going on this week

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step"
Martin Luther King, Jr

I had yesterday off, and started writing this post then, hence the MLK quote. I didn't get a chance to finish, so I'm just going to continue working off of it!

We finally get holidays off at the hospital, and yesterday was the first of 8! I met my friend Kelley for coffee in the morning and then cleaned and crocheted the rest of the day away!

I wanted to share with you some new things around the house. We haven't made too many changes. The living room has opened up so much more now that all the Christmas decorations are down! It's nice to have all this "space" back!

Walking around some you will see that we pushed our dining table back against the wall some and added a little end table to our "entrance way" by the door



There is just enough space for this that it doesn't hit the door when it's opened.

 

I actually switched out this place mat at the last minute yesterday. I had already taken the photo and way lazy to retake it. So, this is old news already. Sorry! :D

 

 

Dressed up the bed some with a pretty skirt! I love our mattress - it's a Bob-o-pedic. But, the only downside is the height of the mattress. So, it is really high off the bed frame. So, instead of having the skirt go all the way down to the floor, we have it just covering the box spring and frame.

 

 

Bought this wine rack at Home Goods a couple of weekends ago. It hasn't gone up yet, but it's going to go up over the baker's rack. Can't wait to share pics of that!

 





We picked this up at Walmart last weekend. I don't really have a place for wrapping paper, so I always end up throwing it out. This way, we can keep all sorts of rolls under the bed!

And...I've started my spinach smoothies again. Need to bring that iron back up since I've been so great about taking my multi-vitamin and vitamin c every day :)

Oh, and last but not least...except many of you know this from facebook because I'm just so excited about it, Shane's mom taught me how to crochet. Here is what I have so far with the granny square stitch

That's all the updates for tonight! Shane and I have some projects we're working on in the house. And, I of course have a few others I want to finish. So, stay tuned for the following:

- Gallery Wall in Dining Room
- Vinyl words in Dining Room
- Exciting additions to FlashyPics
- Fireplace mantel
- Table by the door
- Painting the bedroom
- woohoo!

Enjoy your night all! :)

sunday sunday sunday

Happy Bright and Sunny Sunday Morning all!

I am sitting here, having  just finished our FlashyPics logo and anticipating an e-mail back from a fellow photographer who hopefully can give some fantastic insight how he got his roots planted in his photographer world. More posted on that latas!

Until then, we had such a fabulous weekend so far! Friday night was low key and relaxed. We went to Lowe's and picked up some wood so that Shane could fix the bottom drawer in set of 4 we have in the kitchen. It's been broken for sometime and he tried to fix it once with no such luck; the wood was just so damaged. So round two entailed him rebuilding it completely!

Yesterday we went to his parents so he could use his table saw and compressor to build the said drawer. Ahh I can't wait until we have a garage/wood shed where he can do all this at home-sweet-home! Until then, we do get to go to his parents and end up having a marvelous time visiting. He did the building with his dad. Mom and I went to Michael's and picked out yarn. She taught me (for the second time) how to crochet the granny squares. I have it home with me and now and so excited to continue doing it! Just another project!

And, today will involve doing grocery shopping, eating some food I'm sure and then watching the Patriots kick the Raven's [butt] game! If we all take a moment and recall this time last year when we witnessed this match up in the Playoffs. So, I said my peace :)

We didn't invite anyone over for the game. It'll just be Shane, Brady and I - and by Brady I mean the dog ;) We will enjoy the quite of our home after an action packed weekend!

How was your weekend and what do you have planed for the big game!?

christmas and Massachusetts

slackkker! I was supposed to post about my table and some other festive things I did. When instead, I completely became lazy and did nothing!

I did however go up to Massachusetts and enjoy a wonderful Holiday season with my family and friends! Such a great time we had!!

I didn't have our camera the first part of my trip, as I left it with Shane for him to use for Christmas (except I'm not sure that he did...) I will have to go through Jen's to see which ones I want to pilfer! In my defense though, I did take some of them ;)

I arrived at MA on Sunday, 23rd. Half way through on Thursday, Shane and Grayson arrived and we continued our stay until Sunday 30th. I have random pictures throughout the trip. I posted so many to facebook so I don't want to bore you with all of them!

We enjoyed visits with family. I got some precious time with my niece Maddie. It was the first time I met her, and of course walking into Adam's mom's house, he has her in the sink because she had a "diaper explosion!"

Love me some MA and I can't wait to see everyone again soon!

<3