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in honor of our project….a clip from one of my favorite movies. gotta get back to work…. my friend turned 40.
it was fun. Looks like you had a great time! Gotta love Girls’ Weekends (they need capital letters, those words IMO) ;p how fun! love the walgreens shot. that is so cute! What a fun trip! Meg, you are beautiful, inside and out! 🙂 You are BEAUTIFUL! And I love your hair!! I sooooo need a change! I’m a hot roller, big hair girl. I need to break away! Thanks for posting about your fun weekend, it looked divine! 🙂 I was scrolling down the photos, and when I saw that first portrait of you I thought “wow… that woman is so beautiful.” I love your outings. So fun! And ha ha ha… I just bought grown up moisturizer for the first time too and I am 37… eek. I am so envious. I envision girl’s trips like that in my future. They make life happier. meg, what hotel did you stay at? i’m planning a long weekend get away in chicago with the hubs and that room looks gorgeous! so fun. i miss chicago! and i love that you said your cup is full! how great for you and how inspiring to both make it happen AND recognize when it does! xo Waouhhhhhhh , comment ne pas rêver des Etats unis avec un tel reportage photos!!! That is the hairstyle for you! Now, can you find mine? I need something that makes me look 10 yrs younger? Or is it the combonation of the hair and the running? Would walking on a treadmill work?:) I am so proud of you! You inspire me. I am glad you and your girls had a great trip. I so need one!!!!!! I can’t wait to get my “4” shirt. My baby is turning 4????? Where did the time go? Oh this looks like so much fun. I can’t wait till I can escape for a weekend with friends like this! Its def necessary! How wonderful! Chicago is SO MUCH FUN!!! I never thought turning 40 could be so fun!!! This looks like a blast! I turn 30 this year. I wonder if I could talk my girls into going with me 😀 We just got back from a weekend away with our new “teenagers”… We took our daughters to this amazing resort in Washington state (Alderbrook Resort). We will be blogging about it later this week on http://www.liveitupalittle.blogspot.com (and my own personal blog http://www.lifeisjustplainfun.blogspot.com). After reading your story I am inspired to grab the older girls (us… 40’s) and get away… especially to a hotel with beds with crisp white linens and soft white towels and robes…. and a good burger joint next door! We should have just joined you guys!!! 🙂 Thanks for reminding me to make myself a priority once in awhile. Tracy (www.tfisherart.com) Im all for girl get a ways! Have one coming up next week! It was the best. Looks like you had perfect weather! What fun! And the pictures of you were gorgeous. 🙂 You look beautiful, happy and relaxed! What a great birthday (and Mother’s Day) gift! just sounds like so much fun. And Meg, you just look beautiful. I think I commented before on your new haircut but again, it looks fabulous!! Looks like a lot of fun! The pics of you are great! You look recharged and beautiful! meg you look so pretty! Oh wow! I LOVE Chicago – where my BFF lived until just recently. Great city! Looks like fun! And those tulips are amazing. . . . GOOD FOR YOU! You all look so cute – love, LOVE your hair! I am so jealous . . . I’m in need of that exact trip!!! So glad you had a smashing good time!!!!!! ooh … what a great girl trip! Great photos! You made me miss Chicago so much (used to live near there and go all the time). I love how they have flowers right in the middle of the big city! Glad you had a great time with your friends, they are so important. Looks like so much fun. We were in Chicago two weeks ago, and I was so impressed with the flowers. You’re right: they were everywhere. you are beautiful Your new hair looks so chic and you just look so fresh!!! oh, i’m happy for you guys. i don’t know what i would do without my yearly girl weekend full of all this goodness. Wow looks like so much fun! I’ve never done anything like that. You are lucky to have such fun friends! Your pictures are awesome. Makes me feel like I came along! Your new “do” is so adorable. Thanks for sharing. Looks like you had an AMAZING time! A girly weekend sounds wonderful…the pictures of you are beautiful btw : ) What a great time! I just had a similar trip…and now the reality is sinking back in. I have a hard time adjusting back to regular life! Someday my feet will walk the streets of Chicago…looks like a perfect weekend. Great shot of you… Megan, you are (still) so beautiful!! my word you packed some things in to that trip!! what a great time. girls weekends seem a distant memory – i should organise one! what a fun trip and great pictures…it makes me miss chicago and my dear friend who lives there…hoping to make a visit this fall. FABULOUS PHOTOS! I fondly recall MY (hometown) Chicago girls weekend 7 (gasp) years ago! We laughed so hard. It was in the fall and we all bought boots after we saw everyone downtown in stylish leather boots. Still have ’em. Deep sigh…you’re a happy looking bunch and so blessed to be able to getaway together. Enjoy! Looks like a perfect girly weekend! I had one with my mom and sis a couple of weekends ago. So refreshing. Sounds like you had a great trip. Beautiful pictures too. I was just in the city a week ago! Took some of the same pics as you…tulips and by the river…glad to see you enjoyed it! Looks like a great trip! Love the pizza & moscato shot! Good times! And a great photo of you! looks sooo fun! i LOVE chicago! that looks like so much fun! This looks like SO MUCH FUN! I totally want to do this with my girlfriends. That picture of you is so cute! What a fun weekend, I am so jealous, I need a weekend like that in a big way…right now I’d be happy for even an evening out w/ my two besties. I forgot to let you know I linked to your blog…it’s very positive, hope it’s ok 🙂 Awww… this post made me cry! (In a good way… kind of….) You are so lucky to have such great girlfriends and to do things like that with them. I know you know that. I’ve always wanted girlfriends to do that kind of stuff with. And I LOVE your hair! And your pictures are fabulous. What a great time. I knew it. Great pictures of you. LOVE your hair! Looks like a fun time with your friends. Good idea for my 40th (coming soon). What fun! I love Origins Cheeks and Balances; I bet you will too. And your eyes are amazing. I can see a bit of you in each of your children (some more than others). Loved every picture. I almost feel like I got to go along. Can’t wait to hear more stories from your time away. This made me want a girl’s weekend in the worst way. Two years ago i went to Vegas for shopping and more shopping, but your weekend looked a bit less glitzy and more relaxing. LOVE YOUR HAIR!!!! so fun!!! you girls r beautiful! 