So far this weekend

- celebrated Crystal's birthday

- celebrated Chrissy's birthday

- bought a birthday present for an upcoming birthday (bff!)

- went to May-retta Daze & farmer's market on the square

- changed locks on front door and side door (finally both doors close properly and we have keys for both doors - and the keys match!)

- pulled some weeds

- gave Molly a bath

- did all the dishes

- did all the laundry

- watched Weeds & Gilmore Girls

- checked on, watered, and weeded my growing garden

... time to read People magazine and drink some wine :)

I feel like I don't have a lot to say, but perhaps some of you still have me in your google reader (I am obsessed with google reader) so maybe you'll read this ;-) Speaking of google reader, I have added baking blogs to mine (thanks to Meg!) and have loved saving the recipes I one day hope to try out. I have only tried one so far and oh.my.gosh it was unbelievable. My first time making homemade ice cream with my ice cream maker I've had for 2 years! I made a lemon ginger snap ice cream. Had to cook everything the night before, let it chill overnight and then put in the ice cream maker to churn the next day. Best ice cream I've ever had for sure.

I have been trying to do a few things around the yard but it seems that every day I have available for that it ends up raining. Well we finally beat the rain last week and planted our garden. We have the perfect spot in our backyard - a rectangle of cinder blocks that used to be a one car garage (who knows when) and is now our garden. I planted more vegetables than I even like to eat but I'm curious to see what will thrive and what won't, especially considering I have a black thumb. If all goes well, those of you I see often might find yourself with some free vegetables. And one day when I feel like getting my camera cord out, I will post pictures to make up for the lack of pictures.

Speaking of pictures, one of my goals for this year is to get a fancy camera which I plan on getting for my birthday and then I will of course be motivate to post more pictures and save them in a better way.. I hope.

Matt is almost done with his spring semester at Kennesaw so in his break between spring and summer he is planning on getting some yardwork done. Here's to gutters that will be buried and maybe some new bushes! And some more tar on the roof to hopefully fix the little leak that happened in the ceiling when it rained yesterday. Luckily nothing too major, but it does mean our roof sucks. I'm told that a new roof is about $5k-$15k and that Matt could do it for under $5k but we all know I don't want to spend that kind of money! Sheesh. It's a 'new' roof when they remodeled the house in 2007, but they put a 3rd layer of shingles on the roof and you are only supposed to put 2 layers and then strip it off to put the new layer after that. Who knows what is going on under this layer!

New carpet in the living room will be coming in maybe a month or so (especially now that we have a black spot and a red spot where Molly has eaten pens.. needless to say we have a baby gate now for her).

Until next time..

Life lately..

Has been filled with activities for Andy and Crystal's wedding this weekend!! All the pieces are coming together and we are so excited. The Bachelor/Bachelorette parties are tomorrow evening followed by rehearsal / rehearsal dinner Friday and of course Wedding and Moffitt after-party on Saturday ;-) Going to be a fun-filled weekend. John, Steph and Arabelle got into town today so it's finally feeling like everyone is coming in and this is happening. Hopefully I'll post some pictures after the fact.

Matt and I have been trying to motivate ourselves to complete our yard projects during this summer. Garden, driveway, burying gutters, etc, we'll see what gets done and I'll try to post some pictures along the way.

Work has been busy lately with learning lots of new things, conference coming up, and 9 auctions going on tomorrow. I know that doesn't make any sense to you but just believe me when I say it's a lot.

Matt and I (well, me especially) have loved playing handbells with our church this spring and look forward to it next year also. We played in three services on Easter and it's so fun to be playing music again! (If you didn't know, I was a big band nerd in high school, played baritone along with a few other instruments and loved every minute of it.)

We are really enjoying the small group we have become a part of but have had to miss the past two weeks so hopefully we'll be back at it next week. We also don't get to attend Trinity as often as we would like (the church we like) so hopefully that will improve eventually.

Enough for tonight, need to get to bed soon. Just didn't want you to forget I had a blog, haha ;-)

Blogging drought

Sorry I haven't blogged in a little while.. if you even care ;) I just looked back at my last post and saw that I wrote that we were going to watch The Hangover -- HILARIOUS! Wow we loved it. Anyway you probably know how beautiful this past weekend was. We took full advantage of 65 and sunny. Saturday morning we walked a mile to the French restaurant and ate outside in the beautiful weather for brunch - yum!! Then I ran some errands and came home and washed both cars (Matt's Jeep hadn't been washed in 3+ years.. since I've known him) and then we installed Molly's electric fence. So we have those little flags all around our back yard. Now begins the training.. you can't just slap the collar on the dog and let them loose, you have to train them to understand what is going on and why. She seems like she is kind of understanding it. Today I kicked the ball around outside and sometimes when it went outside the fence she wouldn't go and would wait for me to get it. Other times she would run right after it (at other spots in the fence). While training, you keep plastic pieces on the collar so it doesn't shock her but it does beep. Then as training progresses you change out the plastic for the metal.

