Our 1st Before and After

So it's not a HUGE transformation but I still think it's pretty cool....Above a few of the doors downstairs are these glass windows

I saw these vinyl applications online at Wonderfully Wordy and found "pantry" to go over our pantry door. Check it out...

Chris put them up for me and afterwards he said, "I gotta hand it to you, this looks pretty cool." What do y'all think?

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We have had so much fun in Virginia. Arrived on Wednesday night around 5 after a seven hour drive. We didn’t hit any traffic so it was a painless roadtrip. This was my first time experiencing a Weinman/Shelton Thanksgiving and Chris’ first time back in a while. First tradition that I got to participate in was the seafood dinner at Harbor Inn. Fried catfish, oysters and hush puppies were awesome. Side note, I LOVE hush puppies!!!!
The next day, Thursday, we woke up early for the Drumstick Dash 5K. I think it’s a perfect way to start Thanksgiving by burning some calories before the big meal later in the day. After the race we got to meet up with Chris’ friend from high school, his wife and their new baby. It was fun to see them, I wish we lived closer because they would be great to hang out with more regularly!
After a fun visit we headed back to the house for some delicious turkey! Ellen got the 28 pound turkey from her CSA, which I thought was cool. It was delicious as were all of the other dishes! I think my favorite side dish was the brussel sprout and artichoke heart casserole. A big shout out to Ellen for all of her hard work  After we let all the food digest we headed out for family bowling. Chris bowled a 201 in his 3rd game. He didn’t even have the bumpers on his lane! 
Today we have been vegging out, watching football and watching the Wii being played. Now we’re winding down for the night getting ready to head back to Nashville tomorrow. All in all it was a wonderful trip! Happy holidays to everyone. Love to you all =

Unpacking and Organizing

quick update- Our new house is starting to feel more like home each time we unpack a box. And now all the boxes are unpacked!!
Still lots of work to do but it's coming along.

New House!

I know what you’re thinking. No posts the past 2 Sundays, what happened? Well, we moved!!!! So I’ll make up for it this week with some extra posts. If you click on the picture below it will take you to an album of pics of the new place!



All of our neighbors have been so friendly and welcoming. They all seem about our age which is a change from our old neighborhood where we were the youngest. We are so happy to be in our new place, it’s almost hard to believe it has actually happened!

Fun New Projects

Hey everyone! It has been a week full of exciting news around here. My sister Lauren passed her boards and is now a certified family nurse practitioner (SO proud of her!), sold our house this week and closing on our new house next week!!!!
In the midst of all this excitement I have been becoming engrossed in the world of blogs all about crafts, sewing, cooking, entertaining and decorating. I think it's all my friends Amy and Sinclair's fault :) I say that because they both started blogging about fun stuff and got me interested in finding other blogs out there in blogland.
check out Sinclair's blog here theretrolution.com and Amy's blog here fearlesshomemaker.com
Here are some pictures of some stuff that I've been working on...
Some delicious pumpkin and cream cheese muffins with pecan strusel I found over at Ezra Pound Cake
Sporting my new apron that I sewed myself with my new sewing machine! I got my mom's old sewing machine out of storage but it wasn't fully functional. I was pretty bummed and it seemed expensive to fix. so I got an early Christmas present from Chris, a new one! I'm so excited to make new pillows, drapes, placemats and all kinds of stuff for the new house :)

Catch up

Hi everyone! I have no good excuse for not keeping up with the blog, other than the generic "I've been busy" statement. I think I'm going to try what Chris' cousin, Erin, has recently vowed to do...update the blog on a weekly basis! Another thing that is inspiring me to update more regularly is that I found this link that will print out your blog as a keepsake. So this could be cool to start considering the blog as a journal in addition as a way to keep family and friends updated http://blog2print.sharedbook.com/blogworld/printmyblog/index.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=adwords&utm_campaign=feb09
So recently I have been getting excited about crafting,sewing, decorating, cooking. Where did this inspiration come from? The internet and TONS of awesome blogs that I have found. I think I find at least 2 new blogs every day that inspire me to do a new project! It's blowing my mind how excited I am about all this stuff. It's funny to hear Chris' reaction to all this, because he knows how I can get super excited about something and not necessarily follow through. (for instance, the 2nd belt I needlepointed for Chris took over 1 year for me to finish). But this time it's different! I swear! =)
More to come soon. Love to all!- Mollie

