This past weekend Jonathan and I each had our bachelor and bachelorette parties. We both had a really good time. I went to Bucca De Beppo in Dallas for dinner and then back to Jens house. It was a blast and I can’t believe it’s only 3 days until we get married.
I found this picture on Flickr and absolutely love it!!! It’s such a great picture I had to share it with everyone.
Well, yesterday was the first anniversary of my 25th birthday. I haven’t had to work ON my B-day for about 10 years….I typically take off for the day. But because of different circumstances, I wasn’t able to this year. Other than work, it was pretty good. Sunday after church Jonathan and I went and ate lunch with our parents and my brother and nephew, Jake at Saltgrass..YUMMY. Then we went back to mi padres casa and had some scrumptious lemon maraigne (not sure how to spell that) pie and brownies….not together! Then yesterday after work, Jonathan came over and cooked us a great dinner…he made chicken stir fry and angel food cake with an orange sauce for dessert…it was delicious…one of my favorite recipes to date. After dinner we went for a walk with Presley at the hike and bike trail and attempted our first geocaching adventure. It didn’t go as planned but that partially wasn’t our fault! The two cache’s were in the middle of poison ivey and we were in shorts. I was not about to get Poison Ivey 2 weeks before my wedding and I told him he’d better not get it! I’ve heard how allergic he is to it. Overall, it was a great birthday and I look forward to many more just like this one!
Even though this past weekend did not suggest we are now in spring, we are! Living in Ellis County there is an abundance of bluebonnetts so I took the chance and got some pictures…I posted all of them on my flickr page but here is one of my favorites:
I got this from a friend today and thought it was pretty funny.
On the first day, God created the dog and said: “Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.”
The dog said: “That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?”
So God agreed.
On the second day, God created the monkey and said: “Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.”
The monkey said: “Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?”
And God agreed.
On the third day, God created the cow and said: “You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.”
The cow said: “That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?”
And God agreed again.
On the fourth day, God created man and said:
“Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.”
But man said: “Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?”
“Okay,” said God, “You asked for it.”
So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
This is my cute, yet CRAZY niece Brooklyn and the Easter eggs she found!
So I picked up Presley, my dog, from my parents house yesterday. She has been staying there for a while because it was difficult to have her where I was staying. Anyway, I got her and took her to our new place and usually when she goes to a new place she tries to get away with things…just like a kid. She does not like sleeping in her crate at night so she tries to stay away from it as much as possible when it comes time for bed. I put her in the crate last night and right as I went upstairs and got in bed she started whining…and didn’t stop! I think I slept 2 hours total all night. Now don’t think any less of me when I say this but I have one of those training shock collars for her (she’s stubborn and it’s the only thing that works!) so today I’m getting new batteries for it and she’s wearing it tonight. The last time she did this whining business I put the collar on her and within a night or two she stopped and was fine. Let’s hope that happens again. I would love for her to be able to sleep in bed with me but when she does I don’t get any sleep…so to the crate she goes.
Anyone know a good exterminator? When I first moved in on Saturday, I kept finding a few ants here and there in the kitchen so I’d just squash them and go on about my business. Well, I kept finding them so I went out and got some Raide ant killer….I’ve sprayed those little boogers about 100 times and they still return…Maybe by the end of the lease we’ll have killed them all. It’s like they are doing the macarena in my kitchen… Just when you think they are gone, more come back. Help…any suggestions?
I uploaded a bunch of various pictures yesterday so check out my Flickr page….just click on the link to the right and it will take you right to it. Enjoy!
Well, this weekend I moved to Waxahachie into our new place…okay, my new place for a month! It was a weekend, let me tell ya…First it started with a very long, frustrating trip to U-Haul…to make a long story short, we ended up with a 22 foot truck–not that we needed that, that’s just what we ended up with. Then right when we shut the doors on the truck after loading all my things the clouds opened up and began pouring. Not just raining, but it was a monsoon! It was like sheets of rain just pelting the windshield, and not only was it raining hard, it was coming at us sideways so you couldn’t see the lane dividers or anything. At one point we had switched lanes from the right to the middle lane (on purpose) and then somehow we had ended up back in the right hand lane (not on purpose)–don’t know when we did that but we did! It was pouring and the wind was HORRIBLE–I’m never doing that again. But we got it all unloaded the next morning with the help of Matt and Josh and my mom and vicki came out to help me put things up in the new place. Over all it was a good weekend. Jonathan’s blog has a great summary of the weekend, with photos too! I just don’t have the patience to go into detail like him.
