Happy Birthday Ashley!

June 27, 2010 in Filed Under: Acknowledgments Leave a Comment
Then

Ashley's 9th Birthday

Now

Ashley's 23rd Birthday

She hasn’t changed too much! We celebrated her birthday last night with a family birthday dinner, and we are all going to see Toy Story 3 this afternoon. We’re glad her birthday fell into her summer time home from school. Happy birthday, sis!!

It’s Here!!

June 26, 2010 in Filed Under: Jesse 1 Comment

Jesse showing off his diploma

Jesse has worked so hard to complete his degree.  He had a difficult time in his final semester balancing work and school.  His graduation was at the beginning of May, and we have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of his diploma.  He hung his empty matching frame next to mine weeks ago… and now it has been filled.  This has been a long time coming, and now he has reached his goal.  I’m SO proud of his hard work!!

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Flash Me Friday: Kick Back and Relax

June 25, 2010 in Filed Under: Flash Me Friday 3 Comments

This week’s Flash Me Friday is your favorite place kick back and relax.  You can join the Flash Me Friday fun too, check out The Groettum Family blog and join in. Come on, you know you want to be nosy too!

Relaxing couchOur favorite place to relax is our living room.  In the evenings we can usually be found catching up on our DVR recorded shows.  I usually end up falling asleep here before our show is over.  Also, this has become our official laptop spot.  This is where I am blogging now, with a movie on in the background.  Even though Jesse has an office with a perfectly good desk upstairs, he is always working here.  After leaning to reach the laptop on the coffee table all day, he still wonders why is back is sore.

This is our entertainment center we got a 50% discount on because of the damage!  You really can’t see it but the top right corner is smashed in a tiny bit.  I guess that made no one else want it.  All it needed was a little brown marker and no one has noticed… good as new!  The doors slide shut to put books and stuff, but we usually never have those doors closed.  Jesse is looking forward to buying a TV that will fill the spot in there.  Our TV seemed plenty big in our small apartment when our couch was only a couple feet away, but now I need my glasses to watch from across the room.

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The other thing we like to do is watch the neighbors and kids outside.  Lately there has been a bunch of people fishing in the little pond every night.  We can’t figure out why everyone is so interested in the pond all of a sudden because we never see them catch anything.

We also love our view.  Even though we don’t actually have a backyard, we like to think this is our backyard.  Just look at how perfect that sky looks. If it was a different and cooler time of year, I might have picked outside to relax.

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