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I hope everyone is having a spooktacular Halloween!

I've been on a bit of a blog hiatus, so I thought I would share some of my recent photos from Instagram. Enjoy!


P.S. I will be back to blogging regularly very soon!

Weekend Update (late again)

Ugh… pretty much sums up this weekend!

Saturday we drove to East Lansing for the State game and no sooner than we left drive way it began to rain and it wouldn’t let up. There was no way I was going to sit in the cold and rainy weather to watch the football game. Fortunately, I was able to catch a ride home with our friends Kevin and Stephanie, Kevin’s Aunt Red, and Stephanie’s dad Steve who also did not want to sit in the cold and the rain. It was a nice ride home though! We were all chatting during the entire ride. We talked about Real Housewives, Honey Boo Boo, Long Island Medium, and so much more! I also enjoyed being able to hang out with Stephanie and talk about the baby! Only four more weeks until he/she is here!

Jonathon came home a few hours later in a terrible mood (Aunt Red predicted this to happen) because the Spartans lost the game. We made our run to the rental house to drop some things off that we didn’t want the movers to move. Jonathon was moody for most of the night until the Tigers beat the Yankees! He finally started to perk up and was acting like his usual cute and nice self again. This made me very happy!

Sunday we spent the whole day finishing packing and made a few runs to the rental to drop more things off.

Monday morning we woke up very early and organized the big stuff for the movers to move. The movers arrived at 9 am and six hour later they finally had everything moved into the rental. We spent the rest of the day/evening cleaning, getting the cable and internet hooked up, tying up loose ends, and getting things organized. Finally, at 9pm we were able to eat!

I can’t believe we’re going to move again in 7 months!

Window Shopping

When I was younger, I could shop for hours and hours on end. In fact, I would usually make a day out of it and shop for 5-7 hours at a time. Now days, my schedule would never allow me to do that. Not to mention, I have more bills and more responsibilities’ then I ever did during my marathon shopping days.

During those long shopping trips, I spent a fair amount of time window shopping. I have always had a love affair with things. I love things! Well, now that it's not longer possible to have marathon shopping sprees I fulfill my need to look at pretty things by online window shopping.

Some of my favorites places to shop and window shop online are:

1. 6pm.com- this is the perfect place to find quality shoes, jackets, dresses, and much more at bargain prices. This is the website I purchase from the most. Plus, they have free shipping!
2. Gilt.com- I have yet to purchase anything from this site yet, but as soon as we move into the new house I plan on making many purchases. They are an outlet website that sales high-end merchandise for men, women, and children; home decor and furniture, as well as, vacations. Most of the time, I look at their home decor items and kitchen gadgets.
3. RueLaLa.com- this site is a lot like Gilt except their items are usually more affordable. We bought our Waterford champagne flutes and cake cutting set on this site at a really great price.
4. JossandMain.com- this is a new site that I found randomly and I fell in love with it right away. They sale lots and lots of home decor, furniture, and kitchen gadgets at great prices. I can't wait to shop on this site when we move into the new house!
5. Pinterest.com- if you are a woman and you haven't explore this site yet, all I can say is... ENTER WITH CAUTION! This website is highly addictive! This isn't really a website store, it's a virtual pinboard, but I had to add it because I've wasted countless hours pinning pretty things, recipes, interior design ideas, and so much more.
6. Etsy.com- I love this site! This site is an online marketplace where you can purchase items that are usually crafted and made by the owner of the market. I purchased many items from this site for my wedding.

Where do you like to window shop online?

Moving- the trasitional period

 

While I love that we will be moving into our new home (in about 7 months); I definitely do not love the moving! Unfortunately for us, we will have to move twice because we sold our condo very quickly and have to move out before the new house is built. So, for the next 6 or 7 months we will be renting a house. I’m not looking forward to this transitional period at all.
 

After the wedding was over, I was looking forward to cooking and decorating, but since we will only be living in the rental for a relatively short period of time it would such a waste of time to unpack and then turnaround and repack everything in 7 months. This means no decorating or major shopping! We also decided not to unpack any kitchen supplies except for silverware and dishes. Which means very little cooking!
 

