Weekend Recap

This weekend was so great!

Friday night we sold my hubby's car private party for much more than that stupid dealership wanted to give us... I'm talking almost double...

We then decided to celebrate by first going to Old Navy's Stuff & Save event where we scored some great finds! We then went to Las Margarita's and I had a huge margarita and some delicious food!
While we were eating this conversation took place:

Hubby- (At 7:02pm) O shoot, we were suppose to be eating with my co-workers at 7 tonight! It's Jochen's last day. We'll just meet up after dinner for a drink or two

Me- Sounds great (while sipping my margarita that is only 1/4 gone)

Hubby- (5 minutes later)- Are you ready to go yet?

Me- Uh.... I don't think I'll be having a drink at the next stop as I have to chug 1/2 of my 16oz margarita!!

Hubby- Well good, by the time we're ready to leave the bar, you'll be good to drive.

Me- Jee, thanks!

After dinner, we headed to the bar for a few drinks with friends. We ended up staying out way too late (that's actually only 11:00) because my friend from work, Katie, headed out to meet us.

We were able to sleep in on Saturday, until 8:00am! haha yeah yeah, I know... Not much sleeping in. We woke up, made breakfast and I set out to start cleaning the house. I met up for lunch with my friend, Jill, and then headed home to finish cleaning. I got the entire house cleaned, FINALLY! It needed it so bad. We stayed home Friday night and had one of Jesse's friends over for a cookout and to play some Call of Duty. Yes, I know what you're thinking. I actually like the game only because I'm not half bad at it! Don't judge me!

Sunday we slept in a bit later, hubby got up to mow the grass and I finished some laundry and made breakfast for the two of us. My mom came to visit for the day and we went for lunch with Jesse. Afterwards, we hit up the mall and TJ Max. I actually got some great finds there! I also scored a pair of Steve Maden sandles from Younkers for $7.50! (reg. $52.00) I was pumped! After shopping, my mom wanted to get back on the road. I cooked dinner and hubby washed & detailed my car. Which was so nice of him, it looks great! I then settled in to watch a bit of TV and catch up on my google reader!

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend! We'll be traveling again this weekend, but only part of it so that's good! I also have to share with you the great ETSY finds that were delivered to my door today! Maybe tomorrow!

All About Us!

I got this from Miss Honey Dew

♥ What are your middle names?
Kayla Jo
Jesse Adam

♥ How long have you been together?
2 years 11 months

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
a week or so

♥ Who asked whom out?
It was both of us, he wasn't really good at talking to women (about dating) so I had to step it up, but he actually officially asked me on a date first

♥ How old are each of you?
me- 24
him- 27

♥ Whose siblings do/did you see the most?
Mine, because my brother is closer, but we try to see his brother as often as possible

♥ Do you have any children together?
Not yet!

♥ What about pets?
Bear(dog)- He'll be 6 in September and he is the biggest baby! Josie & Allie are our cats and they complete our little family for now. Our life would be so boring with out pets, I don't know how people do it!

♥ Did you go to the same school?
Nope. I went to Loras College, J went to The University of Wisconsin Platteville

♥ Who is the smartest?
When it comes to technical things, cars, how things work, etc... It's him, but we are both common sense smart :)

♥ Who is more sensitive?
O, me for sure!

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?
We like to change it up ever now and then. We love Chinese though!

♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Mexico for our honeymoon

♥ Who has the craziest exes?
hmmmm that's probably a toss up

♥ Who has the worst temper?
Him, for sure. Though I can crack every once in awhile

♥ Who does the cooking?
Me. He cooks every now and then and he does all of our grilling

♥ Who is more social?
Probably me. But we both like to stay home quite often.

♥ Who is the neat-freak?
probably more so me.

♥ Who is more stubborn?
Him. Though, once again, I can be pretty stubborn.

♥ Who hogs the bed?
Me. I usually wake up with Bear on the right side of me in the middle of the bed and J is almost falling off.

♥ Who wakes up earlier?
Him. He wakes up about 30 minutes earlier than I do on most days. Except for the weekends, we always get up together.

♥ Where was your first date?
On a motorcycle ride. yes, I know... What.was.I.Thinking.... haha

♥ Who has the bigger family?
Immediate family, we have the same size family. Extended family, mine is huge compared to his.

