Wedding Weekend

I definitely fell in love with the Niagra on the Lake region when we stayed there for a friend's wedding in mid September. We stayed at a B&B right across from the river upstream from the falls. Our hosts were a very cute Italian couple. I think it may have been the first time I ever had an Italian breakfast. Mmmmm! The highlights of the stay was that the bed was so high up you needed a footstool to get in, the sitting room was extra spacious, and I was able to do devotions on the beautiful balcony.

(note the adorable footstool!)

Friday night musings - ben's smashing blog debut

not feeling particularly inspired... yet... but anything's better than working on school work...
Noelle is at a Sarah Groves concert with her friend Megan. i'm still wondering how i could have passed up the chance to rock out with them... i'm sure other guys reading this are also scratching their heads. perhaps i should introduce myself as this is my first blog posting.. nah, but know this, when in doubt, i'm probably being sarcastic. ok- if you're reading this i'll be shocked because it'll mean Noelle didn't delete my post. not that she's cruel like that but because my idea of writing is to entertain myself and hope someone else is amused.. not sure that goes with the whole "home renovs and our unbelievably exciting life" posts to date.. so i'll keep my fingers crossed. anyways, i'm disappointed nothing creative has come to mind to write about, but i'll wrap up this kickoff blog post from Noelle's piece of work of a husband with a couple lines from my favorite song this month..

but I know that I've gotta make a change

I don't care if I break,

At least I'll be feeling something

...

I don't wanna go through the motions

Home Rennovations Part 2

Back in the old days when we lived in out apartmetn in Brighton we had beautiful crimson floor legnth curtains in our bedroom. However when we moved our bedroom came with 3 small windows and not one huge window. So for a year my curtains gathered dust in a closet instead of fulfilling their purpose. So...I called on my good friend Johanna to come over and teach me how to make valances. Well I guess I got in deeper than I realized becuase I didn't have quite enough fabric and therefore we needed to jerryrig the pattern. Well, it ended up turning out great. I'm very pleased with the curtains and now my walls have color.

BEFORE and AFTER

ONE LAST LOOK

A close up but don't look too close Ü

Exhilarating

No words needed for this post. Soo much fun. Thanks Mark and Briana!!

Strawberry, Blackberry, Rhubarb Pie

My family came up for a visit in August and we decided to go on a 3.4 mile hike at Blackcreek Park. We were rushed on time so we were hauling! However, we kept passing massive amounts of blackberry bushes and they looked so tempting! After awhile we just couldn't take the temptation any longer and we starting picking despite our lack of time. And that's when I noticed my sister surrounded by a massive swarm of mosquitoes, they were everywhere. They were around my mom and I too. I screamed Run telling everyone to abort the blackberry mission and get to safety. It was quite the memory. All that to say that we only picked about half the blackberries I would have needed for a pie. So...I got creative and made up a recipe for strawberry, blackberry, rhubarb pie. It was delicious. Ben can vouch for that (I hope!) So I posted a picture on my blog so someone can show my Grandma Jo. Mmm...wish I had a piece now.

HOME RENOVATIONS PART 1

Since Ben had changed jobs and had to earn vacation time all over again, our summer has been pretty sedentary. However, since Ben and I can't sit still we decided to do some home rennovations. I wanted new window coverings, however 44 inch wide windows arn't so common. Neither are 35in windows. (Side note: No doors or windows in our home are normal sized, I told this to a friend and he said Well the 60's were a time for experimentation for home building, I wasn't impressed). Well, Overstock.com just so happened to be clearance-ing out some odd sized blinds...yes 44in and 35 in! So by the time they were delievered to our door, they were installed by Ben in a total of maybe 1.9 hrs with dinner inbetween. Not too shabby.