🙂 That looks like the perfect break. Ok, as i look at pics of you, Meg, (which i don’t get to see very often)i swear you have hardly aged since high school….beautiful! Side note…..i’m not much of a wine drinker, wish i was, just have never really loved the taste….until one evening at Olive Garden when we tried a Moscato…..i’m a true lover! This summer with the other Josts, let’s add that to the fun!:) You look beautiful. I know it’s been a bit since you got the haircut, but I tend to get feeling like when someone gets so many comments they all blend in so why bother. But I guess I am bothering today. To tell you you look really lovely and looks like you had a great time. What an awesome time! Looks & sounds like everyone enjoyed themselves. I was in Chicago on a Girls Weekend last weekend too. how funny. I’m so jealous 🙂 I need a Girl’s Weekend very sooon!!! My hubby has been gone since last Thursday…gets home tonight…and I will be a super happy girl 🙂 It’s always so good to get away and JUST TALK GIRL TALK!!!!! Especially when the getaway is in Chicago 🙂 I’m glad you are rejuvenated! That pic of you is just beautiful 😉 You look SO good in those pictures! glad you had a wonderful trip. although i live just outside chicago and it always feels like a vacation when i make that 1/2 drive! Looks like fun and I want to let you know that I love your new haircut! I know you called it a mom-cut, but I think it makes you look younger! 🙂 Looks like a blast—love the new do!!! I think we stayed at the same hotel last fall when we had a girl’s weekend! Love the flowers–crate and barrel is awesome (did you go into CB2?) oh my word, i love this!!! and…tiramisu??? my favorite. what a great weekend. Looks like so much fun! The pics of you are adorable. Sounds like an amazing weekend!!! Looks like so much fun!! Best city in the world! 🙂 Moscato is my favorite wine, so sweet and yummy ♥ awww, so fun!! 🙂 Love it! Every time I read about one of your girls’ weekends I get so jealous and intend to plan one for myself…but I never do! Maybe this time I will follow through! 🙂 I haven’t been able to go to Chicago for years now that I live a little farther away- I miss it! My mom and I used to go in once a year for make overs just so we’d have an excuse to buy new make up! no way is Jana 40!!! Hmmm, so 2011 is the year for turning 30 (for some of us) – maybe we should take a Chicago trip! Looks like TONS of fun! You and your sassy new cut…lookin’ spiffy:) Love all the pics. The one of all of you on the surveilance video cracked me up! what a fun thing to do. I love Chicago.
this is a classic. hhahaha! Love it! Can’t wait to meet her. we have pics of my son like this that we made into a mouse pad. Awesome picture! Remember this one for her senior annual. Can you guess who this is??? hehehe! I love this, shes so comical. so cute. that’s our Annie!!! what a cutie… josh looked over my shoulder at annie’s picture and said, “she’s diggin for gold!” 🙂 what talent your kids have! Classic, YES! Love those big brown eyes! my boys do that to!!!! lols LOVE it!… this is a ‘Senior Year Montage (sp?)’ if I ever saw one! LOL! She’s still adorable! Fridge worthy;) Oh Annie 🙂 Have I told you I just love her!!!! Double duty. She’s multi tasking already! I think Annie and my Claire are cosmic twins. 🙂 Heehee so cute! All your pictures are so colourful : ) Classic. Can’t wait for a post oh say 13 years from now when she is getting ready for prom! Wedding rehearsal video pic for sure! Annie is even adorable when she’s crying! Too skinkin cute! Hysterical. And I love that her name is in the background! She’s going to love this when she’s older. 🙂
wow! talby looks just like you! i WANT that floating styrofoam chair!! yes, my mom washed my hair in sink…HATED IT! your kids look just like you lol Oh my gosh. I totally had purple corduroy knickers! Just read the comment about curly perms and the kitchen sink. I’m really “old” and have tortuous memories of leaning over a kitchen sink and having all the really smelly stuff rinsed out of my hair. The kicker was, I hated curly hair and wanted two braids hanging down my back. My mother would have none of that. So guess the hair style my daughter wore for years, two braids. I almost fainted when she turned ten and wanted a permanent. Go figure! Loved this post, and the comments, the kitchen sink as part of Americana. I wash my kids’ hair in the kitchen sink — ha! And I would have been the Queen of the Floating Arm Chair too. . .all I have is the kids’ tube 🙂 And yep, had those knickers too. Except mine were turquoise. We must be about the same age. OMG, those pics remind me of my own childhood and I kid you not, I had those very same knickers only mine were in green!! Ha! OK…you were adorable. Me…not so much and I don’t know if I would have the nerves to show those photos. aw meg, you’re so cute! Wow, talby looks JUST like you. My mom washed my hair inthe sink too. I really loved it when she used that white rubber hose sprayer thingy! Your daughters look just like you!! So cute! My grandmother, Granis, used to put us in the kitchen sink to wash our hair and then sit us down with a fine tooth comb and comb thin strands, then curl them around her finger… I am amazed that a)she was patient enough to do this and b)we would sit still long enough for them to dry so that we would have curly hair! wow, everyone’s already said it, but your two littles look SO much like you! what was it with the 80’s and washing hair in the sink!? we loved it, except my mom would use some vinegar to rinse, and