♥ Do you get flowers often?
No. I get them on very very very rare occasions. (I'm talking, almost two years ago was the last time I got flowers) but, being the engineer that he is, he feels that they are not practical because they die so quickly.

♥ How do you spend the holidays?
Hitting every place possible. His parents life 4 hours from us and mine live 1.5 hours away. we always try to spend time with both sides of our families because it's what we feel we should do. (And we want to do it too)

♥ Who is more jealous?
I'd say neither. Maybe me a bit more.

♥ How long did it take to get serious?
For me it was almost immediately, but for him it took a couple months. being burned in a past relationship made him leery, but I sure proved him wrong and I even told him I would :-)

♥ Who eats more?
Him. But I can eat my fair share.

♥ Who does/did the laundry?
Me. If I ask for help folding, he will pitch in, but I'm stuck doing 98% of it.

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
Him. He has more patients with the computer than I do.

♥ Who drives when you are together?
Him. Ever since we started dating he's been the driver. I'm not a huge fan of driving, and he loves it.

You can tell we're actually not traveling this weekend because I have time to post! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!

The Time Travelers Wife

Have you seen it? What did you think?

I went to see this movie last week with my friend, Amber, and I'm still not sure what to think of it. It was a decent movie, but I would probably recommend waiting until it comes out on video to watch it. We went at 4:30, so we were able to pay the cheaper price, which was nice, but it still probably wasn't worth the whole $6.50.

Complete Opposites

So, my brother and I are complete opposites. I would just like
to name a few for you:

• He's tall. I'm Short
• He likes to spend his money. I like to save my money.
• He likes to party. I like to stay at home.
• He can argue like nobody's business w/o getting upset. I get upset because I can't argue well w/o blowing up.
• He was a super good athlete. I was a mediocre athlete.
• He was on homecoming court and popular. I was not.

Even though we are so complete opposite in almost all aspects of our life's, we are still brother & sister. I wouldn't change it for the world, because in the end if I ever needed anyone to be there and support me I know I could count on him. No.Matter.What. He's my only brother and my only sibling. We don't see eye to eye about a lot of things, but we know we're family and nothing else matters. I love my big brother! :-)

Oooo My love....

Yes, Friday, that's you I'm talking about!! You're here, I've waited all week for you and you're finally here! I wish you would come around more often, it seems so long since the last time you were here! I'll be begging for you to come back again in about two days, so be ready!

Last night was great. Old Navy was having their last day of their $19 jean sale and we headed over to take advantage of it along with a 25% off coupon! Score! We ended up with a great deal and 4 pairs of jeans! :-) Though, being the tall 5'0" girl that I am, I will still need to get them altered before I can actually wear them! (I think I should get a special discount for that, don't you??) We headed home to make a quick dinner and sit down to relax and watch a movie. We were in bed by 9:30, no kidding!

This morning I had to get up extra early to go to the dentist... I mentioned here, my love for the dentist. Not really for the dentist himself, but more so for the clean feeling afterwards!

Tonight I'm planning to go to Old Navy for their Stuff & Save!! I've been waiting forever for this and if they don't have my cute blue bag with the bird on it' someone's going to hear about it! :-) On a nicer note, we have planned a date night for tonight as well! I'm so very excited! We're grilling out, having a bottle of wine and sitting at the table for dinner! :-) Then we're probably just going to watch a movie. We decided no work for tonight at the house, we're just going to relax and enjoy eachother's company!

Saturday:
Sleep in! FINALLY! Enough.Said.
Get caught up on a few things at the house since we've been traveling for God knows how long.
Meet up with a friend for lunch at 12:30 and do a little shopping.
Back home to do whatever it is I need to do and then we have a cookout to go to.

Sunday:
Sleep in, yet again!
My mom's coming today! I'm very excited about that. I also mentioned about it here, and that we use to shop and do lunch every Saturday before we moved. It should be a great relaxing weekend at HOME!

Any big plans for your weekend???

Thankful Thursdays

Today I am thankful for:

• My new blogy friends! I've had a lot of new followers lately and I'm very thankful that they are willing to give a damn about what I have to say! :-) Thanks!
• Weekends at home. This is the first weekend in 9 weeks that we've been able to spend the entire weekend at home, doing whatever we want! I.Can.Not.Wait!
• Co-workers. I don't know how I would get through the day without them. I love all of our inside jokes and all of the laughs we have when we're really stressed out.
• Friday. Enough said about that
• Fall weather. I love football time and football weather.
  
