My attempt at homemaking

In our new house, we have windows that had these dinky little curtains on them (left behind by the previous owners). These curtains served no purpose, except to look cute, but they fell very short of that. The problem was that the sun would come through the windows in the evening and create a huge glare on the tv, thus prohibiting us from seeing anything that was going on. So I decided to attempt to make some cute curtains that would also serve as blackout curtains. Now, I have VERY little sewing experience, so I was very intimidated to try making them. But, I found some cute fabric (paisley!) and came up with a game plan. I borrowed my friend Becca's sewing machine and got to work. Once I got started I was pretty impressed with my work. Of course my lines weren't straight, but I didn't really care...it just adds character! So here are some pics of my curtains!

WARNING: Pita chips can be hazardous to your health

While I was on spring break, we decided to go to Costco. Well of course, they had a ton of samples out, and I can't really pass up free samples at Costco! The first sample that I got was Pita Chips and some hummus. Well it was pretty good. So good in fact, that I didn't feel it was necessary to chew the chip completely before I swallowed it. So when I swallowed the chip, it really hurt, like one of the corners had scratched my throat! My throat hurt for the rest of the day! Then, it was still hurting the rest of the day. I told Brandon that I thought the chip had cut the inside of my throat, and that it would have to heal itself (he laughed at this idea for some reason!) Well my throat hurt for the next 2 days and then I found a giant white dot in the back of my throat (yikes!) so I went to go get a strep test. The strep test came back negative, but the doctor said that the giant white dot was really a giant kanker sore. Now, I've had kanker sores before, but never in my throat. It hurt to eat, drink, talk, yawn and pretty much everything else. So the moral of the story....be very careful when eating pita chips and be sure to chew them!

My. Husband. Is. Awesome.

A couple weeks ago, our car wouldn't start. We didn't have time to try and jump it or get it to a shop, so we just carpooled with the truck for a couple weeks. Well now I'm on Spring Break so we decided to try and fix it ourselves yesterday. We jumped it and drove it to AutoZone. Bran decided that he could just replace the dead battery himself, so we went in and bought one. Now, the only tools that we have are my tools and they are PURPLE. That's right, purple tools. I wish I could have gotten a picture of Brandon using purple hand tools, but I didn't have my camera. So he is trying to get the battery out of the car and it starts raining, of course! Meanwhile, I'm sitting in the warm and cozy truck while he is outside in a t-shirt, in the cold and rain. So he finally got the new battery in and all was well until he tried to connect the battery, but the cable things are so corroded that they just broke. So now we really have to take it to a shop! But Brandon did awesome!

The greatest day of my life

So not only did we move into our new house on Saturday (more to come on that!) but kU lost to Northern Iowa. Yes, Mizzou lost too, but it's totally fine because kU choked yet again. We can now add Northern Iowa to the list along with Bucknell and Bradley. Man, I love March Madness!!

Cake!

For Valentine's Day, I made a cake for me and Brandon. Not that cool, but I was impressed with myself. It is super good too!
Yeah, that is 2 different flavors of icing. Brandon likes white fluffy icing and I like chocolate. So I just split it in the middle!



Yeah, that's 2 layers!

VEGAS BABY!!

Brandon and I decided to finally take a trip to Vegas in January (yeah, I'm just now posting about it!) Before this trip, we had never taken a trip by ourselves before! We never had a real honeymoon and all the trips we had always taken were with other people or we went to see other people like family or friends. So it was pretty sweet! I've never been to Vegas before, so I was amazed! Totally not my scene (the gambling, the drinking, the scantily-clad women, etc. ) but it was so awesome! I just loved the lights and the excitement!

Some of the highlights:
1. We rode the Big Shot at the top of the Stratosphere. This was probably my favorite part of the trip! I love heights! It was so cool to be up that high and then they shot us up the tower super fast, it was so awesome!
2. We saw the Cirque Du Soleil show "Beatles Love"...it was sweet! I didn't know all of the songs, but it was really cool and we had really good seats (3rd row!)
3. We stayed at 2 hotels: Stratosphere and Trump Tower...after staying at Trump, I don't know how I can stay anywhere else! There was a TV in the bathroom mirror! It was pure luxury and after we checked in, we didn't want to leave our room!

Here are some pics:Thank you Donald Trump for making the best hotel I've ever stayed in! It was so beautiful! And so classy!


This is the TV that was in the mirror in the bathroom at Trump... so awesome! I took a bath and watched Price is Right at the same time!

Spongebob!

That is a lion...well the underside of a lion. This was at MGM and we could walk through the Lion house. It was awesome! I wanted to pet them!

The famous sign...it really isn't that big. I always thought it was bigger than it really is.

I wasn't supposed to take a picture of this, but I did anyway. This a poster of almost all the Harry Potter characters and it was signed by all of the cast members. Grand total: $4000. No problem, pocket change.

This was the ceiling outside the Beatles Love show. It was pretty cool!

The Beatles Revolution Lounge. You can actually walk through those letters!

Outside the Mirage, where we saw Beatles Love.

At the top of the Stratosphere. Wow, we are pale!


View of the Strip from the top of the Stratosphere.

Overall, it was an awesome trip!!

Our first Christmas tree!

So now that Thanksgiving is over, we decided to get ourselves a Christmas tree! This is our first Christmas tree (although not our first Christmas since being married) and it's real! It smells so good, but it's really strong and it fills the whole apartment...like overwhelmingly fills it! We got it at Lowe's and it only took us like 3 minutes to find it, it was probably the fastest tree shopping I've ever experienced. It's really soft too, not sharp and painful when you touch the needles. I'm also really happy that we got one, because we won't even be here for Christmas (we'll be in St. Louis, Yay!), but Brandon knew that I needed a tree!

Here it is strapped to our little car. We are lucky that it was so nice out today that we could ride with the windows down to hold the ropes.

Here is my really strong husband carrying it into the apartment. It's kind of strange to me that we can wear t-shirts outside because it's so nice, but we are putting up our Christmas tree!



All we have to put on it right now are the lights. The ornaments are currently being shipped to us from St. Louis so it will just have to have lights for right now, but it still looks really good!