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Saturday was my best friends bridal shower and I think it turned out really well! I was super nervous, wanting to make sure everything went smoothly, and as far as I could tell, it did.She was so...
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Sunday was Matt's aunt's 70th birthday party in southern New Jersey. Matt actually grew up there, and then moved to Pittsburgh when he was 11. He still has a lot of family in the Jersey area. He hasn't...
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Our drainpipe project is almost complete! We've buried all the pipe and filled the trenches. The last step is to finish the 'drywell' (which is just a really big hole filled with stone where all the...
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I put Willow's bed by the sliding glass doors because she loves to lay in the sunshine and watch outside. Can we say spoiled?The puppies greeting my mom. My parents and Matt's dad arrived tonight to...
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Day 1 of fence building! So the hardest part of putting up a fence is digging the holes for the posts. We decided we didn't want to break our backs with a manual auger, so we rented a Bobcat auger!...
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Day 2! So we have the white privacy panels along the front and sides of the house, but we really didn't want to block our wooded view in the back of the house. So, we decided to go with a black...
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We took off work today to work on the fence more. We got SO close to being done! After today, all we have left to do is this back corner. This would have been done but we were short one post and had to...
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I love the fact that being on the east coast, I am now "relatively" close to some old friends! With Kim's wedding only 5 weeks away, she needed some help with some favors, programs, place cards, etc....
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The other weekend when my parents came to help with our fence, they brought their two dogs. Instead of them having to lug along their dog crates, we have two extra so I just set them up. (When we flew...
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We have been doing so much yardwork lately that we decided we needed to take a break this weekend! Saturday night we had some friends over, (which I neglected to get my camera out for - I hate when I...
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This past weekend was my friends bachelorette party which was a blast! We started out at the spa where she got the full treatment...massage, facial, mani and pedi. I even treated myself to a facial as...
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We woke up this morning at 4:30am to a wicked thunderstorm. There was no way we could fall back asleep with how loud the thunder was, so we opened our blinds and watched the storm. About 15 minutes...
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I have my piano! I grew up playing this piano, but ever since I moved out of my parents house, they've just had it tucked away in a spare room snice no one else plays it. Now that I finally have enough...
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It's been a good long weekend! Festivities started on Thursday night with Kim's rehearsal dinner. Dinner was at Victor's Italian Restaurant in York. I had never been there before but it was really...
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Our deck is almost done! We've been working over the last month to complete it, but due to a lot going on during the weekends, we've had limited time to work on it. Mostly we've fit in an hour or two...
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I haven't posted in a while! Oops! Guess I've gotten lazy with the blogging. Sorry about that! Let's see what's been going on....The other weekend we went to a local Oktoberfest festival, and while we...
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Its been getting cold out! It's been down in the 40's and we also had 3 days straight of rain which added to the chill in the air. We had to turn on the heat in our house, and even had a fire going the...
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Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a good weekend! On Saturday we decided to finally explore the woods behind our house. We've been here 6 months now and I hadn't ever walked back there! We let the dogs...
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This was the first time in 5 years that we were able to spend Thanksgiving with our families! The last time was when we were still in college, back in 2004. We couldn't decide what to do though. Do we...
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I shot my first gun! This past Monday was opening day for deer hunting in Pennsylvania and Matt went out with his dad. He wanted to go to a range first because he hadn't shot his rifles in a while and...
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