Wedding Gifts Keep Coming

Last week marked our three month anniversary, so I was surprised when we got delivery from the UPS man yesterday.

It was a wedding gift from our registry. Now gifts at anytime are always appreciated but it was a surprise (albeit a pleasant one) to get a wedding gift. The gift came from a couple that did not attend our wedding but we will be guests at their nuptials next month.

If you have been following my wedding blog, you may already know that we had a very small wedding. We topped out at 36 guests down from the 48 that was our original guest list. I was skeptical from the beginning that we would get much off our registry. My husband and I went through the typical back and forth about the value of the registry. Me being a stickler for etiquette deemed it necessary and a way to guide our guests in getting appropriate gifts for us that we truly needed and would enjoy. My husband felt as though since we are older and more established the registry was not necessary and he preferred a cash gift. (Cash is always appreciated but it should not be first and foremost in your wedding gift requests). Since we had a long engagement we got quite a few registry items as Christmas gifts, birthday gifts, and from my shower.  We were also  able to complete a substantial portion through redeeming rewards points accrued on our credit card from wedding related purchases. (It was always a source of much glee for me when a vendor took credit card. Rewards cards are a great vehicle for paying for your wedding AS LONG AS YOU PAY THE BILL OFF IMMEDIATELY. I can not stress this enough. We paid for our wedding out right and no one should go into debt to get married. Go into debt for a home, for an education, but not to get married. Its not worth it for one day. Ok I am off my soapbox.)

I know I will be putting this buffet server to good use next week at Christmas.

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Holiday Gift Wrap Ideas

All I could say was OOOOOHHHHHH. AAAHHHHHHHHHH. PURTY!

From Style Me Pretty

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Got the Organizing Bug: Magazines

I caught the organizing bug this morning. Every so often I get an itch to organize some little item around the house and today it was the magazine collection in our office. We keep them neatly organized in magazine files and baskets from Ikea, however, I think our collection had just got to be too much. We had catalogs that I had stowed away with the intention of buying some bookmarked item that has long been forgotten. We had issues of magazines as far back as 2005 which have not been touched since their initial reading. Some of the magazines were hard to part with because of that nagging feeling that there just might be some useful tidbit of information in them that I will need at some future point in time.

To cut down on the magazine clutter here are the new magazine rules:

• Only store 1 year's worth of issues of any one magazine 
• All issues older than a year will be purged and recycled. 
• Before magazines are purged articles of interest will be clipped and put into a clear plastic protectors in a binder.

I also had to seriously think about what magazines were worth having a subscription to because I am prone to being a magazine junkie. Here is what made the list and all other magazines will be read in the grocery checkout line, online, or when I am relaxing in Barnes and Noble (which probably doesn't make any magazine editors too happy - sorry!).

• Martha Stewart Living
• Better Homes and Gardens
• Food Network Cooking Magazine
• Martha Stewart Everyday Food

How do you organize and catalog your magazines at home? How long do you generally keep them? What magazines d you read religiously?

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Game Day

Yesterday was game day in my house. Everything stops when the Eagles are playing. I was fortunate though to get the opportunity to have Roe be my model for pictures.

Here he is in his game day glory. Enraptured by the Eagles at play. It was the first time also I fully shot in totally manual mode on my Nikon.

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Peanut Butter Anyone?

So my husband came home with this last week. He can't resist bulk items on sale.

Now what am I supposed to do with 4lbs of peanut butter ????????

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Dyn-o-mite

I just couldn't resist getting these at Target yesterday. They just called to me. We had a lazy day around the house and I have been lounging in them all day.

I think they are comfortable and cute. My husband thinks I am channeling JJ Walker from Good Times and is ready for me to break out with "Dyn-O-Mite!"

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Look what came in the mail today

I will be reading this tomorrow (Who am I kidding, probably tonight)

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