Playing Catch Up

Welp, we did it again.  Another month without a blog post!  Since pictures are worth a thousand words, here's our best attempt at playing catch up.  

We hit the town for St. Patrick's day and celebrated the fact that I have red hair.  (Ha!) Looks like Emilee didn't get the green memo, luckily we still love her. :) 

We confirmed our status as "best cousin and cousin-in-law" by refinishing Emilee's super old, super ugly dresser and turning into this beautiful masterpiece!  I was pretty proud of the outcome but am kicking myself because I forgot to take a "before" photo.  Just imagine a totally typical orangy-wood dresser and ugly gold/wood hardware.  Yuck, it looks so much better in Tiffany's blue. :)

I caught the first fish of the year! (Muhahaha)

We brought the Firebird home  - one BIG step towards having this baby on the road this summer!  As you can imagine, Kurt is on cloud nine now that his precious car is safely (and conveniently) sitting in his own garage.  It's a good feeling to see it all come together... now I'm just waiting to see this perty boy RUN.   

The boys continue to fall asleep anytime you leave them alone.  

Some things never change!

My lovely friend and co-worker is counting down the days until she welcomes her first little one into the world at which point she will be taking on a new role as a stay-at-home Mom.   This means big changes for me at work, although I will miss her dearly (and require regular lunch dates to adjust) I'm excited to take on new duties and am looking forward to starting my new position as the Senior Coordinator of Events and Public Relations. 

Speaking of work... I was contracted as the Volunteer Coordinator for the USA Wrestling Folkstyle National Champions again and somehow managed to survive.  This was my 6th year (or maybe 7th?) working the event and it's always an exhausting, chaotic weekend full of non-stop wrestling and great people watching.  Ha!  It's crazy to think that we somehow run 26 consecutive mats for 3 entire days, but it's true! 

Meet Pita Cotton-tail :) 

We celebrated Easter with family on both sides and we scored big in the egg hunts!  Oh yes, we still do Easter egg hunts even though we are clearly adults.  No shame here.  I scored the high dollar eggs at the Kelly's egg hunt and went home with an extra $30 and Kurt found a prize egg at the Simon's Easter too! Lucky us! 

Last but not least, Kurt sold the Jeep Wrangler (or as I call it - the Big Jeep).  He's been going back and forth about selling it for the past few months and finally opted to sell it as-is and save himself the time and effort it would take to get it back on the road (or off-road for that matter).  We put on Craigslist on Thursday, got a call Friday and had cash in hand by Saturday.  As Kurt says, he did it "for the greater good" (ie: our savings account).  :) 

That's all folks! Time to watch the storm roll in... Have a great rest-of-the weekend! 

Oh snap.

So it's official, I've been slacking.  I don't even know where to start so I'll start with this... sorry for the time lapse.  Lets throw this in too... sorry in advance for the rambling I'm about to do.  I hope nobody has high expectations for this long awaited blog.   I've totally been procrastinating because there's simply too much little stuff to catch up on and when it comes down to it there's not really any big stuff.   That's life right?!  All the little stuff comes together to become our everyday adventures. :)  The big adventures are few and far between and I guess you could say that we're in between for now.  No complaints on this end!

One big victory to report... Kurt finished up the 1951 Oldsmobile that he's been diligently working on for, like, ever.  Not only am I extremely proud and embarrassingly impressed with his work but this also means that we can finally park in the garage again... just in time for the nice weather.  (Nice timing Kurt, not.)  On a serious note, this was Kurt's first complete interior project so it's been really cool to see it all come together.  I'm admittedly uneducated when it comes to upholstery and/or cars so when this Oldsmobile landed itself in our garage I had a hard time visualizing the finished project.  I mean, it barely resembled a real car... no seats, no carpet, bare ceiling and bare doors... it needed some serious interior work.  Slowly but surely it came together with no shortage of late nights and long hours, until TA-DA there was a flawless custom interior where all that metal used to be.  I never doubted that it would get done because you'd have to be a fool if you think Kurt will give up on something but like I said before, I'm embarrassingly impressed.  In fact, this was my initial response: "Wow, you really CAN do this!"   ...Of course I meant that in the best possible way and lucky for me Kurt thinks I'm cute and didn't take it the wrong way, hehe.   To check out pictures of this monster project click here, and while you're at it go ahead and Like the Showtime Auto page on Facebook.

With this project under his belt Kurt is already making plans to get the Firebird moved up here and finished for the summer.  We are both giddy with excitement for spring to be here and warm weather to grace us so we can take advantage of our complimentary work schedules to do more fishing, camping, hiking, road tripping and general adventure seeking!  For now, we're excited for another family-filled weekend in the 'Loo... We've been spoiled by having family visit us back to back weekends and we're loving it!  This time we're prepping to watch our nephew wrestle at the Pee Wee State Tournament.  Maybe if I'm lucky I can find a way to pawn off some of Kurt's 68765168 wrestling trophies that he insists on keeping for-ev-er.  Funny story... more to come.

Adios Amigos! (Yummm that makes me want to go to Amigos and eat some fajitas!  Gosh I'm a sucker.)