Life with the T's

Hello, friends. I almost said "peeps". Interesting. Not too much is new with us, but it's been a lil bit so I wanted to write a lil sumpin sumpin. I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving already! I love the holidays, but I AM MISSING SUMMER! It's gotten cold -- I don't have to wear a coat quite every day yet, but that is still plenty cold for me. This morning, my windsheild had frost/ice on it :( I say "frost/ice" because it was more than measley frost, but it wasn't icy enough that I had to get out and scrape it. Ten or fifteen swooshes of the wipers and about a quart of wiper fluid (yes, I am actually that lazy) and I was good to go. Joe is loving the cold and has been praying for snow. I wouldn't be surprised if his "praying" is literal: "Dear God, SNOWPLEASEILOVESNOW!!!" That's my silly husband.
Tomorrow, we are having the missionaries over for dinner for the first time as a family... I feel like I am like capital "O" capital "M" Officially Married now :) It will be a crazy day as I am for once going to homemaking as well. I am not one who really delights in the cooking and crafts, but maybe I will change. I think I would enjoy cooking more if I didn't work full time. That's a lie - I still probably wouldn't, but I would have more energy! :) I invited my mom to come along because the stuff they are doing is up her alley, so it should be good. JoeJoe kindly agreed to make his special spaghetti for dinner tomorrow to help ease the craziness of my night. What a guy, huh? I'm lucky in that I married a helpful guy :)
That's about all that's new in our daily grind. Hope all is well with you! We sure miss our far away friends and family. Be sure and leave us love notes as you read! We love them!!

Wanna play work?

Planty Needs Your Help (!!!)

3 or so weeks ago, we adopted a little plant which I dubbed "Planty", obviously. It seemed to fit him. *shrug* Well, how we got it is we stopped at one of my parents' friends houses for something and she told Joe and I that she went to dinner at a couple's house and the woman gave her a plant she didn't want anymore, but the first lady didn't know what to do with it. She said that it's Hawaiian so she thought of us (ha). I was delighted because I have been wanting a house plant or two because they just seem so home-y. Here is a picture of him (Planty).

The thing is, is that we have no idea what kind of plant it is so I don't know how much light and water to give it. I was trying to find a website that would ask me questions about it in order to narrow down what it might be and I also looked at pictures of Hawaiian house plants and came up with nothing both times. Two of Planty's leaves are starting to turn brown and I am afraid he is going to die :( Help me out if you happen to know what he is or a way to find out. I don't want my next post to be titled "RIP Planty" :(

Adventures in Cooking...

Yeah, so... those of you that know me well know I'm not the chef type. I definitely enjoy eating, but for whatever reason, I don't especially like cooking. I thought I would catch the Betty Crocker bug once I got married, but that hasn't quite happened. I mean, I do my wifely duties and make good, balanced dinners for my husband (while half the time I eat a couple of bowls of cereal instead) and he is a sweetheart and cooks dinner some of the time, too. The dinners I make aren't that dometic though. I put the self-steaming frozen or canned veggies in the microwave and pat myself on the back for being a good wife. No stir-fried or special herbs here... unless the special herbs are included. What I'm saying is I technically do the job, but I feel like I should be doing more than heating up pasta sauce to dump on spaghetti noodles for my husband. In hopes of curing my cooking non-love, I asked my mom who lives close to us if on Saturday mornings I can come over and pratice cooking a dish. I just completed the second dish today: chicken enchiladas. Last week, I made lasagne. Joe and I had a thing of chicken (whole in pieces) in our freezer, so we thawed it and brought it over and my mom supplied the rest. I have always been repulse by raw poultry much less its gizzards (Joe likes the HEART?!)  much less ripping the skin off much less pulling and cutting it apart. I almost puked all over the chicken so I bowed out and let my mom finish that part. I told Joe when we were dating a year ago that I don't do raw poultry especially the whole ones that you have to yank apart and he said he was okay with that because he'd do it. He claims to have no memory of that conversation. Anyway, just wanted to let my peeps know about my little goal to progress to Good Cook Status (GCS). Keep ya posted!

07.17 2010

They are finally here, folks! Joe and I got our wedding pictures in the mail yesterday so I can finally post a few! These haven't been touched up or cropped as they are just the quick and dirty. The good news is you get to see how beautiful we really are! (Jokes) Enjoy and let us know what you think! A BIG THANKS to Sherrie and Jay Photography! We LOVE our photos! There aren't enough places to hang all our favorites!

Our Wedding: The Reception

Here are a little sneak peak of the reception pictures, friends!

My Sister's Keeper

Saddest movie ever. Bawled like baby.

The library and a movie review

I'm blogging from our now local library while Joe is on the next computer over looking a few things up. While, I SO miss my beloved laptop (RIP) and having wireless at home (we didn't get it hooked up before poor Compy met his death by being kicked off the couch), I am really enjoying my Saturday morning at the library with my husband. We are checking out --count 'em-- SEVEN movies (and we also have Netflix and ALSO frequent Redbox... If you hadn't noticed we are movie junkies) and maybe some books. I really like this library. It's kinda fancy.
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In other news... Never watch "The Fourth Kind". I hate any kind of aliens/the world is ending/a terrible cloud is killing the planet/zombies are taking over the world movies, but Joe and I were wanting to watch a scary movie last night so we hit up Redbox and he said this one was super scary. He had watched the first 30 minutes in the past. He said everyone he knew who had seen it couldn't sleep afterwards. Golden. We got it. The beginning was okay, but I was falling asleep (obviously, it was super scary, right?) so we agreed to finish it tonight, but Joe couldn't wait so we finished it earlier today. *cough* Snooze fest! It's supposedly based on real life and has "real footage" ('Blair Witch' anyone?) and has this prologue and epilogue about "This is real, but you're free to believe what you want to". Well, no crap. All I can do now is hope aliens/owls don't haunt me and take over my body. As for you, consider yourself warned.

Annnnnnnnnnd we're married!

...And have been for almost A MONTH! I apologize greatly for the silence on here, and promise to do better from NOW ON! :) All you former brides will understand, right? I guess I can't blame it ALL on the wedding and post-marriage life organizing... We don't have internet at our place (can I say how much I miss my wireless?!) and now our laptop has met his death :( Cracked screen. For now, I gotta utilize my time at Sunday dinner at my parents :) We're lucky to live so close to family. Or I guess it wasn't luck. We chose to live here.
Well, anyway, to catch everyone up on the last two months-ish...
I actually did survive the planning and everything turned out well. We are all moved into our new (and first home) here in Kansas. We live in our humble little one bedroom apartment, and are loving it. It has been so fun making it home and home-y. I'm still taking care of infants full-time and Joe is workin hard in the hot sun (which has been off-the charts the last two or so months) selling pest control for Homeshield. If anyone in the area has a bug problem or want to prevent a problem, hit us up and Joe will hook you right up.
We haven't gotten our professional wedding photos yet, but our fantastic photographers, Sherrie and Jay posted a few of them on our new blog so I'm including the link. Check them out -- They did an amazing job on both our engagements and our wedding pictures and they are so, so fun. I 2000% recommend them to anyone in the KC/Omaha area. *Disclaimer* Some of the photos they posted include my special ed smile. Doh! Oh well :) When we get the pictures, we will for sure post a bunch! Keep your eye out for them.

Wedding Photo Sampling :)

WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Just wanted to say that we get married in TWO WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are SO excited and can't wait to be Mr. & Mrs.!