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I have a short little post for the day! This Spring, Jordan and I decided that we needed to clean our driveway and back porch.  We looked into renting a pressure washer but realized that we could buy one instead.  There are some pretty good pressure washers on the market for fair prices and we found this one from SunJoe on Amazon . This is an electric pressure washer with 2030 psi.  It has multiple adapters, a place to put cleanser, and a really nice handled nozzle.   I was very impressed with the results!  Here are a few pictures. This is a picture of our driveway the very first time Jordan used the pressure washer.  The contrast between clean ( left ) and dirty ( right ) is crazy! Top Left and Right: This is from our back porch.  We discovered that the cement is different since the porch was an add-on after the original construction.  Because of this, there is still discoloration but at least it's clean! Bottom Left: ...

I'm just now getting around to sharing pictures from a few weeks ago.  Jordan and I try to keep our schedule fairly busy for various reasons.  Despite that, we scheduled an off weekend to just do whatever we wanted.  In just one Saturday we went bowling and went to play bingo! Jordan could bowl for hours and hours if we had unlimited time and money.  He's actually quite good at bowling.  Me...I just like to play a single game, maybe two games tops .  My bowling ball is heavier than I like so my arm got tired very fast!  I'm not nearly as good as Jordan but I'm a fair bowler.  I rarely have gutter balls but I also don't usually score more than 60-100 points.   It's amazing how childhood memories can stick with a person.  As a child I got my fingers stuck in a bowling ball once while on a field trip with my Grandpa.  I don't remember exactly how old I was, but I was young enough to believe that I'd never get that ball...

Hi All!  The weekends seem to get shorter and shorter!  I have a hodge-podge of pictures to share today starting with a little garden update. Our little garden is small but it's been fun to watch our plants grow! We have 2 planters that came with the Nutrient Patch.  Pictured above are tomato plants, 1 cucumber plant, a pea plant and a few herbs.  The tomato plants, in particular, are HUGE!  Hopefully some day soon we will have a crop to enjoy! Top Left: Pop quiz!!! Is this cilantro or parsley?!  I feel ridiculous that I mixed up the two plants earlier this year (planted parsley when I thought it was cilantro).  This is cilantro pictured above! Bottom Left: My pea plants have so many vines!  They are traveling up the cage I set up really quickly!  I love this picture of green against the red. Top Right: Our pecan tree is very late to sprout leaves!  Only in the last few weeks did a little green peak out of the br...

I haven't made a "fancy" cake in years!  My friend Mallory and I took 4 Wilton cake courses at Michael's a few years ago and loved it SO much!  I hadn't used my tools in forever and I forgot how many cool and interesting things I have in my cake supplies! #closetspace A few weeks ago I decided it was time to make another cake.  The holidays always make a good excuse to bake and decorate a cake because there are SO many designs and ideas online.  Plus, if you're going to make such a large cake, you need lots of people to help you eat it! I started with a spice cake.  I wanted something that tasted similar to carrot cake but I much prefer the Duncan Hines brand of spice cake.  Honestly, I like to use the boxed cake mix when I make "fancy cakes".  I'm sure I could make something tasty "from scratch," but these projects involve so much effort , a box cake just makes it slightly easier. These are various pictures of the baking...

Happy Easter!!!  We had such a wonderful Easter celebration with family over the weekend!  Jordan and I took off Friday to head up to the lake and made it a three day weekend.  (BTW.. it's so strange how companies don't observe the Easter holiday nearly as much as the Christmas holiday). We hadn't been to the lake since February so we had LOTS to catch up on.   Top Left: Cindy's beautiful dock!  The water was very choppy but the weather was cool and pleasant! Top Right and Bottom Left: Bratwursts and onions for dinner!   Bottom Right: Resident ducks at Cindy's house! Jordan and Chris got right to work helping Dad chop and stack wood.   Bottom Left: Chopping wood is hard work, but Mom and Dad and company went in to buy this automatic wood chopper!  There is still a lot of lifting involved but this machine makes it much easier to get through a truck load of logs! Bottom Left: This is the log chopper in action! To...

I'm a bit late in sharing pictures from my birthday last week.  Jordan and I seem to celebrate our birthdays differently each year.   No woman would say no to cards and flowers but we've really enjoyed doing activities together.  New experiences. We kicked off the weekend with the obligatory bluebonnet picture.  It seems so cheesy but it's impossible to drive past a field that is thickly covered in blue and white bluebonnets! The bluebonnets don't last as long as you'd think.  We usually get two full weeks before they start to get burned by the Texas sun. Friday night we went to a Panic at the Disco concert in Allen.  I just love their music and had been looking forward to this concert for months (since before Christmas)!! Top: Jordan and I just before the concert! Bottom: Throughout the show they had several moments of fire, sparklers, streamers, balloons, and at the end they had confetti!  I love this picture taken during t...