Hodge Podge

The title for this blog pretty much sums up what its going to be about. We have been up to so many random things and I needed to clean out the memory card on my camera. My sister would be proud I cleaned it off since I had pictures on there from Christmas!

This weekend is our first weekend of NOTHING in about 6 weeks. Brent worked this morning and I was super excited to sleep in. Yep, that didn't happen. I was wide awake at 7:30. So, I started cleaning and doing laundry. I love spending my Saturday mornings making the house smell like cleaning products. But, I really hate doing laundry! I used to not mind it when we lived in Des Moines but since our washer/dryer are in the "dungeon" basement, I hate it. I refuse to even go down there barefoot!

I'll narrate with the pictures to show what we have been up to!

This is a picture of my grandpa and grandma Bolsem on their wedding day. We spent last weekend celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary. It is so neat to be able to share in that special moment with them. It was also great to see family I hadn't seen in awhile. My great Aunt Sheri and great Uncle Steve and their whole family was there also to help Celebreat their 40th Anniversary. It was a great time!

Here are my grandparents in front of their cake at the party.

This is my entire family on the Bolsem side.

Wrigley and Brent after all 3 of us picked pumpkins. Brent was a great help, Wrigley...not so much! Some of the pumpkins have chew marks!

Here is my wheelbarrow of pumpkins. I sent the picture to my sister and her comment back was "looks picture perfect!". That made me feel really good and I couldn't agree more!

This is Jack's new face. Props to Grandma Sue (my mom) on teaching him to make this face and basically snort while being fed. I don't think my sister enjoys it as much!

This is the cute little hand towel our friends the Andersen's gave us. They knew my kitchen was accented with lime green and I think this fits perfect!

I had my mother-in-laws help but I couldn't find curtains I liked for my kitchen, so I found the fabric I like and for about $10 I have curtains. I actually did try to help, well she made me. I helped pin the curtains, but when I watched her sewing them she was fixing all my pinning. Next time I won't help she can just do it!
This is the window that has cupboards all around it and a built in desk under the window!

Here is another kitchen window. I think this picture almost looks like its out of a magazine. (I might be biased though!)


Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend! It is a great day in our house cause the HAWKS BEAT IOWA STATE!!!! When the Hawks win...Brent is in a good mood! So life is good so far! :)