Stone Pillar Winery Friends

Saturday was beautiful in Kansas City with temperatures reaching 70 degrees.  Rather than running outside, Greg and I decided to spend the afternoon at the winery! 

We live around 2 miles from Stone Pillar Winery, which is a small, family owned winery that we pass on our way home from work each day.  They have 2 dogs that run around the property that we have grown to love.  There is Ginger, who we found out this weekend is 14 years old, and there is Scout, who became Greg's best friend.

The plan was to meet some friends up at the winery and then go back to our house to continue to hang out.  We didn't get to the wineries until 4:30 pm, and only one of Greg's co-workers and his wife showed up for a half hour before it closed at 6 pm.  We did go out to dinner with Jeremy, and then he and Derek, another one of Greg's friends came over to our house to play Loaded Questions...again.  Once again, we haven't laughed that hard in a long time. 

Derek was dog-sitting that night for a small dog, and Abby and Charlie loved it.  Chase and Abby are also starting to like using our curtains as a blanket.

I hope all of you had a wonderful weekend as well!

Weekend with Mackie

We had another family visitor this weekend!
Mackie decided to come in town!  Abby greeted Mackie with lots of love and smiles, and Chase decided to nip her on the butt.  It was a perfect, relaxing weekend of working out, watching HGTV, walking Abby, watching movies, shopping and going out to dinner.

Mackie cooked us some of her famous salmon on Friday, which I love, and I made some cheddar broccoli soup with sweet potatoes.  Greg provided the vegetables by making a juice.  While we were eating dinner, Greg got us addicted to his trivia game on his phone that we couldn't put down.  Finally, we said one more game, and it ended up being two, and then we watched the movie 50/50, where Abby and Mackie cuddled throughout the entire movie.

We had plans on Saturday to work out, and go out to the movies to see The Vow.  I introduced Mackie to our elastic band work out videos that we like to do, and she was feeling it on Sunday with some sore muscles.  We went to the movie on the plaza for $4 in the afternoon.  Can't beat that!  Then, we shopped around for jewelry to go with her model's dresses for the upcoming fashion show.

Mackie introduced me to a very bad thing this weekend.  She showed me that you could watch more shows on HGTV's website by going to the shows website first, and then clicking on full episodes.  I thought I almost got through my addiction by watching all the episodes that I thought the website had to offer, but now I have so many more to watch.  We watched the show Property Brothers throughout the weekend, which I would say is a new favorite of mine!

After she left on Sunday, it was back to reality with a house that needed to be cleaned and a China cabinet that is nearing completion.  Look forward to an upcoming post on the China cabinet!

Brotherly Love

For those of you that haven't had the pleasure of seeing Chase and Abby play together, you'll enjoy this video that Greg was able to take.

Click play, and then click on the box at the bottom right of the video to make it full screen for the full effect.  The video also has sound!

Half Man, Half Woman

The Miller's, Deanna and Danielle, visited a few weekends ago.  We always love family coming in town and staying at our house, so all are welcome at any time. 

We have a game called Loaded Questions that we like to play with our family and friends.  It's a light hearted game where one simply rolls the dice, lands on a certain color, and reads the question on the card associated with the color.  The colors represent the categories of anything goes, personals, and hypotheticals.  When it's your turn, you will read the question, and those around you answer it, and then you pass it to a person to read the answers, and the person whose turn it is, has to guess who answered which way.  So, sometimes the answers are interesting conversation starters...

There was a particular question that brought us all to tears that I would like to further share with you.  The question was, "What was your favorite halloween costume?"

The, the answers were read, "Butterfly", "Grim Reaper", and "Half Man, Half Woman".

Immediately everyone started laughing, and "laughing" would be an understatement.  We were all bending over laughing, barely breathing with tears falling from our eyes.  But whose answer was it?  Deanna's, Greg's or Shayna's? 

Needless to say, Danielle guessed them all correctly, and I had to explain how my mother never bought our costumes, and we made them every year; however, Mom, I must ask, WHY?!?  How do you think of such interesting ideas to set me apart from all the other trick-or-treaters?

I wish I had a picture of the full costume, but my mom could not find one.  The lower half of the costume consisted of jeans on one side, and a skirt on the other.  As you can see from the pictures, I was wearing a nice necklace on one side, and a tie on the other.  The make-up and hair style were split as well.  Who knows, I was probably dressed in a high heal on one side and sneaker on the other and walked around like that all night long!

I hope you all enjoy, and I can't wait to play the game again with all of you. 
I love you, Mom, and I hope I gain your eye for creativity one day!