Easter Saturday

We celebrated Easter* with church Saturday night, but our day was full of productivity. David tackled a few big yard and outside house projects, and I helped some too :). 

Finished product! Tada!

I know it may not look like much, but we/David mowed the lawn, moved our two scraggly rose bushes to the back yard, replanted the three bushes on the right of the porch to be evenly spaced, planted three more bushes on the left to make the porch symmetrical, added 5 shrubs under the garage windows (so eventually we will have a hedge there), spread new mulch (27 bags!), hung new ferns and planted "window box" flowers (those 2 were my jobs) and pressure washed the gutters (and the entire back porch- me again). I'm seriously excited that this area is right on target with my vision for it since we moved in. I'm definitely impaired when it comes to yard/garden/landscaping stuff, but David did a fabulous job!

I was productive on the craft/home front. My favorite project were these cute zippered pouches. I used a combo of this tutorial and this tutorial to make them waterproof for cloth diapers as a baby gift. I was excited to learn how to sew zippers- this was my first time! Oh, and they cost next to nothing to make (shhh). I got a slew of zippers at a yard sale last year, I used fabric from my stash, and I used a dollar store shower curtain liner ($4). I have enough shower curtain for about a zillion more bags, so there are likely many more of these in my near future!

*We celebrate Easter every day as we worship our risen Lord. At least, we strive to.

before and after

I hate leaves.

So, another great weekend has come and gone. I don't think we've had a sub-par weekend yet. That's pretty incredible. I know I say this a lot (though probably not often enough), but marriage is the most amazing gift EVER. I hope I always feel that way and I don't get bogged down by what I'm sure will be a crazy life one day (with kids and all). David and I just have SO much fun hanging out together. Friday night we turned down an opportunity to go to yet another dress up function with good food (for free) because we had plans. Our plans consisted of: making dinner, making food for the weekend, wrapping presents and watching Braveheart on DVR. I'm so glad we stuck to our plan! It was awesome.

Saturday we ventured out into the busy world of Christmas consumerism to tackle some gift buying. Like I've mentioned before- I really do enjoy buying gifts for people. Plus, since I love lists so much, Christmas gift buying is super fun for me. However, Christmas gift buying (or shopping of any sort) is not nearly as fun when you bring (against your will) your husband along. I love the kid to death and like I mentioned before, we have so much fun together, but man it was work. He finally found someone to text with and that kept him content for a while, but I think he's learned his lesson that when I say "I'll just go by myself"- it's probably for the best.

After nearly 4 hours of running errands, we cleaned the house and had people over! David had invited some guys over to watch the FL/AL game, so Becca and I made plans of our own. I'm teaching Becca how to sew and she had the perfect project. We made the Rochas the cutest tree skirt! I can't wait to see it in action (and I'll take some pictures of it). It was fun having craft time (I worked on some home-made gifts while she worked on the tree skirt) while the boys watched football. Later that night Becca took me with her to her Bunco group. It was really fun to play and I even won $6! I just love Becca- we had so much fun and we laughed our heads off about something no one else thought was funny. It's so fun to have best friends!

Church was ah-maze-ing. Calvary Chapel is the bomb dot com. Yesterday was the last Sunday that the church will meet in Memorial Auditorium (where they've met for 4 years) because their new building is finished and church will be there next week! The service lasted for 2 hours, but no one could have cared less. The whole service was dedicated to the telling of the churches "God story" and it was so cool to see how God has truly blessed this fellowship into an incredible ministry in Chattanooga. David and I are just itching to get in there and be involved.

And now to the point of my title... I hate leaves. Sunday afternoon meant yard work. We had several feet of leaves piled up all around our house (ok, that might be an exaggeration, but it was a lot) and it was time to get rid of them. I don't know why I volunteered to help. First of all, it was freezing cold outside. David couldn't stop laughing at me because I was SO bundled up I could hardly move. Secondly, I hate raking leaves and moving them. Kind of like David volunteering to help with the shopping... I learned my lesson. We each have our own unique skills and abilities and apparently mine have nothing to do with manual labor.

What do you see??

Our grass is growing!

We'll have a luscious green yard for playing in by next summer for sure. Thanks Geyer-side fam for making this possible!

post of a million pictures

Alrighty, this post just may win for my longest one yet! It was a VERY full weekend, thus there is lots to write about and show pictures of. This weekend was both Geyer family visitation weekend and landscaping 101 weekend. Friday afternoon Keith dropped off a truck full of top soil, so I snapped a picture of the boys being boys.

Then, we went to the Baylor/McCallie game Friday night and hung out with Patty, Matt & Becca! It was so great to hang out with Matt & Becca (and Patrick of course, but we see him all of the time)! Unfortunatley, Baylor didn't do so hot...

Late Friday night the fam arrived! Saturday morning was spent re-landscaping our yard (well, David, Jim, Cathy & Jayme worked on it... I pitched in intermittently). They worked their tails off and got the whole thing tilled, rocks raked out, top soiled, seeded and strawed (strawed?). Now David is fervently watering so hopefully one day we'll have a luscious, green lawn! Thank you guys so, so much!

Saturday evening (after we all had naps), Cathy, Beth, Brianna and I headed to a Children's Festival in town. It was so fun! The weather was perfect and Brianna had so much fun! The first thing she did was the "pony" ride. Though, it was clearly a full-grown horse. I was so impressed by how fearless she was!
There was a petting zoo, and she got to see rabbits, sheep, chickens, a pig, goats, a cow, a donkey, and a horse. It was awesome! Her favorite part was the make-over station. They painted her nails, did her make-up (and yes, she picked blue eyeshadow) and gave her stick on earrings. She loved it!

Also on Saturday, Andy came into town! He was driving through on his way to Atlanta, so he was able to hang out with us Saturday night and part of Sunday. Brianna loves "Annie" and David likes playing with him too. They hit the driving range on Sunday while Jim and Jayme went to Talledega and the girls ran around town.

We went to the Market, got some ice cream, checked out the dog park, had lunch, got more ice cream, and did Brianna's favorite thing- shopping! It was a fun girls afternoon!All in all, it was a fun-filled weekend with the Geyer fam! Once again, the post is mostly about Brianna, but we had fun with Beth, Jayme, Cathy & Jim too!Brianna loves her Uncle David!