Green Room

Can you say Green?

"The Bloch's are going green"

Jason and I decided to paint our office/craft room over the thanksgiving holiday and somehow I totally forgot to blog about this exciting adventure.We always have the same problem every time we paint. It always happens the same way, we go to get the paint and are 100% happy with the color that we have pondered over for days, maybe weeks. There is no doubt in our mind that this is the color we have been looking for. We get home and start painting and it never fails- we start asking each other " Do you still like it? Do you think its to light?Dark?" It's beginning to look different and we are both trying to figure out if we need:

A. more paint

B. let it dry longer

C. we totally picked the wrong color and both don't wait to admit it. :)

After pondering the idea of having an accent wall and painting the non-color walls a light beige color, we decided to go on with the other 3 walls and finish the job we started. It seems like every time we paint we contemplate some new idea and then go back to our original idea and believe it or not we always LOVE the end result. We laugh now, but I must say we were very serious that day. we both did not want to have to repaint this room. This was my baby, my 1st ever craft/office room where I finally have a place to do whatever I want, whether its scrap booking, crafting or organizing I can do as I please. Hopefully soon I will find a table that is the right size, more organization containers to help better the mess.

We both love how the room turned out. It has so much more character. You can not walk into this room and not smile, it's impossible. The room gives so much inspiration and happiness to both of us.

The left wall of the room looking to the front of the house

( the beginning of the scrap booking containers)

The front wall of the room looking into the front yard of the house. Can you see our lazy cat, that is his chair only and he sits there pretty much 90% of his days watching the birds, cars and everything else exciting that happens :) Oh, don't mind my crazy husband who thought he would sneak into my picture.

Another view of the room. Right side of the wall. Again, don't mind that crazy hubby :)

Here is the before picture of the office. It is not a great picture, sorry for the blurriness. It gives you an idea how bad this room was screaming for paint.

By the way, guess who loves the christmas tree. The tree is one of his favorite hiding spot during the holiday season. He was so sad when we took it down yesterday. Poor baby. He is so spoiled.

Christmas Tour

PART II

*Here is the rest of our Christmas tour. Enjoy.

*Living Room:

I love these berry toparies

The Christmas Tree

The Garland: Filled with ornaments and berries

Our stockings.. we need one for our cat :)

Santa in the Guest Bath

Laundry Room Door

Our 1st Christmas Tour

PART I

*This is our First Christmas tour on our Blog. I am very excited about it. Jason, well really he could care less, he just says whatever makes you happy. So, I have finally taken pictures and here are they are.I am looking foreward already to next year to see how much more stuff we will have to decorate with. Its' our first christmas together married and we are starting off with the basics and so blessed. I have been collecting christmas decorations over the years while we have been together. Hopefully in the next couple of years my mom and I will go through the storage room and I can shop through some of mothers festive christmas decorations. I know my dad would jump for joy to give some of it away. :)

*I hope everyone is enjoying the christmas season. Can you believe only 15 more days untill Christmas. Wow. Its going to be here before we know it. I am finally done with the fall semester tomorrow (thursday) Hooray!!!!

*Here is the kitchen:

Our Kitchen Desk decorated with nativity scene and Hallmark Ginger Bread house

Our Nativity Scene on the Kitchen Desk

Santa cookie jar and Jason's diffuser Welcome to the Bloch Home

Ceramic Tree that has been passed down in my family. My grandmother made it and my mother passed it down to me. I love it. It's a christmas staple in our family.I might have found a good space for it. Good idea mom.

Holidays are almost here

This time of the year has always been one of my favorites. I love all the decorating and cheerfulness that most people have during the holiday season. I love the gathering of family and the holiday music, shopping, Christmas lights and mostly great memories I have. I could listen to Christmas music throughout the year and still love it. Jason and I have been busy little elf's getting ready for holidays. Both of us have been busy with work and come home so tired. I am busy wrapping up the semester with school. This week is my last week for this semester, I can't hardly wait. This semester has been hard and challenging in many ways. I am so blessed to have a husband that supports me and parents that are always cheering me on. Thank You. I am looking forward to enjoying my winter break. I plan on working on some R&R, decorating, craft ideas that I have put off and mostly working on our wedding album. Christmas will be great, spending time with family, eating good food and enjoying the season ( kinda sounds like thanksgiving).

