This is a picture heavy post, so I'll let the pictures do the story telling!
This is a blog detailing the happenings of our first year of marriage, day by day.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Day 259: Dave Ramsey LIVE! & "The Leprechaun"
Friday, March 4, 2011
Day 258: Shepherd's Pie
Yum! We made Shepherd's Pie for dinner tonight - crescent roll dough, ground beef, seasoned corn, mashed potatoes, and gravy. Awesome! The only problem is...I heated the gravy in the microwave and then put the lid to the container on the stove...right on top of the burner that I cooked the beef on (and forgot to turn off). Luckily Eric picked it up before it could melt to the floor.
Oops! We both agreed that it was the lid to our least favorite container anyway.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Day 257: The Job Hunt
Eric here, covering another Thursday night. I tend to do these because this and Sunday are my days off and the only time anything interesting really happens with me. Not that this is always the case; today wasn't terribly exciting. I went out to Olathe a little early to take the car seat back that we still had from Sunday. I almost went for a ride on the motorcycle, but it was going to take some work to extract it from the garage and it wasn't quite warm enough yet. So instead I went to JCCC early and stopped off at the career center to see if they had any listings. Unfortunately most of what they have is geared towards soon to be graduates with specific degrees. I ended up with a couple of leads that hopefully will be better than the picture message Jess sent me that informed me McDonalds is hiring!
I need a McJob!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Day 256: Rub A Dub Dub
So when I take a bath, which is 2-3 times a week to help relax after work, Mystic usually pops up at the foot of the bath to try and drink the water, and Addy pops up by my head and stands with her back feet on the edge of the bath and her front feet on my shoulder. She seems to like rubbing her face on my book and just reminding me that she's still there. Well...tonight she slipped and fell in the bath. I'm laughing really hard just reading that sentence! I ended up just giving her a bath because she's been looking pretty grimy lately, haha!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Day 255: Hello Baby Thomas!
It was a really long day back at work - but the time flew by knowing that our friends Katie and Joe would be delivering their baby today! I was at work until past 6pm, and left straight from work to visit them at the hospital. Unfortunately, Eric worked tonight so he'll have to wait until Sunday to meet Baby Thomas.
The nurses directed me back to Katie's room, along with Joe and their friend Shannon. It was an awkward time with the nurse's shift changes, getting baby bathed, warmed up, etc - so I didn't get to meet little 7lb 4oz Charlotte Anne Thomas until nearly 9pm. But it was really fun hanging out and talking with everyone. I like to think that I did my part entertaining Katie while they held her baby hostage in the nursery!
This beautiful girl had wide open eyes right from the beginning! She's only a few hours old here!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Day 254: Mental Health Day
Today was pretty crazy for everyone - Eric had work in the morning (which never happens) and I called in sick so I could take care of some other business.
First off - I had to finish an assignment for my KU independent study class. In an independent study class, you receive a guide for the readings you're supposed to do and the assignments you need to complete - then you do the work at your own pace. KU gives you 6 months to complete the class, and the last day for my behavior management class is Tuesday. Every time I tried to start working on this class, something more important came up. Fortunately, when you have finished 50% of the work for the class you can file for a 3 month extension...and this class only has 4 assignments! I finished the first assignment on Friday, and the second one this morning. Extension granted, AND I got A's on those first two assignments!
Next up - I got caught up on a lot of cleaning today. All of the laundry is done, the bathroom is clean, and all of the dirty dishes are IN the kitchen! I feel like I can breathe easier when I am home and I don't see chores that need to be done every place I look!
Followed by - Alison spent the morning and afternoon with me for some girl time because she wanted to get her mind off of her and Rob breaking up. Ali has gone through so much - but she keeps getting stronger and focuses on what is best for her and Zach. I taught her to knit - and our next lesson will be teaching us both how to purl. Then maybe in the future we can learn to knit patterns (Ha! We'll see about that). We also made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. They weren't as good as last time, but they were still delicious! Eric came home from work and spent some time with us as well, lightening the conversation by interjecting puns all over the place.
Then - I had a meeting that I still needed to attend at school (why can't subs go to meetings for you?), so Ali headed back to Olathe to pick Zach up from school. One block away from my school, I stopped to see three cars parked in the road and 6-8 people standing around watching a dog hop around the road yelping. Before I knew it I was parked and to the dog with my jacket off. I used the jacket to cover his head while I got the collar off of him - the tags showed us that his name was Smokey, and the owners name and address. Because we were so close to the school and their day had just ended, there were 5-6 kids huddled around Smokey. I had to keep reminding them not to pet near his head so he wouldn't bite them because he was scared and hurt. We couldn't get the owner on the phone, so I skipped my meeting and took him to the Lawrence Humane Society. Smokey's owner got my voicemail and met me there, so here's hoping that he recovers. There were no outward injuries - but there was a lot of visibly bruising on the tummy side of his pelvis.
Finally, when I returned home from the humane society (along with missing my meeting), Eric and I headed out to Olathe for an evening with Mom, Alison, Zach, and Kristie. We played Squeeballs on the Wii - which is a bunch of REALLY strange mini games, and Kinect Adventures on the XBOX - where we did some running and jumping games. We shared wine, snacks, and stories - a nice end to a VERY long day.
This is a picture of Smokey wearing a hat of his 12 year old owner.
The XBOX Kinect takes random pictures while you're playing the games - Eric was playing a game where you have to jump...and he hit his head on the ceiling beam! And the Kinect got a picture of it!!!
