Victory!

I am in the process of decorating/redecorating our bedroom and making sense of all the crap, I mean stuff we own. I am attempting to replace all our odds and ends with a somewhat cohesive look. It's quite the process as I have put myself on a very tight budget forcing me to be super creative. My goal is to sell the pieces we have before purchasing new ones. Which leads me to the topic of this post...

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I posted and sold my very first item on Craig's list this weekend! The purchasing of this item was also quite victorious to me as it was one of the first two grown up items I purchased as an SIW*.

The other was a brand new Queen sized bed.

p.s. I got both of these items home and put together all by myself.

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Goodbye, IKEA Expedit Bookshelf... Hello growner upper furniture!

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*SIW [Strong Independent Woman] is a term Eric used when he was trying to get my friends Amanda, Maria and I to figure things out on our own when he was our employer. "Figure it out" was also one of his favorites. Good times.

Birthday Extravaganza!

My mom threw me a safari themed birthday party when I was young and I remember it being amazing. Apparantly, some big animal cutouts and safari hats go a long way when you're 7 or 8. Since then, I can't remember a lovelier birthday! Everything went right on April 22nd this year. I woke up and had a gorgeous sunny drive to work (granted it's only a 3 minute drive, but it was lovely!) and a few hours into my work day my coworkers and I had a fun little celebration with yummy cake and party hats. When I got home Eric started preparing for our MexiFest Celebration. I have to share the invite email he sent out, because it really adds to the mood of the party.

HEY ALL, Lauren's birthday is Tuesday - TOMORROW, April 22nd. Yes, another person with an April birthday... (I think the 4th of July leads to lots of people gettin' naked...)

Anyway, being that we are most likely the ONLY MEXICANS that you know, we have decided to have a little Mexi-fest, in honor of Lauren's first birthday as an 'official mexican'. Tomorrow night from 7pm until we're done... I will be making some excellent Mexican foods. (Carne asada, chicken, homemade tortillas, guacamole...)

And we may play some "mexi-games as well" like:

-a standard pinata'

-guess who's the drug mule' (I still need 2 more volunteers...)

-"cross the border" (a game of skill and strategy)

-how many pesos is that worth?

-pimp my el camino

-whats in the moustache?

-dirty sanchez... (...not really a game but who cares.)

-7 minutes in heaven with ryan carlson. (he asked me to make it mandatory that all of the single girls attending play this.) but you don't have to...

Let me know if you can make it, so I can try to plan for food. GRACIAS! If you are trying to

come up with a good gift idea... perhaps a live chicken, a fair poncho, or some chiclets we can have PJ sell around Bellevue Square, or some social security numbers for us... As for the late notice - what do you expect? We are freaking mexicans for crying out loud... we barely speak the language. see you tomorrow.

Don't worry, he got mustaches for everyone to wear. He certainly does keep me laughing! Plus he can frikkin cook! We had a great meal and he made me the raddest cake ever! (With his signature handemade fondant-he loves to show me up) I Love you Eric! Thanks for making my birthday so spectacular!

Oh, yeah, I got a bedazzler...AWESOME!

Our crazy friend Rob stopped at the party store on the way to the shindig and decided to use their restroom to transform himself into a spaniard...or something. P.s. He is completely caucasion