Jason and I decided to paint the office/craft room during the thanksgiving holiday. We are loving our new GREEN room. The Bloch's are " going green". I couldn't help myself :) More of those pictures to come soon also.

Hopefully, later this week I can finally post some pictures of the Christmas decorating. I have been enjoying everyone's Christmas decorations. They are beautiful and so inspiring. I have gotten more ideas for this holiday season than I know what to do with.

Here is a sneak peak of some christmas decorating that has been going on here in Texas. The outside of our house. More to come soon. I'm thinking icicle lights next year... Its the just the beginning.

P.S. I am sure Jason is tired of driving around looking at christmas lights in our neighborhood. I swear everyday I see a house with some kind of new decoration or just a house I never saw before. I love christmas lights, and now I believe my husband is tired of them... Oh well. He loves me.

The leaves are Falling

Fall is finally really here in North Texas. We have been loving the cooler temps and the changes of the season. Jason and I have been walking alot throughout the neightborhood recently. This weekend we went on a walk and we noticed the air was really cold and crisp, we definalty felt like fall had arrived. We noticed a lot of people were burning a fire and so it got us in the mood to have one too. We have had 2 fires this week and are so enjoying it in our home. I had forgotten how much I loved the smell of wood burning fireplace.

It's beginning to be that time of year where blankets and comfort food are the best. Warm fall cinnamon candles are always great and snuggling up on the couch is fun.

Jason and I are celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend with my parents. We are very excited about great food and fun with family. Lots of pictures to come hopefully.

I can not wait to start decorating for christmas. I keep looking at all my storage containers just anxiously awaiting to put them up. Jason keeps looking at me like I am crazy, he tells me "are you nuts its not even thanksgiving yet". Usually over thanksgiving holiday is when the christmas decorations go up. It's always been a family tradition to begin Christmas over thanksgiving weekend. Eating a huge feast that my mom has been working on for hours and then begin the decorations and watching christmas movies. I love that!! I plan on keeping that tradition. I have such great great memories of the holidays as a child and now an adult and I hope to keep them coming. :)

What are some of your favorite thanksgiving holiday traditions? What food is your favorite on thanksgiving? I would love to hear your feedback and hopefully use some of your recipes in the coming weeks.

P.S. Congrats to Aunt Lee Lee and Terry for Tying the Knot this past weekend. We love you guys and are so HAPPY for you both. Welcome to the Family Terry!!!!

BIRTHDAY WEEKEND EXTRAVAGANZA

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!

What a weekend the Bloch family had. Over the weekend was my hubbys birthday. We had a great weekend celebrating his birthday. We were extremely blessed to have Jason's dad come into town for a great visit. I am so blessed to have such an amazing father in law. I feel like I have known him and his family forever. What a great feeling that is to be loved and accepted so willingly. We had a great time showing my FIL( father-in-law) around town and around our home. The boys worked on projects all weekend, and did your typical father/son stuff. Even though I rarely understood what they were doing or talking about I loved just following them around :)

I have attached some pictures of the projects that were done this weekend.

We ( Jason and my FIL) and I blissfully watching installed a new light fixture in our kitchen, which is just beautiful. It really looks like it was there from the beginning since it matches our cabinets so perfectly. Jason a lot got a Workbench and light for the garage, that the boys installed and put together. So now Jason has a "testosterone corner" which is what I call it. :)

Jason and I will be celebrating our 4 year anniversary this Christmas. We just got married this past June in 2008. Celebrating Jason's birthday this year was different than all the other birthdays we have experienced together. I felt more passionate about making his weekend the best ever. I wanted him to smile more than he ever has, laugh more and mainly just feel incredibly loved. Sometimes I think the men in our lives( husbands and dads) don't get the appreciation they always deserve. These wonderful men in our lives are so important to us and have changed our lives for the better. At least the men in my life have. :)

Pretty much the point to this blog is to say happy birthday to my hubby one more time ( I'm sure he's grateful that I haven't told you how old he is) and remind him one more time how much I appreciate him and love him for ALL that he does for me and the rest of the family.

Happy Birthday Jas. You deserve all the happiness and Love in the world.

P.S. I would love to put up before and After photos of our kitchen. We have painted and changed some areas and it is so much fun to see the "after" results. Another post when I have more time and not so sleep deprived.

Prayers for Anne Pressly Family

Hello,

This will be a quick post.

