Giveaway Fun

I have Erin Kuester to thank for this. She introduced me to giveaway blogs. Thanks for the addiction friend :) I was quickly sucked in, but took a break as life got really busy with moving and such, but I'm going to hop back into the swing of things right now. I've been following giveaways from a blog called Mommy and Me Giveaways, and I've lucked out twice now. I won a set of Avent bottles for when hopefully baby #2 comes along, and I also won a piece of shapewear! Some of the things aren't necessarily things I would use but would love to use as gifts for baby showers or donate the to the nursery to be used there!!

The big giveaway we are currently crossing our fingers for is a giveaway of Microsoft Office 2010 for MAC. That's right. The full Microsoft Office Suite. We relatively recently acquired a MAC, but don't have any of those programs and I'd love to get my excel back to use for budgeting and keeping track of all our bills etc!! So, with fingers crossed, we'll hope for something good out of this!! If not, thats ok--I figure there's no hurt in trying for something for free :) Anyway, check out the website if you're interested in picking up any free products of various kinds!! Who doesn't love free and usable stuff?!?! :)

An Awesome Story

I saw this you-tube video and couldn't resist sharing! It is an awesome story that I am positive you will enjoy watching!!

We've Conformed

Nintendo Wii has been out of stock since around Christmas, I think. We weren't really in the market for one until just a few days before New Years. We hung out with our friends the Shimok's and played their wii. It was so fun!!! After that, we discussed purchasing a wii as "happy birthday to us" in place of birthday presents for each other. We were in a bit of a dilema, though as no one had any wii's in stock. Well... that was all about to change on January 22nd.

We heard from someone at church that Toys'R'Us had Wii in stock and they had just bought theirs. On Thursday night after we ate dinner and were watching an episode of House Hunters, we began to think about what we should do on our one free night... our "date night." I said I thought we should take a field trip to Toys'R'Us to which Nathan replied " I was just thinking that like 2 minutes ago" Our fate was decided... or the fate of the wii... i'm not sure which. So we did conform and bought a wii this past week. It has been very fun despite the sore arms and shoulders from bowling and tennis. I've even stepped outside my comfort zone and played baseball!

Yesterday, we played a few rounds of golf (the only way that Nathan will ever play gold, I might add) and I discovered I missed my calling in life. I was quite accomplished until the 9th hole where there are 3 different island/cliff things you golf from. That took my score from 0 to + 12 or something like that. All that to say, I still beat Nathan at golfing (currently the only game on wii I can beat him at!). Then last night we joined our friends from church (the ones who notified us of Toys'R'Us's secret wii stock) and we played wii fit with them. Throughout the day I have been noticing different area's on my body that are feeling a little bit sore that weren't before so I suppose that what everyone says is true. I was only on the fit for maybe 10 minutes and it did its job. Its job (combined with a pretty out of shape me) made a very compelling argument for purchasing a fit but we will hold off on that. Maybe we'll go against the traditional 1st year anniversary gift of paper. Or maybe the paper gift will be the receipt from the wii fit? I just don't know but we are really enjoying our wii.

Wii Fit Tip: From what I understand, Wii Fit is about 10 bucks cheaper at costco than anywhere else so if you are in the market... you might look there :)

Over and out for now... Mii (personalized wii character) is calling my name :)

Pumpkin Carving

I carved a pumpkin. This is a major step. First, I absolutely hate the smell of pumpkin innards. And I hate having to touch that nasty slimy stuff inside. I don't remember carving pumpkins much as a child. But on Wednesday, I started a new tradition. I carved a pumpkin with a few friends, and I was able to manage the smell and the nasty stuff inside! It was so fun! My friend designed my pumpkin for me, so I cannot take credit for the great work of art. All I have to say is that only the creator of the pumpkin could love it so much :) Pictures of Fred (yes, Nathan and I named the pumpkin Fred) will be coming soon. He is so cute. Don't be jealous.

Part of the World!!

Today we got Direct TV :) We haven't had any TV since we've been married, which has been fine, but I feel like we've been a little out of the loop on whats going on in the world. It will be nice to have--just in time for the Olympics and then just in time for football season and other favorites.

Official Launch

This one's for April. Here is the official launch of our blog page, even though i've already put 2 posts on here. I will start keeping up with it now for as many things as we have going on. So April, now you may check our blog as often as you'd like :) I will probably only update on the interesting things that happen in life...though with starting substitute teaching again, there could be updates often :)

Whats a blog?

We're new to this blog idea, but we'll try to keep you updated on things that go on in our lives. Hopefully I wont say anything too dumb (like I just did), and this will be fun. Right now... its time to watch the office online before tonights season finale. More to come...