I've decided to start blogging a picture a week, to document through my 27 years of history... in no particular order. This photo was taken in 1999 at Pine Lake Christian Camp. We had the sweetest cabin of girls that year, and were SO tight!! This was one of my most memorable summers ever. And believe it or not... I still keep in touch with most of these ladies! They have grown up to be ... [ Read More ]
A Stamp of History
I don't really have anything to say at the moment, just bored and feel like writing! Currently my feet are really cold, a side effect of having hardwood floors. There are occasions when I think it would be nice to have carpet, but then I think about how beautiful and OLD our floors are. They are the original floors when our house was built in 1900. Which brings me to considering how much history ... [ Read More ]
FINALLY!
Due to our strict budget and Christmas gift spendage, we haven't legitimately gone snowboarding yet this season, unless you count hitting the slopes of our yard. Which I don't. But last night we broke free from the bondage of Dave Ramsey, and had some warranted fun. Despite the subzero temps and near blizzard conditions, we drove 3 hours round-trip in order to frolic about in the ... [ Read More ]
Dining Room Makeover
Don't get me wrong, I love all things obnoxious. But the blotchy, teal, uneven sponging just wasn't working for me. This photo was PRE-makeover, with the exception of our amazing dining room table.I chose this crisp celery green. It makes me feel happy, when everything else in life is a horrible shade of blotchy teal. The hardest part of this makeover was the excessive coats of white ... [ Read More ]
Escape Artist
So, it's been a standing joke that my kitten, Gretchen, can open ANY door. She's known as an escape artist. Well, the thing is, now that we live on an acreage, she's an outdoor kitten... which she quite loves on most days. So it seems she shouldn't have any need to escape, because she's already outdoors... right?Well this afternoon when I got home from training in Ames, I was pulling up to the ... [ Read More ]
Cynical
I haven't felt like doing much of anything lately... not sure what's wrong with me. But last night we turned down all party invitations, and went to bed at 7:30. And now, today is New Years Day... we are super bored, broke, without food in the house, and nothing is open in town. And even if store WERE open, we're too busy paying off our debt and worshiping Dave Ramsey to enjoy our lives in ... [ Read More ]
Christmas Madness
This year, to avoid the tradition of holiday emergency room visits, we hosted the Klinge family Christmas at our home in the country.But we still found ways to carry on our normal Christmas traditions... such as Christmas cut-out cookies, oyster stew on Christmas Eve, stockings lined up on the wall, and Christmas carols being sung to piano music!Our New York family members made the long and ... [ Read More ]
Playing in the Snow…
Today was a completely unproductive day... especially considering we're making Christmas presents this year, and we're nowhere near finished. Not to mention the massive pile of laundry on the couch.BUT...We got to go snowboarding!!! So, it wasn't a completely fruitless day! It all started out with a little off-roading on our land, blasting through snowdrifts with the Jeep. This guilty ... [ Read More ]
A Snowy Saga: Chap. 3
If you haven't already, you may want to read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 first. Otherwise you'll be confused.So Ever and I were stranded in a ditch with sub-zero temperatures. Nick's boss, Jeff, valiantly came to our rescue with his beastly plowing truck. He pulled Ever's truck out of the ditch, and Ever said his goodbyes. I still don't know if Ever made it back home. Jeff and I spent the next ... [ Read More ]
A Snowy Saga: Chap. 2
If you haven’t read Chapter 1, please read it here. The drift my Jeep was laid to rest in spanned from one cornfield to the other, completely covering the road. Like a smooth, horrifying, death-trap. I took a brief moment to reflect on the events at hand, breathed in deeply, and burst into a pathetic flood of tears. Luckily I was smart enough to have brought necessities including a fleece blanket, ... [ Read More ]