Here goes nothing!

So after stalking around my sister-in-law's blog (www.ourvietnameseladybug.blogspot.com) for a few weeks, I have finally broken down and started my own. So for the moment, a little about where I am from and what's going on in our lives.

Craig and I met online (emode) and so it only seems appropriate that I go online to track the happenings of our first year of married life. (admittedly starting a bit late!) We dated for just over a year and then Craig proposed in downtown Philly (at the statue in "LOVE" park cheesily/sweetly enough) and 9 months later, we were married.

Shortly before we were engaged Craig purchased a home nearby where we live now-- its a great home, but it has been quite the project to get it to a habitable state. (the first week he was there, the drain line from the only bathroom cracked and flooded the downstairs leaving the ceiling and the bathroom in a state of utter chaos and Craig with nowhere to shower!)

Since then we have gutted the bathroom and kitchen and entirely redone them, we have pulled miles of hideously harvest gold and avocado green fuzzy wallpapers from the walls, ceilings, shelves, and floors (yeah, I have no idea why they did that) and found some nice wood floors under 3 layers of linoleum and carpet (why carpet a kitchen?)-- so we are enjoying having an improved home. We just got our room painted (one more night in the pepto pink prison would have done me in) and hopefully tonight will polish off the last of the touch up painting in the main part of the house.
Which leaves just one room, the littleest bedroom-- the one Craig has claimed as the office-- but the rest of the world refers to as "the nursery". I think he's accepted (and is excited) that we need that room as a place for any little ones that may join our family-- and so he's finally let me choose some colors for the room. In a completely non-committal decision, I think we are doing the "nursery"in pale yellow and green. Neither one of us is big on pink so-- worst case we have a girl in a more unisex room... which works for us!
(plus I am a frog fanatic and have absolutely fallen in love with these 2 sets of crib bedding in blues/greens/yellows with frogs--- http://www.cradlencrib.com/bdolf.html or http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/brd/brd324pfrg.html)

Well, thats it for now. I better go do some work and stop baby day dreaming for a bit.