Baking!

Sunday we had some of our mtg. over for lunch... I didn't take any photos of our company - but here's a few of the food! :)
Portuguese sweet bread ~ Mrs. T's recipe. This is only my second attempt at baking yeast bread! The last one wasn't so successful. :-D
~ Pre-baking ~
Post-baking! :) Pretty and tasty!
For dessert I made Sopapilla Cheesecake Pie. This was appropriately chosen since we had tacos for dinner. It received rave reviews!! Sooo easy!!!! Recipe here.
Ready or not, another week is about to begin! I can't believe that January is over. 2010 is already going at a blazing fast pace!! We're looking forward to our trip out West in a few weeks. We'll be visiting P.'s family in WA/OR - I'm counting down the days... :-)
Happy February to you!

Cars, Cars, Cars ~

Saturday afternoon we spent a few hours downtown at the WaDC Auto show. This post may bore some of our blog readers, but I'm sure it'll get my brothers' attention! (apologies if that apostrophe is in the wrong spot...)
Audi R8
Lexus IS 350C
Audi R8 (convertible)
Mercedes SLS
Dodge Viper
Dodge 1 Ton, Dually
Nissan GT-R
Rolls Royce
Ferrari
Lamborghini
Corvette ZR1 (Peter would LOVE this to be occupying our garage...) :-)
Aston Martin
Us
Corvette Z06
Ken & Liesl joined us too - Really, I'm smiling UNDER the scarf! It snowed around 4" while were at the show. T'was about 16°... Brr.
Eating at Quiznos - I love this one!
We took shelter (and warmth) at the Portraiture Museum for a little while... then walked back to the metro to catch our rides home.
Cold!! P. was focused on shooting the photo and forgot to smile. :)
Base of the WA Monument as we drove by on our way home. Still snowing!
The snow quit last night about 11pm. We have about 6 (ish) inches - It's so pretty and fresh!

Girls night & birthdays!

We didn't plan all the pink! But had a fun night none-the-less. :)
Miss. T had a birthday... we were invited to help celebrate! Her lovely mama made this adorable cake ~
Birthday girl!

Monday Evening Update

Peter finished the batten so the top half of the front of the house is ready for paint!
(Which won't happen for awhile - I'll just be honest about that right now)
Here's my Craigslist deal of the day. :) $50 for this custom made bookshelf - pretty nifty huh? I'm thinking I might paint it black & then distress it? We'll see!
Happy MLK Day!

Siding Progress

Saturday and today (Monday) have been warm (relatively speaking!), so Peter has been working on getting some of the siding up. His first "test" section was this triangle between the porch roof and the garage roof. It looks great! He put this up on Thursday evening after work.
Full view of the house. Soon we will no longer be a huge advertisement for Lowe's! :)
Another view - from the front.
Kitty was a BIG help. :)
Saturday Peter finished the flashing on the roof and started on the board and batten.
Today he finished up the board and is working on the batten! :) It looks so good!
Hardworkin' hubby.
Who'd'a-thunk we'd be calling 45°-50° weather warm... but it definitely feels like a heat wave! :)
I don't remember if I have ever mentioned how the siding will look when it's done? It'll be a mixture of lap siding, board and batten and shingles. All the materials will be Hardi-plank and the color scheme will be a sage green with cream trim. Similar to the green on the walls in this room. (Do you think that would be too dark???) To get an idea of all the types of siding we will use, take a look at this house. They used the same three mix of materials.

New York & Company

Quite possibly my FAVORITE store... They're having a buy one, get TWO free sale!!!
Ladies reading this... GO, spend and SAVE! :-)
(you have my permission)

New Years Day

We decided to celebrate the New Year again on 01-01-10. (Just in case we hadn't partied enough the night before!)

This time was with some of the folks from our old Wednesday night meeting - who we miss terribly! Many games were played, much laughter filled the air, excessive amounts of food was eaten, and a wonderful time was had by all! Here's some of the Guesstures antics: (boys vs. girls)

David - Guess-turing "un-dress" - That's about as far as he had to go before the boys guessed it. Whew!

Jo - Oh how I wished I had gotten a photo of her guess-turing a "fire hydrant". She even managed to do it decently in a skirt! I'll leave the rest to your imagination. (think dog) :)

Darryl - "Attic"

Mark - "Smoke"

Liesl - "Telescope"

Lilleith

Ken

And now... drumroll... here's a hilarious video of Peter for you to enjoy. He's quite the actor!! :) Can you guess his words before the guys in the video do?

Such a fun night!

Happy 2010!

Friday night Peter and I headed out to the Neale's - where we go for Wednesday night meeting - to ring in the New Year.
On our way out...
Jennifer's table decorations - pretty!
The bountiful spread!
We made it all the way til' midnight... not looking quite so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as this first photo, eh?
Hope you all have a happy, healthy, content 2010!!!!!!!

Bad Day?

...pretty roses! Hubby knows how to make a difficult day at work SO much brighter.
I love him so much!

Porch Roofing

Peter worked this last week putting the shingles on our porch. It was less than 35° every afternoon he was out there - SO cold!
Dozer supervised from the stairs. :)
1/2 way there!
Almost done. :)
Now the roof is completely shingled and once the flashing is up, the house siding can be started!