FHE: Goal Posters

In Mary Kay we are advised to make a goal poster that helps remind you what you want to achieve. You hang it somewhere that you will see often as a constant reminder of what you should be working on. For family home evening we each made personal posters as well as a family poster together.

Jon's:

Jon explains,"I don't like paying full price for anything so that... it's pretty self explanatory. I can't forget to sleep. There is an aquarium and a seal and lots of adventurous things. Maybe going back to school. There is a thing that says protect my family so I have to do that and stuff ya know (in a very manly voice)."

Tiffany's: 

This is mine. I want to have a family and be a Mom. I want a cute new Mary Kay red jacket. I want to have adventures and get my bachelors degree. I want to do more with my massage profession. I want to lose weight and strengthen my friendships. And finally I want to have inner peace and be happy :D But there is a big hole in the middle which gives me room to dream.

Family:

As a family we want to eat healthy, have a cute little family including kids, savings, have good health, and own a home with a dishwasher. Might I add a home with love (it's hard to see in the picture). There are two young men who are missionaries for our church and we want all of our sons to go on missions. We want to have a Christ centered home and to serve others.

And here they are featured on our wall. Cute huh?

Baby Quilt

It's been a long time since I have sewn and I actually started this awhile ago but I finally finished it today (adding the edging and fixing a few mistakes). It wasn't going to be a baby blanket originally but that sure does seem like what it's turned into. I wish I knew someone who was having a baby boy to give it to. All my pregnant friends are having girls.

This quilt is made out flannel and has flannel for the batting. The edging is made out of cotton.

 Front 

Back

Up Close

Why Jon needed stitches

Just when I was about to give up on blogging because I thought our life was too boring, something exciting happens to stir things up. Unfortunately it wasn't good exciting, but quite the opposite. Warning: You will see some gross pictures so if you don't like gore, gross things or blood, don't continue reading... :)

It all started last night, unlikely enough, as we were about to go to bed. I was in the bathroom taking off my makeup and my sweet Jon was making the bed up so we could turn in for the night. I heard a crash and ran into our room. Jon had flipped the sheet up and it caught on our light fixture above our bed. He then pulled the sheet down which broke the glass and then that proceeded to fall on top of him, cutting his arm. As he tells it, there was then a ninja riding a horse, riding a dinosaur that came in trying to attack and he was actually cut in the process of defending my honor but I don't remember that part. It's funny how people remember things differently.

Well anyway, when I walked in the room I saw this

Jon was very tough! He said it didn't even hurt but I was a wreck. He wasn't crying but I was haha. I can only imagine how I would have reacted if it had of been my kid! But anyway, my first aid certification kicked in and told me to have him apply pressure and get him to the Dr. so that is what we did. I took him to the Emergency room because that is the only place that can help you with this kind of thing at 11:00 pm. We were at the hospital until around 1:45 AM even though it was slow. He even got a cool wristband thing.

The Doctor (who was also named Jon), was very friendly and told us we did the right thing coming to the hospital because the glass had actually cut through Jon's muscle. Plus this way it's way less likely to get infected. Then the Dr. checked for any remaining glass but wasn't positive he got it all so he also had an Xray which turned out clean. Jon got 1 stitch on the inside to repair the muscle and then 5 to close the skin. They fixed him up nice and pretty!

He got a sweet purple bandage and everything was ok

Until.....................................................

We discovered that even with insurance our copay was still $200! How do people afford to get sick?

And then we went home to clean up all of the broken glass and found the piece that stabbed my hubby!

And we cleaned up all the glass and went to bed.

Dinner Last Night

We used our George Foreman grill tonight for the first time to make breaded Parmesan chicken (which ended up looking a lot like chicken nuggets), and breaded grilled veggies. The chicken was super frozen and we didn't want to thaw the whole package so Jon went at it with a hammer and a knife. Although slightly dangerous, it was very effective. The food was ok but the ratio of unhealthiness to taste wasn't worth making them (at least the way we did) again.

I also made some of the grossest deviled eggs ever, which I took no pictures of. They didn't look much better then they tasted. First off, they are way better with mayo (I used miracle whip), and second I used spicy brown mustard and I think too much of it, plus we don't own paprika. We have this whole cool spice rack thing, but no paprika. Haha so that was my experience with that. New wives are supposed to have a few bad meals right? I am pretty lucky. I have a very understanding husband and patient husband. He is very sweet about my cooking, even when I know it is not very good :D

Wedding sign

We got this sign from my Mom as a wedding gift.
It is pretty cool.