Signs of Spring....

Just a quick note to say we are seeing a few signs of spring here at the Cunningham household. We are doing a little spring cleaning by purging 9 garbage bags of toys and clothes to Goodwill. Boy, did that feel good! We rearranged the girls' rooms and put together a couple of shelves too. 34 screws and 90 nails later, each girl had a new organized place to keep their stuff...now if I could just get Eliza to use her hamper.


We also started opening up some windows and letting in the fresh air.


Here are a couple of photos of the kitties enjoying the sun and breeze yesterday.

Word of the Year...

Wow! It has been 2 months since my last blogpost. I have been a little down in the dumps lately questioning how much time I spend away from friends and family and if it is really worth it. I am on a committee at work to investigate solutions for the general work/life balance problem we have at Aviva Investors as well, which is sort of ironic. I may not be the best person to solve the problem given that I have such an imbalance myself. However, thinking about the issues revealed by this committee has finally lead me to figure out what my word of the year should be:

BALANCE. Balance work and home; balance working and playing; balance time with Danny and time with the girls; balance working on the various committees and customers at work with managing people

Let's hope by the end of this year that I am more in balance. Wish me luck.

Funny Saturday photos...

Jenn and I got together Saturday to get prizes ready for our scrapbooking group's annual retreat next weekend. We took some random funny photos along the way. It's fun random moments like these that make life worth living.

Tagged...

I just got tagged from my friend Mary Perry. For the tag, simply go to the place where you keep all your photos, scroll down to the 6th folder and choose the 6th photo.Post the photo and describe it. That's it! Have fun!














Well, here it is Eliza feeling her muscles on a warm summer day out on our deck. She is wearing one of her many creative outfits and showing off doing just about everything. She begged for me to take her picture and she chose to show me her muscles as her pose of choice this day.

Happy Birthday, Danny!

Danny and I headed to Minnesota, and the girls spent a couple of days with Grandpa and Grandma Peterson the weekend of Danny's 36th birthday.

The girls had a blast playing with Grandma and Grandpa and of course the kitties. They also did a lot of decorating to greet us as we got back.

We took Benji, Danny's co-worker and friend, and his fiance, Laurie with us to the Minneapolis boat show, the Mall of America, and some time in downtown Minneapolis celebrating at the Hard Rock and a piano bar. We even ventured out to downtown on the Minnepolis light rail system. The piano bar was a blast, the time away was nice, but I just loved the light rail. I have such a fascination with public transportation lately. Don't ask me why.

Recent scrapbook layouts.

Just thought I would post a few of my latest layouts.

New kitty happenings...

Well, we have now had our new kitty, Coco for 2 weeks, and thought I would give an update.
1)She has gotten used to the house, and has not had any accidents.
2)She is cuddly and social
3)She loves to sleep under Skylar's bed(Ryobi rarely goes near Skylar or Eliza's room)
4)She still has her front claws but surprisingly hasn't used them unless playing with Danny.
5)We have been treating her for ear mites and gave her a flea bath just in case...I am happy to report that no fleas were detected but a wet cat always makes for funny photos.
6)Ryobi is still queen of the house and hisses and growls at the site of Coco...I do hope this behavior goes away soon!