My Favorite Model

I recently purchased a new camera: a Nikon L120 and I love it!

 As usual, Jack Bauer is my favorite model. 

A Painting, Gel Nails, and Robin Hood

this is a post of randoms, forgive me.

I got a gel manicure last week and I love it! It's just a nail polish that is cured under UV light so it lasts a loooong time. Supposedly for 2-3 weeks! I'm on week two and it still looks great. Above is the picture a day after I had it done and below is the 1 week picture. Now, what am I not crazy about? How freaking short the manicurist trimmed my nails! What in the world?? I didn't notice until it was too late. Boo.

Friday, I picked up the painting we had done of Jack Bauer--- I love it!!

Speaking of JB, here he is lounging on top of Mike while we watched movies on Sunday.

And finally, I was appalled to learn that my dear husband has never seen the Disney version of Robin Hood!!

It came out in the early 70's and was one of my favorite Disney movies when i was little. I'm determined to find it on dvd and make him watch it.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I've always loved Valentine's Day-- when I was a little kid, when I was single and especially now that I'm married. We're going low key this year: Mike volunteered to cook dinner and I made cupcakes for dessert. Amazing vegan cupcakes from a new cookbook. I guarantee you wouldn't be able to tell they were vegan. Insanely good! 

 our table set, ready for Mike to cook dinner!

I got Mike a few nerdy gifts he's been wanting and I have no idea what he got me--- but he's in his office right  now wrapping it! haha! Hope everyone is having a great Valentine's Day!

more of the same

 It's pretty difficult to blog when there is nothing going on... just lots of snow, movie watching, cooking, playing board games etc. Nothing particularly exciting but it's really been a fantastic week. Mike was able to work from home all week, which was such a blessing. The roads have been a total nightmare and I like knowing he's safe here at home... plus I'm selfish, and I'll take all the time with him that I can get! The dogs have been playing outside constantly-- I really have to force Jack Bauer to come in and warm up.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday! We're supposed to get some more snow tonight and then another huge storm Tuesday/Wednesday.

Oh Snow You Didn't

It's a snow day here--- we've got some cuh-razy weather right now--blizzard-like conditions?! That just doesn't happen in NWA. The furbabies don't know what to think! These were taken about an hour ago-- it's really coming down now:

(I stole the title from someone's hilarious twitter hashtag.)

iPhone pics

Just some randoms from the past couple of days. Jack & Ellie all dolled up for Halloween-- Ellie has orange bows in her hair and Jack is actually tolerating his bandanna! Me & sweet Marty McFly and JB sleeping in the weirdest positions.

odds & ends

we went to Tulsa a few weeks go for Trek Expo (oh yes, super nerdy) and got the typical pics-- people in their costumes, actors from various sci-fi movies/tv shows and a few shots of us together.

Here I am with the Ghostbuster's car. The dress I'm wearing is new and I love it--- 50% off at Belk!

I've got a cut and color scheduled next week and I'm really leaning toward this cut & color... eeek, it's quite a change!

and really, no post is complete without Jack Bauer! :-)

storms, reality tv and a weekend trip

It's about to storm here-- the weatherman is predicting huge hail-- thank God for a garage for our cars and good homeowners insurance! Anytime we have any severe weather we know several hours in advance because Ellie starts pacing and freaking out. She absolutely hates storms. Jack Bauer could care less. (I mean come on, he's Jack Bauer! Did you think some thunder and rain would bother him? haha) Mike is off with some friends tonight playing some nerdy games so I have complete control over the tv-- that means some bad reality tv-- Real Housewives of NJ!! Such a guilty pleasure. :-) We're also getting ready for our weekend trip to Tulsa. I am so excited to see Conan O'Brien! The only problem with coming to Tulsa is trying to cram in all the things we want to do in just a day or two. We really miss our Tulsa friends and it's impossible to see everyone on every trip. I'm hoping we can do as much visiting as possible!
And since I hate posting without a picture-- here are a few from our garage sale last weekend:

We call this our 2nd Annual Solano-Farrar Garage Sale. :-) We held it at our friend's Matt & Amy's house and even though the sales were sloooow, we still had a blast. And wow, in the next picture my teeth look enormous... hmmm wtf

Wednesday Randomness

just some random pictures from today:

I've been buying fresh flowers every week and recently I've been getting tulips. Love them.

And we've recently discovered the best part about having a fenced in backyard-- Jack Bauer is always sooo worn out in the evenings! He passes out around 8pm and sleeps all night. I love having a tired pup at night-- much less chaos around our house!

and once he realizes you're taking pictures:

haha! look at that nose!

good fences make good neighbors!

Please look past the massive amounts of leaves, Ellie taking a bathroom break, the ghetto dog kennel left behind by the previous owners and Mike's Crocs... we have a FENCE!!! Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason very few houses in our little town have a fence and it drove us crazy. We decided to spend a little bit of Mike's annual bonus on a privacy fence, and it was completed earlier today. The dogs are in heaven and we love the PRIVACY!! No more looking into our creepy neighbor's yard... no more late night walks with JB & Ellie. It's awesome. And I already have big plans for that yard! We already have a pretty cool fire pit, some wooden benches and a nice deck- but I can't wait to plant some flowers and make it a nice little sanctuary. This is my next project-- stay tuned!

randomness

I was erasing all my saved pictures from my camera today and found a few to blog about. Yeah, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for a blog post!

that's a topiary behind me, I don't have green hair!

Mike is out of town (Boston!! I'm jealous.) which means Jack Bauer can do all kinds of naughty things-- like jump on the couch and pose. Dad would not be happy!

And now some house pics:

I love these little houses on the mantel- they're from Pier One.

and I picked up some more books at the flea market- I love using them around the house.

keeping it real.

Because not every picture I take of Jack Bauer is cute:

He was running and in the middle of a big head shake. Yikes. Not cute.

And since I can't embarrass him without posting something adorable:

Luckily Mike was at work so JB could lounge on the ottoman. 

That's a big no-no when dad is at home!