Our Home!

I'm so excited about our home. Jeff bought this place and it needed a LOT of work. He has done an amazing job--from putting in wood floors, to painting, to remodeling the bathroom. And now I shove all my stuff in here and change it! But he is sweet enough to tell me he likes the changes or additions I've made. I hope so! I LOVE our "new" home!

Our bedroom




The "deskroom" as the Smalberger's call it. Or, as normal people would say, the office :)



The bathroom


The hallway looking from the bedrooms to the living room


Cade's bedroom



The kitchen


The Kitchen (looking from the living room)



The living room (looking from the kitchen)


The living room (looking from the hallway)


The living room (looking from the front door)


Dad and Jeff under the house doing plumbing for the 2nd time! (I caught them off guard!)

No Time! No Time! (or, Pipes, Tears, Moving and a Missing cat)

Well this has been quite the weekend! I thought I had moved enough of my stuff little by little into Jeff’s house to make it MUCH easier on my actual moving day, which was Saturday. That’s what I get for thinking! But let me start from the beginning. Jeff is putting in a 2nd bathroom. YAY! J It will even be off the master bedroom. DOUBLE YAY! Well, the first big job was the plumbing. Dad and Jeff worked on that after Dad got off of work on Friday. They worked ALL DAY while mom and I moved a load over from my house. Oh, and let me tell you that mom and I stood in the corner of the staircase at my old house with my box springs wedged between us trying to figure out HOW ON EARTH the stupid thing ever got downstairs because we couldn’t for the life of us get it moved upstairs. After about 25 minutes we finally gave up and gave in and left the thing there until the following day when Dad and Jeff would help us finish up. So Mom and I arrive with a load of stuff and Jeff’s only to find the guys are having a really hard time and are still under the house and are muddier than anything I’ve ever seen! Poor guys! L Not only that, but after a full day of work and being crowded and cramped and damp and muddy they tried turning on the water and the pipes just fell apart. Who knows why?! We were some unhappy campers that night. With no water. So we tried to make the best of it and be optimistic, all the while dreading the next day when we’d have to move more stuff and get back under the house. Thankfully my brother has learned a TON at his maintenance job and when he called to say he couldn’t come help (drat!), he DID give some great advice about some more expensive plumbing pieces that you don’t have to Sauder. A couple of hours later the guy emerged from the basement and everything worked with no leaks! PHEW! Now if only they didn’t emerge into what looked like a tornado of my STUFF. Well, I’ve been on my own for 5 years. I have STUFF. I tried to put as much of it away as possible before I was too worn out. And lucky Jeff escaped to Denver to have some guy time with his friend Adam. Then, last night after I went to bed I decided I wanted to bring my cat Clarence into the room to sleep with me. Only I couldn’t find him. Anywhere. We’ve been letting him into the back yard when we can watch him, but we had brought him back in when it got dark last night. So I put on some pants and we’re off looking for him. Poor Jeff probably didn’t know what to do with me. I was tired, sore, and now my kitty was lost. I was a mess. We never found him. But never fear! I got up at about 1:30 this morning and he was just sleeping away on the window ledge as if he’d never left. THAT DARN CAT! We left the back door open so that if he found his way home he could get inside. I guess that’s what he did. So now I guess I won’t go into a panic if he ever wanders off again. This morning I woke up to a clean, organized house with a cat at home and I went to the gym before work. What a weekend! Who knew getting ready for a wedding would include THIS?! We leave on Saturday. WOOHOO!!!!!

Bridal Shower!

Mel and my mom put on the loveliest bridal shower of all time! It was the perfect amount of fun, food, beauty and girls. Thanks so much, everyone, for everything. I can't tell you how special and loved I felt!


The beautiful cheese and fruit table (a la Carly)


The gorgeous gift table with my fave flowers and cards to write advise on



The wine table!


Patsy, Jennifer and Hannah (Jeff's Mom, sis and niece)


The friends


The "new" fam


Kate, Car and Liz


Jennifer, Mel (the hostess with the mostess) and Patsy and Hannah


Me, Mel and Natatat


It's all about me ;)

Kate is deep in thought writing her line of the poem


Car, me and Mel


Jennifer, Patsy, me and Mom

Britta and I having an intense discussion


Lindsey and I having an intense discussion!


and that's a wrap! haha, this picture is totally posed, but apparently my mom wasn't informed!


and just for fun, a picture of Clarence and Chloe appearing to get along. it's all an illusion.

A Bachelorette Get Together

So it wasn't a wild and crazy night, but it WAS a great dinner with "the girls"! Thanks, Steph, Tiff, Grace and Sar! Love you!

A month from Sunday!

We got our marriage lisence in the mail!!!!!!!!!!!!! 33 days and I'll be Terri Schurz. YAY!

New Hair!

So after going to places like Great Clips and Cost Cutters since I was a little girl I was in for quite a change when I cashed in my super sexy hair coupon from Jeff. I went to Veda for a cut and color. Let's just start off by saying you should NEVER color your hair from a box. And then you should NEVER EVER use black. Oops. I've been box coloring my hair for years and I'm going to be honest, I usually really like the results. The problem is even a fancy place like Veda can't really color over black without many processes and likely quite a bit of damage to the hair. After sitting in the chair with my stylist, Nellie, for about 15 minutes we finally decided that the best compromise for my hair would be to highlight it with a sort of caramely color and touch up the dark pieces. It took forever! After 2 hours we were almost finished but the salon was about to close so she didn't even have time to style it. No worries, though, I stlyed it the next day and after just one day I was used to it and even love it!

This is when it was black:


This is what I was going for:


This is what I got:


Not to shabby :) Thanks, Nellie!

Our Invitations!

My dear friend Emily (the girl who made a missions trip bearable--fun, even) made these invitations for us to send to our immediate family. Aren't they gorgeous? I can't wait for them to be delivered!