Mother-in-law's visit

The day has arrived, and arrive she will, tonight!
I'm so excited to see her and show her how much her grand daughter has grown. She hasn't seen Lyric since she was 5 months old. Obviously being almost 14 months old now, a LOT has changed. For those of you who don't know, my husband is Belgian and most of his family lives in Belgium still. We visited in August/September and had a blast, but this is how little Lyric was the last time we saw her:

And now she is SO much bigger and doesn't like anyone but mommy and daddy and occasionally her aunts (CoCo-Abby-Tiff). I really hope Lyric is nice to her!

My MIL hasn't been here since Jon and I got married (8/2005), so she hasn't seen our house or anything like that. I'm so excited to show her how we live.

I also didn't get everything on my list done that needed to get done, but when does it ever? I was just hoping that her visit would push us into the next phase of bathroom re-design, however, it doesn't appear to have.

My bathrooms are original 1958 tile (master is canary yellow and guest is coral/pink). The floors are SO old and I just wanted to get it done and looking awesome... my brother is a contractor and showed us a super cheap do-it-yourself way to get the guest bathroom looking super modern for less than a few hundred dollars... but oh well. Didn't happen. The master bathroom is going to take a LOT of work, so I'm not stressing about getting that one fixed up soon.
These are from when we first moved in, while the house was still vacant, but you can see how old looking the bathrooms are:



I also wanted to get the front yard fixed up. Pull all the weeds and trim the bushes and plant flowers in the flower bed... once again, DIDN'T happen. But maybe we can still get it done while my MIL is here, she does have quite the green thumb.

So yes! She should get here later tonight and Jon is taking most of the day tomorrow off and all day Friday off. She's here for 10 days, and we are excited.

On other parent news, my parents are FINALLY getting home from their month long trip around Israel/Cyprus/Greek Island cruise on Friday! Man we have missed them so much and I am so tired of them being gone. Our family feels disjointed without them here! Only 2 more days!!

And also on Friday- Moi, Courtney, Mabrie, Abby, Christina (and more) are going to be going to see the new SATC movie! Yippee! We've already gotten our tickets and I'm SO pumped! Too bad Tiff is going to be in CA, whatever Tiff! It's going to be a great night, and once we get done with the movie, we are going to rush back and go pick up my parents (they get in late at 10:30pm) Yipee! Have I expressed how excited I am that my parents are coming home??!!

So this is a full week for us. I have a few more things that I need to do in my newly appointed guest room that I will get done and then we should be good to go... oh crap. I forgot something else. Maybe I can get it done... DANG IT!