Good End of the Year

Well this end of the year has been a good one. Full of many blessing that I am so grateful that we have received.

First of all after a long Long process of waiting to hear from dental school again this year, (last year we did not get in) Tom got the wonderful news that he got accepted into University of Detroit Mercy. Which was his number one choice. And it is in Michigan so I am so thankful that we get to stay here, a major blessing!!!

I cant tell you how many prayers went out everyday over the past 2 years that we would get in, that we would be able to start progressing in a positive direction. We felt like we were just stagnant- not moving in any direction, and that was a very frustrating feeling. So my heart is full of joy that we now are going to start school this next fall and start on the way to a new chapter in our life!

A new chapter in our life... I really like the sound of that... Most of you who know me know that with all my heart all I have ever wanted was to be a mother. To raise sweet babies in the gospel to have the chance to be half the mom that my mom is. Over the course of the 4 years that Tom and I have been married I have watch countless couples get married, have babies and have more babies, and my heart would ache, I felt empty, all I wanted was that feeling and job of motherhood.

So after a wonderful trip to the temple with Tom we decided that now was the time to try, yes there are many uncertain questions and answers that we had,like if we were going to get in to school or not (we did not know yet if we were in)but we felt like a leap of faith was required here. I knew with all my heat and soul that the Lord would take care of us, that he would not put us on a path that we could not handle... so we went for it.......

July 11 2011 I will have my wonderful sweet baby to hold and look into those eyes and feel something that I cant even explain. Sometimes a leap of faith is what we needed to do all along, since finding out that we are going to have a baby there has been so many blessing that have come into our lives.I am overwhelmed by them and have so much gratitude for my heavenly father, I am so ready for this new chapter in our lives, I know it will be challenging but I am ready for it!

This has been a great end of the year, and I am ready to face the new year with all the new challenges and changes.

Baby.. not the best picture, but here it is.. 9 weeks old. Tom calls it our little mousekewitz.

Four Years

Four years ago I married my best friend, the man who makes me want to be a better person in every way that I can. I cant believe how fast time has gone by! It seems like yesterday that we were only dating, and now 4 years later we live in a small hobbit hole and are making our memories and life together. I'm looking forward to the rest of the journey that we have and glad that I'm get to go through all of life's ups and downs with Tom.

Happy Four years, Heres to eternity...

America Quilt

I guess you could call me a patriotic person. I love our country and am so thankful for the liberty's and freedoms that we have. I'm thankful for people like Greg who serve our country willingly and sacrifice their time and lives so that we can have our country stay free and be the great country that it is. I'm proud to be a American.

So I wanted to make a quilt to show my love for my country..

The back of the Quilt

Some close ups of the stars.. there are 25 stars total each with 9 pieces for the star and 8 squares to sew them to.

Finished!!! And I love it!!!

God bless America!!!

Summer Projects

Tom and I decided that while everyone else was on vacation that we would re-do some rooms in his parents house to surprise them. We did the 2 bedrooms and a small office which we turned into a nursery.

This is the blue room when we started out
The Green room which we turned into the new Brown room.
Ripping out the carpet....
And painting and nailing the floor to make sure all the squeaks were gone.
Old office
New Nursery
New blue room with the water beds turned into normal beds, This one had a custom made memory foam mattress.
Old green room, now the Brown room with a new pillow top mattress.
Finished Brown room



Finished blue room

It was a long project that took most of the summer to do, there were lots of sweaty drives home and days just being tired and not wanting to work but we did, Ralph and Rebecca were so surprised when they came home and saw that we did the basement, and 3 rooms upstairs, they were grateful to us for putting time in to do this and getting started on projects that needed to be done. It was a good project for Tom and I to do together and we learned a lot about home repair.:) Not sure if I want to do this again anytime soon but i'm proud of what we accomplished this summer.

And yes I know I didn't post pictures of the basement but we just organized all the tools and food storage, it looks good down there.

Our New Place

Goodbye Parkside Circle... Your were a good little home to us for 3 years......Hello Little Hobbit Hole......
Sorry about all the weeds that is my project this weekend. :)
My room/ computer room, things are a little tight in our now 1 Bedroom apartment.

Bathroom, horrible wall paper but im trying to make due. and yes it is really that small. Our tub is so small that Tom's shoulders are to wide so he cant really fit in it! lol
Living room

Book shelf
the boxes in the corner are full of cables that Tom needs to go through.. not sure why we have that many boxes full of cables but we do!
Kitchen, really no counter space but my table will work fine for that. :)

I have a laundry room but its empty still no washer or dryer but hopefully we will get one soon! our place is a lot smaller but we are able to save a lot of money by being here and its closer to work and Toms family which is nice since mom and dad are moving. :( I like it more and more everyday I'm here and our hobbit hole is feeling more like home sweet home. :)

A little bit of Summer

Well summer is here and I wanted to post some of the things that we have been doing around here...

Amber, Nathan and Ryan are here for a few weeks this summer. Its been so much fun having them all here. Nathan has gotten so brave with the pool, even more than last year.

I think these are 2 of my favorite pictures ever!

Kevin graduated high school so we threw him a small party, missing a few cousins here, but it was good to see everyone.
Sisters...
Memorial day parade.. I didnt go but Tom went with Nancy's family. It looked like it was fun.
Woops! I didn't mean to put this one in! lol there is a different one where Jess is smiling and looks really cute. lol
Jack


Uncle Ta helping Nathan throw the bocci ball
We put a bird feeder out on our deck and we have been getting lots of really pretty birds on our deck. Its fun to see them all and here them.
Nathan being such a big boy and holding his breath..