Anniversary Questionaire

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

Here is a questionaire that Jonathan found somewhere and we both answered it and posted it on our blogs, so we’ll see if our answers match.

1. How long have you been married? 1 year to the day
2. How many people came to your wedding reception? About 250 or so.
3. What kind of cake did you serve? A white cake with some spring flowers on it and a red velvet top layer
4. Where was your wedding? Lake Ridge Bible Church
5. What did you serve for your meal? Chick fila nuggets, fruit and other finger foods
6. How many people were in your bridal party? 15 â€“ 6 bridesmaides, 6 groomsmen, 2 flower girls and a ring bearer
7. Are you still friends with them all? Yes.
8. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony? I donâ€™t think so.
9. Most special moment of your wedding day? The whole thing, but probably when the doors opened at the church
10. Any funny moments? My nephew sneezed and a HUGE wad of snot came out of his nose and he caught it in his hand. Then he proceeded to wipe it on the new carpet.
11. Any big disasters? nope.
12. Where did you go on your honeymoon? Pagosa Springs, CO
13. How long were you gone? A week
14. If you were to do your wedding over, what would you change? Mmm, probably have more time at the ceremony.
15. What side of the bed do you sleep on? Left side
16. What size is your bed? King
17. Greatest strength as a couple? We laugh a lot and work well as a team
18. Greatest challenge as a couple? Neither of us like to make a decision, b/c we want the other person to get what they want more than ourself.
19. Who literally pays the bills? Mostly me, but we both do ( physically paying them) we both â€œpayâ€ them.
20. What is your song? I guess you could say I have and always will by dave barnes
21. What did you dance your first dance to? We didnâ€™t
22. Describe your wedding dress: cream, not white white. Embroidery and beading on the top and train. Two layers on the skirt and train.
23. What kind of flowers did you have at your wedding? Spring flowers but mainly tulips
24. Are your wedding bands engraved? Yes, with SHMILY and 4/28/07

I need a weekend for the weekend

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

What a weekend! I think we need to have three day weekends. Friday and Saturday will be the weekend and then Sunday will be the recovery for the weekend. On Sunday you can’t do anything but rest and relax to get you ready for the week. Think it will ever happen? I don’t either. Well, we did a lot this weekend and now the hubs and I are both exhausted. Let’s see, where to begin–Friday Jonathan had a CWF show in Rockwall so I went and hung out with the parentals. My mom, Vicki and I went to find some flowers for an arrangement to put in a vase I have for our living room on Friday afternoon and then we met my dad and bob for dinner. We went back to their house for a while and then I headed back home so I could let miss houdini out of her crate. Presley has been digging to get out of the fence so we leave her in her crate now instead of outside. It’s her fault, if she wouldn’t dig she could have free roam of the back yard on a gorgeous day like today. But–No, she insists on digging. Whatever floats her boat! Anyway, Saturday we woke up and went to Lowes and spent entirely too much money. We got some stone border to put around the flower beds and trees and some mulch and flowers. We spent the day in the yard, pulling the grass that had grown in the flower beds and around the trees and then put the stone border in. I planted some flowers that I’m sure will die in a couple of weeks, but they look nice now! Then Saturday night we went to Red Hot & Blue for my birthday dinner with family and friends. We had a great time celebrating the 2nd anniversary of my 25th birthday. Sunday I headed to Dallas for a wedding shower for my best friend Jen and then had to run up to work to pick something up and run some more errands in Dallas. It was a full day of running around and gas usage! I got home just when the women’s group that met at our house was wrapping up and Jonathan had spent the whole time outside putting the mulch in the flower beds and trying to fix our tree out back that is now the leaning tower of pisa because of the storms that came through last week. Sunday evening I did some much needed grocery shopping and then took a government test that I’m sure I failed. Then I watched the season premier of Desperate Housewives, a TV show that I’m sure has more drama than any soap opera ever created, and then headed to bed. I’ll post some pictures of our yard/flower beds once I get take and get them uploaded.

This morning I had to drive to our new Plano hospital because it’s my turn to work out here this week..we all rotate through so once a week I’ll be in Plano. The drive its self isn’t that bad, there really wasn’t much traffic, it’s just a long drive. We’ll see what the traffic is like when I leave though–that might be a different story. So I’m sitting here in our new lab on the computer looking out a nice big window onto Preston and soaking in the sun…it’s great! We don’t have any windows at our Dallas lab so this is a treat! Although I think they put the windows in to mess with us because the glass is weird and makes everything out of focus so it hurts my eyes to look through it–but it’s still a window to the outside world. Well, I guess that’s enough rambling for one day…Back to work I go!

Weekend wrap up

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

Another great weeeknd! Friday night we were supposed to go to the David Barnes concert at House of Blues in Dallas but I really didn’t feel like going. It had been a long, frustrating week and I didn’t really want to be in a big crowd of loud people. So instead we took some dinner over to Smiley and Shari..they just had a new baby. Then we went to eat at Bennigan’s and then went to Best Buy to get some new speakers for my computer. Saturday we both slept in until around 11:00 and while Jonathan went to meet with a friend, I caught up on some TV shows that were recordered on the DVR (What Not To Wear, Trading Spaces, and Flip that House). When the hubs got back home we ran to Target (of course) and then to Lowes to get a tree for the backyard and looked around for some ideas of what to put in the flower beds. We got home Saturday just in time to unload the tree and then go the Lynch’s house for dinner and games. It was quite an evening with scene it, Are you smarter than a 5th grader and rock band. Sunday we went to church and I convinced Jonathan to help in the Nursery with me. We had all of 2 kiddos. Then after church, Jonathan had a meeting and I went home and started pulling weeds in our yard. It seems as if the entire yard is one giant weed! I spent 4 hours pulling weeds and barely made a dent in the backyard. I had enough of that and I went in to take a test in my stupid art course. Jonathan finally made it home about 5:30 and then planted our tree that we got the day before. Now we just have to wait and watch it grow-HA. After all that, we were trying to figure out what to make for dinner and his parents showed up. They were on their way back from San Antonio so they stopped by to say hi. We were in the kitchen and Presley started going crazy and barking non stop…I looked through the storm door (I always leave it open it it’s nice out) and there they were walking up the driveway–Nice surprise. We watched a little TV and then headed to bed…both sore and worn out! I’ll post a picture of our new tree sometime this week.

