Game Night

This past Friday night Matthew and I hosted our first game night ever at our place. We were super pumped and ready to see all of our friends again. We decided on tacos and cheese dip for dinner and found a few games that we could play.

We played Fibbage, that's the reason everyone is on their phones. It's a game that's played on your phone! We have played it before and loved it so we bought it to play that night. If you have never heard of it then I recommend trying it out, and it's less than $10!

Self timer at it's finest!

It was a great night and great start to our long weekend. We are hoping to make game night a monthly thing. Have you ever hosted a game night or attended one and played a really fun game? We are looking for new games to play at our future game nights, so feel free to share :) 

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What I love about marriage

I thought it would be fun to list a few things that I'm loving about marriage. It's only been a few weeks, but we are definitely learning and growing more every day together. I am constantly thanking God for this sweet gift of marriage.

Starting and ending the days together. I absolutely love these sweet times together. Sitting at our table together in the mornings talking over breakfast about our upcoming day, sitting at our table together talking over dinner about how our day went. Confiding in one another, sharing struggles and emotions, dreaming about the plans God has in store for us, It is all so special.

Doing dishes, grocery shopping, etc. Regular every day tasks, but Matthew makes everything SO much fun. He is seriously the funniest person I know and always has a good come back or hilarious remark to just about everything. He is constantly making me laugh no matter what we're doing, and I love it. I wouldn't want to tag team dishes with anyone else.

Church. I can't explain how much I love going to church with my HUSBAND. We have been going to church together since we've been together, as that is where we met, but still, there is just something about so exciting about it. Also, we are SO excited about getting to know the other young married couples in our class. Sunday's are so nice to, when we can actually relax. I love taking Sunday naps with Matthew.

Figuring our pet peeves. He doesn't like it when I put the toilet paper on the roll the wrong way. Which is a little odd to me, as I have never paid any attention to that. I also didn't think guys paid attention to that kind of thing lol. Turns out they do, and I'm the toilet paper culprit in this relationship. I don't like it when he doesn't push his chair up at the table when we are finished eating. We have a small dining area and it's very noticeable when he doesn't lol. These things are fun to figure out. A lot of times when I get annoyed about something I try to remind myself that I am lucky to be annoyed by something he does because that means he is here to annoy me with it. He's not overseas, injured and in the hospital, sick, or traveling for work a lot. I am thankful for these tiny annoyances...I just have to remind myself that at the time ;) We are getting into the groove of things, this is only natural since we have never lived with each other before. It's all about learning each other, and I am thankful for the opportunity to do that with Matthew!

Meals together. As I have shared before I am meal planning for us. To save on time and money and in hopes of eating somewhat better than fast food! At the end of the month I try and meal plan for the next month. There are some weeks we follow it SO well and then other weeks we might follow two or three days lol. It's all about timing and what we have going on. Things come up at the last minute, we don't feel like cooking anything, we got off work late, etc. I am loving learning to cook for us, and it is so much fun to sit down and share these meals together. These are some of my favorite times of the day.

Being goofy together. I absolutely LOVE when Matthew and I get in these hyper moods and are extremely goofy. From chasing each other around our small apartment to dancing in the kitchen, I love every second of it.

These are just a few things out of the endless amount of blessing that have already come from marriage. Daily, I am overwhelmed with gratefulness and appreciation for what God is doing in our lives. I never want to take these small things for granted, even when we've been married for 50 years. I want to make lists like this forever!

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Dining Room Table Makeover

Excuse the mess and bad lighting. We were just so excited to have the table finally together lol.

Matthew and I have been talking about re-doing our dining room table for a couple of weeks and decided Labor Day weekend would be the perfect time to do it. We had looked at a ton of options on how we wanted to do it and decided on something like this...

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Saturday morning we slept in past 6:30 and then jumped right up and Matthew went to Lowe's for the wood and supplies and I started on breakfast! Because pancakes and bacon is the best way to start any day, right? ;) 

Saturday was all about getting the supplies and prepping it. Matthew made all the cuts and then we decided how it was going to go on the frame.

Our work area was our little 8x8 deck. We put our drop cloths down so our neighbors wouldn't get covered in saw dust. I'm sure they appreciated that ;) 

Once it got too dark outside we moved inside to do the staining. We decided it only needed one coat of stain. We also stained both sides to see which side looked the best once stained. 

Our apartment was a complete wreck this past weekend so ignore all the mess. We only had one thing on our mind and that was to finish our table!!

Matthew put a coat of polyurethane on the wood and it needed about 3 hours to soak in and dry so we ran to the store to get more brushes and drove around and looked at some houses that are for sale. I absolutely LOVE doing this with Matthew. It's one of our favorite things to do lol. By time we got back it was time to attach the stained wood on the table frame! 

Our before and after!

