Wedding Keepsake

My aunt makes the most beautiful quilts, and right before V and I got married she just finished an amazing crazy quilt. I was so thrilled that as our wedding gift, she made us a beautiful crazy quilt square that was compromised entirely of things from the wedding! We hung it in a shadow box, and it is just amazing!
She used part of the shawl from my dress, my veil, beads from my wedding party jewelry (we made the jewelry), pins and ribbon from my bouquet, the sixpence from my shoe, our wedding date in beads, my garter, my headpiece, our monogram, and our purity rings that we exchanged.
It is such a special memento, and a beautiful piece for our home, I just LOVE to look at it!

So much has happened!

I know it has been awhile, and for that I am sorry.

Things have been super busy for us since we got back from Colorado.

We celebrated out 2nd anniversary!

We took part in one of Vince's best friends wedding

We went to Nac

Vince became an ordained minister of the gospel

We are officially under contract for our first home!

There is still a lot that can happen between this point, and actually becoming home owners, so please please be praying for us! We are really just wanting God to show us the next steps!

More later, but for now... enjoy a picture of our possible new home!

View From the Top

I totally forgot to put up pictures from our day off while we were in Colorado! Oops!

Well, on our lone day off, we got up early to Jazzercise, and had a quick breakfast, and decided to head up a Horsetooth Mountain, right outside of Fort Collins, Co. It was really sunny, and actually hot that day. We Texans were still not used to the altitude, so it was a bit challenging- but super fun. And the view from the top made it all worth while.

The “before” shot. The guys had fun throwing rocks to see how far they could get it. Well it was fun until a hiker told us that lots of people die from getting hit from rocks when people throw them. At that point, I directly ended their fun. Just call me Debbie Downer. Getting closer, you can actually see why they name it Horsetooth Rock, it looks like horse teeth! (Not that this city girl really knew what horse teeth look like…) Can you see it? Right in the middle? Well that’s it- and actually we were about 2 hours into the hike when this picture was taken, just to make sure nobody thinks we are pathetic.   7,256 feet! The gang right before we scaled the horse’s teeth. And I do mean scaled! And the view from the top!

There was a chipmonk way up there. See him? So cute!

We made it!

And I had a lucky ladybug land on me! Which is especially fun since my mom always called me ladybug when I was little. It’s on my thumb.

 

Oh yes we did!!!

Two years of Bliss

I am so happy I married you my love! You are more precious to me every day, and I still pinch myself that you are mine.

Second Anniversary Steal!

Or Second Anniversary is about to be here! Yipee!
At the same time, we live with V's parents currently, so I spent the last few hours looking for hotels. We have to stay close since I have to work at 8 the next morning, and we are trying to keep it reasonable. I feel like I wasted the last 4 hours of my life! There is no hotel, (well at least not really gross) that is under $100! There is something wrong when the Holiday Inn costs $129 for 1 night. We could stay at an awesome boutique hotel in Dallas for that price, I just would have to leave at 5 in the morning to make it to work on time! Grr...
However....
We had a friend tell us about a site www.biddingfortravel.com that is basically a message board for people who have used priceline, and they let you know the lowest bid that was accepted by a hotel. Sweet right? There was a super trendy hotel I had my eye on that is not too far from home, but originally priced at $139 a night. Well I found someone had gotten a room there for $40 a night! Praise the Lord! Was it too good to be true? Well after staring at the screen and going back and forth for about 3 hours, V and I placed our $40 bid on www.priceline.com, and we were accepted! That is about $100 savings!
No lie, this was an answer to prayer, and we couldn't be more excited! Look at this awesome mod hotel we get to stay in for $40! (the total with tax ect is $53.27)

This is the description: "Breeze into one of our rooms, featuring our ultra-comfortable signature bed, an oversized showerhead, custom amenities by Bliss® Spa, and more. Our plug & play connectivity station charges all your electronics and links to the 42” LCD TV to maximize work and play."

I will NEVER book a hotel the traditional way again!

I am super excited!

Inspiration Folder

Today I stumbled across a new fun site, House of Turquoise! I found myself saving picture after picture that I found inspiring, and before I knew it, I had a whole inspiration folder! Check it out! (All pictures found on House of Turquoise.)

I love the wall color, and the dark couch here. And the mixing of the blue and grey and brown. I already have plans, and stuff, for a room that is going to (hopefully) look similar.

Amazing cabinet! Wouldn’t you love to get ready in this bathroom? I think I might even be able to stay tidy if I lived here.

The thing I love about this is the room is incredibly light and bright, but there is dark furniture. A must for us since we already have some furniture.

I am loving this whole room!

 

Since we are moving to a town where most of the houses are from 1970, wood paneling is something that we are just going to have to deal with I am afraid. That remains to be seen until we find our house, but I am loving what they did with the paneling here. It looks intentional!

I love that this room doesn’t take itself too seriously. At least I don’t think it does.

I like the grey here. The white really pops against it.

And these chair covers are awesome. At least awesome until someone eats on them. I think they would need to be bleached every meal. But cool idea.

And least but not least, I am loving this for many reasons, I we have couches that color. And I want walls that color. And I think it is beautiful.  But a little busy for me.