Amy J. Bennett

We had such a great Easter weekend.  My uncle and his family came to stay for the weekend and I’ve been missing my out-of-town family (everyone but my parents/sister/in-laws) something fierce lately so it was so good to spend time with them.

Friday we met up with them at Sonny’s BBQ on Friday night before heading to Concord Mills to shop.  However, I had to work for a few so off to my nearby office I went.  Thankfully it was super quick and I was back browsing the stores before any really knew I was gone.  I refrained from shopping except for buying the girls new bedding.  I would show you a picture but it’s in my van which is at the body shop as we speak.  More on that later.

Saturday morning was a wonderfully lazy Saturday morning.  Mid-morning we headed to my Mom’s to spend time with everyone.  We did, well, not much!  The kids played, we watched TV and just chatted.  After lunch we headed to a festival across the street from their neighborhood but it was small and had all sorts of activities the kids liked like face paint, hair color, petting zoo and one of the best balloon animal-makers I have ever seen.

Best of all, all proceeds went to the Children’s Attention Home.  It’s weird when I think of that place now because I think, our son could be living there now.  Weird, right?  The rest of Saturday evening was spent back at Mom’s.  The kids dyed eggs and did an Easter egg hunt.

Sunday morning was of course church for Easter and then Easter dinner with my family.

We scooted off to Carowind’s for the afternoon with the whole family.  We branched out past the kiddie part and it was a real treat.  Emma rode her first loop-d-loop roller coaster, The Cyclone.

Emma is sitting to my left.  I wish you could see her smiling and our fingers linked!

We linked our fingers on her handlebar and halfway through I looked to find her head down through the loops.  I thought she might be getting sick or scared but at the end, you couldn’t wipe the smile off her face.  She really enjoyed getting a big congratulatory hug from her daddy.

Sunday evening we spent with Scott’s family eating dinner, doing an Easter egg hunt and just watching the kids play together.  It was a nice relaxing evening.

I certainly did not want to get up this morning but the kids were off to school and we had to get the cars to the body shop to get all that hail damage fixed.  We got a toy car for a rental (Chevy Aveo, to be precise).  Scott hit his head on the ceiling handle bar trying to turn and see what was behind him to his left.  But the best part of it is Emma asking me what those things were:

 

 

 

 

Oh dear.  Next thing you know those darn kids won’t know what a steering wheel is!

It’s getting really hard to take decent pictures.  It is really dark in the bathroom.  Good thing we designed lots of lighting for it! 

OK, so see these neon mats?  Those are HEATED FLOORS.  Heck, yeah, I’m getting heated tile in my bathroom!  And as Scott pointed out, I could leave my towel on the floor as I shower and have a heated towel too!  I feel so spoiled already!

And here it is all covered up:

And, here, is our in-process shower.  I know it’s difficult to appreciate with that red.

Now just imagine frameless mirror door and wall to the ceiling.

Can. not. wait.

A quick mid-day post

Do you hear that?  Yes, that’s me squee-ing from my office.  I did not expect it in the least but our bathroom got painted today!  Woo Hoo! 

First off, these are the paint colors I picked.  The light is the bedroom and the dark is the bathroom.

Pictures aren’t really doing it justice but here it is on the wall

So. excited.

Also?  The stone got finished today.

So. excited.

And tomorrow all the tile goes in the bathroom.  Cue more squee-ing!

Starting to go fast here!  Today he finished up the trim, primed the walls and painted the trim.  I handed over my wall color selections.  Eek!

Toilet room/Shower

  Vanity  

Shower

Today I was happy to come home to much of the crown molding and baseboard in as well as 4 of the doors in!  It is really looking like a room!

 

From the closet into the bathroom:

So this post is more of a deal post than anything. If you are a Mary Kay makeup user you need to listen up!

If your Facebook stream hasn’t already been bursting with the news, Mary Kay has a deal to sign up as a consultant for $50. The thing is you get all of this stuff with your start-up package.

Full price just for the full-size product shown would run you over $100. It is a no-brainer to go ahead and buy this up at this price. On top of that, if you put in a $200 wholesale order during the regular year you get all your product 50% for the next 2 full months.

Now, I swore up and down to my consultant that I would never become a consultant but if you are already using the product, I think it’s silly not to sign up even if you just get that starter kit.
If you don’t use Mary Kay, I highly recommend it. I’ve been using it off and on for about 15 years and I always, always return to it. There is just nothing better than make-up that stays where it’s supposed to, I love their skin care products and I love that you can try on all the colors before purchasing.

I signed up in just minutes last week. Completely painless process. If you’re interested in signing up, let your consultant know or if you don’t have an active one, I can point you in the right direction. This only lasts until April 30 so you’re going to want to jump on this.

Now don’t worry, dear local friends, I’m not going to be calling you up to book parties and I have no desire to earn a pink car (ok, I wouldn’t complain about it) but if you need something, I now have the magic order button available to me.