Anniversary Weekend

We spent our first anniversary weekend (yes, we get a whole weekend for our anniversary, not just a day! What did you expect from the girl who insists the whole month of July is my birthday) reminiscing about our wedding day and thinking about all the changes that have happened in our lives over the past year.  We are so blessed to have a beautiful new home, 2 new jobs, and a new car- all in the last year! 

I started off the day with roses and a sweet card from DJ. 

Then we headed to Peoria to the winery where we had a delicious lunch and some wine, followed by their newest dessert, "wine"-creme!! It is homemade ice cream made with their wine- SO GOOD!!

Then we took a little walk around the winery- retracing our steps from our wedding day!

First we stoped under the trellise where we had our first look-

Our wedding day

1 year later

We ended our trip to the winery with some shots by the vines

Our wedding day

1 year later

We also went to see a movie and shopped for a little bit- on our way home we made a pit stop in Canton to eat supper at Monicals!!

Of course, being first time homeowners- no weekend is complete without some home improvement.  I had ordered roman shades for our bedroom in the beginning of June and found out they were on backorder until the middle of July!! So we have been living with old curtains and blankets hung over our windows with thumbtacks for over a month.  I have been checking the order status on those bad boys daily, until one day they showed up on my doorstep!YAY!! So after we got back from Peoria we decided to hang them up!

And of course, it was the weekend and nothing had gone wrong yet, so we were due for a problem or two. Everything went well until I opened the LAST box and the curtain was a different color than the rest.  What did we expect, everything to go right, yeah right!!

So we made the best of it and hung up all the other ones, and I took the other one back. So we have 4 new blinds and one WIU blanket covering our windows!!

Here's the before and after-

(don't mind the cubs blanket, we know it doesn't go but it's Wrigley's bed!)

And the other side of the room-

On Sunday, our actual Anniversary, we spent the morning doing odds and ends of things on our to-do list and then spent the afternoon/evening in the pool! We grilled out for supper, made a trip to DQ and ended the fabulous weekend by watching True Blood! All in all, a pretty productive anniversary weekend!

First, we hung up some pictures that have been sitting around our house for weeks now- hanging pictures is probably one of DJ's favorite things!

The mirror in the living room

I have a console table picked out at Target to go under the mirror-

Then we moved onto the bedroom to hang up pictures in there

(This is a great shot of the new blinds and the old curtain still thumtacked to the window)

We bought these wood signs to sit on each side of the cake table at our wedding, and decided to hang them in our bedroom when we moved. 

DJ had to add hooks to the back so they would hang easier (don't you like his hammer, flowers are his favorite!!)

They look nice in our room and they are a great keepsake from the wedding!

After that we moved in the office to hang some pictures, rearrage, and organize.  It was a little bit of a mess.  Even though I had organized it once already since we moved in, it was still a bit of a catch all room.

DJ is using the office to house some of his things I won't allow in the rest of the house

We also FINALLY hung the mini blinds in the office as well-

Better, for now...

After the pictures were hung, we went on to the next thing on the list- patching holes

This hole used to house an intercom system, which I could totally see us spending hours upon hours  scaring/annoying each other, but it didn't work anymore so we took it out, which left this in my wall-

So DJ picked up this patching at Wal-Mart

and put it over the hole like this-

The next step was to cover it with mud

Yes, we do work around the house in our swimsuits! Motivation to finish so we can go swimming!!

The last step is to wait a couple days for the mud to dry, sand and then paint!! Hopefully it will be as good as new!!

Another hole

And another

While we were cleaning out the office I found a bunch of wedding pictures that I had completely forgot about!!!! They were extras we had ordered/printed during Christmas time, but we had nowhere to put them at the time.  I was SOOOO excited to put them in the new frames on our built ins

Much better than displaying the frames with the picture that came in them...

Oh yeah, and I got a new car!!!

What an amazing first year of marriage in the books for the Holmes'.... the best is yet to come!