happy birthday to my little laura-lou!
my sister is 24 today. woooo!
we were going to go out and celebrate this evening but plans kind of fell through so we're going to head out this weekend for some birthday fun.
my birthday is next weekend and I'll be 26. what? where is life going? it feels like I was just turning 25 in the mountains. this birthday I'll be riding home from illinois but at least I get to see new states all day!
this summer so far has been a pretty good one minus the long hours I've spent doing nothing (which actually is what I wish for during the school year, ha). I did a lot of painting for Jennifer's craft fair in west jefferson that was a couple weekends ago. it was quite the experience!
my dad painted this. and it sold. why did I not inherit his artistic abilities?
my view for a lot of the day. I already picked out some of my birthday gifts ;)
of course the humane society was there and of course we had to go hold puppies.
my sister has an online store and I'm going to try and help her get on etsy. can my job be to make wine crafts all day? will the world buy them and support my life? one can dream.
and the other 2 kiddos because they are just cute.
I also had a sleepover with my 8 year old BFF.
pure bliss.
and this pretty much sums up our 4th of july:
we also recently experienced eating at Luna's Living Kitchen which is the restaurant where my friend rachel works. it is vegan, all natural, raw, locally grown food. most of the stuff they literally make right in the restaurant! it was such a cute little place and was delicious! even josh, the carnivore, loved his whole meal. if it wasn't so pricey, I would eat it every single day.
the dessert I got was a coconut cacao pudding and it was seriously the best dessert I have ever eaten.
and has nothing artifical! mind blown.
I also have ventured to ikea 3 different times. we are in the process of getting a loan right now for renovations and joshua said we can do the kitchen!!! so excited. plus we had to get stuff for our all new bathroom.
this is kind of what our new sink will look like but wider and we got a dark brown/black base.
can't wait to get it up on the wall!
I love this kitchen. I think we're going to stick with either white or grey cabinets.
we liked both. but we looked at lowes and granite was the same price or cheaper than the quartz at ikea so I think we're going to be able to do granite because our kitchen is so small! whoop whoop!
this past sunday we spent all day working outside and creating a new walkway area (we also watched the world cup final and germany won - that made the US look pretty good seeing as we only lost 1-0 when we played them! 2018, here we come).
it is coming together slowly but surely!
we bought some more plants to finish it off - they are ones that do well in shade so fingers crossed I don't kill these ones. we also want to put up a boarder around it. oh and grow grass/get sod? our front yard is not very pretty.
josh had to drive to virginia and back today so he'll be home soon! :)
chili sends her love! xoxo
