So, tonight I am taking Adam out to dinner at the Melting Pot for his birthday, which actually isn't until Tuesday...he doesn't know what our plans our...i'm surprising him! For his birthday he decided to use his gift money from everyone to buy us a new video camera. My portion of his birthday present is also going towards the camera. For those of you who know me, i have to buy a present, even if i am not supposed to...it's in my genes. So, i had to come up with a VERY inexpensive gift that i could give him. This was not an easy task for me. I decided (and this is a sensitive topic) to take a few racy photos of myself to give to him...by racy i don't mean anything nude, i mean pictures of me trying to be hot, which mind you is not very easy when you are by yourself and you are constantly trying to remove dogs that keep wondering in the pictures. For instance i tried on an old dance costume and set up the tripod and snapped a few pictures. For obvious reasons, they didn't turn out how i wanted them to, but they are fun, and something he will love. I went on snapfish last night to order the pictures so i could pick them up at Target, and decided that i would make a better album for him including additional pictures. I don't scrapbook, so for me an album means picking up pictures and putting them in an album literally. I went through all of our pictures on the computer and ordered all of the pictures we had of just the two of us, and now my album will contain 100 pictures of Adam and I. It was actually really fun to go through all of the pictures and see all of the memories we have shared together. I have put some of my favorites below (and i threw in one from the day we got our poopies!). Wish me luck in not toppling over in embarrassment as i give him the album tonight and he sees the pictures of me attempting to be hot :) It should be interesting!!!

Garage

So our garage door has been broke for about 4 months and we have had to manually open and close it. Our old garage door opener was probably 20 years old...literally! Once it broke, Adam went online to the Sears website to order the part that was broken. When the part finally arrived, which seemed like it took weeks to be delivered, Adam took down the opener, and tried to install it. Well our garage door opener was so old that the part we ordered was a very tough plastic, and the part it fit onto on our old garage door, was metal. Adam couldn't get the part off because the screws didn't come off and finally decided it was time to buy a new one. This grand idea to not procrastinate buying a new one came when we arrived home from my parents house on Sunday. Adam went to manually close the garage and i heard him yell for dear life from inside the house. "HELP ME" he screamed. I thought for sure he had lost a limb. I had to run outside and lift the garage door because his finger was pinched between the panels of the garage door. That was the last straw. Adam went out and bought a new one yesterday after work. Adam got home at about 6pm and went straight to the garage to install it. He came inside very briefly to eat Chicken and Broccoli that i had made for dinner, and back out he went into the garage. I laid down around 9:30 and drifted off to sleep, thinking Adam would stop for the evening in a bit to finish tomorrow. I woke up to some noise, and saw that Adam was about to jump in the shower. I looked at the clock and it was 12:30 am!!! HE IS CRAZY! There is no way i would stay up that late when i had to work the next day. I can only imagine he is exhausted today. I love my husband for working so hard to get the garage fixed. I bet he is even more excited because he was the one who had to open the garage manually every morning, and pull his and my car out into the driveway. That had to get old after about 4 months :) I was so nice to leave our house through the garage this morning, and open, and close the garage by pushing a button. THANKS BABY!

Our dogs are BEAT

What a beautiful day it was yesterday. Finally! We spent the morning at church with my family, and then ventured over to my parents house to celebrate Fathers Day. My mom made egg bake, and after we ate we made our way to the backyard to play a little baggo. My grandpa and grandma even made it over for a bit to celebrate! After church before we went over the the rents, we stopped home to pick up the dogs. They were so excited to have the largest yard to run around in, they hardly knew what to do with themselves. Granted, our yard is big, but not compared to my parents yard. They pretty much had free reign to do what they pleased, and yes they did what they wanted. Caeda, is so content running after balls, and chasing after Chewy ( my parents Yorkie) , but Chloe on the other hand always manages to find some patch of STINK, to roll in until she reeks. She managed to dig a really small hole in the grass right in front of us, reminder that the hole was the size of her nose, which is TINY. Once the grass was moved away a bit, she carefully went just under the grass surface, and found a worm, which yes, she rubbed all over her face. SICK!

Our second interesting event of the afternoon came when one of the many times of the afternoon we were calling Caeda's name to make sure she wasn't snatched up by a hawk or something of that sort. As we were calling her, and squeaking her toy we realized that she wasn't hiding in one of the many trees, or bushes. I went inside thinking she may have went inside with out us noticing when one of us went inside. I called her name and didn't hear a thing, except the doorbell. I ran up the stairs only to find my parents neighbor from two houses down holding Caeda. He said that she walked up to him in his garage and was so friendly. He thought it maybe was Chewy, but thought she looked different and was smaller. Needless to say, it could have been much worse, and thanks to Ted we didn't loose our Caeda.

I think my parents are a bit more at ease with the gruesome threesome getting along, i.e. three dogs. They will be watching our little rug rats from the 26th to the 30th. That's almost 5 whole days while we are at our friends cabin. Caeda is now the alpha dog of the three, as she likes to pick on/chase both Chewy and Chloe. I think after 5 days of being in close quarters, they will learn to love each other, and maybe have a bit of separation anxiety after we pick them up on the 30th. That or my parents may feel a bit lonely once they don't have a house full of dogs.

