Reading Wednesday

This last month has been crazy busy for me in reading part of my life. I have flown through some great and different books.

First I have been and am continuing to read The Centurion’s Wife by Janette Oak and Davis Bunn. In the past I have truly enjoyed Janette Oak’s books and this one is no different. It has been a great relief from my normal reads. In genre, it is Christian fiction, but to me it almost seems like a glimpse into ancient history. I am excited to finish it and continue to the next two!


I have enjoyed the Twilight Saga in the past so I just had to pick up the newly released Twilight Saga: Official Illustrated Guide by Stephanie Meyer. This is actually a pretty neat read; it goes over everything you could ever imagine and every detail of the books. If you have read the books or seen the Twilight movies – pick this one up!


My Autobiography of the month, I have not officially begun. I am excited to hear what Meat Loaf has to say in To Hell and Back. While watching Meat on Celebrity Apprentice these last few weeks, I feel that I have gotten to know him pretty well. I hope this book gives me a quick look into his past also. I hear he talks a lot about Texas!


In the last 10 years, one of my favorite book series has been James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club. Last week the 10th in the series came out. Well, I had started the 9th but not finished it. Other people are in line to read the 10th so I hurried to finish 9 and read 10. It felt so good and comfortable visiting these characters again because I have known them for a decade! I also truly enjoyed the ending of this one, I can only hope for an 11th!



And now to the best book I have read in a very long time. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It’s exciting, but incredibly disturbing all at the same time. The Hunger Games is about North America in the future, split into 12 Districts, and called Panem. Every year every 12-18 year old is haunted by the reaping where 2 of them from each district are chosen for the Hunger Games. This life and death game kept me at rapt attention from beginning to end! The moment I finished I downloaded the next one onto my Kindle – Catching Fire

They had me at “Primrose Everdeen”




What have you been reading lately?!

HAPPY SPRING!

Screen Caps & Cell Phones

In the last few weeks . . . .

I watched the sunrise


I ate at Ruby Tequila’s


I found a very cool cache


I went shopping for toys


I found spring


I went to church


I nominated a friend for an award


I found a few photos from my show


I hung out with dogdog


I pondered the new starbucks logo


I hung out at the construction site of my new Chic Fil a


I removed my gel polish


I cooked


I watched the sunset

Flashback Friday

I Love this Kid!

ever since I met her nearly 7 years ago, we have been best buds!

House Made of Steel

Last Wednesday I posted this picture.



Did that make any of you wonder, what could this picture be of? A weird eye? A piece of art? A window of an old church?

I have been intrigued by the Bruno House for years. This past fall I had the opportunity to tour this huge piece of art.



Before I tell you about my experience let me give you a bit of history about this house.
• Built by the artist Robert Bruno.

• The house is a steel cave

• While most architecture today is based on the (steel, concrete or wood) frame, Bruno built his house of domes. The folded, load bearing surfaces so many architects aspire, are here built – by hand.

• It weighs about 110 tons, Bruno calculated

• The idea for the house started, the artist said, after he made a big steel sculpture and thought it would be nice to be able to actually walk through it.

• 32 years later this is the result



After being interested in the Bruno house for so long, it was such a treat for me to get to go inside. I thought I might be scared to walk in, because it is up on a cliff, and believe me, it does not look very sturdy!



But once inside, I had no fear. Well except for when I was warned to stay away from the open window!



Honestly this house was very cool on the inside, but it felt like going back in time. If you can imagine walking through a well lit cave this would be the perfect embodiment of that.

The gorgeous stair case was more a piece of art, then useable.



I am so glad to have had the opportunity to tour this larger than life piece of art.



If you would like to know more about the Bruno House, see some more great pictures, or find out where my information came from click HERE and HERE

Flashback Friday

This week I decided to flash back to Christmas, when my nephew still had both of his front teeth!



Scroll down for after pictures!

Wordless Wednesday