Hope everyone had an amazing New Year's Eve....I know I did! My cousin through a 30th b-day/80's New Year's Eve party and it was totally radical! We threw together our best 80's attire and rang in the new year!!!
Nate wore his original mail order "Warrior" jacket and I did the best preggo jazzercise I could....
Claire rocked the MJ look....
Finally, here is a little video of the last minute of 2009!
So, I have been trying to get everything organized and that includes the guest room. I decided that in order to save money I would recover these hideous pillows rather than buying new ones. Here is what I had to work with....
I chose to go with bright cheery colors and this is how they turned out....
Overall, I am very pleased with how they turned out and can't wait to have visitors!!
It has been a fun and busy holiday season. We had our traditional family get together and the babies had a ball opening gifts this year!
Don't they look thrilled!!!
We also a girl's night out at Flemming's and the infamous Tumbleweeds.....
It was a great evening, but I was a little sad that I could only have one glass of wine. :( But, I only have a few more months of no wine.
Hope everyone's holidays were fantastic and the year to come is even better!!
Pop Up German Pancakes!
I got this recipe off another blog, Make and Takes, and it is easy and delicious!
You'll need:
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
6 eggs
1/4 cup melted butter
dash salt
Directions:
You simply combine ingredients with a whisk, grease a cupcake pan, and fill about half way with batter. Throw them into the oven at about 400 degrees and bake for 15 minutes.......
I serve them with a squirt of lemon and powdered sugar!
Enjoy
The season is in full swing!
We had some issues picking out the tree, but I was finally able to settle on this one.....
It's a little bit fatter than I wanted, but it's getting the job done.
Hope everyone has a a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!!!
xoxo
STRANGE ZOO PARKING ATTENDANT MAKES OFF WITH MILLIONS!
From The London Times:
A Well-Planned Retirement
Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1 for cars ($1..40), £5 for busses (about $7).
Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.
The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars!
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And no one even knows his name! 
