Two Years and Counting

We made it. We have been married two years now, with I hope plenty more to come. This year we decided to take a weekend and go to Orlando and go to Seaworld. We both haven't been there since we were little so it was really fun. We saw all the animals, including of course Shamu. It was so much fun, except for the part where I had to listen to Silas complain about Seaworld's message of we are all one world or something to that affect that he did not agree with, kind of like Disney's just believe and all your dreams will come true...he doesn't like that one either...but he is who he is...and he still had a good time :) We both agreed our favorite things were the shows. The next day we did not have anything planned and spent the day in bed watching movies...that was especially great because if we were at home he would never have been able to lay around and do nothing. There is always a project to be done on our house and he cant just let them sit there. So We laid around and did nothing! We finally got up and went to Ikea just to look around and then to Downtown Disney to eat dinner. We ate at Rain Forest Cafe. So yummy and loud and just a fun place. Now we are back to the routine...working and working on the house, but our next vacation is not far off! Costa Rica here we come!!!

Silas is one the left, he is hard to see be he just looked like he was having so much fun.




And of course Shamu :)

Looking Back

We have now been in our house officially for one year! Its crazy looking at pictures of when we bought it, to what it looks like now. I was thinking to myself...why did I like this place??? I loved it then and I love it even more now and there is still sooo much left we want to do so I'm sure in another year I will look back and be even happier with this place we have made a home... here are a few before and after pictures of the pool and the unpainted/wallpapered walls....



This is what the pool looked like when we bought the house...inviting, huh? We figured it was hopeless and we really did not want to take care of a pool so our plan was to fill it in and add to the already huge backyard. As it turns out, one of our neighbors owns a pool company and offered to help clean it up for us.

He sent 2 guys over. They drained it and acid washed it.



And this is what we have now! We also pulled out the big sawgrass bushes that were planted behind the pool to open up the yard. I have really enjoyed having a pool and am so glad we kept it!

Here is the wallpaper that was in the kitchen. Somehow it incorporates chickens, apples, watermelons, and the pink/blue-gray theme that is throughout the house.

It took 3 nights to peel all that paper off...this really does not make me look forward to doing our bedroom and both baths....

And now we have a bright happy yellow kitchen, which I love...of course we want to totally gut it and remodel but it is last on the list for remodels because it is functional and we have other uglier rooms ahead of it haha...


And a quick update on the shed...its painted and all that's left is to get doors...this is the paint color we are thinking about for the outside of the house...we decided it would be a good idea to paint the shed and see what it looked like first...

I really hope there are more house updates soon...but I am at the mercy of my husbad as to when these projects get started because he is the one who does all the work!!!

My Camera!!!

I found my old camera!! I'm so excited...I decided to organize the bookshelf, which had piles of books just haphazardly stuck on all the shelves and unpack the rest of the books that I hadn't touched since we moved in. When I started moving all the piles of books off the shelf...I found the camera that has all of the pictures of our house before we started painting or doing anything to it!!! I'm so excited and I plan on posting some before and after pictures soon. Flipping back through the pictures I'm not sure why we liked the house when we first bought it ha ha. I love it now...but it was sure UGLY!!

Salad For Dinner

We had this Saturday night and it was enjoyed even by Silas, who may not consider salad a main course for dinner. I got the recipes for the salad and for the bread from The Pioneer Woman. It was very easy and very flavorful and actually made just enough for dinner that night with no leftovers, which I like. I am one of those who does not enjoy my leftovers. The bread is very good and not healthy at all! but I figured if we had salad we could afford the bread :)



(the food looked better in person, and on pioneer womans website!! but i promise it is very tasty :))

He's Just So Cute!!

Here is Gavin, almost nine months old and so cute!! I get to watch him some days while Shama goes to work with Caleb or just needs to get stuff done and I love it!! I love being an aunt and I love this kid!!

murdock update

Apparently we have reached peacock mating season. The peacocks have become increasingly noisy around our house the last week or so and on Saturday morning Silas was up pretty early to try to finish up the shed project. He snapped some pictures while he was out there of the peacocks...apparently the Murdock we have been seeing is actually two birds...here they both are. We were trying to figure out if one was a female and one a male or if they are both males.


So either this guy is in love or he's chasing the smaller one away...

Either way, it was pretty cool to have this in our backyard. He is HUGE...about as big as the saw grass bushes...maybe we will get another chance to see him and take some pictures without the sun behind him.

Wedding Portrait

Way before I was even thinking of getting married I had an idea that has stuck with me about what I wanted to do with a wedding photo of mine. I think I saw it in a magazine and just really like it and kept it in the back of my head. After we were married and I looked through the photographs that our photographer took I fell in love with this one he took of us walking up the boardwalk. I'm not sure why I liked it so much since it didn't have our faces, but it was just a neat picture and it had the back of my dress and my veil in it, not a posed portrait. I decided that this was the picture I wanted to use for my idea. So, for christmas Santa got me a 20x30 print made!! haha...I also kinda thought that it was more artistic and that we would use it for a long time. Then I found a calligrapher who would write the date of our wedding on the mat board (there is no way I would even attempt to do it myself). I found http://http//www.calligraphybycami.com, she was great, if anyone ever needs something done, she also has a lot of cool ideas on her website. And here is the finished product!!

This is going to hang over our bed whenever we remodel our bedroom. It will go great I hope since our colors will be blue and brown, this picture is black and white but is warm tones so the mat board I chose were tan and chocolate brown and a dark brown frame which goes with our bedroom furniture. Sorry the pictures aren't better but I could not get good lighting no matter what I did, maybe I will try again later and post a different picture.