• Starbucks. When the weather gets cold, I love to hop on over and get a Carmel Spice Apple Cider. (I probably won't hop over so much as drive) If you haven't tired these, it is a must!
• My Mom. She's visiting this weekend and we're going to go for lunch and shopping like old times. When I lived closer, it would be our Saturday routine and it was so much fun. I really miss getting to spend more time with her.
• The Dentist. I actually hate going, but I love how my teeth feel afterwards. ( I have an appointment tomorrow morning, pray for no problems!!)

Edit: Miss Honey Dew at Life After I "Dew" started doing Thankful Thursdays and you can get your button from her if you go here!

Show us Your Life... Families, Ceremony & Cake

Well, I've posted here and here about our wedding. This post is all about family, the ceremony and the cake (and a centerpiece)

My wonderful family! (Minus Nat-my future-sis-in -law!

My new in-laws! (LOVE THEM!)

Our Beautiful Outdoor Ceremony

Us!

With this Ring, I thee Wed

The Kiss! Yes, Hubby did have his hand in an inappropriate place, but it worked :-)


We're Married!!! Mr & Mrs!

That's right, Just married! (My friend Pam made this!)

Our Cake, I wanted simple and loved it! (O and it was delicious!)

One of our centerpieces. I'm very simple and I always think, Less is More.

Thanks for stopping by our wedding, next I'll post about the reception!!

Aplington Parkersburg High School

I'm sure many of you have heard of the recent events in Parkersburg, IA where their football coach of 30+ years was shot by a former student. ESPN did a special story on this and I think they did a great job. Take a look at it, I think it does a great job of portraying the great man that Ed Thomas was and always will be. It gave me chills throughout the entire video because of how powerful it was. (This town is about 20 minutes away from where I live and this story truly impacted their entire community)

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4422636

I can't figure out how to add the video stream into the blog, but follow the above link to watch.

Weekend recap

So, this weekend was a B-E-A-U-Tiful weekend! Friday we were able to stay home and not travel!

Friday:
We headed out for our friend James' 25th Birthday bash.
Being the "old" "married" couple that we are, we went out at 9:30 and were home by 11:30

Saturday:
We headed to my hometown to catch up with two old friends
Nick & Katie! I forgot my camera and wish I could have taken pictures
Katie is a little over 9 months prego and looking cute as ever!
I hope that when I carry a baby I look that good lol
Nick & I were friends first, back when I was 18 and first attending college. We attended the same college for the first semester and then both moved back home to attend a different college. We then worked at the same job for about 2-3 years where we met Katie. To make a long story short, Nick & Katie eventually got together and were married 2 years ago this November. They are the cutest couple and I hope we get to see more of them, especially when that little bundle of joy is born this week!! I'm hoping for a girl! I even bought them pink & purple socks because I'm so sure! haha

Afterwards, we headed to a family reunion on my mom's side of the family. All 6 of us were there and it was nice to see people whom I haven't seen in awhile or that I'd never met!
I once again, did not get any pictures! Shame on me, I know! Some of you terrific photographers are probably just cussing me out right now!

After that, we then headed to a corn boil. Yes, we do live in Iowa! Give me a break :-)
There were tons of delicious things to eat and we got our share, that's for sure! Then it was back to my parents house for a movie and some popcorn.

Sunday:
We woke up early to head to breakfast with my parents and then to a MOPAR car show that my hubby was dying to go to!

Here is my hunk of a husband standing in front of the car that he wants to purchase in 5 years :-) haha


And for some reason, this was one of my favorite cars! Isn't it cute? I just love it... I can totally picture an older couple going out for a Saturday night cruise in this thing! Did you have a great weekend too?

I'm pumped for next weekend, we get to stay home the entire weekend and do absolutely nothing!!!! (Though I'm sure we'll find something to keep us busy!)

My husband saw another side of me...

So yesterday, we headed out to look at a car we've been thinking about buying. We want a car with more room and w/the ability to tow a small boat (in about 3 years).

Anyway, we found one at a local dealership (even though in the past we have always bought private party for a better deal), this was a pretty good deal and we figured we would take it for a spin. We love how it drove, except when we were breaking and the wheel would shimmy just a bit. There were a few scrapes and dents and I'm under the impression that if I'm going to spend X amount on a car, I want it to look nice. So they "said" they could fix all of that.

