The Carusos came for a visit :-)

This weekend Michael's mom and dad came up to check out our "new digs" in Crown Point, IN. For those who don't know where Crown Point is geographically, I'll fill you in. Crown Point is in the FAR Northeastern part of Indiana. It is 30 minutes from Indiana Dunes State Park, 45 minutes from downtown Chicago, and is 4hrs 15 minutes from Charlestown.
Back to the weekend...

We made calzones and took a walk around the Crown Point square on Friday night.
Saturday we headed to the lakefront attraction in Chicago, Navy Pier. The water was gorgeous, and we took the opportunity to get some good photos in.

Look at that skyline!!!

Me, Joe, Debbie

Michael, Joe, Debbie

Michael and me waiting for our table.

Debbie & Joe in front of the skyline!

Awesome pet accessories!

We have quickly come to find some great new kitty tools. The pledge fur grabber as I call it is amazing at getting fur off of anything. We have a micro-fiber couch, as well as micro-fiber chairs. Templeton LOVES to sit on those chairs and this thing gets every piece of fur off!



This litter pan looks normal, huh? It is far from ordinary though. When one goes to clean it out, instead of scooping you roll it. The idea is you roll the top to the bottom. Then, roll it back to right side up and remove the tray that sits off to the side. The tray has the gross stuff in it. You simply pull the tray out and dump it. This litter pan was made for slightly OCD people such as myself. I will never have a normal litter pan again!

Right side up (sorry you can see kitty stuff in this pic)

Up side down

Remove tray and dump!

The best part is...I have not smelled anything gross as of yet!

New bedding for the new furniture

Michael and I are tired...tired of brown & black drabness. We decided that it was necessary to update our bedding from brown & cream to something that goes better with our new modern furniture!! We found a great deal on EXACTLY what we'd been looking for today.

New bedding

Notice the pattern in the comforter matches the pattern on my jewelry box.

We finally got all of the boxes out of our new office! Looks great!

Couldn't resist taking one of Templeton!