Memorial Day Musings!

Memorial Day was a wonderful day and it was quite a special one this year :

May 28th is my Mother's Birthday 

Happy Birthday Mommy! I love you so much! I really hope that you had a wonderful birthday and hopefully this will be the last birthday where we are in different states. I am definitely praying and keeping my fingers crossed.

And now, to recap the weekend with Sometimes and Always ~

Sometimes: We host late night parties at our house with our closest friends and try to keep it simple.

Always: We serve breakfast foods like Chicken and Waffles 

so that we are able to make it through the night.

Sometimes: We tell our friends the party begins at 7:30pm so that we can begin to 

wind down around 1am at the latest

Always: They show up late and it turns into super late. This particular night, 

they ALL showed up at 10pm right on cue and didn't leave until 5am. 

This is my tired hostess look

this is the calm before the storm picture.. they weren't sitting quiet for too much longer

Sometimes: These guys are very calm and quiet ~ these are their "we are full" faces.

Always: That only lasts for a brief moment because they were so loud and hilarious for the rest of the night that for the most part everyone woke up hoarse 

Sometimes: I take my sweet time trying to find the right frames for some of my favorite pictures to put them up around the house. 

Always: Our random friends play with them and they never get back to quite right. Its as if we have children for real. 

This is Jeremy saying to me, "What? I think it looks better this way"

He has no idea how long it took for me to stop obsessing about how to get them level. 

Sometimes: People come over two days in a row, so the party continued again 

- supposed to start at 3:30pm

Always: In true fashion, the crew is late and it starts at 7pm and ends at 1am

Sometimes: I can't believe how much fun we have together

Always: No matter how tired I am, I will invite them over the following weekend to do it all over again. 

Sometimes: I wish I could have an early afternoon function at my house

Always: I accept that our house is the last stop on the train of BBQ's and I am ok with that... because no one wants to go home - thats how you know we have the best times!

Cheers to the freakin' weekend friends! I truly had THEE best time this Memorial Day.. and the jokes that we will have from being delirious I will never forget and will be giggling for days to come. 

There is a heap of persons who came to our house that I didn't get the chance to grab my phone and capture - for one, I lost it in the kitchen for most of the day.. one day I am going to get it together so I can really capture these memories. 

My feet hurt so bad from painting the house, to standing to cook all weekend and clean and be hostess that today- I could barely walk without crying by BBQ Day #2, and although I am working from home today -- I have decided that I am not leaving this bed at all to walk. 

Hubby decided then that he is going to take me to the movies later, even if and I quote "I have to be in a wheelchair." Sure Hubby, lets go see Men In Black 3...  LOL

That is after you wake up from your nap... will you tuck me in like Barack tucks in Michelle

Friday's Letters

Dear Pinkberry Salted Caramel, WHY OH WHY? must you be so yummy! Usually I don't like your cousins, you know those other flavors.. but you! you won the battle for me yesterday.

I may just have to escape back down to the National Harbor today to have more of you!

Dear Friday, I am SO glad that you are here! Why couldn't you be here yesterday?!

Dear 5pm, Can you come sooner?? I am SO ready to start the weekend, afterall we are having our housewarming...

Dear Real Life Friends, .. I am so sorry, but I totally went blonde on the invites so you if you get a random text from me soon with the invite to our house, just know that the only thing last minute was me letting you know.. not that I wasn't thinking of inviting you. I just have a lot on my plate.

via

Dear Mary Mary Reality Show, I totally love the images that you put out there of not only working women but women who are married to musicians.. I always said that Erica (pictured on the right) reminds me so much of myself and Tina (on the left in the orange) acts like my sister.. well the quiz proves it! Even her husband Warryn reminds me so much of my hubby with the way that he does things and reacts to things.. its crazy scary!

Dear Hubby, its Friday.. our usual date night, but I think tonight we may just chill. You took the day off just to finish painting the house and thats a present in itself. No more white walls. AND you are giving me all the freedom to go shopping for the house tomm. You just don't know it yet! HA!

Dear Blog Friends, Followers and Readers again its been another week over here at Hello, Good Morning Sunshine and you are still around. Simply put thank you. You are reading literally what I talk to myself about in my head and help me digest so much more in a healthy way (can't go around talking to ourselves no can we?)

Dear FK*M, you know who you are... its going down this weekend! Its been a minute so we have to get it in for good measure. I love you guys!

Dear Mommy, why did you cancel your trip home? I saved your Mother's Day present and now I will have to save your Birthday Present. I won't see you for another month. *major sad face*... well Happy Early Birthday.

Dear Supervisor, you won't let me go home early today? its simply a case of the Friday's - however, thanks for the approval to work from home on Tuesday!!! You are still my fav'

Housewarming with a Fresh Coat!

I hate to say this but I am delusionally tired this morning... Preparing for a Housewarming Party is really hard work. We are having a series of housewarmings because for one, lets be honest, all of your groups of friends and associates do not need to co-mingle. Plus we want all guests to be comfortable and not fake because they all had to come meet up at our house.. and so... a series of party's it is. Like for example, my mom and her friends need not be around mines- no matter how old you get, you will still feel like your party has to be taken outside because you are too loud... in your own house. :)

For whatever reason, on Tuesday when I came home from work, it was a nice day out so I decided... Lets do some Yard Work!  Mind you our yard isn't HUGE, which honestly is exactly what we wanted, but its more then the mulched strip our neighbors have... (yeah, I am only jealous because I am tired). So superwoman I cracked open a few bags of the black mulch and made sure to cover all the places that needed mulching while avoiding skin contact with all the shrubs that I am allergic too. Yup! I am allergic to mostly everything in a yard!

