jays on my feet... so get like me.

So some good stuff has happened lately. 

I got a job. Not the funnest thing.. but im excited to get some money. Its a seasonal night shift job at target. unloading the old trucks. Its like a legit night shift from 11pm to 6:30am so hopefully i can survive. I seriously plan.. or hope to plan, to only work here until January. But that's how shopko was too so we will see : )

I forgot to post that we went to the science museum the other week. The special exhibit was the Mayas, it was very fun.  Here is chad at one of the designated picture taking spots, which they suggest you post on twitter or facebook.... 

And then chads family came down to Minneapolis for two days for the hockey game. I really liked it. I had never watched a hockey game live or even a whole game on tv actually and i was very surprised. It reaffirmed my opinion that football is the absolute most boring sport to watch.

Here is chad and Jordan posing at the fancy hotel.

Kasey and chad in conversation and Andre in deep thought.

At the Game

Annnnd me.

And lastly i've been trying to find cool cheap posters on etsy because i bought an empty frame and wanted something for the entry way that wasn't just a photo. Everything i saw i thought i could just make myself. So i downloaded adobe illustrator and am in love. Im only on the 30 day trial but think i'll have to continue. Here are two posters i made. 

How come you look so cool?

Happy late halloween! We had a pretty good halloween even though chad was in class from 4:30 to 9:30pm we carved a pumpkin the night before and then when chad got back from class we ate hot dog mummies and watched scobby doo. Pretty fun stuff.  

Me and the pumpkin on our beautiful porch. Although the pretty fall leaves were short lived. It snowed this evening. 

Our mummy hot dogs. First time every making or eating these..they were preettty good. 

I also put up curtains in our apartment. This may sound like whatever... but its actually a pretty big deal. Our apartment, and our last apartment, had sliding doors with those long vertical plastic blinds which i hate. Ever since our last apartment i've been thinking about ways to go around it. Since we rent you cant just take down the blinds but you cant put up curtains since the whole blinds set up is pretty big. So i saw this blog... where she bought electrical conduit pipes for the curtain rod which i loved the idea of. They were only $1.94 at home depot and then i painted them white to blend in with the already blinds set up. 

Since they are sooo light it worked perfect with this pin that i saw on pinterest, where you use a sticky command hooks to hold the curtain rod. So i stuck one on each side infront of the curtain banister and then two behind it so i could do a sheer layer curtain and thick one. I even ended up using command hooks as curtain tie backs on the sides until i can afford some pretty ones i've seen on etsy. :) 

And heres me and grumpy kitty..

And me and grumpy chad...

Right now i want to tap dance.

Wellllll we finally got internet late last week and i thought it was about time that i write a blog. I haven't been very good at it lately and it doesn't help that netflix has gotten in Every new season for like Every show i like.

I looked at my old camera and found these two pictures from before we left. 

Chad was very responsible and saved his money to buy a wiiu. You can tell he's ultra excited. It turned out to be pretty cool. Especially since we don't have a tv he can still play the games on the controller. 

These are some beautiful sugar cookies we decorated before leaving the parr's. 

And our apartment is still coming around slowly. We do have a bed, bookshelves, desk, entry table, and everything for the kitchen.. but the couch is one we are still waiting on. I found one and I love it so i can't find anything else i like besides a few at homegoods close to the same thing but smaller or more expensive. This one is regularly $750 with shipping but before we moved in it was on sale with shipping for $556. Soo i am waiting for it to go on sale again.. and for me to have a job. Hopefully both of those happen soon.

[http://www.homedecorators.com/P/Emma_Tufted_Sofa/950/]

Since i don't have any furniture to paint or projects to do i made one up in the kitchen. Inside the cupboards wasn't very nice to see... as you can see...

 So i decided to cover the shelves with super cute craft paper i found at home goods for $3

Now they look beautiful and feel clean and i love them. The end. 

Also its still very pretty here. : ) Chad and i saw a turkey 5k run walk thing and are thinking about thinking about doing it?

Where do you go when the stars go blue?

Well we are still alive. 

The part of our new home we don't like to go....

I went with chad to class today so i could spend some time on the internet, something i miss greatly. Is that a bad thing?... i don't think so : ) Since not having the internet i instead filled my time re-watching the first season of Heroes that i had saved on a hard drive and day dreaming about our blank walls and empty apartment. I re-decided Heroes is dumb and our apartment is still empty. 

I did buy a book though. On page 17.

I also tried to make the kitchen look a tiny bit better by lining the cupboard shelves with pretty home goods wrapping paper. I saw the same paper at home sense in Canada but here it was a dollar cheaper. So pretty cool. 

And...i forgot to add this picture from my phone for jordan from mall of america from our trip a little while ago. Its him and his lord of the rings lego's. 

Also I've decided im going to make and try selling candles on etsy. We will see how that goes. If they don't sell at least i'll have a great smelling apartment?  : )

Million Dollar Bills.

It was chaddys birthday! He is now 25 years old. : )

We had great decorations, a top gear cake, made sugar cube castles, and watched jack and jill. Lots and lots of fun. 

And we danced all night to the best song ever.

So... we are still in canada! We have found an apartment. But its not open till October. I haven't taken many pictures of what we've been doing lately. But... we did go to Minneapolis and stayed two nights. We went to valley fair, mall of america, and ikea. It was lots of fun. I can't wait to go back to mall of america and ikea. i could spend all day there.. each.

But here are some pictures. We all went on a little family walk around a lake. We didn't quite make it around the lake. Some would say we got about 1 quarter of the way.

Its always summer under the sea.

Today we... chad, jordan, rachael, andre, kasey, and i, went to mission island to do a little photo shoot. I loved it. Besides having a million new mosquito bites, there were a bunch of pictures a liked quite a lot. Here are a few of my favorites. Im hoping some time we can go back to centennial park the place we went to in the last post to take some cute pictures on the mossy little train tracks. I think that would be real great.

And this is just a cutesy picture i took by the creek on an adventure of mine chads and jordans. There were tons of these purple flowers and they just look so cute. 

You took the war machine.

 Chad, Jordan, and I went to Centennial park for a pretty little walk. It was quite nice : )

And.. jordan decided to walk into the river.