Due to the mass amount of peeps contacting me, wondering y I been MIA posting blogs, without further adieu, I am back by popular demand. Being one year older and wiser too, I can’t start without showing much love for my beautiful wife Sarah, my lil ham boo boo, my pops, my bro’s Mikey, Josh, and Matt, my cousins Granny and Jimmy and BFF’s Brennen and Jared for the L O N G hours of work that they all put in to help us on our place. We didnt do the best at taking before and after pics, but I’ll one up that and show before and after vids. I’ll post this teaser vid of the reasons we bought this fixer upper. Pardon my mumblings as I just saw immediate potential. B4 vid from jayT on Vimeo. You can’t really beat $71 a sq ft, esp with the market these days, this really was the year to buy. A buyers market coupled with low interest rates and on top of that you got the Housing Stimulus and with our place, you can’t beat the location, location, location! Granted our house was stuck in 1970’s with the nastiest green kitchen appliances, countertop, green shag carpet and old lady smell, when I bought this place to name a few. I bought it for the potential of what I saw in it and what it could become, not what it currently was (this also applies in life as we should always look for the potential in others and not judge them for what they currently are hahaha man I’m becoming my wife!). I was blessed to have my bro Josh as my engineer and he drafted up my plans from my ideas and made sure that everything was on point. I’m also blessed to have Tim the Toolman Taylor mixed with Bob Villa for a dad who pretty much echo’s “the field of dreams” moto “if you build it, I will come” He gets the building itch every couple of years and just couldn’t resist when I told him I wanted to renovate. For two weeks of work, you will be absolutely AMAZED and think your watching a show on HGTV just because how different everything looks. My neighborhood thought we were CRAZY to try to do so much in so little time all on our own, but now everyones trying to get a sneak peak of our humble abode. I won’t spoil the fun just yet, but between scraping popcorn ceilings, gutting the ENTIRE 2nd floor and kitchen, the 15-16 hour work days, and all the craziness that goes into making an old house new…trust me-the bags under my eyes and the aches in my ever aging body were ALLLLL worth it when I took my wife over for a sneak peak yesterday of her “90% completed newly renovated house” and saw her get suPER duPER excited!
I heart cupcakes
I attempted to make my first cupcakes for Jay’s birthday. I was going to make everything from scratch but ended up only having enough time to make the frosting and the cream-cheese filling and used a cake mix.
We’re not done celebrating Jay’s b-day due to the crazy hectic renovating last week so I’ll post pics of all that later when I finally get to take him out on a date. ;D
Chocolate cake with a milk chocolate frosting and a dipped-strawberry.Sm ore’s topping.
And there was a surprise inside the cupcakes! A cream-cheese filling inside every single one! Haha can you tell I was excited about it? I sure was! π
Kat’s B-day
Jay Happy Happy birthday to you!
It is my hubby’s birthday today and guess what his schedule is like today.
5a.m-1p.m- go to work to do bunch of crazy math to figure out commissions for Indonesia and Korea.
1-1:20 p.m- come home, change clothes and grab a lunch to go that I packed for him.
1:20-9 p.m- slave labor to renovate our home.
This has been his schedule since last week Monday. π and he tells me that every morning when his alarm rings at 5 a.m and all he wants to do is go back to sleep and the only reason why he gets the strength to get up at the wee hour in the morning to work a 15 hr. day is because he then thinks of me and Adalie. And then he realizes he would do anything for me and Adalie so he gets up without any complaint and goes about his day. How did I get so lucky?
Jay tells me that he’s never been so whooped and head over heels for a girl who was always constantly on his mind and people that know me well all know how crazy and obsessed he was with me and tease him about it and I do have to admit, I’ve never met or heard of any other guy who was so crazy and obsessed over a girl. He would go to the library on the 4th floor because he knew I always studied there and if I wasn’t there, he would start from the 1st floor and go up to the 5th floor and walk around the whole library hoping he would “run into me”. He sent me a Ralph Lauren perfume on my mission, his various passwords was my name, and this is all when we were just good acquaintances! There are much more but some of them Jay was even too embarrassed to tell me(he told me all this stalkerish stuff he did AFTER we were married. Smart guy.) and so I had to get it out of him and he made me promise not to tell ANYONE. hehe.
He never thought I would ever give him a chance and I even wrote him a Dear John letter on my mission after I received his gracious package and my mom has always told me that it’s always better for the guy to chase the girl and have him pursue and marry the girl of his dreams and I guess that’s stuck with me but truth be told, I’ve been as crazy about him as he was with me. Okay, not as much but you get the point. π
The first time I saw him, I thought he was the hottest guy I’ve ever seen and that is still true to this day. I referred Jay as “The hot guy” to my girlfriends. No other guy has ever made my heart beat so fast and so loud. Every time he would “run into me” on campus, I would get all happy and giddy and wanted to spend more time with him. When we worked at Nu Skin together, I always looked forward to seeing him and made work much more exciting. Every time I received his letter or package on my mission, I would feel flattered. When we started dating, just thinking about him made me have such intense butterflies and I would grin randomly just thinking of him. When we were broken up, I would drive by his house at night because I missed him. One time I even got caught dead on! That was embarrassing…moving on,
To summarize, he is my first boyfriend, my first love, and the man of my dreams.
To the love of my life…Happy Birthday.
“MORE MORE”!
Last weekend Adalie did her very first sign language for “more”! I was at the grocery store with mom and feeding her animal crackers and I motioned for “more” and she did it about 5 different times. I always wondered if it really was going to work and when she would start signing and she did it! I’m so proud of my baby.
These are some pictures of us raspberry picking in my mom’s garden. Adalie loooooooooves raspberries!
Adalie and mommy
Scrumptious and juicy. Isn’t your mouth watering? They were oh so sweet.
Digging into the bowl and shoving the raspberries in her mouth.
What are you daydreaming about Adi?
Cutie patootie.
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