Our New Baby

I guess it's time to introduce the newest addition to our little family. Our new puppy, Xander. He was a present from my wonderful hubby. J picked me up from work one day, told me he had a surprise for me, and took me out to a Beagle breeder to pick him out. He has lots and lots of energy, but we LOVE him!!

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

Today is mine and Jason's ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It's hard to believe a year has passed so quickly. This is what we were doing on this day last year ...





To celebrate our anniversary we are taking a trip to Florida. Right now Jason is making breakfast (eggs, bacon, and toast ... YUM!!) and then we're hitting the road! BRING ON THE BEACH!!

Birthday Parties!

A couple of weeks ago Jason turned 30 and we had a big party for him at our house. Of course, we couldn't have a party without a Stargate Cake!! The lady who did our grooms cake for the wedding did this one. She is amazing!



Last Saturday was my Dad's 50th birthday and we had a surprise "Prom" party for him. It was a lot of fun and the first time my whole family had been together all at once since Christmas. So, naturally it was PICTURE TIME! Here's one of the whole family:

It's been a busy couple of weeks with all these milestone birthdays and graduations, but now its SUMMERTIME! Bring on the warm weather!

Graduation!

Finally ... I'm a college graduate!

Crafty Evening

I found a fat quarter of material at JoAnn's today that I fell in love with and had to buy. Of course, I had to no idea what to do with it, so as soon I got home I turned to google. Finally, armed with a tutorial I sat down at my sewing machine and began to make my first real project on my own. I had to wing it quite a bit and the end result isn't totally perfect, but I LOVE IT!

And the good news is that it will coordinate with the purse that I'm in the process of making. Hopefully that project will be completed (or mostly completed) tomorrow night. Look for pictures of that coming soon. :)

A Wedding Shower

Today we're having a wedding shower for one of the girls in the office. For the past two weeks I have been getting together the favors and decorations. Here a little bit of my handy work:

These are the favors. They're heart shaped cookie cutters. I used green cardstock to make little tags and attached them with brown ribbon. (Those are her colors).

Here are some of the signs I made to hang up around the room. There are about 15 different signs with different sayings. It's a kitchen shower, so all of the quotes are food/kitchen themed.

I will try to post some pictures from the shower, so you can see how we used these items. I had a lot of fun being creative with these and am looking forward to the shower.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

J and I celebrated our Valentine's day on Friday night, because I had to work on Saturday. He took me out to dinner at TGI Friday's and then to see the movie Taken. I'd been dying to see it and it was really great!!

Even though we were supposedly done with our celebrating, I woke up to this on Saturday morning:


He made me breakfast! YUM!!