Momma said there will be days like this...

Our Housewarming party is this Saturday so Jared & I are trying to tie up all the loose ends with the house. This weekend we started painting the trim and got sick of it quickly and stopped. So today I really needed to finish it. It started out great until I got to the bathroom... I was truckin' along until I realized some spots on the bathroom door that needed to be touched up. That bathroom hadn't been painted in years! I started dabbing on the door and figured what the heck, I might as well paint the door. Good idea, right? Nope!

I took off all of the hardware on the door (I have no idea how I'm going to get it back on there) and this black dust stuff came pouring out of the door hole. It looks a lot like gun powder. I figured that I could just paint over the black dust stuff and the paint would cover it. Well the paint didn't cover it. It made it worse. My white paint turned gray. I grabbed a paper towel and started to rub off the grayish color and it came off nicely. Then I started on the backside of the door and it needed to be a different color than the front side. I rinsed off my paint brushes and grabbed some new ones and started to paint the backside of the door with the different paint color. Once I finished I thought... How am I going to get out of the bathroom? I had painted over everything on the door and I couldn't touch any of it.  I had to stick my fingers through the door hole and gently pull the door toward me. It was a lot funnier then than it is now. Now, it just sounds like a pointless story, but to me it was funny.

Point of it all- The bathroom is finished for now. There's still a lot I want to do, but for a while I'm done with it. Jared & I decided yesterday that anymore painting projects were going to be done professionally.

We're almost Housewarming party ready!!

Take me back to Cabo!

A year ago Jared & I were in Cabo... and now I'm sitting on the couch with a sinus infection/cold. Man, I'd love to be back on the beach! Even though our honeymoon was a disaster, I'd still love to be back there now.

We were on a shuttle from our hotel to get onto the plane to Cabo.
The most awkward morning of our lives.

 

This was banana milk... It was amazingness in a glass.
We drank this every morning! I tried to make it at
 home and it was a major fail.

  

This was some famous spot in Los Cabos. I don't remember

why it's famous. I remember there were sea

 lions all over the shallow parts though.

Even though Jared & I could not stand each other on our honeymoon, I'd love to back there right now with him. We're already planning honeymoon #2. Who says you can only have one? Not us! Alaska has been thrown in there along The Virgin Islands and maybe (hopefully) going around Europe galavanting like fools. I'm pulling hard for the Europe one!

Now, I'm back to stuffing Kleenexes up my nose and watching reruns.
Cabo, thank you for the memories. I'm sure you would have been much more enjoyable if I liked my husband back then like I do now. :)

One Year Anniversary!!

Jared and I celebrated our one year anniversary on Saturday and it was soooo fun!!!

I had it perfectly planned out in my head how the day would go:

• Sleep in late and then have a huge breakfast
• Go for a drive in East Texas and find some cute little lunch place
• Get some yummy food at Central Market
• Come home and cook the yummy food and have James Taylor in the background while wearing my cute anniversary black dress.
• Eat the wedding cake and have a glass of the same champagne that we had at the wedding

Here's what really happened:

• Slept in too late and all the breakfast places were packed so we settled for Whataburger's breakfast which was pretty good!
• A 2 hour drive one way to find a cool spot turned into us eating at Carl's Jr. (nasty) because we couldn't find anywhere cool to eat and turned around and drove back to Fort Worth.
• We get to Central Market and we're picking out foods then Jared walks over the meat section and says, "Go away, seeing this meat will make you nauseous." I think No, it wont! I'm past that... I definitely was not past that. I saw the raw, bloody, nasty meat and began to gag!!!
• We came home to cook the food and got into an argument because we forgot things at the store and it was already 8:30pm and we were starving! There was no James Taylor because my iTunes wouldn't work. I didn't put on the little back anniversary dress because I was too cold! The food did come out amazing though!
• Jared sliced up the cake, but by that point I was already stuffed and I really don't like icing... so I ate one bite of the cake and that was that.

Overall, we had a wonderful anniversary! I just loved being with him. We sat out by the fire and talked for probably 2 hours about life and where we are now. It was so awesome and I know that God has richly blessed us! I cannot wait to see what year 2 brings!

Quick Update!

Well, lately Jared & I have been up to our elbows in house projects and getting things just the way we want them. So many people have told me that you are never really finished with a house, and while that's true, I still want to get as much done as I can before Jared cuts off of my funding and before I lose the ideas. And no, I'm not going to write down my ideas on a piece of paper because I'll lose the piece of paper!!

Not a lot is too new around these parts. Jared & I will celebrate our anniversary on the 21st and I am just beaming with excitement! And I just watched our wedding video for the first time today and I could not stop crying. It was so sweet and, ah... I just love being married to the man I'm married to!

I just finished the last major house project for awhile. I've redone just about every room in the house and I love the way they have all turned out. Jared & I definitely picked some daring colors that probably don't go together, but we love them. This sweet little (big) house has been such a blessing to me. Jared & I have already made some wonderful memories here and I cannot wait to make more!

Cheers.