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...that although I am sad to be leaving hubby for 4 nights, I am super excited about my upcoming trip this weekend. I am headed to Boise for a job interview (and to see my grandparents/aunt/uncle/cousins!).</div>
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...that I am so excited for our next adventure and to start our lives in Boise! </div>
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...to wish that I was sun bathing instead of listening to the rain beating down right now.</div>
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...to be incredibly worried for our friend who was in a terrible ATV accident on Saturday night. He wasn't wearing a helmet (bad) and crashed. So many injuries I am not sure where to begin- the handle bars did go through his abdomen and caused a laceration in his liver which has resulted in 4 surgeries thus far. He was life flighted to the ICU at the local hospital here and put in a medically induced coma. Other injuries include: some bleeding on the brain which resulted in a screw to relieve some pressure, bruised kidney, deflated lung, broken ribs, and a COMPLETELY shattered elbow which they did reconstructive surgery on to fix. Needless to say, please keep our dear friend in your prayers.</div>
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...to be having no luck thinking of a puppy name. Hubby wants one that has to do with something in the kitchen (that's the chef in him...). Any ideas?</div>
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...to be wondering what you have all been up to lately?!?!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been absent from my blog, but I have legitimate reasons, I promise! I didn't forget about this wonderful little corner of cyber space. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hubby and I have been thinking, deciding, and praying about some changes for us. We have been wanting to move and experience somewhere else (Oregon, you are beautiful, we will be back). At the same time, I really want to start my teaching career this fall....badly. My time has been sucked into filling out job applications literally all over the country, and even England!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in the midst of this, a great opportunity opened up. My grandparents live in Boise, Idaho. They own a few different rental houses there and are moving from there current one of 10+ years to another of theirs (on a golf course, with now stairs). This means their house is vacant, and we are moving in! Hello, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms on one acre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This blog will be a great outlet to share my experiences of moving and decorating our first house. And, getting a puppy too, shhh:)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel like doors are opening for us and I feel at peace about this big move for us. What a blessing! I have a job interview coming up in the next couple weeks in that area, so I would appreciate any prayers/good thoughts that you wouldn't mind sending my way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...that I am over-the-moon excited to learn how to sew! I am signing up for a once a week class in April and can't wait to learn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...to be exhausted after working extra hours this week. Who can't wait for the weekend? Oh right, me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...to be spending a lot of time shopping for the <i>perfect </i>grad present for hubby. I already know what I want to get him, I just have to read reviews and find the best brand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...to actually be enjoying the rain today even though most people are complaining about it. We do live in Oregon. Breaking news: it rains here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...that I am anxiously awaiting my afternoon cup (or two) of coffee that I am about to have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...to have been slacking on my blog lately. I'm not really sure what I've been doing instead. Scrapbooking, I guess. And also hanging out with hubby when he isn't in his night class/ working his new job. I'm so proud of him! </span></div>
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We have had a fantastic, busy last three days.</div>
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First and foremost, <b>my hubby was hired Friday, on the day his internship ended, for a full time job! </b>What a blessing. The restaurant is well known, but smaller, so we thought the chances were slim to none of him getting hired now (we thought maybe they'd call him in the future). I am so proud of my hardworking man. </div>
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When I got off of work Friday night, we headed about 80 miles south to go visit family and friends for the weekend. My husband's parents and grandparents all live there as well as many of our friends. Stephen had a "dude night" while I enjoyed night out with my college roommate {of 4 years}. It was a fun time. My roommate and I went to two of our favorite bars and had some yummy cocktails!</div>
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Saturday morning, I woke up to find a text from my husband that said something like "I am up, come get me asap so we can go see my grandparents." Great, I woke up a few minutes later, hopped in the shower, and was on my way to get him. <b>Except <i>not</i>. </b>I backed out of the parking space I was in and turned to go down the hill. As I went down, all I heard was a "thump, thump, thump." <b>Great, I have heard that before with my previous car. I had a flat. NOT a fun surprise. </b>There was a lady outside smoking who watched my face as I realized I had a flat, and she also watched me get out and assess the situation, in which I immediately responded with "crap". I didn't want to wait for AAA to arrive, so my roommate kindly took me to pick up Stephen who was able to put the spare on. Once the tire was off, we saw a nail shoved all the way inside the tire. That was the problem. Luckily, Les Schwab is a life saver and fixed it for free since I had their tires! That was the best part of the bad situation- a free fix.</div>
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The rest of the weekend we spent with his dad and family. We hung up, chit chatted, and went to happy hour. It was much needed and great to see everyone. We stayed the night at his mom's house and went to his sisters soccer game- it was at 9:20 PM. Late game but we enjoyed it.</div>
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I'd say the weekend was a success. Hope you all have a great week!</div>Marriage from Scratchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13834828657843344292noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3228199859974073182.post-92199267961788384802012-03-09T07:24:00.000-08:002012-03-09T07:24:00.098-08:00From Scratch Friday #6<div style="text-align: center;">
Welcome to From Scratch Friday! This is the place to link up all DIY projects, recipes, printables, and more! </div>
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Here are the top viewed projects from last week:</div>
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...to feel bad for my sister who fell off a horse during her lesson this week and got a concussion. Ouch! And apparently studies have shown that thinking too much while healing from a concussion can cause permanent damage. Therefore, it may be two weeks before she can attend school full days again and she isn't allowed to take any tests. Odd!</div>
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...that I am annoyed with this season of the Bachelor. Ben has really been bugging me and the fact that he likes someone like Courtney? Don't even get me started...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello and thanks for stopping by From Scratch Friday! Here were the top three most viewed projects from last week's linkup.</span></div>
