Our first "garden"

I just LOVE this time of year. Everything is green, flowers are blooming, and the sun is shining brighter and longer. It is just gorgeous! Since our house was just built, we are still waiting on a few things to be done...one of them being SOD! Until the sod is laid, I cannot start my gardening, which I have been so looking forward to! In the meantime, I bought a planter and decided to start a little garden on my front porch :)

My garden is made up of: 
Celosia (the colorful little guys)
Vinca Vine (the vine-y looking ones)
Spikes (the spikes in the middle)

Up next...vegetables!

Does anyone have good advice on how best to grow tomatoes on a porch!?

we have a WALKWAY!

I never thought I would see the day that I got excited about "household stuff," like my vacuum (Dyson ball..ohhhh yeah!), my appliances, my toilets (we got cool flusher thinger-majiggers), and every other thing in/around my house. I used to think my parents were CRAZY when they got excited about things like this. I would think "really? you are ecstatic that you got a new vacuum, are you nuts?" But now, that is me. What have I become?!


Anyway, the LATEST exciting addition to our home is...a walkway. We used to walk from our stone driveway onto an ugly piece of wood to walk, then up our front steps! But now, we have this baby:

Jagger checking it out. Maybe now we won't have as many MUDDY PAWPRINTS all over our hardwood floors?!!

Anyway, now I am going to be cleaning my house since poor Mickey had a stomach bug...time to disinfect my awesome toilets. ;) Have a great Friday! 

Edward Scissor Hands.

Well, it has been quite a busy time in our lives! We have been moving, hanging, organizing, cleaning, rearranging (you get the picture) our house! It has been extremely overwhelming but fun at the same time. Mickey and I (actually, mostly Mickey) have been trying to do most things ourselves, which has lead to some funny moments and some frustrating moments.


For example, we bought our dressers and nightstands from IKEA. What we did not know is that we had to assemble them ourselves with their "picture directions." Why they do not provide WORDS I do not know, and the pictures are not the greatest at explaining things...ANYWAY, most of you probably know that IKEA has an "assemble yourself" policy, but this was our first time shopping there so we were not quite sure what we were getting ourselves into. We put our dresser together in a rather fast time of an hour and a half (it normally takes us 10 years to do something so this was quite an accomplishment). However, when it came time to put the drawers in, we realized we assembled the dresser BACKWARDS! UGHHH! I was so frustrated I wanted to cry. Needless to say we have one more dresser and two night stands that need to be put together, but we skipped them today and decided to hang pictures instead (which look great I might add ;)


We have been learning on the job, which has been rewarding and fun for the most part. The not so fun part is what happened to my fingers along the way. For some reason, I cannot keep them out of the way!! My neighbors called me Edward Scissor Hands, which I thought was funny. Hence, the name of this post...

Anyway, now that I am practically a carpenter, you can call me for any help you may need. Until then, I'll be nursing my fingers back to health :)

Our New Home :) <3

Annnnd once again I don't know why this entry did not post on the day it was supposed to (March 30th)! Anyway, here it is...better late than never ;)


Today is the day Mickey and I are moving into our new home!!! We are so excited to be homeowners and have bought our first house :) it is such an exciting time for us! We drove 16 hours from PA and arrived in MN yesterday after staying overnight in South Bend, Indiana. We drove straight to our new house to meet our realtor, and found a big pretty bow on our front door. We had our closing this morning and got the keys, now we are on our way to start moving in! Pics of the finished product coming later :)

New neighbors.

I meant to post this before my Easter Cupcake blog entry, so in case you are confused read this first! Whoopsies ;)


Hi all! Hope everyone is doing well :) I have been so so busy trying to unpack our house! We only moved in a week ago but I feel like its been much longer because so much has happened!


First of all, we have the BEST most amazing neighbors anyone could ever ask for. The second day we moved in, four girls (ages 12 and 13) showed up at our front door with brownies in a jar that said "welcome."We invited them into our house and talked to them for 15 minutes, and the rest is history. Since then, we have met their parents and been welcomed into the community with open arms. The girls even brought us flowers a few days later! I could not feel more blessed to live in our neighborhood with a group of caring people. I feel like God really has had his hand in our decision to move and pick our neighborhood. We feel extremely blessed!

Easter Cupcakes

Last week, after meeting the neighborhood girls, I decided to invite them up to bake Easter cupcakes! They had spring break all last week so they were of school. They found the cutest recipes online, so we decided to try them out!


We made lambs and chicks, but our lambs look a little bit like bunnies. We decided to call them "lunnies." :)


Find the recipes here: http://www.bhg.com/holidays/easter/recipes/fun-to-make-easter-treats/

Moooooving to Minnesota

Mickey and I are patiently waiting for our moving truck to be delivered so we can start packing it for the move to Minnesota! We are getting a "you pack, we ship" company to drop off their trailer, we pack it, and they pick it up next week. We are closing on our NEW HOUSE (yayyy!!!!) the 30th so our stuff will be dropped off then. Yippeeee! I am so excited to finally have our own place to call home (many thanks to our families who have been very kind in letting us live with them over the past couple months)! I'll post pictures later!