The Crow's Nest: Finally!!!

I finally got my recessed lights in my kitchen!!! I am so excited. I have only waited almost 5 years to get them in and it was definitely worth the wait! From Day 1 when we moved into our house, the lights in the kitchen were the biggest thorn in my side... I hated them! We have these huge vaulted celings in our house and in the kitchen we had 2 (yes 2 side by side) of those UGLY strip florescent lights up there and then this random little single round frosted white glass light a little further over. I have no idea what the builder was thinking....but it was NOT PRETTY. Anyway one of our friends is an electrician (actually its one of Andy's partners in the electrical division at his company) and had told Andy awhile back to just let him know when we wanted it done and he'd come over and help install them. So we finally found a day that worked for everyone and now we have BEAUTIFUL lights in our kitchen....have I mentioned already how much I love them?!?!?! Here is a pic I took tonight - excuse the mess in our kitchen.....

So anyway.....that was my big excitement in this otherwise ordinary week.

In other news, we have been battling some cold/flu bugs in our house for the past week - but then again, it seems like the entire city of Houston is as well. Doesn't help that the weather is like an out of control yo-yo. One day you are wearing shorts and its 80 degrees outside, then the next its below freezing....it seems a lot more up and down this year compared to other years - it just seems more extreme. There have been days that we go to bed at night with the a/c on and wake up in the morning and have to put the heat on.....its crazy. So anyway...of course Miss Brooklynn is sick....AGAIN. Every few weeks she has another bug - and I'm guessing daycare is a great breeding ground for that. So for now, she is really congested, with a nasty junky sounding cough and a nose that is running like a faucet non-stop. What fun! We actually did take her to the dr's on Friday afternoon b/c she had been going after her ears a little and she was just barely starting an ear infection (again) so we got more of her favorite pink drug...amoxicillan. So hopefully that will take whatever bug she has too and get rid of it once and for all. Its gotten so bad that I can just take the nasal aspirator (a.k.a. nose sucker/booger sucker/brain sucker) out of the cabinet and she has a TOTAL MELTDOWN - she HATES it. It looks like we are practicing moves for the WWE as I am trying to pin her down to keep her still while trying to suction her nose...lol!

Other than that - we haven't been up to much but somehow the days just fly by. Here are some random pictures I've taken the last few weeks that I thought I would share....