we hated that. Yes, the kitchen sink. Ah! I could never do that now. haha My mom washed her hair in the kitchen sink for as long as I can remember. Didn’t know it was so common! Yes she did! I haven’t thought of that in a long time. Great pics. I grew up in St. Louis. Your lake photos and the zip sled brought back great memories! Thanks. As if you need another comment-but I had to reply. Yes! My mom did wash my hair in the kitchen sink- what was up with that? I’m thinking of Breck shampoo. I recenly found your blog- it’s a happy place! Check out that album collection!! Big music fans, gotta love it. Uh huh, we did the “car wash” in the kitchen sink, that was my mom’s fun way of getting us to get our hair washed. Was just talking to her, and she still washes her hair daily in the kitchen sink on the days she doesn’t shower. Can not EVEN imagine a bottle of shampoo under my kitchen sink these days. Yes, strong resemblance to your girls. You look like you had a joyful childhood and a fun and happy mom. Enjoy! This is beyond awesome. Also, I think I had the same purple knickers!!! OK.. I am totally cracking up.. YES YES YES my mom washed my hair in the kitchen sink.. haha What memories that brought back. I’d lay on the counter and lay my head back in the sink… So funny to think of it now…. but I think I’d kinda like her to try that again.. LOVE This post… And wow did I have some knickers too.. Thought they were literally the coolest things on the whole planet. I absolutely HAD to comment on this one!! Yes, my Mom washed my hair in the kitchen sink! I actually laid across the kitchen counter and hung my head back into the sink. She did this till I was too LONG for the countertop! Gosh, how old was I when she was still washing my hair like that?!?! Oh What a cute post… Memory lane!!! Love it!!! Yep, Talby looks like her mama. Such beautiful eyes! haha! david crosby in the background is HILARIOUS! my husband and i were just talking about the styrofoam floating chairs. how we wished we could find some. : ) I graduated high school in 1980…sigh…and I totally wish I could rock the Styrofoam lawn chair! All those new fangled foam things just don’t get it for me Wow…your girls really look like you as a kid – minus the purple corduroy, of course. Crazy how that works! 🙂 You know what is hilarious?! I had those exact same purple knicker pants LOL! and YES< my mom used to wash my hair in the kitchen sink til I was 14 because I was afraid of showers and it was easier to do in the sink than bend over the bath-tub! too FUNNY! tara my mom still washes her hair in the sink :)) i see a bit of talby and annie in your pictures! Hi Meg, Wow….brings back wonderful 80’s memories. Lauren looks just like your sister in the last pic!! Annie and Talby look just like you! Sink hair washing was bigtime in my family too. My mom fixed (TEASED) my grandmothers hair for years and always washed it in the kitchen sink, ha! My mom always washed my hair in the sink! I asked her to do it until I was about 15 I;m 26 and I still ask my mom to wash my hair in the sink when I go home. That’s not weird, right? My girls love it when I wash their hair in the sink – your lake photos remind me of my parent’s house – thanks for sharing! girlfriend…this is great! you made me smile with this post…brought back some of my own family, childhood memories from the ’80s! wow….I can really see Annie and Talby in you Only when I had head lice:) Used to…sometimes I still do! Sometimes a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do in a small amount of time . love it. Talby & Annie look just like you!! My hair was super long, I would lay on the counter and get it washed in the sink..lol.. what great memories. I love your blog. Me too! I completely forgot that my hair was washed in the kitchen!! So funny. Maybe we should start a new trend and bring it back. 🙂 Very cute! We’ve been looking back at old photo’s recently. Isn’t it funny to look back and think…”what on earth am I wearing that for?!?!” Heehee! How cute! I think I had that same outfit only in a dark green color with clogs! Loved it. My mom ALWAYS washed my hair in the sink… what was with that? oh my goodness . . . i’m 99% sure i had the exact same knickers AND knee highs!!!! i need one of those floating lawn chairs right away. awesome! I loved these photos! We were BIG Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fans. =) Love the styrofoam floating lawn chair. Talby could not possibly look more like you from those pictures. I, um, totally still wash my hair in the sink. How old are you? LOL! I’m 35 and I have pictures that look EXACTLY like those. As a matter of fact, my mom took a before, during and after picture of me getting my hair washed in the sink and it cracks me up every time I see them. I go from looking scared, to crying to smiling with my beautifully dried and Farrah Fawcett-ed hair, LOL! It is TOTALLY Talby! I really really thought it was! Yup! My mom washed my hair in the kitchen sink all the time! How funny! Your daughters all look a bit like you! How sweet! 🙂 i saw a macgruber movie trailer last night…i thought of you i keep thinking of jaws on your skiing picture. get outta the water…hahhahahah. these pics are so fun, and i love reading your blog.! Omg, I think I had those exact same purple knickers! you look just like talby! or rather, she looks just like you as a kid. O my gosh! What a flash back for me! WOW! talby looks just like you and annie favors you so much too! how fun! and do i see a rainbow bathing suit under that life jacket? looks live you’ve always had a love for it 😉 Bathroom sink. Love the 80’s pics! We had a floating lawn chair also! This is SO funny. Those pictures are GREAT! Yep, Dad washed my hair over the sink every day. 