Thanksgiving is quickly approaching....and I'm excited for it! Are ya with me??
This year, we will be traveling to Shawneetown, Illinois to eat turkey with my Mom's side of the family. Very excited to see all of them because I haven't seen some of them since our wedding in June 2009. Nanny pretty much thinks I have forgotten her so I am happy that we will get to spend time there for Thanksgiving and New Years.
Food I am looking forward to: Nanny's chicken n dumplins, Mom's homemade rolls, turkey, mashed taters, sweet potato with marshmallows, stuffing, and lots of pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and cherry cheese pie by my wonderful Aunt Judy.
No wonder everyone gains weight around this time of year. Who can resist 2 to 3 plates of delicious Thanksgiving dinners?! Yum Yum! What will you be having for Thanksgiving dinner?
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Happy Birthday, Dad!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!
My Dad's Birthday was November 10th so I just thought I'd send a little shout out to him as he is now a young 54 years old. I love my Dad so much. He has always been there for me and is always such an encouragement. He knows how to make you laugh and is constantly being a goof ball. We only found it
fitting to throw in a little surprise dance at my wedding last summer. Check out the video!
LOVE YOU DADDY-O!!! So glad to have you in my life.
My Dad's Birthday was November 10th so I just thought I'd send a little shout out to him as he is now a young 54 years old. I love my Dad so much. He has always been there for me and is always such an encouragement. He knows how to make you laugh and is constantly being a goof ball. We only found it
fitting to throw in a little surprise dance at my wedding last summer. Check out the video!
LOVE YOU DADDY-O!!! So glad to have you in my life.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Veterans and ABC Dental
Happy Veterans Day! Yesterday, ABC Dental hosted a day of free dentistry to over 140 veterans in the Dayton area. We saw 14 patients per hour from 8:00 to 5:00. Did we run on schedule? No, but what we DID do was complete an exam, xrays, and as much dental work as possible in one appointment for every single veteran we saw. It was such an awesome day.
It was so rewarding because a lot of Veterans are under-insured or have very high co-pays so to be able to get their teeth fixed for FREE was a huge blessing for a lot of these people. Yes, there was the occasional rude patient who got tired of waiting for their turn, but all the appreciative ones made up for it. The last patient did not check out til 10:30 last night. It was a long day for most, but very rewarding.
I love working for a boss who is willing to work with people who don't have insurance or who just don't have much income to get their work done. He and the other doctors really try to accommodate (sometimes too much, we still have to pay the bills) but it's nice to help people out. It's easy to get hard-hearted sometimes when I work so hard at my job and see other people mooching off the government for their Medicaid, but sometimes people really do need help. And after a day like yesterday, I am very reminded of that.
Thank you to all the veterans and those currently serving. We appreciate everything you have done to help us keep the freedom we have.
Here is a picture of ABC Dental's 2nd year birthday cake. Isn't it cute??
It was so rewarding because a lot of Veterans are under-insured or have very high co-pays so to be able to get their teeth fixed for FREE was a huge blessing for a lot of these people. Yes, there was the occasional rude patient who got tired of waiting for their turn, but all the appreciative ones made up for it. The last patient did not check out til 10:30 last night. It was a long day for most, but very rewarding.
I love working for a boss who is willing to work with people who don't have insurance or who just don't have much income to get their work done. He and the other doctors really try to accommodate (sometimes too much, we still have to pay the bills) but it's nice to help people out. It's easy to get hard-hearted sometimes when I work so hard at my job and see other people mooching off the government for their Medicaid, but sometimes people really do need help. And after a day like yesterday, I am very reminded of that.
Thank you to all the veterans and those currently serving. We appreciate everything you have done to help us keep the freedom we have.
Here is a picture of ABC Dental's 2nd year birthday cake. Isn't it cute??
Monday, November 8, 2010
Parental Visit
Ever since we got into our new house, I haven't been very bloggy. I apologize!
My Mom and Dad came over to visit for the weekend. It was the first time they had seen our house since going to an open house back in July. They loved everything and my Mom kept taking pictures (especially of the backyard where she plans on landscaping it in her own personal style!) We had a good time together, mostly just eating out and shopping. Krista came over Friday night and we watched the newer version of Karate Kid. Saturday she met us at the Fairfield Commons Mall and we searched high and low for her new winter coat. By the way, have you noticed that the Christmas decorations are out already?! Christmas Countdown: 46 days.
