Slackers!

I've not been doing a great job keeping up with our blog! My apologies!

My oh my oh summer came and it went too quickly. Yesterday marked our 100th day of being married folks! As well as my Dad's birthday! And it marked exactly 5 years to the day that we met! This is only known b/c it happened to be on my Dad's Bday! :o) Yep, so now we're old married people! hehee

I'm 2 - 0 in cooking this week! Monday, I made chicken and dumplings which I was soooo excited about because I've never made this before and really wanted it to be good! As wonderful as my husband is, he can also be brutally honest when it comes to my cooking/baking. What can I say? He's my guinea pig! Fortunately, my chicken and dumplings passed the hubs meter! We both enjoyed the meal. Of course he had a few suggestions! haha Last night I made baked ham, steamed veggies, toasted baguette, and scalloped potatoes! Go me! I'm a little home maker! I can toot my own horn every once in a while! :o) Now, tonight's menu is baked parmesan. Hopefully that will turn out just as good! You know, that was actually the first meal I had when I went to meet the parents! Brendan's parents that is! When Brendan came home with me for the first time, we were having a good ole' southern fish fry. haha Way to welcome him into the family! Nothing like greasy fish fryin' to say welcome to the clan!

This weekend we are headed to Florence. I've been doing better with my homesickness. I knew it was just an adjustment and that I'd get used to it! But I am excited about going home. Almost as much as I am about this awesome weather! Perfect day to relax outside in the hammock and read. Which I did for about an hour today. The new book I am reading it called The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Just made it to Chapter 3 and I've already cried. It's about this 14 year old girl who was murdered..she's telling the story from "her heaven" and looking down on Earth. Interesting.

Today, I set out to make a fall centerpiece for our dining room table. Tooting my own horn here again.. I think I did an okay job! We'll see what the hub says when he gets home. Speaking of being crafty, I've started my scrap booking of our wedding. That takes some time. I can't toot my horn here. Can't even give it a little squeak. I need work in this department. Unfortunately, scrap booking is not cheap and so it's going to take time for me to get this done! I've completed about 5 pages though! They don't look the greatest, but hopefully they'll get better as I go along!

Well, I think that's all for now. I'll try to do better with updates. Can you believe October begins tomorrow! I've got to get to work on my Halloween Costume. I can't tell you just yet what I'm going to be! I'm putting it together myself. Last year, I put my lady bug costume together myself and even painted the polka dots on my red tights. But didn't realize the paint would go through and so when I took the tights off after painting polka dots, I had polka dotted legs that had to sit in the tub and be scrubbed off. tsk tsk!