A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words...(part two)

Goodbye Odie

Odie is now at his new home. (sniff, sniff, little tear). He was such a sweet little guy and we had fun with him the last 6 1/2 weeks but his new family is super excited to get him and so I have to be happy for them. I couldn't go with Bob to take him there however. Part of me wanted to so I could see the excitement in their little kid's eyes but I was a little too teary eyed so I said good-bye at our house and off he went. Sigh. It is kind of quiet at our house now. Kyle and Katie left yesterday to spend a couple days with Kinley before the wedding. This will actually be my life in a couple years. Better not go there right now! Don't worry, be happy right?!

Mmmmm!

it's Capivara for dinner for Brian! Yup for dinner last night he ate the world's largest rodent, a river rat that's name is Capivara. It is found in Central America, really! They grow to be about 4 feet long and weigh about a 100 pounds. He didn't say whether he liked it or not, just that he ate it. Kind of makes me not want dinner tonight!They're huge!

July Happenings...

Happy Birthday to me! Thank you everyone for the gifts, cards and the good 'ol green stuff! I saved it up so I could go to the Nordstroms sale. So much good stuff...

My husband surprised me with these flowers at work on my b-day.

Fun with the Eberle's and Toolson's. I am way behind and so you have seen these pictures already on Shannon and Shareen's blog, but their visit was a part of our July activities. They wanted to ride the jet skis so it was a perfect excuse to push Bob to get them ready to ride for the summer.


I went to Spokane for a two day conference for work. It was lovely, I stayed by myself at the Doubletree Hilton right next to the convention center in downtown Spokane. It was within walking distance to downtown. I enjoyed walking down through town in the evening and enjoying the sights. As you can see it was quite warm even late until evening.
My big accomplishment (besides of course attending the seminar- heehee) was finding a dress to wear to David's wedding. Have to wait to see it...



everyone, including dogs, tried to find a way to stay cool!

The day after I got home from my work conference Katie and I left for Seattle. We went on Friday AM so we could have time to "play" before Katie and Ashleigh got on a plane Sunday AM for a week at EFY! We got our nails done, shopped, ate, watched movies, stayed up late, shopped some more! I was exhausted by the time I got home Sunday afternoon but it was worth it!

The girls ready to go through security before boarding their plane! Elena and I couldn't resist these matching sunglasses for them! The girls picked out the shirts. In case you can't tell it says "one fish, two fish, three fish" from Dr. Seuss of course.

and last but not least, the little troublemaker! He is running, jumping, chewing, biting, growing, pooping, peeing, eating puppy food and growing like crazy! He's adorable and his name is Odie. We have him for about two more weeks :(

August is just around the corner, the summer is flying by!

All work and no play :(

As you can see from the pictures we were busy working the 4th of July week-end! Not a lot of fun but we did get a lot done!Kyle was put to work and boy did he work! He even had a smile on his face (at least part of the time)
Bob cut down a couple small trees that had actually fallen over in the yard as well as one that was completely dead.

All of the yard debris was loaded up into Bob's dump trailer and hauled away!

Next we pulled out the carpet in most of the downstairs. All that is left is our bedroom which will happen shortly. This is in preparation to put in travertine tile! WOO-HOO! It will be installed in the entire downstairs, except for the laundry room. I also had the great idea that since we are getting new floors, the walls should get a fresh coat of paint! Guess what I'll be doing in my spare time?

Bob sitting down to work in the carpet-less living room. You can see in the left side of the room the two pieces of tile there. Not very well, but those are the sample pieces.

And just in case your wondering why Katie and I aren't in any of the pictures, well that would be because I was taking the pictures, and I was working too of course! Very hard I might add and it was 100 degrees + all week-end so it was just loads of fun. Katie had to work all week-end, she worked Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening.

Before and After

This is before. Her tummy isn't huge but I really thought she had at least two, maybe three puppies in there! This is after. I think Maddy looks like most new mom's feel after giving birth... exhausted.

It's a boy!
It's been tough getting a picture of the pup. Maddy doesn't let him out of her sight and when we pick him up, she whines and cries and jumps up until we put him back.

Mia finally gets a glimpse. We have a big box that Maddy's bed is in and Mia can't really see or get in there so she has been so curious and just parks herself outside the box and stares at it. It's pretty funny.

Like I said, I had thought and hoped she would have at least two. That way the puppies could play together and we had a list of 3-4 people who wanted a pup. So only the first person on the list gets one now. There's no shortage of dogs in the world however. So we will have fun and enjoy him for the next six weeks and then have to say goodbye, that will be a little hard I'm guessing.

Catching Up!

Ok, time to catch up on our happenings around here. I am so far behind and it's tempting to just keep ignoring my blog but I need to just get a move on and try to do better! So, first up is the PHS softball team after a big victory! They had to win two games in order to move onto the state softball tournament last month. Unfortunately they won the first game but lost the second. The good news is that they beat a super team first and played the best I've seen them play all season. I think they just ran out of gas for the next game, there's always next year...We went to Bob's newphew's graduation in Ephrata Friday, June 5th. Here's a picture with most of the "guy's": from left to right: Kyle, Bob, Eric (the graduate), his dad, and Bob's brothers, Mark and Kurt (who is holding his son)
The following day was Pateros High's graduation. Rodger, Katie's "boyfriend" was one of the graduates. The graduation was at 11am and the rest of the day was going to various parties and bbq's. Bob and I headed back over to Ephrata for Eric's party and Bob's mom's birthday.