We also bought two rugs for our empty front room in the past few weeks. I ended up not liking the first one but I bought it on craigslist so I can't return it so now I'm trying to sell it. The other one just arrived today and I love it!! The room is slowly coming together and I'm realizing I can do it for cheaper than I thought (though still costly.. especially when you buy something expensive you don't want). I'll post pictures soon I hope.

This week is full of preparing for the wedding shower for Andy and Crystal on Saturday. I'm so excited! We are so close to wedding time now :) Matt and I haven't been to a wedding in quite a while (actually since the day my Civic was totaled). Weddings are always so fun!

Molly needs to go outside so I can't write much more.. I did want to say though that we went to our first small group tonight! Apparently it was cancelled and we didn't know that, but the hosts graciously invited us in and we chatted for about 45 min. We really like them a lot and the guy apparently owns the Christian music studio in Atlanta or something (Matt has always dreamed of going there if that tells you anything) so it's quite the match for us for small group! We can't wait until next week! Although we are excited to be home tonight to catch Lost ;-)

Sickness and Snow

It's snowing outside.. a lot! We definitely have at least an inch which is a lot for Atlanta! It's still coming down pretty hard like it has been for a few hours. And on one of my days off (today) when I actually get a chance to watch Oprah because I'm at home, they don't play Oprah and play snow news!! Geez. "We're all going to die! Go buy milk and bread! Don't leave the house!" Oh well. I'll get a cozy evening inside with my hubby watching The Hangover. Fine by me!

So I have ended up with about a 3.5 day weekend. I woke up yesterday morning with a really weird headache. It wasn't sensitive to light and sound like a normal headache, but instead hurt whenever I moved, talked, moved my eyes, etc. Like blood throbbing in my head. I went to work (really had to do a few things) and worked from 7am until 10:30am when I went home to try to rest because my head wasn't getting any better. I laid in bed until about noon and never fell asleep. I was under my electric blanket and having lots of chills. Checked my temp and sure enough - 101.3. After a little research I thought that maybe I had the beginnings of the flu (no body aches yet). So Matt took me to the clinic at Walgreens and I got a quick flu test. Negative. (Thank goodness.) The rest of evening I just took advil and rested and tried to eat some. I slept about 10 hours last night and actually feel pretty good today. I guess it was a 24 hour bug. I woke up with a little bit of the headache but nothing like yesterday. Hooray for being well again! I think that must've been why I was so tired all week, I guess my body was fighting off the virus. Today is my flex day, which is good for recovering, and I ran a few errands and checked a few things off of my to-do list. Now just need to get the house cleaned some more.

Happy snow day!

Updates and money saving tips

This weekend we went to Callaway Gardens with my dear friend Chrissy and her husband Chad. Way #1 to save money: go to Callaway when it's free this month! Also good because I really didn't think it was cool enough to have spent $18/person to go there. But we did have a nice time in the cold and seeing the butterfly garden and eating loaded baked potato pizza (yum!!).

Me and Chrissy and Matt as butterflies

Way #2 to save money: homemade popcorn! (Thanks Chrissy!) Matt loves popcorn (and I hate the smell of it) and it's expensive. Chrissy and Chad have always popped their own popcorn and talked us into trying it. Very tasty, healthy and cheap!! And it doesn't smell bad :)

Way #3 to save money: give your husband a haircut. This is one of my favorite things to do, not only because it's fun but because I'm good at it which I can't believe. (He also has curly hair which hides any mistakes, how convenient.)

Here is Matt post-haircut, you can see a before picture in the Callaway Gardens shots

A few other things.. movie recommendations: Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. If you like foreign films, which I do. They are in English, and perhaps not foreign films, but they are set in Europe and star Julie Delphi who is a French actress. I like her movies!!

We got Molly a dog bed now that she is almost one year old! Last night we left her out of her crate for the first time (while at home) and she did awesome and slept on her doggy bed.

And on to some cuteness, below is a picture of me with my friend Alice's twin boys at one month old. How precious!! And while I was over there semi-helping her, I realized that that could be my life one day since twins run in my family. They are not super common, but my grandmother was a twin and there is another set of twins somewhere on my mom's side. Scary thought ;-)

Speaking of babies, congrats to Scott & Laura Beth on the birth of their baby boy John today!

Poor Molly..

She is subject to my torture. Have you seen the Dentastix commercial with the "doggy dentures"? I just had to share..

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