Weekend Update

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

Friday night Jonathon wanted to go visit his old high school to watch a playoff football game with his friend Kevin. He tried so hard to get me to go, but I really needed to come home and chill out and plus I didn't want to freeze my booty off. I was still trying to thaw out from the state game from last weekend. Unfortunately his high school ended up losing, but I think he enjoyed spending some time with his friend Kevin, who is expecting a new baby any day now!

Saturday, we woke up early to head over to the granite store. Oh boy! It was a lot of fun and it wasn't as difficult as we thought it would be. There was some really pretty pieces of granite, but there were some that were just entirely the wrong color, so it was fairly easy to weed some pieces of granite that wouldn't go with our color scheme.

We walked through the warehouse and picked our granite. We even had to sign a liability waiver!

After we were finished at the granite store we decided to grab lunch and headed over to Clarkston Woodshop, a smokehouse that was voted best pulled-pork in Michigan.We actually tried to go here before one night, but there was a two hour wait. Good thing we decided to go over there for lunch because there was a line to get in before they even opened!

The food was so great it's no wonder people wait it line to get in! Their pulled pork and mac and cheese was astoundingly great and they gave us so much food we ended up eating our leftovers for dinner and was as good reheated as it was when we first ate it. I know will go back there again and I can't wait!

Yesterday we saw Wreck-It Ralph which was a super cute movie! It's all about being yourself and loving yourself for who you are. I think we were the only adults in the theater who didn't have kids! LOL We went to the 1130 am showing and the tickets were only $5 each! Although next time we go we have to sneak in treats because it was $13 and some change for a large pop and popcorn!

All in all we had a pretty good weekend. Next week is going to be a long one. Jonathon is going out of town for business and I will have the place all to myself which could be fun or extremely boring. After this week things should start ease up on Jonathon and he won't have to be gone so much for work. I can't wait plus he's so stressed out. He doesn't complain about it, but it's all over his face! Poor guy!

What did you do this weekend?

TGIF!

Let me start with... thank God it's Friday!

I’m hoping this weekend will be peaceful and relaxing as this has been a really long week for Jonathon and me and next week will be a long one too. The fall is one of Jonathon’s busiest seasons at work. He’s been working 10-12 hour days every week. The past few nights he’s been staying at work until 9 PM. We only live 45 seconds away from his work, so fortunately he doesn’t have a long drive home. After the end of this month things should slow down quite a bit and hopefully we will be able to spend more of our evenings together. J

Last night Jonathon and I met up with Stan from KSI to go over the layout of our new kitchen. It was fun and we are getting more and more excited about our new house! Stan said he will be emailing us a virtual draft sometime next week and I can’t wait to see it! When our house is finished being built I will write a post for each room and share photos. I also plan on sharing photos and details as we furnish each room.

 
Tomorrow we will be looking at granite for our kitchen and bathrooms! Jonathon said he is excited for us to do this together because he enjoyed doing this when he picked out a granite counter for his kitchen in the condo. I promise that I will snap a few photos and share them with you.

 

I also changed my purse out!

 

Vera Bradley- Folkloric

 

This was a sweet randon gift from my hubby. He found a great deal on RueLaLa.com and decided to surprise me. I was so excited when he presented me with a RueLaLa box! He's such a sweetheart!
 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I’ll catch up with you on Monday!

Weekend Update

This was a busy weekend, but a fun one!
 

Friday night, Jonathon and I met up with Dony and Karen at the Moose Preserve. It was a nice time and the food was as delicious this time as it was before. Dony and Karen also recommended some other restaurants that we are both looking forward to trying out very soon. I also feel the need to mention that the next time we see Dony and Karen they will have a little baby in tow! Karen is due at the end of the month and she looks great!
 

Saturday we drove around looking at homes built by our builder to get ideas on brick colors, shingles, siding, etc. for the new house. When we were done with that we drove to East Lansingfor the Michigan Statevs. Nebraskagame. It was so cold outside and the game didn’t start until 330pm, so as the game went on it continued to get more and more cold. My legs, feet, and fingertips were frozen and numb by the end game. Sadly, Michigan Statelost during the last few seconds.
 

After the game, we met up with Nate, a friend of Jonathon’s from college and Nate’s dad for dinner at the Pizza House. The pizza was pretty awesome! It’s a Chicago style pizza which was a fabulous treat after sitting out in the cold for 4 hours! Nate’s dad has to be the sweetest man I have ever met. He’s such a kind-hearted person and is always encouraging. Jonathon hasn’t seen Nate since we got married, so I think he enjoyed being able to catch up with him as well.
 

On Sunday, we had a meeting with Elaine to start selecting things for our new house. It was far less difficult than we had anticipated, but perhaps if we thought it was going to be easy it would have turned out to be harder? Who knows! For weeks we have mulling over what color cabinets to get in the kitchen and we finally figured it out on Sunday. That was a huge relief and we will be meeting with the cabinet guy soon to discuss our layout design and appliances. J Elaine was very helpful despite having a cold. It’s so nice being able to work with someone like her. She is super easy-going, but is also helpful at the right times when we need it.
 

I think I will wait until we’ve definitively made our decisions before I start sharing the things we’ve picked.
 

After our meeting, we decided to drive by our lot and we were so excited to see that they’ve actually broke ground! Yipee! I wish I would have taken a picture! We also saw that a house with the same layout as our as new house was currently being built. Fortunately, we were able to walk through the framed house to see the actual layout of our home since we have never really been able to walk through it. Walking through it made us really excited.

 
 

This is what Jonathon emailed me today:

I think walking through the Cheshire yesterday got me really excited. I'm more excited now than I was before. I think it really hit me just how beautiful the house is going to be and how much space we're really going to have. Our master bedroom and bathroom is going to feel like an award. I feel like all of our stress and hard work are going to have a big payoff.
 

J His email made me smile.
 

What did you do this weekend?