Just a little sample of some of the announcements we got. We spend over 500$ on gifts and money, expensive week-end!

Spring Sports Awards. It seems like I just blogged about this but here it is a year later! Katie and her friend Kari got the co-mvp's for the team as well as captain awards and 2nd team all league for the 1 and 2B schools. Rodger was MVP for the baseball team and 1st team all league!

Our time is also filled with the mundane activities like giving dog bath's when they have poopy butt. If you have or have ever had a dog you know exactly what I mean. And by the way, Maddy is due sometime at the end of next week!

Love these. I came across these at a little shop in Chelan. Only 8 bucks! They have a bunch of colors and they just look awesome.

I found this dress at another little shop in Chelan for 24 bucks! Yup 24, every dress in there is only 24 bucks! I might be going back soon...

well, that's it for now. Hopefully it won't be so long till I blog again.

Meet Hip and Hop

yup, this is the piglets: welcome home! Katie choose the pink pig, they are both males. Last year they both looked alike so the girls decided to choose two that look quite different. As we were leaving the pen last night Katie got upset. She told Joslin they should of choose a male and a female and then they could of been named Edward and Bella :). I'm sure the actors would be so honored. Next year.
I couldn't get a good picture of both the girls with their pigs, they were busy running around checking out their new home and digging with their noses, notice how dirty the nose is.

what else is keeping us busy... building a new pig pen!

Today the pigs arrive, so no time like the present to get started on their new pig pen :). It's a long story of why we had to build a new one but to keep it short, we did not get along with the people we shared the pen with last year and felt it would be better in the long run to just have our own. We were able to put it on the same property which works out great because it's pretty close and the people are really nice about letting us keep them there!the above is a picture of what the spot looked like before ...
Katie and Joslin taking a break for lunch, they worked hard you know!

and this is the pig pen after, just about done.

and who was in charge of this fun little week-end project, why that would be Bob! Boy it was a great week-end! The piglets have a nice new home and should be arriving anytime now, pictures tomorrow of them.

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

whoops, pictures out of order again, but this is Katie and her friend Jamie Jo, Katie was Mrs. Beauregard and Jamie was her daughter, Violet here's the cast at the end taking their bow
this picture is a scene that Katie was in

it was a cute little play but very small school-ish feeling (just in case you don't know what that means ie: no big budgets for the drama department and most of the kids preforming are playing sports and it is tough to get them all there at the same time for practices)

The play was last week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening. Kurt and Shannon and kids all came to watch on Thursday which was very nice of them and I know it made Katie feel good! Thanks ...

Happy Belated Birthday and Mother's Day!

First celebration of the weekend:

Can you believe he is 24! David's birthday was Friday, May 8th. He and Tiffani met us in Kittitas on Saturday for Katie's doubleheader. We brought food, present and cake!

second celebration: Mother's Day
best present: phone call from the missionary! tie for runner up: 20 minute foot massage from Kyle!
and these: cards and a cookbook from Katie and some perfume from everyone.
Happy late Mother's Day to all! Of course we all know the best gifts are those that don't cost money. Mother's Day should be at least once a month don't you think?

I Want Him ...

to win!
I wouldn't mind if Danny won either. They are both talented, personable, cute, and most importantly don't wear black finger nail polish. I'll admit it, Adam has major talent but ...

Ok, I lied.

As I sat and thought about it (my dull life that is) I realized I have had an enjoyable week, I just didn't take any pictures along the way. So, shame on me and I will try to be better (about taking pictures and not feeling sorry for myself) :)
This past week I:
*worked Monday - Thursday
*watched Katie play softball: doubleheader in Pateros on Monday, single game in Okanogan onTuesday
*went on two walks
*went to Wenatchee with Kyle on Friday morning (we left the house at 6:50, yuck, for his doctor appointment that was at 8am, then spent a couple hours doing odds and ends like getting his car washed, looking for birthday presents for Vanessa and mother's day presents for me - just kidding - for Bob's mom
*I got my hair done Friday afternoon, always feels good to get the color/highlights touched up (thanks to my genes I am really starting to get a lot of gray) and a trim - my goal is to start growing my hair again but it really needed to get shaped up first!
*spent at least six hours Saturday doing my calling (Kurt's probably wondering what in the heck takes six hours, haha, but hey those posters take time)
*went out on a date with hubby Saturday night - we ate at The Bomboo Shoot, and it was fabulous! I had a BBQ chicken mango salad and I will be craving it until I can have it again. After dinner we went to see a play at Chelan HS, it was all right but we left at intermission because the first half was an hour and forty minutes, Bob was having hard time keeping his eyes open because he is working 7 days a week right now until this Campbell's job is done!
*Sunday- went to church, did my calling, took my nap, catch up on the computer!

Have a good Monday everyone!