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Thursday, October 28, 2010

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...
















Thursday, October 14, 2010

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!!!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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. :)

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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..

Red bull Air races

Tom and I went to the Red Bull Air races on the Detroit River front on Sunday. It was a nice day out and we were right in the front row so we could see it all really up close.
This air plane is the only one in the whole world left from WW2. Kinda cool and it has our name in it :)

Good bye Hamstien

Well Hamstien is no longer with us..... After a week of no eating and we are pretty sure she had a stroke she passed away. It was a little sad seeing the poor thing not being able to find her own mouth so it was better that she went to heaven. We Buried her by a tree in Tom parents backyard in a Tea box. lol Poor little Hamstien.


So Saturday night I came home and the lights were all off and I heard something like Hamstiens wheel going and I looked at the cage and everything was out of it, which earlier that day I packed all her things up in. I asked Tom what was making that noise, he said he didn't know.. so I walked over to the cage and see one little hamster in the cage then 2 babies in the cage. These are the cutest little babies ever!!! They are Robo Dwarf Hamsters and this is the biggest that they get. 2 inches. Tom asked the guy at the pet store about which hamsters would be most like hamstien, all they had were boys and thats gross, so the guy told Tom that our best option would be to get 2 of these crazy fast hamsters that will be entertaining to watch. so here they are!

They still don't have names, I'm thinking about Kanga and Roo but I just don't know.. I'm open for any suggestions. ( 2 baby girls)