My new Obsession!

So, Jon and I have been thinking how great it would be to purchase our very first home. I was very very apprehensive about it. I had to go though our budget about 100 times to make sure we really could afford a home. NOW I'm obsessed with looking at homes. I love going on the Internet and seeing what has popped up in the area we are looking at. I probably check it at least 4 times a day.

Sad story. So we found a house we loved!!! It was actually the first house we even looked at. It was one of those" too good to be true" things. Long story shot, someone put an offer on it the day we decided to put an offer in. So were sad, and we feel like someone else bought our home :(

That's why were so crazy about looking at homes. AND, AND it's fun!

If anyone has any advice about purchasing a home, we would love to hear it!

Thats my dream home.. Actually I just wanted to put a picture up of a home to get you to read my blog (it's a fact that if there is a picture on someones post, you'll read it!!)

I'm an AUNT!

and Jon is an Uncle! This is so exciting!!!!! Liz (Jon's sister) had a sweet baby girl on Wednesday evening. The only info I have is that she (a girl!) was about 7 lbs and like 8 oz, 19 inches long and healthy. I have not seen any pictures yet, but were told she has LOTS of hair..

I"m just so excited to be an AUNT. I'll be the best Aunt I can be... and I promise to always have gum!

LOCKED out!!! :(

Today started out like a typical Sunday for Jon and I. We slept in, got up, ate breakfast and got ready for church! As we left to go to church we grabbed our scriptures, turned off the lights and locked the door...... as soon as I shut the LOCKED door Jon reached in his pocket and realized he did NOT have his keys, and I didn't grab mine....
Yes it was true, we were locked out of our apartment. We looked at each other and gave a smirk like "is this really happening" Jon did have his cell phone on him. We called our landlord, no answer. Tried again, no answer. We tried to call him about 30 times. Our kind neighbor let us hang out at his house while he was gone. We sat there waiting for the landlord to call, and stared at each other. There was no one to blame, and nothing we could do. I tried to talk Jon into calling a locksmith, but he wanted to wait it out. So we did, for another hour. After 2 hours of staring at each other and calling our landlord, we broke down and called a locksmith. He came out to save us. But wait, his little tool that was "guaranteed" to let us in, would not work! He told us we had a "strong lock, it is very good!" (in an accent of course). The only thing he could do was to drill the lock, and of course destroying the lock. Well we were pretty much stuck. We could not get in touch with our landlord. So after about an hour of the lock smith drilling our lock, replacing the lock and re-keying our new lock. We were in! OH and don't worry, right with the lock smith was packing up his tools............THE LANDLORD CALLED! So we missed church :( but learned to ALWAYS, ALWAYS take your keys, and don't assume the other person has their's!


The first part of our weekend was great! we hung out with some friends Friday night. We to a birthday BBQ on Saturday. I made a cake for the party, and well, it tasted good, but it broke! I did a 2 tier cake and the top tier slid off!! Very sad, but i fixed it the frosting and NO one knew!



Friday Night I did an event for the Vanderbilt Owen School Faculty. We used an awesome line I was soooo in Love with! I love the bright pattern and the bold colors we mixed wit it! Probably my favorite event (design wise) yet! Enjoy the pictures!!!

The Hors D' Oeuvres Table

I love that linen!


YUM! Dessert.

View of the room, i love the furniture in the center with throw linens to give a pop of color!

Last Weekend!

My Weekend in Pictures!

Friday night Jon, Ben (Jon's brother) & I went to CMA Music Feast. It's a 4 day festival in Nashville for the Fans. There are events all day long and then each night there is a concert at LP Feild (were the Titans play). We went to the Concert Friday night and Saw Ashton Shepherd, Jack Ingram, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Josh Turner, Jake Owen, and Faith Hill, &....& we had a surprise set by KEITH URBAN!!!! He was AMAZING as well as Faith Hill! There were all great!

Jon & Ben

That's Me in between sets, It was so hot and humid!!

We were on the 1st bowl, look how many people!!!

Jon & I with our glow sticks.. or should I say PARTY sticks!

That was Friday night! It was so fun. We will definitely be in attendance next year!

THEN... Saturday evening I had to work (but it was the fun kind of work)

Chef's Market did a Bar Mitzvah @ Musicians Hall of Fame, I was the coordinator for the event and worked my tail off. It was fun!

Here are the place settings. They are river walks with the guest name on the front & the back had there table number.

This is the suspended buffet for the kids cocktail hour!

This is part of the Kids dinner buffet. This station we did Strawberry Banana Smoothies, and fruit, and chocolate covered strawberries!

Here is the Adult Dinner table!

That was my weekend in review. Ben was in town to entertain Jon, so Thank you Ben! It was a good weekend & I look forward to more just like it!

Projects

Ok, So the other day i realized ... I Don't really have any hobbies. Jon said shopping isn't a very good hobby, and that i cant count "working" as a hobby. Sometimes I feel that's all I do, so that was my hobby. So I've been doing some Internet searching and have found some projects I want to do. My new hobby will be doing projects! Today I was online and found some really really fun fabric http://www.freespiritfabric.com/core-pages/gallery.php?gal_id=141. So I'm going to drive myself to the fabric store, purchase some fun fabric, drive back home. Plug in my sewing machine ( by my sewing machine, i mean my moms first sewing machine my grandmother gave her about 25 years ago.) I used it about a year ago, when I was home visiting for a few days, i begged my mom to let me haul it out to Utah (because in my mind i was going to sew everything in site, in my spare time) which is funny because i didn't have spare time back then. ANYWAYS back to the point, I am going to sew pillows for our coach. Just you wait! I'll post pictures when i finish the product!!

This was my inspiration!

Another project I have, or want to do is find interesting antiques to decorate my house! My sweet husband bought me a dresser the other day. Funny story, we had a friend that is moving out to California. We went to her house a few times to help her move and clean. She had a dresser in her spare bedroom that i thought was interesting. I mentioned it to him in passing and VAULAA, he called me the next day and told me he bought it! I'll post a picture later.. when i get the dresser (we don't have a car big enough to get it over to our apartment), But Anyway i want to have a room that is very vintage/antique/ nick knacks.

My inspiration!

I have a few other projects i want to do this summer, but we'll see how the first two go! If anyone has any other DIY projects that are fun and easy, let me know!!

Happy blogging!