Holy zing Batman that was good!!

So, Casey's off being manly as he calls it and mowing the lawn, which means I'm inside by myself because I've already done my lawn duties which include pooper scooping the yard before he mows so we don't have poop pancakes in our yard. TMI I know but hey what can I tell ya, we have two dogs and small yard. I did however help myself out a bit by taking them for an extremely long walk at swift Cantrell today. I love that park!! It's just so pretty and cool. And since my hips and butt seem to be growing on some unknown exponential scale, cool weather is my hero. I did have a somewhat productive day all by myself however, casey was at work so I had to entertain myself. Since we've been on this organization kick I decided to continue the trend, especially when while shopping at Michaels for scrapbook stickers I found a supa cute pink and polka dot scrapbook organizer on sale!! Needless to say it's new owner is me! But since I'm not a major scrapbook maniac like some people mine is really more of a arts and crafts organizer. So, it has the scarf I can't remember how to crochet/knit ( see I can't even remember which one I'm doing) and all of my needles and thread for fixing things, and leftover scrapbook products from past projects. My next project is to finally start working on my UGA scrapbook. I've decided it's going to be the Alumni years, cause the college photos were too many. Of course Casey has taken all of them so we know they are fabulous, which means I have to decorate them to show off their fabulosity. So, I made a really good stir fry for dinner it came from my eating well website and used tangelos as part of the marinade. Super tasty with a little zing that Casey has requested I tweak a bit, because it is to spicy for him. Okay so I realized that since I'm a horrible poster their are no posts from my and Casey's annual trip to the beach house in Destin, and since depending on how my Uncle's family feels about it, it may or may not be here for us to use next year. I think this post will pay tribute to all the fabulous that were had. With the hope that there will be many, many more to come.

Fabulously Delicious

Okay so today I tried my hand at Risotto for the first time and I must say it came out sooo super delicious I actually pulled a Giada and mmmed after my food. It was that good!! I'm rather impressed with myself. Well our house is almost officially a year old. It's been a year since we signed paperwork to begin building the house. It's so funny how time goes by so quickly. I mean in like two months Casey and I will be celebrating our one year anniversary. It's crazy to think we've been married a whole year, and we made it without a single casualty. So amazing, I thank God everyday for making Casey cause it's kinda hard to picture life without him now. Ahhh sappy moment. Okay all better now. Casey and I are continuing to add new things to our house. We keep saying we should hold off because before long it's gonna be time to paint and we're gonna have to move all that stuff. So far the only place we listened to our own advice on that has been in the dining room. Our newest additions include a foyer table, lamp and heirloom nick nacks from great grandparents. It looks oober nice if I do say so myself. I've decided that I could have a lot of fun helping people decorate their homes. I would never want to be a designer because I would need owner input, but I can definetely help. Casey and I are slowly getting more and more organized too, I think we've finally come up with a good system to pay bills. I accidentally forgot one last month and so had to come up with a new way to set up bill reminders. On a side note my neighbors kids are so darn cute the youngest one is in a super dress up outfit being pulled by her dad in the wagon and the second youngest in learning to ride his bike with training wheels. Sooo stinking cute. Casey and I have also put pictures of us all dressed up in our closet in fun primary color frames. And I reorganized my shoes cause Casey was teasing me about them I might need to go take a picture and post it so you can see. Okay so these pics are the newest additions to our house and of course one random one. I just don't know which. I will try to be better about posting again soon.

Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane

Ok, so I know long time no see. I told you this would be hard for me. Lots has been going on since I last did anything on this thing. Casey and I had our first couples trip of the new year. Celebrated a couple of holidays as a married couple, and have done more fun things to the house!! Our trip was to Savannah, I like to call it our mini vaca. We went for a really good friend of mine's wedding and just hung out in Savannah until the wedding. Casey of course has all the super cool pictures, but I'll upload what I have. We also came up with this really cool idea to go on our huge wall above the couch in teh living room. Everyone has seen the pictures of object that look like letters and when put together spell words? Well that's what we did Katie and Casey style. So, our last name is on that wall and we are going to put pictures of all teh places we've been on the wall. I think I want to get plain frames that I can paint or stain on my own. Then I can write carve or burn the name of the place into the frame. Pretty cool huh? We officially lost our first bush, and I think two more might be trying to bite the dust. My mom came down and helped us install a sprinkler for dummies system, so we're hoping that will save them. I'm kinda sad about the bush we lost though it was an azelea and I really wanted it to live because that was my grandfather's thing to grow, so it was a kinda remembrance thing, but alas it didn't make it. Owell we are gonna make some beds in teh backyard too and hopefully they will make it back there. Casey and I also had our first boys only girls only parties as a married couple. I went off to celebrate a friends graduation , and he stayed here and had a ton of friends over that morphed into a grown man sleepover. Hehe wait until he reads that, I might be in trouble. LOL anyways I've decided I think my cat is falling apart, he keeps having all this crazy stuff. Most recently we discoved sticky stuff on the back of his knee that has led to a bald spot. Casey and I are also at war with the massive amounts of fur the children seem to be producing. I think I have brushed enough winter coat to make at least two new dogs. Oh, we also got to introduce Michelle Casey's sister to the boating life, and Gremlin discovered riding on the jet ski. I have a feeling that will be mine and Casey's next big purchase. Ok so pics today include the cool letters on our wall, savannah and some of my better cooking creations, one being Michelle's graduation cake. I'm sooo stinking proud of that thing.

It's a buggy bug world

So, exciting things are happening with our house!! Our deck stairs are finished and so is our decks under cover!! It looks amazing!! So exciting to have a dry place to sit and watch the rain fall down. J.T. one of Casey's friends and an electrician came over last night for dinner and to help us wire up these great fans we bought. Let me tell you electrical work with those two boys and me is quite a hoot, there was a lot of words that to people who had no idea what we were talking about sounded very dirty. But in the end two ceiling fans were up and running, and then our first problem happened. No matter how many DIY Casey and I try to do we always manage to have a problem. Current problems the fans hung so low no one over six feet could walk underneath them. Then when we went to try them out today they don't even circulate that much air, on high speed it just putzes along so we decided to return them and try our luck again. We went to Lowe's first and they didn't really have anything, but we got lucky at Home Depot they had one we liked and it's gonna sit flush with the ceiling!!! Makes our height thing virtually gone unless someone over 7ft visits us then we are gonna be in trouble. We also found this great patio set for the dowstairs area and pillows to go on the hammock that match. The patio set even has a fire pit, unfortunetely we could only get one box in my car so casey is gonna go back after work tomorrow and get the box and our fans!!! Hopefully so problems will occur this time with the set up of the fans and all will be ready for my sister in law's graduation party. We did some shopping for that today with Casey's mom found some great stuff too. I can't wait!! I love throwing parties, Casey even has our next party all lined up, it's for all his old youthgroup friends. Okay so finished products our gonna go up today and I don't know what else, we'll see what strikes my fancy.

I'm a sneaky macsneakster who's stuck in her house.

Okay, so today I'm home alone cause Casey's at work. Not the worst thing in the world except I can't go anywhere! The men who are putting in our stairs are here and at first it was only their lumber blocking my car in, no biggie eventually that would all be used, but now they have also parked their car in my driveway behind the lumber so I am well and truly stuck here. Looks like the dogs and I will be taking multiple walks so they can do their doggie business and so I can get out of the house, cause otherwise I will be a bad girl and munch cause I'm bored. However, I am keeping myself entertained by taking pictures of the stairs as they are being put together, pictures will be up soon. So, Casey and I had our first taste of what married life would be like if we worked opposite schedules, not so much fun. We're trying to work extra when they need us cause come summer he'll be able to continue to pick up extra days, but me not so much. Peds ER kinda slows down in the summer due to vacations and such. So, I worked Tuesday and Thursday extra and he worked Wednesday and Friday extra. I did however manage to cook for us every night I worked though, how's that for forethought and planning? Casey and I are trying to be better about eating out cause we both want to save money and we need to start being healthier too. I already told him that when we're ready to have kids I need to be as healthy as possible and right now not feeling it so much. Well I finally caved in to Casey's want of HD. We are getting this product called Rainaway which will make our lower deck water tight but the Directv receiver has to be moved so Casey was all like we might as well upgrade if they're gonna charge us to come out and move it and everyone says our tv is wasted if we don't get HD. So, me being me I caved under the husband pressure. I hope it doesn't give me a headache though. Oh yeah I almost forgot I am almost the proud owner of UGA sunglasses my cousing found them for me at some little shop she goes too. She sent me a pic from her Iphone I just don't know how to post it here, but let me tell you they are sooooo cute. Okay so for today's pictures I'm gonna post progress on the stairs and Sugar trying to help Casey hang a ceiling fan, and maybe something else.

i hit the bee with my shoe!!

