Easter Weekend

We had a wonderful first Easter at our house. Austin's siblings all came over on Saturday night and stayed the weekend. We enjoyed the gorgeous weather and played blongo ball in our yard. Austin beat us all but one time.

Sunday we all went to our church downtown together and enjoyed the wonderful worship and sermon.

We made burgers, fruit salad, and veggies for lunch and it was so fun to have company for the weekend. We were blessed with such beautiful weather we even got to enjoy our desserts (raspberry sherbet in lemons) out in the yard. They were pretty and delicious! 

Lemon Dessert Bowls Source

And now we are back to colder and rainy weather. But I'm keeping my eyes on the weekend which is supposed to be warm! Hope you all had a wonderful Easter remembering how Jesus paid the penalty for our sin so that we could have eternal life. 

the day we bought a house

This year I have decided that I really would like to TRY to blog more often. (I feel like I decide that every year. oops!) My life is busy but I feel like I can make a better attempt to at least write a blog post while I watch Greys Anatomy:) I especially want to document and share with family some of the biggest moments of our lives so far. The first one being the day we bought a house. December 18th we closed on our first house. Some of you may have seen the photos when we got our keys (since I'm obsessed with Instagram). 

Carrying me into our first home.

Like I've said and will say a million times again..I love our home. There is a lot of furniture to buy and decorating to do but I'm going to try to take it slow and really enjoy the process. I loved having my sister here during Christmas break. Brit has a real eye for design so we worked together to come up with a plan for the main area, our living room. She also helped me move it around to make it work with the furniture we have now. Hopefully I will make time to write about the changes that go on over here at our new home. 

L.C.

ending the year on a good note

Happy New Year!

We ended 2012 on a good note by purchasing our first house. It was a somewhat stressful and nerve-wracking experience (because I stress) but we love love it so much. The thing I love most is wanting to go home because I feel relaxed and at ease here. We didn't love our previous rentals but we made it work and we made them home because that's where our little family was. But we definitely never felt at ease because we always were anticipating another move. Now we are not....not for a while hopefully.

We also ended the year on a good note by hosting our first party. We had some friends and my sister and brother in law over for New Years. My big sis and her hubs and my best friend Lauren and her hubs stayed the night and helped me put everything together. It was a simple night with drinks, appetizers, dinner, and desserts. It was perfect. I laughed a lot and it felt good to have people over and start the year off celebrating the friendships we have here. Here are a few pics from the evening.

 Had the best time with you and couldn't have pulled of the furniture rearrangement without you.

Champagne Flutes Brit & I painted.

The pre-dinner spread. 

You will always be my best friend!

the husbands

Hubs

I hope someone got a good version of this picture. haha

Love my girls.

It was a super great time. And now I've been back at work for two days and tomorrow is Friday! I'd say it's been a pretty dang good start to 2013.

L.C.