wk 11.

jon and i talked and laughed from the time he got home from work until we got in bed. we hardly used our computers or phones.

we danced and hugged in the kitchen after making dinner. 

then we made cake balls.

life was good today.

new house pictures.

i am so excited!!

a couple months ago, I asked my dear friend Jake to make a painting for us to hang in our kitchen.

he is so talented. 

i have a painting of his from a few years ago (wow, its been that long??) that i still need to hang in my office upstairs. here it is.

i know its hanging crooked and my bedroom is awful. this was my bedroom in queens, ny before my interior design degree was obtained, but look how cute that painting is!!

and and and....here is the new painting!

oh, i'm so happy with how it turned out. he does amazing work, and he's so unique.

the little heart on the upper right hand is a lil poem in the shape of a heart.

it says-

"In life's constant struggle between balance, peace, and equilibrium, love should and will always stand out from all the commotion as something that you can always rely on for peace. Sompthing you can always know to be there for you."

Yes, it says sompthing. i love it! and i love the man who made it.

he got married yesterday and i'm so happy for them. their invitation was AMAZING.

i'm so sad i couldn't make it to their wedding, and i wish them the best. 

this is how it looks from the back door. 

i love how it looks.

here is an updated photo of our kitchen bookshelf.

my uncle made the bookshelf for us with his bare hands.

it is so beautiful.

my cousin Camie made the bowls on the bottom shelf.

i am just realizing how talented my friends and family are...

i'm so grateful to have a piece of everyone in our little home. 

(creepy?)

on our three month anniversary, jon came home early and surprised me with this aloe vera plant.

he was going to bring me flowers, then he read this post that i had written that morning, and decided to get me a plant.

i am so glad he did, the plant brings much needed life into the room, and it serves a purpose!

the pitcher in the middle was given to us by my gf joyce. she is on a mission right now and I miss her dearly.

the antique box on the right, i'm so happy about it.

when jon and i were in las vegas last weekend, jon took me to the "Antique Mall Of America".

we were there for at least an hour. he enjoyed looking at everything there as much as i did. i didn't think that we would leave with anything, until we found that box.

it was $20 on a 50% off shelf.  

moving on to the living room.

i'm stuck in a rut.

i think i'm going to paint that side table the blue from the pictures. 

i got it from my dads last weekend. it had been left out on the porch for a year.

the stain is cracking off and it is just begging to be painted. maybe it will bring some interest into the room.

also, we NEED a new lamp. if anyone has any ideas for one, let me know. this one was given to us by the people who sold us the sofa. we need a light in there. it's nice to have, its just not visually pleasing.

and our little office.

not much has changed with this. i'm looking for a shelf to put both of our laptops on, so that they don't have to be stacked on top of each other. 

i've been looking for awhile and can't find anything i like. 

let me know if you have any suggestions...

so there is our little house!

it's slowly but surely coming together. i'm so happy that i decided to stay here while jon is gone. (we will see if that changes)

it would break my heart to leave the house and have to pack everything up. 

and yes, i'm still accepting visitors while he is gone:)

Where the Hell is Matt?

this is such a cute video. 

its like 'where's waldo?' trying to find his smiling face in the crowds. 

www.wherethehellismatt.com

wk 10.

the last couple weeks have been crazy. bear didn't come home before we left for texas.

we flew there tuesday night. we had such a ball! that'll be another post.

we came home saturday night around 10 pm. still no bear.

we decided that on sunday morning, we were going to drive to utah in the morning and surprise our family.

sunday, we woke up at 5 am and left at 6 so that we could be home by sunday dinner at 530.

it was so much fun seeing the family and surprising Camille. she is the sweetest.

the next morning we went to the pound to look at kitties.

well....we left with one.

we wanted to name her after something that would remind us of home.

so we named her Rumbi.

its a bit soon to get a kitty after bear left. we're both so sad about him being gone. 

the point of getting a cat was to keep me company while jon is away. i wanted him to spend time with a new kitty too, so that he didn't just come home to a cat he doesn't know. 

we still want bear to come home. 

and this new little kitty is so so so sweet.
p.s. those specks on my jeans? yeah. its snot from rumbi sneezing. she was sick when we got her, so we're in the process of nursing her back to life. we are good parents. 

texaaaaaas.

jonjon and i are in texas! he is on pre-deployment leave.

when we were first planning his leave, we wanted to just stay together and spend the whole time alone.

well, now we are thinking a little differently and would love to be with family. 

we are visiting jon's dad. this isn't the best picture, but you get the idea. 

we'll just go shoot some guns now.

wk 9.

this is the picture jon took of me last night. 

this cat was on the animal shelters website. it so obviously isn't bear. he looks so angry and mean. i wanted it to be him so bad. and really thought it was.

 i took another picture today. just the one. i thought i'd be bringing bear home with me. instead i came home alone. 

missing.

our kitten went missing. he left thursday night and hasn't come home. we usually leave our screen door open for him. we looked for him all day yesterday. i called everywhere on base, everyone said they haven't seen him. i think someone stole him. today we are going to put posters around our neighborhood.

i know he didn't run away, he has a good little life with us. he is the most spoiled cat.

look at him. after i bathe him, he gets so cold and shakey. so i wrap him up.

he fell asleep.

this is how bear reacts when he hasn't seen us for awhile. this is right when jon got back from st. george. 

happy little baby.