My Weekend Off! :)

I had this weekend off from work, and let me tell you it was so much fun! Friday started out wonderful, I was able to go home 2 hours early from work because my brother Clay was coming up to visit! When I got home Clay and Josh were hanging out and I had some beautiful flowers waiting for me too!!

Thank you Joshy for starting the weekend off with a wonderful surprise! :)

When I got home I made a quick trip to the gym to swim some laps and then Josh, Clay, my other brother Kevin, and Josh's friend Marcus and I all went out to our favorite local Chinese Food Restaurant!! So delicious! After dinner we headed over to campus to see Marcus's new dorm (which let me tell you is nicer than any apartment I have ever lived in! click the link to see a virtual tour) They are brand new suite style dorms with crown molding and stainless steel appliances!! It's Insane!

After that the boys headed to a party and I went home to watch some 9/11 tribute documentaries. I must say that I was some what disappointed in the lack of patriotism on Friday. I wore a ribbon all day at work and if we didn't have painting/construction going on at the house I would have been flying my American Flag too! Oh well.

On Saturday we got up and got ready because Clay was going to practice his photog skills by taking some portraits of Josh, my friend Stephanie, and I. It was a bit chilly and cloudy, but apparently when it is cloudy is the best time to shoot - so that is what we did! We took pictures all over campus which worked out really great because it is so lush and pretty.

Josh carrying the light umbrella

Clay snapping a few shots of Josh

Final ProductIt was funny how many people were walking by and staring at us haha

Here are a few of the many we took that day. Clay quickly cleaned up a few of the shots in photoshop and sent them over, when he gives me the rest I will post them!

Steph and IJosh being a model hahaha

Joshy and I

:)

Not a huge fan of this one

I am in dire need of a tan haha

After pictures we came home and made pizza for lunch and then Clay headed home. Josh and I ran our errands and did the grocery shopping and then when we came home we headed over to the park with Stephanie and Anthony to play some tennis!

Lets just stay Stephanie and I don't have the best aim and a few of the balls ended up outside of the tennis court, and even in a tree haha

We finished the night off with some hungry hungry hippo and watched the season finale of the Real World Cancun - I can't believe Aiiya slept with Joey!

Sunday was a super productive day! Not only did we sleep in, which felt lovely, we also did some major house cleaning and a ton of laundry.
I also framed my College Diploma and hung it on the wall... it only took me a year and a half after I graduated to do it haha

Framing it up!

Closing it up tight!

And last but not least, putting it on the wall!

Joshy and I also took a bike ride in the rain :)
And we made some delicious bean dip for dinner and watched the news. Then I had to go to a Manager's meeting for work at 8pm which sucked, but oh well, it was still a great weekend!

Happy Monday!

-Katie

Our Weekend!

So this weekend FLEW by! We got a lot done, but I still have a million things on my "to-do" list.

Friday night after I got home from work, Stephanie and I went to the gym to work out, then we came back and made some delish BBQ Chicken for dinner, yumm :) Then after dinner, Stephanie and her boyfriend Anthony, Josh, and I all headed over to the park across the street to play some B-ball and tennis! We ended up staying out there for a couple of hours and had a lot of fun. After trying our hand at being Venus Williams for the night (I suck so bad at tennis, I was hitting all of the balls over the super high fence) we made chocolate milkshake's and watched Wall-E! It was such a cute movie and I am so glad we finally saw it! Yay for Netflix instant streaming!

Saturday was my brother Clay's birthday. He dedided to have a big BBQ with all of his friends rather than do something with just our family, so Josh and I were going to stay here and not go visit because we wouldn't really hang out with him much anyways since all of his friends were there. Buuuuuuut around 10:30 in the morning I just felt weird not being there on his birthday, even if he would be hanging out with his friends all day. So Josh and I randomly changed plans and left for my parents house around noon, and got there around 2pm.

But before we left we had to load up Josh's dresser into his car because we want to repaint it so it needs to be sanded but we don't have a sander. Sooooo we figured we would bring it home with us and use my Dad's sander to get the job done. Side Note: Josh's dresser is his mom's old purple dresser that he then covered in bumper stickers, so it has been in our walk in closet for the last year because it is too ugly to be put on display in our room. So we have begun operation Repaint Dresser, in order to make more room in our closet.

Once we got to my parents house, we wasted no time in getting the dresser out and we started sanding it right away! Kevin even helped!

Watch out, I'm armed with a power tool.

Then we had some BBQ burgers and sang Clay Happy Birthday and had some chocolate cake :)

Josh and I hung out with my parents and some family friends for a bit after dinner and then we headed back home around 9. Clay even made an effort to ditch his friends for a bit to hang out with us which was really nice. I'm so glad I went home to see him, even if it was only for a few hours, it just felt so strange not to be there for his birthday - does that make me weird? haha

On our way back into town we stopped at Wal-Mart at 10:30 pm (luckily they close at 11) to pick up some paint to paint the dresser! When we got home we put on a quick base coat and finally ended up in bed around 1am, which is way past my bed time!

On Sunday we got up and got dressed and put another coat of paint on the dresser and then ran all of our errands. We went grocery shopping and to Home Depot to get some cute glass knobs for the dresser! Now we just need to let it finish drying and we can put the knobs on!

Here it is in our garage drying... finished product pictures to come...

We also picked up a cute little flower pot thingy to hang over the railing on our porch! Now our silly rooster has some pretty flowers to look at :)

Among other things, we also hung a bunch of pictures on the walls today, Stephanie and Anthony worked on the backyard and fixed our fountain, we did some laundry, cleaned the ceiling fans (AGAIN before I would allow them to be turned on haha), we made a delish Pork Loin and some Baked Potatoes for dinner, and I have FINALLY emptied out all of our piles of stuff from moving that were in the garage. Being unpacked feels so great! The house is starting to come together and it is much more of a home now :)

It is just crazy, even though I've accomplished so much this weekend, I still feel so overwhelmed with things to do. Our next big project is to paint our bedroom, stay tuned for pictures of that! :)

I hope everyone else had a fabulous weekend!

-Katie

whoops

Yesterday I cleaned the whole house... top to bottom. I even washed our shower curtain. But when I went to take it out of the washer I found a knotted mess, and I have to be honest, I somewhat expected it.

So I hung it up on the rings in the shower, and called in the reinforcements because:
1. I don't have the patience to sit and untangle it
2. I thought it was funny, so I was busy laughing
3. Josh is much better at puzzles than I am.

But as a side note, Josh did NOT think it was funny, nor did he want to sit and untangle it, but luckily he did, otherwise we would have been stuck with this mess:

HUGE Knot

Josh Working his Magic

Yay! He did it!

Now our bathroom looks normal again :)

Note to Self: Next time put the shower curtain into a pillow case and then wash it to avoid huge knots.

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!

-Katie