Our 2nd Anniversary

Josh and I celebrated our 2nd Wedding Anniversary yesterday, September 16th. One of my most memorable anniversaries yet! (This includes our dating anniversaries.) It was hard to concentrate at work all day yesterday. When I got home I had these waiting for me...


They are beautiful!!! Of course Josh was there waiting for me with a kiss. In keeping with the traditional gifts given on anniversaries, the 2nd Wedding Anniversary gift is cotton. I have been complaining for a while that I wanted a new pillow but I never found anything I was happy with. Josh bought me pillows to choose from! He's so cute. It's the small things in life that are so exciting. Who would have ever thought I'd be excited about getting pillows for a gift. We decided to go to a Japanese Steak House for dinner. It was excellent as always.

The BIG surprise of the evening was another gift we weren't expecting. Here is the back story... At our wedding we decided not to keep the top layer of our cake and freeze it. Something about freezing cake and eating a year later just doesn't sound good to me. We decided that on our 1 year anniversary we would reorder one layer of our wedding cake from the same bakery and have family and friends over to celebrate. I ordered the cake and asked for it just like our wedding cake was. (By the way, our wedding cake was blue with white details.) Sadly, when we went to pick up the cake it wasn't blue and nothing like our original cake. Then we also found out it wasn't even the same frosting or inside filling. It was all around disappointing. That brings us back to yesterday... when we got a call that the bakery had made us another cake this year for FREE! The most amazing cake I have ever tasted! (The first picture was our actual wedding cake, the second picture is the cake we received last night.)

All around the best anniversary ever in my books! Can't wait until next year!

Bathroom Renovation 2008

We officially began the renovation of our master bathroom last weekend. Our master bathroom was a mess of too many doors, not enough shower space, and a huge tub we never use. I don't know what the builder was thinking when they organized this bathroom. Clearly, they weren't thinking. So, we made a plan to remodel. We've decided to take this job on ourselves. A BIG task I know, but I have the determination and organization to push us along. My goal is to get this done before the end of the year. Thankfully we have two other full baths in our house, so this isn't a big inconvenience just yet.

Last weekend, Josh and I managed to remove all drywall from our closet and the wall that it shares with the toilet room. We also removed the carpet in the closet. I had a blast! It was a thrill to tear off that drywall. I can't wait to lift up that ugly vinyl floor! The best surprise was finding the already framed door opening into the bedroom. The opening in the picture above was the door to the closet that was located inside the bathroom. We planned to move it to open into the bedroom and now we have one less framing project to do.

This weekend we move on to the hard part - removing the toilet, vanity, shower, and tub. Thank goodness we will have help this weekend. I don't think Josh and I could do it alone. I should be interesting to say the least. Hopefully everything goes smoothly.

Remembering 9/11

Remembering 9/11 and to those who lost their lives and to a country that has forever changed.