Bird

Its safe to say that I like things with birds on them. But in real life, I hate birds. Gross nasty birds. I have a current obsession with owls, just like the other 89452034956203652 people in the word that like them too. So on this boring monday night here is a  couple funny videos about birds.

That is all.

Boring I know, but that how I roll today lazy and boring. In fact, I was so lazy I cant gaurante that I put a bra on. And I left the house. So put that in your back pocket.

OK, Videos

First

Second


Night!

What a Year!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Have been really bad about blogging.  Not that It really matters to anyone other than me and my Mighty 8.  Mighty 8 is what I just made up  call my 8 followers. They are pretty much made up of friends who blog and know how awesome it feels to see the number of followers go up, and friends who don't want to hear me complain about no one following me.  They'd be like..."What do you mean you don't have followers?" and Id be like, "I don't". Then again they'd be like," but you have me and 7 others, that's totally a big following." Then id feel better and be all, I should quit my job and become a professional blogger. Then they'd be all," umm you only have 8 followers and blog once a month so please dont." I wouldnt become a professional blogger, but I would feel better, and I still wouldn't use proper grammar and punctuation.  Anyway, I guess like all the other bloggers I should recap my year.  This has been a pretty great year, lets start at the beginning.

 In April we moved into our first place together. We love it so much!!! So does Budee, he likes the massive yard and staring out the front window ready to bark at any intruders, or brids, or leaves.  He pretty much just likes barking.

           For the spring we did our usual, we worked and worked.  I continued going to school changing my major and working my butt off.  We took some fun trips to Charles Town to see the Perkins family and to Richmond to see Laurie, Jenny and Kenny. 
           Not much really happened in the spring. We did alot of grilling and then some more grilling. Chad perfected his steak-ing and we had an awesome time having our own place.
           In the summer Alecia came up to visit and we had a 4th of July party. Our first party at the house.  It was really fun and I cant wait till next year!!
           We celebrated Birthdays, new babies and different milestones.  I was working at Waldenbooks in the mall a job that I loved and people I LOVED working with, and then we found out the store was closing :( That made the summer and fall a little stressful and stinky.  I got a new part time job that I enjoy and that works awesome with my school schedule!  Laurie come to visit in August which was BOMB!  We love having people come visit us.
            Next in October we got our new puppy Ellee.  Oh lord.  She is a wild wild woman but shes pretty awesome.  Well shes getting a little awesomish (yeah that's a word so shut it).  When people asked me how I

liked my new puppy, my reaction was that she was a jerk and I didn't care much for her. Its true. I think im the only person in the world who doesn't care for puppies other than playing with them in the pet store.  But I have to admit she is getting better, shes less bitey and a little more snugly. I like the snugs. Im a snug- a- holic. 

To end the awesome year, Chad and I got engaged!!!  He asked me on Christmas Eve, at his sisters in front of everyone. :)  So yay for that. To all my family that is upset that you found out on facebook, I'm so sorry, my phone was dead and I cant use my cell at my house because I don't have service. I also have a house phone with no long distance. So I love you all and im sorry I couldn't call you individually!!!!  SO that's my recap of this awesome year. Next year we have so much to look forward to.  Baby showers, bridal showers, Weddings, new babies, first birthdays, my last year of school more parties and more fun!!  So cheers to an awesome 2011 and an even better 2012!!!

Pinterest Challenge

A week or so ago Sherry at Young House Love and Katie at Bower Power (read both of their blogs, they are AWESOME!!!)  Challenged readers to a Pinterest Challenge.  You had to make something you saw on pinterest and post about it.  Im kinda addicted to Pinterest, a little, ok a ton.  Stop judging. I have mostly made food from here not really crafts yet. But I saw this and thought it would be good. So here is my attempt at the taco ring.  The only thing I wish I had was some lettuce and sour cream. Other than that It tasted good and was really easy to make.

