The Gods Must Be Crazy!

My parents have the luxury of taking off for the weekend on some unknown adventure, be it camping, exploring, or wine tasting. They pack up the Rav, lock up the house and are off to discover new and exciting things. About half the time, they leave poor Charlie looking out the window with his sad, crying eyes, watching them back out of the driveway and drive off to face the world without him. Later that evening, I'll go let him out and sometimes he'll come home with me to play with my dogs. But he never does settle down, he just stares forlornly at the door, hoping and waiting for it to open and his beloved Mom & Dad to come strolling in. Poor guy. (How am I doing on the guilt trip?)

This time, they went up to Leavenworth, WA to go wine tasting and explore the area. Mom called and said they found a cool winery. They always find cool wineries. This one was in a big log cabin house thing and the wine tasting was free! I love free wine tasting! Especially if they have cheese. I don't wine taste, I cheese taste. But that's another story for another day.

I think my parents are having too much fun up there. I came in to work this morning, opened my email and found this:

And this:

What the heck? Crazy? I think so! So now I have new caller ID photos on my cell phone. Thanks for the awesome new pictures, guys!!

11 More Days!!

Only 11 more days until we board the plane to the Happiest Place on Earth! Jesus and I are going on vacation to Orlando for our anniversary. We're going to do the tourist-y thing and hit up DisneyWorld, SeaWorld, and Universal Studios. We're also going to go see the Blue Man Group. I'm so excited for that! We'll be in the front row, in the "Poncho Section". Should be fun! Guess I wont dress up for that outing. (I know, like I would dress up anyways). Not taking 3 day weekends to go camping, or a random vacation day here and there is finally going to pay off. It was pretty hard during the summer to see my vacation hours rack up and not be able to use them. But it will be totally worth it!

Jesus had some identification issues, so we were a little worried on how he was going to get on the plane. But that has all been solved and so instead of "Only 11 days to get this figured out, time is really moving", it's "Only 11 more days! Time's cree-ee-ee-ping". Time's moving so slow, it turned 'creeping' into a 4 syllable word!

Random Picture of the Day:

"Mighty Fisherman"

Are We Related?

Are you my Mama?

What a Slacker...

I know, I'm a slacker. So Jesus survived his Adventures in Babysitting, both with Riley-Bob and Miley-girl. Riley is such a good baby. He pooped for Uncle Jesus :-) Go Riley!

We also watched Miley so her parents could go out for dinner for their anniversary. (Wow! 3 years already? I swear my feet are still cramped from the dumb shoes I picked out that were way too high for me!) I digress. Miley was so good. She hung out with Uncle Jesus, her favorite Mexican Uncle (take that Roy!) and they looked for motorcycle headlights together. What more could a girl ask for?

I've been busy with work lately. I went down to Medford for a few days for some work-related stuff. But work-related stuff only keeps you busy for so long. So I filled my evenings wandering the grand ol' town of Medford. I successfully found the Harry & David's factory. They had Moose Munch on sale for buy 2, get one free. I know, not a huge sale, but I LOVE Moose Munch! Plus, I found Peanut Butter Moose Munch! Yum!!

Also, outside the building, there were a bunch of pumpkins that you could buy for a rip roarin' Carve-o-rama. In this big pile o' fun, there was a GINORMOUS punkin'!

In case you cant read that, it says "1,325 lbs". That's HUGE! I sent a picture of it to my cousin. She promptly replied with "Is it bigger than you?"

Yes, Kylie. It outweighs me by 5 lbs. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Adventures in Babysitting.

Tomorrow, my husband will begin the task of caring for a overly adorable 4 month old while his mother, grandmother, and aunt head out for some gallivanting on the town. Okay, we're going to a baby shower, but it's brunch! Yum! I love brunch! Anywho, this will be his first time alone with a being unable to speak up for himself since his little brother was born 10 years ago. Holy cow! Angel's going to be ten in a week or so!! We need to do some birthday shopping! Sorry, off on a tangent. Uncle Jesus has decided that he should take cutie little Riley on his first fishing trip.



Don't worry Em, won't happen. He has a hard enough time handling the dog (who just hangs out) and fishing. I think I've talked him out of it, so they're going to spend a nice morning in front of the tv napping... or so he thinks. I'll let you know how it goes.

Check Me Out! I Do Tricks!

Since we got Chica about 4 1/2 years ago, she's taught herself multiple tricks. It's so funny to watch because she is just so eager to show them off. When she gets over-excited, she does them all in high-speed rapid fire. This dog cracks me up! Ignore Waldo traipsing through, he's oblivious.

If you couldn't catch it, I was saying "Bang!" with the thumb and first finger "gun" motion (offscreen) and she'd drop dead. Sometimes it takes a couple of shots, and her tail doesn't quite understand what the whole "playing DEAD" part is about. Goofy dog.

Happy Birthday/Congratulations Jesus!!

