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I Like To Believe Oklahoma is Part Of The South

Posted on Sunday, April 3, 2011

Even if Jason insists that it is the mid-west, any state where you can find people with southern drawls wearing cowboy boots and Carhartt jackets who are all proud members of the ARA pretty much qualifies as southern in my books. We can at least agree that Oklahoma is country, even though Jason's family in a more populated area than mine, in highland with a view of horses and bison right out the window.


So guess what!  I am sitting here writing this in Oklahoma!   Jason's birthday is on the 5th and we are in town to celebrate!

In the past I have visited Oklahoma in July and January, the two times of the year when the humidity is killer.  Spring here is nice, with plenty of green fields spotted with violet wildflowers.  Unfortunately Spring means killer allergies!  No amount of meds seem to be able to clear my sinuses even enough to taste the yummy food we are eating.

Jason's Oklahoma trip so far has looked like this...
Guns, explosives, greasy food, b-ball and conference.

Mine looked like some of the best garage sale and thrift shopping you will ever do!  Me and Brittany and Cindy sorted through piles and piles of stuff and came out with some pretty good treasures.  Maybe I will snap a few pics to show you my finds.  I wish thrifting wasn't all the rage in Utah, and i wish there were more garage sales to hop around to, but I'm probably not the only Utahan wishing that :)

More updates of the trip to come!  I keep hoping I will become a better blogger!

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Thrifting Finds

Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011

I had a very successful trip to the downtown D.I.  this past week.
I was making my way to the book section, because we all know my obsession with old books when I took a gander into the collectibles.  Among the scary porcelain dolls and ugly vases I found something that made my heart skip a beat!  A vintage 1969 Rand McNally globe!  The colors were so perfectly muted looking!  I knew at once I must have it!  And for only $10!


Yes...I did spend forever finding the correct date by figuring out which countries and cities were or were not on the globe before narrowing down to '69...
 I also am slowly building up a collection of milk glass for my shelving unit of dreams.  Who knew milk glass would be so difficult to find?  Apparently Etsy does, because sellers everywhere are selling it for ridiculous prices. 


 My mom also very generously contributed to my shelving decor by letting me use the antique type writer used as a guest log at our wedding reception. Seen below on wedding day.


On a side note, I spent this evening glittering vintage book page hearts while Jason cleaned his guns.  We compliment eachother so well....


On a side-er note, I found this old video of my crazy roommate Rachel, and these videos were quite common with her around.  There is also one of me, Rach, and Louisa dancing to hip hop music in our Freshman year "Victoria's Secret Apartment" at the riv, (self-named after how closely our pink-on-pink paint job resembled the store,) but you can bet I won't be posting that.


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And it was very Merry...

Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Are you as heart broken as I am that Christmas season is over?
As every year passes I grow to appreciate the Christmas season more and focus less importance on Christmas Day.
This Christmas was a different one for both Jason and I, it was our first Christmas together. Jason spent it away form his family, and neither of my brothers were here this year.  So Christmas was spent with my parents and my Grandma Dot. I think Christmas day will never lose it's excitement...I woke up at 4:50am to Jason shouting "Merry Christmas!!!"  It was hard to get back to sleep after that!

It's funny making a Christmas list as a newlywed because instead of clothes I wanted more homemaker-type things... among 2 sets of sheets, a vitamix, kitchen supplies, anthropologie money, and other things Jason surprised me with this...
EXPEDIT Bookcase Width: 72 7/8 " Depth: 15 3/8 " Height: 72 7/8 " Max load/shelf: 29 lb Width: 185 cm Depth: 39 cm Height: 185 cm Max load/shelf: 13 kg
The IKEA shelving unit of my dreams!  In my dreams, it was white, because I have this obsession with white white white furniture lately, but my dreams have changed to decorating this shelving unit with loads of milk glass and my old books, and I think it is even a better dream come true!

Thanks for busting or budget by so much Jason!  Our bank account may not be grateful but I sure am!

I had serious intentions of quitting my laziness and uploading some photos onto this blog as well as video of our Christmas day shooting adventures, but the memory card converter is nowhere to be found...so they will be here soon enough!

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And So The Deer Lived

Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010


Last weekend Jason got to go camping with my dad, his friend, and my brother Tyler out in Ephraim. Despite the fact it was freezing cold, and wouldn't stop snowing/raining/hailing, he had a blast!  Luckily, the bad weather resulting in the deer hiding, and no dead deer.  Jason didn't even get to draw a tag this year, so I didn't have to worry about him  bringing one home anyways, but I was still glad no one got one. He got a lot of great pictures, here a few of the best. They came home pretty muddy.




        


Also, I had to add this song....my thoughts exactly!



 I went to spend the weekend with my mom.  It was a lot of fun spending time together.  We did a lot of shopping, which I haven't got to do for a while, and got some great deals.
Including a coffee table!  We picked up this coffee table from DI and spray painted it like crazy. It turned out really cute!


I will post pics of it in the apartment soon.  Our apartment is starting to look really cute!  With a lot of help from my mom, it is finally starting to feel like a home!