It's Just Playing Possum

While Brian goes off to hang out with some of his friends tonight, I decided to catch up on my blog. This weekend was a bit crazy. Friday night Kassie, Rebecca and I met up for dinner and a trip to Hobby Lobby and some craft time. I ended up spending close to $100 at Hobby Lobby. No joke. The only upside is that I got curtains for both windows in our bedroom, both bathrooms, and the two joined windows in the living room.

Here is the fabric that I am using in the bedroom. It's gorgeous!

I got plain white for the bathrooms and living room to brighten up the space. After picking out the fabric and a quick run to Chick-Fil-A for dinner, we headed back to Kassie's for some wine and curtain making. They're some of the best girls ever for helping me with all the sewing and pinning! We got all of the bedroom curtains made, so it's going to be really exciting to get them put up soon. 

Saturday was packed full of stuff to do. Brian and I got started cleaning up the front yard by raking leaves and cleaning out the gutters. We also re-arranged the living room into a more functional set-up, which has been really awesome even after a day. Brian met his mom in Greensboro around 5 to pick up Charlie while I babysat from 6:30-10:30. When I came back is when things really got crazy! I was trying to carry Charlie's crate in from Brian's truck when Chase and Charlie decided that they didn't want to stay inside anymore. As I opened the front door, they both ran out into the pitch black. After about 15 of trying to chase after them, I cornered them into our side yard. Unfortunately, they ran into our neighbor Mandy (& her husband Clay)'s yard. Mandy and Clay have a german shepherd named Sarah, who was not happy to find me running around in their front yard. As I'm trying to corner Charlie, Chase comes around the corner with something huge in his mouth. Mandy was outside at this point, and she and I both realized about the same time that Chase was carrying an opossum in his mouth. Luckily he dropped it in the front yard and Mandy and I were able to get a hold of Chase and Charlie and I wrangled them back into our house. Mandy and I decided that the opossum was dead, so I grabbed a black Hefty trash bag and met Mandy back in her yard with her shovel. As we tried to put the opossum into the bag, we thought we saw it move. So of course, we jump back and start trying to figure out if we were simply overreacting or if it is actually alive. Again, we decide that it's dead, so we try and flip it over onto the shovel. The minute we get it on it's back, the thing decides to stop being dead and scare the ever-loving be-jesus out of us. Mandy and I jumped back, dying laughing, and decided enough opossum-wrangling for one night. Considering it was past midnight and I was exhausted, I was completely okay with calling it a night. I'm just thankful that Chase and Charlie are current on all of their shots! Unfortunately, the opossum wasn't as cute as Heidi...

After a nice sleep, Brian and I woke up Sunday morning and decided to make a large brunch of cinnamon sugar pancakes. Since we love Kassie and JJ, we decided to invite them over for pancakes as well. The dogs all got to have a play date, and all of us got to hang out on the deck in the lovely weather. For being November, it's been gorgeous outside! 

After brunch, Brian finished up some yard work, laundry, and dishes, while Kassie and I went to run errands in Hickory. Brian and I have been trying to figure out a way to make the house a bit more of "our" home, so what we decided on was a few coats of paint. We're going to paint our bedroom a simple gray, highlighted by bright blue curtains and the white bedside table. We're also painting 3 walls in the bathroom the same gray, with one bright blue wall and white curtains. Hopefully this will tie the whole space together. The full bath in the hallway we decided that since it has gorgeous white boarding on the bottom of the walls, we wanted to pick a brighter color, so we decided on a bright coral. Crazy I know, but I'm super excited for it! We're thinking of pairing it all with clean, white trim and Benjamin Moore's revere pewter for the rest of the walls. I think we're going to offer up free mimosas to whoever wants to come and help us paint one day. Maybe even a pancake brunch! Any takers? 

Here are the colors we're thinking! 

Top left is the revere pewter, top right is the coral gables, bottom left is the adagio gray, and bottom right is the palm coast teal for the half bathroom focal wall! 

Dinner was such a success tonight, which was really nice considering that we had absolutely no plan. While we snacked on broccoli and ranch, Brian helped me sauté peppers, onions, and mushrooms while I made chicken quesadillas and baked french fries. I finally got Brian to try sweet potato fries, and he loved them! Win one for the girlfriend! 

After a long and thoroughly enjoyable weekend, I'm about to call it a night! If you want free mimosas and feel like picking up a paint brush, let me know!