Where did January GO?

Wow. I am so sorry that it has been so long since I have updated! But I have a questions for everyone! Where did the month of January go? I remember writing January on documents, but I can’t quite remember what happened. Yes, it has been a crazy busy month. But I can’t complain, life is going well.

First, I have been working on decorating my house. I picked out pillows and an ottoman for my living room. Pictures are below, let me know what you think.

I have also been working very hard on our annual StafFest at work. This event took place last week and I was part of a secret group of employees that did a Flash Mob! If you do not know, what a Flash Mob is you do not watch the TV show, Modern Family. A flash mob is where people randomly break out into a choreographed dance. It starts with a few people, then more people jump in. Go to Alabama Credit Union's FB Page and check it out. We do not have the completed video back from the Videographers yet, but once I have that I will let everyone see it as well. This might look crazy but it was so much fun and was a big hit at StafFest.

I have been super busy with work and decorating the house that I have not had time for much else. But I am excited to announce that I will be going to Philly this weekend…for work. SO yeah, it want be as much fun as going with friends but I am still very excited because I have never been to Philly.

Hope everyone has a great week.

Kelley

New Year's

Hope everyone had a great New Year’s! Andrew and I had a pretty low key night and day. We went to a awesome dinner at a restaurant downtown that I had been wanting to go to for a while, then we had a relaxing day of watching TV, snacking and reading. While most people would have hated this kind of night/weekend I loved it. We had been going ninety-to-nothing for the past few weeks with the move and Christmas so it was very nice to relax and rest. However, we did work on our New Year’s resolution before the ball dropped.

After reading my friend Brandi’s blog and hearing about her “List”, I decided that Andrew and I would make a list of items to complete throughout the year. We came up with 50 things that we would like to do and or see before the year was over. Once I figure out how to work my blog better I will post the entire list on here. However, I will tell you about a couple of the exciting items we decided to do. One is to go one day a week without TV. I know this might sound weird but neither Andrew nor I really like TV but we find our self turning it on every afternoon and watching it after we eat. But there are so many more things that we could do with our time than watch TV and hopefully this will give us the time and motivation to do it.

Another exciting item on our list is to visit three state parks. This is something my family use to do when I was small and I want to get back in the habit. Also, a wonderful lady that I work with goes camping (in and RV) quite often and they visit different state parks and she always tells great stores and how much fun they had. Now I am not saying that we will be camping out at these state parks but there are lots of parks that we can get to and from in a day. If you hear of any great state parks that we should visit, let me know.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Kelley

Christmas is over and I'm so Blue.

I am so sad that Christmas is over. It is my favorite time of year and I feel like if flew by. That could be due to the fact that this was the first year ever that I did not get a month off to celebrate Charismas and that I moved into my new house not even a week before Christmas. However, the little time that I did have off was spent with family and friends and it was great. Andrew and I spent Christmas together with each other’s families and this required about 5 Christmases in a 2 ½ day period. However, it was a lot of fun and we enjoyed getting to do everything together.

I am in the new house and I love it and the dogs LOVE it! I am still working on getting everything set up but I am getting there. I do have things up on the walls and I did put up a Christmas tree that I have refused to take down till Saturday. I do not want to put pictures up till I get everything how I like it.

Speaking of putting pictures up, I received a great Christmas gift from Andrew. He got me a new camera that does everything! It takes video, you can take special pictures where you pick out one color to stand out and everything else is in black and white. It is awesome and I have been using it a lot lately. So expect more picture from me in the future. I am also about to start on a Photo Book using Shutterfly. If you did not notice with the Christmas cards, I have become obsessed with Shutterfuly and they give great discounts to bloggers and to everyone. Hailey, Andrew’s sister, made a photo book and it is super cute and ever since seeing it I have wanted to make one for myself. So as one of my many New Year’s resolutions I will be making one.

I have not blogged about Annie in a while, so I will update everyone on her life now. She is doing great, she has a wonderful big (but younger) brother who is very sweet to her. Annie is definitely the more bossy of the dogs and she always gets her way with both Andrew and I and with Bo. She is loving the backyard and I am very proud of her going out and playing by herself. She has had another seizure and is suffering from stiff joints during this cold weather but she is doing good. Andrew made her a special Christmas present that she received last night. He made her a “real” bed. I am not talking about one of those regular fluffy dog beds, I am talking about a wooden bed. It is so cute and she seems to be enjoying it. However, we are still working on breaking her from sleeping in the bed. I know most people think it is gross that dogs sleep in the bed, but Annie is not a dog she is a baby. But I am trying to be strong and tell her NO. I will keep you posted on how the training is going both from my point of view and hers.

You can see the pictures below.



Well, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and that you have a good and safe New Year’s. My next post will be about my New Year’s resolutions. I hope to make a list similar to Brandi’s of things that I would like to accomplish within the next year.