We had some good food over the weekend too. Including Cici's, food court (Chick-fil-a, Subway, and Japanese) Matt's homemade lasagna, and Chipotle on Sunday. I weigh a bit more today than I did before the weekend, I'm pretty sure about that.
Here's our fall family foto. Enjoy!
My Mom and Dad came over to visit for the weekend. It was the first time they had seen our house since going to an open house back in July. They loved everything and my Mom kept taking pictures (especially of the backyard where she plans on landscaping it in her own personal style!) We had a good time together, mostly just eating out and shopping. Krista came over Friday night and we watched the newer version of Karate Kid. Saturday she met us at the Fairfield Commons Mall and we searched high and low for her new winter coat. By the way, have you noticed that the Christmas decorations are out already?! Christmas Countdown: 46 days.
We had some good food over the weekend too. Including Cici's, food court (Chick-fil-a, Subway, and Japanese) Matt's homemade lasagna, and Chipotle on Sunday. I weigh a bit more today than I did before the weekend, I'm pretty sure about that.
Here's our fall family foto. Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
All Moved In!
We are all moved into our new house! It is beautiful and we absolutely love it. We got the keys on Sunday afternoon around 1:00 and immediately started loading up the two pick up trucks with all our junk. It went pretty quick as we had a couple guys help us out. (Thanks Jon and Thad!) After we got all the big stuff over, Matt and Jon went to Lowe's to get all the panels and chain link fences to finish off our back yard for Cookie. They worked on that til it got dark and I worked inside, unpacking boxes. We were pooped by the end of the night and very sore the next day. But it was so worth it!
The to-do list is getting smaller, but we still have a few things to do including putting together our new dresser for the master bedroom, putting up decorations, exchanging a bar stool, unpacking the remaining boxes in the garage and office, and lastly, cleaning the rest of the old apartment for our inspection on Friday. Not much left to do until we're "done" with the move. I love having a house so far! It's such a feeling of freedom that we can repaint or put in something new if we want. We are just so lucky that there is almost nothing to remodel because the previous owners really kept up with remodeling in the 7 years they lived here. The only "big" project we have ahead of us (and definitely not right away) is the mater bathroom. It is just a bit outdated with linoleum flooring and a bronze-colored shower door.
Here are a few pictures for your viewing pleasure. I cannot show you the living room and our bedroom yet because my mom hasn't seen our new furniture yet and it's a surprise.
I love the tree in our front yard right now.
One major factor in buying this house: the SUN ROOM!
Guest bathroom, recently remodeled
Guest bedroom (no bed yet, but feel free to use the air mattress!)
Aaaand...my AMAZING kitchen! It's like I designed it myself. I love the color and the counters.
More pictures to come :-)
The to-do list is getting smaller, but we still have a few things to do including putting together our new dresser for the master bedroom, putting up decorations, exchanging a bar stool, unpacking the remaining boxes in the garage and office, and lastly, cleaning the rest of the old apartment for our inspection on Friday. Not much left to do until we're "done" with the move. I love having a house so far! It's such a feeling of freedom that we can repaint or put in something new if we want. We are just so lucky that there is almost nothing to remodel because the previous owners really kept up with remodeling in the 7 years they lived here. The only "big" project we have ahead of us (and definitely not right away) is the mater bathroom. It is just a bit outdated with linoleum flooring and a bronze-colored shower door.
Here are a few pictures for your viewing pleasure. I cannot show you the living room and our bedroom yet because my mom hasn't seen our new furniture yet and it's a surprise.
I love the tree in our front yard right now.
One major factor in buying this house: the SUN ROOM!
Guest bathroom, recently remodeled
Guest bedroom (no bed yet, but feel free to use the air mattress!)
Aaaand...my AMAZING kitchen! It's like I designed it myself. I love the color and the counters.
More pictures to come :-)
Saturday, October 16, 2010
How's it going?
