July 31, 2012

May 2012!

May was a whole lot busier than April. Every weekend we had something going on! The busyness was a little crazy and hard to handle at times, but what made it so much better was that all of the flowers were starting to bloom! Not too mention, we were able to spend time with really special people. 

Recap:
  • I made Mother's Day cards and birthday cards. (I have been bad about cards in the recent year and Jon and I are striving to do better about writing).
  • Jon did a lot of cuddling and sleeping with Dakota.
  • My parents provided us with priceless art work for our walls. We stumbled upon two windows/doors in their basement one day. They gladly gave them to us. The story is that the windows were inside one of the walls my parents tore down in the Indiana house (the house I grew up in). Jon took some time and cleaned them up and now one hangs in our living room and one hangs in our kitchen. The green is the original color. We painted the other white and use it in the kitchen as a dry erase board.
  • My mom surprised us by leaving two solid oak pallets on our door step one day. Needless to say, a pallet shelf shortly followed.
  • We took a day trip to Lexington to celebrate Jim's (Jon's dad) birthday. We made a surprise and pulled the car into their garage with a little birthday banner. Priceless face when he went to pull his car in the garage and he couldn't.
  • Pool time at mom and dad's place.
  • Flirting with the husband. Yes. We were both at home and texting each other from different rooms. I think newlyweds are entitled to those kinds of things. 
  • We went swimming with friends (part of May's game night). See post here: Dupont
  • Alyssa came to visit! This obviously meant dinner at Moe's with her and Kyndal. Yes! See Alyssa's sweet blog about her mother's journey with breast cancer: hope & healing.
  • I hosted a dear friend's bachelorette weekend here at the house. This will be a separate blog.  
And that's May 2012. Enjoy the pictures!

cuddle time
window before cleaning (note: the panes were actually painted over, but Jon had already scraped that part off before I snapped the picture)
so fresh and so clean!
this is where we decided to hang it

oak pallet
oak pallet turned entry way
oh. hello spring!
our car in Jim and Nancy's garage
surprise! spot's taken. ;)
didn't I say this happened quite a bit this month?
pool times... oh and more jon and dakota cuddle time
hiding from the sun

newlywed flirting
hang times with these two!
love these precious women

April 2012!

April was a slow month for us. (This is the moment that I forget something really important and put my foot in my mouth). 

Recap:
  • We went on a little photo date to test out Jon's new camera lens. I love it when he dabbles in photography. The Jesus Saves picture is from that photo date, but taken with my iPhone. Maybe I'll get Jon to upload some pictures from his computer.
  • Dakota woke me up in his usual puppy eyed way. 
  • We let Dakota on the couch. This doesn't happen unless he inches his way up and pretty much demands some quality cuddle time.
  • I made a new wreath for the front door.
  • I recovered a chair. 
  • We had our Anniversary drawing framed. Our friend Angie Thompson drew this for us. You can visit her Etsy shop here: Heart Sparks Illustration. She does really fun couples/family drawings. Jon had her draw the below picture for our 1 year anniversary. It includes many fun memories from our first year, sort of like an i spy drawing.
And there you have April 2012 for Jon and Val. Enjoy!

I know, I know. He's cute.
couch cuddles!
hand sewn flowers for a precious addition for spring that has carried into summer
chair before (I found this at Goodwill a while back.. it is an old hospital chair. Pretty gross when I think about)
chair after
one year drawing!