We were thinking of trading my husbands car in on the deal. We knew before going in that in all actuality his car is worth more than the one we were looking at, just slightly, within about $1000.

After all was said and they came up with a price, they wanted his car +$5000!!! I about fell off my chair.

Me: Yeah sorry you're nowhere close to where we want you to be
Hubby: Can you do better?
{new} Salesmen: Let me go see, what would you like to see different
Me: First of all take the trade out of the deal because that's a terrible price
{new} Salesmen: What did you want to see?
Me: Well, you need to drop the price of the car about $1500 and give us an extra $3000 on the trade
{new} Salesmen: Um, let me go talk to my manager
Hubby to me: You need to give them a chance to do better
Me: He's already wasted my whole Monday night and I would have walked out after the initial price if you would have let me
Hubby: You have to be nicer to them to get them to drop it
Me: I don't NEED to buy a car, they NEED to sell a car

{new} Salesmen: Well, lowest we can go is $250.00 lower on the car
Me: Well, thank you for your time, you're still nowhere close, sorry.
{new} Salesmen: Well we said we'd fix everything you wanted fixed
Me: BEFORE I sign on the dotted line so that it's up to my standards?
{new} Salesmen: We would do it just how you like it after you sign
Me: Of course you would
{new} Salesmen: Well would you like to drive this other particular car
Me: No, I wanted that car and I want to look for another one
{new} Salesmen: Well they would drive the same
Me: That is not the car I want
Hubby: Ok then, she's ready to go (as he continues to argue about the difference between the car we test drove and the car the salesman is trying to get us to drive)

{new} Salesmen's Boss: Well you said you wanted it close to X price....
Me: No, I said I wanted it under X price, sorry.

As Hubby and I left he said, wow you're not very nice in car dealerships, I've never seen that in you.
Me: Well, they wasted my time on a Monday night and treated me like I was stupid, not a good idea.

So needless to say, they did NOT sell the car and I will NEVER purchase from that dealership if I can help it.

Happy days....

Today's Friday! I have the Happy day's theme song in my head now, great... Anyway this weekend we'll be:

Friday:
Going to see this movie, with my office-mate, Amber, and I'm very excited
Possibly going out to celebrate our friend James' birthday
(this is a rare occasion for us!)

Saturday:
Waking up early to head to my home town, 1.5h away
Spending a bit of time with our friends Nick & Katie (and wishing she'd have the darn baby already!!)
Going to a huge family reunion, then off to a corn boil (Yes, we live in Iowa!)
Spending time with my parents

Sunday:
Headed back home slightly early to get a few things done around the house
Relaxing and watching some movies with my hubby!

I'm pretty excited because this is the first Friday night we've gotten to say home in about 8 weeks! It's very very exciting actually! Next weekend we get to spend the ENTIRE weekend at home just the two of us and I am O SO excited! :-)

Any big plans for this weekend? I feel as though we are forever traveling!

In other news, we're looking at buying a new car {Read: New to us} I'm pretty excited, because it has a lot of room, I hated it at first because I thought it looked like Hurst, but it's growing on me! We shall see, hubby has big plans :-)

A Perfect gift

I am the proud new owner of this from A Simple Impression on ETSY
It was blogged about by another blogger that I follow, but unfortunately I cannot find the post! Please let me know if it was you! I want to give you credit for it!

Anyway, I think this is a great item to purchase for a wedding shower or wedding gift! I love it and obviously ours has our name on it, but ours is in burgundy red to match the decor in our living room.

Thankful Thursdays

Today I'm thankful for:

• Lazy nights after work with my husband. We watched a movie last night and it was just what I needed.
• Sleeping in on Saturday mornings. I love me some sleep, especially cuddled up with my husband.
• Netflix. I don't know what I did without you; I can get fun mail every other day if we stay on schedule!
• Fall. I have missed you so much. I love opening the window's and letting the cool crisp air come flowing into the house.
• Semi-casual dress at work. I love coming in wearing capri's & flip-flops and jeans on Friday!
• Fridays. They make me so happy.
• Sundays. BY far my most favorite day of the week. I try to keep this day as simple as possible, especially in the fall/winter. It's saved for relaxing, football watching and cuddling up on the couch!

