Day 239: Survived Surgery

Most of you know by now, but I had sinus surgery a week or so ago. It was rough..a lot worse than I thought it would be. I didn't think I'd ever get better, but I'm back to my old self now.


Mark took very good care of me. I kept saying I was testing out that 'in sickness and health' part. Well he passed with flying colors. I wouldn't have made it through with him!


It was hard for Mom not to come up here and take care of me. Her little bebe is all grown up now :) It was such a surprise to get these beautiful flowers from her! It really cheered me up when I was having such a rough time.

When I came back into work..look what I found! A sweet card, my favorite candy and a gift card to Hobby Lobby! My coworkers know me all too well :)

Still not 100% healed, but I'm getting there...

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers!

Day 225: Day on the Lake

We drove over to Smith lake yesterday for some family fun in the sun. Mark's dad and stepmom had the camper, Jana and Jarrett had the boat. It was a great day!

We had lots of fun with our niece and nephew, Morgan and Caleb.

I gave Morgan a marshmello, which turned into a huge sticky mess...but she seemed to like it :)

Mr. James on the grill...We had an awesome lunch! They always cook so much goodness and I can never pick just a few things. I have to have a bit of it all. Diane even made homemade macaroni....they were camping! I was very impressed.

We did a bit of tubing, kneeboarding and skiing.

And a good bit of swimming....

Mark and Jarrett even cliff dived,
which made all the girls super nervous

And we had fun just cruising on the boat....

Caleb in Uncle Mark's sunglasses

me and Lindsey manned the front

I've been regretting not writing our names in the sand in Jamaica on the honeymoon, so I tried to create it in Alabama dirt. That's pretty much the same, right? :)


Thanks for a great day everybody!

Day 206: Stormy Weather

We had a huge storm come out of nowhere last night. Tons of wind, rain, thunder and lightening. Wouldn't you know we had just lit the grill when it started. We watched the huge trees in the backyard sway back and forth all afternoon. We later noticed one had snapped right in half. Hope our neighbors behind us are ok!

What we didn't know until it was all over was that our pretty tree in the front yard split in half! Those branches gave such pretty shade and I will truly miss them. Although Mark is super excited to finally get to use his chainsaw.






Reading the reports there were lots of road closings last night due to trees in the road. Thank you Mr. weatherman for giving us NO warning! Another chance of storms tonight....

I will say that I felt extremely safe in our house and even moreso in the basement. The 3rd floor dinky apartment I was living in always felt like it was about to blow right off in a storm and I hated not having a safe place to go to when the weather got bad. Not a problem anymore :)

Day 199: Updates

I know I've been gone forever! So sorry. Life has really been busy here lately!

We celebrated our 6 month anniversary a couple of weeks ago. We're halfway there! Of course, no special occassion would be complete without a trip to Outback. The meal was delicious and fattening as always. :)

I opened up my etsy shop!

I've had quite a few orders, so I've been making tons of cupcake flags. Sort of my shop's specialty, but I will be soon expanding to invitations and other paper products.


We had Randy and Maria over for the 4th of July. Some of my cupcake flags made an appearance. :)




And I've really been updating my craft blog a lot. So sorry newlywed/house blog. I know I've neglected you! :(

I'm having a hard time separating between what should be posted here and what should go on the other one. So please bear with me. I'm sure eventually I'll get back into house projects and the like, but for now I'm crafting!

Day 174: A Little Help Please?

I need your help guys...Our wedding album is on hold until I can pick a picture for the cover. The back cover and spine will be black if that helps any. Also, the Alabama Theater one is also featured again somewhere in the album, while the black and white one isn't.

Here are the two choices...

Option #1



Option #2


If you know me, you know I can't make decisions worth a darn, so I really need your help! If you don't mind, please post your vote in the comments :) Thanks!

Day 159: An Interesting Find

Mark's been up in the attic all week checking out our insulation situation. Look what he found! An old radio, speaker, microphone, and others that I have no idea what they are. haha....so cool!

Day 155: Small Upgrades

We're tight on the budget now and can't run out to get too many furnishings just yet, so I was ecstatic to get this hand me down armoire! It actually came with Mark's bed set from when he was younger (pretty mature for a teenage kid, huh?). His dad has been keeping it until he was ready to have it back. Now is the time!



I really think it fills up the room a little more than our previous small table.




New Bedding


We had a few giftcards leftover from the wedding to Bed, Bath and Beyond. I looked there for bedding, but couldn't quite find what I was looking for. So I cashed that thing in and headed out to TJ Maxx, Homegoods, and tuesday Morning...multiple times. I finally found the perfect white quilt at TJ Maxx last week. The white is beautiful and a little scary. So far, so good. Only one small spill..a little chocolate cake. I like to eat in bed :)

We got the coverlet in brown as a wedding gift, but I traded it in for blue :) I like that it has some shimmer to it. I think it works well with the shimmery curtains the previous owner left us. Still working on the pillows.


I really like the two different textures.


Oh..and we rearranged the room a bit. Still trying to decide if we like it better this way....