Birthday Tiramisu

For my birthday last weekend, Mr. Z polished up his talent for cooking great Mexican food.

He made barbacoa, salsa, cilantro-lime rice, and guacamole all to mix with the tortillas, homemade chips, black beans, cheese, and sour cream. We had sort of a Chipotle nacho bar.

That is exactly what I wanted.

I'm already suffering from withdrawal symptoms from some of the awesome food I grew accustomed to over the past 3 and 1/2 years. 

Great Mexican food is definately at the top of the list. 

But for desert, I wanted a tiramisu.

Mr. Z, being the wonderful man that he is, took it as a challenge and made an awesome one.

It warrented photos.

Several photos, in fact.

But apparently just holding it will rot your teeth out.

Even while taking 2 photos...no one noticed.

The second half of the journey to 50 is looking like it's going to be just grand...

The pool boy

We went home this weekened for some visiting and good eating.

In the mean time, I found this hottie cleaning the pool.

And he's a skater boy too...

Oh my...

Watch out Mr. Z, looks like you have some competition.

My Birthday 2010

So the anniversary of the day of my birth was yesterday. It was quite a wonderful day! It started off with an amazing breakfast Mr. Zeagler made for me.

Chocolate dipped strawberries and grapes, kiwi, and french toast. Also, forgotten bacon that was eaten later.

I had a CPR class that morning. Kind of a downer on your birthday, but it wasn't too bad. Then Momma and Daddy took me and Mr. Zeagler to eat Greek food. Gyros, fries, and greek salad! YUM!

The sun was a little blinding...

Me with my favorite woman.

Momma and Daddy with their favorite son-in-law.

We decided not to get baklava but save room for Mr. Z's soon to be famous cheesecake.

Momma and Daddy headed home with full stomachs and Mr. Z, Beaux, and I lazed around the house and watched a few movies the rest of the day.

Lots of Love,

The Bathroom Makeover

The bathroom. This was my favorite transformation. Mr Z (with Daddy and his daddy's help) accomplished this great feat. I love it.

We already removed the old faucet and are going to remove the whole panel.

This medicine cabinet was possibly the sturdiest thing in the house. It was hard-wired into the electrical system. If the whole house had collapsed, the medicine cabinet would have still been intact.

More contact paper. I think Mr Z counted 5 layers.

Faux marble.

More sticky tiles. Lots of them were held up by scotch tape. If you look closely you can see a line of tape on the seam below the medicine cabinet.

So some of the contact paper refused to let go of some of the linoleum. So it all came up. It needed to anyway. We would love to strip the wood and restore it, but I don't think the structural integrity of the floor could be preserved and we would end up with an out-house instead.

Since spackle had done wonders in every other room, surely we would have no problem here. Wrong. This wall was of a completely different species entirely. The spackle tool could not smooth it out. So Mr Z ended up just using his hands. So the walls are not exactly flat and smooth, but it added more character! ...Like this house needed any more.

New piece of splash board!

We have a mirror to put up, but it didn't really cooperate. We will fix it later.

The forever uneven cabinets. Appearantly the house has done a lot of settling over the years so none of the cabinets close flush or stay closed.

Mr. Z's love for caulk is rivaled only by my love of spackle

From this...

To this...

This is not a new tube. Wet sandpaper and CLR. Amazing.

And from...

To this...

And this...

To this.

And this...

To THIS!

And as far as I know, Daddy is still trying to fix the leak in the toilet tank.

Linked to

Now.

Mr Z, myself, and Beaux live in a tiny apartment outside Houston. I am in my last year of chiropractic school. Mr Z works as a massage therapist and graduated with an Associate's degree in restaurant and catering management in June of 2009.

One year from now, we will be back living in the Little House. The past two and 1/2 years we have lived here we have been able to do things we never would have never gotten the opportunities to do if we had not left that wonderful piece of land in Belah. We get to go to concerts and festivals, go shopping (more like browse) in upscale stores, eat at amazing restaurants, meet wonderful new people, and make our own little life.

About a week ago, we made a trip home to do some renovation work on the Little House. I will post some before-and-after pictures later.