The windows are in our house! They look great and I can't wait to enjoy this fall weather with them open for the next few weeks. Mat said it took them most of the day to install them, but they were in by the time I was home from work. We have our big window open right now and it is lovely! The rest we can't open until tomorrow, I guess they want to make sure everything is totally dry and sealed. So that's okay - we've lived long enough without being able to open them! It's crazy how clean they are though. We've never cleaned our other windows, mostly because we couldn't open them. I never thought I would be so exciting about windows!
Dinner is cooking - we made a penne casserole that we really like. I'm ready to eat!
Not much is new at home. The windows are probably going to be our big story for the next few weeks. We are just way too crazy sometimes. :) Bye for now!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Composting Fun
Here is Mat, hard at work on our compost bin. Since we have decided to create a larger garden next year, we thought we would try our hand at a compost bin. Mat did a great job and created the largest compost bin I've ever seen. Maybe not ACTUALLY the largest, but it sure seemed big after he was all finished.
The boards off to the side actually slide in the front as we get more materials in the bin. You can see what we have already composting here:
Looks fun, huh?
And here is our lovely little pumpkin gradually turning orange. It hasn't grown much larger, so I guess it will just be a tiny pumpkin. It is still pretty cute though! I'm back from my conference and I sure am glad. I'm not the biggest fan of being away from my wonderful hubby for 6 days! We're going to spend the next couple days together and then I'll go back to work on Tuesday. Until next time...
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Off to Idaho Falls
I'm heading out in a couple hours to Idaho Falls for a week of conference fun. I'm ready to come home and I haven't even left yet! I don't like the idea of not seeing my hubby for 5 days. :( Hopefully it will go by fast and I'll get home soon!
We went to a family BBQ last night, but I didn't have time to get any of the pictures posted. Maybe next weekend?
By the way, if you haven't received a link to our wedding pictures, it is probably because I don't have your email address. If you want to take a look at them online, just shoot one of us an email and we'll get the link to you. They are amazing! I am so happy at how they turned out! Now we just have decide which ones are our favorites. That will take quite some time for sure.
Hope everyone has a great week and had a great weekend. I'm off!
We went to a family BBQ last night, but I didn't have time to get any of the pictures posted. Maybe next weekend?
By the way, if you haven't received a link to our wedding pictures, it is probably because I don't have your email address. If you want to take a look at them online, just shoot one of us an email and we'll get the link to you. They are amazing! I am so happy at how they turned out! Now we just have decide which ones are our favorites. That will take quite some time for sure.
Hope everyone has a great week and had a great weekend. I'm off!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
BRMC + STP = FUN
Last night we went to a great concert! It was really a blast from the past for me because I saw these guys before I could even drive a car. I told Mat I wanted to go dig in the garage for my scrapbook to find out when exactly I went to see STP for the first time.
The opening band was Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and they were okay. Definitely not the best performance I have ever seen. I don't know if anyone else does this, but sometimes I might not really love a band or performer until I hear them live and then I adore them. Well, this was not the case. I didn't really like what I had heard before (Mat has several of their CDs) and they definitely didn't wow me. They were a talented group, just not really my style. Mat enjoyed them, but he agreed that they didn't really put on the best show.
The headliner was Stone Temple Pilots. They put on a great show and surprisingly, I remembered many of their songs from when I was in high school, so that was fun. I wish I could have taken some pictures, but they were pretty strict about the no camera policy. We had great seats and really had fun watching all the people in between the bands. I think we waited for over an hour to see STP and that was pretty annoying. Especially because the sun had gone down and it was kind of cold. Not too bad and I brought my jacket, but it warmed right up when they started playing and everyone filled in every gap.
Mat has now decided that he is going to be Scott Weiland for Halloween. He just has to wear some of my jeans, a button up shirt that he'll wear open with a tie and then just talk nonsense. I'm going to be Carl. A guy at the concert that we named and had a great time watching his antics while he was waiting for STP to come on. Talk about awesome. I think he tried to whistle 14 times by blowing his fingers - you know how people make that loud whistle that way? Well, he tried to do that so many times and then he would look down at his fingers like, I just don't get why this is working. Come on fingers! Work with me here. And then he tried to lead the crowd in chanting STP. Then he got mad and flipped off the empty stage. It was fun. By the way, I'm not really going to be Carl for Halloween. Mostly because the only person who would think it was funny would be Mat.
The opening band was Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and they were okay. Definitely not the best performance I have ever seen. I don't know if anyone else does this, but sometimes I might not really love a band or performer until I hear them live and then I adore them. Well, this was not the case. I didn't really like what I had heard before (Mat has several of their CDs) and they definitely didn't wow me. They were a talented group, just not really my style. Mat enjoyed them, but he agreed that they didn't really put on the best show.
