Friday, January 30, 2009

I'll post tonight

If i get off work at a reasonable hour, and can convince Bran to let me use the computer for a little while.... :) I took pictures, so i'll upload them tonight!

Here are some things for you to do in the meantime:

  • check out the new "About Me" section to the right -->
  • check out the new blogs in my blogreel. There you will find blogs written by Doug Wilson's father (and my neighbor), Jim Wilson, Peter Leithart (the former pastor of Trinity), Toby Sumpter (Trinity's new pastor), and Femina (something every woman should spend hours reading).
  • Clean a room in your house. Mine is particularly dirty, and I'm looking forward to getting to do some cleaning tomorrow.
  • Look into buying a house in Moscow. In my opinion, everyone should live here.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

And then there were 5....

Wait, what? 5? Yep, 5:

Bran, Ash, Duke, Moose, and now Hoss....


There will be more on that later. This is one of those Tyler-like posts, where I'm posting so that I have to post more later. But I promise the next post will have pictures. :)

Monday, January 26, 2009

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Just 3 weeks from Valentine's Day...

...and we still have our Christmas Tree up...

I took down all the decorations last week and boxed them up, but we don't yet have a bag to keep our artificial tree in. I would just have Bran stick it in our storage room in the basement and not worry about it, but we tend to have an abundance of huge spiders around our house, and I'm pretty sure that if our tree was good enough for a squirrel, it would be good enough for a million spiders. So our bare tree is the lone reminder that it was Christmas not too long ago (but long enough that it shouldn't still be up). Oh and our wreath is still on the door, but I see a wreath as more of a seasonal thing than a "Christmas decoration". I'll leave that one up until I get one for Valentine's day.

As you can see, I overhauled my blog for the "Love Holiday". I was thinking about it, and Bran and I have had 4 Valentine's days together, starting our Junior year in High School when he gave me a single red rose and a necklace. I remember us talking about getting married and how long 5 years would be, and how it would drag on and never seem to get here. Here we are, 4 months and 1 week away from our first Anniversary, about to celebrate our 5th Valentine's day. The time has FLOWN! We spent two years of High School falling in love while being told not to, a year of college apart and waiting to start courting, a summer of courtship and 6 months of engagement, and here we are, happily married and madly in love.

What a wonderful journey it was, in the "full of wonder" sense of the word, as in, how did we ever make it this far?! I remember being told that long distance relationships don't work (friends from college were dating 3 hours apart and couldn't make it work), and trying to explain to my poor parents that I really did know what love was when I was 16. At times it was trying and frustrating, but at times it was fantastic and fun. And all of that has brought us to where we are today - we wouldn't change a thing.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

the boy is back in town

and the girls will be soon.

It was nice having the house to ourselves, but it will also be nice having people to hang out with while Bran's at work. I've been dying to watch the new episode of Grey's Anatomy, but have kept my promise to Jen to wait until she's here so we can watch it together.

One of the first things Ty said to me this morning was "I've got good news, and bad news." I can't tell you how bad that scared me. Luckily, it was just about him having more of his own kitchen stuff, but needing somewhere to put it. I can deal with that - don't freak me out! I was expecting something like "well the good news is that the toilet still works, but the bad news is that it's just a hole in the floor now....."

As bad as Bran and I want our own bathroom upstairs (which I hear might be coming sooner rather than later), I'm so tempted to beg him if we can install one of these in our spare room instead:



It's a closet system from the Container Store, which might be my new store, because it combines my love of organizing with my love of pretty clothes - their advertising alone makes me want to buy their stuff because I feel like if my closet looked like that, I'd have clothes that look like that, too.

I suppose that when I get pregnant, I'll be thankful for the upstairs bathroom... I know we were sure wanting it when Bran and I both had the flu....

Maybe someday I'll get to have my walk-in closet...