5 Year Anniversary

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Nate and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary last Friday….and by celebrated I mean that I sat on the couch watching tv with an awesome stomach virus while Nate spent some more time with his family at his parents’ house.  It was very romantic.  We’re not big on celebrating anniversaries but we might do a re-do for #5…maybe.

I thought I’d share with you some of our wedding photos….and you thought vacation photos were bad.  The photos are grainy scans…because we are old.  Now all these young kids get their pictures put on the interweb….we have scans from our album.  Iowa weddings are pretty low key and inexpensive.  We’d rather spend our money on sweet corn….

We were married in the church Nate attended growing up.  Our reception was at the botanical gardens.

I’m not big into roses….or bows…but the pews needed some assistance.  I decided on buckets of daisies that doubled as centerpieces at the reception.  And can you believe the florist kept trying to throw in roses?….and bows….ack…

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The bridesmaids and I looking all pretty…and young…getting old is hard…

These girls gave Marilyn a run for her money…

As did my brother…(ladies, he is single)…

And my favorite photo from our wedding…right before it started to downpour…rain on your wedding really isn’t so bad.  (This photo also shows the luminaries (light blue paper bags with candles) that lit the walk-ways outside of the botanical gardens.)

There you have it.  Our pretty little wedding day! 

Remember to enter our customizable sticker giveaway from UPrinting…

Giveaway- UPrinting Stickers

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How about some free stuff today? Okay!!

UPrinting is offering up 250 customizable stickers for my lovely readers.  Who couldn’t use stickers of your very own?  UPrinting offers a variety of custom printing services including Customizable Stickers, books, brochures, greeting cards, and Label templates.

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I’m thinking about making these and give them to my nieces and nephew….

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I hear toddlers are great with stickers….

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Social Media Icons

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I swear I will have some kind of house related goodness for you next week...it's just really hard when we are NEVER home!

In the mean time, you may have notice the addition of social media icons at the top of the ol’ sidebar that look like this…



It took me way longer to install them than it should have.  Mainly because I have zero skills when it comes to html code.  Luckily, the husband does.  He thinks it’s funny that I can write a blog but have no clue about html.  Thank you, Blogger!

Today I am going to share with you how to add social icons to your site.  It’s easy.  If you have all of the information in one post instead of piecing it together from 100 posts.  This is for my reference as much as it is yours. 

If you already know how to do this or just don’t care…enjoy a nice photo of Ike eyeing Nate’s Big Mac…because it makes me laugh…



Back to social media icons…for dummies…

Step #1: Search and download icons that you like…

I used Icon Dock.  Other options include HandyCons or Web Designer Ledger.  I guess you can also design them…but this tutorial is for dummies..like me.  You can also Google them individually….like I did for my Pinterest icon.

Step #2: Upload your files to Photobucket…

Photobucket is critical because it gives your image a home on the web that is important in the coding.

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Step #3: Add a html gadget…
If you are using Blogger (if not, I can not help you…dummies, remember)…click the Design tab, click Add a Gadget, then add a HTML/Javascript gadget.

Step #4: Copy the code below, paste in the html gadget box, edit for your site…

<a href=”Add your social media direct link here”><img src="Add you Photobucket direct link here"/></a>

My facebook code looks like this…

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/decorandthedog%22><img src="http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee382/decorandthedog/facebook.png%22/></a>

Step #4: Repeat for each additional social media site…

Just keep repeating this code for each social media site.  Easy.  The code for my first two buttons looks like this…

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/decorandthedog%22><img src="http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee382/decorandthedog/facebook.png%22/></a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/decorandthedog"><img src="http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee382/decorandthedog/twitter.png%22/></a>

Step #5: Check out your awesome new buttons on your blog and pat yourself on the back for being so awesome…

Maybe eat some ice cream too…or a Big Mac.  Well, maybe you don’t get ice cream….because I made it easy for you….just frozen yogurt or a grilled chicken sandwich for you.

Any questions?  Are you interested in more “Dummies are Blogging” tutorials (avoiding copy right issues)? Now I want chicken nuggets....