Cafe de Valentine

my husband has been hard at work this weekend. he was determined to clean his garage. i had no clue until we were home owners that my husband was particular about his garage, but i guess that's the one space that is all HIS, and he loves it! my cousin, ron, who is a great carpenter came over yesterday in the early morning to help him measure it out, make a list of supplies and get started. i think ryan had great intentions of "helping" with the project... but ron is good. ron set to work and in about 4 hours ryan had a work bench and great shelves. ryan spent all of today putting things where he wanted them and organizing the rest of the garage. hanging things on the walls to get stuff off the floor and making sense of all the little gadgets that go into a garage. he's quite proud of himself and if i do say so myself... it looks great! the start of the project... the finish product! he has storage above, storage inside and storage below. plus pegboard on the back for

it's been sometime since i've blogged and it's long over due. the madness of moving, carried over to the madness of unpacking and decorating (my favorite part) which then carried over to christmas shopping/wrapping, which then carried over into 5 christmas gatherings with various sides of the family, which then carried into a recoup period and a "cleaning up of the christmas chaos" and then my husband decided that he wanted a built in work bench in his garage so that was the saturday project along with installing the new kitchen faucet we got for christmas and now it's sunday evening, we're trying to scramble and get ready for church and i realized that i haven't yet posted photos of any of the projects. so after that horribly long run on sentance that contained less info that you wanted to know and more rambling of our crazy last month... here's some photos to make it worth it. this is the entry way with our game hutch. we challange anyone willing

I think I have come to an understanding of why time goes by so fast as you get older. Gone are the days of sleeping in, doing what you want to do, or even just relaxing. This pretty much comes with the territory of getting older, getting married, buying a new house, and did I mention a little thing called a career. Days, weeks, months, are merely blurs now. But the funny thing is, I have never been happier. Ya, there is a lot more stress with an endless to do list, but it's all worth it. I have seen myself mature more in the last four months, than I have had my whole life. I have come to a better understanding of what it is to fully rely on God, knowing that without Him I just couldn't make it another day. RV

while we still have boxes to unpack, a garage to organize and many things to find a place for... things are coming together. the house is painted. and i mean every square inch of that house got painted. the ceilings in the whole house, the walls all had to be primered, the walls had to be painted, and then the baseboards in the whole house had to be painted. we managed to do that all in less than a week (don't ask me how) and clean up, move our stuff over from the apt, clean the apt and get most of the big stuff put away. we are so thankful that we had the help we did or we would have never made it! my parents, my grandpa, and my father-in-law met us at the house on Sunday morning after Oz & Kate's wedding (boy were we tired) and we began primering the walls. my mom and my grandpa painted each day last week while we were at work (thankfully a short week) and r & i met them there each day as soon as we were off work to continue painting until we couldn't see straight