Break.

Guess what!?! I'm officially on Thanksgiving Break. Ahhhhhhhhh relief. This break is much needed and the best part is that it represents how stinkin close I am to the end of the semester and a long winter break.

Plans for Thanksgiving break:

-Homework. Even though I'm on a break I still have a couple of days worth of homework to do.

-Heading home to sweet Nokesville in the middle of the week.

-Enjoying 5 days straight with Aj. No work for him and no school for me will be wonderful.

-Being thankful.

-Getting a Christmas tree as soon as possible after Thanksgiving. I'm very respectful to each and ever holiday and give them each their time to shine. But as of 12am Thursday night/Friday morning Thanksgiving can eat it (pun intended).

-See the new Twilight movie. Team Renesmee!

Offspring

I would like to introduce you to our future child.






Is that not the scariest cutest little baby you ever did see?! I thinks she favors her mother with those blue eyes. AJ's response to the picture, "It looks like an Olsen twin." Haha he cracks me up. I think the picture could be used in schools as a form of birth control.

It's a hard-knock life

It's a hard-knock life for renters. It's a hard-knock life for us! (read as if your watching Annie and cute orphans cleaning about). Now you want to watch the movie dontcha?

You know why life's so hard for renters? Two reasons:

            1-You have to follow a bunch of mostly silly rules like not being allowed to paint your walls
                arrghhh.
            2-You've probally moved multiple times and are planning on moving again

Right now, #2 is the one getting me itchy. You know why? Curtains. I've been wanting curtains for our living room for almost a year and a half but I haven't been able to pull the trigger and buy them. I avoided buying curtains at our first apartment in Warrenton because I knew we were only going to be there one year and then would be moving on to somewhere new. I feared spending lots of money on curtains for our first living room then moving and then the windows in our new living room would be too large or small or have too many or less windows blah blah blah. On top of all of that, most curtains are just ugly and I could never find good cute ones.

I'm ready now. and the husband agrees. We have been in our current house in Christiansburg for a little over 3 months and are planning on staying in this house till I get done with graduate school in May 2013. This means one little lady can finally dress her windows.

The big problem is, like I said before, most curtains are not so cute. Most curtains are even more not cute when you are searching for bold patterned navy curtains. That's what this girl wants. Bold patterned navy curtains.

So you know you excitedly go and log-on to your little laptop expecting to find great, great things.......and you find a bunch of this.

sorry Kohls, it's not you, it's your ugly curtains

And you're like hell no.

Then after searching hours upon hours you find these. Cue the singing baby angels.

now these are from this great etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/CastleCreekDesigns?ref=seller_info .

This girl would love them but they are totes out of my price range.

Ok someone stop the singing baby angels. Cause these hottie curtains are $180 per window. Ouch. Even I can't somehow come up with a crazy story justifying spending that much. Especially since we will be moving again eventually.

So I continued looking and searching and being disappointed. and I'm still a little disappointed. Because I just can't find those fabulous bold patterned navy curtains in our price range. Lame. I even considered the option of DIYing some curtains but then I remebered I'm a busy graduate student who wouldn't be able to finish such a time consuming project until maybe summer?

So what's the point of this long orphan/renting stinks/curtain post Courtney? Plain navy curtains is the point and it's what we are getting. But we are getting them before Christmas which is the important part :) I'll post pictures when they come in.

I love pallet wood.

We finally finished our new over the sofa art! It's huge and just what we needed for the big empty wall the sofa is against.

The best part is that the project only costed us about $30. AJ got the pallets for free from his work and all we had to buy was the stencil, stain and some hanging thingys. If we would have bought some art around the same size at say Smeir 1 we probably wouldn't have been able to go out to dinner last night. Which we did and it was ahhmmazing. If you're ever in Roanoke go to METRO! Whenever I eat their sushi I have a Hallelujah moment.  No, I'm serious. The first time I ate their sushi I lifted both my hands in the air and said hallelujah. For real.

Back to my love........



I now want to make everything out of pallet wood.

Like this



                      via Pinterest

and this mirror

                    via Pinterest

oh and this.

                       via Pinterest

Now we're on to those curtains. Only 14 days left :) 

Aww.

I was going through old pictures this morning and came across a 10th grade homecoming picture. So fun to look at! When this picture was taken AJ and I had been dating for about 10 months. It will be 9 years in January. Oh memories....

On a side note, could we have been wearing anymore red?! This was before I realized clothing/decorating is about coordinating, not matching.