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Sunday, February 12, 2012

DIY/ Pinterest Project

I am obsessed with pinterest! I find the best ideas.. too many to keep up with. This week I made a mason jar soap dispenser. Who doesn't love mason jars? They are so cute! And I have several due to my grandmother's amazing canning skills- salsa and peaches (in separate cans of course)! Yum! I need to learn how to can next. So I decided to make this one myself- online it said you can poke the whole with a screw driver... completely wrong. I did manage to get a big enough hole to make one. But next time I have having my dad drill the hole- it will be so much easier. Here are the results

The best part is this project was free!! It looks great in the bathroom- I should have taken a picture in there... And I think it looks a lot better than most soap dispensers.

Superbowl! Go Giants!

Superbowl snuck up on me this year! Usually I really enjoy making lots of tailgating food- even if it is just me and Jamie. But this year I went out of town the weekend before and spent the whole week playing catch up with cleaning, working, etc. So when Jamie had a friend over to watch the Jamie (and have pizza) I decided to make two new recipes for the occasion. Here are the results:

Football deviled eggs! These were actually very good! My first time making deviled eggs and I will def. make them again.

Veggie dip. This one looks good but didn't turn out well. But using a pepper as the dip holder was a great idea!

Next year I hope to do better!!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Congrats Jamie!!

Jamie was the TOP producer at his office last month!!! That is amazing considering it's on his second month selling loans!! I am very proud :)

Monday, January 16, 2012

Apartment and organization updates!

So our room is now finished.. the boys had to rehang the mirror since Stella decided to scale the top and it fell off. Luckily she didn't get hurt and it didn't break. So here is our room:

Oscar thought I was taking a picture of him...

I also did more organizing in the kitchen.. dork I know. Plus who really wants to see pictures?? Ehhh no one but I'm pretty proud of my accomplishments. The pantry is a work in progress but it looks way better than before.

I'm most proud of this: the drawer was ridiculous I found matches, a flask, and a paint brush in this drawer.. now look at it! I would have rather had a different color organizer but for $7 at TJ MAX hello green!

I added clear containers for cereal, candy, tea, and oatmeal. I could still use a couple more but it's look better!

Stella was the star of this one.. Putting the cat food in the big glass container saves space and keeps things clean and organized. I keep the flour and sugar in glass containers as well but this is the overflow. It also helps that we really needed to go to the grocery store :)

I still have plenty of more ideas for organizing the kitchen. I feel like it may be a never ending project... but that's it for this week!

My 26th birthday~Cirque de Soleil

For my 26th birthday, Jamie took me to Orlando to see Cirque de Soleil. I have always wanted to see it! We drove down on Saturday and stopped by the mall thinking that at 3pm we could eat something... wrong. Millennia was insane! Every place was an hour wait and we had Cirque to get to! We ended up eating somewhere quick and heading over to Disney!! I love Disney! I can't wait to go back and go to more of the parks. It seems to keep growing every year. Did you know Disney has their own fire department? Cirque was in Downtown Disney so we got to walk around and check out the House of Blues. Then it was time for the show.. It was AMAZING! I have never seen something so cool. Every act got better and better. I really can't say what my favorite was... the tight rope walkers, trapeze, and ariel contortion acts in silk (I had to look up the name to that one)! If I had to pick one the ariel contortion was wild- they were not on harnesses!!! And they were flying and spinning through the air. Woah! I wish I could have taken pictures but... We were on the second row which was really cool because we could see everything, all the little details. I would defiantly go back! Here are the pics we took:

The "tent"

House of Blues

Almost 26 :)

Jamie being classy

Really my birthday is on Thursday so there will be more fun in store :)

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Happy New Year!! 2012!!

We were lucky enough to get invited to an awesome black tie party on December 30th with some of our wonderful friends and my parents' friends. It was so fun seeing everyone dressed up! There was tons of champagne, great wine, and awesome food. We had a lot of fun. Here are some of the pics:

Sumner and Mike

Jamie being Jamie

Shots!

Shots...eww

On New Year's we had our friends Kelly and Alex over for appetizers, steaks, and fondu! And of course more champagne! We also played several rounds of catch phrase which was highly entertaining :) Here is our alcohol table:

I had trouble finding a "new years eve" table cloth..

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New Year's Resolutions:

1. My resolutions are to organize our apartment.

I haven't come up with any others yet but here is my progress...

Spice cabinet. I should have taken a before and after because this is actually way better than before.

I did have all the spices stacked all over the place but with my mini lazy susan I can see almost all of them.

Of course we have too many spices but this is improvement! I also started organizing the pantry but I ran out of

time and $$$ on that project... so maybe next week!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011 wrap up!!

2011 was a fantastic year for us! In case you forgot we got MARRIED :))))! I love the idea of going back through each month to remember all the great things/places we went. Most of it was filled with our wedding events but we also went to several weddings as well. Here are the highlights:

January: My birthday in Philly!! That was such a fun but cold weekend.

February??- This will be our February picture because it looks really cold. Touring the Cherry Blossoms

March: My friend's beautiful wedding in Ponte Vedra

April: Another wedding :) This one was in Virginia! We had a blast!

May: Moving to our awesome but tiny high rise apartment!

June: Another wedding!! This one in Rhode Island! It was so fun going to Rhode Island and we had the best time!

July: 4th of July weekend in Roanoke- best weekend in Virginia ever! We loved being on the lake and spending time with Jamie's family. We will really miss this!