Everything that is new.....

     I'm sure most of you know this by now, but Casey and I are expecting on Feb. 18th. We are really excited and I'm a little nervous because Casey will be gone for 6 months of the pregnancy and the first 6 months of our little ones life. I will be posting ultra sound pictures and everything on here. We have our first ultra sound on the 30th of July. Oh and I have to put belly pictures up or my sister and some of my friends will never forgive me, so be watching for those. The next big news is Casey finally got his personal orders for his deployment he'll be leaving about the 3rd week in Aug for training and then he'll be back for 4 days and then leave for Iraq the middle of Sept. We're trying to cram everything into this last month we have together so it is really busy for us but we sure are enjoying ourselves.

   We have all but finished the house, well atleast what we are planning on doing right now. We need to clean our bedroom cause that is where all the misc stuff went, and then paint our bathroom and were done for awhile. Here are the pictures I promised, there are a ton. I hope you enjoy, and Love to all!

My New Wall....

This is a project that I have been working on for a litlte while. It is a sneak peek of the before and after of one of my walls. I bought this old window with no glass for $4.00 at a thrift store, and my parents had some chicken wire that I stapled on the back. I bought some small clothes pins at joanns, painted them black, and ordered some wedding pictures in sepia. When you put it all together you get the before picture and a closer after picture.

Before:

After:

The white spot in the before is where this is at. But I think it turned out pretty cute.

Pictures....

I went and took some pictures to show you all, they are from my camera phone so they aren't the best, but I did take them and you can at least tell what they are. 

This is Tage's rockstar hair. He is a little over excited about it, don't you think?

This is the purse I made. I crocheted it and then felted it, it is a little fuzzy but, it is a brown with flexs of white in it. I really like it!

This is my new hair, I straightened it from my perm I got tired of the perm so it will be straight for awhile. 

And this is my handsome husband while he has been at his training this past week, he will be home on Wednesday and I can't wait to see him.

Well that is all the pictures I have for now, I am still putting the finishing touches on the house and then I will post the house pictures. And then when I finish the inside of the house, I will work on the outside of the house.

This, That, and everything else.....

   No pictures for this blog post, I am at work and don't have any pictures with me but I thought that I would keep you up to date on our little lives. We went to Colorado and had a really good time. We just hung out with Casey's family, went on outings and just pretty much chilled with the fam.  


   When we got back Casey left the following Tuesday for his two weeks of training with the guard. They didn't go anywhere out of state they are just in Boise at Gowan. He will be back a week from tomorrow. It has seemed life forever since he has been gone. I had dinner with him tonight before I went to work and it was really nice to see him. While he has been away my friend Kandee and I reorganized my house, finished painting everything except two doors, and decorated it. It is almost finished which makes me really happy, I really like what I have been able to do with the space. I will do some before and after pictures here really soon, I promise.


  Well Casey and I have decided that we are going to visit some of my family in Washington. My mom has a brother and his family that live in Moses Lake, WA and we have decided to take a weekend trip to visit them and while we are down there, my little sister lives 1 1/2 hours away so we will get to see her also. Then in July we are going to Phoenix for a week so Casey can see all of his friends before he leaves. They should both be really fun trips and I am excited to go.


  In two weeks we are having a yard sale at our house I have a bunch of stuff that I need to get rid of, and so do my parents so we are having a combined yard sale at my house because my parents live so far out. So that is what my little brother and I are doing tomorrow, we are sorting and pricing stuff since I will be gone, or working for most of the next two weeks.


  The family is doing good, Shandi has decided to go back to school in the fall and become a nurse, Bo is going to be a sophmore this year in school and he has lots of summer leagues, and camps for sports that will keep him busy, he is staying at Casey's and my house some nights so that he doesn't have to drive back and forth. Wendi is living in Wilbur and is enjoying Washington. And my parents are working, we all just put in for our hunting tags and everything so we will see how that goes. Tage is a little pill, he is so funny and he knows that he is funny, and he is so smart. He can count to 20 by himself, say his ABC's, count to 5 in spanish by himself, and his favorite work is Ridiculous. It is so funny when he says it. I love to see him, I try and call him atleast everyday to say hi. When I call he says "hi J where is casey" no matter what he is always wanting to talk to casey, if i stop by he looks out the window trying to see if Casey is coming. It is super cute.


