Chris' New Best Friend

My great uncle's new wife brought her little dog to our latest family gathering, her name is Coco and she was very sweet and loved sitting on laps - especially when there was food being handed out.

More House Pictures

I finally decided there were a couple rooms that I could take pictures of without them looking perfect. We hope to be able to completely re-do the kitchen while we live here - new cabinets and counter tops. We got a slightly used stove and dishwasher from my grandparents, now we just need a matching fridge
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For right now this is the guest room, it will eventually be the baby's room, but since we have no idea how much longer it will be before we have a baby we went ahead and set up this bed - it's the bed I slept in growing up, just with a new mattress. The other side of the room, which I purposely didn't get in the picture, still has junk piled up waiting for me to organize.
 

Mmm...crabs!

When we first got married we decided we would go out to dinner every month on our anniversary, preferably somewhere new. We got out of the habit of doing that, but decided to start again. This month we got steamed crabs and ate them on our deck. It had been way too long since I had had steamed crabs. So yummy!

Bye, Bye Hair!

This past week I cut off ten inches of my hair to give to Locks of Love. Chris says I should've let my hair grow longer, but I'd had enough. I'm going to grow it out a little, but it'll be awhile before I want to try it that long again.

It's Starting to Look Like We Might Actually Live Here

Friday and Saturday my mom was here helping me sort through stuff that still isn't unpacked. The biggest thing we got done was hanging pictures in the living room and above the stairway. It definitely helps make it look like a home! I thought I had a lot of framed pictures, but having a whole house to hang them in makes them seem pretty sparce. I can't wait to get more!

Silly Little Frog

Last night we were gathering up the trash and turned to go out on the deck and saw this little guy just hanging out on our sliding door. He didn't even mind when we opened and closed the door.

Happy 4th of July!

I have to apologize, I haven't been taking very many interesting pictures lately so I've really slacked off on updating my blog. Plus, now that I have myspace I know less people are reading this. BUT, I know the ones who do read this are the most important (my mother-in-law, my sister), so I haven't given up on it completely! Since Sunday we have been dog sitting for my parents while they are off galavanting in Maine and Canada (I went with them last year, but couldn't afford to this year). She's a little more high maintenance than we're used to, she hates being left alone and she's not great at listening all the time. But she's been a pretty good house guest and she's very sweet. For our 4th of July celebration Chris went out and bought a grill, a very basic one, so we ate on our deck for the first time. The deck furniture is on semi-permanent loan from some friends who are staying in California for the summer while their new house is being built. It's very exciting to have deck furniture, even if we might have to give it back. Hope everyone had a good 4th!
The proud cook with his new toy

Not a great picture of us!

She looks a little freaky in this picture, she was just turning her head to see what I was doing.