One Year!!!

So I am a few days late, but on Monday we celebrated our first wedding anniversary!!! The good news is we are still married, still in love and looking forward to at least another 59 years. I may have mentioned it before, but when I accepted Jeff's wedding proposal, it was on the condition that we would be married for at least 60 years. Yes, I know... you are doing the math in your head and wondering how on earth that would be possible at our age... BUT, God can do great things and I won't take anything less than 60 bliss filled years with the most wonderful man in the world. The Lord knows how long I waited to find him! ; ) We enjoyed a wonderful weekend at the beach, our most favorite place. I'll post some pictures soon.

Thanks to our friends and family who have prayed for us and supported us through all the fun phases of dating, engagement and now marriage. We love each and every one of you and pray God's blessings on you and your families.

Joshua 24:15

SUNSHINE!!!!

I had the "pleasure" of coming to work early this morning. And as much as I dislike sitting at my desk at an hour that I'd normally still be in bed, there was one bonus to being up early... seeing the sun rise. I praise our Father above for the glorious sunshine!!! I didn't realize how much I had missed seeing it until this morning. I am ready for sun, I am ready for warmth, I am ready for dry grass... I am ready for Spring. Sounds like we're going to have weather in the 70s for the next couple days... I am ready! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Work, Work, Work

This is how our house looked before. Of course, this was taken last summer when the grass was green and lush and the bushes were in full bloom. And before we started to do a little re-landscaping. (Is that a word?) Jeff has been planning, plotting and thinking about how to change around our yard since before we even moved in. Well few weekends ago, before rain, snow and illness, we spent the weekend in the yard starting on phase one. Tear out those ugly bushes in the front and relocate the tree that you currently cannot see on the side of the house... Here is how it turned out:

See how much better it looks? You can actually see the front of the house, you can see that we do have a front door and best of all... you can see that lovely tree that was once lost on the side of the house. Oh yeah, and can you see that little roof peeking over the fence there? That's our illegal (per the HOA rules) plastic shed. That was our Friday project... technically it is supposed to be a wood shed... but who wants to spend $3k on a shed?

So now we have to decide what phase two is going to look like... raising and leveling the front lawn with a retaining wall? Putting in a sprinkler system? Moving more bushes and trees? Tilling and re-seeding? We don't know yet... there are too many ideas on the table to choose from. How about for now we sit on our duffs and watch a movie? I like that idea! ; )