Sunday, April 30, 2006

Engagement Announcement!!!

Our engagement announcement was in today's J&C!!! If you have one, check it out. We might try scanning one in soon, but only if we get around to it. It's official and things are moving along very quickly!!!!

I went to a bridal shower for my best friend's (and bridesmaid) mom on Saturday, and it really got me in the mood for the wedding! But it also reminded me of just how much we have coming up here in the next four months!! My sister's baby coming, and a shower for that, Jaye's wedding weekend, Jessica's showers and wedding weekend, our friend Jenny's wedding, my cousin Tracey's baby shower, baby, bridal shower and wedding, and all of our stuff!!! In addition to our birthdays, several graduations, and Ronnie is retiring!! WOW!!! We're going to be some busy bees!! It's a really exciting time for a lot of people!

Check back and maybe we'll post the e-announcement.

No Puppies in Our Future...

Kowe got fixed on Thursday, and this is the sad little sight that she was...


The bandages on her feet are because she got her dew claws taken off too, but you can see her shaved little belly too. She's been very attached to her bowling pin and to both of us. She's so sweet. Josh and I were lost for the night that she stayed at the vet. We're glad to have her home and she's doing really well...as long as one of us are sitting right with her.

Sunday, April 23, 2006


First, on Saturday, we moved the bushes that were in the front to the backyard so we could plant our new bushes in the front...




Then Shell and Griff stopped by and Griff had to get his hands dirty helping out... He's a great helper, and Josh didn't even get bonked in the head with that shovel!!...


Then today, Josh's parents came over and helped us get the garden set up and brick the front. They were here all day and we got SO much done!!! Unfortunately we didn't get any pics with them...we forgot the camera till the end. But THANK YOU guys so much for helping..you are machines!! And best of all, Maxwell got to take a field trip to our house and he loved laying in the breeze all day. I think he enjoyed it...

Patty and I were in charge of bricking the flower garden in the front. Is that straight or what?!?!...

Josh and Ronnie got the garden all set up. It was a ton of work, but it turned out amazingly! We'll plant flowers and all of our veggies this week and we're so stinkin excited! As you can see, with our dip in the back, they built the garden out of the side of the yard. It's so pretty...

Then we had a grilled out brats and burgers, and had a great dinner. After Ron, Patty and Little Bits left, we lit up the firepit and had some s'mores! Yum-O!...

Now we're beat! Kowe hasn't moved off the couch...even when we both went upstairs, which is REALLY out of character for her...usually she's nosy enough that she has to be in the know about everything. Not tonight!! Hope everyone had as fun of a weekend as we did!!

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Happy Easter Everybody!!

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! We did. We had lunch with family at Shell & Dan's and enjoyed lots of the beautiful weather until it started to storm. Here are tons of pictures of our day...they're a little random in the order, but I couldn't get them all on one post.









Easter Baskets!!!


And of course, any time I'm at all domesticated, it has to be documented! Here is a pic of the cute nest egg cookies that I made! I'm quite proud! They tasted really great too! :)

Hail Hail!!

We had to get these shots of the hail storm! It happened so quickly, so we don't have good pictures of the big sections...the rain washed them away...but in the top picture, you can see some of the bigger pieces. For a bit, all of them were bigger than quarter-sized.


Monday, April 10, 2006

Kowe Kowe Kowe

This is Kowe's newest favorite pasttime...getting her belly rubbed. She's almost like a cat when she comes up and rubs against us, then flops on her back for a rub. She's also recently learned (though we're still working on getting her to do it every time) to sit, lay and roll over. She can dance too (where she stands on her hind legs and dances in a circle), but again, only when she feels the need. She's a little stubborn!

Here's a pic of Kowe and I cuddling on her bed. She won't get on there unless she can still be touching us, but it's really comfy, so we cuddled for a bit on there. You can see how relaxed she is!

Bridesmaids Dress Shopping!!

We went bridesmaids dress shopping this weekend. It was really fun, and I have such a great group of women who surround me, I'm very lucky. The girls came to a decision very easily!!

Here is a pic of everyone together. Penny, Ellie, Abby, Jess, Griff, Shell, Elizabeth (Bub) and my mom. Everyone was hungry here!! This is right before we left for lunch at Pocket Full of Rye!!

Of course my little man had to be part of the day!! He was on camera duty, and as you can see, he sometimes likes to get pictures of himself rather than others. He knows he's cute!

Here is a pic of our beautiful flower girl, Ellie. She was such a princess in her dress!! We're looking for a dress similar to this one, which does a pick-up just like mine.

This dress was my second favorite. This is Jess and Abby. Beautiful dress, and this one would have been in dark red and champagne.

BUT...we found a MUCH better option!! Originally, the dresses were going to be dark red, but we loved the black so much next to my dress, and the way it looked on everyone, that we changed everything up and went with black!! Here are some pics of Jess, being her silly self. I cut out my dress, but she's practicing talking to me (since I'm so much taller) and posing with me. I think she's all set for the pictures!

Monday, April 03, 2006

Yardwork!



So you can see that we have a LOT of work to do with our yard. This is understandable since it used to be all field until this past year....but Josh decided to get to work this weekend. We raked a bunch of the hay and Josh fertilized the yard. We're waiting for the company to come and clear the ditch before we can do anything to it, but you can see some of the ditch in the bottom picture.
We're really happy with the size of the yard, especially for a neighborhood like ours...it's about as big as we could have hoped for!
The garden will probably go in the corner of the yard that Josh is in in that last picture...but we'll see about that here in the next few weeks!


And of course I couldn't post without some adorable pics of Kowe. She is so darn cute! The first two are of her lounging with Josh...which she could lay around and nap ALL day... Don't mind her bad hair day.

And the last one, she looks so young, but it was taken last week of her playing with her buddy. Do you know a cuter dog??