Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Small Bathroom Remodel

I went on an adventure today for a totally new bathroom. Not sure the Hubby is a fan yet, but he'll get used to it!

Here is our bathroom before... lots of green and white, really boring and green just isn't my color. Everytime I saw the bathroom I went "BLAH!"And here is our new PINK bathroom! Using leftovers from our wedding, and a couple items from ross, it only cost me 20 dollars to redo the entire thing!
Different shades of pink towels, rug, and shower curtain in pink damask!

Lots of wedding touches, our wedding invite, buckets we used for sparklers, I used our program baskets for magazine holders, and made a cute candle holder out of the leftover pink and black sand from our sand ceremony.
Now everytime I see our bathroom I will say "OOO LALA!"









Sunday, January 3, 2010

2009 Questions

1.What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Got married! :)

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Mine were probably to lose weight, and I definitely didn't do that! I have some this year, and I'm already working on them!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Lots of people! Tiffany, Ashley (even though it was at 12:01 am in 2010), and found out lots of people around me are pregnant!

4. Did anyone close to you die? Yes, mollys grandmother Janie. We all miss her a lot.

5. What places did you visit? Las vegas, and we took a mini vacation to estes park.

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? Money in savings, vacations, and possibly...maybe... a baby!?

7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? May 16th, our wedding day!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Moving back to longmont and getting a good job.

9. What was your biggest failure? Losing my job and being jobless for three months when we first moved.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Kind of, more like I was diagnosed for an underlying illness I didn't know of and got meds to fix it!

11. What was the best thing you bought? Everything for our wedding, my $600 dollar car that I love, my dyson vacuum, our kitty cat zoey!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Anyoone that had to put up with my bridezilla madness before the weedding.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Not to be disclosed lol

14. Where did most of your money go? Wedding and vet bills

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Our wedding!

16. What song will always remind you of 2009? Avenged sevenfold "warmness on the soul", it's the song I walked down the aisle to!

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier about some things, sadder about others.
b) thinner or fatter? way fatter! haha
c) richer or poorer? Richer since we aren't paying for a wedding!

18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Vacationed

19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Layed at home depressed when I didn't have a job.

20. How did you spend Christmas in 2009? With most of my family members, except my mom. Oh and I worked in the morning, that sucked...

21. Did you fall in love in 2009? Well I was already in love but I got married!

22. What was your favorite TV program? House

23. What did you do for your birthday in 2009? Got a massage, had a birthday party, had a night of drunken fun with molly.

24. What was the best book you read? Taking charge of your fertility

25. What did you want and get? A perfect wedding!

26. What did you want and not get? hmm... a job sooner, I guess lol

27. What was your favorite film of this year? Paranormal activity

28. Did you make some new friends this year? Yes and reconnected with some from my past!

29.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Knowing about my PCOS before november so I could've worked on fixing it sooner.

30. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009? Cute layering and such, I copied my sister sometimes.

31. What kept you sane? Friends, family, my hubby, books, and my dogs.

32. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Lady Gaga

33. What political issue stirred you the most? Nothing really.

34. Who did you miss? Old friends and my family in texas.

35. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009? Not to take on more than you can handle. In may we moved, got married, went on our honeymoon, and had to find a new job all at once. It was insanity.

Friday, November 27, 2009

It's the most wonderful time of the year

After our Black Friday adventure, and a much needed nap, we decorated for christmas!

Our tree! My favorite one by far that we've had. We went with a country/rustic christmas theme. Just a few red bulbs and lots of antique looking and custom ornaments. Topped with an awesome cute angel we found this morning at Target.

Better look at our angel. She's got so much character! Some of our other notable ornaments in this picture; Our "Night before christmas" book, we write something in this every year. Last year we wrote 168 days! (till our wedding of course), first christmas (married) smores ornament. It's so cute, little graham cracker, hershey bar, and a bride and groom marshmallow on top, and we have some custom made ornaments with our dogs pictures on them.


My dad graciously let us go through his old christmas stuff and take some things! We have some pretty classic ornaments on there, and ones I remember from when I was a little one :)



Dad also gave us this fireplace gate. Our fireplace is very odd shaped and it didn't fit, so we put it around the ficus plant!




Our living room all decorated. We had to rearrange a little, the tree was a lot bigger than we had anticipated, but a great deal at walmart for $78!





Garland up the stairway to the loft...






This tiny pathetic picture (lol) is of my very small (but growing) village.







That book in the back was from borders for 3 dollars, it has some great christmas stories in it that one day we can hopefully read to our kids. But really, I got it because I think it's a beautiful decoration. The cloth on the table is from when I was younger and tried to sew pillows as christmas gifts lol








We bought a gorgeous flannel sheet set at target this morning I love the print and it's SO comfortable!




















The stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and the pets stockings are already stuffed!

I don't think charlie is going to be able to wait until christmas!!!













Black Friday Madness!!!

Black Friday shopping was awesome this morning! We went to Target (shown in the picture below), Walmart, Kmart, Petsmart, and Bath and Body works. We got some great deals and had a heck of a time! Jeff was so excited he couldn't sleep last night lol. We pretty much have all our christmas shopping finished now (except for eachother).

Here's a picture of target at 430am, 30 minutes before they opened the door, we were pretty close to the front, but the line wrapped around the back of the building to the loading dock. Walmart was a mad house, petsmart was a ghost town but really great deals, bed bath and beyond kinda sucked, kmart was great especially for christmas decor!


We finished the morning off with breakfast, a nap, then decorated for christmas (to come in next post)!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Another One to Grieve over

This one is a beauty as well. WOW!














Like a Knife Through the Heart

They added more pictures to the website of the house we were looking at











































AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS...
They lowered the price another 10K. It is now down to 159,000. I am totally heartbroken. I would sell my soul to live in this house... oh well...










Friday, November 20, 2009

Low GI diet= New and exciting recipes?

Due to my recent diagnosis of PCOS, I need to change some of my eating habits. One of the biggest and hardest things is going to be switching to a low GI (glycemic Index) diet. I found a great website though, with some really exciting recipes. I think the biggest issue I'm going to run into is fish... I HATE fish, and it's one of the most important things for me to eat now. So we are going to start with tuna steak, and see what happens...


Soy French Toast- basically french toast, but with soy milk and whole grain bread!
Chicken and Chick Pea Casserole

Red Wine Beef Stew


Lemon and Parsley chicken



Tuna Steak with apricot compote
I will post recipes and pics as we attempt to make some of these dishes. It should be exciting!