🙂 Cool pics, I can definitely see your girls in your pics. Yes, I had many a hairwashing in the sink…what was up with that???? Very nostalgic! Your daughters do look just like you! I have one mini-me, a daughter, and one son looks like me. Very sweet post. I like the first photo of you ~ lots of personality! My mom and grandma still wash theirs in the sink. . . eeeeeewwwww! Wow, so fun to see that your girls look just like you!! These pictures could easily pass for Talby (besides the completely outdated surroundings…ha!). I don’t know if she did for me… BUT she STILL washes HERS in the sink to this day! Ha! (I swear!) Your kiddos look just like you! Brings back those 80’s memories. Oh boy. Funny how everything looks so familiar. I wasn’t quite as stylish as you though. Amazing how your girls look like you. I look like the nanny with mine. They are all their father. Love the pictures! I think I had knickers just like that. And I do remember my mom washing her hair and my hair in the kitchen sink, funny thing is I wouldn’t think of doing that now. Your Talby looks JUST LIKE YOU! So, so cute!!! Of course she did! Sometimes when I’m visiting home and I am in a rush, I still use the good ol’ kitchen sink for a quick wash. WOW! Your daughters look exactly like you…how cool!!! Cute… you look a lot like Talby 🙂 love the flashback pictures. my grandma use to wash my hair in the kitchen sink! you look JUST like your girls! It’s scary! my mom washed my hair in the sink too! yes!!! my mom did! i was just talking about this to some friends! I would totally wear that top outfit! FASHION! And like everyone else said… Holy cow that looks like Talby! Wow, these bring back memories. My mom and her friends STILL was their hair in the kitchen sink to this day. Too funny… Oh and yes my mom used to wash our hair in the kitchen sink. And in that last picture it looks like it COULD BE Annie!!! I love this! Great pics! It’s Talby! No, wait, it’s Annie 🙂 Oh man, I see your girls in those pictures of you 🙂 Sweet sweet pics. Yes, my mom would wash our hair in the sink….and then on Saturday night…we would all watch Love Boat and she would put those pink styrofoam curlers in our hair….also used that pink “Zippity Doo” stuff???? How funny! I can still smell that stuff 🙂 Thanks Meg 🙂 Oh my goodness…your youngest two girls look just like you! Adorable!! i agree, i see talby so much! love the pics! Oh my goodness!!! yes! she did! (and she STILL washes hers in the sink!) Too cute!!! what a fun trip down memory lane! You bet my mom washed our hair in the sink. I think with Prell or Suave. My neck would kill me at the end too. I had a Grandpa Harold, too, by the way. Carefree days.. ahhh That first pic with the socks and the knickers — hilarious! ha! I see Talby in these pics of you! I remember my Mom floating around the pool in the same styrofoam seat…LOL. What a giggle. Thanks for sharing! ~Heather R. Yes! My mom always washed my hair in the kitchen sink. Probably until I was older than I need to admit! I had the knickers…and mine were dusty rose. And the t-straps. Standard. Cute pictures! The first picture looks just like Talby! Meg- is it me or does Annie look JUST like you? Those are awesome pictures!! I had blue knickers just like your purple ones – and I loved them!! Thanks for sharing! Love these – there is something about the photography, the light that makes it look like every pic from my childhood too! Such 80s children. And all those records behind you in the first shot – so before ipods!! They were rockin a turntable… L x So fun! That first picture of you looks so much like Talby. I also rocked the purple corduroy knickers and I would wear them with purple and pink argyle knee-high socks. I thought I was so stylish! Thanks for the fun flashback. I can’t believe how much you look like your girls, or I should say they look like you…wow! Mom would wash my hair in the kitchen sink too. And the water was always too hot! Love these pictures. Amazing to see how much Talby and Annie look like these pictures! these are awesome! I love the floating lawn chair!! First of all, YES, every Saturday night my hair was washed in the kitchen sink! These pictures are priceless, and you are adorable. How fun! Thanks for sharing. i would still wash my hair in the kitchen sink sometimes if only my toddler/preschool aged boys didn’t try to smack me in the butt when i do it! 🙂 Awwww what a cutie! I love looking back at pictures when I was a kid. So many good memories!
That last photo…sweet girl. So cute what she said. Oh, those tears! So sweet. I still have to remind myself not to do things at 38. We never learn. I hope she feels better. Poor Annie…flip flops are a big deal for little girls. You have a big family like mine…I beat you with 8 of us here. My older girls don’t usually like family time together and the zoo is totally out of the question. So glad you were able to spend it together. Have a blessed day. So cute! Running in flipflops is dangerous..the amount of times i’ve nearly had a fall. Looks like a great day out : ) Just to let you know I linked to you in my blog…hope this is ok! This is like literally 3 minutes from my new house! I can’t wait to visit and take my 4 kids! I’m so excited to hear good things about it! I am so surprised to see Lauren! she is so beautiful, glad to see her in some pictures 🙂 lol! lauren’s dress is ADORABLE. where did she get it? isn’t it funny how with your fist you’re all on top of them when they cry…by number 5 (3 for me) you take a picture of it! When mine cries I usually turn to whoever is next to me and say “doesn’t she look cute when she cries?” How could you NOT pet the lemurs??? When they were so close?? How unfair. And oh the tears. Nobody cries quite so well as a little girl after a long day. I think if we could, we’d have a lot less problems in our lives. Just get it all out and then go play. looks like an awesome field trip! Yeah, running in flip flops is danger, danger, danger. Aww, you’ve built great memories! You seem so good at that – being intentional about good memories for your kids. Annie is sweet! Does she get more upset when you try to take her picture in that state or is she just accustomed to having a camera around? My neice HATES it when I take her picture. i’ve been reading your blog for a while and i love your spark and color. i found your annies preschool blog through yours. i am an elementary education major and i hope that i can create such a fun, learning environment that she has for her preschoolers when i get my own classroom. you’re very lucky to have someone care about annies education so early. oh that