preoccupied

sorry, but i will neglecting the blog for a little while,

because....

i'm P.........................



AINTING!!!!!!

Thankful Thursdays

 

 Every Thursday (hopefully i can remember),  I will be writing 5 things that I am thankful for.

I need to start thinking about the things that I am grateful and thankful for. 

Normally this is done around Thanksgiving time, but I feel like it should be done all year round.

In NO specific order:

• That the Lord knows what is best in our lives and that He is in control. 

No matter what we may think sometimes.

• My job... that I have one. Yes, it may be boring and sometimes annoying, 

but I can't beat the hours, days off and the flexibilty.

• How well things are going with the house. 

• A loving and wonderful husband who does everything in his power to 

make me happy. Our relationship is uniquely ours and I KNOW that

God made us for each other because there is no one else that could

understand us like we do each other.

•  New friendships and old friendships. 

Wordless Wednesday

So I'm going to try to do this whole WORDLESS WEDNESDAY that I've seen on other people's blogs... starting.... NOW......

Word

soon to be the FAB 5...... ♥

These are my FAB 4 girlfriends (self proclaimed name of couse!).... 

haha...  they are just such wonderful and amazing women 
who I have been friends with for years now!

Each one has different qualities that I just love and adore about them.

But as a group, 

we get to share in the joy of 

Bryan & ASHLEY having their 1st BABY!

 and this past Saturday, they had their 1st baby shower.

 They found out that they are going to have a GIRL....

another girl to add to the FAB 4, 

or should i say it WILL BE the FAB 5! hehe...

here are some photos from the day....

  

SUPER CUTE decorations!

  

 They got super adorable baby girl clothes!

  

Such a CUTE idea!!! And such cute stuff tied to it! =) 

  

Ash will definitely be ONE HOT MOMMA!!!!

  

Soon to be parents with 2 of their nieces ( Counting My Blessings )

I really look forward to meeting this little bundle of girlie joy. 

I see her being trendy, funky, beautiful, ORGANIZED (hehe) and a wonderful COOK, 

just like her mommy!

side note: 
We know her name already, 
but I will wait to let you all know when
I hear the good news of her arrival (around MARCH 5).

never again......

..... and probably the worst day so far with building our house!

So, last week Wednesday, Matt and I decided we were going to tackle the blowing-in the insulation in the attic. I had Wednesday off as my normal day off, and Matt decided to take a vacation day so that we could get going with it.  We knew that we couldn't start right away because the drywallers were still finishing up the garage ceiling, so we headed out to price out the different brands and ended up at Security Lumber with a decent price, but they would deliver it to the house, blower and all. So we decided to that so we didn't have to go get the trailer, go back and hope that none of the insulation or anything blew off the trailer. When we got back to the house, we were hoping to be able to set the blower up inside, but to our surprise, found out that the garage door was "mysteriously broken."  Which Matt knew that it was working the night before.  But after Matt tried awhile to fix it, we decided to just "set up shop" with the blower outside and run it through the window. Well, it started out ok, but then it was......

just a stop-go-stop-go-stop-go, 

 jenni rip the top off and rip the wires for the remote start,

fix the blower, 

reset the blower, 

stop-go-stop-go-stop-go, 

go turn the power back on in the house... 

stop-go-stop-go. Ugh!!! 

So annoying. 

And Matt would have to come down from the attic, 

every single time to help me fix it!

But then we got the hang of it..... 

but what was supposed to take 3-4 hours... took 8-ish hours.

AND we had to go back Thursday night and finish up for an hour b/c we ran out the night before. 

I'm glad it's over and I'm glad that we had the experience, but i won't say that I'd love to do it again!

here are some more recent photos... 

 

 So, these next couple photos show just how MESSY it got. i was outside, where it was windy and damp with it being cold out and matt was in the attic where it just blew around... so we look like a bunch of crazy people with gray hair & insulation in and on parts of our bodies that we didn't think it would get to (well, for me at least since I was outside with it blowing in my face & up my nose).

Someone on Facebook suggested that we use this as our Christmas card for next year... haha...

probably not, but maybe i'll include a little snapshot of it or something.  It was a exhausting day, but it was nice to do something with Matt. I enjoy doing projects with him.... as long as we don't get too mad at each other! haha....

 Here is part of the finished work Matt did with the insulation.....

   

 Taped and Mudded for the 1st time!

  

 ("great room" - kitchen & family room)

  

 Ahhh... the tile I picked out for our Master Bathroom..... i absolutely LOVE it!!!

We are going with the middle color and then mosaics that have all 3 colors in it! I can't wait to see it go up in the bathroom! YEAH!!!

 

I think that's all for now......

the EXCITEMENT is rising!

DRYWALLERS CAME TODAY! We thought they would really just get the ceilings done and maybe a little bit of the walls, but I really think that they are 1/2 way done put up the sheets of drywall. It makes it so much more real. So exciting!!! Here are a couple of pictures:

Entryway

The ceiling in our master bedroom

Great Room

Office 1/2 way done!

In other news (b/c you know the house is pretty much our life right now! haha)
- Loosing Weight - At the beginning of the year at work, we started the BIGGEST LOSER contest. Of course I was all about it, I love the show. I mean it was one the reason that I was able to loose those 60 lbs. I lost over 2.5 years ago. BUT this time around it just seems so much harder. I'm not sure why it's harder, I could probably think of somethings, but I can't have excuses. That won't get me anywhere. But I am determined to get back down to my weight before the wedding, if not MORE! I remember that counting calories and just walking A LOT was all that I needed. But I think I will need a little different kind of exercise regiment. So that is why I bought (on Amazon.com) Biggest Loser's CARDIO MAX. I have never been one to do exercise videos or really have any desire to do a workout video, I've seen some clips of a couple, and they just didn't appeal to me. But my friend Becky really recommended this DVD and said she really liked it. So I got it in the mail today and I popped the DVD in today after work and I was so pleasantly surprised and actually "liked" it (as much as you can like working out! haha). Now I just need to keep up with it!!!

- I changed my blog so that anyone can comment, I don't believe that you have to have a blog yourself anymore!

Right Now....

I want to be here....

or here...

(but in reality, they are actually the SAME PLACE!)