Saying good-bye....

Mary Kate, a good Gordon alum used to work at Oasis and came back for a couple months this summer before she starts med school. It was a blast sharing an office with her for a bit and we had a great time.  Our office is hidden and lots of people don't even know where it is....so it's nice. We can party and people don't even know.

So we had a Cinnabon Party for Mary Kate to wish her well.

And we gave her lots of CERTIFICATES to reward her for her good work.  This place (and maybe this part of the world--who knows) gives lots of certificates to people as they come, go, leave, work for 2 days, intern, intern for 1 month, etc....anybody can get a certificate.    We knew Mary Kate would be dying for one before she left.  So instead we rewarded her with 5 so she could feel proud!

In Living Color.....

So they've painted our house.  I picked out some colors but then we tried to finding the matching color through a cheaper company but two of them didn't turn out EXACTLY as planned.

Take a peak.  The house is almost done. The kitchen floor turned out even better than I expected! I love it.  But the color in the kitchen and living room....mmm.....BRIGHT!

Alright...so remember how I said that I wanted slate blue---yeah, well what do you think of this BABY blue.  It just looks funny. I think the paint company forgot the Grey color in the paint. Small problem.

They painted one of the bedrooms this color, too but it looks different in a dark room that doesn't have much light compared to our living room (above) that gets tons of light.  So I'm keeping it in the bedroom. Who cares. It's for guests and y'all can stick it out for a week if you come to visit.

And on Day 4, God created the SUN and moon and said it was good.  

BUT hmmm....I don't want my kitchen to look like the sun.  Soooo we need to change this pronto.

But can you get a glimpse of the floor through the door.  Nice, huh?

I love the green and how it turned out.  Just what I wanted.

And the Brown, turned out better than expected!  I thought it might make the room small but it hasn't. It was a great choice and I'm so happy with it!

They ripped out the wall between our kitchen and the eating area..you can barely see because my husband was a horrible photographer today (I think he lost some skill).  You can sort of see the yellow on the left.  Where the yellow and tile meet, there was a big wall going across the room with a little door. Not so good. It's free to tear out a wall so we asked if we could do it. You can sort of see the orange/red tile floor from here.

So first thing after work, I ran to ACE and bought new paint. They are going to paint the new colors tomorrow morning and it should be done by tomorrow afternoon.   I hope we didn't go overboard with the new slate/blue color.  We are hoping it doesn't end up too dark but we figured that the blue turned out so much brighter than expected, that we needed to make it a few levels darker.  So we'll see tomorrow.  And we found a dark mustardy/goldish yellow. Here's hopin'!  

Goal......

Trey's enjoying the watching the World Cup with some buds.  These are a great group of guys from Syria...2 of them work at the hospital.  The hospital also was kind enough to order the channel for 1 month that gets the World Cup so I'm sure there will be some parties going on for the finals!

I'm reminded often that this only happens every 4 years so nothing gets in the way of these games...especially when there is a good game on!

Pizza Pie....

Around the corner we have an oven that makes bread from Afghanistan.  They make it in a round shape or a long shape like this. Usually we get the long shape.  It all tastes the same. It's so good hot with a slice of cheese.  OR lately we've been getting it and making pizza.

Add a little sauce, cheese and any toppings and bake it for a bit.  

Wa-la!  Tastes good.

 

Another round of......

They have these really great juices here!  I'm addicted.  They have all kinds, but my favorite is the 3 layer.  It's avocado, mango and strawberry.  On the way home from Dubai and the airport, we stop and get these EVERY time.  I can't drive by without getting one. I think each layer has sugar in it and I can't guarantee that they are really "that" good for us, but still they are tasty and I imagine better than some other treats.

So if you come to visit, we'll enjoy some good juice together.  We had a long day Saturday picking out furniture for our house so Trey was really excited by the time we got to the juice "hole-in-a-wall".

We're halfway there.....

We went over to check out our house the other day...to see how the updates were coming along. Here is the old kitchen outside. 

They tore out the wall in between the kitchen the eating area.

Here is another view.  

They are putting in new bath tubs since the old ones were a little rusty and nasty.  

I love white things in a bathroom. 
They tile the full walls here....I guess it makes it easy for cleaning. 

I can just wash down the walls, too!

I'll continue to update you as things progress. 

Keep em' coming....

I love to read signs here. I've posted some things in the past that amuse me...here's another.

We went to a place called Leisure one night with friends.  

It has nice outdoor seating and a good atmosphere.  

This sign was posted in the bathroom for the staff.  

Enjoy:)

Feel free to interpret!  I'm not sure that I understand it exactly right.