{It's been awhile...}

Well, I have been so bad at keeping up with the blog!  Bad, bad, bad! I know, but I guess I have a lot of catching up to do.  Since Christmas/New Years we have been dealing a lot with the VA and getting Chase his knee surgery!  It has seemed like a never-ending battle but we are finally scheduled for Chase's cadaver tendon surgery July 5th!  Not only that but he starts school in August to complete his degree in Science!  Lately our lives have been nothing but work and paying bills, most definetly this first year has been tough for us but you either grow together or grow apart and I am so very greatful to always have a shoulder to lean on!  I am still working very hard on my Interior Design business which has been growing like crazy!  I have hired my first employee and now are expanding the building we are in with another company to occupy more employees as well as have our clients come and visit the space!  Very exciting steps in both of our lives and we are excited to see what the future holds for us and our careers!  [Want to check out my company?  SN Design Studio] 

My company logo!

On top of running a company, Chase getting surgery and starting school we are in the midst of trying to find our first home!  You could not imagine the endless dreams of design I have for my OWN home!  Everyday I work hard to complete other peoples dreams of their homes and offices but finally it will be my turn to design a space for my little family!  Don't worry though I will blog a ton during my designing of our first home and the pieces that are a must have!    If you have a Pinterest you should follow me on there as I start to compile a board just for my home inspiration!  So far finding a home though has been tough!  Chase and I both have such a vivid idea as to what we want in our home and what we don't want!  Although it is starting to look up and we should be in a home no later than February!

One of my colors...plus I love geometric patterns!

 

Coming up is Father's Day!  Woohoo, I cannot wait to celebrate with Chase and this year we are making a trip to Colorado to go see our favorite little person!  Miss Capri has been greatly missed as we have not been able to see her since our last January visit!  Now she is 3 years old and so full of energy, as well as some more naughty tricks!  She will be such a delight to see and what a great vacation!  We asked her what she wanted to do when we came to visit and she said she wanted to go to the zoo, so we will probably take her to see her favorite animal which according to our phone conversation last week was an Elephant! 

Capri

More to come along with some pictures! 

XOXO Chase & Stephanie Mainville XOXO

{Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year}

Well I am a little late on the Christmas and New Year post! Oops! It has been a very busy start to the new year and my last post was all about family photos with Miss Capri.  She was in Arizona with Chase and I from the 26th to the 1st. It was a blast!  For my first New Years post I want to share with you the photos of our last few days in the year 2011!

On the 26th, a Monday Chase and I picked up Capri that late morning for what was supposed to be breakfast ended up being lunch due to the crazy long line at Ihop...sad! So we went to On The Border and we took a few pictures together but here is one of my favorites!

We wanted to have a more relaxing trip for Capri this time around being as the last time we saw her was the wedding and was a complete whirlwind of a weekend.  We want Capri to get comfortable with being at Daddys & Stephanie's house! Capri loved her "new bedroom" and her "new bathroom"!  She was so cute always calling it that and it was so much fun.  Capri after her nap was playing with her new jewlery and this picture turned out amazing...thank you Iphone!

She has defintly turned into a little kid now...not a baby! But how pretty and she looks like Chase! Ha Ha

We took Capri to the park with our neighbors and their little girl and her and daddy rode the carousel, then played on the swings.  Chase and I both had so much fun playing and feeding ducks. 

One of the last nights that we had Capri we had dinner at Red Robin....yumm! Then went and played and got ice cream at the San Tan Mall.  She played on the big bugs and the slide.  Before we left we had to stop at Build A Bear and not just because Capri loved it but because they had the pink Hello Kitty bear!  Capri was such a doll when she was building her Hello Kitty and give it a heart...sooo sweet!

It was so great being able to spend time with Capri and have some fun! We miss her so much now and I still have not taken the car seat out of my car! Ha Ha! Her birthday is coming up on March 2nd and we were really hoping to make it up to Colorado but Chase has injured his knee even worse recently and so between appointments, work and surgery its not looking very possible...hmmp.  Thats life though! We are still sending her a box of presents so Chase and I will have tons of fun picking out all her things! I am sure Ill post all about it eventually!

Last but not least I just wanted to share these last few pictures of Chase's and my first Christmas married! Ahw!

My daddy with my Yorkie and my sister, Rachel's Yorkie on
on Christmas Eve!

Our first Christmas tree that was all ours! I did'nt think we
could put it on the car! It worked!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Love the Mainvilles