The New Kitchen

Finally - Here are pictures of our re-done kitchen. We painted the walls and the cabinets and replaced the stove and dishwasher! So, here you go....

Before...ignore the dirty dishes. :-)






















During..it only took 2 days. I was proud of myself.












And the finished product! All white appliances...new curtains....and new decor!

STL ZOO

Last weekend was my company day at the zoo. We decided that we would go after church on Sunday. WOW WAS IT HOT!!! We didn't last very long. We got there and saw the monkeys and reptiles, had lunch, and then went to the "limited time" dinosaur exhibit (which included a 3D simulation ride that wasn't very good). After that (only a couple of hours) we called it quits and I spent the rest of the afternoon at the pool.


The dino exhibit

in the monkey house

Meggie's Graduation

Memorial Day weekend we went to Hendersonville...for a couple of reasons...but the biggest was to see my cousin, Megan, graduate high school. She will be attending college at TCU in the fall. We love you Meggers and are very proud of you!!!Walking accross the stage!

John, Molly (Meg's sister) and I after the ceremony (it was long and boring).

Megan with her family after the ceremony.

Meggers and I after graduation! Isn't she beautiful! I love her :-)

After graduation, the whole fam went over to my aunt and uncle's to celebrate. We spent time out by the pool and went out on the lake. I took John for his first Sea Doo ride.

Here is Lily...she is two and adorable.

Sydney and me before getting in the pool. She is going to be a heartbreaker one day.

Memorial Day Weekend in Nashville

My cousin, Chad, was in a baseball tourney and was voted the MVP of the tournament. We decided that we would surprise him with shaving cream when he got home (this was about 12:30 a.m.). It was great. Imagine...walking into your house in the pitch black and someone jumping out of the bushes. Wouldn't you be scared. We also decorated him bedroom with streamers (to say I'm sorry for the shaving cream).

Saturday we went to Granny's to swim. We Eli (pictured below), Kacie, Allie and I are the only ones who actually swam. All the guys stayed inside to watch baseball. Eli enjoyed the water and made it fun for us all.

Party for Baby Hills

Kat had a shower here in St. Louis a couple of weekends ago. Since I wasn't able to attend the awesome couples shower in Little Rock I went to this one. It was great...while we were showering the baby with gifts John and Karl hit the casino. Here are a couple of pics. (Kat I will send you the rest at some point! :-) ).

The new mom and the cardinals onesie John and I got for the baby!

I have lots of updates.....

....but.....not right now. Updates through out the week will include (but are not limited to)
1. Baby Showers
2. Fun in the Sun
3. Graduations
4. Shaving Cream Wars
5. Family time
6. New Kitchen

Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday weekend! It was nice to be off! :-)

I'm slacking @ this blogging thing

We have been keeping busy that is for sure. We have been to a couple of Cardinals games in the past few weeks. One of which my brother and his roommate came to with us. Both of which it poured down rain before! Just bad luck I guess. Here we are at one.

We have also been to Hendersonville to see my family (I didn't take any pictures) and we visited Jeremy and Rachel and their precious twin girls, Joy & Esther.

Over the past few weeks, we have been updating our kitchen. I say updating b/c it consisted of painting both the walls and cabinets, getting new decor and buying a new stove and dish washer. The appliances will be here on Thursday - so there will be pictures after that.

Also, John starts a new job on MONDAY!! That's right folks....John will now be a head trader at a small money management company here. He is sad about leaving his current employer but the new position has great potential and big opportunities for him. He is way excited as am I! Wish is good luck and send congratulations his way!

I guess that is enough updating for now.....

Oaklawn with the Robi

For those of you who don't get it Robi = the plural of Robus.

We flew to Little Rock this weekend to see John's parents and take our annual trip to the horse races in Hot Springs. We had a wonderful weekend and all managed to come back with a little bit of money. None of us lost too much! :-)

There has been alot going one for each of us both at work and at home. I come home from work and forget all about the blogging world. I will try to be better, but can't make any promises!

Hockey Game

John and I went to the Blues game last week. Considering John isn't a hockey fan....we had a good time. I managed to get free tickets at work that were in the club level. So we got free food and beverage! Who wouldn't take up that offer!

Patton 1 & Friends

There is a group of us from college that have decided that we will have an annual girls trip for shopping and doing other girly stuff. This year we decided to go to Pigeon Forge. Do to some unavoidable circumstances only three of the five of us were able to go. Although Haylie and Tristan were very missed....Kim, Alder and I still managed to have a good time.

Here is our cabin. It was really nice and not very expensive.














The hot tub on the deck was wonderful. We had some great talks! :-)










Before dinner one night!