Ten for the Week

1. Corey got a four day last weekend, which would have been filled with a lot of fun things since the weather has been pretty nice lately. Unfortunately, I think I had food poisoning so I was very sick. Corey has been struggling to get over a cold/flu and has also been very sick lately. We spent the long weekend laying in bed and on the couch as a result.

2. Thanks to a weekend in bed, I spent a lot of time reading. Just finished Fire by Kristin Cashore and a couple of Merecedes Lackey books. Loved them all and can't wait to read the next installments.

3. We finally got Bunny to do a new trick besides Sit and Up. She can now lay Down! She's a slow learner.

4. We started working on the bug more lately. We have decided we are going to have to completely take it apart, probably to the frame, to get it as nice as we want in the end. This is a hobby that we both really enjoy and don't get enough time to play with.

5. I thought our porch was looking way too lonely and I really wanted to do some sort of holiday decorations, so we splurged and bought two nice wooden rocking chairs. We hope it will be joined by a swing one of these days.

6. It's been about two months since we cut ice cream out of our diets, which makes us pretty sad inside.

7. We finished putting down all of the pavers for our fire pit project. Now we just need bigger bricks to make the fire pit part. We hope the weather actually gets cold soon so that we can use it!

8. We noticed that we needed to change out about ten light bulbs that we had been putting off changing. We were very proud of ourselves because we bought energy efficient light bulbs, which use about 14 watts compared to 60 per light bulb.

9. I did a sad thing and cut off about five inches of my hair :( I hate hair cuts, I love my long hair, what was I thinking??

10. That's all we can think of.... our lives have been pretty boring of late!

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!