Breath of Fresh Air

Dave and Debbie gave me their old bedroom set that they were no longer using awhile back to use when I was living in Illinois.  For awhile now I've been wanting to change out the knobs on the dresser and side tables.  I finally got around to it and think it's a much better fit.  We went from these babies:

To these lovelies:

They are a bit hard to see from the picture so here's the close-up from the website:



One project done, 3.43 million more to go!

What's in a Name?

So does anyone know why the blog is called Lifetime Guarantee?  Does anyone care?  I am going to tell you...

When we (I) started this blog, I wanted it to be about Matt, Nigel and I and have it be a way that far away friends and family could still be part of our daily lives.  But since the topics generally revolve around Matt and Nigel - but I bet Nigel is in here just as much - I wanted the name to mean something relating to us.  And since Matt is stuck with me and I am stuck with him we have a Lifetime Guarantee on each other.  It's cool, though - we kinda like each other :)

Happy 33!

It's no secret that someone around here recently turned 3:

I can't get enough of this face.

But my cuddle monster isn't the only one adding another candle on the birthday cake.  Matt turned the big 3-3 last week.  But unfortunately, birthdays in your thirties aren't as exciting as birthdays in your childhood.  Nevertheless, we tried to make it as fun for Matt as we could.  So Nigel wrote Matt a sweet note and taped it to the door warning he was not allowed to enter.

If you take a closer look you can read what he wrote:

Daddie, Iff yur nam iz Daddie, pleaz stay ot.  Luv, Nigel. 



Because this was inside!  Nigel picked out a special chair to play XBOX with so that it's easy to move out of the way when Matt wants to use the Kinect or use his bikes.  The only problem is when we took it out of the box it was a lot smaller than I expected so Nigel and I will be exchanging it for a better one this weekend. 

Look at that frosting job!  I was so impressed.  Usually I have pieces of cake jutting out through the frosting and it looks like a child frosted the cake.  Not this time... I will take full credit for this job.  Oh, but it doesn't matter.  Matt's office showed me up by sending these on his birthday:



A box of chocolate covered strawberries made to look like long-stem roses.  Yeah, they even had stems.  And they were delicious.  Happy Birthday, Husband!