My husband Garth is the big three oh today. I’m thousands of miles away in Spokane, WA hanging out with my family in the snow while he works on his Austin Mini today….but I wish that I were close enough to don a party hat and make him a little cake.
Happy Birthday to my [...]

We got our official souvenier photo from the Navy Birthday Ball back today, and it’s so darling. I just wanted to share it, and share this group of photos that Mr. Garth has added to his flickr account. They are from his re-enlistment ceremony on Halloween- where he was dressed as Popeye. [...]

Oh Gap commercials, I love you.

Fueling my obsession with the Gap holiday sweater, I wandered over to the Gap’s online store to see this winters lineup and ran into their holiday marketing campaign. Rainn Wilson singing baby it’s cold outside and John Heder dancing like my brother Josh? I’m sold.
To get into the [...]

My friend Jandre tagged me, and I like lists…so these are my six things.
6 TV shows:
( I don’t watch TV!- but I netflix or own these)
The Office
The Martha Stewart Show
Project Runway
Friends
Trading Spaces
um….I’ve seen every Smallville because Garth likes them, does that count?
6 Favorite Restaurants:
Red Robin
Taco Bell
Taco Time (even more now that I’m pregnant and there’s [...]

A few weeks ago Garth and I started noticing the evidence of an uninvited guest living in our home. We found tiny droppings and half-chewed cupcake wrappers. We pulled our Halloween candy from the top shelf and found a tootsie pop that had been licked to the tootsie part on one side, wrapper [...]

We had a great Halloween! We went as Olive Oyl and Popeye. We tried to stay as close to the cartoon as possible, and make everything with quality and comfort in mind. Here’s what we did…
Popeye. We patterned the top after the US Navy’s dress blues jumper. I used black, red, [...]

Garth was a super sport today in modeling 20 newly created bow ties for me this morning in the really intense Florida sun. So I made him some peaches and cream, and then he took a little nap on our front porch, using my pumpkin as a pillow. This kid can sleep anywhere, [...]

Garth and I went to the fair this week with $37.75 in our pocket. We left with $1.25. Admission was free since it was the grand opening, and we didn’t shell out the $11 that it cost for the two of us to ride the ferris wheel once…so where did it all go?
Food. [...]

Saturday was the Correy Station Navy Birthday Ball. In true Laura fashion I spent the whole morning and the previous evening working on my dress. I couldn’t wear anything that I already had in the closet because I have no waist. So I cut up a Michelangelo wedding dress that I’d thrifted [...]

Pregnancy does not make me crave strange foods. As a vegetarian I wondered how I would handle a fried chicken craving (and how my body would handle it having been on a vegetarian diet for 8 years now!), but the opposite has been true. I haven’t wanted to eat some of my favorite [...]