Official Anniversary

The real date of our Anniversary was on Sunday, the 26th. Also our good friend Jason DeMoe's birthday :) We had church in the morning and evening, so we knew there wouldn't be a whole lot of time to celebrate. It worked out really well that the Welch's were gone this weekend because Beverly would have made a big deal about it in church. I should mention that a few weeks ago, Beverly made a big deal about Nathan's 1 year anniversary of being at the church. This was really confusing to everyone because they thought it was our wedding anniversary, so it was good that she wasn't here to make a scene of it all. :) Everything in the morning service went by without any kind of mention of it...phew! Then evening service came and a friend "accidentally" mentioned it to the elder who was in charge of announcements for the evening. So we didn't get away completely un-noticed, but it was only evening service so not as many people.

After the service, we went to Claim Jumper for dinner and really splurged... we had giftcards!! :) Then we came home, and what was on the counter but the infamous top layer of our wedding cake. Yes I had saved it, and Yes I pulled it out to eat some of it. Now, I've heard of this being really disastrous but I thought that maybe since it was a homemade cake... it might have held better? Well, Nathan didn't enjoy it that much... he said he didn't like it. To me, it just tasted like cake that had been in the freezer and had been thawed out. I still ate my piece, and am still living to tell about it today so I think that all in all it was OK :) Good work on the cake, mom! Cream Cheese frosting was even still delicious! We had also planned to watch our wedding DVD, but left it at our house. Instead we watched the movie "The Breakup" Perfect movie to watch on your anniversary, right? :)

Well, again our house-sitting stint ends today, so I'm signing off for now... and for a while. Who knows when I'll have access to the internet again :)

A Whole Year of Marriage

I know its been a while since I've posted. I haven't had too much exciting going on... but I will update you all on our life.
1) We are definitely in escrow... set to close the first week of May. (unless our lender can work really quickly despite the set-backs from the escrow company). If he does work quickly, we might close as soon as this week, but it is not likely. But we're looking to close within the next 2 weeks sometime... which means that packing has officially begun! We have taken nearly everything off our walls, which looks very strange. We have packed pretty much our whole "catch all" room. Just a few misc. things left. I think I will start working some in the kitchen this week. With any luck, in the next 2 weeks, we'll be able to take down all the nice nice wallpaper, paint, and rip out that nice rose pink carpet :)

2) We've had a great time house-sitting for our Pastor and his wife again. They were off to the Carolina's and we always love house sitting for them. We get the luxuries of internet, a comfy bed, big screen TV, and watching/taking care of Toby... their dog. Our little vacation away from our house ends today, and we'll go back to our apartment which now has nothing on the walls.

3) Here's the big news. NO we are NOT pregnant. We celebrated our 1 year anniversary this weekend! We can't believe that a year of marriage has gone by so quickly! Our actual anniversary was on Sunday, but we mostly celebrated on Friday, knowing that Sunday would be busy with church etc. So, let me tell you about a day that will never be forgotten:

• Friday morning we ran all kinds of errands. Eventually our errands left us at Costco getting gas so we could go down to LA. Our final destination was The Grove.
• Before we got to the grove, we planned on going to a few discount flooring stores in LA to do some price checking for doing the floor differently at our new place. We decided not to go to the first place because it was about 90 minutes out of the way. Our first stop was at Tile & More in Paramount. Just a small store, but we did find something we love.
• After leaving Paramount, I was navigating our directions to take us to the next store... H Discount Flooring or something like that. I guess we were feeling brave because this place was in East LA. As we were approaching, Nathan ever so calmly said "let's not stop there" as he kept driving. We were in the heart of East LA...oops. Nathan suggested we just keep driving around which led to a very nice tour of east LA for me. Finally I said, "get me out of here! Can't we go to Beverly Hills or something??" After driving through downtown LA, we finally made it up closer to the Grove and drove around for a while in Beverly Hills.
• While in Beverly Hills, we decided to seek out a few places. 1) the Walsh house from 90210. 2) West Beverly High from 90210. and 3) the Peach Pit from 90210. We've been watching old episodes of the show :) All that to say, we literally went from rags to riches and ended hanging out and having dinner at the Grove.

I have pictures, but of course I didn't have my memory card in my camera while I was taking them so they are on my camera, and of course my USB cable is packed so I can't share them right now. But sometime... who knows when... I'll upload a few pictures from our extravaganza.

New Blog

I discovered a new blog. Well, its not really new, but new to me. I discovered that one of my friends from church has a blog where she posts incredible recipes she has tried. YUM! I was fortunate enough to have some of her leftovers last week, which were delicious, then I discovered the recipe on her blog. So we made it last night. It's very tasty and I'd like to make all 3 of you who read ths blog aware of her blog so that you can be filled with the deliciousness of her recipes too :) Last night, we had the Double Stuffed Lemon Garlic Chicken. Jen Shimko really is the cook extraordinaire. If nothing else, you should give this recipe a try sometime. Hope you enjoy!!

Before...During...After

We have the first of our "before" pictures in our series of before....during....and after pictures of our house! Nathan's aunt and uncle were in town, and she snapped several pictures of the house when we went to see it. These are all the main living area and kitchen. As we start the process of working in the house (not until the beginning of may, Lord Willing) we will update with during and eventually after pictures so that you can see the transformation!! Don't laugh too hard at the pink and offwhite patterned carpet :) Or the great wallpaper :)

It has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. 1595 square feet. Its on a 9000 sq. ft. lot which is already landscaped (although dying right now). It has a hot tub (don't know if it works) and a great brick corner fireplace. We plan to rip out the carpet, and take down all of the wall paper (yes even the wallpaper in the bathroom which is already peeling off the walls). We're so excited! We'll keep you updated...



So, i'm not usually this retarded... but the wind was blowing my hair in my face and I was trying to get it out of my face. Before I knew it, nathan's aunt had already snapped the picture. Owell.

Just to the right of where I'm standing...

I invision a great little coffee corner with all of our coffee "stuff"

Bird Loves Ray Charles

What a great bird!!