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A great night!

Matt and I spent the evening last night going to dinner and the theater in St. Louis! It was so much fun and the performance was AMAZING. I had been wanting to see this musical for a long time now and am so excited we got the opportunity!

My wonderful husband was perfectly happy and excited for the evening, even though it meant the long drive into St. Louis for the show and not getting home til 1:30am. It is the middle of his work week, and he needed to be at work early the next morning. Plus he doesn't get much time off this weekend since it is his units drill weekend. Thank you babes for such a fun night!

Welcome Home Dad!

About a week and a half ago my dad returned from his deployment. Mom, Matt, and I along with some friends decided to surprise him and meet him on his late night arrival into Springfield, MO (he thought only mom would be there). It ended up being an interesting night since our little welcome party was running around this small airport looking for my dad, who it turned out got stuck in Memphis and wasn't going to be arriving until the next morning. So we took our picture with all our welcome home items, emailed it to him and drove the hour and a half back home... mom went and picked up dad in the morning, the rest of us had to be at work.

The week that mom and dad were here was fantastic! We enjoyed some great time together, most notably was Fathers Day. We rented a boat and spent the day out on the lake, it was fun speeding around the water and finding quiet coves to anchor in for some swimming! So fun!

Matt and I are back to some quiet days now that mom and dad headed back to dad's new assignment in Maryland. Summer school is over for me, so I'm trying to fill my days with projects I've been meaning to get done!

Since it became a little easier...

I changed the look of the blog! I guess blogger added a "design" feature. It made it pretty easy to change up our background with the click of a button. Has this feature been here for a while? I'm embarassed if it has because I just noticed it!

Oh and... look forward to some more updates! My dad just got back from his deployment (yay!), mom came out here to welcome him back and we got to spend a fun week with the them. Once I organize pictures/thoughts, I'll post!

Another Before and After

Since we moved into to our place we have been wanting to get some new furniture for the upstairs living room. The couch that we had was really just a "placekeeper", Matt found it in college on the side of the road (again) and he's had it since. While it served him well during those college years and beyond it was definitely time for a new couch!

Before

I actually had to stuff the cushions of this couch with 9 folded up towels to fill it up just a little!

After

Yay! We love our new couch and chair!

Our Happy Home

Spring fever hit us this year. We recently planted flowers, bought patio furniture and decor for the front of the house. I think it turned out pretty good!