happy birthday!!

Happy birthday (I know, I'm late) to the best parents in the world!!! I love you!

iwo who-a?

I woke up thinking about this and I just can't shake it this morning. If you haven't heard about the waters TIME has been stirring up, you can read about it here. Maybe it's because I was raised in a household with a strong sense of patriotism, maybe it's because I have a few family members related to the military, maybe it's because I have a low tolerance for disrespect, maybe it's because I love my God and my country and those close to me who have fought for the freedom of both. Maybe it's for all these reasons that I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the thinking process of this comparison. My initial reaction when I saw this: "What? You've got to be kidding me". Whether you see global warming as a valid threat or not, making this kind of statement seems ludicrous, and completely disrespectful.

Thanks, Pam, for bringing this to my attention.

sleeping at last

Josh and I went to Exit/In Monday night to see Sleeping At Last in concert. We were first introduced to them when they opened up for Switchfoot in D.C. at the 930 Club. Josh has been in love ever since. I think they're pretty good too. The light wasn't that great for my little point and shoot, but here are some fun shots I got that night...

on the edge of your seat

Wow! I was absolutely floored by the overwhelming response of you all guessing what it was that I was mixing up! Hah! It was, my mom's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! She would say they are someone else's, but I can't remember who, so I'm calling them hers. The texture turned out different than hers, but they were still yummy!

yum!!

The last recipe I mixed up before packing away my baking tools to move them to the new house. Can you guess what it is?

our first house!

Here it is! Josh and I are homeowners! I'm not sure when it will sink in - maybe when we pay our first mortgage payment? We are very happy and very excited. We have started to dig into getting it ready to move in. It is definitely a fixer-upper, but we are really looking forward to doing the work and making it our own. Here's some pics from our first real work day...

The classic SOLD picture


The previous owners must have held some serious sentiment toward their mailbox b/c they took it with them. That, or it was stolen, damaged, whatever. Here we are mixing the cement to install our mailbox post.


This is my mom in law helping out. She came down from Maryland and has been the Angel of Clean. She also has packed up most of my kitchen and kept up with my dishes and laundry! I told her she is not aloud to leave. Ever.


Josh had started to change the locks on our doors, and had to use wood putty. So when it was time to go get lunch and it still wasn't dry, we couldn't lock the house, so Josh stayed while we went to get food. When we came back, this is what we found. He had set up the chairs, and found a reasonable reception on the tv. Cracked me up.


Josh is becoming quite the handyman. Since some of the wood was damaged, he had to replace it.


Great job, Josh!!


We purchased a white mailbox. I'm talking, white, cloud white. I mean, bird poop white. This a very white mailbox! The reason being is that it will be very easy to paint over once we decide what color we will paint the house. =) So here I am putting our house number on the mailbox. The box didn't come with a diagram, so what is a perfectionist to do but take out the trusty tape measure and marker to find the exact place the numbers should go?


My mom in law was laughing at my anal ways, but daggone, my numbers are straight!!!