Weekly doings...

I hosted my first shower last weekend.  The maid of honor lives out of town so I offered to host at my house, which all the new projects done.  YAY!  Rach made these awesome cake pops, and Kiera found these amazing mini bottles of champagne and brought awesome decorations.  All together it went pretty smoothly.  Here are some pictures

This is where the mimosa bar was.  We had 3 different kinds of juice, and then fruit garnish to add.

A better look at the mini bottle of champagne.

Here are the pastries we had, along with the awesome cake pops

Here is most of the food, we had mini quiches, a french toast soufflé, fruit salad, a regular green salad, choices of syrup, and punch.  All of it had little cards with the description.

All together I think it went pretty well, I have a lot of leftovers.  No one ate very much haha.  I think everyone knows about Evan having to get stitches.  He was moving our toilet back into the bathroom we were redoing on his day off.  (He gets weird days off since he works most weekends, so this was a Monday).  He calls me on my way home asking if I was almost home, to which I replied not really. We have a 35 minute commute, and he informed me he would meet me at instacare then.  He had installed the toilet and the screws weren't fitting, so when he went to lift the toilet back out it was much heavier since the water had refilled in it and that's when he slipped and dropped it.  Somehow, when the toilet shattered it cut his arm open pretty bad.  When he got to instacare, and when I came screaming down the canyon hearing that he was at instacare the nurse was laughing at us because we are quite a sight to see.  I have a broken foot and now he is getting stitches.  This is the exact reason why we don't need kids.  We are plenty busy without them.  I think he gets his stitches out this week, so he lived through the ordeal.

He was such a trooper, telling the nurse and doctor jokes.  Typical Evan.

And just for fun, this is where Alta sleeps while we are at work all day.  I managed to sneak upstairs when I came home, because Torre literally sleeps by the door waiting for us to get home.  Alta could literally care less when we came home.  And this is why.....

This is our bed, with all the pillows on it and yes she is sleeping smack dab in the middle of it all.
She might be a bit spoiled.

Mazdaratti

A year ago in September my parents enrolled Evan and I into Financial Peace University.  At the time, we weren't thrilled having to take a financial class, but honestly Evan and I had no clue how to make a budget or anything.  We were figuring it out as we went.  Needless to say at the end of the class in December, we had made some pretty big goals for ourselves.  We had expected to get an awesome tax return to continue our progress on paying off one of the cars.  Nope, this year we had to pay a huge chunk to the government.  With all the hurdles and life emergencies that everyone has, we have paid off our Mazda, which is only 3 years old.  It's been really exciting working together on this and saving and learning how to manage our money.  It's hard, I won't lie.  It takes a lot of patience from Evan to make me understand why certain things have to be a certain way.  I am difficult at times.  But as soon as we figure it out together and Evan explains the number side to it, I'm thrilled with the results.  Dave Ramsey throughout the entire class kept saying "Live like no one else, so you can live like no one else"  And honestly it makes all the sense in the world to me now.  So hurray for one car down, and one to go!  Our goal for the next car is hopefully before Christmas....hopefully.

Here she is!