So starts the "nesting" and organizing...

This week I've started organizing our home thanks to Pinterest! Or you can call it "nesting," so I've started moving all my craft and sewing items to our back extra room.

I also get yelled at all the time by my husband about all the crap on our bathroom counter. 

So I had a great idea -

I took this ice cream pail after we were finished with it 

Then I took some extra fabric from my stash and glued it on with a glue stick

Then Voila! All my "bathroom crap" in a cute little area easily accessible! 

Yay for upcycling!

Long time, many updates

So here's what's going on with us -

We celebrated our 2 year anniversary in June with a trip to Chicago in August. We successfully conceived a child in June. (unrelated to anniversary). We will be welcoming said child, which is a BOY whose name is a secret in March around the 20th.

And now I'm working on organizing the house for this kid to have some room to sleep!

YAY!

In other friends' news - My friends Amber and Nate celebrated their son Ford's 1st birthday on 1/6 and my friends Kim and Mike had their 3rd Daughter "Reese Catelynn" on 1/6 as well! WOO!

Random Lindsey Pet Peeves

A lot has happened lately to make me write this list.

1) Plastic bags rustling in the back of a car with the windows down.

2) People that own businesses that can't spell

3) Girls that take the last name of their Fiance before they are even Married.

4) People who act like their life is awesome, but it is really in shambles.

5) Stupid people in general. (Which is a direct reflection of what I deal with every day)

6) People who are upset about Casey Anthony killing her daughter but still believe in abortion.
6a: The Kardashian girls upset about Casey Anthony... um remember O.J. and your DAD!?

7) Parents who let their kids cry in church for more than 10 seconds. Or let the talk the ENTIRE SERVICE!

8) Getting asked personal questions by people that barely know me.

9) Not living closer to my close friends that are my age.

10) Not being able to think of more pet peeves because I will think of them later!

The roof, The roof, The roof is on fire...

Actually it was the insulation in the attic. On Saturday night when we got home from the Musical Cast Party, we smelled a burning smell. Like burning plastic. We thought maybe someone outside was burning something and we thought nothing of it and went to bed.

Well last night, we smelled it again about 7:30. We went outside and could only smell it on the South side of the house. Then we realized it was coming from the vents INSIDE the house. So we looked it up online. We chalked it up to the air conditioner getting too hot and we turned off the A/C.

T.D.'s parents were in town and decided to stay an extra night. His mom was walking her dog and came running in the house saying "I think your house is on fire." I said "Sylvia, the house is NOT on fire." So I went outside to see what she was talking about. There was smoke coming out of the roof vents on the back of the house. So I said "I think your right the house is on fire."

So after trying to decide to call 911 or the Fire Dept number (I decided it was an emergency and called 911) The UFD came and went up in the attic. They cut a hole in our ceiling to get to where the smoke was coming from.

The transformer from our doorbell had gotten too hot, or shorted out. Since someone was really smart and put an electrical box underneath the insulation - it started smoldering the insulation (where the smoke was from). It also burned a big hole in one of the rafters to the ceiling.

The fire captain said we were extremely lucky that we didn't go to sleep because the rafter would have turned into flames overnight more than likely. And that attic fires often go undetected until there are flames shooting out the roof.

We are very blessed that everyone offered prayers, help and their homes to us last night. 10pm on a Sunday. We are also blessed that we stayed up late, that T.D.'s mom noticed the smoke and that the damage is minimal.

You might ask why we didn't notice the smoke before? Well the smoke alarm/heat sensor is LITERALLY right under where the problem was. It was faulty and never went off. That is until the UFD was here and bashed a hole in the ceiling for the smoke to get out.

So we will be replacing wiring, insulation and drywall soon after the insurance adjuster can come. Here are some pictures of the damage.

Ceiling where the cut out the hole to get to the wiring


burnt rafters


Dust everywhere inside. And insulation and wires in the driveway outside.

The little box is the transformer that caught on fire.

April and May showers bring ...um...a soggy yard?

Since I'm staying with writing a blog post only once every 2 months I thought I should write one today. T.D. and I are still living in our house, we are trying to finish painting. We just got to the trim in the living room, now we have to finish the quarter-round.

T.D. has been really busy with his video stuff and I am getting increasingly busier with my job as well. If the weather was better I would be getting a lot more calls from people wanting to buy a home!

Last month, I turned 27 and T.D. turned 33. We also found out that our friends Christina and Jason Longbrake are expecting their first child this November. YAY!

So that's about it on our front.

It's March? What the heck?!

So I've noticed that it's March and I haven't written a blog in a while so I'm doing it now. We are almost to the end of Basketball Season here in Urbana. We have tournaments coming up tomorrow and hopefully a few days after that.

We will not be going anywhere for Spring Break this year, but instead will be going to Chicago in August to watch the Reds play the Cubs at Wrigley. Plus I have never been to Chicago in the Summer so I'm looking forward to that.

We finally got all of the pictures and stuff up on our walls with a thanks to my Mom who came over and helped me. That just reminded me that I need to take pictures of that so I can put them up here!

I'm looking forward to Spring and warm weather!


Welp, until I get the pictures of the walls I don't really have much else to talk about.

Adios 2010, Yo 2011 what's up?!

Here at the Evans' household we had a great 2010! We made great strides in our home improvement last year! We removed all our carpet, finished painting the dining room, painted the living room, upgraded our tv and refinished our hardwood floors.

We took a lot of trips - Ohio to Florida and back for Spring Break; Hocking Hills in June; Philly, NYC and D.C. over the summer; Mom and I went to California in November. Our trips are finished for a while as we save up for some other things and pay some things off. We celebrated our 1 year anniversary on June 20th and T.D. took me on a surprise trip to Hocking Hills.

We filmed one wedding this year as we took the summer off since we got married in 2009 and filmed a couple weddings that summer too. This year we will be hoping to film more weddings as we know a lot of people getting married. We have been increasing our commercial video offerings with local companies and will be continuing that this year.

My job has been great! I am so glad that I have been blessed with a great boss that understands how I think and how I work. I'm not bothered or micromanaged and I still made as much in 2010 as the job I quit (that was salary) in 2009! My goal is to increase my income 30% in 2011.

T.D. is enjoying teaching (this is his 11th year) and the Basketball team is doing well so far at 5-1.
We are still attending the Urbana First Baptist church where I help with the Youth and play guitar in the Praise Team on Sunday mornings.

We hosted our first Christmas at our home this year, my Mom's family on Christmas Eve and my Dad on Christmas Day. T.D's sister and parents came over during the week and we did all of their presents here also. We celebrated New Year's Eve last night at Chattan Loch with Steve Ward and Erika Marzec who we will be attending their wedding in October!

The next thing I am looking forward to in a couple days is the birth of Ford Edward Wienert from my friends Amber and Nate! Good luck Amber!

We are looking forward to great things in 2011 as I hope you are - until the next update...