First off - I had to finish an assignment for my KU independent study class. In an independent study class, you receive a guide for the readings you're supposed to do and the assignments you need to complete - then you do the work at your own pace. KU gives you 6 months to complete the class, and the last day for my behavior management class is Tuesday. Every time I tried to start working on this class, something more important came up. Fortunately, when you have finished 50% of the work for the class you can file for a 3 month extension...and this class only has 4 assignments! I finished the first assignment on Friday, and the second one this morning. Extension granted, AND I got A's on those first two assignments!
Next up - I got caught up on a lot of cleaning today. All of the laundry is done, the bathroom is clean, and all of the dirty dishes are IN the kitchen! I feel like I can breathe easier when I am home and I don't see chores that need to be done every place I look!
Followed by - Alison spent the morning and afternoon with me for some girl time because she wanted to get her mind off of her and Rob breaking up. Ali has gone through so much - but she keeps getting stronger and focuses on what is best for her and Zach. I taught her to knit - and our next lesson will be teaching us both how to purl. Then maybe in the future we can learn to knit patterns (Ha! We'll see about that). We also made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. They weren't as good as last time, but they were still delicious! Eric came home from work and spent some time with us as well, lightening the conversation by interjecting puns all over the place.
Then - I had a meeting that I still needed to attend at school (why can't subs go to meetings for you?), so Ali headed back to Olathe to pick Zach up from school. One block away from my school, I stopped to see three cars parked in the road and 6-8 people standing around watching a dog hop around the road yelping. Before I knew it I was parked and to the dog with my jacket off. I used the jacket to cover his head while I got the collar off of him - the tags showed us that his name was Smokey, and the owners name and address. Because we were so close to the school and their day had just ended, there were 5-6 kids huddled around Smokey. I had to keep reminding them not to pet near his head so he wouldn't bite them because he was scared and hurt. We couldn't get the owner on the phone, so I skipped my meeting and took him to the Lawrence Humane Society. Smokey's owner got my voicemail and met me there, so here's hoping that he recovers. There were no outward injuries - but there was a lot of visibly bruising on the tummy side of his pelvis.
Finally, when I returned home from the humane society (along with missing my meeting), Eric and I headed out to Olathe for an evening with Mom, Alison, Zach, and Kristie. We played Squeeballs on the Wii - which is a bunch of REALLY strange mini games, and Kinect Adventures on the XBOX - where we did some running and jumping games. We shared wine, snacks, and stories - a nice end to a VERY long day.
Mystic on the pillow, Addy at the foot of the bed. This is their contribution to cleaning the house.
Eric said we're a few decades too young for knitting.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Day 253: Dim Sum at Bo Lings
After church today we met Paul, Deb, Shannon, Warren, and Mary for Dim sum at Bo Lings. It's a Chinese restaurant and they come around with small portions of all kinds of dishes. You pick what you want and they place it on a giant lazy susan, so you can share with everyone at your table. We brought Andrew along with us, and he enjoyed the lunch as much as we did! He ate a fried roll thing with bamboo and mushroom, the bread from the baked barbecue beef rolls, white rice noodles, sticky rice with chicken, red bean paste, and flan. Andrew LOVES flan! He also loved one of the Chinese bus boys who kept coming over to say hi.
Eric and I had a good time catching up with everyone, then I watched Andrew nap while Eric ran to the gym. On his way back to my parents house, he found out that the job at Harley isn't going to work out for him because it's only for weekends. That's okay for now because Checkers is starting to give him more hours, but we never know how long that will last before he starts getting scheduled for 30 hours/week again.
Finally, we came home and crashed for a 3 hour nap. It was pretty refreshing, and now I'm putting off doing my school work. But now that the blog is completely updated, I'll have to hop to it!
P.S. St. Andrew's is going to begin an expansion on the church this fall. We asked Fr. Gar if we would need to talk to someone about moving the tree - as the blueprint for the construction looks as though it's right on the borderline of where we planted Grammy's tree. He said that "she" would be well cared for, and that if the tree needed to be moved, they would arrange for that. Very reassuring, and great that the church is going to have so much more space in the future!
Eric's finger and Auntie Jess feeding bamboo to Andrew. He loved the bamboo!
He may not appear thrilled in this picture, but he thoroughly enjoyed the flan. Happy whether he was picking it up himself or someone else was feeding it to him - just so long as he got to eat it!
Introducing the next Justin Bieber! Andrew was really holding some rhythm!
Look how smoooooooth I am!
Eric and I had a good time catching up with everyone, then I watched Andrew nap while Eric ran to the gym. On his way back to my parents house, he found out that the job at Harley isn't going to work out for him because it's only for weekends. That's okay for now because Checkers is starting to give him more hours, but we never know how long that will last before he starts getting scheduled for 30 hours/week again.
Finally, we came home and crashed for a 3 hour nap. It was pretty refreshing, and now I'm putting off doing my school work. But now that the blog is completely updated, I'll have to hop to it!
P.S. St. Andrew's is going to begin an expansion on the church this fall. We asked Fr. Gar if we would need to talk to someone about moving the tree - as the blueprint for the construction looks as though it's right on the borderline of where we planted Grammy's tree. He said that "she" would be well cared for, and that if the tree needed to be moved, they would arrange for that. Very reassuring, and great that the church is going to have so much more space in the future!
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