What are you thankful for?

Just as soon as I said it....

So the other day my co-workers and I were talking about having broken bones and all of that jazz. I've never had a broken bone in my life; I've had one sprained ankle and that's it.

UNTIL LAST NIGHT!!!

Recap: Ok, we had an exhaust fan in our bathroom that was VERY loud and by loud I mean that you never wanted to turn it on. Only thing is, it's tied into the light, so if you want the light on, you have to have the fan on...

Hubby thought it would be a QUICK fix to just change out the fan. Boy was he wrong.... It was a lot more work than he had anticipated. Instead of taking about an hour it took about 3! So, as I'm running back and forth trying to get things that he needs while he's in the attic, I manage to stub my toe on one of his tools. (A saws all or however you spell it) anyway, I didn't hit the sharp end but I think I kicked the crap out of the other end! I've stubbed my toe before but nothing has ever felt like this.

I knew it was broken! I had just broken my itty bitty little pinky toe... :-( Not fun. After my dramatic reaction, I got up and it was pretty numb so I couldn't feel it. Well, I woke up this morning and it was swollen and black & blue! So, I am no longer in the "I've never broken a bone club" :-( It's a sad day for the little piggy... I can only wear sandals, so it's a good thing I can wear flip-flops to work!

On a good note, our fan in the bathroom is now quieter :-)

Pampered Chef

Ok, so I'm hosting a pampered chef catalog party and I was wondering if any of you would want to be invited?!?!?

Let me know and I will e-mail you the e-invite! Leave your e-mail in a comment below. If you haven't tried their stuff, you must! I love everything I have ever ordered from Pampered Chef and I'm about to order more! :-) (P.S. It's great for Christmas gifts!!)

Edit: This is an online e-invite type party. Nobody needs to be present. I send you the invite, you shop online, and pay online and then the products are sent directly to you! It's that easy :-)

Quirky

Lucy Marie, over at Lucy's Life published a post about her quirky quirks. I've decided to post some of my quirky quirks, some of which I got from Lucy's post (she had a lot of good ones, so I had to use a few!)

I love sleeping under the covers. I hate being hot at night.
I love almonds in my salads. I hate nuts of any kind.
I love Coke. I don't like Pepsi
I love when the weather starts to change for winter. I hate winter.
I love chocolate. I hate anything chocolate flavored.
I love summer. I hate it when it's really hot.
I love bananas. I don't like anything banana flavored.
I love visiting family on the weekends. I hate being in the car for long periods of time.

I love being a student. I don't like being stressed out.
I love running. I hate sweating.
I love waffles. I hate pancakes.
I love my cell phone. I hate talking on the phone.
I love Talapia. I hate seafood.
I love reading outside in the sun. I don't like sweating.
I love sleeping in. I don't like wasting my mornings.
I love being lazy. I hate wasting time.
I love a clean house. I hate cleaning.
I love good smelling laundry. I hate doing laundry.
I love Mexican food. I don't like spicy things.
I love ice tea on a summer day. I hate the taste of tea.
I love hot tea on a winter day. I hate the taste of tea.

Do you have any quirks?

LASIK

So, of those of you who have had LASIK did you have really dry eyes? My eyes are killing me today and are completely bloodshot. They do this from time to time but it only happens at work because I think it's much more of a dry area. I even brought in my own humidifier, but it hasn't really helped.... I'm taking eye drops every 1-2 hours while I'm at work. Anyway, just wondering if any of you have had this or if it's just me.....

I can't wait to go home today! Only 7 more hours! haha

Weekend recap

This weekend was spent:

Friday:
Driving to meet up with friends in my hometown (1.5 h) then driving to Wisconsin Dells (2.5h)
Getting to our hotel, having one drink and crashing.

Saturday:
Waking up early to head to breakfast and then to Noah's Ark
Meeting up with another good friend of ours from Michigan
Spending 7 hours at the waterpark
Going out to eat
Going back to our hotel and crashing once again

Sunday:
Waking up early to head back home to do nothing but cuddle up on the couch and watch 3 movies :-)

And here we are, on Monday... My leave favorite day of the week!

I took a waterproof camera to the dells with us, but I need to get it devleoped before I can share pictures with all of you. It was a ton of fun and a much needed mini-vacation for us. Hubby is white as can be and got fried, even though we applied sunscreen twice (yes, only twice... We were too busy having fun!) He's not feeling so "hot" (maybe that's the wrong word) today...

