Catchin Up- Christmas 2010

Christmas Time for the Fonua's was amazing, we made gingerbread houses, cookies, watched the classic movies and all the great things that come with Christmas.

Adam and Amanda were staying with us so we had a full house, then Young's family came for a dinner.

I made a yummy Christmas dinner!

Flash! portraits Christmas party, where I was given the hardest worker and who moved all my stuff awards.

Then we went home to Kentucky for Christmas. Christmas eve was the usual Christmas crackers and chaos, including playing the pipes like old times.

We finally made my brothers join in their own tradition of the Christmas sweater!

The usual matching shirts photo-ops

nine of my parents twelve grandkids they are sooo cute i wanna squeeze them I am obsessed.

Christmas was wonderful we got to see some old friends, playing with the kiddos, watch movies, go to bounce U, eat lots of yummy food, and enjoy the holiday.

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!