I love Amazon!

I am very hard on dishes, I tend to break them at a fairly rapid rate...oops, clumsy me!  So the fact that my current set has lasted since we moved into the new house 5 years ago is quite a feat.  However, Tuesday I broke the 3rd bowl, leaving us only 5, not even enough for 2 meals worth, and I already broken a couple of the salad plates too.

So we decided it was time for the current set to be "retired" and to start the search for a new set.  We visited Kohl's, and sadly every set I found that I really liked was $120 for a 16-piece box (4 place settings). It was a Racheal Ray set called round and square in green apple. :-(

Never being discouraged, I started a search on Amazon Wednesday morning and found the exact same set I was looking at at Kohl's for $50!!!  Needless to say, I jumped right on the purchase, therefore I was able to get 2 sets for less than the price of 1 at Kohl's!  They were delivered yesterday.

I love the unique shape and bright color!

Wordless Wednesday

Driver's Training

Zak started driver's training with Blue Bell Driver's School this weekend.  He had 2 hours yesterday and 2 hours today.

Sat, Jan 19th

Sat, Jan 19th

Sat, Jan 19th

Sun, Jan 20th

Sun, Jan 20th

I'm really glad we chose to enroll him in the lessons, he learned A LOT this weekend.  He was even able to drive us to dinner last night!

He passed the test!

We took Zak to the DMV yesterday to get his driver's permit.  Unlike in MI, in PA you have to pass a written test before you get your permit and can start any driving at all.  Zak had been studying for the test for a couple of weeks, but was still very nervous as we entered the driver's license center.

Even the staff member that helped us commented, "you need to relax son, you're about to stroke out and you're too young for that." Haha!  The good news, all the hard studying paid off, he passed on his first try!

We took him to a parking lot to get him his first experience behind the wheel of a car.  He's been saying to us for months, "I can drive a go cart and the tractor, how hard can it be?"

Well he found out how different it can be.  He was extremely nervous!  We are going to be enrolling him in a driver's training course, which is not required in PA but does result in you getting a discount on your car insurance, but the course is only 6 hours and he must have 65 hours and six months before he can take the driving test to get his license.

Happy Birthday, Zak!!!

We celebrated Zak's 16th birthday Sunday.  It started with a sleepover with a couple of his buddies Saturday night.  They were just going to bed when I got up with the dogs at 5:00am!

Zak, Blake & Jordan

At some point in the night they had made lemonade...and left behind a sticky mess on the counter and powder on the floor.  Apparently they decided to have a lemonade toast to Zak's birthday as I found these in the sink.

3 plastic wine glasses, haha!

I made them pancakes and bacon for breakfast and Zak got to open 2 of his presents from us before we had to leave for his hockey game.

Quite a motley crew!

Give blood, play hockey phone case.

Another pair of shoes he said he HAD to have. (He's as bad as Emelda Marcos!)

Bella wanted to help him tie them.

After we got home from the hockey game he got to open the rest of his gifts.

Art supplies: full set of graphite pencils, water color pencils, and  oil pastels.

The coup de gras...Macbook Air.

We then went to dinner to his favorite restaurant, Fujiyama, it's a Japanese Steakhouse practically in our backyard.  He loves the sushi and hibachi meal.

After dinner we returned home to finish off the celebration with an ice cream cake.

Another Change

After watching an episode of one of our favorite TV shows, "Parenthood", I started thinking about trying a different hair color like one of the characters did.

So my brunette hair, which is my natural color but I have enhanced for years with a color called "caramel":

got an update:

intense medium auburn.

As I mixed the color I got a little nervous, it was orange:

and was still orange as it processed:

But the final results are exactly what I was looking for: 

and I think beautiful!

Fledgling Artist

Zak took a drawing class last year in school, but since then has not really shown much interest in it....until about a week ago.  He has been drawing and I am impressed with his drawings.  He does them freehand, no tracing at all.

He drew this one for his girlfriend, she likes Tinkerbell.

An evil Woody Woodpecker.

Showing some team pride.

"Live to Play"

Bugs Bunny

Fox

Tigger

Lion

Wolf with scar

Wolf in landscape

Laundry...ugh!!!

How do you know a load of clean laundry has been sitting in the laundry basket waiting to be folded for too long?  It looks like this when you dump it out...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

~Linking up with Hilary at FeelingBeachie for Wordless Wednesday!~