  I haven't been crafting all that much lately, I crocheted a bag that I felted and it turned out super cute, I will post a picture later. I am also working on another table topper for one of my sisters friends who is getting married it is Shandi's present to her. Other than that I can't think of anything else that is going on. We are staying busy with work, and play, and working on our house. Just enjoying the married life. Hope all is well with you all. We love you!

Going to Colorado...

Casey and I are going to Colorado on Thursday for 6 days. We're going to see his family, this will be the last time that he see's them before he gets deployed. I don't know what were gonna do there but it will be fun just to get out of town. I don't know if you remember a few post back, I went with my grandma to a quilting class and we made those table toppers. Well I told Casey that I would make one for his mom's birthday and I just finished it so that I could take to Colorado with me, to give to her. Here are some pictures of the finished product. I made it with Christmas prints cause Casey said his mom didn't have a lot of holiday decorations so I thought that she would like this. Let me know what you think.

I really liked the colors they are the rich, deep colors. Kind of the ones that they consider are a country Christmas motif. I cut out two, one for my mother in-law and one for me so I will be making mine soon. I have like 4 or 5 to make. The next two will be wedding presents.

Casey's Birthday...

I know I am a little late posting these pictures and tell you what we did for Casey's birthday,  but we have been really busy. I have been working a lot lately, and Casey has been working, and last week he had the whole we of military class. So we haven't had a lot of time to do anything but, eat, sleep, work, and do some stuff around the house. I have been working on some flowers cause I am selling some and I wanted to make some for Casey's niece Zoe. So here are the ones I have done lately.

So now that you know how behind I have been, here are some pictures that we took, my Uncle and his family were here to visit (which is my dad's only sibling) Everyone was here except their oldest son Jared and my little sister Wendi. So here are some semi-family pictures. 

This is the group

My grandpa, dad and Tage

This is me on the phone, we were getting ready to take pictures.

So for Casey's birthday I got a really good deal on the same hotel we stayed at the first night of our honeymoon. I booked a room there, we went out to dinner and went shopping. It was a nice relaxing day. The room had rose petals on the floor leading up to the bed, it was really cool

For Casey's birthday, he got money from my parents which he spent on new military garments, he needed some more before he gets deployed. Then he got two new ties, a new watch and a few new shirts. All and all I think he had a good birthday. Here are some pictures of his presents.

You can't tell very well cause I couldn't take a good picture with out the flash. His watch is a skeleton watch, it winds itself when he moves his arm/wrist, there are no batteries.

I love the color of these ties, Casey kind of collects ties.

The orange one had a eagle on the front of it. I know it is hard to see it but I really like all the shirts he got. 

I know that this was a long post with lots of pictures but I hope all is well with all of you and your families. I will post again soon. Love to all.

Our before and inbetween stages.....

So I have been realizing lately that I need to take more pictures, then i looked on my computer and saw that I had some pictures from our trip to Texas that I know that I haven't posted. I will go home and post them in the next couple days, not that we went in in December and it has been 4 months I am a little behind. But I do have pictures of our before and in between pictures of our house. It is getting finished and I will put up some pictures before we decorate and then after we decorate. Here are the pictures....:)

It looks like a big mess, but it got so much worse! There was paper everywhere and the glue was sticky so I had to put this other stuff on the walls. Let me just say I think I may have bit off more that I can chew. I told my husband that if I ever say lets redo the house, he can kill me. I will redo one room at a time if I ever want to do it again but I will NEVER redo a whole house again. I just want to be moved in and live like normal married couples. As you can tell by my last few postings since they are posted at the butt crack of dawn, I am posting these from the comfort of my work, we will be getting internet at my house on the 5th which will be happy day for me. I like being able to keep up with my friends on their blogs and everything. Well I think that is about it for now. Much love to all.