I am asking for everyone to please pray for a dear friend and family in Arkansas. A tragic crime was taken on a wonderful, bright, amazing cheerful anchorwoman, Anne Pressly at Channel 7 news in Little Rock Ar. She was beaten severely in the head, face and upper body. She has been in critical condition all week and was thought to recover, but sadly with a heavy heart she passed away tonight on saturday, Oct 25th. I am extremely sadden to hear about this awful attack on such an amazing woman. I knew Anne when I was working at the LRRC, she always came to the club at night to work out, she was so much fun and we had some wonderful conversatins. She always knew how to brighten up a room.

I pray that god will give her family peace and comfort as they try to cope with this tragic loss. I can not even imagine how terrible it must feel to loose a child. My heart aches just writing this post. I know all arkansans are mourning this loss and I too am mourning in Texas.

Everyday is so incredibly precious and we are not guaranteed tomororw. Hug your family tight, tell them you love them always. I know I am extremely grateful for our families, their health and love.

God Bless.

Busy Week

Hello.

This week has been very busy for both us.Jason has had a busy week with work. We have both been so tired every night. School has been insanly busy this week, I think my professors are wanting me to drop out. I have a big paper next week and 2 important tests. I guess you could say I am incrediably anxious to get next tuesday over with and completed. I also have been working alot at the Belk Grand opening, the Clinique counter is gorgeous and doing great. The grand opening was fantastic, I got to meet Christain Lablace (from Young and Restless, Michael Bladwin). Not to mention the Belk store is less than 1 mile away from our house, talk about zero commute. It was wonderful.

Through all the maddness of this week, I still got to have a little "me" time and went shopping for house stuff, what I love to do most :)

Here are some pictures of the mantel, I have been hunting down Toparies for awhile and finally found some that I liked. I alsogot fall-leaf garland for the mantel(if you look close there is corn attached througout, very festive :)

( my camera changed the color of the walls, they are not so cream)

The past couple of weeks I have been faced with more situations to just surrender my worries to God, I have realized that becoming a "worry-wart" never gets me anywhere. I have been praying daily that god help me surrender my worries, frustration and anixety over to him. Hopefully, I can deal with the problems better knowing that God is on my side and that his everylasting faith and love will bring me peace through the coming weeks. I am exteremly blessed to have such a powerful support group, I love my family and Husband for all they do for me.

Happy Fall.

Only 6 more days till Halloween.

FALL HAS ARRIVED

Mom and I decided to design this pot with a great fall arrangment. We had so much fun picking out the red mums and cat tails that are in this pot. She really helped to show me how to make a great pot arrangement. I love looking at this pot everyday outside my front door.

I compeletly feel in love with thsi wheel-barrel.My mom and I found this rod iron wheel barrel at a great little store called Southern Flair. We filled it with fall garland leaves and pumkins!

Fall has definatly arrived in Texas. I have been decorating our home from the inside out. This past weekend my mom and I were on a hunt to find the perfect outdoor fall decorations for "our first fall season in our home". I was thrilled to begin decorating our home for the first time. My dad kept telling Jason " see what happens when your in laws come to visit, we decorate your home". Jason just laughed and said it was a girl thing. Which he is right, I love decorating and he loves to watch. :)

Fall is one of my favorite seasons. I am excited about all the leaves changing, the cooler temps and the holidays. Jason and I do find ourselves missing Arkansas around this time because it's just so beautiful and colorful. We have so many great pictures and memories to remind us of the season. I am looking forward to enjoying the Texas fall this year.

My First Blog... EVER

Here is my first attempt to this blogging thing. I am very excited about having this opportunity to connect to family and friends that we don't get to see on a daily basis. I love talking on the phone, but there isn't always enough time to tell everyone what is happening everyday. This makes it so easy.

Jason and I are HAPPILY MARRIED and loving life. We got married in June 2008. Our wedding was amazing and everything we ever wanted. I loved planning our wedding, it was truly a "labor of Love". I would love go back in time and just watch the entire the day unfold. I guess you could say I do that through our wonderful pictures. We are extremely busy and sometimes it feels like life will never slow down. We are busy with work, school and trying to juggle all the daily tasks everyone deals with. I love being a wife, I love doing "wifely" things, but it can get overwhelming with work and school. That's when you take a deep breath or watch a funny cat video on YouTube. :)