I think our TV has been on HGTV since last Wednesday, with the occasional show on TLC. I’m sure Jonathan is ready for me to go back to work so I will quit coming up with things we need to do to the house. Currently I would like to:
~put cabinets in the laundry room –we have none in there currently
~paint the living room–it’s still white chocolate, it needs a color
~put a deck in the backyard– a small one, nothing lavish
~paint the office and guest room
~pull up the carpet and put hardwoods in (or a form of hardwoods)
~get an actual dining room table

I think that’s it for now! And I don’t expect to do all of these, or atleast not any time soon. But I do expect to paint the living room within the next month or two (whenever I can get on a ladder again). I’ve looked at applying to be on one of the 100 design shows on HGTV but they are all in like LA or NY…what about TEXAS! We need some design guidance too! what you want to pretty up all the other states but leave Texas in the dust? Geeze. Owell, we’ll just have to do it by ourselves!

I was going to post this Tuesday before I headed to work but I was running late so it never happened. Here’s the funny thing–look at the picture below and then remember I was in the ER all day on Tuesday.
The post was going to be about simplicity and how sometimes you take things for granted. As of Monday when I took this picture I had been feeling the best I’ve felt in over a year. My heart medications were finally at the right dosage and doing their job, my sinus surgery fixed my sinus infections and was all healed and I hadn’t had a headache in about 3 weeks–YEAH! I felt great, I was done with school and the hubs and I were enjoying life. On my way home from work on Monday I saw all the sunflowers had popped up basically overnight so Jonathan and I along with Presley took a stroll behind our house so I could take some pictures of the sunflowers. I got this picture and it just makes me think of summer and the simplicity of it, or how it used to be when we were kids. We would be off school for a couple of months and just have fun, times were simple. I miss those days! Not that life is complicated now by any means but it’s just not as simple as it used to be. Then Tuesday happened when things got a little less simple. But this will go away just as everything else does and we can get back to life. So if I ever want to remember those times of no work, bills or struggles I can just pull this picture out and look at it.

This weekend wasn’t as busy as the last 3 or 4 weekends. We didn’t really have anything scheduled so we could do pretty much anything we wanted–YEAH! I needed this before next weekend hits–it’s gonna be busy. So here is what our fun weekend was full of.

Friday:
* took some stuff to a friends house for a garage sale and stayed and chatted with them for a while.
* made some “chicken littles” for dinner…imagine chick fil a nuggets but better -MMmmmmm.
* went to bed early because I was Exhausted!!

Saturday:
* slept in some but got up earlier than normal on a saturday and made waffles for us to eat.
* went and got my hair chopped off

* Jonathan and I went to the Waxahachie balloon fest with Richard, Amber and Gracelyn and Phil.

Sunday:
* went to church
* came home and made some lunch
* went shopping at Costco (piece of advice–go with a friend and split the cost of food–if we got 300 slices of cheese, 200 slices would go bad before we got to them! So split the cost and amount of cheese but don’t cut the cheese–HAHAHAHA just kidding)
* took a 30 minute nap
* uploaded pics to flickr
* baked a cake
* watered the lawn
* went to bed early

