Early Valentine's Day

<3<3<3<3>My hubby loves me. =)

Today, while at the mall, hubs suggested we stop by one of the Jewelry stores to "look". My suspicion was cued immediately, but HEY! Who am I to say NO to admiring sparklies??? The sales woman approaches us and askes what we would like to see. Well, I was sitting in front of a pair of opal earrings, so, I asked to see them. Next thing I know I've got three different earrings and necklaces sitting in front of me, and I can feel the pressure from not JUST the sales lady, but Michael as well, to just pick one already! I made doubley sure it wasn't a trap, and that he actually wanted me to pick something, so, I did.

Say hello to my new beauties. (With a necklace to match!) Pink sapphire and a small diamond right above. (Hey, it's hard to take a picture of your ear!) When the lady handed me my bag after our purchase he said "You deserve it." Thanks babe. MuAh!

I LOVE laundry!

I am FINALLY getting a new laundry room and carport... yippee!! I have lived in this house for two and a half years with a carport that could fall on our heads at any second, and a small laundry closet in the back of rotten carport. Yes, I have to go outside to do my laundry. Therefore, when it rains, no laundry gets done. So sad.
BUT NOW I will have a real laundry room attached to my kitchen, with a roof, four walls, and a floor... a REAL room! =) and a spankin' new garage to boot! I will post pictures soon of my current arrangements so that we can all marvel at my new additions.
Now to decorating! I know it's only a laundry room, but that walls will need to be painted of course, and I am debating on tile color. I will have plenty of wall space, so cupboards? shelves? pictures? Any ideas??
Construction starts February 13th.

4 pounds 6 ounces

Literally, a small miracle occurred last week. My aunt gave birth to her second daughter roughly seven weeks early at 12:04 Tuesday morning. She was 4 pounds 6 ounces, 16 inches long. Surprisingly, she was healthy. Perfect more like it. My aunt was in great shape, and up and walking around just hours after birth, and was even released the next day. Jessica, the newest member of my family was sent home on Thursday. She was that healthy. It was just amazing.

Here is a picture of this small miracle next to my daughter's baby doll, Abby (the doll's name of course).

Thank you, Lord, for a healthy delivery of this baby girl. =)

Long awaited....

I'm sure all of my dedicated blog followers have been anxiously awaiting my return after what has been a looooooong spell of quietness. Yes, I'm sure that is a word.
Let's see what I can think of to capture my reader's attention. Believe it or not I'm always reading everyone else's blog, but rarely leave a comment or obviously ever post because I'm always trying to keep up on my iPhone, and it's too hard to do anything more elaborate than read from my handy-dandy hand-held device.
Let's see... all of the holidays have passed. Another semester has come and gone. Currently I'm beginning another. My last to be exact. I will finally be graduating in May, and I have put in about 12,000 graduate school applications. So, we'll see!
My latest drama involves kitchen appliances. On Wednesday a week ago I woke up to a nasty smell, and a nice warm refrigerator. Yay for me. Luckily I was able to save most of our food, but I still ended up throwing away a trashbag full. So disappointing since I had just went grocery shopping 3 days prior. So off I went to our local Home Depot (I absolutely LOVE home improvement stores!), and with my hubby's permission to pick out WHATEVER refridgerator I wanted. oops! His mistake. I found the biggest one they had in stainless steel, and called it a day. We just got it delivered yesterday. I was SO excited. I'll add a picture of it later. We decided last night that if we ever move we're going to have to base our house decision on whether or not the kitchen has a place big enough to fit our new fridge. :-)
Well, I hope this is enough of an update for now. I hope to stay a little more intuned now that I'm not quite so busy with school.

There we go... my new love!