It was worth it! It turned out great... and see little speed racer peaking out at you from behind the trees?

Yes, one day I will graduate from documenting everything on my iPhone.. you would be surprised at how many cameras I actually own, but none the less iPhone stays in the pocket.

So THEN, we decide... Let's paint the Family Room and the Kitchen... this is where the power of bloggers come in.. I think someone pinned on Pinterest something about the moods based on color. And although Red is usually a color chosen for Dining Rooms, Yellow is a color for Kitchens. A person like me who needs more motivation in the kitchen, yellow will bring the sunshine mood to preparing a meal for hubby.

We chose: Valspar Cornucopia for the walls. Interestingly enough, before the yellow went on the wall the cabinets felt yellow to me. In real life, they now look like they have more of a red undertone.

The Kitchen looks out into the Family Room, so we chose a color that would compliment the Yellow, which is Valspar Boat Dock. It warmed the space up nicely...

I really love how it turned out... our house is still in disarray - as you see the TV has yet to be mounted, which will be done before the festivities begin this weekend...

but YUP my alter ego superwoman I decided to go ahead and paint the hallway ... hoping that it would cure the bird problem. Stay tuned to see what color we chose for that!

Then it will be a trip to go get all the Accessories!!!!

Source: eighteen25.blogspot.com via i on Pinterest

Wouldn't this look great in the Kitchen?!

Oh how I wish I had someone that lived near me that enjoyed the simple things like "accent pillow shopping"

Sometimes & Always

There are times in which I come across some great blogs that have some really great link-ups that allow me to get some of my day to day thoughts out...

If you notice, Monday's I unload my weekend musings and link up with lowercase letters, which allow me to really just catch you guys up on what happened over the weekend.

...and for Friday's I LOVE Friday's Letters with Ashley to kind of kick off the excitement for the weekend...

In between the week you never know what you may find here, but I promise.. mostly its what I am thinking at the moment, which usually its something random and hilarious and then I will link up to Finding the Funny..

a new Favorite Blog- soon to be Bloggy Friend, Megan writes Sometimes and Always on Tuesdays.. and I decided that I would like to link up as it also gives me a chance to get my week started (what you may not know is that I work from home on Mondays, so Tuesday is my Monday).

And so, my inaugural Sometimes and Always..

Sometimes: I want to write a blog post and get it started in draft as a reminder so that I remember to complete it and link up for others to read it..

Always: I remember that I did it when its too late to link up and it has to sit and wait. (if you can't see, that post says draft from 5/15/2012 - what day is today? umm yeah).

Sometimes: I get hoodwinked and bamboozled into going to eat lunch with my coworkers

Always: I regret where they choose.

My instagram from that day I went out with my coworkers

Sometimes: I miss the days of working in Entertainment Television because of the perks that I had.

Always: I am thankful my sister does because she gives me just enough swag so that I feel like I am not missing out anything.

The book she got after interviewing Tia Mowry; little sis said to go ahead keep it until it comes time for her to need it.

Sometimes: I have days like today where I feel like coffee is necessary.

Always: I drink coffee even if its not necessary.

Sometimes: The offenders I supervise try to talk their way out of being sanctioned for mistakes they make.

Always: I kill them with kindness and enforce every rule with all seriousness... and a smile.

Sometimes: I swear today will be the day that I kick excercising into full gear.

Always: I find something else to do with my time.

Monday's Musings

We had a very eventful weekend:

We went to our first Baseball Game! I have no idea why it took so long.. but hey, we are not die hard Baseball fans. I had not been to a game since I was a little girl with my dad (back when they used to let you bring your own food to the stadium). 

I am of course an Orioles Fan being from Baltimore, but not too long ago D.C. got a Major League Baseball Team and so in sheer defiance my husband decided that he would pick the Nationals to root for since we were going to the Nationals Stadium. 

I had on my Orioles Orange  - and he wore his Nationals Baseball cap.. Mind you, I have never seen that hat until he came to pick me up from work that day.. talk about band wagon cheerleader. 

So we headed out and I ran into my sister, Joi-Marie's Best Friend... Blog meet Emory. Yes, we each have male best friends.. if you don't have one or never had one... you need to get one. I believe that it is very healthy to have a male perspective without sexual tension so that you can literally study the male mindset first hand and get some great advice versus guessing how a man may think... but moving on...

We enjoyed the entire experience.. eating "street meat" as people call it, which is just food from the vendors on the street.. 

We had club level seats, which really added to the entire experience. We were seated where a lot of foul balls get hit so that was pretty fun!

All in all, I had a blast! and we have to go to another game soon.. especially since the Orioles won! That made the experience so much better. Unfortunately, the Orioles lost big time on Sunday.. so glad we went to the Friday game! 

To top it off: Saturday we went to a Live Recording for Gospel Recording Artist for Jonathan Nelson

I was so proud of my husband because he was one of the writers on this next CD project entitled, Finish Strong