Memory Lane

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

Last night I took a walk down memory lane…well, more like a drive down memory lane. Jonathan and I went to eat at Dixie House in Lakewood last night with Matt. Dixie House is a restaurant similar to Black Eyed Pea…I believe it was the first BEP in Dallas. Anyway, Jen and I used to eat there when we lived in the area. Just driving down Gaston and Abrams and in that area makes me miss it soo much. I love that area more than anywhere I’ve ever lived. I don’t know what it is but when I drive in that neighborhood I feel at peace and at home, strange I know. Not that I don’t like where we live now or feel at home there, I do…but not like dallas. I can’t even begin to describe what it is about living there…belive me, I’ve tried. While we were driving around, I pointed out everything to Jonathan, the places we used to eat, visit, the walgreens I went to , the 24 hour fitness I went to, and everything. It was a fun trip down memory lane. We didn’t go by the dog park where I used to take Presley but he’s been there with me before But, at the moment, the entrance ramp to that lane is currently closed because everytime I go visit, I just want to move back that much more. (big sigh) and I know Jonathan would probably hate living there.

selfish??

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

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.

Memphis

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

Jonathan and I got back home Sunday night about 8:30 or so from our trip to Memphis, TN. We had a great time! We left Thursday morning and drove the 7 hours to Memphis and stayed through Sunday morning. We got to spend some time at Graceland seeing everything Elvis and then headed over to Sun Studios where Elvis was made famous…along with some other known guys like Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. We went to the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and also toured the Gibson factory and saw how they make guitars. We found a few geocaches while we were there and had some AWESOME BBQ at Corky’s. Over all it was a great trip and time to get away from the hussel and bussel of work and school. You can look at some of the pictures o on our flickr pages.

2 more months!

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

I just took a midterm today in my adult critical care class and lets just say I could have done better. Whoever thought you could work full time, go to school full time, have a decent relationship and spend enough time with your spouse, maintain somewhat of a social life and still maintain a decent GPA is CRAZY! I mean I’m only trying to graduate Summa Cum Laude–if I get all A’s this semester I might be able to do it…if not, I’ll just have to settle with Magna Cum Laude ;( . So I either ignore my husband and have no social life (which i’m kinda ok with the no social life) and do well in school which would help me if I ever want to pursue a masters. Or just ignore school and just get by–which is totally not me. I can’t do it all!

Since I work monday through friday and typically am too tired to do anything on the weeknights, I’m left with doing stuff on the weekends, and lets face it, the weekends are too busy for that too. With the women’s group that meets at our house, other events that we have at our house (dinner, etc), and other things going on I have no time! I would be completely fine with doing absolutely nothing on the weekends except for going to church on Sunday morning. In fact I would be completely content with only doing things with Jonathan during the week and weekend, nothing more. But unfortunately Jonathan is a social butterfly and if I don’t want to hold him back from doing stuff. I just wish school were over and I could go back to just work and life!

small things

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

It’s the small things in life that are what I live for…someone doing the dishes, letting the dog out or getting my favorite candy bar for me. The small things. Today was a pretty busy day at work, not a bad day, just a busy day with a lot going on and tomorrow is going to be more of the same thing. When I got home from work today Jonathan was fixing dinner and had bought me some flowers. Not only were they daisies (which I love–almost as much as tulips) but they were orange–ORANGE, I love orange. Thanks Jonathan-I love you!

Fun at Casa De Blundell

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

As you all know, I’ve come to love photography–taking pictures, looking at pictures and learning new techniques. Basically everything photography. Anyway, I’m trying to learn new lighting techniques and work on the ones I do know. Anyway, I got some lights and a backdrop so I turned our guest room into a “ghetto studio” as I call it. Well, today I took some self portraits of myself and then took some of Jonathan and put them together in photoshop as a “photobooth” montage. I think it turned out pretty good and I had fun in the mean time. What do you think?

someone has a case of the Mondays!

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Laurie Blundell

Why is it that when we go back to work on Monday morning, we’re as tired, if not more tired, than we were when we left work on Friday? I think it’s because we do too much in a weekend that we don’t really rest…..we just need a 3 day weekend–one day to recover from the weekend before we go back to work…now there’s an idea! Let’s see if we can adopt that one.

This was a busy weekend. Friday night –well we didn’t do much because I was still under the weather but we rented a movie and then around 10:30 pm Jonathan took off for the Encounter mens 9 event–so I went to sleep 😉 Saturday I pretty much just ran errands and cleaned the house to get ready for the women’s group that was meeting there yesterday. Then Sunday we went to church and then kicked Jonathan out of the house (on his birthday) so the women’s group could meet there for the first time. We had a good turn out-about 21 women came! After they all left, we cleaned up a bit and then headed to Mesquite for a Birthday dinner with his family and my parents. He’s 29 now–and no, Jonathan, that’s not old! Happy Birthday!!