A day of opening :) and closing :( ...

Today is a day of two opposite emotions. One, it is opening day for the World Series Champs the Stl CARDINALS!! Heck yes! Oh how it feels as if just yesterday I was running around the house yelling catch that ball, catch that ball! No one thought they could do it, but their loyal fans stayed true and in the end they prevailed! They got their 11th championship in 2011, so obviously they have to win again this year, and next, oh and the year after that. They may as well just keep going.

Their faces in this picture make me smile :)

Last year some animals also animals make their ways into the lives and hearts of many Cardinal fans. Who can forget the cute little Rally Squirrel or Torty Craig? :)

Here is my favorite picture from the post-season. Of course it involves David Freese, and of course it is his walk off home run to take the Cardinals into game seven!

This season is sure to bring a lot of excitement. We will get to see Berkman at first base for the first time and we will welcome back Descalso and Furcal to the infield. Most importantly we will get to see some more of Mr. David Freese. :)

Now on to the sad news. Tonight will the be final night I will ever get to watch a brand new One Tree Hill episode. I know, you will cry, along with me, tonight too. Us loyal One Tree Hill fans have been through it all. From car accidents to shootings, from weddings and babies to break-ups and cat fights. This season has been packed full of drama and emotions. We finally got to see Brooke with her to adorable little boys but we also had to endure Haley's pain with her while she waited for Nathan to return home. We lost one of the characters that we have seen every season as Dan Scott passed away. You either loved him or hated him. Personally I ended up loving him and crying that entire episode. I found some of these collages on the internet and made the last two on my own. Good bye One Tree Hill, until we meet again.

Season 1

Where it all started. Haley and Nathan fall in love. Brooke, Peyton and Lucas start the almost never ending love triangle. 

Season 2

Nathan and Haley get married (aww). Lucas, Peyton and Brooke are still in a never ending love triangle.

Season 3

Nathan and Haley get married (again). Peyton dates Pete Wentz and Brooke hooks up with the guy next door. Oh, and Lucas is in the middle of both of them. This is also the season of the school shooting (one of the most emotional episodes).

Season 4

Haley and Nathan welcome James Lucas Scott into their lives. Peyton and Lucas get together and stay together. Brooke finally figures out she doesn't need a guy to be happy.

Season 5

Flash forward four years. The Tree Hill gang is now out of college. Lucas almost marries Lindsay, obviously the wrong girl for him. And Brooke gets to foster a little girl, which makes her want more babies. Haley and Nathan's son Jamie gets kidnapped by evil nanny Carrie.

Season 6

Lucas and Peyton get married and have a baby! This is also the last time we will see them on the show together. Julian wants to make a movie about Lucas's book and instead falls in love with Brooke. Nathan, Haley and Jamie go through the struggles of loosing a close friend.

Season 7

A new girl is in town and trying to steal Julian from Brooke (of course it doesn't work). Haley looses her mom but becomes closer then ever to her sister Quinn. Clay and Quinn begin to get close but then get shot.

Season 8

Brooke and Julian get married! Haley has a baby girl who she names Lydia after her mom. Quinn and Clay recover after being shot by a crazy lady. Nathan decides to leave the playing part of basketball and join Clay in recruiting players.

Season 9 so far

So far this season: Nathan has been kidnapped, Lucas comes back for an episode to comfort Haley, Alex leaves Tree Hill for good, Chase beats Chuck's dad and gets kicked out of the Air Force, Dan finds Nathan and saves him but gets shot and dies. So much going on for one season! 

I am sad to see them go but I am glad they got to go on their own terms and the way the producers wanted to leave the show. 

Thanks for reading, or just checking out the pictures. Either way, thank you for stopping by! :)

Baby steps to becoming a DIYer :)

I decided the other day that I was going to start taking baby steps to becoming a DIYer. I found this great blog that has some awesome ideas and the first one I set my eyes on was this painting. I went to Michael's and bought the supplies which included a canvas which was buy one get one free, a few different colors of paint (the 89 cent ones), painters tape (which I should have gotten somewhere else because it was wayy to expensive at Michaels) and some paintbrushes. I already had a few paint brushes and the palette so I didn't have to get those. I just love Michaels! They always have deals on things and coupons available. Lately the coupon I have on the app on my phone is 40% off an item so that really helps. 

First I taped off the canvas randomly.

Then I painted the colors, adding grey to some of them so it gave me more colors.

I also added glitter to some of the spots to give it a little bit of sparkle.

The finished product. I am not sure where I am going to hang it, or if I want to splatter it like the painting from the link. If I were to splatter it, I would probably do it in silver.

The next DIY project I did was on a whim. I didn't find it anywhere online, I actually saw the board at Wal-Mart and just had to have it. Then I had to figure out what I was going to do with it. This was actually pretty easy. Easier than normal because my awesome father did the spray painting. I am thinking he watched me do one coat and instantly decided I was not doing it right. :) 

I got the board from Wal-Mart for $4.00, and the spray paint in matte black for 98 cents. I already had the painters tape and the scissors. 

Then I taped off the letters how I wanted them.

And this is how it turned out. This isn't the best picture but after I add the pictures to it I will post a better picture. 

So that is how I am taking baby steps! I went to Michaels again today (I feel as if I live there) and bought a t-shirt to make into a swim suit cover up and made my first purchase of modge podge! Oh the things I will be able to do with it! I also signed up for the Michaels Rewards Card which I feel will really be helpful in the future. Happy DIYing! :)

What my weekend consisted of...

Here is exactly what my weekend was made up of:


Fighting. No, not me fighting with someone. One of my good friends fights MMA and he had a fight on Friday. And won of course, mainly because I coach him. Ok, not really but if I did he would be the greatest fighter on earth! :) Anyways, it is always scary to watch not only him fight but other random people I don't know. It's just something about them beating each other's faces and slamming each other on the ground that gets me every time. My friend went all three rounds with his guy and he came out a winner! So that always helps to calm my nerves. 

That's him standing up and the guy he was fighting is on the floor

Winnerrrrr!!!

More mushroom hunting. Saturday my boyfriend decided that after he got off work we were going to go mushroom hunting. This was only the second time I have been and let me tell you, it was more intense then the last time. My first time I was just able to walk around all relaxed and what not. But no, not this time. One thing you should know about my boyfriend, he loves the outdoors. And I mean loves. So here we are walking down this super steep hill just so we can not walk on the paths that are there for regular people who know how to use paths, but so we can walk under tree branches and across creeks. Of course, he was nice enough to carry me while we walked through the creek. But then the worst thing happened. There.were.frogs. I hate frogs, like when I say hate I mean absolutely despise them and if they were to go extinct today I would jump for joy. But then we found some trees that had been cut down by some beavers which I found kind of interesting. We ended up finding four mushrooms, we tied at 2 a piece. But I did surprise him with my ability to find them, he didn't believe in me. :)

Sunday I worked on some homework and a DIY project. I will post pictures of the two DIY projects I have done so far tomorrow. Thanks for reading! :)