Basically you just take 2 packages of croissant rolls and put them in a circle with the points out like a sun. Make the ground beef with onions and green peppers as you would when you make regular taco meat and mix in the seasoning. Then you spoon the meat mixture on the thick inner part of the circle. I then scooped diced tomatos and cheese on top. You can really add anything you want to it. Then you fold the points down over the meat mixture.

After that just follow the directions on the back of the dough package, and then eat it!!! Its good, really good.

My Awesome Stuff

So today Chad and I decided while we ran errands that we would brave the new T.J.Maxx in town.  Wasn't as bad as I thought I was. While we were walking through I saw this little love.

Here is the website if you want to check it out.  Now I know that I don't have kids or a stroller, but I had seen something similar on pinterest.  BTW if you aren't on pinterest, message me and I will send you an Invite. It is my current obsession.  Anyway I used this today when we were grocery shopping. I used it to hang my purse on the handle of the cart, so I have more room in the cart. My purse is kinda big.  OK like really big. But I also used it to lug in all of my grocery bags at once. It is much less painful to carry all the bags and hold on to this than get your circulation cut up by handles.  All in all I give it a 8. 

Im am TOO!!!!!!!!!!

So my mom always says,"Molly I know you want to be crafty, but we arent the people who make the crafts. We are the people who BUY them." Well this little non crafter is poor right now, so I have to learn to make the crafts or I wont have cute stuff! So now that I have a job that gives me weekends off, Im looking for cute crafting ideas. Like this ....

or perhaps this....

yes I think that this is totally something I can do!!!!!  We will see.  I am excited that this weekend I will make my Maiden Voyage to the Hobby Lobby, my heart is happy!!!!!

Oh hey Fall....

So sometimes I don't post anything in almost a month. Shocker I know. August was a little bit of a whirlwind for me. School started, I lost my job and got a new one. My awesome Waldenbooks store which was owned by Borders closed. Stupid borders. So Now I am working at a new job. So far, so good. I just cant wait to be done with school and finally have a job in my field. Cant wait. So today I started trying to get things ready for fall. Its getting cold. Cold means that we need to start eating soup and clean up the house. A good fall cleaning if you will. SO today I made some crock pot baked Potato soup.

This is something that I found on Pinterest.  The recipe was from here.    So easy to make, the hardest part was opening the cans of chicken broth because I have a crap can opener.   Then I decided that the pantry needed a little organization and sprucing up.  I'm going to need to take inventory of the things I need because when the snow gets here, there's no going back out once I get home.  Its too scary in the country.

See. Pretty and organized. Which I'm very sure will not stay that way for long. Also in preparation of this lovely fall, I have a load of all our fleece blankets in the wash and I am burning my favorite apple crumble candle from Bath and Body. Chad and I are slightly obsessed with this smell. We have candles, wallflowers, burning oil and spray. Yeah...weeeeiiird I know. Stop judging.

So that is all the wonderful and exciting things that are going on in our house today. Yeah I know. You don't need to say it. Too awesome.

Soo Flippin Sweet!!!

So to continue with my amazing 4th of July week, I will now discuss the awesome project that Alecia and I completed!  First I was so very excited when she had suggested that she would pack this awesome record stand that had been in her family in her car, and drive it up with her so we could paint it. I LOVE that idea!!!   So that is what she did!!!  

Oh hey, how you doing awesome stand?  You ready to get the crap painted out of you? Well first we must prime with a stain blocker.

Because the piece was older and dark we primed it twice.  The hardest part was the innards because of the dividers, and the pretty squiggle work on the side. (Thats professional furniture speak, just in case you were wondering!) It was wayyyyy easier to use a little paint brush to get the squigs.

We then took this paint and painted our little hearts out. Well They painted their little hearts out, I was working.

Beautiful!!!!!!
(Since it has taken me about a couple weeks to write this post I have some DIY update.  Alecia has since then taken the stnd home and had a really hard time covering the stain that pops through. She also has added some fantastic little knobs!)