Well today was a minorly productive day. Casey and I tried to transplant some bushes we saved but ran into a snag when we discovered the builders had buried a pipe where we wanted to dig, so then we tried to come up with a plan B but nothing was quite working out, so we stopped that and moved onto walking the dogs. If any of you missed being outside today let me tell you it was a gorgeous day. Full of sunshine and just enough breeze to keep ya cool. After that I finally balanced the checkbook, it had gotten so bad I actually had to set it up in order of days, not my happy place. Then came the fun part of our day. The Rainaway man came to talk to us about installing our undercover system so casey and I will not have another one am cleaning of the dogs cause they look like georgia red clay walking on four legs. So, while he and Casey and discussing and measuring and doing the manly man thing I'm watching the durn carpenter bees and that's when I see him. One of those durn bees trying to burrow a hole in my deck!! Well me being me I ask him to stop nicely I even gave him three chances to stop and when he didn't I pegged him with my shoe!! Pow right in the kisser!! Quite a good shot if you ask me. Well that's just the beginning of the action, but the end of my masterful shoe aiming. I found at least two more trying to dig holes in my wood couldn't hit a one of them, but the nice rainaway man killed the other one it was easier for him though being 6'4". Then it was off to a very successful shopping trip which made us a shovel, hoe, pruning shears, rake and fire wood storage box richer. Oh, and we may soon be the owners of a chocolate fountain!! Can we say yum?! But for now it's time to watch my dogs and casey toy with eachother. Casey is currently having a grand old time taking random pictures of all the animals with his new camera. Ok so pictures going up today are from Easter where you will finally understand the meaning of bright ( my dress is super yellow, I looked like a freaking sunbeam on Easter at church cause everyone else in orchestra was dressed in pastels) and our new landscaping.

Someone reads this!!

Okay so I discoved people really do read my blog!!! Such an encouragement to me!! Well we officially have some georgous landscaping and we have more curtains inside the house!!! It's slowly looking like a home. Although I must tell you it is super hard not to want to do it all at once. We had our second official party at our new house, it was quite a success if I do say so myself. I finally got to use all my cute serving stuff that I got from the wedding. I have decided however that after the could have been disastorous flame broiled frozen bubba burgers, I will be spurgling on real meat for my sister in laws graduation party. Casey so would have burnt down the house had his friend jeff not been there to save the grease burgers. I wonder is bubba burgers are what Krystal's uses as well? Casey is officially 27 years old ( such an old man right?) and is loving all his new toys, we're gonna take the dogs for a walk and then get cute and take pictures with our lovely landscaping. Which by the way not as easy as it looks. We had to rent a tiller just to break up all that georgia red clay. If I were a cool person I would have had photos of the whole process, but I'm not. So, a couple of pounds of concrete, large sticks and other building debri we have a very cute front garden. Now the real question is did I inherit my grandparents green thumb? Gremlin and Cinnamon were quite distressed over our graden antics, so much so that gremlin found the hole in our fence where the pipe was supposed to run and made that his official watching spot. Only problem is now he's made the hole bigger and can squeeze more than his cute little nose out of it. Other new things include our extended concrete pad, a new glider cause Casey adn I couldn't decide where to hang a swing, and fun outdoor decorations. We truly have the most colorful porch and lawn ever, it's the greatest. Our future outdoor endevours include stairs decks under cover a screen porch and planting our half dead but saved bushes. Oh yeah and we also have a new kitchen table!! Apparently it messes with Casey's something to have a rickety mismatched kitchen table. Casey and I also celebrated our first Easter together as a married couple. We each got new outfits that made us look like brightly colored Easter eggs and went to church and then on to work. I even got to have my annual jelly bean hunt which is like a tradition in the Martin family. Casey made a little trail for me at the house that led to my very own Easter basket complete with this cool wine cork picture that's gonna hang in my dining room somewhere. Then when I got to work Jodi had set one up for me too, but Jen B and I both went looking cause nineteen eggs is a lot for one person to have and she didn't get to go Easter egg hunting. I won by one egg though. Well off to take the dogs for a walk and then as Casey says get cute and take pictures. hopefully I'll get the landscape and Easter up here soon.