On the upside, Jonathon and I will be making some very fun and big decisions for our new house! Since we will be building a new house, we get to choose the kitchen cupboards, lighting, carpet, hardwood floors, tile, sinks, brick colors, and many, many more things! This excites us and so far we’ve being agreeing on just about everything. We’ll see how things go when it’s time to make the final decisions though!
 

Here are a few things that I would love to see or have in our new home.

Beautiful Patterned Rugs

 

 

Beautiful Staircase


 

Dark Wood Wide Plank Floors

 

 

 

Awesome Patio


 

Vintage Chic Bedroom


 

Pottery Barn Styled Home Decor

Weekend Update

Weekend Update

After work on Friday, I met Jonathon, so we could sign the lease on the rental we will be living in while our new house is being built. It was actually the first time I saw it and I was pleasantly surprised, it’s close to the expressway and right around the block from Jonathon’s work. The basement is big enough to store all of our things, so we won’t have to pay for storage. When we were finished signing our lease, we went to The Moose Preserve to celebrate and also because Jonathon’s boss offered to pay. J Jonathon has been getting lots of praise from his clients and so, as reward his boss offered to buy us dinner. We were very appreciative and dinner was very tasty.

Saturday, I went to Karen’s baby shower. It was really nice to hang out with everyone again (for the second week in a row). This time I had a front row seat and was able to see Dony and Karen’s reactions as they opened their gifts. I think everyone started to tear up when we saw how emotional Dony and Karen got while they were opening up gifts. They’re such a great couple and we are so excited to meet their little one.

We spent the rest of the weekend packing and moving things to the rental. Sorry for such a boring post!

Birthday Celebration

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for awhile and haven’t gotten around to it.

My husband’s birthday was one month after our wedding and I knew I wanted to do something special for him because this would be his first birthday as a married man. I know it sounds a little corny, but it’s the little things in life that make us happy!

I also knew I wanted to bake him a cake and when I found this recipe for Summer Strawberry Coconut Cake on the Carolina Charm blog.

This was my first attempt at baking a cake from scratch and I think it turned out fairly well despite a little issue with the frosting. :)  

Click here for the recipe

I think next time; I will use half of the recipe to make cupcakes. This cake was too big for just the two of us and there was way too much leftover icing.



 

 

Isn't this banner too cute?! (sorry for the bad lighting)

Sad to be 33!

 

Weekend Update ( a little late in the week)

On Saturday before we headed to the MSU football game in East Lansing, Jonathon and I decided to put up our “sold” sign on our new property where our house is going to be built.

 

After putting our “sold” sign up we couldn’t stop smiling.

We are really excited about our new house! It’s a constant subject between the two of us and luckily it seems to make us both happy. I think we’re really excited about building “our” own home and forging “our” own family and lives together.

After that, we headed to the football game where Michigan State lost to Ohio State by one little, but very important point. We were pretty bummed out, but I did feel encouraged by the fact that the Spartans showed some improvement from previous weeks. The guys were actually catching the football this weekend!  Since our day started out on such a good note and then turned not so good after the Spartan loss, we decided to stop at Dairy Queen to end our day on a sweet note. We were also pleasantly surprised to see that DQ is still offering buy one Blizzard and get the second one for only 99 cents! Score!

Sunday, I attended our good friend Stephanie’s baby shower. Stephanie and her husband are also our MSU buddies and are also season ticketholders too! They attend the games with us and sit our section! Jonathon was also Kevin’s best man and Kevin was a groomsman in our wedding. Kevin and Stephanie are a really fun couple and they’re expecting their new baby to be here sometime around November 11^th. This is also Kevin’s birthday! Jonathon and I are so excited for them and we can’t wait to meet him or her!

 

Her shower was beautiful! Kevin’s mom and aunt made all of the centerpieces. They also had sugar cookies that matched her cake and the food was absolutely delish! It was really nice. I wish I would have taken pictures to share!

I also have 2 more baby showers over the next two weekends! That makes 3 showers for three consecutive weekends! I don’t know who put me on the baby shower circuit, but I’m enjoying it thus far!