Something to say

i feel as if i have a lot to say right now because i haven't really been keeping up and when i think of something neat or something i have heard or read i think to myself "hey, i should put that on my blog" and when the time finally comes for me to sit and "write" i totally blank. :)

so i guess i'll just start with what we did this weekend. let's see...i already blogged about our friday night {see Haylee's blog}. it was a lot of great fun!! saturday we slept in {sleeping in for us is around, oh, 8am!}, got coffee and danishes from Starbucks, ran around and did some shopping. we came home and i worked hours on the pool bathroom! then on saturday night Tim, Haylee and i went to church. ah. it was just great. our pastor was either on vacation or a short break, but we had the youth pastor and he is just so funny and energetic to me. he had SUCH an awesome message, it really touched my heart and put things into perspective for me. i am hoping to blog about some of the things he talked about {hopefully tomorrow or tuesday at the latest}. the worship was marvelous too, one of the ladies led it and i just admire her dearly, to some she may seem rough around the edges but to me she is awesome and i do look up to her. she's one of those, you can tell she's had a hard life growing up...but she's triumphed over a lot of things thrown at her and she's a better person because of it. i will have to find her myspace music page as she has put out a contemp Christian music cd. her husband is a guitarist and if you've heard of a man called Lincoln Brewster, well, they play with him all the time at his church in Northern CA {which one of mine and Tim's old friend goes to! how awesome is that?!}.

anyway...sorry kind of went off on a tangent there. ;) so that was our saturday. today, sunday, we "slept in" again today, got ready and went out to brunch at El Torito, yum! then went shopping AGAIN but just for some things we needed for the house. :) then we drove around, it was pouring rain for the better part of the day. it rained off and on yesterday too. nice weather, but sleepy weather. i finished the pool bathroom today and took some pictures {ok, i took a lot of pictures}.

so, here they are...my "before" and "after" photos of the pool bathroom. we decided to go with a beach/coast/ocean theme since it's the pool bathroom. i think it turned out REALLY well! this is not the style of the rest of our house, so it was really neat to get to do this with this bathroom. {Ann...i hope we did it justice!} please let me know your thoughts! i have to give credit to tim...he installed the light fixture and the mirror. he also spray painted the wicker cabinet and he helped me paint some of the bathroom. :)

before pictures:

after pictures:

it's amazing what a few coats of paint and some pretty decor can do. i mean, this bathroom was in really good shape to begin with, but i think it's looking pretty serene right now. :)) now the weather needs to WARM up so that we can go swimming in the pool and put this bathroom to good use. ;) {ya, that sounded kind of weird i know}

so as far as sickness goes...i'm not going to talk about it too much on the blog because once i do it takes a turn, mostly for the worse. but my throat is hurting tonight, hope it's just my allergies. Haylee hasn't complained all weekend, thank GOD.

well -- i am really excited. this week on friday at our church we're having a guest speaker, Michael Franzese. he was a bigtime mob person {so i don't know the technical term} anyway, he was some head guy in the mob and he changed his life around, or i should say God changed his life around, so now he's a big time leader for GOD. :) his wife, Cammy helped him and she's going to be there too speaking about it. from Goodfella to Godfella is the title, how witty! :)

then the following week Tim, me and my friend from work and her husband are going to see the Linkin Park concert! yay!! they're runner up for my fav band! (well it's between them and Good Charlotte for my fav's) anyway...we're taking a limo there and back, ya! VIP baby! ;) it will be so much fun...we do not do things like this often. i'm super excited, and you don't have to ask if i'll take pictures...at least...you should know by now.

i hope everyone has a super great week!
love
melissa