Jeremy's Buck!

Jeremy went gun hunting in Wisconsin on Saturday and shot a nice 7 point buck! It would have been an 8 pointer except it was missing a brow tine from a fight it had been in. Either way, it's a nice buck! In comparison with all of this other racks, this is definetly the second largest. Not quit big enough to be mounted though. His biggest deer, which has been named "Blake," is on our basement wall and the agreement was that the next one to be mounted has to be bigger than Blake. Maybe next year babe :)

Maple didn't get hunting with him, she stayed home with me, but she did get the see the deer when he brought it home. It's always so funny to watch her react to different things and if either of us were to move the deer head around she wouldn't get close to it! Too funny.

Here are a few pictures of his deer and a scrapbook page I made with the pictures.

Here is his story of the hunt which I used for the scripting: It was around noon and two deer came into the swamp near Jeremy's stand. A doe came out of the swamp followed by a buck that was being blocked by a tree. As the doe began to walk away, the buck came closer allowing Jeremy to take a shot. He missed with the first two shots but the buck stopped in the brush allowing another him to take another shot. He knew he hit him them but he ran out and stopped in front of him. So he shot at him again but he took a few more steps so he shot one last time. Not knowing where or how good he had hit him, he watched him trot down and fall over in the water. He quickly climbed down and went over to where he watched it fall. When he got over there all he could see was horns and one hind quarter as the rest of the deer was submerged in water. After pulling the deer out, Jeremy was able to show off his 7 point buck!

maple's scrapbook

Now that I've gotten into the digital scrapbooking world I decided to make a scrapbook of Maple :) Here are the first three pages I've made so far.



Script: Maple was born on December 28th, 2008. We picked you out of the bunch on January 4th, 2009. We picked the best one in the littler!



Script: This was the second time we went to see our little pup Maple before we brought you home for good. You were the smalled one in the bunch and were so cute! Your eyes weren't open yet and your tail had just been docked. We should have known you’d be a feisty one when you wouldn't hold still for either of us! Little did you know four weeks later you’d be coming home with us!



Script: Maple you’re three weeks old and you’ve opened your eyes! You’re starting to walk around and explore. You’ll be coming home in three weeks to a house of your very own!

first snowfall

Although we had a few snowflakes a little while ago, I'm considering Saturday as the first official snowfall since it stuck! Maple had us up at like 7:00 in the morning so we took her out right away to play in the snow.

She's so funny when the grass is wet! She almost tip toes around until she's sure it's okay to run around in it. I was able to take a few pictures of her out there and made a scrapbook page of them too!

girls weekend

My mom came to visit and we had a long overdue girls weekend! Just the two of us plus Maple :) Friday night when my mom got to town we went and got manicures and pedicures, a must for any girls weekend ;) After that we picked up a pizza from Papa Murphy's and enjoyed that while watching some What Not to Wear on TLC!

Saturday morning we got up early to get on the road for a fun filled day of shopping on Albertville, MN at the Premium Outlet up there! For anyone who hasn't been there, it's the ultimate outlet store. I'm talking 100 stores. Seriously, my new favorite place to shop, it's a good thing it's about an hour and a half from our place so I won't be tempted to go there too often ;)

Before leaving for the day.

We spent hours there. I think about five hours or so to be exact. Mom did mostly shopping for kitchen wear between the Corelle Store, Kitchen Store, Le Creuset and Le Gourmet Chef. I got a couple of kitchen items but I did a little more clothing shopping. Mostly shoes. I got four pairs! My first pair of chucks for less than $20 and three pairs of Nine West dress shoes for work averaging about $30 a pair. Did I mention its an outlet mall which means great deals! I picked up a couple scarves and a shirt as well.

After shopping for a couple of hours we took a break and got some ice cream parfaits from the TCBY/Mrs Fields. They were delicious! I got a peanut parfait with fudge, nuts and peanuts and my mom had one with fudge, strawberries and M & M's.

Once we had visited all the stores on our list, we started to head back to Owatonna. We made a quick pit stop in Edina to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins. Neither my mom or I had seen them in a while and although it was a quick stop, it was great to see them! It's amazing how fast my little cousins are growing up. Sammy is almost taller than my mom now!

Being that we had been gone for quite some time we were in a hurry to get home to let poor Maple out of her kennel! She was such a trooper and did great. She wasn't in there too much longer than she is on a normal work day but she was very sad when we left her for the day. We finished the night off work Chinese food from Hyvee and a little Sex & The City 2. We were both pretty wiped from the day and only made it about half way through the movie (I finished it today though).

