Life as we go it

This past Friday and Saturday my family held a yard sale as a fundraiser for our Relay For Life team. This is the first year we held a yard sale to raise funds and it was a success! This is our fourth year participating in Relay For Life of West Bend as a family.

I'm getting closer to finishing organizing my new desk area in the kitchen. I still want to paint the chair a funky color and upholster a new seat. But I have the essentials - a mini chalkboard, mini cork board, mirror, photo of Liam, computer, mail tray and Kleenex :)



The most important thing to me, when looking for a new desk, was getting one that had a file drawer. We already have a filing cabinet in the basement where we file paid bills, tax info, home repair receipts, etc (boorrriinnngggg).

But in the kitchen I wanted to place to file the fun stuff! Fun stuff like craft ideas, party ideas, restaurant menus, etc.

I'm always ripping articles and pictures out of magazines, whether it be books that I want to read, recipes that I want to try, or craft projects I'd like to attempt. And the little ripped out things end up sitting all over the dang house.

Home project ideas...

Craft project idea...

Party and entertaining ideas...

So now I have a place to file the things that make me happy :)
I bought some fun, bright colored hanging files at Target and shabam! Instant organization!

Mike Wizowski cake that my sister-in-law made for my nephew's birthday. It was her first time using fondant and I think it turned out amazing!!

I rarely watch TV during the day. Occasionally I'll watch fifteen minutes of Sesame Street or Clifford the Big Red Dog with Liam. And sometimes I'll catch a bit of something on MSNBC or E! while Liam is napping.

I'm more of a music girl during the day. I'll play iTunes or Pandora or the music channels through our cable. Or I'll pop some vinyl onto our record player. Liam and I like to dance around the house a lot.

Night time is a different story.

By the time we get Liam to bed, usually around 8 pm, it's already dark outside and we're so wiped out from the day. The TV and couch just call our names...."Erin...Matt...you know you just want to plop your butts down instead of exercise or read books."

This is what our TV schedule looks like during the week:

Sunday - The Walking Dead
Monday - The Bachelor and Castle
Tuesday - usually something on the Food Network or E!
Wednesday - American Idol
Thursday - Scandal
Friday - (I record Fashion Police and watch it while nursing Liam sometime the following week)
Saturday - we often rent a movie on Saturday nights

It's creepy, but we're obsessed with The Walking Dead...

...and we LOVE Scandal on Thursday nights! How hot is this photo?

I'm not proud that we watch TV pretty much every night. But I guess because we really only watch ONE show per night, that's not too bad, right?

The shows that we do watch we LOVE. I would not be wasting my time on something I didn't think was worth it.

But in an attempt to 1) do something other than watch TV after Liam is asleep 2)  start crossing things of my DIY/craft list and 3) make more time for romance during the week (ooh la la), I've declared Tuesday evenings in the Bremser house as "No TV Tuesdays."

No TV Tuesdays.

Oh my gosh, we are going to get SO much done!

Starting tomorrow night I'm going to help Matt rearrange/clean/organize his man cave in the basement. There is plenty of shop-vaccing, tool organizing and cabinet installing to be done.

Now if only we have the energy, and the discipline to stay away from the couch and TV :)

We'll see how it goes...

We celebrated Liam's 1st birthday this past Saturday. Around 35 family members and friends stopped by our home to share in Liam's big day. Everyone talked, enjoyed drinks and ate a big Italian dinner. Then Liam was spoiled by, what seemed like, a never-ending pile of gifts (lucky little boy)! We sang to him and he enjoyed a gooey cupcake.