Friday, December 10, 2010

Shutterfly Christmas Cards!!!

Heard of Shutterfly? They have fabulous photo cards for numerous occassions! My favorite are the Christmas cards. You can upload any of your favorite pictures from the past year and use them in your card. You can also add a personalized message. Forgot...ink blots and sloppy, embarrassing handwriting. Shutterfly will print your card design and message clearly and crisply on photo paper.
In addition to cards, at Shutterfly you can make a plethora of other gifts using photos, calendars, home decor, and photo books. The thing I love most about shutterfly is their promotional savings. Right now if you purchase one photo book you can receive 50% off any additional photo books you order. If you purchase a calendar, you can receive 50% off the second. And..you can save 20% of their cards. Now who doesn't love saving?

Here's some links to some of the products I mentioned above and more....

Christmas photo cards http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards
Calendards http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars
Photo mugs http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-gifts/photo-mugs
Thank you cards http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationary/thank-you-cards

To sum it up...I love shutterfly. Check 'em out... http://www.shutterfly.com




Monday, November 1, 2010

Meet Lilly...

About a month ago Josh called me on his way home and said he had a suprise for me and to close all the blinds in the house, listen for the doorbell, wait a minute, and then come to the door.....

I knew he had been in Stillwater that day because he was meeting his friend Ryan there so I thought that he was bringing home Thai Cafe for dinner! It's one of my favorite restraunts and we ate there often when we lived in Stillwater. Little did I know...he didn't see Ryan at all...

Anyways...I answered the door, looked down, and saw this note...

"Hiya Brooke!
My name is Lilly...I already know you because Josh (the coolest guy ever!) told me ALL about you! He said you were highly interested in adoption...and well, I think you'll love me! I am the sweetest creature you will ever know. Josh said that he knew he was supposed to adopt me at first sight. My dear Brooke I love you so much already! I hope you will love me too...I promise to be an amazing daughter! I have a somewhat spotty past but I hope to start an amazing future with my new parents...that is you and Josh! Come see me at the back door if you will...please don't be mad at Josh, he has a great heart and it was my fault because I stole his...it belongs to you though.
Love ya,
Lills! "
And this is what I saw.....



Isn't she cute? She's half beagle but she looks like a little lab!

Josh told me later that he had been planning on bringing her home for a couple of weeks...I definently didn't see it coming.

On a different note...this is what our yard looked like today approximately 15 minutes after Josh got home from work...




Yeah, it's a sprinkler and yes we have a calendar and know it's NOVEMBER! Or at least I do! :)

Josh planted some grass seeds about two months ago and it's quite green and lucious now! His theory is that we can't let it die now because it just came up...so we water it...and our neighbors think we're loco! I caught three neighbor girls playing in it this afternoon!














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Friday, August 13, 2010

August 13, 2010

Josh and I received our wedding pictures in the mail last Saturday! I think Josh was concerned; no more like appalled at how excited I was. I did a little dance on our porch, even. I hope our neighbors don't think I'm even weirder now.

It's strange (for lack of a better word since I used weird in the previous sentence) how fast being married has become "normal" for us. When Josh and I started talking about getting married someone told me that weddings are like baptisms in that it is an outward display of what is already in your heart. I like that. P.S. I'd tell you who the someone was..but I can't remember.

It was hard to pick just a few but here are some of my favorites from Amanda Daniels! Find out more about her at http://www.amandadaniels.com


Two of my favorite people. This is when we were talking through the door before the ceremony. I don't recall any of what was said really other than I know I said hi alot. Hahaha must have been the nerves. Keeley says Josh was confused and concerned that I wanted to talk to him.

If I was more creative I would make thought bubbles next to each person's head! Everyone's face cracks me up! Ryan's cracks me up because he doesn't look shocked at all...he's just smiling. And Kaitlyn got caught in action of being suprised.



Hahaha...my little Lacey and Aubrie are feelin' the beat here. Makes me wonder what the song was!



LOVE this one! It's pretty typical of us to not only look like this but to just be awkward in general. I'm seriously considering framing this one.




Don't let the photo fool you...I was not this calm haha...but I was eyeing that Chex Mix! :)
On a different note I was driving home from work one day this week kinda on the grumpy side because I had been dismissed a little early that day but had to do some things on my way out that took longer than anticipated making my early leave not so early. Anyway, that day when I was about 15 minutes from our house there was a really bad wreck . The police or ambulances hadn't arrived yet so I think it had happened in the last 10 minutes or so. Then it occured to me that it could have been me in that wreck if I had left earlier like I had planned to. My grumpiness turned to thankfulness that God had changed my plans for me. Sometimes God does things for us and we don't even realize it. How blessed we are to be his children!
Guess that's a wrap since I've just been summoned to a project at work!
-Brooke