The headliner was Stone Temple Pilots. They put on a great show and surprisingly, I remembered many of their songs from when I was in high school, so that was fun. I wish I could have taken some pictures, but they were pretty strict about the no camera policy. We had great seats and really had fun watching all the people in between the bands. I think we waited for over an hour to see STP and that was pretty annoying. Especially because the sun had gone down and it was kind of cold. Not too bad and I brought my jacket, but it warmed right up when they started playing and everyone filled in every gap.
Mat has now decided that he is going to be Scott Weiland for Halloween. He just has to wear some of my jeans, a button up shirt that he'll wear open with a tie and then just talk nonsense. I'm going to be Carl. A guy at the concert that we named and had a great time watching his antics while he was waiting for STP to come on. Talk about awesome. I think he tried to whistle 14 times by blowing his fingers - you know how people make that loud whistle that way? Well, he tried to do that so many times and then he would look down at his fingers like, I just don't get why this is working. Come on fingers! Work with me here. And then he tried to lead the crowd in chanting STP. Then he got mad and flipped off the empty stage. It was fun. By the way, I'm not really going to be Carl for Halloween. Mostly because the only person who would think it was funny would be Mat.
Look! It's a pumpkin.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I Heart 3 Day Weekends
It was so nice to have a three day weekend! I felt like Mat and I actually had an entire weekend together. Since he works on Saturdays, it seems like we really only get Saturday night and then Sunday together. So it was mucho fun.
We did a lot of work on our future garden. Mostly research work. But we did take some measurements and decide where all of our raised beds are going. Mat also started on our compost bin. We bought the materials for that, but decided to wait until next weekend to buy more supplies. The idea is that we'll build everything now and it won't be so hard financially in the spring to start up the garden. We'll have to buy seeds, plants and soil, but at least we'll have the basic design ready to go.
We haven't actually mapped out what will go in each raised bed yet, but we did list out everything we would like to grow. We'll keep working to find out what can go where and how it will all fit together. I didn't realize how much really goes into this whole gardening thing. Not only do you have to think about what plants work well together, you also have to think about what you can plant with your veggies to keep bad bugs away and good bugs to come in! The nice thing is that we can plan what is going in the ground all winter. We just want to get a jump start on the beds.
We now have two pumpkins! One is teensy tiny and the other is growing at a nice steady pace. I don't know if either of them will be big enough for us to carve, but I can sure hope. We might even get more!
I'll try to take some pictures next weekend as Mat continues his work on the compost bin. He's just my little carpenter!
It's starting to get cooler here and I sure don't like it. I don't really mind fall, but it does mean that winter is on its way and our winters just last forever. The one thing to look forward to is all the new shows coming up! Mat and I looked through my favorite tv website (The Futon Critic)to determine what we'll try out for the fall. I'm sure we'll end up throwing some shows out after we try one or two episodes.
I've got a big conference coming up in less than two weeks. AAH! Is it really that soon? I'll try to get some posts up here, but after staring at a computer for 9+ hours, I usually don't want to come home and get on ours again. I'll do my best though!
We did a lot of work on our future garden. Mostly research work. But we did take some measurements and decide where all of our raised beds are going. Mat also started on our compost bin. We bought the materials for that, but decided to wait until next weekend to buy more supplies. The idea is that we'll build everything now and it won't be so hard financially in the spring to start up the garden. We'll have to buy seeds, plants and soil, but at least we'll have the basic design ready to go.
We haven't actually mapped out what will go in each raised bed yet, but we did list out everything we would like to grow. We'll keep working to find out what can go where and how it will all fit together. I didn't realize how much really goes into this whole gardening thing. Not only do you have to think about what plants work well together, you also have to think about what you can plant with your veggies to keep bad bugs away and good bugs to come in! The nice thing is that we can plan what is going in the ground all winter. We just want to get a jump start on the beds.
We now have two pumpkins! One is teensy tiny and the other is growing at a nice steady pace. I don't know if either of them will be big enough for us to carve, but I can sure hope. We might even get more!
I'll try to take some pictures next weekend as Mat continues his work on the compost bin. He's just my little carpenter!
It's starting to get cooler here and I sure don't like it. I don't really mind fall, but it does mean that winter is on its way and our winters just last forever. The one thing to look forward to is all the new shows coming up! Mat and I looked through my favorite tv website (The Futon Critic)to determine what we'll try out for the fall. I'm sure we'll end up throwing some shows out after we try one or two episodes.
I've got a big conference coming up in less than two weeks. AAH! Is it really that soon? I'll try to get some posts up here, but after staring at a computer for 9+ hours, I usually don't want to come home and get on ours again. I'll do my best though!
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