Has it really been two weeks since my last post? Are you even still reading this blog?? What a slacker I've been. I guess it's just because there hasn't been a lot going on nor have I been inspired to write about anything special.
We got a lot of packing done today. I still have the whole kitchen to take care of though, which I'm kind of avoiding. I don't know how we accumulated so much stuff in just a year of being in this house.
The good news is....we get to move in a week early. We will get our keys a week from tomorrow. Seems like forever ago when we first saw our new house and now, we're about ready to move into it. We have quite a list of things to do the next two weeks before our rent is up. We have to schedule an inspection for our rental townhouse when it's completely empty. We also have to rent a carpet shampooer and do the floors. So in a span of only 24 hours, we will probably be cleaning the floors in both houses.
Today we went on a trip to Lowe's to look at washers, dryers, mirrors, paint, spackle, and storage bins. I want a smokey purple master bedroom but Matt thinks the hue I like looks like make-up. Not sure why, but ok. Might have to go with a nice blue-ish/green. The only other part of the house I want to repaint for sure is the entryway. Other than that, all the other rooms are colors we like.
So tomorrow, I'm sure we will be packing up more boxes, going through all the piles of junk to either donate or sell, fill in all the nail holes, and look at more paint colors. Getting there....a little at a time.
We got a lot of packing done today. I still have the whole kitchen to take care of though, which I'm kind of avoiding. I don't know how we accumulated so much stuff in just a year of being in this house.
The good news is....we get to move in a week early. We will get our keys a week from tomorrow. Seems like forever ago when we first saw our new house and now, we're about ready to move into it. We have quite a list of things to do the next two weeks before our rent is up. We have to schedule an inspection for our rental townhouse when it's completely empty. We also have to rent a carpet shampooer and do the floors. So in a span of only 24 hours, we will probably be cleaning the floors in both houses.
Today we went on a trip to Lowe's to look at washers, dryers, mirrors, paint, spackle, and storage bins. I want a smokey purple master bedroom but Matt thinks the hue I like looks like make-up. Not sure why, but ok. Might have to go with a nice blue-ish/green. The only other part of the house I want to repaint for sure is the entryway. Other than that, all the other rooms are colors we like.
So tomorrow, I'm sure we will be packing up more boxes, going through all the piles of junk to either donate or sell, fill in all the nail holes, and look at more paint colors. Getting there....a little at a time.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Homeowner
I can officially say it now. I am a homeowner!!
We are so excited to finally have sealed the deal on our new house. It really came close to not happening on September 30 like our original contract said, but after a lot of paper-pushing, our loan officer made it happen.
Now we only have to wait 29 more days to move into the place. That means 4 weekends of packing and de-junking the current place. Some people have a harder time getting rid of 20 years of childhood memories (and by some people, I mean Matt). We went through several boxes of old cards, gadgets, odds, and ends a week or two ago and I managed to throw away several bags of useful items. Among the most imporant items included a bag of 10 year old jawbreakers mixed in with some dead batteries. I even found an old sock with a bar of soap tucked inside. Nice.
Now that we have a move in date, we made our rental company very aware that we would be leaving in 30 days. They are sad to see us go as the lady assisting us at the rental office kept commenting on how awesome my platinum hair was. Just call me Lady Gaga. Everyone else does.
Hope you are all off to the start of a fabulous weekend.
We are so excited to finally have sealed the deal on our new house. It really came close to not happening on September 30 like our original contract said, but after a lot of paper-pushing, our loan officer made it happen.
Now we only have to wait 29 more days to move into the place. That means 4 weekends of packing and de-junking the current place. Some people have a harder time getting rid of 20 years of childhood memories (and by some people, I mean Matt). We went through several boxes of old cards, gadgets, odds, and ends a week or two ago and I managed to throw away several bags of useful items. Among the most imporant items included a bag of 10 year old jawbreakers mixed in with some dead batteries. I even found an old sock with a bar of soap tucked inside. Nice.
Now that we have a move in date, we made our rental company very aware that we would be leaving in 30 days. They are sad to see us go as the lady assisting us at the rental office kept commenting on how awesome my platinum hair was. Just call me Lady Gaga. Everyone else does.
Hope you are all off to the start of a fabulous weekend.
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