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...that I love all the baking and cooking my hubby and I do together. My sis-in-law and her boyfriend came over for a yummy dinner last night that included the most amazing garlic bread sticks. Whoa yum. It's so nice to hardly buy any bread products anymore (ok, minus some hoagie rolls only because we don't have the right mold). But we make a loaf of bread weekly, pita bread, bread sticks, etc! Seriously awesome.</div>
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...to be annoyed with our upstairs neighbors. They <i>do not sleep. </i>They are awake all night and most of the day. Always home, always up. They make so much noise at night, and on Tuesday night they woke me up at 3:30 am and I wasn't able to go back to sleep (they were being too loud!). I called the apartment manager a couple weeks back when they were partying all night with friends on a Sunday night but it hasn't stopped. It needs to, though.</div>
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...that I am so excited/proud/happy for my husband who is about to finish up his culinary internship. It ends next week and then he just has a couple of English classes that end like May 4. His graduation is April 7, though, a few weeks before he finishes. I am a proud wifey!</div>
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Happy Thursday Everyone!</div>Marriage from Scratchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13834828657843344292noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3228199859974073182.post-11203048910972886492012-02-28T12:22:00.000-08:002012-02-28T12:22:13.232-08:00Wordless Wednesday #7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We made our first batch of homemade peanut butter on Saturday, and let me just say, it was a success! I decided I would share the recipe with you because we are enjoying it so much. We are making small-ish batches since there are only two of us. We figure we will just make it once a week to keep it fresh since there are no preservatives in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Want to learn how to add one of those Pin it buttons so that it automatically shows on each blog post? It's easy, let me show you how!</span></div>
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<b>Step 1: </b>From your blogger dashboard, click on "Settings". Then select "Template".</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We have them sitting in water on our window sill so they get enough light. This is Day #3 and you can see the little sprouts forming at the top. I will be showing the whole process in details soon, so watch for it! This is a fun little project and it will be great to just snip off the green onions we need and to let them regrow again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...that ever since this week started I have been counting down the days until the weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...that our Valentine's Day was just. so. awesome that I'm still smiling about it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...that I have let my coupon inserts pile up and really need to get clippin'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...that I am getting really into Big Love after almost finishing the first season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...that I'm sad Whitney Houston died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...that one of the girls I nanny for dropped a toy in the (poopy) toilet. And I decided I was not in the mood to grab it out. So I left it...and told the grandparents! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Welcome to another From Scratch Friday! I am so excited to check out your arts & crafts, recipes, printables, furniture, or anything else you have created this week!</b></span></div>
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<b>Dates that Changed Our Lives </b>by <a href="http://holy-craft.blogspot.com/2012/02/dates-that-changed-our-lives.html">Holy Craft</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What a fun, sweet day we had on Valentine's Day this year. With a husband who used to serve at a fancy restaurant and consequently was required to work on this day (one of the busiest days for restaurants, of course), it was so wonderful that we both ended up having the day off together. What a treat! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stephen woke me up with <a href="http://marriagefromscratch.blogspot.com/2012/02/almost-wordless-wednesday.html">this surprise</a> that I mentioned yesterday. After that, we got ready for the day, browsed some of our favorite stores, went out for sushi (for him; I had chicken bento), relaxed and caught up on a show or two on dvr, and then had this amazing meal that words can't even describe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We enjoyed wine throughout the evening and also watched a movie that hubby has been wanting to see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I gave him <a href="http://marriagefromscratch.blogspot.com/2012/02/52-reasons-i-love-you.html">his gift.</a> He was incredibly touched as he read through the 52 reasons I had written. It was so sweet to see his reaction. After reading through them, he stood up, kissed me, and told me "this was probably the <b>best</b> present I've ever given him." Wow. And I have given him a lot of gifts! What a hit this special gift was.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Marriage from Scratchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13834828657843344292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3228199859974073182.post-52227475618920771672012-02-14T13:10:00.000-08:002012-02-14T17:40:19.161-08:00{Almost} Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My loving, thoughtful, sweet, dedicated, hardworking husband woke me up to this on {candlelit breakfast} Valentine's morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Homemade strawberry crepes</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Homemade chocolate covered strawberries.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>And coffee the way I like it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The cutest part? He had the flowers (in water, of course) and already made chocolate covered strawberries in his truck overnight so that I wouldn't find them. Cute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The rest of the day is full of fun & showing each other how much we care. We were blessed to have this day off together. But, one thing we love most about each other? We show each other how much we love each other <i>every day. </i>Not just on February 14!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy Valentine's Day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What did we buy? Rolled oats, honey oat granola, wild rice and <i>twelve pounds </i>of unbleached white bread flour. Hubby mixes white and wheat flour to make our delicious <a href="http://marriagefromscratch.blogspot.com/2012/02/happy-weekend.html">homemade bread.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob's Red Mill was a fun experience. I highly recommend trying their products if you haven't. I loved that we cold buy in bulk from the bins at their store. What a cool place!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I completed my Valentine's gift for Stephen. I am <i>soooooo </i>excited to give it to him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I found this idea off of Pinterest. Technically, this is my first "Pinterest Project" and I'd say it was quite successful! This is such a unique, special gift that includes 52 different reasons why I love my husband. Some reasons are silly and some are serious, but they are all about him! I found the idea <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/200339883393520813/">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. Punch two holes in one of the jokers (the other joker will be the front cover) to use as a template for the rest. Then punch holes in the rest of the deck. I was able to punch through two cards at a time easily. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. Write your "reasons" on 52 individuals labels or trimmed pieces of paper. Then peel & stick or glue onto cards one at a time.</span></div>
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