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Here are some pictures from the day we bought our house (Before) and from the day we put it up for sale (After).

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Keith Urban

My sister-in-laws, Joelle and Libby graciously invited me to the Keith Urban concert. I say graciously because I am not really a country fan and I kept calling him Toby Keith (which is a mortal sin in the country world). But I LOVE concerts. I am pretty happy at just about any concert, as long as there is a good vibe and good dancin' music. So I happily accepted the invitation because country fans are crazy and loyal and if there was nothing else, Mr. Urban is very easy on the eyes. I must say I had a lot of fun, and he puts on a great and entertaining show! So enjoy the pictures from our front row seats...



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So many artists in my family

If you remember the post about my mom's birthday party, you remember that we went to Polka dot pottery to paint the afternoon away. A tradition is forming for her birthday, but this year we decided to have a plan on what to paint. Last year I painted stripes....yes stripes. Pretty colors I might add, but stripes. Drawing is not my forte. I am much better at blobs, swirls and the aforementioned stripes. The painting/drawing talent was left out of my gene pool. I did get the appreciation of color gene, I love color. I love bold color, hence the tiger orange wall right next to the green-blue wall in my house. I love colors that you just might say, "I am not sure they quite go together," but when they are in the right environment make you say "wow!" I surely digress, back to the pottery. This year we found a Pottery Barn catalog to help the creative juices flow. I think they both turned out pretty great. The one created by the artist surely stands alone!

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A little too excited???

Maybe I have been "glamored" or "dazzled" but I love everything vampire right now. Soon Hollywood will overplay, overwrite and over dramatize the vampire world but I am not sick of it yet. I feel like a 10 year old girl! But they seem to distract me easily from the real world, and I need that sometimes. Whether it be Twilight, True Blood, The Sookie Stackhouse series, or now The Vampire Diaries (seriously, am I a teenager?), I like it. So here's to "New Moon," may this movie be better made than the last.

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Nick's post birthday party

We were a week late in celebrating Nick's birthday, but the fun was worth the wait. We had a few friends over for pizza, beer, and corn hole.








The start of the corn hole tournament






This could have been the winning throw.........Because you are now looking at the corn hole champions for the evening. I think we had the home court advantage.
Started out as a nice picture session





...but you see how it ended! Much fun!

Mom's Birthday Bash

We planned a surprise party for my mom for her 60th birthday with around 40 people. There was a lot of lying on my part to keep it a surprise but I managed and it was a lot of fun. I think she was surprised, see below for the proof, yeah!
When she first saw Aaron who flew up from LA
When she saw my Grandma (her mom), who came over from Helena, MT
Me and Grandma
Joelle and Gage
Blowing out the candle