Its Official!

This last week Chase accepted an offer of employment from the Idaho National Lab. Soooo that means we are headed back to IDAHO when he graduates in August!!

(Picture courtesy of The Vintage Lemon)

I can't believe how fast the time has flown. We have truly come to love Indiana and the wonderful people we have met here. It will be so sad to leave. I am thankful for the time we have left here in this wonderful place!

A New Friend!

A couple of weeks back Chase and I went to visit our good friends Melissa and Jason to see their new baby Cadence in the hospital! What fun to celebrate a new birth with cake!

Yay Cadence!

Congrats Melissa, Jason and Jack (not present)!

Valentine's Day!

Happy Late Valentine's Day!

It was a good day =o) Chase made me pink heart pancakes for breakfast (which I know I have mentioned this before~ but he makes me breakfast pretty much every day...I am pretty sure I have the best husband EVER!)

It was a pretty full day of making cookies and dessert and something for my hubby but such a good day to remind us of all the wonderful people in our lives. Especially our sweethearts!

That evening we enjoyed take-out pizza at home with bottled Rootbeer! By candlelight to set the mood! Then we headed to a movie at the theater called "We Bought A Zoo." I really enjoyed this one! It was really good =o)

Then we came home and enjoyed this yummy dessert called Vanilla and Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake with raspberry sauce. Yum Yum! The recipe and tutorial can be found HERE.

A good day because I was able to be with my best friend! Thank you Love!

Chase also surprised me with this bouquet of roses. He is so sweet!

A video summary...

Here is a video summary of our trip back in September. Make sure to have your speaker volume up!

Date Night!

Last week we had a fun date night making churros, drinking hot chocolate, and delving into famous literary delights from the last few centuries and then trying to create our own!

Here is Chase the chef making the churros.

This was the source of our famous literary delights. Actually my Grandma had a passion for poetry and actually owned this book (an older version-same poems) and my sweet husband made me a gift of this not to long ago. Whenever I see it it reminds me of my Grandma. It has many of my favorites in it.

Churros, hot chocolate, and poetry. Who can go wrong there?!

Chase reading.

Here are our creations (Don't laugh! We only had about 3 minutes to write them- it was meant to be a competition of sorts! And they still need work!)

(Title in Progress)

by Chase

Pillows & cushions lay on the couch,

I sit to relax and begin to slouch.

My mind begins to slow as I no longer think,

And the princess continues her work at the sink.

But thats not the love that we began to sow,

In the days on our knees so long ago.

My mind's now awake since my heart began to stir,

My passive rest is fake, but what's real is her.

Joy

by Joni

Happiness is sometimes fleeting,

But joy is real and non-retreating.

It stays true and firm,

Because its roots are come full term.

Deep in the earth it grabs,

Like our heart strings, never drab.

Joy is feeling each day the sun,

And many more days to come,

To feel true joy, pure and real

Upon our heart and lives to seal.

Random Post!

This is quite the random post but I guess that is pretty normal for me!

This is Chase doing some work at home. Isn't he so cute?!

The end of January we were able to get together with friends to celebrate our friend Pete's birthday with bowling and food. It was great fun!

At the bowling alley! I actually bowled over 100 one of my games at least!

So recently Chase and I have started to actually plan date nights. Before, since it is just us we always hang out in the evenings and weekends, but we decided we actually needed to have a formal date night once a week. So we put together a list of date ideas and this is one of them. A dollar store date night! So all those objects up above represent our date activities for the night. We each were given a certain amount to spend and we used it to get both a treat and activities to do.

First on the agenda- silly string war. Chase's choice of activity!

This was one of our treats...

Then we did boondoggling. I totally didn't remember how to do it but Chase was a pro!

THEN....balloon rockets! They were super hard to blow up but once you let them go they were pretty awesome! We actually didn't finish with all the activities we got. After some fun playing we settled down for a fun movie. It was a great night!

A previous date night we cracked out the oil paints and tried our hands at oil painting. It was a lot harder than we both anticipated. Pictures will have to forthcoming as we are not finished yet!

Here are just a few projects I have completed recently. This lamp actually has been in the progress for several months now and with Chase's help we got it exactly how we want it! I got the idea from HERE

It was just so cute that I wanted to make it and I am so relieved to have it done!

Here is another little ditty I finished for a Valentine's Day Decor. I got the idea from HERE but instead of doing it like she did I just used what I had at home and made one sign.

Don't you just love all the randomness?!

So Neat...