dress

So I have been sewing a lot lately and I finally finished my dress I was making. I had a little trouble with the zipper but I got it figured out and then I had to take the sides in more than what I did originally so I had to do that again but I got it finished! I really like it :)

Number 21

Yesterday was my birthday and so Rich said he would "build me a cake or something". I thought that the cake was great because it was my favorite...yellow cake with chocolate frosting, not just any chocolate frosting...chocolate frosting with sprinkles! It looked so pretty when he was all finished. Then we just hung around the house and played games. I had a good time.

Rich making my cake

Rich :)

My pretty cake!

My 21st Birthday

Oh and the picture on the wall is my collage frame I talked about a few posts ago. You can click on the picture to zoom in and see it a little better.

Puzzle

So Rich and I got this puzzle for our wedding and we have been trying to put it together ever since. We thought that it would be easy and here we are 2 months later trying to get it together still. Well as of last night about 6...something, IT'S FINISHED!!! I can't believe it. I think we just set all the pieces out and tried every one of them until one fit somewhere. Now that it's done though I don't know what to do with it. I don't want to take it apart right away but it's been taking up our dining room table for 2 months now.


Also last night we decided it was game time. We played some mancala and well..I lost all 3 times and then Rich thought he was on a role so he wanted to play scrabble. We played scrabble for like 2 hours and I couldn't believe it when he said he was out. The score was 228 to 225 but what ever tiles the other person has left, the add up the points and subtract them from their score and the other person gets to add it to their score...I had 2 points left so Rich won by 1 point last night...I didn't win a thing! I was amazed.

Let's go to the Beach!

Yesterday,Rich and I decided to go to the beach. We haven't been there in a while and it was supposed to be amazing...it definitely was. The sun was out without a cloud in the sky and no fog!!! It must have been at least 70 with very little wind so it was actually warm enough to lay out and get a tan! Rich went surfing but he said the water felt about 53 and not the 59 they said it was going to be. The waves were also pretty small and the water was more salty than usual. That's okay though, I think we still had fun...I know I did. I took a few pictures while we were there. Here they are!!

warm sandy toes

Sitting on the beach...look at that blue sky

Here's Rich going out. He's the one with the arrow :)

Yearbook

Okay, so I did this because Meg really wanted me to. There is a website that lets you see what you would look like in a yearbook for 50 years. I picked out some of the better ones to put up on here.

1952

1966

1972

1976

1978

1980

1984

2000

I thought these were pretty funny and I hope you like it Meg!! If you want to do it yourself just click here

Pears Pears Everywhere

Not too long ago, Rich and I went to pick pears at one of his boss's house. Of course we picked way more than we knew what to do with so we started canning. We were going to can them all but when we started to peel them and core them, some got a little too soft so we weren't quite sure what to do with them. We let them sit around in a bowl in the fridge for about 2 days and then I decided that the best thing to do was make pear butter. I've never had it and no one I talked to had ever had it before either but I decided to make it anyway. While in the middle of making pear butter I realized it looked more like apple sauce than apple butter so I must actually be making pear sauce. After all the pieces we used we only ended up with 2 jars of this pear stuff. I haven't really tasted it yet except for the little that splattered on my hand. I thought it was really good but I still think it's more like a sauce than a butter. Anyway, I took some pictures so you could see my first canning experience on my own...eek!

Here are my canned pear halves

My "pear butter" that's really more like pear sauce

Cayenne

Yesterday Rich and I went out to the pet store and got a new fish. It's a beta fish and we named him Cayenne because he's all red. We like him and hope that he's enjoying his new, much bigger, home! Here he is!