Next weekend we are traveling yet again! But for a family reunion this time. Hopefully we'll get to spend a weekend at home sometime in the next few weeks!!

Hope you all had a great weekend and I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE I will post pictures just as soon as I get them developed!

Happy Birthday!!!

Today is one of my best friend's birthdays!!

She is an amazing, fun, open-hearted, loyal, trustworthy, fun loving, brutally honest, non-neatfreak, caring, liberal, generous, hardworking, successful, someone you can always count on, sometimes too kind for her own good, wonderful old roommate, who is one of the greatest friends I could have ever asked for.

Thank you for everything Pammy! You are truly one of a kind and I love you!

Happy 25th Birthday!!!!!

My Favorite Things

Ok, so I'm a bad bad blogger... A while back, Meredith from La Buena Vida tagged me in her My Favorite Things, so here goes!

The "rules" for this tag are:
1. Mention and link back to the person who tagged you.
2. List 6 little things that make you happy.
3. Tag 6 other bloggers and let them know they're "it".

My Favorite Things

1. My Family
2. Our furry children
3. Real Christmas tress in our home!
4. Hawkeye Football
5. Fall
6. Mail (I've said this before and I'll say it again, I love mail!! Except bills)

Now, I tag:

Shaina at Post Smith
Leslie at Leslie G
Miss Honey Dew at Life After I "Dew"
Taryn at The Colorado Desert
Lucy Marie at Lucy's Life
My Running Journey at Running along with my husband and dog

Thankful Thursdays

I'm thankful for:

• ETSY- I have found so many cute things off of their lately, thanks guys!
• Vacations- We haven't had a weekend home in over 2 months, but I love spending time with my husband doing fun things during the summer. We never know when it might not just be the two of us anymore
• Running- I'm not super good at it, but I love to do it when I can
• Jazzercise- this is a fun way to get in shape if you stick with it, check it out!
• LASIK- I haven't known what it was like to wake up and see perfectly since I was in 6th grade, so getting LASIK was amazing and I'm so glad I got the oppourtunity
• Our furry children- Bear spent a couple weeks at my parents and my brother's house because we were gone so much, when we were home without him, the house was so quiet. I hate being away from him and our two girls (cats, Josie & Allie), it's great being able to come home to them.
• Mail- I LOVE getting mail, REAL mail in the mailbox, delivered by the mailman (or lady), because it reminds me of the people that care about me (who take a little extra effort to send something snail-mail these days. Thanks!!

Giveaway #1 Winner!!!

Well, since only 3 of you entered to first little test run Giveaway I'm going to send you each something.

The actual Lucky winner of the giveaway is: Taryn of The Colorado Desert
Taryn, please send me your address to kaylajcrane@gmail.com
(sorry, I don't know how to show you the exact image of the winning person, so just trust me)

The other two lucky ladies are: LYR at Breaking Through and Lucy Marie at Lucy's Life

These ladies all have wonderful blogs, head on over and read them!

Lyr & Lucy, please send me your address as well so that I can get your surprise out to you!
Please bare with me ladies, it may take me a week or so to get these out to you as we have another busy couple weeks ahead of us!

Thanks so much for reading and hopefully I'll have another giveaway in the next month or so!

Show us your life........... Wedding party & Flowers

So, awhile back I did a post on My Wedding Dress So, I figured why stop there!?!? I know that everyone else has already finished most of their Wedding posts and I'm a little behind, but o well!

I had three bridesmaids. All of which were wonderful!
I loved my flowers! I had pink Gerber Daisies and they were perfect!

Here we are again

The guys thought they looked cool in their shades
We had 3 groomsmen and 2 ushers

Aren't they handsome?

Here we are after the ceremony ready to get on the trolly!
Shades and all :-)

Our wedding party was such a blast! We had a lot of fun. I wish I had more pictures to share of all of us, but my photographer was probably my least favorite part of our whole wedding.... Yeah sucks doesn't it! :-) O well, we are over it.

I'll show off our families, cake, ceremony pictures, and reception pictures next!

ETSY Purchases

I am the proud new owner of this beauty!


It is a jewelry pouch from Allison B @ JewelrybyAllisonB She has a TON of cute things at her store! Head on over and check her out!!!