looks like so much fun. I love Annie’s dress, I bought the same one for my niece. Annie crying breaks my heart-running in flip flops is definitely a bad combo 😉 We love lemurs! Ever since Madagascar my daughter who is only 2 1/2 loves them. I found a cereal for her called Leapin’ Lemurs from EnviroKidz (great organic cereal by the way) and we just love them – wish we could go to a Lemur exhibit too. Poor Annie – big hugs to her. Awww Annie looks so sad, Flip flops are definatly not for running in… Toe scrapes… Owwwwie!!! i can sympathise with her pain. I was just going to pop in and pull up pictures of your kitchen to show my husband, but when I was scrolling down, sweet Annie’s tears made it impossible for me not to read and comment – that girl is the SWEETEST!! The lemur exhibit sounds awesome! My kids always want to go into the zoo exhibits, especially the monkeys, so they would love it. How NEAT!! Love these! Oh, precious! Cute! All those lemurs remind me of Madagascar. awww, poor Annie. That is such a cool place, though!! How awesome to be able to sit right in there with them! we are wanting to go to tanganyika sometime soon. sounds like so much fun. love the share You got to pet Lemurs!! That is so cool. I’m going to go google right now and find a place near me to do that too. Megan, I love keeping up with the kids as they grow up. Talby is just “mini-you”! Love the striped shirt and lemur tails photo – hilarious! So fun! Our family has been wanting to go there too but haven’t made it yet! That is so cool to be in there with the lemurs! Thanks for showing us pictures of it! How nice you got out will all of the kids– I can’t believe how big they are all getting. Thanks for sharing!! Awwww 🙁 That picture captures it all!!! Poor Sweet Annie 🙂 What a great place though!!!! This is unrelated to your post. I am hoping that you and your children will make your summer poster this year. And when you do, will you link to your last ones? It will be here before we know it! Thanks, Meg! Hey Meg, I love how close you could get to the Lemurs. Big hugs to you, it is hard when a child wants to distance themselves. Good on you for insisting on holding onto family values. They will be thankful for it one day. xxx How in the world did they resist petting those cute little boogers! That picture (Annie’s tears) is priceless. I’m going to have to remember to try and get some of mine crying. LOL Thanks for sharing the good and the bad, Meg. It makes me feel so much more human (and every mom needs that). xoxo The flipflops comment just made me laugh out loud – so much like my son! They learn but its oh-so-hard! Such a cute picture with the tears – heart-breaking x OMG! I can’t you were allowed to get so close to the lemurs! How cool!!! Hope ALL of you had fun…even though it’s not COOL to be with your family! Love them all, but I have to say Annie is so precious. What a doll! Wondering if she gets mad when you take pictures of her crying?
i will keep your secret waffle. Our dog isn’t supposed to be on the sofa either but the first time my mom let him up and he cuddled up to her, put his head on her lap and gave a huge sigh, there was no going back. What a face! Too Cute! way to go waffle!!!!!!!!!! I love waffle! He can come sleep on my couch anyday. They are brand new too! I love his long wavy and curley hair. I bet this is good for the summer coming up or are you having trouble with all the pet hair on the floor too? We vacuum every other day. annie is such a angel sleeping and waffle too..(: We started out not letting our dogs on the couch. We changed. We ran out of room for 2 large dogs and 2 people. Ended up buying a new couch to fit us all! Nothing made me happier as a little girl than laying on the couch with my puppy! Those are wonderful memories! Too cute! And I just love Annie’s outfit! Somehow, I’m guessing Craig knows… I love his name. Waffle…so sweet and fitting:) Love it! Please remind us where you got his collar. I’m telling…. LOL I LOVE this picture! He’s so adorable and it looks like he is protecting little miss Annie. :o) If it were up to me, my babies that we used to have would have SLEPT between me and the hubster but he wouldn’t hear of it – HA! Soo cute. He looks so cuddly. Just wanted to drop a note that I’m doing my 1st GIVEAWAY on my blog. http://www.lifeologia.com. Hope you can come visit and enter. Everyone is invited 😉 waffle got his summer doo… He can come on my couch any time 🙂 he’s so cute ! first time here. i’m loving all the vivid colors and beautiful family photography. i can tell there’s lots of love in your home. so kind for you to share with us! He is so cute and looks like he loves to snuggle. So sweet! I loved Waffle so much from your blog that we got our own during Spring Break… Her name is Abbey & she is great with our girls! I love that dog! How adorable! Both of them! You are a lucky woman, Meg! They are so cute! Little Annie is just the sweetest looking little cherub & Waffle! Sigh, I love him. I have two Labs (not doodles). Such cute pictures. Waffle is so adorable! They had puppies like him in our local pet shop – it took every bit of will power I had not buy one. Secret is ever so safe with me 🙂 And you are right….that is just too precious!!! I miss a big dog around 🙁 i love that waffle loves clifford…..<3 love 🙂 That was too sweet to pass up! I love that second photo… That is precious. how comfy cozy!!! look at that face.. he knows. Dogs are so funny, they know the mama gives in… just like our dogs know too 😉 Looks like a different dog when clipped! Very cute. I can see that Clifford would be a favorite! Oh, cute!!!! that second picture is adorable. What a sweetie. Ahhh, that’s to cute to break up! I would have allowed that too. 