Jonathan has a great anniverary weekend recap on his blog so make sure you check it out and see how we spent the weekend. I can’t believe we’ve been married for a whole year. Everyone keeps saying “I can’t believe it’s been a year–it hasn’t been a year!” Trust me, it’s been a year. I guess it just seems like that to us because we actually lived it. The time has gone by pretty fast and in that aspect it doesn’t seem like it’s been a year, but on the other side, if you think about all we’ve done in the last year it all comes into perspective. The last year we moved to our first home in Waxahachie, bought our first home in Red Oak, each bought “new” cars, Jonathan has a new job, I started going to a new church (I’m talking about encounter, I didn’t start going to a seperate church from jonathan)–all that while adjusting to a new roommate and partner in life – or crime (however you want to perceive). We’ve had a blast the last year and I have enjoyed every minute of it….although I could life without the occasional sleepless nights from someone snoring..ahem! I started making a list in my head the other day of things that I’ve learned from the last year or maybe things I’ve known but never wanted to admit. I have since then forgot most of them but here are a few that I can think of:
1. I’m not a morning person
2. I’m not a night person – about 10:00 and I’m out
3. I’m pretty much a 10:00-5:00 person, so if you catch me during those hours it’ll be great.
4. I’m much more of a hermit than Jonathan…he has to do things and go places all the time with people, I DON’T.
5. Never let your husband do the laundry or you’ll end up with a pink shirt or a pair of jeans you can’t wear anymore and have never worn before.
6. Husbands like to blame things on the tools they use, instead of the operator of the said tool. i.e – cooking pancakes “the pan was messed up” hmmm.
7. I’m thankful that the hubs takes our the garbage every tuesday and friday but then I get home and go to put a handful of trash in the trashcan and there’s no bag.
8. I have a husband that cooks and for that I’m thankful! (Thank you for my breakfast burrito this morning–delish)
9. Jonathan adopted a dog when he married me, I’m sure if it were up to him, she would no longer be around.
10. When you talk to your husband, you have to say exactly what you want, or you’ll get the opposite. So instead of saying “I’d prefer if you didn’t do that” you should say “Do not under any circumstances say or do that!”
11. I’m very independant and need to learn to let go. Sometimes you have to sit back and let the other person do things…you can’t do them all.
12. Men don’t think things through all the way–sometimes they’ll wash/rinse the sprayer from staining the fence in the kitchen sink…and stain will get everywhere! That’s when you kindly say…”do you think you can do that outside in the grass?”

Those are just some of the things I’ve learned over the last year and I’m sure Jonathan could have a completely different list of things and I would love to hear that. But I’ve also learned what it’s like to have a great husband who loves you and cares about you no matter what and even though there are times when you want to ring their neck, those times will never outweigh the good times. Here’s to another great year!

I’ve never considered myself a needy person…in fact, I’m the opposite of that – too independent at times. But for the first time in my life I felt like a needy person and then felt selfish and told myself to stop. Here’s why. First off, I love our church and the fact that Jonathan is so involved. I love it that it’s a big part of his life and he does so much for Sundays and throughout the week. But, here’s the selfish part–I was sitting there during our worship time Sunday morning –Easter Sunday– and I was by myself…of course I was sitting next to some friends but they were there together as a couple and talking and I was there…by myself. Shari asked where Jonathan was and my typical response was, “I don’t know–he could be anywhere.” I go to church by myself, I sit by myself–usually in the general vicinity of jonathan but he’s usually busy doing other things during the service so it’s by myself (at least that’s how it feels), and I leave by myself. Therefore, I feel like I go to church by myself. He’s always busy doing stuff before church, so why would I go with him, to sit by myself some more? He is busy during church so we don’t really get to share the experience together. I realized that we have never been to church as a couple–EVER. We’ve never come in together and never left together, we are two separate people that happen to be married and sit in the general vicinity of each other on Sunday monrings. I don’t know if we will ever be able to experience church as a normal couple–if that exists. We won’t be able to share in the spiritual part of our relationship –at church). It makes me sad…you grow up thinking, you’ll get up on Sunday mornings get ready and go to church together, sit and enjoy the service together and then go home together…and eventually do that with kids. But that dream won’t happen now– Nope, it will be me getting up, getting kids ready (some day) and us gong to church by ourselves. That’s when I thought to myself..this is selfish and I’m having a pitty party for myself–STOP! So i did and we’ll just go back to the way it was….me going to church and being lonely while I sit and enjoy the service by myself. But I don’t want Jonathan to ever stop doing what he does…because he loves it! I would never want him to stop doing all the things he does, it’s who he is and I married him for who he is. So that’s how it goes–is it selfish of me to think like this, do I have any right to think this? I know he is doing this for God and thats what I keep telling myself…it’s just hard when you see all the other couples around you sitting together and getting that experience together when you’re by your onsie.

It’s always interesting here at Casa de Blundell. You never know what we’ll do next. Last night was very cold outside and we had nothing to do so we decided to play miniature golf in the house! Okay so it was Jonathan’s idea to play it. He set up a 9 hole course where we had to go under tables, chairs, through shoes and bounce off lunch coolers. It was fun and we tied both rounds. Okay so technically he won the second round but we’ll just say we tied 😉 All in all it was pretty fun and who knows what we’ll do next, maybe bowling in the hallway! you can view all the pictures on our flickr pages.