Getting to work in OUR home

For anyone who knows me, I have a limit of time that I can handle clutter, a dirty room, or just boxes everywhere before I can't deal with it anymore and I act like a crazy women trying to get it cleaned up. Poor Joseph is just now really experiencing this about me. I have already informed him that our Saturday will be devoted to getting our guest room/office cleaned out and set up. This I'm sure will be an all day, maybe all weekend, project. Also on Saturday, I hope to get my dining room chairs...I am tired of looking at folding chairs.

Once that project is done, I next want to tackle the upstairs storage closet and get it completely organized, because right now it is not. After that, I will start my painting project...which will be to paint the chair rail wall in the dining room red and to change the lime green bath room into a beautiful peanut butter color.

Once all that is done, then I can concentrate on decorating my walls and so forth. I saw online the coolest thing to do with picture frames...it's a picture of a giraffe that is cut up and individually framed and put on the wall in a puzzle like manner. It really is one of the coolest things I have seen for decorating with picture frames. I think I want to do this, I just have to find a picture that will be easy to use and figure out where I want to put it. Maybe in the hallway/staircase.

Of course, all of these ideas won't happen this weekend. They are just things that are on my list to do whenever I can.

Wish me and Joseph luck this weekend as we attempt to clean and organize!

Pictures

I'm sorry to say that I'm not going to put any pictures on blogger of our wedding other than what has already been posted. If you are my friend on facebook you can view the pictures there.

Sorry :(

Wedding Pictures

Well...turns out my photographer won't be posting the wedding pictures on her website...however, she did give me CD's of all the pictures. So I'll try to get some posted on here in the next couple of days.

Adjusting to Marriage

I know we've only been married 2 weeks, and a great 2 weeks it has been, but I think we are adjusting quite nicely. I am almost done getting my named changed over which has been a fun and exhausting challenge. People in the government are not easy to work with. We made our first trip to Wal-Mart as a married couple to buy groceries. And all I can say is thank goodness we had gift cards! I think we have enough food to feed an army. I now get to learn how to be an excellent cook for my husband. It's one of the things that makes him really happy. The other night, I made chicken fried steak, mash taters and green beans and he sat in the dining room and watched me the whole time. He was just so happy I was making his favorite meal. And it makes me happy to make him happy, so I want to learn to become a better cook, like the women in my family and his mom. Tonight, however, I'm taking a night off from cooking and we are going to enjoy a wonderful meal at his mom's house and catch up on their Hawaii trip. Tomorrow, I think I will make smothered pork chops...my grandmother's recipe.

When our house get's to looking better...I'll post some pictures on here.

Well, that's about it for now. That's all I can think of at this moment.

Marriage is great! I would recommend it to anyone!

Wedding and honeymoon Update

To update you on the slideshow -- it turned out great...after they got the sound to work! - if it's not one thing it's another.

The wedding was absolutely wonderful! I am so glad that my family was there to celebrate with me and Joseph. I have a few pictures posted here that my friends took. When the photographer posts them on her website - I will put the link here so you can view them.

Kauai'i, Hawaii -

Kauai'i was amazing. The scenery was absolutley without a doubt the most goregous land I have ever seen. The water was so blue and the mountains were so lush and green.

Joseph and I did get sick while we were there, but we didn't have to cancel things that we had already paid for, so that was good. The snorkel tour really didn't have much snorkeling. The little we did was ok. The best part of that tour was the cliffs and mountain sides and ocean and dolphins. Oh, it was breath taking! The horseback riding was very fun! It was the most fun we had all week. We rode horses across 2,500 acres and parked them outside of the rainforest. Then we hiked down to a waterfall where we swam and ate lunch. After that we hiked back up to the horses and rode back to our starting place. We got to ride back through a field of cattle which was amazing! They were so close to us. And they were all beautiful, black and shiny. On Thursday we went to a Luau at the Grand Hyatt. That hotel was definatley GRAND! The food was amazing, the pig was great and the entertainment was fun! That's all of the major stuff that we did. Mostly we just hung out and laid at the pool or the beach.

Here are some pictures - they aren't great, because we didn't have a digital camera that worked, so we had to buy disposables - ah well.