🙂 so cute. . . we have the same rule at our house. . .except I am like craig 🙂 Jonathan lets them up all the time when I am not home. The two of them together is just too cute for words…I bet Dad secretly thinks so too! we have the same secret in our house! Oh, Waffle, you are so sweet! We are guilty too. Our Golden and our Goldendoodle are lap dogs! They love to cuddle. love that waffle & his secret life too Ah! I have the same pics of my dog and girl! And your secret is safe with me – as long as no one tells my hubby!! How funny that there are all these comments about hubbys and the wives being the rule-breakers! hehe! I have to laugh! The same thing happens in our house, but then I get mad at myself for letting Yankee get on the couches when i’m cleaning up dog hair! He’s a labradoodle-he’s not supposed to shed…but he does 🙁 I think he needs a hair cut like Waffle’s. Goodness me – so cute! I’m on the hunt for a new puppy and my #1 requirement is that it likes to cuddle 🙂 Oops. I think the jig might be up. (Unless Craig doesn’t read your blog; then you might be safe.) He is lovely! Love the name waffle 😀 Mine isn’t allowed on the furniture either…but he is lovely and soft! Sooo cute!! So cute…and I suspect Waffle knows that;) Okay, I have two comments and one question about this post: Awwww…too cute! Awww , that’s so sweet, our pups always sit with us , but their breed is a “companion” dog , it would be cruel not to let them up they are just little , my buddies , did you know not all dogs notice or can see tv , it is a sign of greater intellegence , my one dog loves anything on tv with animals the other dog can not even see whats on …. Your secret is safe with me. I love cuddling with my 3 dogs. Anytime, anyplace. So sweet. A cuddle and Clifford…can you blame him? 🙂 We have the exact opposite thing going on over here, I hate the dogs on the furniture. Not because they are not awesome to snuggle with, but because I’m the one who has to vacuum the couches and spray them with febreze when they make it smelly. I like his new haircut! Roscoe’s not allowed on the furniture either… Yeah, right. Good thing that poodles and doodles are basically non-shedders, huh? 😉 Too cute, I would do the exact same thing!!! haha, our dog isn’t supposed to be on the couches either. when i walk by, and he is, he gets real still, like if he plays the statue game, i might not notice 110 lbs of massive dog beast on the couch. as if. It only get’s worse from there. I let my dog start sitting on the couch occasionally, and now she gets up there every time we’re gone. She’s even started standing on it so she can peak her head through the curtains and bark at people. I. Heart. Waffle. he is just too cute!!!! we have cats. they do what they like whether we want them to or not! 🙂 same for jett.
craig’s birthday was last week. whisk the pudding mix with milk and pour on top of the peanut butter crumbles. after it’s set, spread a container of whipped topping on top of the pudding. ************************************************
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Made this last night, my husband loves it! I have wanted to find this recipe for about 15 years. I had this pie a few times at church potlucks but the lady that made it refused to share the recipe. I do not see where you have it posted either. Can you help me find it? Please post the link for the recipe because I can’t find it. this is very close to the recipe my husband uses for his peanut butter pie recipe which he ‘borrowed’ from an amish bakery in ohio! it’s awesome!!! lucky you 🙂 i’m making this tomorrow for a baby shower i’m hosting. the guest of honor is going to LOVE this! Hi Meg, I’ve never posted before but I do follow and enjoy reading your blog. I read other poster’s tips for pie crust & agree that you can’t stretch pie dough much because it will shrink back. When you flute the edges, be sure to snag it over the edge of the pie dish a little with each pinch to give it something to “hold” on to while baking. Then either prick it well with a fork or weight it to prevent it from bubbling while pre-baking. Made this yesterday. It was so yummy! TFS! Yum! Oh Megan, this looks so delicious……..I bet it would be tasty with mini-recees cups crumbled on top – PB and chocolate and pie crust, oh my. Hi Meg, Oh man, don’t all guys LOVE peanut butter!?! I love your pie crust… it’s homemade! YUM. Thanks for the recipe! That looks great but unfortunately i’m allergic to Peanuts! If I wasn’t I would definately make it.. Yum. I wish that I could have a piece right now! I was a pastry chef before I became a mother, and I have a couple of tips for you about pie crust if you’ll forgive my presumption: OK, I didn’t put on any cute apron, but I made this pie tonight and it was DELISH. I even got inspired and went all out with a stouffers family lasagna and garlic bread beforehand. My family was SHOCKED and are being so nice to me. 🙂 Thanks for the wonderful recipe! oh my YUM! Thank you!!! That looks SO good! I wish I could make one. My daughter is allergic to peanuts and while we do keep a jar in the house for my husband and me to have sandwiches once in a while, I don’t cook with them because I’m afraid the fumes might cause her to have an allergy attack! Maybe one day when she’s not at home… 🙂 I made PW’s cinnamon rolls this past week and there is an art to dough. Just keep practicing. You will get it. oh, that sounds (and looks) goooood! can’t wait to try it, but i will be honest, it will probably be in a pillsbury pie shell. 🙂 hi, love your blog…love the pie. I am going to have to try to make it. Have you ever tried the trick with foil and no pie weights… that’s what finally conquered my wonky pie crust… smittenkitchen.com is where I found it. I make the same recipe but with homemade pudding instead of the box kind. It is delicious. The funny thing is, whenever guests have it, everyone agrees it is such a southern recipe! (I’m in North Carolina.) I guess we all like to claim the really good recipes. 