Matthew attached it last night and put the last coat of polyurethane on it! We still have a couple of chairs to finish and then we are completely done! Our main goal was to have the table completely finished by Monday night. We also have to go pick our fabric to put over our seat cushions. We tried the white on a white and they are a different shade and look awful together lol. Overall this was a pretty fun project. We would get really excited after each big step as we saw it coming together and are so happy with how it turned out! It also makes the room a lot brighter. The best part of this project was working on it together. I sanded some while Matthew was cutting the wood or I was painting while he was sanding and cutting. We talked about everything under the sun while working on this table, watched some Netflix while stuff was drying or while staining, or listened to Pandora.

It was the perfect long weekend together and I can't think of a better way to end the best summer, ever. 

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September Goals

This is the first time in months that I have made some monthly goals and I am so pumped to have some written down and on here. Having monthly goals helps me feel like I have at least part of my life in order lol. I usually make about 5+ lists a day and feel SO accomplished when marking something off. Whether it be a personal to do list or a to do list for work, I love crossing the next thing off.

I know I sound like a broken record, but it's SEPTEMBER. Time if flyin' by, and I kind of want it to slow down. I feel like it was just June and Matthew and I were freaking out over the fact that "next month we are going to be husband and wife" and that we only have to scroll to the next month on our calendars on our phones to see our wedding month. I'm excited though. Excited for the upcoming holidays that we get to celebrate together, for some cooler weather, and for all the memories that we will make, Lord willing! So now for some September goals.

1. Continue working on our apartment. We have worked and worked and worked some more on our little place and it is finally starting to look like people live there. Stuff is starting to go up on the walls, boxes have been unpacked, things have been organized, the drawers in our dresser and chest of drawers are now full, accent pieces are finding their places, and we can now see our dining room floor. There are still a few little things that needs to be done, but we are taking them on one project at a time and that is perfectly fine with me. I love working on things together and spending our nights together, it really is the best. Some projects we have that we want to do this month are:

          - Putting up a shelf over the washer and dryer in laundry room (more storage!)

          - Style our accent tables

          - Plate wall (y'all I am SO excited about this I can't even stand it)

          - Decorate the wall behind our couch

          - Decorate the wall behind our bed

          - Decorate wall in the hallway

We got a couple of Lowe's gift cards for our wedding so we decided to purchase this bad boy and put it in our laundry room. It has helped SO much! We plan on putting this in our garage one day (fingers crossed we have a garage lol)

2. No social media after we get into bed. I have had this bad habit since I got a smart phone about 3 years ago. Every night when I get in bed I will get on my phone and scroll through social media apps until I make myself put it up and go to sleep. It's embarrassing how much we both do this. A lot of the times we'll show each other something on our phone or watch goofy YouTube videos together, but I want to really work on this. What did couples do before social media and smart phones? I'm sometimes jealous of how it was back then for them. It's so easy for an hour or so to pass while I am scrolling away on Pinterest looking up new things. I would probably get so much more sleep if I cut back on this!

3. Do at least one chore a day. Matthew and I have tossed around the idea of a cleaning schedule but I did that with my apartment in Cookeville and it's actually kind of hard to stick to once life gets in the way. So I think we'll try this. One chore a day, and laundry everyday (or as needed)

4. All of the major cleaning and big loads of laundry finished by Thursday night. Again, I'm not sure how all of this is going to work, but we are going to try. I know we are not going to feel like any cleaning on Friday nights and most Saturdays we have errands to run or somewhere to be. Now of course we will pick up and do minor things Friday-Sunday but we would love to have most of the bigger things done by Thursday night. Also, I can't go to bed on Sunday night if the apartment is messy. I just can't do it lol and I love waking up to a clean apartment on Monday mornings. It just starts the week off better.

5. Show my support through actions. I want to always support Matthew and not just verbally or through texts. I want to show Matthew my support through tangible things. Notes, cards, small gifts, random acts of kindness around the apartment. I want to be nothing but an encouragement.

6. Go on a date! Of course now that we are married we eat almost every dinner together and we stop here and there to grab dinner or lunch on Sundays after church together, (which I am absolutely LOVING!) but I want to go on a real date with my husband. One we actually plan and not just go grab dinner on a whim kind of date lol. It also helps that we have some free movie tickets just sitting there waiting on us ;) Once we are settled we would love to have a date night once a month and take turns planning it. Once we get our budget set and see what we have to work with will determine if it will be a monthly thing, but I think we can find some free/cheap things to do each month!

I am excited for a new month and all of our upcoming activities we have planned! September is going to be full of bridal showers, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and bridal luncheons for my brother-in-law and futute sister-in-law, AND our best friends!! Our best friend is getting married the first weekend in October and then Matthew's twin brother is getting married two weeks after that. This fall is going to be BUSY but SO MUCH FUN!

Happy September, friends!

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