Ooooh la la.

Anyone have a clue what I'm growing here?  Cuz I sure don't!  I sure do love coming home and seeing these beauties in front of the house though! :)

  

 

My hubby has been working so hard on the deck every chance he can... it's been hard to because of the storms & rain we've had.  Today was beautiful and we're not supposed to get rain until Thursday, so we worked again on the deck tonight and it's just about completed.  Oh, and isn't my hubby the hottest thing EVER??!! :)

 

On Sunday afternoon we had my brother, wife, and kids over for lunch.  (Mmm...Casey's pizza!!!)  After lunch we put the kids down, the boys headed downstairs for Halo, so that left only one thing for Kaela and I to do... go shopping!  We headed to Home Goods just to "look" (hehe) and came out with quite a few things.  I had such an awesome time shopping with her... she's a great shopping buddy. :)  When Tyler & I originally were trying to figure out how to decorate in one of the guest rooms, he suggested a beachy/cape cod look.  I was hesitant at first, but after looking at some sweet Pottery Barn inspiration, I was hooked.  Here's a couple pictures of the start of one of the guest bedrooms.

 

 

And since the downstairs bathroom is basically attached to the bedroom, we went all out and got stuff for the bathroom too.  :)  In the last pic you can see the front of the Pottery Barn catalog that was our inspiration.

 

 

I still have a ton to do in the bedroom, but this is a good start.

Happy Monday!

I've been tagged!

I was tagged by the beautiful Brooke over at Living the Happily Ever After!  Here goes nothin'! :)

Rules: Answer the following questions about yourself. At the end of the post you pass on the questions to 6 other bloggers and list their names. Then write them a comment telling them that they've been tagged and ask them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know that you've accepted the challenge and refer to your post.

1. What did you do 10 years ago?
I was in Junior High.  I played volleyball and was a football/wrestling cheerleader.  I had really short chin-length hair and blue fingernails.  I was boy crazy and had a bad attitude.  My best friend was Angie Watts and we spent numerous nights staying up late watching movies, scrapbooking, and drinking wild cherry pepsi.  Ahhh... those were the days.  :)

2. Five items on your to-do list today:

• Make it through the day without throwing up (sorry, TMI - but I don't feel good)


• Go to the gym after work


• Make a nice dinner for the hubs


• Start packing for our mini-vacation this weekend


• Take some time to RELAX for once!

3. Snacks I enjoy?
Sun Chips, 100 Calorie Packs, and Apple & Peanut Butter
     

4. What would you do if you were a billionaire?
First and foremost I would tithe.  Then I would pay off our house and debt, then give a big chunk of it to each of our family members.  Then we'd invest it and do something smart with it.  Any leftovers I would furnish and decorate my house compliments of Pottery Barn, then go on a small shopping spree. :)

5. Places I would live:
Well, obviously anywhere my husband & family is.  But if I could just up and move us and our families, I would choose:

Colorado Springs, CO


Breckinridge, CO


Minnesota

I'm not tagging anyone since I think almost everyone I know has been tagged.  So if you're reading this and want to play... TAG, you're it!

Some Iphone pictures.

Here's a few random pictures from my husbands Iphone.  Enjoy!!

 
We've been having some crazy scary storms in Kansas, and I think it scares us even more now that we're homeowners.  The thought of losing our home to a tornado is devastating!  Anyways, here's a couple pictures of some cool clouds we saw before last nights storm.


My husband is an Avionics Technician, which means he installs sweet computer/electronic parts into planes.  Here's one of the planes he's currently working on.  Sweet, huh?

 
Another perk of his sweet job is that he gets to travel at random times.  He went into work the other day and they asked him to fly to Chicago for the day.  Sure beats being in an office all day!  Here's a couple pictures of them flying between two sets of clouds. 

Have a great day... TGIF!

I think I have hangers remorse.

Hangers remorse.  You know, sorta like buyers remorse, but this is after you hang things on your walls and then you sorta regret it, and you don't know if it's because you're not used to having something there or maybe it's because you really do hate it. 

So be honest with me and tell me if the things we hung tonight look weird.  Be honest.  Promise?  Okay.



See the "Live, Laugh, Love" thing above the couch?  Does it look weird? 



