I Love Spring Because.....

Everything is in bloom (Tulips are my favorite flower, by the way)



You can find these in stores (I LOVE THESE)



My Birthday is this Sunday! (and I'm not going to tell you how old I will be :P)

Christmas in NY

Yes, I am aware that Christmas was almost a month ago but I am going to try and be better about blogging. Maybe it should have been one of my New Year's Resolutions along with the usual stop biting my nails (which didn't last that long). Anyway John and I went to see my parents, sister and nieces in NY (or "home" as I like to call it) for Christmas. As always we had a great time. John and I went to see Mamma Mia on Christmas Eve with my parents and it was fantastic! We have been lucky to see some amazing plays on Broadway but I still have 2 on my list that I really want to see. Phantom of the Opera and Wicked, so keep your fingers crossed that I can find some really good deals on tickets for the next time we go up! And as always we went to see the tree at Rockefeller Center and walked around to look at some of the windows. This has been a tradition for my family since I can remember. Of course when my sister and I were younger the windows were soooooo much better then they are now(at least in my opinion) and there were alot more of them to see, but it's a tradition nonetheless.

My sister came down from upstate NY with my nieces (Julia is 8 and Autumn is 2) and we had fun seeing them. Since they came down the day after Christmas we got to open presents with the girls. I think they made out pretty well!

My sister, Julia and lucky me went ice skating. The ice rink was freezing inside, and I fell twice but it was still fun. Julia did really well considering it was her first time.
We also went bowling and my dad won, followed by John, Julia, Erin and me. Yes that's right I came in last!! At least Autumn didn't beat me!

Then it was time to come home. Luckily we didn't hit any traffic but it still took us 10 hours to get home but it was well worth the trip!

Building a House

John and I purchased 3 acres of land in a very nice subdivision back in July 2005. It took us three long years to finally start building but in July 2008 we did! Now that it is October a lot has happened and it finally looks like a house! Here are some pics back tracking to when we first bought the lot up until last week....Enjoy!

This is the creek that runs along the back of our property.

In March of 2008 we knew construction would start int he summer so we had to go out and cut down a lot of trees!

Then in June we had the lot totally cleared

The foundation of the house started going up in August which is also when I got smart and started dating the pictures

I was excited to go out in September because it started to look like something!

By the end of the month it actually looked like a house!

New to Blogging

I have finally entered the world of blogging. Please forgive me if it takes me a few tries to get it right!