Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Thursday was Ryan's 25th birthday (yes, I'm older) and I wanted to make some sort of decoration and tried my hand at the sign posted a few weeks ago. Well, I couldn't find the exact colors the original creator used, nor did I get my font big enough before cutting my letters out. I actually LOVE how mine came out. It's cute and not too 'in your face'. I strung the letters together with wired ric rac (I didn't know it was wired when I bought it). If anyone wants one, let me know. I think I'm going to make more (in a few diff color schemes) and sell them on Etsy

So for his birthday, he worked until 11pm. I made him a mini-german chocolate cake for that night but it has yet to be eaten.

I invited people over for desserts last night around 8:30 (3-layer german chocolate cake with coconut pecan frosting, cheesecake, and Texas sheet cake) and when 9pm rolled around and only my sister was here, I was feeling kind of bad. It turns out that all of his work friends he invited were out hunting for 2 punks that decided to 'run' as they call it. Basically, they 'left' campus unauthorized and everyone was out looking for the kids. Ruined my favorite's b-day. His brothers and one of his sisters came, as did our favorite Marcus. It was fun.

BUT! We did make new friends! We've lived in our house for almost a year now and we really don't know any of our neighbors. Sure, we say hi in passing, but nothing like inviting them over for bbq's or things like that. It's a two way street and we both are going the wrong way, apparently. Anyways, so our new friends, who I'll call "Dan" and his wife "Casey" came over and we talked from 9 until they left at midnight. We are so excited to have friends! They seem very similar in personalities to us. Dan is in law enforcement and loves computer gaming (Ryan's fave pasttime) and Casey worked/works in the scrapbook industry, mostly travelling around the country for tradeshows. How fun is that?!

We met them because they have a little dog named Choco. Seriously, he's one of the smallest chihuahua's I've seen. I don't think he's more than 3 lbs. and makes our little Thunder (who's 7.5 lbs) seem like a giant. The dogs were playing one evening while Ryan was outside and I went out after washing dishes and the four of us ended up talking for a couple of hours. They showed us how they tiled their condo and it gave us some great ideas for the laminate flooring we're wanting.

Friends. are. great. and we have some!!!

We're def. going to have to hang out with them again and go camping while the weather is absolutely gee-orr-jus.

Animal Cruelty

Last night my sisters and I tried to color Easter eggs. I say 'tried' because our efforts weren't much better than those when we were 4 or 5, okay, maybe 6. I bought a little glitter kit and thought, OOh! These will be pretty and sparkly (fockly). What a mess!

The eggs were all weird colors because those little die tablets didn't dissolve completely and ended up giving the eggs streaks. I ended up pulling out the little droppers of food coloring and adding tons to intensify the dyed eggs. Still, kind of lackluster results. Then the glitter.

Kayleigh dipped a blue egg first into the glue mixture (which didn't dissolve either, producing weird globs of a glue-like substance) and tinted the rest of the solution. Then you're supposed to shake it in this little cardboard glitter container. We ended up just taking the bag and shaking it all around and made a glorious glitter-filled mess.

The highlight of the night came during cleanup. My dog (who is now a whole year old!) is a scrounger and will eat anything or chew on anything he can (he doesn't like fruit, actually). We gave him a taste of a little vinegary drink. Can you guess what color?

piiiictttturrressss

closet pictures....
This is my mom. She is the master of the handi-work.

Before...

Afters!


Pictures from long long ago and far far away.

Cute Craft

Kayleigh sent me a link for the cutest site called Mahar Dry Goods.

They had this cute cute cute birthday banner on it that I think I'm going to make.

Anyone wanna get together and make a fun night of it?

Dr. Payne

The name of my last dentist. I wasn't smart enough to put two and two together.

Last night I was eating nachos at a company event, and my already-chipped filling decided that it needed to come out. So not only did it take a huge chunk of my porcelain filling, but the WHOLE RIGHT SIDE of my lower right wisdom tooth! I should have known. This is the filling that started chipping only 6 months or so after the dentist put it in. So now I have to find a new dentist and get that tooth pulled (luckily, as I mentioned, it's only my wisdom tooth), and don't they have to pull the corresponding upper when they take out the lower? Crimony.



I will definitely NOT be going back to Dr. Payne anytime soon...or ever. It really serves me right...I chose his office because it's a really pretty building. stupid stupid stupid


See? it's pretty! (But BEWARE)

Tell-tale signs of spring

While it's been awhile since we've had snow, the talk of its possibility tonight made me think of this comic.

I'm going to find one for our Christmas Card this year. You should be so lucky to get one!

More Cartoons!

So I don't know what got me thinking about this today, but I remembered this disney cartoon and thought, "i'll bet someone's posted something on youtube about it"

Um, this is the only thing I could find. There are two cartoons, but from the same guy. I'm going to google it. Every kid should watch it (although, in the first clip that wolf is REALLY scary)

And who is it to the rescue?!


(sorry I don't have pictures from my previous posts...I can't find the battery charger for my camera, dagnabit)