My Favorite Huge Family

I love to watch 18 Kids and Counting. The first time I ever watched their show was on Christmas day a few years back when I got a new tv. I couldn't stop watching! At that time, there were like 15 kids and she was pregnant again or something. But now... here she is pregnant with #19!!!! What the heck! I'm not at all surprised, but it's just nuts that she's had so many kids. I thought I should vote for the next J name to be Julia since.. well.. you know.. it's a great name and all! But.. then I had a friend mention a better name. I think it fits so much better too... Jeez-Louise!

Autumn!

Well... almost. I can't wait anymore. I'm very tempted to decorate my bakers rack with fall stuff early just because I love it so much. With the bigger house - I need more decorations!! : ) I know Cody probably married me thinking that I would be totally different than his mother who decorates for every season. Well, the more time I spent over at the Beans' house, the more I loved all the pretty decorations. And it's their fault for taking me to Old Town Spring! I can't wait to get my Christmas yard sign from Metals and Petals! I love fall and Christmas. It's all so pretty... if only it would hurry up and come a little quicker!

Yeah, this was a boring post, but I have nothing interesting going on...

She's The Cutest!

Katelyn is finally here! I already love being an aunt. She's just so cute and tiny! She has the cutest cheeks and toes. I could just hold her forever, but I do have to share : ) I just love her!

New Posts!!

There are three new posts below.. check them out! I haven't had the time to just sit around and write about stuff... but nothing that fun has been happening either. I've been busy with Mother's Day Out, VBS, and looking for a job! The job hunt is still going on. I really wish that I'd get a job soon because school starts in less than a month! I'd love to have something - and the sooner the better as far as planning goes! I had an interview yesterday and 2 on Monday. So - hopefully one of those works out! And if not, I'll just keep on looking. Wish me luck!!!

My First Overnight House Guest - Aimee

Tuesday night, Aimee came to stay with us. Casey and Stephanie were working the next morning, so she stayed with me! That night, I planned for us to make some cookies. I saw one of my friends make S'more Cookies, so I got the recipe to make with Aimee.

Aimee did pretty much everything to make these cookies! She measured, mixed, cracked eggs, and formed the dough balls - she's a great baker!

The final product - I made the dough balls too big, but they were still good!

Aimee and my cat became friends really fast. I dug out a toy my dad made for her and Aimee and Bella played for a long time. Bella was enjoying Aimee holding her until I got my camera out and she freaked!The next day, we met Michelle and Carrie and ate lunch! We took Aimee to see the big fire hydrant downtown. She didn't know what one was.. so I looked up a picture on google and this is what I found...Anyway - I think she enjoyed it and was surprised with how big it was!
Mother and daughter...aww! Katelyn's coming soon!!

Quelf!

For my birthday, Cody got me a game called Quelf. It's a lot of fun and makes you do lots of crazy stuff. I saw these pictures on my computer and thought I'd share them! One of my game cards told me to act like a photographer and take pictures of people and say dumb stuff that a photographer would say while at a shoot. And I got to double my next roll if I used a real camera.. so here's what I got!

One of Matthew's cards told him to find an item that wasn't jewelry, and he had to wear it as jewelry...

I don't know what that is...

Goodbye Apartment, Hello House!

Today was our last day to have the apartment. Not that we have even been there recently, but we had to pay for the entire month of July. A while back, I decided to take pictures of the apartment, so if you never saw it - here are a few pictures!

The living room

The kitchen

Our bathroom

We are all moved into our house. We have been for quite a while. The first day we got to go in, both toilets started leaking. It ruined the carpet in our master bathroom, so until we tile it, it's just ugly cement. Recently, the garage door broke - so was another expense to have it repaired. I'm not crazy about being a homeowner since you have to fix everything yourself! But.. it is nice to have a bigger place!

The first thing that HAD to be changed was this wallpaper in the kitchen. As you can see below it was awful. I started to peel some off and started realizing it was 3 layers of wallpaper thick. We got 1 1/2 layers off, put Kilz over it, then textured it! Well... I say we, but I really mean Cody's mom. She was AWESOME, and did it all for us. We helped peel wallpaper, but she did the other stuff. I found a nice shade of green, and we painted! It looks so much better. I love my kitchen. We still have to paint the cabinets though. And that does not sound fun because my kitchen will be a mess again. Oh well, it's worth it to have a beautiful kitchen!

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