My wonderful husband celebrated his 29th birthday and his completion of his GED today with a big get together with friends and family. There were waaay to many people in our little tiny house! At least 35 including Jesus & I. But it was so fun to have everybody together. Our friends brought their little girl and she got to meet our dogs. I was impressed with Waldo, he was so good! Well, besides cleaning her face a million times whether she needed it or not. But that's a dog thing, he'll do it no matter what. He would go lay down right next to her and let her do whatever. It was so cute to watch! The best part was when she discovered that the ice chest had ice in it, and it's so fun to give Waldo ice!

After everyone left, I remembered that we had a big tub of ice cream to go with the cupcakes. I even got chocolate syrup to go with it. Oops! Then, about an hour after everyone left, I remembered that big bowl of potato salad that I had made the night before for the party and that it was sitting, untouched, in the fridge. There's NO WAY Jesus & I will be able to eat that much potato salad!

So tomorrow, we're going to my parent's house to have burritos (to take care of the leftover tomatos & lettuce), potato salad, and ice cream. Yum!!

Finally..

We have a clean house! If you know us, you know that we are HORRIBLE at keeping our house clean, and take FOREVER to clean it, because we can always find better things to do. It's Jesus' birthday tomorrow, and so we're cleaning the house, making potato salad, jalapeno things, cupcakes.. It turns out that potato salad requires boiled eggs. So I open the fridge, pull out the carton of eggs and think "Hmm.. I think I'll just boil the whole carton. I can make egg salad sandwiches for lunch this week. Besides, who doesnt like to eat boiled eggs?" So I put the WHOLE carton of eggs in to boil. Then, as I am taking them off the heat when they're done, I realize that cupcakes need eggs to!! It's really hard to make cupcakes with boiled eggs. Not that I've tried, I just dont think they would be a hit.

So I call my sister, and ask her if I can have some eggs because I'm an idiot and boiled all of mine. She says yes and I'm off to her house. One of the benefits of going to my sister's house (well, besides seeing her), is that my nephew is the cutest little guy in the whole widest world! Just look at this chubby little face!!


How could anyone resist?? He's such a smiley, happy little cutie-face! When I got there today, he was downing a bottle, making his cute little squeaky "I can't get this bottle down fast enough!" noises. I love those noises! Then, when he gets picked up, he lets out a big 'ol belch, and we remember who his mother is. It's okay, we'll keep them around.

Apples, Sausage, Walnuts and Cheese. What's not to like?

My most favorite time of year has arrived! It's Pizze alle Mela e Salsiccia time at Pizzicato! Let me just start by saying Pizzicato has some of the best pizza I've had in a long time. Every month, they have a monthly special for their pizza-by-the-slice, and this month is my very very VERY favorite! It has gala apples, candied walnuts, Italian sausage, gorgonzola, mozzarella, parmesan, and basil on a garlic and olive oil base. For all you wrinkling your noses, trust me, you have to try it! It's yummy and cheesy, and sweet, and crunchy, and everything else you could want in a pizza all wrapped up in one super delicious slice of heaven! I think I'll go there Monday for lunch too. And probably Tuesday. And Wednesday. And maybe Thursday...

Maybe I'll go there every day this month until the fateful day when they change the monthly special and I'll have to wait another 334 days to enjoy the yummy-ness that is this pizza. I shudder at the thought...

Yoga.

I've recently decided to start taking a Yoga class at a local yoga studio. I really wanted my sister to do it with me, but alas, it's just me, myself, and I. My first class was on Tuesday, and I arrived at the class in my fancy new yoga pants ready to be contorted in all sorts of new poses. I was the youngest person there by at least 10 years, probably more. Also, the studio is upstairs, next door to the pet store. The pet store has birds... upstairs. So throughout the whole time, we were relaxing to the "cheep cheep" and "SQUAWK, hello!" of the birds next door. At least we couldn't smell them.

All in all, I loved it! Once I got past the "everyone's looking at me" and the "I look like an idiot twisted up like this" and realized that nobody's looking at me, they're concentrating on themselves and probably even thinking the same thing, I totally relaxed. I didn't think the poses we did took a lot of effort, but boy howdy! My shoulder muscles were soooore Wednesday morning!!!

I'm so looking forward to next week's class. And getting my own mat.

The Voices of My Dogs

Have you ever imagined what the voice of your dog sounds like? Okay, I guess it's not limited to dogs, as my lizard has a voice too. Come on, you know we all do it. I happen to know that a friend's dog talks really fast with a lisp and repeats himself a lot.

Well, you know Benny the Cat from Looney Tunes? His famous quote is "Which way did he go George, which way did he go?" Click here to listen to it. THAT'S WALDO!!! He's such a big clumsy, goofy dog, it fits him perfectly!!

Chica on the other hand, has a more feminine voice, but gets a little high pitched when she gets excited. Like this picture...

She's so crazy and bouncing off the wall, I just dont know what to do!

Wow..

What a boring blog. Someone should really post some puppy pictures or something.
Hey! Here's one!!