Saturday was Amanda's birthday and we spent the weekend celebrating and taking it easy. On friday night, we went to a Sushi Party that was actually a going away party for our good friend Dana. It was a fun event and it got all our close friends together.

Several months ago Amanda was asked about what she wanted for her birthday and her response was, " A sewing machine and a shotgun." Now thats the woman that I love; now you can all see why I married her! Anyway, she was fortunate enough to get both gifts for her birthday. The shotgun came from Bob. He gave her his old gun from when he was a boy and the sewing machine was a gift from Ryan, Bob and Rosie. Below are some pictures of Amanda working on her first project: seat cushions for the chairs on our front porch.





























In other news, I got one hell of a haircut this week. Amanda was nice enough to give me a free haircut with our set of clippers. The only problem was that we underestimated exactly how short the attachement would make my hair. It wound up a little shorter than we wanted, but I like it. I don’t think Amanda is a big fan, but its much cooler than the mop I used to have! What do y’all think? Yay or nay? (leave comments if you would like).