Valentines Weekend

Yes I know I’m late, but wanted to post the pictures anyway!

Our friends Mark & Jenna came for a wedding and stayed with us for the weekend. It is always so good to see them! They even brought us a cute little Valentine! Notice the card…it has ice cream cones on it! Jenna & I are both HUGE fans of ice cream so the card was perfect!  

 

Mark & Jenna went to the wedding they were invited to Saturday afternoon, while Kyle and I went out for our own Valentine dinner! We decided to go to Applebees. And guess who also decided to go there? 

Mom & Dad B!!! Great minds think alike! So they joined us for a dinner and we had a good time! 

After supper we met up with Mark & Jenna at the reception.  

I love this guy!!! 

Lots of cupcakes were ate! 

And there was lots of dancing as well!! 

Even the chicken dance! ;)   

My favorite KC friend!! 

We danced the night away and met up with a few other friends! Sunday we had breakfast and sent Mark & Jenna on their trek back to KC. Can’t wait for your next visit guys!  

Mel’s Brrr Birthday Bowling

Saturday night we helped celebrate our friend/neighbor, Mel’s, birthday!! We started out the night at a nice local restaurant, The Cellar.

Group shot, minus a few late comers!

The first time Mel & Robbeye came to our house was a party we threw for Wendi when she was home. Well Mel brought a “40” and we got quite the kick out of it, our tiny little friend drinking a “40”. So we decided we needed to get her a koozie! Little did we know someone else would get her the “40” to match!! Too funny!!

 

I ordered grilled chicken for supper and look it came in the shape of a heart!!

 

It was also a few other friends’ bdays so they all blew out their candles together!! Check out the cake my friend made…it was a snowman! No worries though, I didn’t eat any!

 

Check out the cake Heather made…pretty impressive!

After dinner we all headed to the bowling alley to do some cosmic bowling!!

Kyle had a superman shirt on under his button down…you could see the symbol in the black light! 

Me with the birthday girl, Mel!

I was the only one with non-glowing shoes. :(

  

Kyle has all the “moves” at the bowling alley!

 

 

Boys will be boys!

       

Mel doing the “wind blown” look! 

I tried…but it didn’t work too well…I ended up giggling! :)  

After bowling we danced the night away!! Too fun!! :)

Babies Galore!

Last Saturday I headed back to my stomping grounds for a baby shower for my one of my high school BFF’s, Carla! She is due the 12th of February. It was so fun to see her and her growing tummy! She is having a little girl!

Another high school friend, Kim, hosted the shower at her house! She is due in March with her 2nd child!

Carla got all kinds of great gifts!  

High school BFF’s & neighbors! Mylie and I used to ride to school together everyday! She is expecting a girl in June! 

Me and all the pregnant girls! Jill (2nd from the left) is also due in June, this will be her 2nd child as well!   

Kim and Carla with their cute tummies!!

My Guardian Angel…

was working extra hard tonight!

I was on my way home from work and just made it past the hospital. I heard this huge thud and lost steering control and headed right through the other lane of traffic to the curb piled high with snow.  Thankfully there weren’t any cars coming that I could have hit or hit me! And also thankfully there was snow to stop me from going down the embankment straight for the river. Eeekkk!!!  Thank God for all those things!!!

All shaken up, I called Kyle right away and got out of the car to survey the damage. My front passenger tire was completely GONE!!! No wonder I couldn’t steer! All of the studs that hold the tire on were gone, but one! Kyle picked me up and we had a tow truck get the Explorer and take it to a local tire shop.

 

Kyle and I are both thanking God tonight that I am safe after this scare and no one else got hurt! Too much excitement for my Sunday night !

First week of 2010

It’s been definitely a different week.

• Monday was my first day back to work after being off for Christmas break.
• I worked part of the day Tuesday and I came home not feeling well, but still cheered on the Hawks.
• Wednesday I was home sick and we had carpet installed.
• Thursday and Friday (and I was feeling much better) we closed our offices due to the blizzard that set in across central Iowa.

Kyle had the day off on Thursday too so we slept in together, cleaned the house, watched a movie(don’t watch World’s Greatest Dad w/Robin Williams…it’s horrible!), napped together, and then while Kyle was watching the National Championship I got to work in my clean craft room!

I made a birthday card for Diego, he is the son of our friend’s Melanie & Robbeye. His 3rd birthday party is today (Saturday)!

And I also made a baby shower card for one of my high school friends, she is due February 12th and her shower is next weekend.

 

Friday Kyle had to go back to work. :( But I got up when he did and made chocolate chip waffles and sent him on his way and then I headed right back down to my craft room and whipped up a few more cards. Kyle surprised me and got off a few hours early so we ran a few errands around town and decided on our plans for the night. We figured out that we could have a free date night! Can’t beat that, huh?!?!?

We had supper at Applebees using a gift card we got from some friends a while back!

And then we rented a movie at Redbox using a promo code I got in my email!

We ended up not watching our Redbox because my sister Mindi called and wanted us to come down and watch a movie with them! So we decided to wait on our free movie and headed down to their place. It was fun to chat with them, it had definitely been a while.

Signing off for now, headed to a birthday party! Have a good rest of your weekend everyone!

New Carpet!!!

The carpet layers showed up early Wednesday morning and were here till about 2pm. I was also home on Wednesday feeling a tad under the weather, no fun. I hid out in the basement so I didn’t spread my germs to the guys. Kyle worked just over lunch rush then came home and started to work putting the rooms back together!

Here are a few pictures, pre-furniture!

Guest Room

Den

Master  Bedroom – good job hun!

I know it doesn’t look like it, but they are all the same carpet! As you can see there are a couple different colors in the carpet. Depending on what direction you’re looking from and how you vacuum it, depends on how it looks. I would say the most true color is what you see in the guest room and master bedroom photos!

Abby doing a thorough review of the carpet!

One thing you can’t tell of the pictures is that it is SO soft and plush! That was part of my test when we were picking out what kind we wanted. We brought home samples and I walked on them bare foot to see which one I thought felt the best, and this one won!     

And finally, here is the final look w/furniture and all!

Guest Room

Den

Master Bedroom

The guest room is the one room we didn’t paint. The den got a whole new color, called cliff diving (dark tan) and the master bedroom got a fresh coat of the same color of light blue. I washed all the bedding, bed skirts, and curtains. Everything feels SO fresh and clean! LOVE IT!!! Kyle and I are both very happy with the result.  What do you think?

Ready for New Carpet

Sunday night Kyle and I tore up the carpet in the guest room and then on Tuesday night his brother Travis and Travis’ friend helped tear the other two rooms and then pull all the staples from the carpet pad. We were thinking we maybe had nice hard wood floors under the carpet, but nope just plywood.
After they got the floors all ready we all headed to the basement to cheer on the Hawkeyes in the Orange Bowl. It was a great game, where the Hawks pretty much dominated, winning 24-14. Too bad we weren’t in Miami cheering them on!