The clock in the entry way... does it look okay?  I'm planning on buying some uppercase living wall words from my SIL to put underneath the clock.  Eh, eh? 

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Now, here's some pictures of the basement.  Anyone have any ideas on what to do down here?  Tyler and I are brainstorming but I thought I'd ask you ladies also.  There isn't much wall space, which is fine, but I'm struggling trying to figure out where to place stuff.  Especially in the 3rd picture, you'll see the window and the door are not that far apart, and it's just an awkward space.

   

Any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks all! :)

Weekend recap.

I trust and hope everyone had a great weekend... it was busy and crazy for me, but any time that I'm off of work seems to be that way.  Funny how that works.  Regardless, here's some highlights from my weekend.

1.  I took off for Iowa around noon on Friday... rode with my brother Chad and his wife and kids... it was a fabulous 3 hour trip because I slept the entire way.  Ahh, love naps.  We arrived in Iowa that evening and headed straight to the Botanical Center where the wedding was for rehearsal.  You see, my family is incredible for so many reasons, but one of them is that we make up a band.  My Dad plays trombone, I play trumpet, my brother Chad plays tenor sax, my sister plays alto sax, my not-so-little brother plays bass, and my Mom plays piano.  Fabulous, right?  So our neighbor from our old town asked us to play in her wedding, and while we no means claim to be pro's, it's still fun to play together.  So we had rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, then the girls went shopping for swimsuits, and the guys headed back to the hotel.  I ended up buying a really ugly swimsuit, but it was cheap, so that's all that matters.  The rest of Friday night was spent just hanging around the hotel with the fam.  We always have the best time together, no matter what we're doing. 

2.  Friday night I also heard from one of my long lost very good friends of mine.  It was awesome.

3.  Saturday we slept in, practiced, then spent the afternoon shopping.  You have to understand that since I've lost weight I have NO summer clothes.  I'm not saying I have a few things... I literally had nothing.  No shorts, no capris, and no summer shirts.  So I was on a hunt for some relatively cheap summer clothes... you know me; I'd rather spend my money on our house instead of on stupid clothes.  My sister and I headed to Forever21... you know, the most unorganized, upside-down stores in all of America, but here's what I came out with:


Then we headed to American Eagle where I found these:


So, that's what I'll be sportin' throughout the summer.  I know it doesn't seem like much, but I work 5-6 days a week and have to dress up for work... so it's not like I'll have much time that I can wear this stuff anyways.  It stinks being grown-up.  :)

4.  The wedding was beautiful; no big surprise there.  The dance stunk so we left early and headed back to the hotel where we all crashed kinda early.  A lot of my high school friends were back in New Sharon and I debated all night if I should go see them or not... and by the time I said I was going to go it was almost midnight so it wasn't going to even be worth it.  Me and my in-decisiveness.  Blah. 

5.  Headed back to Kansas on Sunday and slept the entire way back again.  It was sooo great to be home and see my husband.  He wasn't able to go this weekend because he was in Chicago for part of the week last week and didn't get back until too late and then ended up working on stuff around the house all weekend.  I missed him so much so it was great to see him again. 

Overall the weekend was good... my only regrets are that I wish I could have spent more one-on-one time with my sister, and I wish Tyler could have joined us.  I'm really missing my sister right now.  :(  Other than that, it was great.

6.  Here's a few pics of some random things going on around our home!


Tyler and our friend Andy stained our deck this weekend... here's a good picture of the stain we chose.  The deck needed done really bad so Tyler made that a priority before we even moved in that he was going to stain the deck as soon as he could.  They ran out of stain so he's going to finish it during the course of this week.  It looks awesome!!

 

The flowers in the front of the house are starting to bloom and they are beautiful.  I am so clueless when it comes to plants and flowers... I wish I wasn't.  Anyone know what I have growing here??

 

Our downstairs furniture finally arrived today!!  Woohoo.  Finally... no more sitting on the ground while we watch TV.  Haha.  You can't really see much in the picture, but we got black leather with a coffee table, 2 side tables and lamps.  We are happy with it!  Now I just need to find some things to go on the walls and figure out how to decorate down there.  Suggestions are welcome!!  :)

Have a great week!!