Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy St. Patty's Day, President Obama is Irish!


Apparently, President Obama has a great-great-great grandfather from Ireland. Ancestry.com uncovered the fact a few months ago. You can read about it here.

And while you're at it, you can hear a great little Irish ditty,"There's No One as Irish as Barack Obama", about it here. (Don't skip that one. )

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A house of fun, a house of partitude

15,000 square feet of St. George house, or maybe we should call it a resort.


Pretty kitchen, I really like the light cabinets and gigantic island.


Mud room complete with drinking fountain, I really need one of those.


Master bathroom, bigger than my family room and kitchen combined.


Look out the upstairs windown and what? Oh, the backyard. Yes, let's look at that closer.

Same view, one floor down.

Walk out the master bedroom and find this. You can't see it clearly, but there is a water slide on the rock as well as several fountains.

Walk a little to the left and enter the hottub room.

Follow the lighted tunnel through the rock to this lovely grotto, a nice place to catch an outdoor movie.

Looking back at the house we can see the pergola and kitchen, fountains and more.


Let's walk down to the basement shall we? Oooh, a basketball court with slightly wider screen on the wall than the theater upstairs.

A little to the left, the climbing wall.

And beyond that, the putting green.


The racketball court, looking from the weight room.


I obviously didn't include everything in this house, like the 6 bedrooms, theater room, family room, dining room, casita, and pool house. I just showed the more outstanding elements.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Growing up, Everyone is Beautiful

The days before I got married, I felt much like this, sad about all I was leaving behind. I was excited and happy, of course, just a little mournful of leaving childhood behind.

I believe my tears were a testament to the happy childhood I had.



I don't know anything about this book, but from the excerpt, I think I'd like it. Have any of you heard about it?

Found on Design Mom

A Spot of Sun

Having so many family visitors that there's no time to think of blogging is a spot of sun.

That and the fact that in the last week I've had TWO outdoor naps on my swing in the sunshine. Oh happiness!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Dump truck cake

Remind me to make this for Andrew's next birthday.


Instructions here.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Sweet dreams

Saw this on Little Green Notebook. It's beautiful and so cool.

Monday, March 2, 2009

MaLM - Happiness on a Monday

Make a List Monday -- Happiness

1. giggling baby
2. sleeping through the night
3. dancing
4. finishing our service chain
5. waking to a clean kitchen
6. eating M&M cookies
7. FHE
8. a call from my hubby
9. watching children learn and progress (piano, gymnastics, running, interacting all today)
10. crocuses
11. outside, no jacket needed