it's [just me] with a quick hello...

You know, usually when I take a hiatus from blogging I blame it on the fact that I have nothing worth mentioning going on in my life. That could not be further from the truth this time. Things have been happening. Lots of things. A crazy amount of things.

So I guess we will blame this hiatus on being...lazy. Yep. We will go with lazy. For now.

We've celebrated birthdays. Cuddled a new nephew AND a new niece. Housed the cutest evacuees ever from the Charlotte fire. Attended family reunions.  Traveled to the annual Independence Day celebration in good ol' Malta.  And guess what? I didn't take one picture. Terrific. 

But then my cute husband surprised me with a belated birthday present. So my excuse of not taking pictures because I don't have a good, working camera can't be used any longer. 

And to celebrate our new camera purchase, we took an impromptu road trip. Okay, not really. They just happened to fall on the same weekend.

And what a fun vacation it was.  I didn't do my hair or wear make-up to celebrate. As you can probably tell. We visited IKEA, ate out way too much, got my wedding ring fixed, visited the new mall, and spent way too many hours hanging out by the pool. It was glorious. 

In other news, we bought a house. Did I forget to mention we have been shopping around since we got married?

Whoops. 

Anyways, the new beauty needs...well... a lot of work to say the least. Maybe one of these days I will stop being so gosh dang "lazy" and get up the energy to post some before and after pictures. Maybe. 

Until then, I will be working my little big hiney off trying to get the place livable. Okay, okay. Mainly I sit on said "big hiney" and boss everyone else around [have I mentioned we have the best family ever?]. Ah well, someone's gotta do it. So I will post the details later. You know, like in a month or two. Maybe...