Valentines Weekend

First off, i love my husband. A lot. Let's just get that out there. I mean, this post is about Valentines day, so I should first and foremost mention my love, right? :)

To start out the festivities, Dan came home from work on Friday with a huge basket of... something... He pulled it out from under his jacket and it really surprised me! I wasn't expecting anything early. After peeling back layers of cellophane and tissue paper I found delicious cookies! A cookie basket; i loved it! We then sat and ate huge, soft, snickerdoodles together. yummy!

Saturday we went on a date. We saw the movie "When in Rome." Which we both really liked! It had funny parts and cute parts and was quite a good chick flick, if you ask me. We then tried to go to Carrabbas for dinner. We have only been there a couple of times, but I loved it both times, so I thought it would be a great place to go. However, the wait was over an hour. So... plan b. we went to Goodwood BBQ, which is always one of our favorites. And the wait was only 25 min. It was delicious as always and I had leftovers for lunch the next day. Which i love.

Then came Sunday, the real day of love. I got up a little early and decided to make Dan breakfast. My mom always made us heart shaped pancakes when we were younger, so I wanted to try it. Well... mine didn't really turn out like hearts at all, but i tried! We then had church at 11:00 (the perfect church time) and we were ready a little early. Since Sunday was a beautiful, sunny day, we decided to walk to church! I love walking to church and I want to every Sunday (as long as it's not freezing). We are so lucky we only live about 2 blocks from our church. Plus, we get to walk by this farm and look at all of the animals on the way. The yaks are my favorite. I told Dan i liked them because i liked their bangs. haha. After church i decided to make a little scavenger hunt around our house for Dan to find his present. i cut out lots of hearts and put clues on them- and all of the clues rhymed. Dan eventually found his present, which was a game called "Lost Cities" that we like to play together. He then gave me my present, which was a movie (a chick flick neither of us had ever heard of, haha). For dinner I made Dan prime rib, one of his favorites! I had never made it before, but it actually turned out delicious!

Then on Monday (yes, the festivities still continued) I was shopping with my sister, Noelle, and we went to the grocery store. We saw that all the valentines stuff was 75% off. So we each bought chocolate :). I just couldn't resist! That night Dan came home with a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me (tip for everyone: flowers are way cheaper the day after- and i don't mind prolonging the holiday). The flowers were tulips & stargazers- two of my favorite flowers! I loved them because they were different. And now I will end this post by saying... I love my husband. He's the best.

my craft blog

So... a long time ago I decided to start a craft blog. Which I did, but then I neglected it for school. Now that I have free time, I've decided to give it a little more attention. Pretty much I have changed the whole thing.

Take a look @ it and let me know what you think. Anything you would add/change? I'd appreciate any advice! Thanks :)

Find it here: Button Garden

Valentines Crafting

My friend Jessica has a craft night every month where she comes up with an adorable craft idea and a group of us make it. This month we made Valentine's countdowns. Here is how mine turned out....

It's a muffin tin & the little circles have magnets on the back of them, that way, you can put little treats or love notes behind each circle. I love how it turned out. Luckily my cricut helped cut all of the circles, hearts and letters. I imagine this would have taken me a lot longer without it.

And speaking of Valentine treats, I was at Target on Friday and I saw some of these....

I love them! They are my favorite v-day candy (yes, even better than conversation hearts :) ). So I bought a bag. I really tried to resist temptation, but I gave in. Dan and I ended up eating the whole bag by Sunday!

I've also been making a lot of cards lately. Here is one of the ones I made. I like how it turned out.


It's for... YOU. Thanks for reading my blog :) haha.

I think I'm going to put up all of my valentines decorations today. Hooray! I love decorating :)

Lately

hmm... what's been happening at the Deceuster household lately? well... last night Dan decided to try on my coat, it was pretty hilarious (hope he doesn't mind me posting this photo).

I love my husband, he always makes me laugh!

We also got a new faucet. Our old kitchen faucet was kinda broken. Here is Dan fixing the faucet... way to be handy, honey!


This is the old, broken faucet:


And here is the brand new, beautiful faucet (with soap dispenser!)


Other than that, not much else has been going on. Dan is still doing fabulous at his job and I am still unemployed! It is nice being able to sleep in and have lots of free time, but I am ready to start working. Yesterday I found a teaching job at a school right by my house, it would really be ideal! I am currently in the process of applying for the position. Wish me luck :)

new furniture!

Remember that one post when I talked about all the money we won at Dan's work party? Well now I am here to report what we bought with the money... :)

First thing we got was a love seat. We already had the couch, but now we have the set. Our old apartment wasn't big enough for both, but our new condo is.

Here is what it looked like before we decorated....

And this is after! Ta da...
It's funny because the love seat is much puffier than the couch. haha. We're trying to sit on it lots so they will match :)

And the second thing we got was a new kitchen table! We've been wanting something larger for a while.

This is what we had before... (now sold on craig's list for $50)

And this is our new table:
It's one of those extra tall tables- perfect for Dan. I love it, my feet don't even touch the ground when I'm sitting at it. It also has a leaf in the middle that folds out to make the table into a large square. I love the square table, but we keep it folded in when it's just the two of us. And I love the dark wood!

I swear I should be on HGTV :)