Family Fun and Valentine's Day!

This last weekend was a busy fun one! Friday I went to a fun girl's night out and watched a rad movie! Then on Saturday I was able to go to a photography workshop held in Carmel. It was a great class and I learned a lot. Hopefully my pictures will start to get better! Sunday evening we were lucky to get together with our family here in Indiana for a family potluck! We celebrated Janelle's birthday and enjoyed eating and visiting!

Monday of course was Valentine's day~ Chase brought me these lovely flowers and made me a yummy breakfast! He is sure a sweetheart! It really was a nice day to think of all those I love especially my most wonderful husband!

Janelle blowing out her candles!

Fun times!

Happy (Late) Valentine's to you all!

Even Adults Need Incentives!

Chase and I went to class one time about budgeting and taking care of your financials etc. In the class one of the teachers mentioned that she fully believed in incentives. For example, when they kept to their budget or even below their budgeted amount for a certain area (such as groceries) then they would use the extra for something special or save it for something special (so the amount would rollover to the next month so they would have a little extra in that area). She even went on to discuss how they use incentives to keep goals and such within their lives. So one of my "goals" every year is to get in shape and exercise. Well to be honest I am never good at it. So this year I am going to do better. So I made a little chart and if I exercise 3 x a week for so many weeks I can earn my incentive and every six weeks after that I continue to get a reward if I keep it up! I am so excited! Chase thought it was funny I chose my own rewards but hey it had to be something I would work for- right?!

The stickers are even cute smiley faces! (It is kind of nostalgic for me, it takes me back to my younger years when we had charts to make sure we were doing our chores and practicing piano...we will see how well they actually work!)

Going Out with My Sweetie!

This last weekend Chase took me to a Mystery Dinner Theater! Isn't he so cute! We dressed up and had a very fun evening! One of the fun parts of the evening was how they involved the audience in the show. We even got to write down what we thought the resolution of it was. (We were all wrong =() It was a great time- Thanks love!

Us- all dressed up!

The show!

At the show!

A Random Post

Saturday afternoon we headed toward the Indianapolis surrounding area to have fun with some friends! Our friend Pete had a birthday so we got to get together for some pizza and fun times!

Jeff, Pete & Laura

Melissa, Jason & Jack

Hi Chase!

Alisha hanging out!

On another note...here is a little valentines day decoration I made. The paper roses are made from old book pages (sorry to you book lovers...we had an extra of this particular book to make you feel better =)...) anyhow I love the look it creates. I inked the edges with pink ink and I like the affect. Pretty easy =)

If you didn't hear the big news- the midwest got hit pretty hard with snow and ice so yesterday the university had a snow day and also today!! Chase had to do rounds last night among the undergrad apartments and here he is all geared up to go out!

SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!

I am getting spoiled having Chase home all day...