Bedtime!

So I am getting ready for bed and thought I should update my blog. That is my New Year's Resolution...

I don't know if everyone else feels this way, but I go through stages where I feel like there is so much I want to do and not enough hours in the day! I have five magazines I want to look through, I'm in the middle of reading a book (and have several waiting for me), I want to do more wedding planning, I want to write emails to everyone and say hello...the list goes on and on! If only I didn't have a pesky job....

We are really doing so great on wedding plans. I am hoping to get really organized this weekend and get our to do list updated. One thing we need to work on is our invitations. I think that is one of the more immediate tasks that need to be completed. But I feel good about how far we are right now!



We have been playing this fun video game the last few nights. I think I talked about it in an earlier post. But it is fun and I have really been enjoying playing video games with Mat.



We have also been doing great on our workouts. Tomorrow we are going to our first yoga class after work. I am really looking forward to it. It is a beginner class, so at least we won't feel out of place there! I really want to get into doing more yoga. So hopefully we can get into going to a class every week. Mat and I have talked about going to several of the classes the Y offers. I want to try kickboxing and there is another one called Body Pump where it combines weights with aerobics that I think would be fun.



Well, I think it is time for me to say goodnight!

Big Kitties Like Snow

Snow!

I woke up this morning to beautiful snow! We've had a few different snows already this season, but this was more of a surprise to me so it was a lot more fun!

I've been promising pictures of our littlest niece. So here is Violet on Christmas:

She didn't care much what was IN the packages, but she really liked opening them. The paper sounds were very fun!

So the great story of 2007...I like to call it the "Joy of Home Ownership." Our tub drain was starting to drain slower and slower, so Mat pulled off the drain to pull out the hair. There wasn't any hair in there, so I suggested that he plunge the drain. So he plunged it and all of a sudden it was completely stopped up. Argh! So we bought some drano type stuff (and then later I read how horrible that stuff is) and that didn't do a thing.

So we head to Home Depot, armed with our gift card from Mat's Grandma and buy ourselves a snake. We come home and Mat works for about an hour on the drain with the snake. Finally, he calls me in the bathroom and this is what I see when I come in:

EWWW!!! This is not our hair, by the way! So I just had to take a picture and include it for all to see. Even with this little incident we just love our house so much. We are so thankful every day that we can afford it and it is totally ours. I hope we can do some home improvement projects soon, but for now it is just wonderful.

In wedding news, I finally have my half of the bridal party set! My sister is going to be the Maid of Honor and Joy is going to be my Bridesmaid. I am so excited and can't wait to start looking at dresses. I promised they wouldn't be too horrible.

Mat and I are off to the gym and then to the grocery store this afternoon. Then we are free to do whatever we want! I think we might watch a movie and play a video game. We have been playing this fun game called Ratchet and Clank, Up Your Arsenal. I forget how much I love playing video games until I start playing them again.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

TGIF

I do love my weekends! Mine can officially start now that I'm home from the gym and had dinner. Now we can watch a movie or something fun like that. I think I need to go into work tomorrow for a little bit, but hopefully it won't be too long.

We watched Mr. Brooks last night. This was kind of strange, but not too bad. I did a little knitting on my latest project, but sometimes my hands get so cold when I knit. The weather has been strange here and not too cold. But I think that is supposed to change this weekend. We still had snow from last week, but it is gone now after today.

I don't know what Mat and I are up to this weekend. There is a wedding show this weekend and next, but we don't really feel like we need to go to the wedding shows. So much has already been done, I don't know what we would look for there. It might be kind of fun just to walk around. Who knows? My sister and I might be hanging out tomorrow night, but that is still up in the air right now. I'm keeping my fingers crossed though!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Day two of working out! I'm already feeling sore from tonight's workout. I didn't feel too sore from yesterday, but I think it is going to really catch up with me tomorrow morning!

We did sit down and watch a movie tonight: Captivity. It wasn't totally horrible, but definitely not the best movie we've ever seen. I think Mat might have hated it a little. But I always like those really bad horror movies.

This week is a strange one since I had a day off in the middle of the week. But it is nice to feel like I am so close to the weekend!

We did find out today that Mat will have almost two weeks for us to take our honeymoon! Now we just need to decide where we are going. We actually decided and then when I looked up the cruise we wanted to go on today it was totally sold out. Dang. So now we are back to the beginning. Maybe not the total beginning, but we still haven't decided.

I think it is time for me to turn in. More tomorrow!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fabulous New Year and Christmas! Mat and I had a great holiday season. We got to spend it with both our families, which was so fun that my parents were here! My aunt and uncle even came in for New Year's on their annual trip to McCall, so we got to see them on their way there and their way back.

We have some fun pictures of our youngest niece Violet on her first Christmas that I will post soon. She loved unwrapping the presents! They could have been empty for all she cared, she just liked tearing off the paper.

We also had our first houseguest this past weekend! Our niece Justis came to stay with us on Saturday night. We had lots of fun playing Disney Scene It, Clue and watching Monsters Inc. We hope she can come back soon!

As far as our New Year's resolutions go...

We are getting in shape for the wedding and honeymoon. We finally feel like we have enough to join the YMCA, so we started today. It was actually pretty fun to go with Mat and get to work out together. So we're going to be totally hot soon. :)

I am planning to do more yoga! It really helps to relax me and that is great for times when my job gets pretty stressful. I am also hoping the working out will help with that!

My other resolution is to blog more. I really enjoy it and I just don't feel like I set the time aside to do it. So here's hoping that I can find the time!

Mat plans to cut down on his candy intake. He loves candy, so this might be a hard one for him, but I know he can do it. And he doesn't plan to eliminate it completely.

So wish us luck! And I wish you all luck on your resolutions. Hugs and Kisses!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all have great holidays with your family and friends. Mat and I have a packed schedule for the next couple days. We are both working this morning and then we'll head to my parents house for an afternoon and evening of fun with them and my sister, Eric and Violet.

Tomorrow Mat and I will do our gift exchange in the morning and then head to his mom's for our gift exchange with them. Then we'll go to Mat's Grandma's house for lunch with his entire family. That evening we are going to see I am Legend with my parents. I am so excited for everything and know it will be over before we know it. I am just trying to enjoy every part of it.

Cheers!

Bad Blogger!

It has been way too long since my last post. I keep putting off posting so I can update on everything Mat and I have been working on. Then I think about how long it would take to write that and I just work on another project! So I am going to keep this short and sweet. We had a great Thanksgiving and got to spend time with Mat's family, my family and my brother-in-law's family also. We also celebrated my dad's birthday and that was so fun to celebrate with him now that they live here. I can't believe it has been almost a year they have lived here!

Mat and I made some delicious Molasses cookies that people were dying to get the recipe for. I found it on the Cooking Light Web site: Molasses Cookies. I could eat a million of them they were that good. Now we need to decide what we'll be making for Christmas!

We are getting all our Christmas gifts together for our families and have been trying to get to different work parties. I think it is just one of those hectic times of the year! I keep telling myself that my New Year's Resolution is going to be updating my blog at least every other day. SO I hope I can stick to that. But for now, I will leave you with a Happy Holidays! Hope everyone is enjoying their December so far!