Visitors!!

First up, today's Wednesday weigh-in was 131lbs - not too bad considering all the eating I did this weekend!!

And speaking of the weekend, we had a really awesome time with Sam's parents while they were here. It was Sam's mom's first time to Beaumont, and Sam's dad's first time since Sam & I starting dating and Sam moved into the house. They flew in to Houston on friday afternoon after spending a few days skiing in New Mexico (a bit of a downgrade to come to Beaumont after that!) and were sweet enough to rent a car so we didn't have to drive all the way back and forth to the airport twice in one weekend.

Friday night Sam made ribs, which were awesome! We also had some dips and hummus beforehand. Then we watched the movie Joyful Noise, which was really cute (although predictable!). Saturday morning Sam's parents joined him in his Saturday morning ritual of getting up early and watching a movie over coffee. Call me crazy, but I prefer to stay in bed! Although they did watch 'Flight' which I had kind of been wanting to see, but not enough to get up before 7 for no real reason :)

We set out for a day our and about Beaumont around 10 and first stop was the Kolache Factory for breakfast. I had never heard of kolaches before I came to Beaumont, but basically they are sweet dough stuffed with various fillings (bacon, egg and cheese for example). The most traditional form has polish sausage inside. Anyway, they are delicious.

Then we made a few stops around Beaumont before lunch:

Fancy old car at the McFaddin Ward House

Downtown Beaumont - in front of Julie Rogers Theatre

Huge fire hydrant near the Texas Fire Museum.

For lunch we ate a Fuzzy's Tacos and then headed to a matinee performance of "The Importance of Being Ernest" put on by the Beaumont Community Players. I knew I had seen or read the play before, but I didn't really remember what is was about. It ended up being pretty funny and the quality of the acting was great considering it is local theatre in a relatively small city! We go there fairly often and we are usually impressed with the production quality.

After the play, we played hearts and hung out around the house. I got thoroughly beat by the end, although it was definitely one of the most competitive games of hearts I have played. (I got my revenge on Sunday though!)

Kind of holding my own for the first half!?!

We went to Pappadeaux for dinner and stuffed our faces with seafood, and then went to Dairy Queen afterwards (because we just hadn't eaten enough). We were all pretty pooped after that and just watched a bit of tv before bed.

Sunday we had planned a more relaxing day since Saturday was pretty busy. I did get up and fit in a 10 mile run, which was much needed after everything we had been eating! Then I made a pancake breakfast and we mostly hung out around the house. We had originally planned on going bowling, but we ended up having a Wii bowling tournament that was really fun (and much cheaper) so we decided to pass. We played hearts again and a few other games also. For dinner, Sam made pizza - so much that we are still eating it!! It has definitely been nice not to cook this week though!

We did take one outing to Rao's Bakery to pick out desserts and enjoyed them later on in the evening. It was also a bit of a late birthday celebration for Sam's dad, whose birthday was a few weeks ago (same day as my brother's, small world!).

Singing Happy Birthday!

We had such a nice time with them and I think they really enjoyed visiting us too! I think they were definitely impressed that Sam is 'all grown up' - he's more responsible than me around the house and a great cook to boot!! (he's a keeper I think!).

And to top it all off, we  got a special delivery of Wisconsin cheese! Icing on the cake if you ask me.

No one tell Kelly that we are supposed to share some with her, okay?

Anyone else want to come visit? I promise Sam will cook you something delicious! :)

Final Guest Room Prep

We had a great time with Sam's parents over the weekend! I'll work on a recap for tomorrow, but first I wanted to share the final touches I put on the guest room. Nothing like visitors to finally give me some motivation to tackle a few overdue projects!

I worked on the frame collage for awhile last week, but I finally decided to give it up for the time being since it wouldn't be ready in time. I had originally picked things out for most of the frames, but they just didn't look right once the frames were painted white. Maybe I was being too much of a perfectionist, but anything dark just looked too dark and anything slightly off-white just didn't look nice in the crisp white frame. So sadly, the frame collage continues to be on hold...

But the good news is, I might not even need it. I did get a chance to work on my corkboard map project, and I had forgotten how big it was! I originally intended to put it above the bed, but it was so big that it actually fit better on the opposite wall. This was a late night project and I didn't take any pictures of the process, but the short story is: cork board + map + staple gun = corkboard map!

I was quite excited with the end result! I want to get some of the long skinny vintage-y push pins, but the ones I have will do for now. Sam parent's got to put in a purple pin next to the green one I had already added. (Purple = visitors. Green = places Sam & I have been together.)

I also hung up a mirror next to the door that I bought at Home Goods forever ago and hadn't done anything with. Felt good to finally hang it up! Annnnnd all of the doors finally got painted!! Both the bedroom and the long forgotten hallway doors finally match the trim for once. I couldn't get a good picture of the hallways doors since the lighting is bad in there and I take terrible iPhone pictures anyway, but you can imagine :)

And finally, we changed out the bedding! I already had this comforter set form Target, but we hadn't been using it. The other bedspread we have is actually a higher quality, but since we let the dogs hang out on the bed fairly often it had gotten a little beat up. Plus this one is light and fluffy, which I think is nice for guests!

All together I was happy with how the guest room turned out. Altogether we painted, bought new lamps, changed out the bedding and added some wall decor. A decent amount of effort, but not too bad and mostly things I had been wanted to do anyway. I would still like to find something to put over the bed, but in general I was just glad that I got anything on the walls at all!

Now we have my brother coming this weekend and then Sam's sister Kelly and a few friends coming through next week on their way to New Orleans for spring break. So at least the room will get some use!