Fall Happiness :)

There is something nostalgic about fall. The smell of cool air, the bright colors on the leaves, and pumpkins everywhere just make me giddy:)
Last Saturday Bre and I worked the farmer's market. We sold mums and asters from Dickerson's Greenhouse. It was a great time and we met some amazing people. If only we had made more of a profit, we might become professional farmer's marketers :) Our neighbor vendors were so sweet to us, we ended up getting some melon to eat and some daylilies to plant! They really were great people.

This week has been super crazy as everything is getting back to the school routine. It had been stressful and I wasn't handling it the best way. I came home Wednesday night and neither John or I had anything planned so we decided to grill and enjoy time together. I didn't open my computer and I focused only on my husband. We decided to take a walk down the neighboring street and we had a great time holding hands and just talking. I wouldn't trade that night for anything in the world. John also planted my black-eyed susans and we checked on our growing apple tree in the backyard! It was a great fall evening :)

My friends and I started taking a bellydancing class this week and it was absolutely amazing! The atmosphere was great and it was actually a great workout. We learned a few of the steps and formations and danced around shaking out butt! The good news is that next week the belly dancing scarves will be for sale! It's just not as fun if you're shaking it and not making music! :)


Here's to a great weekend......

Spring break lists

I know that I haven't been posting on here very often. I'm going to try and get better. So, this week has been Spring Break. And even though the weather hasn't been absolutely amazing a lot has been accomplished! With the wedding less than 2 months away and the house needing so much work it's obvious that this week wasn't going to be relaxing!
So far lots of wedding stuff has been done. I had a great afternoon with some of my favorite ladies who helped me make favors :) Grandma came and did my dress altering and promised that if I gained or lost any weight in the next 2 months that I would be in trouble!!
The house looks completely different than it did the day we bought it! It's hard to believe how much it's come along already! I finally took the icicle lights down! John has been working so hard on the house and I'm so excited for all that he has done. I will have to upload some of our demo pictures. I had lots of fun knocking down walls with the sledgehammer. John's favorite story is when he was telling me about the dream closet that he wanted to build me complete with purse hooks and everything! Then as the day went on he got more and more tired and said he wasn't sure if he wanted to knock out the current closet to make the new one...it was going to be a lot of work. So, as he battled it back and forth in his mind I took the sledgehammer and knocked a big hole in the current closet and stated, "DECISION MADE!" :) Don't play with my emotions about closets! :)


More demo to come.....

Home Sweet Home

Well it's hard to believe that we are officially homeowners! We closed over a week ago and have started making plans and spending money to build our dream! Our home is a foreclosure that we are in love with. Of course our house has a story, why wouldn't it?! We came across it while my dad and I were looking for a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. He was cutting down a tree in the yard while I looked in the windows. Then I saw it...the J on the chimney! It was meant to be. So I showed John the house online only to find out that he had showed it to me a week earlier and I had responded, "Eww, you really want me to live there?" So, we checked it out and long story short...GOD IS GOOD! He worked things out and we own the house now!
We've been to Menards and picked up our first supplies. We have tools in the house and we're just waiting on some heat to get to work. Today we replaced the locks and I put together the mailbox!
We are so excited to get to work. John has some amazing dreams and I can't wait to seem them come into play! :)
On top of house work we are still planning the wedding. 90 days and counting! I am so excited and cannot wait to be married to the man of my dreams. Things seem to be coming together and I just want May 30th to be here! As stressful as things get I have to just remember that in the end...we'll be husband and wife! :) So, deep breath and get back to living :) :)