Homemaking Tag

Here's a really cool tag that I'm excited about!

The first five people to comment on this post will get something made by me! My choice, for you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!

2. What I create will be just for you.  You have no clue what it's going to be.  It may be a story.  It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque.  I may draw or paint something.  I may bake something and mail it to you.

3.  It will be done sometime in the next 12 months.

4.  I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who comment on your blog.  Be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

Happy Homemaking!

Catch Up #3 - Melissa's wedding

On Valentine's Day I got to be a bridesmaid for my friend, Melissa, who I've known since we were about 12. I'd never been a bridesmaid before, so it was a lot of fun. I barely knew anyone else, and Chris had never met them, so it was a little interesting, but still a lot of fun. I can't wait for the proffesional pictures to come back!

This is all of us girls on the way to the church, on the way to the reception we had to fit all of the guys in the limo too! Some of them were related, so they sat on laps, and I got squished in the corner, luckily it was only a two minute ride!

This is me trying to show off my front and back at the hotel before the wedding, can you see my cute curly hair?

Catch Up #2 - Chris' Birthday

I tried to make this birthday really fun for Chris, so every night I did something different. The first was the bowling on Saturday, Sunday we had a big dinner with my family, Monday I had a cute candy and balloon bouquet thing sent to him at work, Tuesday we went to one of our favorite restaraunts, Wednesday (his actual birthday) I had his best friend and wife come down from PA for dinner, it wasn't a total surprise, but Chris had fun. And, of course, there were presents. This is his face after opening his eyes to see his big present............................. His other presents were some cool accessories for the grill, whenever the weather warms up enough to use it again!

Catch Up #1 - Bowling

To kick off Chris' birthday week we went to dinner and then bowling with some good friends' of ours, Marley and Carlos. It had been years since either Chris or I had bowled, and it showed in our scores! We played two games and I didn't even break 100! We also had to go out and buy a new microwave that night, ours up and died suddenly and we discovered very quickly we can't live without one!

Playing Big Sister

Ever since Bekah spent the night at my house while her parents were out of town she has been begging me for another sleepover.  Since I had Monday off, I invited her and Kamberlynne over on Sunday night.  We played Wii and watched movies, it was pretty fun! People laugh at me that I get excited to have a 3 year old and a 12 year old come over, but I don't have any younger sisters and I really enjoy it! 

 

Girls Night

Last week Chris went to Utah to spend some time with his family, but I didn't have any vacation time from work, so I had to stay home. The Saturday night that he was gone my mom, grandmother, aunt and cousin came over for a girls night. It was great! We ate too much food, stayed up too late, watched a movie, looked at pictures, planned our Christmas gathering, and helped my mom tie the quilt for my cousin's baby. Well, everyone else helped with the quilt, I held the baby!

Thanksgiving

To date we've had three Thanksgiving dinners, Chris gets a fourth when he goes out to Utah this week. Our first and biggest one was with my mom's side of the family at my great grandmother's assisted living center in Ellicott City. They have a pool table to plenty of room for all of us! I had the most fun holding my cousins two month old baby! The second dinner was that same weekend, with just my parents and brothers at our house. The third was at a friends house for his birthday, so we've had our share of turkey!!