Remembering

     It's hard to think that the picture above was taking just a year ago. Thanksgiving of last year to be exact. How so much can change over just a year. Last year Matthew and I got to celebrate our first Thanksgiving as Mr. & Mrs. with our parents and this year is the first...

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Chocolate-Covered Cherries

Matthew and I like to make these chocolate covered cherries every year to give away around Valentines Day. We actually didn't get to make them last year because we were busy with wedding stuff. So this year we may have gone overboard... Start with a jar of stemmed cherries. We just happened to...

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Brace yourselves

     So I'm writing a blog update about this rather than just doing a Facebook post since this will probably be too long for a status update.      On Monday morning my mom stumbled out of bed. By the time I got over to her house at ten a.m. to pick her up for her chemo appointment, my mom had called her neighbor, and sent a text to my brother's girlfriend that scared...

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Back in the swing of things

Things have been busy the past few months. But I feel that everything is finally starting to settle down. Which means new posts! I'm hoping to get caught up on old projects including putting in the garden beds, making chocolate covered cherries for Valentines Day, and our anniversary trip to California....

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AFK

So I just realized that I haven't made a blog posting since February  It's not as if I don't have stuff to post (garden stuff, recipe for chocolate covered cherries, and our new favorite meal, chow mein). I've just been busy with so much other stuff. And I should be studying for my test on Thursday but instead I'm looking up information on metastasized breast cancer, turning myself into...

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Addition to the family

Matthew and I have been talking about getting a cat for awhile now. After looking a various adoption centers and petfinder.com we didn't have any luck. So I started looking at craigslist, and we found a cat that fit our criteria. Welcome the newest member of our family, Walter! He is eight months...

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Our first Valentines as Mr and Mrs

This Valentines day Matthew and I agreed to not spend much money on it. We bought some bowls that goes with our china as our gifts, so I wasn't expecting much. But Matthew being the amazing man he is had other plans. When I woke up I found chocolate in various spots around the house. This was next...

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Sick puppy

My poor Milton was sick yesterday. He spent most of Sunday in the following manner: stealing the covers, curled up in a ball. Angelina was not happy that Milton was taking all of the blanket, so she laid on me.  She also kept looking at Milton like he was going to explode. It's...

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Cross and infinity lariat

So I saw this cross and infinity lariat on etsy and I fell in love with it. I love crosses and I love infinity. So I then thought "I could make that". My mom happens to have lots of tools for jewelry making and I had the items I needed for the lariat, so why not? Here are the...

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Pre-Baby Bucket List

EDIT: See updated list in this post Baby Fever      Before Matthew and I got married we discussed when we thought we would like to have children. We felt that one year was a good amount of time. A year would give us plenty of time to enjoy being married, and learn how to...

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Books # 1, 110 and 151

So I have been reading a lot of books off my challenge, at least it seems like a lot to me. I know I have about a billion to go. But it has been fun, daunting, and a challenge like it should be. Although I am not sure what to do about the books that my library does not have. I finished Gone With...

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Attempting Art

 My dear friend Jesica have been talking about doing one of those BYOB painting classes for quite some time now. So when we saw a deal for one we snatched it up. We had such a great time together that we have already purchased another deal from groupon to do another painting class....

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