"Babe, can I write on your blog?" His birthday tribute.

Before Jess and I, got married; I lived in the missions apartment, in the downstairs, of the parsonage. I slept in a sleeping bag, on my mattress. That's a guy, for ya. When I moved out of my mom's; I had a backpack with clothes, a box of some sentimental stuff, and my sleeping bag. That's it. I could move myself in/out in around 10 minutes. I lived downstairs, for just about a year and a half, and the only thing I really changed was my clothes. Didn't decorate, just microwaved meals, and ate with plastic ware. After we got married, EVERYTHING changed. Of course we moved upstairs, but then painted the walls, re-did the flooring, re-decorated everything, fixed up the landscape out front, put a deck on the back, and adopted two yellow labs. Everything changed. Not all overnight of course, but it continues to change, almost every other week lol. Now all of a sudden, there is just stuff everywhere. Some of which, is very confusing to me, I must say. Like, there's two of us, but we probably have enough coffee mugs to give out one to every member of both our extended families. What I'm getting at is this; Up until we got married, I was just living there. It was just a house, to me. Now, since we have been living together there, and doing life together there...That house, has become a home. It is now full of very rich, sweet, and precious memories. It's never easy when two sinners live together under the same roof, but it is beautiful to see the manifold grace of God in each other every day. I believe this is why we are told "Two, are better than one." Ecclesiastes 4:9 

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

Marvel Man Room

Sometimes you just need to brag on your husband and this is one of those times. Last winter he set out to totally redo our basement. He told me I decorate everything else and that he wanted to decorate the basement-fair enough since I only go down there to do laundry. Last summer while we were at the beach in August, there was a small flood in our town and our basement didn't flood but it got wet and we couldn't get the smell out of the carpet so we set out to rip that up first. I say we but it was really HIM. I honestly could count on one hand that amount of things I did in this room.

Let me start with a before picture...

Yucky carpet and terrible walls. If your reading this post and you by chance were the one that decorated this room-forgive me!

Now on to the coolness of this Marvel/Music Room and everything that makes my husband happy-Reminds me that I must add a picture of myself. ;)

Yoda Floor Mat

Notice we ripped up the yucky brown carpet and painted the concrete BROWN.

Where else do super hero keep their clothes?

Still trying to convince him to put my American Girl dolls on the bottom shelves.

The first edition of all of his favorite comic books.

Here Definition

PEZ people

Bat Light and Batmobile

His craft self even made this.

Comic Book Rack, made by David too

Thor's Hammer

Can'f forget a spot for his sidekicks, Ronin and Fitz

On to the music corner of the room...

So happy that he created a space all of his own and all on his own! Now to turn it into a playroom/family room in a few years may result in a few shed tears, but we are enjoying it for now!

Summer Steak Salad and Balsamic Dressing Recipe

Super depressed that this is the last little bit of Summer. One of my favorite things about Summer besides the sun, and the outdoors, and swimming, and vacations, is the garden veggies. David and I never, ever, ever eat red meat, we cut it our of our diets a long time ago, me much longer than David, but upon starting a c l e a n eating diet, we were growing tired of eating so much chicken and decided to bite the bullet and find the leanest beef possible to make a summer salad. We have since not eaten red meat-we are ground turkey lovers.

Our favorite summer dinner is by far a good salad with all the yummy veggies, fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and red and orange bell peppers. We also add olives and feta cheese, some steak (this time anyway), and some homage balsamic dressing.

Balsamic Dressing

1/3 c. balsamic vinegar

1 small onion, chopped finely

2 tbs. brown sugar

1/2 c. olive oil

1 tbs. honey mustard