After all was said and done yesterday, we went home i folded laundry, and Adam cooked dinner. The dogs slept the entire time. I got up this morning and usually the dogs run down their doggy stairs from our bed excited for the day, but today they didn't even move. In fact, after i got out of bed, Caeda slithered over to the spot where my warm body was laying, and buried her face back under the covers to avoid the light. I think they will be quite happy sleeping in their kennels all day. Heck, after a day like yesterday, they need their rest!

Boo...RAIN?

So, i was too busy to post Monday or Tuesday, and when i have a bit of time today, the weather stinks. Go figure...My sister in law told me this morning in an email that the days are going to start getting shorter soon, which makes me even more sad that this summer is passing by with a lot of bad weather.

On a different note, Adam and i had a really good weekend. We hung out with some of our friends that Adam went to HS with on Friday, and went to a piano bar and had dinner. Saturday, we went to my co workers barbecue which was a lot of fun. However, we were the only couple there that didn't have kids. It was kind of fun seeing Adam with a bunch of guys with kids. Planting seeds in his head slowly :) The babies there were between the ages of 4 weeks to 7 years. It was cute seeing them all run around, but reminded me of how much freedom we have not having kids yet. We did bring our dogs, which everyone said how nice it was that we could just put them in their kennel and not worry about them. You can't do that with kids. All of the parents were cutting grapes in half for them, and making sure they didn't stuff too much hot dog in their mouths and not choke. It was pretty amusing! Finally when all was said and done, some of the parents put their kids in multiple bedrooms to sleep and the parents came out to play. Needless to say, we didn't leave until about 3 in the morning. I can't remember the last time i had such a late night.

Sunday was Adam's dad's birthday party/fathers day party. We had Salmon on the grill and cheesecake for dessert. Need i say more :)

The week is now 1/2 way over, which is always a relief. My boss called from Hawaii where she is on vacation with her husband, and informed me that her husband shot a hole in one from about a 185 yard hole, had a couples massage on the beach, and were renewing their vows last night. What a vacation...i think i need one :)

SUN

Finally

Still sick of rain

OK, i will actually post something besides the fact that i am sick of rain. Adam and I were supposed to have a nice night over at Steph and Brandts last night, have dinner and watch So You Think You Can Dance. Instead i spent over an hour in my car stuck in traffic, pouring rain, and HAIL, yes HAIL, on my way home from work. Thankfully there was no damage done, however it was not a fun drive home. Needless to say, if it took me over an hour to get home, when it would usually take me about 30 minutes, it would take us a long time to get to Steph and Brandts. And who knows if we would get caught in hail again? We decided to take a rain check (literally) and get together next week. Then Adam and i spent the night once again cooped up in the house watching the rain. After a while it is just so depressing. Especially because it is warm out, but no one can get out side to enjoy it. I think we are going to just skip right from Winter to next Winter, and not have summer. On top of that, i spent most of my drive home worrying about the little bunnies in the back yard. Thinking that with all of the rain that their little hole would fill up with water and they would drown. When i got home i took my umbrella and ran into the back yard, only to find them GONE. The hole was empty, which made me believe that their mama must have moved them. That or something ate them? Now i only have 7 hours left until we are saved by the weekend!!!!

Sick of Rain

I am sick of rain.

TGIW

So this week so far has been pretty chaotic...at work at least. My boss is leaving for her 2nd honeymoon tomorrow to Hawaii (jealous), so the work has been piling up. Also, as of this week i am an official CarVal employee. I am now embedded in CarVal and have mostly been removed from Cargill. This opens up a whole bunch more complications, from figuring out how i book travel, to determining who things are billed to. CRAZY!

Yesterday Adam was out mowing the yard, and he came in and got me from inside. He told me to close my eyes, and bend down. Then when i opened my eyes, he had pulled aside this patch of grass right in the middle of the yard and in a hole about the size of a coffee cup, there were 4 baby bunnies! They were about the size of a 1/2 dollar, and their eyes weren't even open yet. The funny thing was that Adam ran the mower right over them, and when he came back the opposite direction they had creeped out from under the grass like they were trying to explore what that crazy sound was that they heard. Because it was pretty cool out yesterday, they quickly burrowed themselves back into their little hole.

So, hopefully the rest of this week will go by quickly! We are going to visit Steph, Brandt and little Addie tomorrow and watch So You Think You Can Dance, which should be fun!!

FYI i don't capitalize my "i's" so get used to it :)

FINALLY

After years of reading my friends blogs, i finally decided it was time for me to take the plunge and create my own. I think through out my life, i have always been the last one to take on new forms of technology. Thankfully i now have a husband who prides himself on having the latest and greatest forms of technology...tv's, video games, weird tools like his Dremmel? I have always been a little behind. Example, i didn't have a cell phone all during my college years. Yes, i probably remembered more phone numbers than most people i knew, which came in handy when a friends phone died and we didn't have access to a phone number, but ANA REMEMBERS ALL PHONE NUMBERS. So, after much contemplation, i decided that blogging maybe something that i do enjoy. Only time will tell, but at least, of all the times i have thanked Ali for providing me a moments entertainment by reading her blog, i can do her the same favor she has done for me.