Hoppy Easter!

Hoppy Easter? I know, super cheesy, but I couldn't help myself. So our Easter has consisted of sleeping in, grocery shopping and cooking for Easter dinner, not too bad if I say so myself.

We're about to leave to go to Easter dinner in Tahoe with the McLaughlins and the Gregos and due to the fact that Chris and I are veggies (two months!) we were asked to bring a pasta dish. So I went to my trusted Pinterest food board and found an artichoke spinach pasta recipe and cooked it up, along with an ice cream sandwich cake, which is ridiculously easy and tastes amazing.

I've included some pics of my Easter decor because, well, that's all I have to show for this Easter holiday! Happy Easter!!

I see you Antoinette!

So the only thing I DIYed was the Easter branch tree, and only in the sense that I got the branches from the front yard and stuck them in foam. I'm kinda looking forward to not having to decorate the house for a little while, at least not until 4th of July, I kinda miss my house:)

Cats, Loft Clean-up, and a New Volunteer Gig

I take a lot of pictures of our cats with my phone, too many, and mostly when they're sleeping cause they look sooo cute. This happens when Antoinette (never Achilles) hops on over to Achilles' papasan chair and sometimes, literally, lays on him and gets comfortable.

They're so cute! Especially the one with Achilles' paw around her...awwww.

So Chris was gone for a bit last week for Mopars on the Strip in Vegas, so I decided to tackle his messy loft, duhn duhn duhn. Not that he much likes me messing with his area, but I just told myself that I wasn't going to throw anything out or make it so it wouldn't be functional for Chris and his not so organized self, so I added three floating book shelves, I hung all of his pictures and certificates/awards, and just moved some stuff around, put things in little bins and pinned more to his cork boards.

The floating book shelves are so cool! I thought they'd be a unique way to store some books and little trinkety things. I have to say I really like the stick on cork tiles we got for his room, he has a lot of paper and patches he wants to keep, but they were just thrown in boxes, so now they're on display. I'm also very happy to have all those things hung up now, it filled in some wall space and got the pics off of his desk. And yes, that is an autographed signed photo of Wayne Newton:) When he got back he was very pleased with the work I put in, so that's always good, and maybe he'll let me tackle more of his cluttered areas around the house...

Lastly, I'm super excited because I started my second volunteer gig at a museum! I'm now volunteering at the Discovery Museum, which is a great kids' museum in downtown Reno. Yesterday was my first day and I was told to go out and play with everything, which I did! I had so much fun and I played with a bunch of the kids and showed them how to use some of the exhibits. I ended up with a buddy and she and I did the cloud climber together. Holy crap was I winded and not to mention exhausted! That little girl was climbing circles around me! Anyway, I'm happy to be there and happy to be gaining more experience!

Another Birthday Party, Tea and New Hair

When I highlighted all of the birthdays we celebrated in the last two months I forgot to mention Jenny and Fred's party! It was a lot of fun, in part due to the awesome fake mustaches we had, and of course the wonderful company.

Also, two weekends ago, we went to The Isles with some friends and had an awesome high tea! We'd never done one before, but it was so good, they served us bottomless tea with tea sandwiches, scones and other yummy treats.

Lastly, I kept forgetting to post about my hair! I got it cut three weeks ago and donated it to Locks of Love. My Pi Day post has a picture of my new hair, but I've included better ones here.

Happy Happy Friday!

Uber tasty spice cake

Everyone wore mustaches!

We laughed cause it was hard to smile with the mustaches

Some people already had mustaches!

It runs in the family

Dastardly

Looking very dapper

At least Chris found a use for his!

Happy Happy Birthday!

Love the monocle!

At the High Tea

Pinky up!

We each had different patterned teacups:)

Fancyness

<Clink>

And my new hair!

Shannon does a great job, as always. Thanks for sending me the before and after shots!

Happy Pi Day!

It's Pi Day and to celebrate Chris and I got some pie! Last year we went out and ate a pizza pie, but this year we decided to go to Joe's and get some apple pie a la mode, and Chris threw in a malt for good measure;) We were both ridiculously full, but that's ok, we love celebrating this nerdy-ass holiday, mostly because we get to eat.

Yum yum

The waitress said she gave me extra ice cream cause Chris had a malt:)

Birthday Extravaganza

I wanted to recap the birthdays we celebrated in January and February!

Nesha's Birthday!

We celebrated at the Cheesecake Factory in Vegas

And of course we had some birthday cheesecake

We're pretty awesome;)

Jen's Birthday!

We had a wonderful dinner at the McLaughlin household. Jen got some awesome headwear for her birthday:)

Of course the kids like to get in on the gift opening action.

Awww, they love their mom

The wee one likes to help

Happy Birthday Jen!

Ryan's Birthday!

Another wonderful meal at the McLaughlin's

I think Ryan had a great birthday:)

Organization Wonderfulness

Here are the pics I promised of some of the organization magic in my kitchen!

Here's the pantry, pre-chalkboard paint, with everything in containers and labeled! Makes me happy just looking at it:)

Spice racks from Ikea because I no longer had space for them in the pantry...

Chalkboard paint on the insides of the cabinets!

And hooks to hang utensils that were cluttering up drawers.

And they're all nice and labeled too...

...because I'm crazy

...

And we made a compost bin so we bought a small one that sits on the countertop and so I wrote the composting dos and don'ts on the cabinets above it.

Pantry with pain and a slim corkboard

Got this at Ikea. It replaced my calendar space and has cubbies for mail and hooks for keys!

And I got this from Ikea too so we could better organize the DVDs

So that's it! I did a few more things in the kitchen drawers and other random bits around the house, but these were the biggest things! I finished all of it around the second week of January and I'm happy to say that the new system is still holding up.

Are you wondering if Chris is as excited about this as I am? Of course not! He didn't think we had organizational problems before, of course, but he does appreciate the work I did and he thinks I did an awesome job, so that works for me:)