Super Bowl Sunday and the Fatty

On Friday, I was listening to Mary Brace on Lightning 100 on my way in to work.  Every morning she has a question (usually pop culture related) and Friday's was of course Super Bowl related.  Her question was "In 2004, Janet Jackson performed in the Super Bowl halftime show, now known as Nipplegate.  Who was performing with her?"  Obviously the answer was Justin Timberlake, but hello, that was 9 years ago!!  What!?!?!  It seems like less than that.  Especially because I can remember being at a Super Bowl party at a friend's house, in his living room, when it occurred.  Michael and I weren't even dating then, but I do remember him being there (we started dating 6 short months later).

 

These days, our Super Bowl festivities are much lower key.  Our friends, the Neals, came over with their 9 month old baby and we sat around, had a couple of beers, and they were gone by 9pm.   I think I was in bed by 9:30 before the game was even over (only because of that insane power outage that shut the game down for 30+ minutes).  

 

Regardless, the most exciting part of our day, was the fact that Michael smoked "the Fatty."  To all of my vegetarian readers out there (shout out to my sister Meredith), you might want to overt your eyes.

 

 

The outside is a bacon quilt.  It's stuffed with beef, polish sausage, cheese and boiled eggs. It only takes like 24 hours to make - Michael prepped it on Saturday night, refigerated it until Sunday around noon.  Then placed it in the smoker.  It stayed in the smoker for about 3+ hours. For the formal recipe, go to the Garden and Gun web site.  It was delicious - a whole lot of meat. 

 

Btw, Winston LOVED it.  But for him, what's not to love?  Bacon - hmm, good.  Beef - hmm, good.  Sausage - hmm, good.

 

How was everyone else's Super Bowl Sunday?

 

Renovation: Day 114

We spent the weekend moving things into the new part of the house.  Our new bed was delivered at the beginning of the month and had been sitting in bubble wrap in a corner of the house.  We finally put it together on Saturday and then the new Tempurpedic mattress was delivered Sunday night!  Typically I hate making beds (even though I make my bed every day because I hate coming home to an unmade bed worse), but I had so much fun putting the new sheets, quilt, bedspread and pillows on the bed.  The end result looks like this:

 

The lamps (Circa Lighting) are staying, but the nightstands are temporary.  They're actually side tables for the den, but we need something until I find permanent nightstands. 

 

 

Bed - Serena and Lily

Quilt and Euro Shams - Bella Linea (reused from our old bed)

Duvet Cover and Standard Shams - Bella Linea

Monogrammed Sham - Bella Beach in Destin, FL (I saw a sample back in October when we were down there and then ordered it via phone)

Sheets - Target (I really do not like spending a lot of money on sheets!  I wonder why that is?)

 

In other news, the shower glass was installed on Tuesday.  I can't wait to take a shower in there!

 

And I put the Union Jack rug down in the closet:

While Michael and I are putting things up and away, this is what Winston does:

 

Doesn't look that comfortable to me, but whatever floats your boat, buddy.  It's almost like he's saying "Mom, decorating is exhausting!"

Ready for Spring!!!

I don't know about y'all but I am so ready for Spring.  Winter is for the birds - and to make it worse, all of the catalogs I'm receiving are all about pastels, shorts, bathing suits and cute dresses.

This one, by Diane von Furstenburg, totally caught my eye...

Gorgeous, right?

I'm thinking I need it for the Schermerhorn Fashion Show in April.

And I would pair it with these...

Renovation: Day 110

Almost there!  As of last Friday, most of the work was done.  We just have a few items left - like getting shutters on the windows, getting the cable hooked up, and then the punch list.  Few pics from last week:

Master Bedroom:

 

 

Master Bath:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master Closet:

 

 

I'm still in the process of moving all my clothes and shoes over.  Michael only gets a teeny, tiny little section.  Ha!

Renovation: Day 103

As of last Friday, we had newly polished floors (man, it was so stinky!), the sheet between the kitchen and den was taken down, and the bathroom was almost complete.

With the sheet gone, it totally opens up the new downstairs rooms:

Love my new fireplace and double french doors:

The new floors totally warm up the space:

Bathroom is coming together - the marble and bathtub are installed:

Winston was not a fan of being holed up:



Renovation: Day 97

I finally figured out how to post pictures!  phew.  so this post is about a week old - we're so much further along this week... next post coming soon!

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first, a big shout out to my husband and the Alabama Crimson Tide!  what a great game last week!

now, on to more important things :)

lots of last minute work going on at the house.  as of last Jan 4th, they had finished the mantel and wood work, installed the bathroom cabinets, and painted.

master bedroom painted in Porter Paints Indian Ivory:

master bath with new white cabinets, paint color Smoke Screen:

new window in the existing bathroom is painted:

we're also in talks to put a patio out back (since the yard is already a mess) before we install a new fence.  here's an outline of the patio from the new upstairs bedroom window:

Posting Pictures?

has anyone else had trouble posting pictures to their blog?

I've been trying for a week to post a renovation update but can't upload any pictures.