Lauren's Early Birthday Celebration

Lauren is almost 26! We celebrated a bit early this weekend. Click on the picture for more photos.
Chris and I started our Saturday AM yesterday VERY early by leaving the house at 6 to head to Nashville. I dominated the Women's Running 5K, ha =) It was perfect weather and fun to run over the river and around the Titan's Stadium. Dinah was also there to help cheer me on. It sounded like Chris got a workout too because Dinah was super excited and jumpy due to the runners and noise.

Meal Planning

Chris and I are trying to eat at home more often in order to eat healthier and save money. This $1 dry erase board that I found at Target has been our key to success!! By writing out our meal plans ahead of time and posting it on the fridge, it's a great reminder to stay on track. Feeling super excited about this development. =)

Labor Day Fun

Chris and I had a wonderful time yesterday at Amy and Derek's cookout. Check out the picture gallery by clicking on the picture below.
I made a dessert from a recipe of my mom's that my Aunt Nancy found recently. I'm thinking of naming them, "gooey, butter bars". Super delicious! Amy and Derek made tons of good food...burgers, chicken kabobs, crazy cute sugar cookies in the shape of hot dogs!!!, and other delicious items. Hope everyone had a great Labor Day too!

How times flies!

I can't believe it has been over a month since the last time I posted. Lots of fun stuff has been happening! Most recently Lauren and I went to the Vandy football game last night. Though the Dores lost, LEP and I made the most of it by taking lots of self pics during the game and laughing hysterically. Then we went to a new restaurant called Taps and Tapas but apparently a private party was going on. Everyone was dressed all in white and there was weird club music playing. We decided to not stay as the atmosphere was muy bizarro. Chris missed all this because he was working the Vandy game, doing the defensive stats or something like that. (He explained it but I didn't really understand)
Here is one of the self pics that sissy and I took...

Also super exciting....I am figuring out the secrets to coupons from couponmom.com ! I guess it may not excite everyone but here was the best deal today for us...Angel Soft Toilet Paper 4 pack, normally $2.50ish and today with your Rite Aid wellness card it was only 99cents. I felt pretty awesome walking out of there having only spent $5.42 instead of $13ish. And now I have a huge pyramid of toilet paper stockpiled.

Ladies Weekend

The picture above is linked to more pictures from Ladies Weekend. Had a blast with my Mom, Brooke, Jessi, Lauren, Noah and James. We spent our time relaxing and visiting. Can't wait to see everyone again in less than a month at Jessi's baby shower in Lexington.
Chris spent the past weekend at our friend Patrick's bachelor party. They spent Friday playing golf in Lexington then headed to Cincinnati for a Reds game on Saturday.
Now time to rest up the week and weekend ahead. My dad comes into town for Lauren's graduation. She will have her Masters in Nursing! Go sissy!

Hi everyone!

Life is great here in Springfield! We have had a very busy summer. I'm excited to make a better habit of sharing updates here on the new blog.
I decided to move our blog back to blogspot and it's all because of the picture sharing capabilites. I wasn't liking Shutterfly anymore. so here we are back at blogspot so I can use Picasa to upload photos. Another bonus of Picasa is that we can pull up our photo albums from Picasa onto our tv. Pretty cool feature, huh?
Our Veggie CSA didn't work out, boo... but we have started going to the Robertson County Farmer's Market every Saturday for great produce. This has started a trend of eating at home more often, getting excited about learning new recipes and trying to eat healthier. Check out the cool reusable bag they gave Chris last week for "customer appreciation day".

Will be back soon with more updates and photos!