David the CPA

Today we are celebrating at the Peaden house. In fact, we just might be celebrating every day for the next full week. Why? Well... after lots of long hours spent with books like this:

...and lots of date nights with guys like this:

Learn more about Tim and Peter here.

... David finally got his score back from CPA exam #4.

Regulation 

Score: 86

Hallelujah! That means that David scored 86 on two tests and 96 on two tests. All you need is a 75 to pass - in fact - many Accountants have the philosophy that if you get higher than a 76, you studied too hard. However, nothing could be better than passing every section the first time. 

I am so proud of David and really feel that I married the smartest, hardest working, most wonderful boy in the world. I am grateful for how hard he worked, and how much he sacrificed, in order to achieve this amazing thing.

So... from now on - you may all address David as "Mr. CPA". I'm sure he will love it. I know that I am loving it! We honestly won't be able to celebrate enough to commemorate this awesome occasion. However, I'm thinking tonight is definitely going to be homemade milkshakes, tomorrow will probably be pizza, and Friday we might just have to splurge and go out to the movies or something. Any other great celebration ideas?

Random

I had a great day. It went a little something like this:

-- wake up to baby girl kicking around
-- cuddle with David until he had to go to work
-- clean kitchen
-- work on lesson plans
-- get a text asking if I want to go to Joann's with my friend, Ashley
-- go to Joann's with Ashley and forget my keys
-- call Wendy to save me  (the most brilliant thing we've ever done is give Wendy and Sam a spare key)
-- get back into my house due to the amazing Rencher family and their willingness to save the day
-- run errands
-- work on lesson plans
-- hear the door open around 4:00 and realize that David has come home 3.5 hours earlier than planned!

Like I said, It's been a great day. I couldn't have asked for a better holiday.

I have had several pictures floating around my computer that I've been meaning to blog, but have never gotten around to it. And so, because I feel like blogging - and don't really have much else to blog about - here they are:

I don't even remember what this was for... I think maybe my little brother Matthew's farewell. (What? I haven't blogged about my little brother leaving on his mission two months ago? I know. I'm a loser.)

Jenna and Kevin. I know Kevin's eyes are closed -but I wanted to post this picture anyway.

Some little baby girl clothes that my mom bought for me. She is SO excited to be a grandma, and I am so glad. It makes me excited to see her get so excited. I mean, I'm always excited, but little pink sleepers with elephants on them make me EVEN MORE excited.

This is a: "David is making dinner and I sneak up with a camera and force him to turn around and take a picture with me" photo. I don't know why I love it so much... but I do.

The other day, Amy came to visit and we went out to eat at the Olive Garden. I ate the most delicious Chicken Alfredo Pizza that i've ever had. I decided we should document the occasion. Thank you camera picture timer. 

I married up, thats for sure. This guy is amazing. Now if only I could convince him to fall in love with my favorite baby name - we would really be in business.

 Happy Monday/Presidents Day!

{our wedding colors}

In honor of Valentines day this year, I decided to pick back up where I left off on this {wedding series post} and blog once again about the happiest and most  romantic day of my life. Maybe I will finish this series before our baby girl arrives in May. Sound like a good goal? I think yes.

I don't remember exactly how we came up with our colors, but it seems like David reminded me that his favorite color was Aggie blue - and then I decided that I loved the way Tangerine-orange looks next to Navy. Neither of us was really concerned about the colors as much as we just wanted things to look nice and elegant. I think that it turned out perfectly! The colors matched our personalities perfectly. Very elegant, but fun at the same time. Although, I will never forget my mothers reaction when I told her what colors we wanted. She said "Oh great, Aggie basketball colors. We can just ask the Aggie basketball team to come and stand around and we can put basketballs as the centerpieces." (She wasn't very happy.) However, David was thrilled. He said something to the effect of "Thats great! I can't believe we didn't think about that. I'm sure I could make a few phone calls and call in a few favors - I'm sure we could make it happen." Haha. That boy. Really though, the way we implemented the Tangerine and Navy turned out perfectly. (And, even if we did have an Aggie A on top of our cake - it definitely didn't look like the Aggie Basketball team in there.) Here are some pictures:

My bouquet - The flowers look a little yellow here, but they were orange and beautiful. (Which was a huge blessing, considering that two days before the wedding we ended up with around 300 pink/peach flowers and not an orange rose in sight. Yes, our colors almost changed to pink and blue that day - however, we were being looked over and Macy's in Logan pulled through for all of our beautiful orange wedding flowers.)

David's boutonniere, blue tie/vest, and I just really think that we look happy here.

A wide shot of the reception.

Our awesome photobooth guest book.

Details: Napkins

Details: Orange Water

Details: Orange Rose, Blue Tablecloth, Rings (I couldn't resist)

This is one of those pictures that I really, really love but rarely post. And it has the colors - so here you go. Aren't we darling?

To conclude, our Aggie Blue and Tangerine wedding was amazing. I think it was beautiful and perfect for us. I am so lucky to be married to such an amazing man and enjoy looking back at the details from our wedding day. Happy Valentines Day to all. May you be as lucky in love as I am.

Saturday Project

Happy Saturday blog-land! My day was spent with some good relax/one-on-one time with my David. However, he had to do some work this afternoon - so while he was "accounting" away, I decided to work on a project that I have been really looking forward to! It was so nice just to be able to relax and do some sewing. I think that the nesting bug is settling in, and I have this desire to get things ready and fill our house with darling baby things.

Some background - David and I talked a lot about whether we wanted to get a crib, a bassinet, or a pack and play for our baby girl. We will be moving within a few short months of bringing baby girl home, and so we decided that rather than commit to a crib right now, we would just use a pack and play with a bassinet attachment. To make the decision even easier, my awesome sister-in-law, Wendy (and her wonderful husband, Sam) gave us their old pack and play. It is well kept and we are SO grateful for their generosity. However, my nesting urges convinced me (and in turn, David) that with just a little trip to the fabric store the pack and play could be transformed into a baby girl worthy bassinet. And so, without further ado - I give you my Saturday Project:

Cute, right? The flowers are green, blue, navy, and purple. We love the fabric (it's even better in person) and plan to add purple sheets and all purple accessories to girl it up a little more. I absolutely love the way that it turned out and I can't wait for our little girl to arrive. I realize that i've posted alot about baby girl lately - but I wanted to share my project. What do you think?