What I'm looking forward to:

The two things I am most looking forward to moving are :

First: This HUGE backyard!! (2 1/2 acres)

I'm thinking a container vegetable and herb garden, garden parties, lemonade and croquet, star gazing, and just being lazy in the hammock. It's going to be wonderful!!!

And 2: I get my own CRAFT ROOM!!! I'm am so super excited I can't stand it! Look at all those beautiful windows! And all that space! I will be able to work on all my jewelry at a real table with better light! I won't have to work on the floor anymore! This is so major yall. I can't wait! I promise I will post pictures of when I am done decorating and settling in.

Packing up

Well I have started the daunting task of packing some of our stuff up. Mom keeps bringing us boxes and I have already run out. I feel like every time she brings a load of boxes I'm like "woah...that's a lot of boxes; we'll never fill all those". WRONG. I barely broke the surface and I'm out of boxes. We don't have anywhere to put said boxes yet so they are starting to take over our living room. I can't wait till Feb. 15 so we can start getting the new house ready to move in. Basically all we need to do is paint a few rooms and we can start taking some (read MOST) of the boxes we have ready to go.

It's kind of sad packing everything up. I really love the house we are in right now but taxes are stupid and it's so expensive living here. Not to mention we are busting at the seams with stuff. Oh and on that note, I'm planning to go through all of our stuff while we are packing and make three piles: throw away, keep, and donate. Does anyone know a good place to donate clothing? Or should I throw a clothing swap party? What do you think?

A Big Move

We just made our first married grown-up decision! Pretty soon we are going to go from this:

To this:

Pretty cool huh? We're super excited!

Happy New Year!

Sorry I have not blogged lately. Big things are happening in the Fudge Household. I'm so excited to share them with you but I won't just yet. We are supposed to get some more news tomorrow so hopefully I will update this blog with the news on Wednesday. So check back in a few days.

Other than that... how was your New Years? We had a very laid back New Year's Eve. Papa Fudge gave us some champagne and we basically watched TV, drank champagne, watched the ball drop, and went to bed. It was actually kinda nice being so laid back. Did yall do anything fun? or did you also enjoy a lazy transition to 2012?

Do yall have any resolutions this year? Mine are usually the same EVERY year: lose weight, eat right, exercise more... Well I noticed on a few blogs that I read that some people assign a word or two to define the upcoming year. So, I gave it a lot of thought and decided that my words for 2012 are going to be CREATE and CHANGE.
Create because I am going to start up my craft and jewelry business again this year. I'm super excited. I've already got some great ideas for some new necklaces and I've decided to add hair accessories also. I'm going to call all the hair accessories "Kimmy Blossoms".
Change because there are going to be some major changes to our lives this year. We made our first "adult" decision as a married couple (more to come on Wednesday, remember?) Also because this year we are going to change all of our liabilities into assets. Finding jobs has been very challenging, we still have our fingers crossed that we will find something that will be a good fit but until then we have decided to put our hobbies and knowledge to work for us. (more on Wednesday too, I promise)

If you need a good laugh

Okay, so I'm sure December is very busy for everybody. And if you don't know, I always lose my marbles. And this year I did some stuff that was so funny that I'm going to share it with you. So if you've had a bad day and you need a good laugh, please read on:

First, and this is so embarrassing, I was wrapping Christmas presents in our back den. When I was done I was going to put the wrapping paper back in the living room with the rest of it. So I had the wrapping paper in my hand, going through the kitchen, heading for the kitchen door to the living room ... and .... THUD. I'm suddenly rebounded backwards and thinking "what just happened?" It actually took me a minute to figure out that I was holding the wrapping paper horizontal (which was bigger than the door frame) and that I needed to hold it vertically. Jeremy still laughs and brings this up whenever possible.

Second, I was going to bed because I was really really tired and Jeremy is saying goodnight and then thinks that it is a good time to discuss movies. So he starts listing all these movies, asking me whether I've seen them or not. (A lot of the movies he asked me about were really old and I've never even heard of them). I'm so tired at this point yall, I mean I am fading fast...and Jeremy asks me "have you ever seen cartoon?" (this is what I heard) So I'm like no, but I've seen a movie where Brad Pitt turns into a cartoon. Jeremy starts laughing histerically and he's like "Khartoum; not cartoon". In my defense, did I mention that I was really really tired?

So I hope that put a smile on your faces.

Happy New Year and I'll talk to yall again in 2012!

Baby Blocks for Anna

Okay, so remember a few weeks ago Mom and I had a craft day? Well now that it is after Christmas I can show you what we really worked on. My cousin Ashely just had another beautiful baby girl named Anna. Anna is now 4 months old and Mom and I really wanted to make her something special instead of buying something from Toys R Us for Christmas. So when I was in blog world I ran across this great tutorial for baby blocks from The Magic Bean. Here are pictures of the finished products. We used some of our favorite pictures (that I stole from Ashley's facebook albums) and put them on cotton fabric paper sheets. Too Cute! I put Anna's name on the smallest block as per the tutorial, used the nursery rhymes from the tutorial, and then for the biggest block I went through Ashley's blog and copied and pasted all the things she said about Anna (and some stuff from Ava too). Mom and I used lots of bright colors and lots of Mary Englebreit fabric. I did all the computer stuff, Mom did all the sewing, and I stuffed all the blocks. I think it turned out awesome! I hope Anna loves them and I hope she will keep them as a keepsake when she gets older.

Christmas 2011

We had so much fun celebrating our First Christmas as Husband and Wife! This year we went down to Bamberg, SC and spent Christmas Day with Jeremy's parents. It was so much fun! We played Christmas Trivia Games, played Christmas music on the piano, watched Christmas movies, and we got to go and see the Christmas Lights in Orangeburg. It was a little weird not seeing my Mom on Christmas morning but Mama and Papa Fudge made me feel so included in their traditions that the day just flew by because of all the fun we had.

Me and Jeremy 2011

The Christmas Tree and Loot after Santa came.

The "Disney" Christmas Tree Mama Fudge set up in our bedroom.

Jeremy took his job as Santa's Elf very seriously.

Mama Fudge opening her stocking by the tree.

One of Jeremy's letters to Santa when he was little.

The Beautiful Dining Table. We had a GREAT meal! We had spiced apple onion pork chops, shrimp cocktails, duck with cranberry sauce (homemade by Mama Fudge), rice, collard greens, and creamed corn. For dessert Mama Fudge made a chocolate orange torte that was OUT OF THIS WORLD! Jeremy and I brought Christmas Poppers so that is where all the party hats came from.

It was such a great day! We got back to Columbia just in time to go to my Grandfather's to see and visit with everybody there. Then after that Jeremy and I went over to my Mom and Dad's and exchanged presents there too! I'm so happy we got to spend time with all of the people we love and hold dear to our hearts.