Creepy and Crafty

Halloween is so fun!
Full of scary movies, pumpkin carving, haunted houses, parties, costumes, and candy!
So we carved pumpkins

our witch on a warty pumpkin

Then I got crafty again.
I have all black furniture and picture frames and a camel couch so I needed to tie them together.
I saw a tiny monogram pillow at Hobby Lobby that I liked because I love monogram stuff but again it was tiny and had beads all over it so thus not snuggly for the couch.

So I made this:

A good addition to the house and I used my new sewing machine
all for under $7

Crafty Catherine

I have always had a desire to be crafty and artistic and also had way to much jewelry. So to make use of my first issue and solve the second I decided to make some cool jewelry hangers.

The before picture!
I took some old frames from work, bought some cool fabric, ribbon and cork...

Then TA DAH!
These are the three hangers ready to be put on the wall and filled with my jewelry.

on the way with a few modifications

I was pretty proud of myself for making something cute and crafty and relieved that my jewelry is more organized. Basically this is bragging...

National Cheeseburger Day and Coach Fonua

What have the Fonua's been up to?

Saturday was National Cheeseburger Day so we enjoyed that with some classic comedy movies.
This weekend we watched; Weekend at Bernie's, High Anxiety, and Top Secret!

Young joined an intramural football team which he also coaches, it has been fun to go to the games.

It's been super funny though being that all of his teammates are grad students, residents, and the sort, the average age of their team is about 28. The fans on their sidelines are wives, many with babies. So it is quite different from the other teams who are 19 and have pretty girls flirting with them on the sidelines.
As I was spouting my ridiculous cheers I jokingly yelled "kill them Young" and a boy on the other team told me "lady we are half your age, you don't have to be so mean" to which I replied "how old do you think I am?" and he asked "how old do you think I am?"
Well I am pretty sure he is not 12 and I am about 98% sure I am not 40....

Cute little Austin practicing...

Look at my cute coach (it's a nice view from the sidelines...)

National Popcorn Day!

To celebrate National Popcorn Day we made three different kinds of popcorn and it was delicious!

White Cheddar, Curry, and Plain popcorn

Then we headed to the Hellogoodbye concert, it was a little awkward being that everyone else there was 12! However it was pretty fun (and free.)

So needless to say life for the Fonua's is pretty good.

Defiant Debutante

I feel that I have always been torn between different women

Part of me is a classy, waspish, woman a well-mannered, etiquette-teaching classy girl. A woman who wears pearls and dresses for dinner.
However, another part of me has always been a little crazy, a little bit of a rebel, skipping class, and breaking curfew in the mosh-pit, opinionated, and loud.
Another part of me is a little girl, loving purple, eating junk food and candy, staying up too late, dancing in my underwear.
This week I melted all these aspects together .... maybe... well I at least had some fun.
I have had natural hair for a while now and I wanted to spice things up, so I got some more layers and.... a little PURPLE dye! I think it is fun and maybe a slightly classierish, slightly more grown-up way to have crazy purple hair.
Or maybe I am a little weird, but oh well I LOVE IT!

New Fonua Fortress

Recently the Fonua's moved, here are tons of photos of our new place!
I love the new place because the kitchen can actually fit us both, the living room is slightly bigger, it is slightly closer to the grocery store, and best of all it's CHEAPER!!

It's pretty great, come and play!

The Kitchen

Dining room area

living room area

more living room and picture wall

guest room/ office/ craft room (hobby room)

bathroom (it's so tiny it was hard to take a photo)

bedroom

sweet giant built in shelf

It's still needs a little work, a few more decorations, PHOTOGRAPHS, maybe some curtains, and some cool lanterns hanging from the ceiling, but so far, so good.

It's not the most gorgeous place in the world but it's affordable, comfortable, spacious, and WE LOVE IT!

Catherine's Blogging Day!

I love life!!

In order to celebrate each day more fully we have decided to celebrate random holidays.
There are TONS TONS TONS of fun silly holidays all of the time. We started to look at calendars and find fun days we want to participate in and then have fun!
On National Video Game Day we had a Rock Band PartyOn National Thrift Store Day we went Thrift Store hoppingFrom now on we shall be playing A LOT on these days and then blogging them on here for everyone to enjoy! Feel free to join in!

Here are some photos from last week when it was National Cupcake Day, Young made chocolate chip cookie cupcakes and they were delicious and boy do we love cupcakes!

Baking like the Bon-Bon

My mother has had the same sourdough bread starter for something like 30 years. Every Sunday morning we wake up to the smell of homemade bread baking, which has always been an amazing treat and a lovely memory, (except on fast Sunday when it is torture.)
On my last trip home I took some starter from my Mama so that I can start (no pun intended) to make yummy bread for my family and start those memories and traditions.
On my first try it didn't work out perfectly but I think it was pretty good considering I am no chef. Young said it was not quite as good as my mom's but hey she has had decades of practice.
Here's to many more experiments and yummy food to some...

Trip to Kentucky

Right before our trip we moved to a new apartment right down the street, this is our classy first dinner in the new house.Our new apartment is great (and much cheaper) i will post photos soon.

so after a hectic few days we headed to Kentucky

We were excited to get away for a few days and see the family!
I posted a few fun photos here from the trip so enjoy;

-We had dinner and went to Inception with Ty Ty and Jo Jo for Tyler's birthday, which was fun!Happy Birthday STINKY!
- Sunday was full of family and friends celebrating the baby blessings of ALL three new babies.
Cindy, JoAnna, and Brooke all had babies that I had never seen, so I was excited to squeeze them.
So pretty much the entire Nicholasville Ward was filled with Hamilton's (and Coopers)
It was fun to see everyone...
The whole afternoon was spent celebrating and playing, I loved it and it felt like home! I have tons, tons, tons more photos, including the photography of Eliza, Drew, and Minxy if anyone is interested...

-Monday was spent playing with Alli, we went to lunch and got pedicures, it was fun.
Then we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese, which was hectic and crazy, FYI I love SKI BALL-Tuesday we just relaxed and played with some people we love and had dinner with Jessica
-Wednesday we headed to the Cabin and then on to Huntington West Virginia to eat at the glorious establishment that is GD Ritzy's ( a classic burger joint we used to go to in Lexington)-Thursday through Sunday were spent at the Hamilton Family Reunion. Three hundred Hamilton's; lots of junk food, tons of games, hiking, playing in the creek, four-wheeling, loving the kids, talking for hours, corn hole, and NO Air Conditioning.
It was an amazing time, we had a great turn-out and an even better time! It was a joy to relax and catch up with loved-ones.
Young was a hit at the reunion and survived the family...
-Back to Lexington for a few days of rest and play. more games and food, just how I like it.
We had a dinner for Gabi's birthday and played games!
I LOVE MY FAMILY!


Now back to reality and our cute new place...