🙂 I am sorry to be laughing out loud at your pie crust…only because I know from experience, sadly. Glad to hear about the weight things. You really crack me up–much love! I have never heard of this type of peanut butter pie recipe. I will have to try this. My hubby loves peanut butter anything. I’m definitely going to give it a try with chocolate pudding! (I had mono for a month straight once and all I could eat was jello and vanilla pudding so they are on my dislike list now) Um Yummy, I was thinking that it would be so easy to substitute the peanut butter if you had nut allergies to something like chocolate spread. MMMMMMM This is a great pie. Some have commented about using chocolate pudding. I make it both ways and it is great both ways. When you use chocolate pudding, you can also add chocolate shavings/sprinkles on top with the peanut butter crumbles. Also very good. Hmmmm, I think I need to go make a pie!! That pie crust spells L-O-V-E, and that makes it perfect! i just made this recipe. i used a graham cracker crust because it’s what i had. i also mixed in cool whip with the pudding mixture and then added some on top too. i’m not sure how the graham cracker crust and the peanut butter crumble will hold up together but here’s hoping. thanks for the recipe! You just made my DAY!!! I was looking all weekend for a PB pie recipe that had the crumbles on top!!! My baby sitter (when I was a little girl) made one like this! I can’t wait to try it!!! Pie crust is an interesting breed! I can’t see how you placed the rolled out dough in your pie plate, but remember that if you pull the dough up to cover the plate (stretching it to fit) that the pie dough will shrink back to the original size it was before you stretched it. That’s my guess on your shortened sides. Thanks for sharing 🙂 I have a son who honestly lives on peanut butter. That looks awesome! You can’t go wrong with homemade crust. I bet your hubby was very happy. oh yum! that looks delicious. 🙂 Thanks for sharing the recipe, it’s a bit different from the PB pie we make. I can’t wait to try it! wow i am from the midwest and have never seen this before, ever! I’ve only made FROZEN pb pie, which is also delicious (and so so easy, recipe here if you want to try: http://www.thesweetslife.com/2009/09/frozen-peanut-butter-pie.html) Can’t wait to try this! My mother-in-law makes this every year for my husband on his birthday. They call it “Robert Redford Pie”. Maybe it was a favorite of his too?? That looks amazing! I’ve never actually made a pie before (aside from helping my grandma make pies since I was little…didn’t require a lot of work on my part)…but I may just have to try making this one! I am now starving I am a huge PB pie fan!! Would be fun to put some little mini Reeses’ on the top, just because, you know, I love those too! Alison will love this. She’s a huge peanut butter fan. As for pie crusts…I have a really easy and yummy recipe that you mix in the pie pan…no rolling out the dough. Doesn’t get any better than that! Can’t wait to try it. BTW, I made the chicken enchiladas for my family when they came to visit. My mother actual said, “These are the best enchiladas I’ve ever had.” And she’s the cook in the family, not me. So thanks for making me look so good, Meg. Much love to you. xoxo I agree with Carrie, you need pie weights… Bed, Bath and Beyond usually carries them for about 5 bucks. They’re well worth the investment and they can be used over and over. Peanutbutter is one of my favorites, I’ll have to give this a try! Yum! thanks for sharing! I have a son who will LOVE this! Thanks for the recipe! This looks heavenly and probptly made it on the menu for when my bestest blogging friend comes to visit me in 2 weeks (we’ve never met in person). She loves peanut better! I can’t wait to swap stories over this one. Oh.My.Goodness. I am on this ridiculous reese’s pb cup thing lately and if you threw chocolate shavings on top of that pie, I would probably eat the whole thing!! I had peanut butter pie for the first time a few months ago and I couldn’t believe I had never had it before! “Where have you been my whole life???” It was very similar to yours except for the crumb stuff which sounds like “icing on the cake”…I mean pie 😉 Wow. I think I need to stop reading blogs when I have to be on strange diets. I went off sugar last week and now I have to be on a clear-liquids-only diet. hummmmm??? who is my life is having a birthday??? I wanna make one! I am making this TONIGHT! No… make that NOW! Yummy. Who doesn’t love peanut butter pie?? Thanks for sharing! As “fate” would have it, today is my husband’s birthday. Too bad he doesn’t like peanut butter. Yeah, I know, it’s wrong but I don’t hold it against him. My birthday isn’t until November but good thing Mother’s Day is coming up! I’ll make it for myself then! 🙂 Thanks for sharing – yum! My hubby would love this 🙂 We make a version of it….only it is peanut butter ICE CREAM pie 🙂 Heavy cream, vanilla ice cream, pb and then you freeze it!….oh man, I want some right now 🙂 “Pie, Pie, me oh my…I love pie!!!” Do you know what movie that’s from? Okay, is it too early in the morning for all this goodness? I think I’ll have peanut butter pie for desert – after my cereal. Yum! What kind of pudding mix is this, vanilla? I wonder if it would be good with chocolate… ya know, kind of like a Reese’s cup? Meg, my mom worked at Marie Calender’s in the 70’s here in California, and she said they had peanut butter pie there and it was “to die for.” She said their version was like a peanut butter type custard with meringue on top. YUM! I was just thinking about making a pie this weekend…you have me craving your peanut butter one for sure! thanks for sharing it with us! You need pie weights – or save money and use dry beans when you blind bake a pie crust. next year I will hire you to make me a birthday pie Yum! I have a certain 13 yo who would LOVE this. I may just have to figure out a way to add chocolate though–chocolate pudding instead? Chocolate pie crust? Chocolate whipped cream??? Thanks for sharing! Meg- |
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Randolph Coleson - Over 200 years old? Wow. One can imagine the limitations of a home that old, but when you’ve good the skills and imagination as your back-ups, you can have a ton of fun in a home like that. Preserving the place, making improvements upon it, or keeping the house standing and alive are all cool projects to do…
Linda @ bushel and a pickle - I just know I must have taken picture. Our house is over 200 years old. Always an adventure but the coolness factor is worth it all. Our city boy (youngest son) who spent his late elementary – high school years growing up in a huge urban city finally agrees! Yeah!
We laugh till we cry every time we watch “The Money Pit”.
