Updating...

We are very near the end of our March projects.

We have most things completed and put up and I like the results

This is Raleigh's workbench.  It will look better as soon as I clear all my stuff off and he tidies it up a bit.  I think it will be so nice when every thing is organized and hung up for easy access.

No more searching forever for a hammer

We had a lot of fun putting this together. 

We built the shutters first because they were so easy.

Then we bought the shelf at Michael's with a 50% off coupon.  It was just a basic plain shelf, very boring.

We added a 2X4 and that created the lower part and put fake drawer fronts on it with black knobs.

And all of the decor was stuff I just had laying around.

We are waiting for our pictures to be ready to go in the frames.  But our kitchen project turned out pretty cute.  I like how it looks.  And the WHOLE thing cost us $30.00.  You can't beat that!!

  

We are loving Kaleigh's long hair.  She is good for the most part to sit still and let me play with it.  Morgan is way more patient than I am and she will sit and curl it for me.  

What a pretty girl she is.  

She loves to be pretty and wear "neckesses" and skirts.  She is very different from Peyton.  It's fun.

She LOVES her "boket" (her blanket with swiss dots on it that she runs her hand over when she is falling asleep

It was time to upgrade our laptop.  We do that.....  Upgrade.

Well........ I don't

But the technical one of us does.

I couldn't find the laptop anywhere on Thursday.

I searched in every kid's room but it was no where.

When Raleigh came home that night, he had his backpack over his shoulder, which means one of two things.

1.  Our laptop needed some repair, so he took it to the Geek Squad

or

2.  He found some sort of hot deal and he had replaced our old laptop with a new one and made money on the transaction.

Which was the case.

We've never had a Mac before.

It's confusing.

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Finally

I don't think I have mentioned this yet , but

I LOVE MY JOB!!

I wasn't sure at first, but I really, really love it now that I am starting to figure things out.

I love the people that I get to work with and we have a really good time every day.

The time flies by because we are so busy.  And I love that.

Anyway...

on Friday night, we had a party.

And it was a very fun night.  

My boss has all sorts of connections, I am finding out, including a brother in law who manages several vacation properties here in town.  So we rented an upscale home out in Coral Canyon and had a very nice evening in a beautiful home.

He treated us to a delicious meal from Buca de Beppo

and then the fun began

He had several envelopes filled with various prizes and he would ask us questions and whomever answered the question correctly, got an envelope filled with money and gift cards to various restaurants.

And we all started raking in the goods

Then we moved over to the table in the kitchen to play Left Center Right

You play with $1 bills and you roll dice and you have to pass your bills around until all the money is in the center and the person with the last bill on the table is the winner and they get the pot.

Only my boss kept secretly exchanging the $1 bills for $20s and $50s and before we knew it the pot was out of control

And RALEIGH won!!!

It was by far the best party I have ever been to

And..............
I have been racked with guilt ever since that we walked away with this much money.

And I am contemplating taking it back, although I know he won't take it.

 I was hoping to solicit some thoughts on this subject.  It's a moral dilemma.

But, dang it, we never win.
And by "we" I mean "I" never win anything.  And technically, I didn't win tonight either.  The Lucky One did.   I will use it to get the air conditioner fixed in our car before the summer arrives.

If you all decide it's alright for me to keep it, that is...
comment a thought to me... if you don't mind.
Especially all of you who visit from Megan's blog...  I'd sure like to get to know all of you!!

Let's all think Spring!!