Ten of The Week!

1. Corey and I started a backyard project. Our backyard is like a giant wasteland and Corey had a great idea to make a fire pit.

2.We went to Lowes and got a 60% discount on the bricks so we got them very cheap. We stacked all 400 of them in the back of Corey's Element. We were kind of scared we were destroying his suspension in the process (the bricks are about 5 lbs each), but we made it home and unstacked them all and started spacing them out. It looks good so far (at least we think so).

3. I am about 80% done with the re-paint the kitchen project. It looks about a million times better than the color we chose last time.

4. It's the rainy season again, it's been very gloomy the past week. But today it got very hot and sunny so we were able to start our project.

5. We are excited that the new seasons of our favorite shows are back on. I make Corey watch Bones and Greys Anatomy with me.

6. Corey put up a new shelf that I really really wanted. He put it up and now I am not so sure that I want it anymore. It's way thicker than we thought, so it looks kind of awkward where we hung it. He had to drill giant holes in the wall for it so I am relunctant to take it down.

7. We made really yummy sugar cookies from scratch and homemade vanilla buttercream frosting that we made green. I am glad some of our baking adventures are actually turning out.

8. Corey still works 14 hours a day and gets home past 6 every night, the Army is mean to soldiers. Since they deploy for a year at a time, maybe when they are actually home they should be allowed to spend some time with their families.

9. Midterms are coming up, I can't believe we are almost half way through this semester. Thankfully the VA finally started paying me my GI bill, woo hoo!

10. That's all for this week that we can think of. Hope everyone is doing well!

Ten of the Week

Another boring week, not much to say.

1. We started painting our kitchen because the old green color is ugly.
2. We went to the fair and saw all the animals.
3. I made an experiment with erosion and got the garden hose stuck ten feet in the ground.
4. I had to dig a giant hole to get the hose out

5. I moved a stupid painting for yoli and now the room is lopsided

6. I got to go to work at 2:30 this morning, it's pretty awesome. I worked from 2:30am to 5:00 pm today.

7. Yoli learned how to make pretty flowers out of clay.

8. I went to the NCO of the month board and got second place woohoo.

9. We have been taking the dogs on lots of long walks and sometimes running because we need to get more exercise.

10. Our dogwood tree is for sure dead :( we killed it good.

Ten on Saturday...

1. Sorry we haven't posted in forever... here is a brief recap of our lives since last time.

We spent a couple of weeks in Colorado, getting married! We are officially Mr. and Mrs. Corey Bell. We spent our honeymoon in Vegas before driving all the way home to North Carolina with two dogs.

Me in front of our hotel

I started school full time (I am out of the Army now woohoo!) and Corey returned to work. :( We really enjoyed our vacation and were sad to go back to our regular lives.

2. I really enjoy my ceramics class, it is by far my favorite class. It is the only 'fun' class I am authorized to take with my GI Bill, so after this semester it will be all business. I have successfully made two bowls and a mug!

3. Corey had to go into work yesterday even though it was a day off for everyone in the Army, and today he is on staff duty which means he was cheated out of two days off! His four day weekend got turned into a two day :(

4. The Cape Fear Fair is in town, so we will be going to see the pig races and cows and everything tomorrow. And they have tigers, we are excited to see them!

5. I still can't find a job, which is pretty disappointing. I wish the VA would start paying me my education benefits, but they are backed up ten weeks, so it will be a while.

6. We decided we're fat and need to start exercising and eating healthy again. We will miss eating ice cream every day.

7. We went geocaching with Bubba yesterday after Corey got off of work. It was fun, we haven't done it in a while. We got 3 out of the 4 we were looking for. Corey found them all, I was apparantly a bad looker.

Corey and Bubba geocaching

8. Butters got out one night (he is indoor kitty) and really scared us, we coulnd't find him anywhere. He came home when he got hungry, but he really worried us.

9. Bunny is the cutest dog ever!

10. That's all we can think of at the moment. Hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!