christmas continues

On christmas day we eat alot and we have think alot with the Kirk treasure hunt ..

the hunt went from noon something till seven something ..

man there were some tuff ones this year !!

for example one of the clues was ..

#13

36th President.

can only hold his breath for a brief time

so spends more of his time out of it than in it.

four decades of horses

the answer Lyndon B. Johnson & 4o horses

It ended up being our boat...

our Johnson 40 horse power engine

which spends more time out of water than in the water haha !

We also enjoyed a lil gift giving to as well I gave the in laws a much wanted wedding photo sorry it took so long .. we also got some sweet $$ bucks from SANTA thanks big man

we made it

Yeah so I was watching the Nate Burkus show and he was showing

these cool ways to use old doors

well since the budget it tight ...

I took his idea and made a coffee table out of a door we found in the basement

of my in laws they have tons of cool old things I love it ...

I also found sweet windows and window panes

It turned out awesome the pictures don't do it justice !!

oh by the way

We moved yet again .. from the ma&pa's to 4 houses down to 12040 Lisbon Road ..

and we are making some needed repairs and updates to this old place

this home was the original Greenford Post Office back in the day

Its so fun living in such a old historic home ..it has lots of character ! We have alot of plans for this place but it'll take time for sure so i'll keep posting

the progress but these are some things we've done so far ..

We had to strip the paint off of the upstairs bathroom tub ..

it was a perfectly white porcelin tub underneath !!

why the paint ? who knows..

and we have just about totally gutted the downstairs bathroom / laundry room. Matt put in a whole new ceiling and lighting soon he will tile the shower and paint the entire space then I'll be able to do my things to it ... oo boy how exciting !!

much joy to be had

lizzy was a good dog this year ..

Taylor & Skylar gave her gift

in a stocking my mom sent .. she loved it !

Matt wrapped up our surround sound and

TV wires as a gift to go with the new Television

he's so goofy !!
I got him warm.. wigwam socks
( no more cold feet ya hear me!)

The gathering at Grandmothers is always a treat

I searched high&low .. and found a new T.V. in one of the yucky rooms

that needs some attention

Matt knowing I don't ever go in there hid it in the closet ..
such a sweet suprise!

up with the tree

still in the process of decorating the christmas tree but here it is so far ...

thank you Ka for the decorations.. I'll post the final result another day

stay tuned !

much thanks..

We had a delightful Thanksgiving at our cousin Christy's home in Columbus

Matthew was elated when he saw his sweet cousin

Emma from Nashville .. whom he hadn't seen in way too many years !!

How grateful we are to be closer to Matt's family

It had been a long time since he was able to spend a Thanksgiving with them ..

Truely the company & food was divine !!

nuvo pitts

Our competition girls had the opportunity to spend the entire weekend in Pittsburgh for NUVO

there they learned and danced with professional dancers/choreographers like....

Travis Wall

& hip hop Ivan

from so you think you can dance !!

Matt and I were able to spend saturday there to support the girls while they competed

my boo stayed the entire 7 hrs with me .. love' em !!

The girls did great, they had so much fun as did I

helping them with their hair and makeup was hilarious these girls are so funny ..

Matt and I spent a lil time downtown .. Pittsburgh is an awesome city it's so unique with 3 rivers running through it and the bridges are bright yellow !

(psss... i loved it)

I'm sure we will be visiting the city often ..

on the water

Our boat has finally met water ..

after pulling it hundreds of miles from Utah to Texas

and now to Ohio she has finally been on water

Lizzy's first ride in the boat


The old boat ran very well .. in fact after we figured out a few things she ran beautifully
as you can see Matt is paddling ..
we were so nervous to get the engine caught in the brush underwater so we would paddle out to where we thought it was deep enough before starting her up ..
oh and the boat filled up with water cuz we are fools
and forgot to plug the draining hole !!
It was an adventure to say the least .. we learned alot

Thanks to some sweet connections we have here..

we got to take our boat out on a private lake

it was peaceful and such a wonderfully warm day
couldn't have asked for better conditions..

chelle's first time ever driving a boat !!

my darlings

I TEACH DANCE yahoo .. and I'm totally enjoying it !

these little darlings are in my lyrical 2 class ..

I have two lyrical 2 classes on

different days because the group is sorta big !

I also teach High School Jazz 3 which is awesome we have some great talent ..

so I love that I can just throw my crazy choreography at them.

Right now I'm really focusing on technique and workouts, mostly for me but the girls seem to be benefited too as well. I'll be posting more about my competition girls too ..soon

so here are just a small few of the girls I teach ..

this group of young ladies are in my hiphop 2 class

there is about 15 of them usually !

these jr. high girls have tons of energy and I try to harness it into movement
It's a prettyt hiliarous time .. I love it

grass is blue on the other side

yes indeedy.. cross the Ohio river into Wheeling, West Virginia and you get blue grass!

Matt's parents are good friends of the members of Peaches' lil band

this band has been coming together to perform their annual concert at the Stifel Mansion

.. for 21 years.

The music was spectacular, it wasn't lacking of any talent ..not at all ..

they all were multi talented there wasn't an instrument they couldn't play!!

Peaches Little Band ..

the Stifel Mansion was absolutely breath taking so much detail ..
I had to take a picture of the ceiling !!

I love it and want to emulate that same effect on a wall in my future home

check out matts curls ... aww

day with the boys

spend a day with the boys you get introduced to all their toys ..

like an exmark lawn mower, bobcat and a kubota

yes and they let me handle all three ...

little did they know how scary that could be ...

to see me on this huge lawn mower was a hoot !

I was a mad women on that thing .. I literally tore the grass up !

(pretty addicting once you get the hang of it !!)

something old & something new

ya ya this isn't anything new to alot of you ...

but it's a new toy to me and I love it

so be prepared to see alot more of this from me

2 yrs

yup, 2 years ago today we were sealed for time and all eternity !!

1. everything just fell perfectly into place (unexpectedly & unexplainably )

2.then we got married and it's been a crazy adventure ever since

happy 2nd anniversary boo

'dem apples

drive to Pennsylvania to press 'dem apples, gotta be Sally's press cuz she's the best..

& make'm into sweet cider

see the apples before the press'n ..

then you gotta ...

load' dem apples


wash' d apples

mush'd apples

watch' de juices flow

and fill 'er up all 115 gallons of it !!
& drive'em back home ..with a belly full of cider ..

sell' m and freeze em to have all year round mmmm

beaver creek

Sunday afternoon wasn't lacking any glorious sun rays .. so we had to spend time outside
we took a lil trip to Beaver Creek & saw some historical mills and things, along with a lil swinging & strolls. This is what I was able to capture of our lovely afternoon together