of course was great.

His song selection was a great variety of older and newer songs, as well as greatest hits and album selections. He started out with some selections from various albums, but he hit his stride at the end when he played several of his greatest hits in a row at the end. I can't remember all of the songs he played, but among others, here's a list of some of the songs he played in no particular order: "Creepin", "Visions", "Living for the City", "Golden Lady", "Higher Ground", "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing", "All I Do" (one of my favorites), "I Wish", "Isn't She Lovely", "Knocks Me Off My Feet" (another one of my favorites), "Sir Duke", "I Just Called To Say I Love You", "My Cherie Amour", "Overjoyed", "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)", "Ribbon In The Sky", "Master Blaster (Jammin')", "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", "Do I Do", and of course he ended with "Superstition".

Here are some more pictures (as you may notice, we shaved my head):

Here's Courtnay with our friends David and Tiffany (who is 8 months pregnant):

One of the greatest parts of the concert was watching all of the people dance all crazy. There were many different styles and for your viewing pleasure, here is an excerpt that I would like to call "White People Dancing Up a Storm":

Let the Painting begin!

Adam and I are in full swing painting out here in "The Cats." We are both really excited to move in to our new place in Los Gatos, but did not completely understand the amount of work it would take to paint it first. I got a little over zealous when I found out we could paint and picked out all sorts of colors. After thinking it over a bit, we are going to paint one less room and use 2 less colors. So we are painting the living room, master bedroom, hallway, and bathroom. The living room was a darker brown and not really my favorite color, but we are leaving it in the kitchen. The hallway was a bright light pink; yea, that had to go! The bathroom was a darker pink and the bedroom was a dark greenish blue color. Not really our tastes (not that Adam cares too much! Especially after he asked what color I wanted to paint it. I said "green" he said "wasn't it already green?!?" This was after we had primed it).

Sunday we got started priming all the rooms. Joel came over at night and helped us. We primed the living room and the bedroom.

I put 2 samples up on the wall. The darker one is going to be the living room and the lighter is the bathroom.

Monday, after deciding that the green for the back bedroom wasn't going to work, I felt as if I was back at square one for picking a color. I went back to Home Depot and stared at the paint for a while and couldn't figure anything out! I then called my mom and got some tips. She suggested a warm neutral. I felt like I was taking every paint sample by the time I left! I got home and taped them all up on the wall to try and decide. (I had more that I didn't tape up.)

Then I got started priming the bathroom. It is divided into two rooms and I gave the shower room two coats. Then Adam and I made a trip to Ace Hardware to look at more colors for the bedroom and then to Sherwin Williams. We bought one sample from SW and then stopped for a A&W float :) After that nice treat we went back to Home Depot and got the paint for the living room and bathroom and one sample for the bedroom.

So here are the current choices. Of course we can't really decide. Really we can't go wrong, they are both neutrals. But.... it is still a hard choice.

Then we painted the living room!! Yea! It is done. We put one coat on, chilled for a bit, ordered chinese take-out, and then put the second coat on.

It looks alot bluer in the pictures I think.

After we were done, Adam got to work on the other half of the bathroom.

Doesn't he look so excited?? I just can't wait till it is all done!