WE ARE GETTING A HOUSE!!!
Front of house!
Our amazingly large back yard! HA it will be great though!
A GARAGE! SWEET! We are determined to fit both of our small cars in there even though it is a one car garage, but it is deep so we will have to try it out!
The master bathroom! We are just excited to have more than one bathroom!
my valentine
So valentines day this year was perfect! Stephen and I just spent the day together and had a great time. We gave each other some gifts, Stephen got me three cute pairs of earrings.
I gave him a jar with 101 reasons why I love him, individually written on white and pink pieces of paper. (inspired by http://believeittoseeit.blogspot.com/2008/02/valentines-breakfast-with-my.html which I found from http://www.tipjunkie.com/ – great site!)
Then I gave him some shirts for us to wear when we go to see Flight of the Conchords in May (the tickets were a gift from me for both of us)! My lovely mother spent some time with me this week to help me make the shirts!
Then we did our weekly grocery shopping (how romantic right?) When we got home we watched a couple of movies, the first one was “My Sassy Girl”, I didn’t really like it and it was a chick flick so that is weird, Stephen thought it was alright. The next one was “The girl in the cafe” it was named the best made for TV movie so we didn’t have high hopes for it, but it was done by HBO and it was very interesting and quite a good movie. Then we both put on aprons and cooked dinner together, it was a lot of fun and quite cute, if I do say so myself. The food was delicious, I was very impressed with ourselves, and super impressed that Stephen went out and found the recipe on his own. It was steak lover’s fettuccine alfredo.
1 box devil’s food cake mix
In a VERY large bowl (4 qt), mix together everything except chocolate chips. Batter will be thick. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour batter into cake pan of choice (I normally use two 9-inch pie pans). For cooking time, I use the cooking times on the back of the devil’s food cake box as a guide and usually add 10 mins to whatever it says. Then I do the toothpick check, and if it’s not done, I check on it every 5 mins after that. 🙂 It usually takes around 45 mins for two, 9-inch pie pans.
I hope you all had a great day as well!
Crafter
So I decided that I want to stay at home and just craft all day! I am feeling super creative right now… which is good because I need to finish up my samples for my website so I can get that up and rolling and it is almost the weekend so I can get started on that! I am excited for valentines day tomorrow. Such a fun holiday, I don’t take it too seriously, I just am excited to have a fun and loving day with my husband… who by the way sent me beautiful tulips to celebrate February 11th! What a lucky girl I am!
I am making the best chocolate cake ever, from www.kevinandamanda.com it is pretty much my favorite site right now, although I have found some super cute ones today! Her enchiladas and mac and cheese are sooo good and quite easy to make! Oh and she has some really cute fonts to download for FREE! on there and so I love her even more! You should check it out if you want to get some good ideas and cute fonts!
I want to learn how to make digital scrapbooking paper and templates. I make my cards and they are really cute but ya know, I could just do so much more, but I don’t really know where to start. I think I should take a class and get some more knowledge of photoshop for sure! I’ll let ya know how that goes.
Everything else is great so far in this world, I like my job, I am getting more used to it, I have an amazing husband and I am just overall happy as can be!
Have a fabulous friday and thanks for reading!
I’m Back!
It has been so long since I have posted anything on here. I think I have been putting it off because so much stuff has happened and I feel like I always have to give every detail but here is a super quick run down. I married the man of my dreams, great honeymoon in San Diego, yay Sea World, building up a collection of card designs to start a website, hate going back to work and want to win the lottery so I can sit at home and design stuff all day, made the best steak I have ever had or made (I will post the recipe sometime), Twilight movie came out I have seen it 3 times and will see it again tomorrow, I bought a refillable cup at a Larry H Miller Theater and it was well worth the purchase, had a great Thanksgiving. Okay so that is pretty much the big stuff up to this point biggest Wedding and then the steak next! HAHA J/K anyway.
So my mom is featured as vendor of the month on a site called “Twilight Moms” this is the link to her blurb about her and guess what? I am on there too!!! Her stuff is really cute and she already has a ton of orders today, I am proud of her! Check it out if you want http://twilightmomsforums.freeforums.org/december-simply-bitten-t19001.html.
My latest work in the card department is desgning wedding thank you cards for myself and then a christmas card for Stephen and I. I designed a card for a coworkers daughter and received a copy of it and I had to put it on my fridge because it was so cool to see my work in action and it wasn’t just for myself where I have a baised opinion. I should start posting some of my card designs on here… oh I have some pictures at work so here is what I worked on last night… but as Stephen is well aware I am sure I will come up with quite a few more designs before I pick anything!
HaPpy HaLloWeEn
Bridal Shower Pictures
Here are some pictures from the bridal shower on Saturday.
This is the cutest centerpiece made of towels by my very creative mother!
First Snowfall!!
I love the first time it snows for the season! It is so pretty and not usually ever enough to stick and cause problems on the roads. After the first snowfall, it starts to come much more frequently and the roads suck, I have a really hard time appreciating it and seeing it for all of it’s beauty so I try to appreciate the first time of the season so there can be some joy from the winter weather! This year it came a lot earlier than I can ever remember. It has all melted already down here in the valley, but I got some good pictures from yesterday morning. The sky is so white, you can’t even see the mountains that would take up that whole back drop of the first picture! The cold weather is still here though so maybe there will be some more to come soon.