“Mr. Blandings Builds a House” is a great one too!
ann - Ahhh, old homes. The old plaster ceiling in one of my bedrooms cracked and FELL down. What a mess!!! At least no one was sleeping in the bed that it fell onto at the time. I don’t think that’s a dead bird…it’s a piece of dirty wood, isn’t it?
susie whyte - i am definitely not showing this to my husband. i want an old house so bad! 🙂 love, love, love the money pit. tom is hysterical in it!
Kelly - 🙂 I forgot about that movie!
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Kristi - uh oh!! Looks like a reno is in order! I love that movie! Watch it EVERY time it’s on! 🙂
Annette - love that movie! that was on tv just a couple days after we bought our house, we joked it was us! Our house is 80 years old, love it! however projects are never as simple as they seem!
Gemma - btw looks like there might be a dead birdy on the right : ( X
Gemma - That movie looks hilarious! Sorry to here there is more work to be done than expected…atleast it won’t ever be as bad as that film! : )
Gemma X
Molly - Love that movie!
Molly
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Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - One of my favorite quotes:
Water Fielding: Do you know how hard it is to find a really good carpenter? Besides, I think he’s got a brother who’s a plumber!
Anna Crowley: Really? A brother who’s a plumber?
Water Fielding: I think so.
Anna Crowley: Do you think I should sleep with him?
Water Fielding: Maybe just this once.
DreamGirlLisa - OMG, I can soooo relate! This is the movie I always refer to when I’m explaining what my house looked like when I first bought it!
Brooke Whitis - I live in a really beautiful money pit too. Really pretty on the outside….rodents on the inside of the walls….
melanie - when i first saw the photo, i thought “hey, how did she get a picture of our drain pipe?”
i have to show this to my husband!
Lisa - SERIOUSLY!! Our house is 103 this year and we have a joke that every “project” ends up taking twice as long and twice as much money as anticipated.
meaghan - blech. what a mess.
Sarah@Clover Lane - Makes me feel better after adding one more leaky faucet to our list of things we need to fix. Old house charms make it worth all the projects…right? RIGHT?
Juli - Oh honey, I feel for you. We live in a 1920’s “charmer” and I do adore it but not the indoor “swimming pool” that appears in our basement when we have a particularly rainy season or the odd smell that we haven’t been able to pinpoint yet, or the squeaky stairs or the…
Carrie Holler - Oh Megan, I feel for you. Same thing happened to us 1 month after we bought our 125 yr. old house. Only the way we found out is there was water running down the kitchen wall…
gena - Oh yeah…. old house living……I swear we could star in the Money Pit ! Ours is an 1850’s Victorian and nothing is ever a “quick fix” or a “cheap redo” !!!
Thanks for sharing !
gena
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Kristen - Is it sad that I’m more freaked out about the GIANT spider in that picture than the corroded pipe?! 🙂
purejoy - oh goodness. we have an old home, too. a few months ago we had a water feature in our basement. you know, not the intentional water feature. the kind that streams down the wall and pools on the carpet.
mmmmm.
looks lovely with the black mold crawling up behind the couch.
in other words…
i feel your pain.
good luck on the renovations.
Michelle - We bought our OLD house last summer. . . and after a couple of months of pouring money in when we found our house’s ‘issues’ my hubby decided we should watch that movie– makes us feel better– at least our house isn’t THAT bad.
Bec - Ech! I think I’d tell my husband not to show me that stuff.
Janine - That house (the actual one used in the movie in Lattingtown, NY) went up for sale last year. I don’t know if anyone bought it but it was listed for 2.95 million! I love that movie.
Melanie - That is why my hubby won’t ever buy an old house even though I LOVE them:)
Hope you get it fixed and it doesn’t break the bank!
Blanca - Eek! The spider is all I can think of. Sorry you’re having to replace the corroded pipes. Your house is still the best!
Angela - Don’tcha love it?!?! NOT! I too live in an old house and we have replaced a ton of cast iron plumbling pipes. Its so gross and you can’t really show off your shiny new pipes to your friends.
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Love that movie! They both totally crack me up. Even a new house is a money pit. I’m thinking renting is the way to go. Can’t wait to see your project.
Shelly - We have a money pit too….but it’s all worth it in the end…right?
Jill - Oh yeah, we’re currently renovating a 100 year old house and have found lots of goodies like that too…some of ours have included electrical wiring too, scary! Good luck!
Christy - gotta love the money pit! My favorite part is when he gets stuck in the rug in the hole in the floor.
Cheryl @ a pretty cool life. - That is too familiar. I love our built-in-1946 house, but I am NOT in love with 60 yr old plumbing. Money pit, indeed.
jess - i can relate!!! our bathroom “weekend” project turned into a 3 month ordeal because of a pipe like that!!! but some crazy reason..i love our old house!!!
LouBoo - I am so with you – just said goodbye to a sewage tanker taking away thousands of gallons from our tank – for our very old house. We are not on mains drainage. Eekk…
Kacey - Ewww! Love that movie. But living that movie would be another story. Good luck!
Krista - Oh my gosh, it was bad enough that the pipe is corroded, then I read the comments about the spider–and I checked and there it is— gosh it’s huge!! Good luck, hopefully it doesn’t snowball into big problems and it will all work out OK!!
LeAnne Cotton - Did he kill the big spider?
Jessica - One Shiny Star - Is that a dead bird on the right? Meh. Good luck!
Staci - Great movie 😉 Good luck girlie 😉
Sara - That movie is awesome!
The pipe looks horrible, but much more frightening to me- the spider on the right…was your husband face to face with that horrible looking thing?!?!
Good Luck!
Stephanie Carroll - LOVE that movie, even though I was 2 when it came out…especially when he is stuck in the hole in the ceiling and says “The care bears are here!!”
Good luck with the piping issue. bleh.