Kitchen confession 001... & A Happy Birthday

I love to bake, but hate to clean up the mess. Being able to eat the leftover frosting makes it a little better though and of course I'll make a  mess  cake for someone's birthday. In case it was David's.

 

Friday was David's birthday!! I was luckily off too so we started the day off with breakfast outside on the back porch and watched a storm roll in, it was perfect. We sat outside for a while just watching it rain and enjoying each others company. There wasn't anything he wanted to do for his birthday and he started nights that night, so not a whole lot time to try and fit something in either. We just hung out at home and cooked dinner and had cake.

Here's to another year older, another year (hopefully) wiser. Happy Birthday. babe. I love you!

Waiting on Spring

So even though the official first day of Spring was on the 20th, we've still been having some cool/cold nights around here. I know its only the been six days since then, but I mean WHERE IS SPRING??? I'm ready for it. I'm ready for some back porch sitting (even though we still have/need stuff for the back porch), for backyard parties, and just getting into Summer mode around here. I'm sure once June rolls around I'll be upset about the heat, but for now I'm over winter and the cold.

I will say we have been soaking up all the sunshine we still have after we get home from work and Gunner loves it too!! Isn't he just the cutest?!?!? LOL Poor thing lets me pretty much torture him. He cracks me up. Happy hump day!!

Sweethearts Day

Yep that's right, I'm talking about Valentines Day, February 14. And yes I know that we are already in March, but I finally have internet and I'm beyond excited to not have to blog from my phone anymore. Since I know and use my actual computer to post I want to start posting the stuff I didn't want to mess with on my phone and a whole lot of other stuff that I've got planned.

David had to work on Valentines day and on Saturday too so instead of going out we decided to cook at home and just spend the evening together. No fuss or anything. But since this is one of my fav holidays I couldn't just let it be a plain old Friday night at home. I had all sorts of ideas going through my mind and I wanted to do them all, but it just wasn't going to happen. So I opted for just some cute and easy rosettes and of course the heart banner that I've for a couple of years now. I wanted to make lots and lots of rosettes, but to make the big ones it takes two and half sheets of paper and for the most part I didn't have that much paper in one design so I went with some small, med, and large ones.

No lovers day is complete without red velvet cupcakes and chocolate covered strawberries. YUM!!



It ended up being a great Valentines at home if I do say so myself. 

Let the dirt work begin

We are finally making some head way with the land and new house, thank goodness. I was beginning to wonder if we were ever going to get started on any of it. But the driveway is in and the place where the house is going to sit has been cleared and leveled so next stop is getting the slab laid. Those guts were out earlier this week, but The spot wasn't quite level so the dirt work guy was back out to fix that and hopefully there won't be any other hold ups on getting started. Can't wait to get the actual house started. I've got so many ideas that I'm hoping we can do with the house. It's all very exciting and stressful at the same time.

People always say if you can make it through the first year of marriage, the seven year itch, or building a house then your marriage will last. So far we've made it through two of the three and are working on the last one. And even though I know we are going to fight and argue and disagree on things about the house, I'm beyond confident that we'll make it through this too. Hope your having a great week so far. It's almost over and I for one am very ready for the weekend.