What's a girl to do.........

With all my free time, that is? I haven't started work yet, so I have been doing lots of little projects around the house. I really have been enjoying this time to organize, clean and create.

Finally got around to redoing the dining room chairs.

We now have a pet. Pearson is his name and he is a beautiful blue Betta fish. Matthew bought me this tank and all the fixings as a graduation present. Love it!!!

Just got done reading this amazing series. I highly recommend them!!!

For our anniversary, I got a little creative and painted the background for these pictures and then glued the letters on and gave them a paint wash. They are hanging in our office.

Yesterday, I organized the kitchen pantry. I bought shelf liners and had fun figuring out what was type of food was actually hidden in there :-)

I'm not quite sure what the next project will be, but today I am cleaning the house and steam cleaning the carpets. Busy, busy but oh so fun!!!

Brand New Windows!!!

So we finally bit the bullet and ordered new windows for the house. After we found ice on the INSIDE of the windows this past winter we knew that something needed to be done. My wonderful Uncle Mark offered to help us put them in and since I haven't started work yet, I got to help. We had a blast!!! Here are some pics.

My Uncle Mark caulking the siding.

Our first new window!!

Matthew pulling out the trim on the inside.

Have I ever mentioned that I really like power tools? Here I am using the sawsall for the first time. I thought my teeth were going to shake out of my head :-)

The back of the house with new windows and trim. The outside of the house is all finished and painted. Now we get to do the trim on the inside.

First fire of the fall!!!

I was so excited. We got to light up the fireplace a week or so ago. I just love fires!!! My wonderful husband made me a big one and we spent the evening watching a movie and snuggling by the nice warm fire. What a great evening!!!