It was a great weekend and I'm so glad my mom and I were able to spend some time together, just the two of us :) Thanks so much for visiting!

On a side note, my mom got a new hutch which means I got the old one. It was a huge surprise for me! She'd been hoping to get a new hutch for some time but last time I asked about it, it sounded like she wouldn't be getting a new one anytime soon. Change of plans! They decided to get a new one and she did a great job of keeping it quiet from me, I had no clue she was bringing it along! She was only able to fit half of it in her vehicle, so we'll be bringing the top half home at Thanksgiving. I'll post pictures of it all set up once we've got it all together. Thanks again mom!

new scrapbook pages

So since this is like my 5th post with scrapbook pages out of my most recent posts, it's kinda of easy to see that I've really dived into this new hobby! I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of it but at the same time, I know there are so many more things that Photoshop can do that I'm just not utilizing yet. Maybe at some point I'll know all the tricks and fun things the program can do! Anyway, in the meantime, here are the most recent pages I've created.

Script: "My mom came to visit for the weekend and it was just us girls so we took full advantage! Friday night we got manicures and pedicures followed by Papa Murphy’s pizza. Saturday morning we got up and enjoyed pumpkin bagels at the bagel shop before hitting the road to go shopping in Albertville all day! We took a break from shopping to get some ice cream at a TCBY’s and made it home to enjoy some Chinese food. All in all, we had a great time shopping and splurged on some good food!"

Script: "My sister in law is getting married in January, so in her honor, we through a Football Themed Bachelorette party! She is an extreme football fan and the party was on Halloween Eve, so it was perfect! Even better was that with the help of her soon to be sister in law, we got her finance’s high school football jersey for her to wear! We had a group of twenty ranging from friends and family and we had a great time!"

Script: "Dinner on the last night of our honeymoon in Riviera Maya. December 2008."

trick or treat scrapbook challenge

I completed my second scrapbook page for a challenge on the Shabby Shoppe Blog and here it is! This challenge had a number of criteria you had to include in your page to entry the drawing for the winner. It's a random winner so I've got a chance! :)

our little devil

This year for Halloween we dressed our pup Maple up as a devil! Jeremy's parent's picked the costume up last year after the holiday for her.

She isn't a huge fan of having anything on her head and she was quite funny to watch as she was trying to get her head piece off. The cape however, didn't really bother her one bit! Maple was so tired out from the weekend that she slept on the couch with her cape on all night until we went to bed, too cute!

Action shot! I love this picture for some reason.

Jeremy and Maple.

Playing outside in her costume.

Jessica's Shower and Bachelorette Party

Saturday was Jessica's Bridal Shower & Bachelorette Party! I had a lot of fun planning it with the help of both families, thanks everyone!

I made all of the shower invitations, recipe cards, recipe card dividers and put together a photo album with Jess & Tony's newly taken engagement pictures. It was definitely the biggest shower I've hosted, there was just under 50 people there in total! Jessica got a ton of amazing gifts and I think everyone had a good time.

The food was great! A bunch of family members pitched in and we had open faced sandwiches, ham sandwiches, snicker salad, asian salad, pasta salad, a veggie tray, fruit bowl, buffalo chicken dip, deviled eggs and some other relishes and chips/dip. Jessie Schick (the in-law's neighbor) made two cakes and they were delicious!

One of the tables.

The room we used for the shower at The Plaza.

Balloons and recipe card box.

Recipe card box up close.

Jessica with her wad of gum - 9 pieces in total!

Jessica with her cake.

Aunt Jayne, Jessica, Julie and myself.

After the bridal shower we had the bachelorette party! It was a surprise theme to Jessica and since it was Halloween weekend, it was a football themed party! Jessica loves football so it was an easy choice. Thanks to Kari, we were able to get Tony's high school football jersey for Jessica to wear.

The party started out at the hotel again and we had an awesome group of 20 people! We went around and told our best memory with Jessica and had a bite to eat before we went out! I put together a scavenger hunt with ten different items so we split up into 4 teams of 5 people. Jessica's team won!

Scavenger hunt game.

We rode the Rightway Shuttle all night and we started off at no where other than good ole' Rolly's!

ere is a picture of the whole group before heading out!

Jessica and I at Rolly's.

Jessica, her aunt Shelly and mom at the 400 Club.

A few of the girls at Shenan's.

Rose, Jessica and I on the bus ride home!