Its March Already?!

Wow its already the middle of March and I feel I haven't blogged in FOREVER! The last couple of weeks have been so LONG but they have gone by so FAST! I am never sure how that works... I mean time is constant... there will always be 60 seconds in a min, 60 min in an hour, and 24 hours in one day....  but it sure seems to have sped up dramatically the last few months! Does anyone else feel that way??

I was attempting to do the February Photo Challenge to take one picture each day.... I WAS Doing so good but then I just didn't do the last 2 days!! WHO DOES THAT?  I am going to blame it on the fact that the picture we were supposed to capture on 28  (money) was the picture I was most excited to take. I had been waiting and looking forward to it ... well the 28th came and I went to go take a picture of all  the foreign currency I had been collecting from my various trips to Brazil and Ethiopia..... AND IT WAS MISSING!!!  AHH i was so upset that I just didn't take the picture at all... thus I didn't complete the challenge.... Now I am pretty sure the money isn't gone... it probably just got moved out of place when we moved upstairs... But here are the 27 pictures I did take :D we will never know what the last 2 would have been.

Since we have moved...

We have painted the kitchen and it looks way better! I chose "sunken pool" for the top half and "seal gray" for the bottom! I love painting and making things look WAY better! I still need to do some touch ups but I haven't had the time or energy to make that happen. I did, however, buy some fabric to  make cute retro kitchen curtains! Now if I only had a place to set up my sewing machine....and then learn how to thread it.  BABY STEPS People!

I have also become semi-obcessed with plants and gardening! I don't know when it happend excatly but I so LOVE watching things grow. I feel like having house plants warms up the home and makes it feel like there is life! So I bought a tropicalish tree at home depot when I was looking at paint a few weeks back! I'm not exactly what type of tree it is because my mom threw her tag away when we were planting her... yeah its a her and WE named her Pippy Long Leaf! hehe... She is super cute and green.... and looks magnificant next to our BIG window and entertainment center!  if you look up at day 25 of february you will see a picture of her.

I have also turned our "dining room" into a gardening room haha.  We don't have a table for our dining room so I put a wire shelf next to the window in there and have started seeds for our vegetable garden...(that is if we can still use the back yard).

~side story: the way the agreement is in the house that we rent is that the bacement apartment has the use of the back yard and the upstairs uses the front... but when we moved upstairs we offered to do all lawn care for less rent and the took it... So I am thinking that since we are the lawn care providers we will be able to still put the garden in the back like we were planning last year.  However we have to ask Doug.. (the new guy downstairs)  if he cares... but I really don't think he will because he works like 10-12 shifts all week!! SO BRING ON SPRING

these are the cucumbers.... arn't they cute :D

I planted 4 different kinds of tomatoes, zucchini, gourds, cucumbers, green beans, broccoli, and herbs.... and it has to be one of my favorite  things to watch them grow!  When the seedlings come up you are supposed to thin them out by pulling out all of the weak plants and allowing only the strong ones to keep growing.... AND this is the hardest thing for me to do! I feel like a murderer... plant killer..plant killer... plant killer!!  And i couldn't go through with it..

 SO I decided I would separate each on and plant them in their own spot and then give them away to my friends who want to try their hand at gardening! One of the Best things I have found on Pinterest is using old news papers to make your own!!! SO AEWSOME... when I was growing up my paretns and I would always start seeds and then when we had to transplant them we would go out and by peat pots.... but that gets expensive so this is like the best idea ever!!!! So my mom and I did that last week and my plants are going to be so happy to be moved into them and have a little more room to stretch their roots!  If you want to check a tutorial on how to make your own go here!  I used a soda can instead of a soup can but it works the same :D... haha then I post  a picture of the ones my mom was doing with a soup can haha !!

 Well I hope that you all are having a wonderful March... and I hope to be posting some more book recomendations soon.  Blessings on your weekend :D

All moved in, Valentines & Book 2/50

Does it feel like February is just zooming by??  Well it does for me.... As this past Sunday we are officially moved upstairs,  and I am all sorts of happy! I can't believe how much space we have! But I am completely and totally warn out from moving. Who would have thought just moving upstairs would be that tough... and who knew that you can accumulate so much junk in only 8 months of marriage!!! I have mainly spent this whole week going through everything and organizing and throwing away STUFF!! I am so thankful for my parents who came over every night last week to help us... We are very blessed to have such a wonderful family. If they hadn't come in and helped I think I would be a in a pile on the floor having a panic attack...maybe even a Kristen Bell sized meltdown! (thanks Larissa for sharing this to me).  BUT they did come and now our house is looking pretty and organized!

Valentines day was so great this year. It was the first one that David and I have celebrated as a hitched couple and it couldn't have been any better. We both worked until about 4 but planned to meet up at a local coffee house to drop off my car... then we headed down town to YESTERYEAR'S.... it is a brilliant antique store! My gift from Dave was to go shopping there and pick something out!..... He knows me SO WELL! and I will keep him forever! The store is HUGE and it closes at 5:30 so we didn't have much time... but I found a gem! Its and old wooden chair back that is missing the seat and they had added in old hooks to the base of it.... and its RED! And now is the newest addition to our bathroom!  The rest of our evening consisted of making dinner together and then we had "planned" to watch a movie but my husband being the BEST BEST BEST husband ever.... he started hooking up our washer and dryer and situation our new laundry room so it was functional!! it was the sweetest thing he could have ever done!... the only thing about the move that I didn't like Hated... YES HATED was the way the laundry room was/is set up. The washer and dryer have to be like a mile apart and there was nowhere to hang up clothes to dry.... Well David fixed that... and I Love him to death for it! It sounds like an uneventful evening but it meant the world to me that he cared enough to improve our laundry room!!!

Yesterday my parents came over again.... mainly because David is off with our churches high school youth group on a Ski Retreat.... and I hate being alone! I am currently at City Brew writing so I am not home alone.... but back to yesterday, my parents came over and helped me hang up curtains and organize our closets! LOVE them....

I am hoping that tomorrow comes fast and David gets home safe and sound.. because I miss him so much!....

Book 2/50:

So I am not sure I will make it to 50 in the year 2012 but I will keep reading and see where I am at then.... Today I read  "THE VOW" by Kim & Krickitt Carpenter. It has recently been made into a movie (based on the true events of the book). This is a beautiful story of what "for better & for worse" means when you make that vow on your wedding day... and its a TURE Story.. I am always a sucker for those. Anyway, it was a fast read and it was a good way to spend my day. I was encouraged by their story and all they went through! So I would say Read it!

OK i am going to go to bed :D have a great week friends