Happy Father's Day

Happy Fathers Day!

This weekend was nice, we got stuff done and had a little fun as well. I did spend some time outside so I'm covered in masquito bites and I'm thinking that's why I felt ill today.

Friday Scott and I did our errands, grocery shopping, etc.  Scott also got our back lawn finally mowed (with our FREE lawn mower :-) ) and we picked up like a million sticks! Still have millions more to pick up.

Our backyard looked like a wildlife preserve/forest before scott mowed. 

One of the many creatures living in our backyard.

Saturday Scott helped a family in our ward move and I caught up on laundry and house chores. Then we celebrated fathers day a little early when he came home.

I wanted to get him a good hammer for fathers day, but he didn't find any at home depot, so he's going to try online. Poor guy keeps smashing his fingers and got a really nasty blood blister.

So we went to a Froyo place called Orange Leaf, sooo yummy. Then we got ourselves some water toys/spray guns and had a blast running around our yard soaking each other.

Scott's father's day gift, adorable onsie and cowtail bites. :-)

I worked on my gardens a little bit more (I really need to weed them now):

I'm not done laying the bricks in the middle, I plan on digging them into the ground more....just ran out of energy

One half is my mint leaf garden

One half is my herb garden....the cilantro and green chives already died :-(

My vegetable garden (Thanks Scott for building me the long planter box, the square one was already in the yard, we just drug it over where I wanted it.) We have tomato thieves living in our yard, we keep finding the ones that were growing missing...then find them half eaten on the other side of the yard. We might have to put a net up.....

SOOOOO many sticks! (and this is only a small percentage)

So great news! We FINALLY got the counter tops ordered. So we just need to save up for the sink and a dishwasher (eventually) and wait for the stuff to arrive and we are pretty much to the point we'll have a kitchen again!!!! 

Not so good news, we realized the half bath floor was rotting. So Scott went in to see what he could do to fix it....and the floor fell out (into our downstairs bathroom):

So Scott had to temporarily patch the ceiling while he works on the half bath. 

....I feel like I'm living in a construction Zone....but good things come with patience right? :-) 

Chillin' at Washburn and Finals

So today I was working at Washburn University (for their United Way Campaign), selling T-shirts at their "Scorch on the Porch" event, raising money for United Way.
Scott was also there taking his first final, and joined me afterwards. We both got pretty sun burnt from sitting outside so long. But loved being able to spend time together.

Selling T-shirts and Raising Money's

 Part of Washburn's campaign is the decorated "Trash Basket" auction.

 Here's the one United Way Decorated (Shilo, our tech guy actually did it)

 My arm got really burnt :-(

Lovely weekend

Finally the weather was nice enough that we could really enjoy this last week and the weekend. 

Thursday I attended a friends baby shower, she's due in a few weeks! So excited for her, got me really excited about our little one as well.

Friday after work Scott and I had to get out of the house, so we walked around Gage park and enjoyed the outdoors. 

Trying to see the fish.

The tree that you would see in a haunted film.

Soooo cute, goslings.

This is Scott's favorite statue in the whole park.

Saturday we slept in....we really needed it.....and worked on our yard the rest of the day.

Finally cleaning out the gutters.

Getting started on our herb garden. We just got our Mint plants planted so far. 

Next week start Scott's finals! And the end of his first year at lawschool. He's almost a 2L! :-)

LOOONG time no update....

So the quickest update would be.....Scott and I are gonna have a baby!!! Woooohoooo!!!!! Due October 14th.
Scott is finishing up his second semester in Law School and I am still working as Assistant Director in Resource Development at United Way of Greater Topeka.
We've already had two ultrasounds of the baby:

10 Weeks:

14 Weeks:

Scott also took a video of the ultrasound at 14 weeks.

Here's a little clip, low quality vid...a little blury:

Can't wait to find out the gender but gotta wait until 20 weeks :-)

Long time no update!

Wow lot's and lot's has happened since my last update:

January was a hectic time for my work and Scott's school. But I managed to keep up with SOME of my new years resolutions.
1. Make a  piece of art/create something each month. January, I was inspired by all the pistachios we received in our Christmas stockings to make something out of the shells. I was first going to make a sculpture. But it  would take too many shells, then I decided on a wall piece. I played around and it turned out pretty neat:

All I used was an old beat up mat board from highschool photo class, a glue gun, and pistachio shells. 

This will make a perfect interior decorating piece. I'm going to make 2 more this size and hang them all side by side on the wall :-)

2. Scott and I have been waking up together in the mornings to eat breakfast together, read our scriptures, and stretch (starting the day out right). It's been hard, but worth it!

The end of January I got extremely sick. I was sent home from work early the last Friday in January then the next week I took of on Monday to finish up recovering. But then Tuesday and Wednesday (3rd and 4th) ended up being snow days! :-) Scott's school shut down and so did my work!

This measures about 11 inches, but in some parts it was more like 12, especially after it snowed again.

Got our walkway semi shoveled.

Took forever to get all the snow off our cars.

Scott shoveling our driveway :-)

They don't believe in plowing around here. they "plow" the "main roads" (that's about two roads) and dump piles in front of neighborhood entrances. So we literally have to dig out our road. When Scott and I were shoveling our drive and digging out our cars we noticed a lady get stuck at the beginning of our neighborhood road. Scott was so kind and dug her out so she could continue on. We both helped push her car out of the ditch. It was a really nice moment until she shoved $15 dollars at Scott and just headed off.....took away from the good feeling of service we had. Just like the time I decided to give a wonderful pistacio muffin to my neighbor just because and he paid me for it, shoved the envelope of money under my door. Ug.

Our cute snow covered house.

It is sooooo cold! 

Grateful for my moon-boots which have lasted me since high school!

Our freakin' annoying neighbor insists on parking in front of everyone elses house instead of their own. Scott had dug out that spot so he could park there so we didn't have to move our cars every time someone wanted to leave, and the neighbor took it again. I've talked to them about this and they still take our parking spots in front of our house when they have   1. Their driveway they don't use. 2. space for two cars in front of THEIR house!

Crazy icicles!

So the 4th was also the 2 year anniversary of when Scott proposed to me, so we celebrated during our snow day. We also did our traditional chalk mural inside on a chalkboard because everywhere was covered in snow outside. 

February 4, 2012 (Actual proposal- Pennsylvania)

February 4th, 2013 (1 year anniversary- Pennsylvania)

February 4th 2014 (2 year anniversary, and snow day- Kansas)

I also made a little blanket out of some old yarn I've had forever, didn't get to finish because I ran out of yarn, but it looks cute. :-)

Scott and I have also finished painting the kitchen. We just need to find time to order the cabinets and put them in, then we will have a kitchen! WOOOOOHOOO!

So yesterday was Valentines Day, and Scott has a Law Conference (in Kansas City) this weekend so he was gone all Valentines Day. I felt pretty lonely but he came home late that night with these :-)

   

2 dozen roses. :-)

I added some to the bouquet of carnations he had gotten me Friday the previous week. So pretty :-)

Today Scott is gone most of the day at the law conference again. Then Monday I leave to Wisconsin for a Work conference. I will be gone untill late Friday evening. In our 2nd year of marriage and it's getting harder and harder to find time to spend with each other....I don't like this.