We moved

We finally got our own house after 2 years of renting to scope out the area. I always have a little buyer's remorse when we buy a house. It's not that I don't like the house, but I always second guess myself on any major life decision. It's the pessimist in me. We did double our living space from our rent house so that has been great! I now have a "craft" room where I can spread out and be creative which I have really missed for the last 2 years. My current project is a roman shade for Vander's freshly painted room. I'll try and remember to post a picture when I am done. Considering roman shades are $40 retail I am pretty excited about being able to create my own for under $10 (and actually I had bought all of the stuff to do it a long time ago so current out of pocket is $0--which makes Andy very happy). I have made several vows to myself lately: eat less/no sugar, exercise 5-6 days a week, and update my blog more than once every 3 months. I'm trying harder on all fronts, but I've got a lot of work to do.

My 1st Blog

Even though I have a degree in English, I'm not a big writer. It's a good thing blogs have pictures. Here's our family.

This past weekend, Andy's cousin got married. It was the first time since I have known Andy that all of his Dad's side of the family was going to be together (by the way, that's 11 years). So, I had been told that we were going to take a big family picture. It's funny what becomes important to you when you're a stay-at-home mom. I agonized over these outfits! Then the rain came...It poured at the wedding. Lightning was all around during the vows and the rain started coming down just as they said "I do." So, of course we didn't have a big family picture outside at the beautiful wedding location. We took it instead in front of the side wall of IHOP the next morning--minus the bride and groom! What a bummer! I think I should have learned some lesson about vanity, but I'm not sure it's sunk in yet.