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.

Lots of things going on....

  Well we are still busy with the house, the family room is all painted so it the bedroom. I am halfway done with the livingroom/dinning room. I love the color of our living room, it reminds me of chocolate milk, it makes me smile. Casey and I have been busy working, Casey worked 57 hours this last week. and I am still on a 7 days on 7 days off night shift for one more week. We don't see a lot of each other but we make time for each other at least a little bit in the day. We are going to see his family in Denver at the end of May which we are really excited about, we haven't seen his family since Dec, and we haven't seen his older sister and her family since the wedding. It will be good for casey to see them before he leaves. We are also going to Arizona at the middle of July, it was Casey's birthday present, He is SOOOO excited to go and see all of his friends.

Here is a close up of one, sorry the pictures aren't the best, I took them with my camera phone

  I have been working on a few sewing projects while I have been working on the house. I and almost done with the table topper I am making for my mother in-law, and I am making another one for a friend of mine. My newest craft I have been doing, is making flowers. I make them to put in your hair, on a shirt, on a bag where ever you want them to go. And they turn out so cute. Here are some pictures, I am going to be selling them which makes me really excited. I am going to start a little business selling my burp rags, and a few other things I make. Nothing big but I have been selling my burp rags at a local store and they are selling really well so I figured I would give them some place where if they wanted to buy other things they could order them online. Casey is working on my website and I have a friend that is working on my logo and some business cards, it will probably take me a little while to get up and running but I am excited. Other than that we are just going along, working and trying to make it from one day  to the next. Hope all is well with your families. Love to all!

We're moving....

Well I haven't been able to blog very much lately because I have been to busy with work, (I am working the graveyard shift 7 day on and then 7 days off for the next month and a half cause a girl had surgery) and we're moving!! YES you read that right we are finally moving. Not that we haven't appreciated that my parents have let us stay in their house rent free since November, but it will be nice to be on our own again. We are renting my grandma's old house, we have been working on it for the past week or so. We are tearing down most of the wall paper and painting it, putting up new light fixtures and stuff like that. Just so you all know, wall paper is of the devil and I HATE it! We started in the master bedroom thinking we would start small and work our way up cause there was only one wall in there that was wallpapered, and it had three closets on that wall so there wasn't much to take down. It can down so easily I was excited, thinking wow that came down way easier then I thought it would. Well we moved to the hall way and that is where I found out how much I hate wallpaper! I can't get it to come off to save my life, I have scored it, and then sprayed it with this special stuff and it still won't come off. So I spray it with water let it sit for a little while and then it peels off in itty bitty pieces. Therefore that is why we still haven't started to paint even after working on it for over a week. :(  But we are totally excited to be moving, and I love to do renovations and I love to decorate so I am getting excited for the decorating part. I have pictures but I am at work right now and can't download them so I will do that sometime this week showing our progress and at the end we'll do before and after pictures. Hope everyone had a happy Easter, and I hope all is well with your families. Love to all!

A wonderful wonderful weekend.....

So this weekend my husband and I went to my grandma's house (my dad's mom) just to have some fun and hand out with them. Casey had only been there once to take engagement pictures and we didn't explore very much that time. This time we got there on Thursday and we went four wheeling and saw a bunch of deer, Casey was very proud of himself when he could spot them before I did.

On Friday my grandma had signed up for a quilting class and asked if I would like to come, so I did. It was funny because I was the youngest one there by quite a bit. We all but finished my grandmas project at the class, then we went back home and started one for me, I think it turned out really well. The teal and purple one is the one my grandma and I did at the class, and the blue and yellow one is the one I made when we got back. I am now making a Christmas one for a present, a fall one, and a red black and white one. I want to have several to put on my table for the different seasons and stuff.

Then we went to a St. Patricks day breakfast, it was really good there was a live band called "The oldtime fiddlers" Casey had never seen a guy play a bucket before as a bass, and there was a guy that way playing one there. We also took a few pictures that I wouldn't normally take, but my husband really wanted to. He is such a dork

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A tribute to marriage, and my husband....

    With trials and tribulations, come sucess and happiness. I haven't always thought that this was a true statement, I didn't think that with trials and everything that it always ended in happiness, but recently I have come to believe that it is a true statement and I am greatful for that.
     I don't know if this is a girl thing, or a romantic's way of thinking, or just what I was thinking but I thought that when I got married it would be a little hard but that for the most part it would be smooth sailing and that everything would be almost like a fairytale (not the birds singing and when people kiss a little heart floats above their head telling you they are in love) but in the aspect that since I had known Casey for 5 years and couldn't imagine my life without him, that it would be the perfect life once we were married. Little did I know that I was daydreaming about a fictional world, one of love and marriage where you never fight with each other, and where your spouse always knows what you are thinking (because they are a mind reader) and where you like each other all the time. (boy was I totally oblivious to what was real life) Let me tell you, real life hit when I got married and realized my daydream was just that, a day dream.
    I loved my husband dearly the day we got married, it was the perfect day, little did I know that my love would grow for him greatly and I would find out that I would do anything for him in the next coming months. I am sure women out there will be able to understand what I am talking about when I say men are men and I don't think I was the least bit prepared to live with one when I got married. My husband and I found out REAL fast that we come from way different backgrounds, that we had different thoughts and opinions about what marriage should be like and what the roles of a spouse should be. We have fought (we have never yelled at the other person though) I have cried, we have had to leave and cool off and then come back later, and we both have thought what have we gotten ourselves into, but we have come to realize we wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Our marriage is by no means perfect and we are always going to be working on it but I think that we know that we picked the right person to marry and spend the rest of our lives with.
   I have to brag about my husband for just a minute, Casey is the King of smoothing things over. He knows exactly what to do if he makes me mad, or frustrates me, or make me sad. I have heard people complain about their husbands, and I have complained about mine too, but he knows what I like and dislike, he knows what I'm thinking sometimes without even having me have to tell him, and he loves me. Casey has studied me for the past little while I am sure because I have noticed that he does the things I like more and more because it is for his benifit that when he makes me mad he does theses things and I don't stay mad long, he has even found things that I didn't know I like.
Things Casey has found out:
1. I like my hair being played with, it is relaxing to me and puts me to sleep.
2. He can give me a hug and I melt in his arms
3. When I have had a long day he just agrees with whatever I say and lets me vent
4. I don't like to drive so he drives everywhere
5. I like the left side of the bed
6. I am a night owl unless I have to be up at quarter to 2am and then I need my sleep
7. If I get up at quater to 2am I am a grouchy person and he tells me to go take a nap and he will do laundry and I am much happier when I wake up.
8. I don't like chocolate but I love cheesecake
9. I have a short temper, I don't always get mad I usually get frustrated
10. If I am embaressed or he is doing something that I think shouldn't be done I give him and look and he knows exaclty what I am meaning and then he gives me this little pouty face and it makes me giggle inside. :)
 I am sure there are more but those are the ones coming to my head right now, I love my husband and wouldn't trade the past 5 months with him for anything. We both are still learning about each other and I don't know if that will ever stop, but I am glad he chose me to be his wife.