Two years ago today I married the most wonderful man on the planet! I have had the best two years of my life. :) I have the greatest sweetie ever!

First thing this morning we opened our gift from mom and dad, they got us a robot! You wind him up and he walks and has sparks in his eyes. :) We like it a lot, thanks mom and dad!

Then we went to work...same old, same old. After work we went to a used furniture store to see if they had a wonderful couch by any chance, they didn't, but they had a really nice recliner we're thinking about. Then we went out to a restaurant close by where we live...called Arizona Grille. It's pretty new and Jason had been wanting to try it, so we went there, and the food was super yummy! We stuffed ourselves and then came home to watch one of our 3 seven o clock shows....the computer records American Idol, the VCR records the Biggest Loser, and we watch Beauty and the Geek live. The Biggest Loser should be over in a couple of weeks and then it won't be so crazy on Tuesday nights.

Our couch situation is a little undecided right now...since I can't have my perfect couch I kind of feel like I don't want to spend that much money on something that isn't EXACTLY what I wanted, you know? So...we looked at Salvation Army last night, and at a used furniture shop tonight to see what we could find. We found a definite possibility at Salvation Army....we really love the shape/style, but it's kind of old and sun-faded, and would need to be worked on. I think it would be really fun to learn how to re-upholster it, but it also kind of scares me...since I don't really know how, and don't really have much time to work on it.

Anyway...we're gonna go see what we can find at the regular furniture store tomorrow night and then hopefully make a couch decision by the end of the week.

I thought maybe it was a sign when they didn't have the fabric that i wanted that maybe the timing wasn't right for the couch....and then this week the store we plan to buy from is having a 25% off sale, so I thought that was maybe a sign...then Jason said something about maybe seeing if we could find something cheap used...so I'm all unsure now...so I decided that if God wants us to just buy a cheap used couch he will show me that before Friday when the 25% off sale is over. :) Heh...I don't know if I'm even making sense anymore!

Have a great week, everyone!
Love, Joy.

This is my orange Salvation Army $7.50 chair that my couch has to go with. I guess it's a little backward to have to match the couch to the chair when the couch costs more than 100 times what I paid for the chair...but I'm a little nuts. :) I'm thinking of doing a light aqua blue-ish color with the orange maybe...and brown accents. I figure if we just do the pillows that go with the couch in the same color as the couch...and add them to the orange, it can all play nice together. Sigh...we'll see. We want to do a lot of color since our walls are white and we can't change that. Now that you've seen the orange chair, what color do you think would work nicely with it?

First I wanted to share a couple of layouts that I've done with Rachel's beautimus engagement photos. Purple and black are her wedding colors, that's why I did all the purple with the black and white photos. Sorry that the immages are a little blurry, I didn't have ideal lighting conditions for photographing the layouts, so they're a little blurry.





Next I have to share with you my broken heart. :( To celebrate 6 months in our apartment, (we always find something to celebrate!) we were going to go order my pink couch. I saved up my $1000, and I was SO excited to finally order it! We went to the furniture store, spent about half an hour deciding on a fabric for our pillows, cause we wanted them not only to match the pink of the couch, but the orange of the chairs we have. We found a really cute polka-dot fabric that was brown with orange, pink, red, and yellow polka-dots, and the lady that was helping us was putting the order into the computer.

Then, gosh. It was terrible...she said that fabric that we had chosen for the couch had been discontinued! That perfect raspberry chenille that worked beautifully with our orange was no longer available. :( We looked at other fabrics in similar colors, but they were all so flat in comparison to the one we had chosen before. Then we decided to maybe go with a completely different color scheme...but I just wasn't sure how it would go with our orange. All I wanted to do was cry. After looking over our possibilities we finally just decided to let it settle and come back another day when I wasn't so heart-broken.

Jason took me to ColdStone and bought me ice cream, then we came home and I just laid in bed and cried, and then we went to see 27 Dresses at the Value Cinema, then to the grocery store, then got some fattening fast food, went home, ate, watched Mythbusters and fell asleep. It may seem like such a little thing to get so upset about, but I had been looking forward to this day for like, two months. I still don't know what I want to do about it, and I still feel so very let-down. If you have any ideas of a color that would go well with a bright orange, let me know!

I hope you all are having a better week than I am.
Joy.