for my own future reference..

perfect green table, nice chair but better in my signature green (the outer edge of our wedding invitations) or new signature blue (see dress in the picture below.) love the idea of turning books outward, does not involve the arranging of book spines by color hoping for it to look random. adore the print on the vase, should of splurged on the sheets or towels while they were at Pottery Barn.

the taste of chicago!

our camera was acting up the day we went to the taste, the 4th of july (our first mistake) so this is the only picture we have and it pretty much sums the whole experience up! i thought it would be on the grass under the pavillion with nice little tents along the edge...so when it was really thousands of middle-american people (if you have not heard me speak about going to a walmart in gary, indiana you may not know how i feel about the general middle-american population, just use your imagination) sweating, eating ribs and yelling at their children down a dirty street, i was less then excited! Besides my crowd rage, reminiscent of my mothers crowd rage when we accidentally went to disney world the day animal kingdom opened, we did have a few decent tastes and saw a 14 yr old chica-baby-mama get arrested! and we decided that the taste of chicago can be a metaphor for life; you have tickets, (time, money, energy) and you walk along the street (life) seeing things that look good but you don't want to use your tickets because there maybe something even better coming up but then you get to the end and you just end up hot, disappointed and hungry with a handful of now use-less tickets! so use your life tickets friends!! and next year do not ask me to go to the taste with a straight face!

Oscar's First Video from Macey Family on Vimeo.

Don't you wish we would post something that wasn't about the dog? (Un)fortunately, he's pretty much all that is going on.

you can skip reading this post...i will not be offended!

this little 3.7 lbs of fluff is the only thing happening in our lives right now, so you get to hear tons about him! i won't be offended if you stop reading now, i want to write things down so i can remember them and at the off chance that someone may care enough to read about him.

* within the first day he made himself a little fort in the corner under the kitchen table, he takes things he finds there and things he wants to hide from us like his leash, and whenever he knows he has done something "not ok" he runs there and just looks at us! and if you ever move anything in his "house" or his crate he notices it right away and moves it back to where it was! even when i move his blankets he goes straight to putting them back!

*he is very smart! on walks he poops on sewer grates so that i don't have to pick anything up!

* after only a week he is having very few accidents and only going to the bathroom where he is suppose to go; except when he is locked in the bathroom with us while we are getting ready and he sees us go to the toilet... he goes! frustrating, because it is the one time i can not jump up and stop him, but just another reason he is so smart!

* he is an attention magnet! we can not get a block without 4-5 people asking about him or picking him up...without asking!! most people are so rude, even when i am on the phone they ask me questions about him and go on and on and on! i worry about nick walking him alone and the girls flocking all around him, i almost want him to leave his phone at home just in case he has a brain lapse!

* he is a money leach! after just two weeks he is worth $380 a pound! walking home from the Viagra triangle last friday a man offered us $200 in cash for him and we just laughed at him!

* as of last night he is no longer a boy, he is becoming a man! on our way home from the vet yesterday we stopped at a pet store and he fell in love with this pillow toy that is bigger then him, after he threw it around and knawed on it all night he got to knoow it! i was shocked and nick just laughed!

* he has done many more funny things and has brought such fun into our house! he has taught nick to play more and spend less time on his laptop. his nightly wake ups have reminded us that we are not ready for a baby! and he has taught nick, in his own words, patience and more patience!

Oscar Marley Coffey Macey

his first bath!
the money shot!
this is the bottom shelf of our coffee table, he gets up there and thinks he is the king of the world and barks because he can not get down!

he was giving mama some love; attractive, no?

help!

blogger will not add pictures of our fun weekend and our fun little pupp!
any suggestions?

Jenn Bean Coffey is 14!

My little baby sister is 14 today!! I have never once been in town for one of her 14 birthdays, but i love love love her and hope she comes to chicago soon! all of these girls are my sisters but see if you can guess which one is the coffey bean!