Thanks
Kelley

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Favorite Time of Year

It’s official—The Christmas Season is here! I love this time of year and everything about it especially Christmas Music and Christmas Lights. I have been listening to Christmas Music for almost a month at work and am so excited that it is now being played on the radio. Last week was Thanksgiving and Andrew and I had three thanksgivings to attend but had a great time at each of them.

However, the first part of the week I was afraid I was not going to make it. Monday afternoon I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with Kidney Stones. I had been hurting for a few days by then and had even missed Meg’s Shower on Saturday due to hurting so bad. Nothing could have prepared me for the pain I was in on Monday night. I have to thank Andrew for being a trooper and putting up with me crying and being plain out mean. But by Thursday after missing two days of work I felt great. That was until we watched the game on Friday. We went to the Fraternity house for the game and had a great time hanging out with Andrew’s friends and seeing his cousin’s, even though they were pulling for the enemy.

Saturday we had our last Thanksgiving with my Dad and afterwards we picked up the kiddies(Annie and Bo). Annie had been at home since the weekend before and poor Bo had been at home for a couple of weeks due to our crazy November schedule. Now we have both of them back and are so glad. On Sunday Andrew treated me to an IHOP breakfast then we attempted to have a photo shoot with the kiddies. This turned out to be a disaster, but I did get a good one of Bo and a few ok one’s of them together. You can see them below.




The closing on the house is getting very close. I am getting excited but stressed as well. I have so much to get together to get moved not just packing but changing the power over, getting cable and internet, water, garbage, buying blinds and…. The list just goes on and on. But once everything is done I know I am going to be very excited. I bought a table a chair(s) set from JCPenny this weekend that was on sale. I had looked at it a while back but it was a little out of my price range, just playing around on the internet and I found that it was marked on Clearance and was 75% off. I could not pass this deal up and I ordered it. Now I just want to see what it looks like and pray that it looks good in my Kitchen.

Now that it is Christmas and I am an adult I am going to send out Christmas cards. I am excited about this and my wonderful sister-in-law has found a website where I can get some FREE! Now I need addresses. So if you have addresses I need them! Send me your address and any additional addresses of friends to KelleyJ0423@aol.com!

Thanks

Kelley

Christmas Cards

Shutterfly is offering a great promo for Bloggers! If you blog about your favorite Holiday Cards you will receive 50 FREE. I had already been checking different websites about Christmas Cards and had my sister-in-law take a picture of Annie and I on Thanksgiving! So I was set, then I saw this great promo and thought I would give it a shot. I looked at all the different designs and have picked out my Top 4. See pictures below.

Option #1

Option #2

Option #3

Option #4


This is a very hard choice for me but I think I like the “Get Glowing Christmas Card” (Option #3) best. My second favorite is the “Pine Cone Toile” (Option #2). These two are very different in my mind but I think I am going to go with the more fun looking option than the classic one. Maybe next year I will do the more classic one. Tell me what you think and check out Shutterfly and see which designs you like best and let me see them. I could spend days looking at these designs. I also want to try one of the photo books. Andrew’s sister made one of the photo books and it looks great. I am starting to gather and take pictures now so that I can make one soon.

Kelley

Home Sweet Home

Sorry I did not update last week. I have been super busy because I have just bought a house. Click on the link “Details” to see some pictures of the house. I am still waiting on the appraisal of the house, but my expected closing date is between December 8 and December 17. It was originally December 17, but everything is moving pretty fast so they think it might be sooner. I am super excited about the new house, but it is going to be a big change. I love my condo that I live in now and I am very comfortable in it, but now Annie is going to have a good size backyard to play in and we are going to have a much bigger Kitchen.

I am very excited about decorating the new house and I am constantly going through magazines and looking online for ideas. I am most worried about the Living Room. I need to pick out curtains and pillows and I am not sure what color/design I want to go with. I know I have time to decided and that everything does not have to be perfect right when I move in, but I need something to do to keep me busy with the house cause if not the waiting game to move-in is going to drive me crazy.

This house is a 3 bedroom 2 bath house so I am ready for some visitors. However, I am not sure when the extra two bedrooms will be decorated/have furniture. I talked to Mave on Sunday night and I want to do a girls weekend soon. I miss all my girlfriends so much and it is crazy to think that we all live in different cities now. Maybe we can do something close to New Years or maybe later in January.

This week is going to be a lot slower than last week. I am off on Friday! I have worked full-time since May 10 and this will be only the 2 day I have taken off. I love my job, so I like to come to work, and when I am out of the office I get behind on things, but I have important things to do on Friday. That is to sleep then watch Harry Potter again. Yep! Harry Potter comes out Thursday night at Midnight and I will be there. My brother and I are going to this together and we are very excited! I have my Harry Potter shirt ready to go!

That’s all for now! I will try to update again soon with more details of the house.