Kitchen update

So, I told you awhile back that we got new countertops and a sink in our kitchen! They were defiantly needed.

This was before we did anything to the kitchen.
Don't mind the mess, we had just moved in.
The walls were a light tan, no valances on the windows and
it's a bit hard to see, but the sink is very small and the countertops
are a light cream color.

This is after we removed the countertops and sink
(P.S. Please don't mind the red hearts on the cabinets below the sink,
those are being removed, it was a test to see if I liked the red color or not... and
I just realized how horrible it probably looks! haha)

This is the new sink and countertops, still kind of hard to see, but I love them!!

And just for good measure, here's hubby doing a great job as usual!

We had to install the sink all by ourselves, which was a challenge. It was the first time we'd ever done a major plumbing job and by WE I mean that hubby did all the work, but I was the runner. I had to go and make about 4-5 different trips to get pipes, hoses, etc...

I'm glad we did it though, the kitchen looks much better... And as you might be able to see in the above picture we painted the walls a light butter cream yellow and put up red valances. I am loving the new look!

Thankful Thursdays

I'm trying to do this as a weekly post and so far I'm 2 for 2! :-)

I am thankful for:

• My planner- I don't know what I would do without it. We have been so busy lately and if it weren't for the little green book, we would forget half of the things we are suppose to do! I carry it everywhere with me.
• Brownie Batter Blizzards from Dairy Queen- Need I say more??
• New clothes- there's something about putting a new shirt on or new capri's that just excites me.... God thing one piece of new clothing keeps me pretty content for quite awhile!
• Family- I think I post about this every week. I just can't seem to be thankful enough for my family they are just amazing!
• DVR- Without this, I would never get to watch my favorite shows.... I have a gazillion of them! I hate commercials with a passion, so this allows me to choose to watch my shows whenever I want and fast forward through all of the commercials!
• ETSY- I've recently discovered this website and it's amazing. I love buying handmade things from people who are truly creative!
• Marriage- I'm thankful for this daily. I hit the jackpot with my husband and feel so blessed everyday. I couldn't imagine spending my life with anyone more perfect for me than he is. We can lay in bed before falling asleep and get as goofy as they come because we are so comfortable being ourselves infront of each other. It isn't about impressing each other anymore, it's about having fun and falling even more in love each and every day. I can say for certian that I have never felt more in love with him than I do today but I'm sure tomorrow will quickly surprass anything I felt today.
  

What are you thankful for??

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Sorry I haven't blogged about anything today, I had one of those days. I haven't been a good blogger lately anyway. I also lost a follower so I can tell I'm a bit boring these days! haha I'm glad the other 24 of you think I have a few important/interesting things to say.... And if you don't then I'm glad you haven't' left me yet!

So, we have another busy weekend ahead of us. We are going to visit my dear friend Pam. Pam and I were roommates throughout our last 3 years of college. We were not friends before I bought my house and was in need of a roommate. I guess God works in mysterious ways because I actually called her up out of the blue (we did attend the same high school, but did not ever hang out) and this is something I normally wouldn't do if we weren't very good friends. Anyway, she said yes and moved in a week or two later. We have become such great friends and I am so thankful for that! She is such a good friend and I can always count on her. So with that said, here is what she has planned for us this weekend...

Friday:
Homemade Taco's and margarita's I'm sure
Followed by: drinks at a bar in the city

Saturday:
Sleeping in, going for breakfast at Louis's (Never been there, but she swears by it)
Shopping for drinks & tailgating items
Going to tailgate before our White Sox Game

Sunday:
Waking up and driving the 4 hours back home

It should be a lot of fun and I hope to take more pictures this weekend than I did while I was in Vegas.

What do you have planned? I can't wait to share how it all went on Monday!

Weekend Recap

So I can't upload any pictures right now, something is wrong with my laptop. I will post pictures later tonight if I can figure out how to get it to work!

Anyway, I want to warn you this is a little long but I had to share everything we did!

My trip to Vegas was amazing! It was my Grandma's 78th birthday and it was her idea to get all of the girls to go to Vegas. There were 18 of us total including: Grandma, most of my Aunts, and some of my girl cousins.

