I love Goodwill. My cousin goes to thrift stores often and is able to find tons of great stuff, but we only make it every now and then and still manage to find great stuff! There’s such a variety of clothing, you can find random things like equestrian clothing to school uniforms and every day t-shirts. Vernon will periodically stock up on shirts and jeans for work in attempt to keep his work clothes separate from the clothes he would wear if we were going out.

I’m not very interested in the clothing anymore but I do love the “home” sections where you find dishes and jars and all of that. I love looking for unique and retro items to hang in my home or use in my kitchen! Just talking about it is making me want to take a trip to our local Goodwill

I mentioned previously that we really need a tool shed in our back yard to get things a little nicer looking. After we get one of those, it’ll be time to upgrade our outdoor furniture to something not so… weathered. I was given a nice swing that I loved (although I get major motion sickness so I never actually swung on it).

As Lo is getting bigger, I really want our yard to be somewhere that we can spend evenings together while the sun goes down. As soon as she outgrows her Little Tykes swing, we’ll be getting her a bigger swing set with a slide to play on.

I’m not wishing away her being a baby but I admit I am very excited to watch her grow.

Vernon is the cook in our house. It doesn’t mean that he’s always the one to cook, (I’d say it’s 50/50) but he’s the GOOD cook. He is usually one to grill out on his charcoal grill, and anytime he’s cooking on the grill it is guaranteed to be an amazing meal. We’ve looked at electric grills in the past, but we just love the taste of something cooked on a charcoal grill.

My favorite thing for Vernon to cook on the grill is obviously steak. He also makes amazing brocolli and cheese and portabella mushrooms.

Mmm mm mm, I think I’ll have to get some steaks and charcoal this week!

One of the big things we had to do to prepare for Lo’s party was clean up our backyard. We need a tool shed something AWFUL, because just about everything that’s laying around in our backyard (there are even some things in our den) that would all go into a shed. Things like left over tile, our weed eater, Ferrari parts, gas cans… the works.

Vernon says you can make monthly payments when you buy them from Home Depot or Lowes, and I think once I get more freelance work we may just get one! Our front yard looks better than ever, but the back is seriously lacking!

And you’ll never have to eat carrots.

I don’t think any of our carrots actually made it. But holy wow has Vernon’s garden exploded!!

He’s been picking squash and cucumber like crazy! I am so proud of him, he went into this not knowing if anything would actually grow. Every day he puts so much effort into the garden, he really does have a green thumb!

He planted squash (two different kinds, I think), 3 tomato plants, okra, cucumbers, a green bell pepper, and banana peppers! So far the squash and cucumbers are producing the most, although we did finally get some okra but Vernon’s been working so much this week he wasn’t able to catch them before they grew too big.

We’re taking Lo to see her Memoo today and will definitely be delivering some home grown squash and cucumbers to her as well

Since I got some freelance work recently, it was time to dust off my Power Mac G5 because doing design work on a laptop drives me insane. I originally had two monitors hooked up to it, a Samsung and some random off brand that I bought at Wal-mart to hook up as a second monitor. We ended up hooking my Samsung up to Vernon’s computer since we weren’t really using my G5 but last night I had to bring it back to my computer because somehow I lost the cord I needed for the off brand one. I actually think I gave it to Lulu.

Anyway, all this monitor relocated made me realize I kinda want a third one, probably a Samsung because I LOVE mine, so that Vernon doesn’t have to use the crappy, smaller one. I’m trying to talk myself out of it though because we can stream Netflix over our Wii now, so there’s really no reason that he should need a nice monitor. We have enough junk as it is!