Easy Wreath
My Mom had this wreath in her goodwill pile this past weekend. I've been wanting a wreath for our back porch for a while now...so I snatched it in hopes that I could make it come to life....In the...
View ArticleCane Chair
This past weekend I finally got around to updating the cane chair I scored at a yard sale a month or so back. Remember...I talked about it here and here. Here's the before shot...I decided that tearing...
View ArticleYear Two.
Tal and I are celebrating 2 years of marriage today:) Well, we've been celebrating all weekend but today is the official day of matrimony. We decided that the best way for us to celebrate would be to...
View ArticleThe Smell of Christmas
We are full force Christmas at our house. Lots of baking and Christmasy things going on. However, our artificial tree wasn't bursting with the smell of Christmas. And since we weren't ready to pop $200...
View ArticleDecember Activities
A short post to let you know what we have been up to in December...it's been busy but probably the least stressful holiday season we've ever had. We've enjoyed every minute of it...I think because we...
View ArticleMerry Mini Christmas
We had a very mini Christmas at our house this past weekend. My brother, Grayson, will be spending Christmas in Colorado this year...so we had an early Christmas celebration for him at our house. It...
View ArticleGlass Lamp
Getting so close to Christmas I can hardly stand it!! So excited for all of the festivities. However, there's still a day of work left. Let's make that go faster by looking at our updated...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you all have a safe and blessed Christmas!
View ArticleHappy New Year!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year! We sure did. It was so relaxed and uber laid back. Which made it all the more wonderful! Here's a few photos of what our Christmas...
View ArticlePantry Makeover
Talon and I had 10 full days off of work. It was glorious! Of course, several of those days were filled with Christmas activities but I had a big plans for the others....Yep,a Christmas vacation 'to...
View ArticleOrganize Your Drawers.
Remember yesterday's post where I listed all the things we wanted to do during our time off over Christmas and New Years? One of those things was 'Drawer Organization.' We were referencing our kitchen...
View ArticleCustom Kitchen Cabinets
So, by now I am sure you get the point that we were on a mission to make our kitchen more functional and organized during our time off. We customized our pantry {more about that here} and customized...
View ArticleYum-O
Along with all the other fun and not so fun things on our list of things we wanted to get done over our week long Christmas vacation we added try new recipes to it at the last minute {the reason it's...
View ArticleJanuary Begins!
Our year has made a banging start. Two of our very best friends got engaged a week from Saturday! Kari and Matt will tie the knot in June and we are so happy to be a apart of their big day!! We got to...
View Article21 Days.
No Facebook.No Carbonated Beverages.No Fried Food.Our church does 21 days of prayer and fasting every January. This year..I did the death fast. No facebook, no carbonated beverages and no fried food!...
View ArticleOffice Re-Do
Remember when not to long ago I painted this stencil wall in my office? Well, I decided I wanted to paint over it. I'm the queen of doing things more than once. It's very strange. It's not that I...
View ArticleOffice Shelves.
After my Office Re-Do I posted about on Friday. We were left with a big blank wall in the office due to furniture rearranging craziness. I really love open shelves but new that we did not have much...
View ArticleGoing Away Shin Dig
We had several of our close friends over this weekend to celebrate that guy in the middle... That's one of our best friends, Ben, he got a new job and will be moving to Florida next week. Although we...
View ArticleFilling Empty Walls...
Literally, the morning before our Going Away Shin Dig I whipped up some wall art to fill the empty space that was left when we took down our Christmas Card Display. We had six of these Record Album...
View ArticleChicago Marathon
I signed up for the Chicago Marathon last week and I am SO excited to run it! Anybody else running it?
View ArticleDeliciousness...
We tried a very yummy cookie recipe this weekend...I found the recipe here. I made the Candy Bar Stuffed Cookies and used Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Does it get much better than a Reeses in a cookie?...
View ArticleIt's been to long...
Since you've seen Tils do awesome tricks.... Duh.Your not human if you do not think she is amazing...Going around for round two...she is so intense when she is playing it's hilarious...Tal and I could...
View Article13.1
Whoop Whoop. I ran the Mercedes Half Marathon on Sunday! Despite it being incredibly cold it was a lot of fun!!And I have the best husband for almost freezing to death so he could watch me cross the...
View ArticleV-Day!
Dear Friends, Let us love one another, for love comes from God. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not...
View ArticleThis Old House
I received the best e-mail ever yesterday.... This Old House website might not be that big of a deal to some...but Talon and I think it's the greatest. We both are in love with the This Old House...
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