We arrived at the Madison Airport at 4:30 AM..... Man was I tired. We ended up landing in Vegas around 10:00 am I think. We got a shuttle to our hotel and we stayed at the Bellagio. What an amazing hotel! If you have never been there, it is a must see! It's huge! There's a mall inside of the hotel, yeah.. It's that big! Anyway, we finally got settled in our hotel room and hit the streets. First stop: Planet Hollywood Mall. They had every store you could dream of! I hit up some great sales at Anne Taylor Loft and a few others that aren't names I recognized. After we did some shopping, we sat at a little resturant called La Salsa Cantina inside the mall. They had the most delicious margarita's I have ever had in my entire life!! We had a couple and then headed on our way. This mall was amazing and had ceilings that looked like you were outside on a cool summer night. It was very deciving because once we walked outside the 107 degree heat hit us! We enjoyed a bit of pool time and went to the buffet inside the hotel. It was $19.95 but they had everything you could ever imagine for food and it was delicious! We then went downtown Vegas to enjoy some night life. They have a light show which was pretty cool and tons and tons of casino's. Needless to say, I did not win any money!

Friday morning we woke up early, 7:00 am! Yikes! Then we hit up the workout room at $25 a day! My mom, my sister-in-law and I worked out for about an hour and then headed back to our rooms to get ready to go to breakfast and spend a couple hours pool side. Our hotel had 5 pools total, so we had to spend a little time soaking up the sun! After the pool, we decided to back to the mall and hit up the stores we missed the night before. After a bit more shopping, we went back to our hotel to get ready for our night out! All 18 of us wore matching shirts for my Grandma's birthday out that night. We went to dueling piano's at Harrah's. The two girls were twins and were amazing! They got my Grandma up on stage and had some men saranade her! It was hillarious! We got a lot of great pictures that I will have to share with you later. After this, we headed out to see a few more things on the strip.

Saturday, my sister-in-law and I went to get a massage at the Spa and then breakfast at a little cafe in our hotel. The Massage was great, but not worth how much it cost. After breakfast, we got ready and went to do some more shopping. This time at an outlet mall that required miles of walking to see every store. They had ever store, but my legs hurt so bad afterwards. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen and then headed back to our hotel to get ready for The Beatles Love Cirque du Soleil. This was the best part of the entire trip! We had a blast! They wouldn't let you take pictures, but you can go to their website and see a few things about the show. We were all pretty tired after this, so we got some dinner and headed back to the hotel for a little bit of gambeling. All in all I lost $48 the entire weekend. Not to shabby! haha I hate losing money and not getting anything for it, but I promised myself that I could lose $50 and not feel to bad about it. It was fun while it lasted, but it sure went quick!

Here is an idea of how young at heart my Grandma really is! She went to bed later than all of us every night! We were in bed by the latest at 12:30 and Grandma came to bed between 1:30 am and 3:30 am every night! She loved the trip!

I will try to post a few pictures later! If you haven't been to Vegas I think it's something you should see at least once in your life!

Giveaway #1

In honor of my 100th post (well 102) and my 25th follower I've decided to do a small giveaway. I've started using some e.l.f. products and I'm pretty happy with them.

I've included the following:

1 e.l.f. Total Face Brush
1 e.l.f. Blush, Bronzing & Blending Brush
1 e.l.f. tone #3 Clarifying Pressed Powder
1 e.l.f. Natural Radiance Blusher in Glow
1 e.l.f. Brightening Eye Color in IVY (It's a green and brown combo)
2 e.l.f. Super Glossy Lip Shine SPF15 light pink and a light brown
3 bottles of e.l.f. Nail Polish in: light pink, clear & light red
1 pink & black case to put most of it in.... Sorry, I go the wrong sized bag so it doesn't all fit, but its still a cute bag

I've also decided to add a few of my favorites:

and I may see if I can find something else to put in with it......

TO Enter:

Please submit 1 comment for each entry:

1 entry- Comment on this post with your favorite beauty product
1 entry- Follow me or tell me you already follow me
1 entry- Blog about this giveaway and then post the link in a comment

Giveaway ends Friday August 7th, 2009 at 11:59pm central standard time

Good luck to everyone who chooses to enter! :-)

WOW

You ladies sure have been busy! Well, my trip to Vegas was awesome, more on that in a later post though..... I have 210 new posts in my Google reader that I need to catch up on and I just noticed that I have made it to 25 followers! So, I'll be posting a giveaway later in the week! Keep your eyes on the lookout! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and I'll recap our trip later!