Slide Show H-E-Double Hockey Sticks

That's where I feel I am at right now. I originally did our slide show for the Rehearsal Dinner in movie maker on my computer. It looked ok....it definitely flowed ok, but the pictures were fussy when blown up. AHHAHAHAHAH. I just wanted to scream! I probably did a few times...not quite sure.

So I come home yesterday to find mom working on the computer. She said I think I figured out how to get the music on Power Point - oh bless you! The pictures won't be blurry -- oh but wait, can I cut the one song down as much as I need it. She said she thought I could....yeah.

Oh, but don't get too excited first I had to get the music on the software to cut it down....not an easy task as it would not read my song as an mp3 file - too much trouble I wash my hands of the whole thing....oh, but wait, I found another version! Yay....not so yay....it doesn't sound good at all!

But by an act of GOD the correct good mp3 version was in my limewire library...now we are getting somewhere! I cut the song down and put it in the slide show....now we are cooking!

With 238 pictures to weed through and put in order...my little laptop was having problems staying up to speed. Every time we would try to watch the slide show...it would freeze and we would have to re-boot......why me......

Finally, we got it to work and we got through 3 out of the 5 songs. Hopefully tonight will be better. We are pretty much done with everything except for this and it is stressing me out.

Here's a little preview of some of the pictures that will be in the slide show.

This past weekend

On Saturday, our friends, Kim, Archilene and Natalie came over to the house and we worked on wedding projects until we were blue in the face. We got a lot done! I feel like a load has been lifted. We had such good times and laughter. It makes working on those projects more bearable when you have such good friends to help you.

A week or so ago, Joseph said that he wanted to take me some where special on Saturday night and that it was a surprise. This past Friday I asked him what I should wear...showed him a couple of things and picked out a red, black and white polka dot dress. So Saturday night at 6:30 he picked me up and when we got in the car he put a blind fold on me. He had never done that before, but he's always trying different things to surprise me, so I didn't think it too out of the ordinary. So as we start driving, I said, maybe I can keep up with him by the turns. Well by the 6th or 7th turn I was lost and so I gave up. By the time we got to our destination, I thought we were in Dallas...we had driven so long. He told me I couldn't take the blind fold off yet and he came around to my door and helped me get out of the car and then walked me to the door. I remember thinking it is so quiet out here, where could we be in Dallas that is so quiet. So we get in the door and he takes the blind fold off and all of my good friends are there and they scream SURPRISE! I was thinking to myself...it's not my birthday...why are they throwing me a surprise party. Then someone said it's my lingerie shower....oh, now it makes sense.

We had chicken Alfredo for dinner (my fav)! Mrs. Beard made a cake with a bra and panties on it and she used snow balls as the boobs (very cute)! Everything was decorated in red, black and white - so my dress matched perfectly. Plus, the dress I wore I had bought to wear at the Bridal Luncheon, but I found another dress for that...so this one I hadn't planned on wearing to any shower - so I wasn't repeating an outfit...which I was very pleased about!

Joseph stayed for dinner and then after that he left. We played the game where you have to dress someone up in toilet paper so we did that and 4 of us were judged on the job done and our runway walk. My mom, Archilene and Kim won. It was great fun. After that I had to open certain presents as a poem was being read and the poem told me which present to open. Then we had a belly dancer performed which was quite interesting and then she taught us some belly dancing moves -- so much laughing! After that we had cake and raspberry sherbet punch! --- mmmm also my fav! Then I opened more presents. I got so much...I don't think I'm going to have enough days in HI to wear them all! Some were very sexy and some were very comfy! That was about it. We had a very good time! We laughed A LOT and just had good womanly fellowship!

Sunday was a lazy day. Mom and I went to a meeting for Daniel's camp and then to Wal-Mart to scan in some pictures onto a CD for the slide show. Then to home where we watched the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice which is very long and took most of the day to watch. We worked on some laundry and then when Daniel got home from work we went and bought dad an edger for Father's day. I'm sure he will be over joyed.

Not much else to report! I had a really good weekend! It is now 2 weeks until wedding week!