Happy Birthday, Favorite Niece!

Today is Callie's 3rd Birthday!

She's been really into Hello, Kitty! and all things girly. Uncle Ryan and Aunt Chelsea found her a hello, kitty card with stickers inside.

I freshly baked these little playtime cookies for her, complete with pink sugar sprinkles. Hope she loves them!

Yard Sale Finds

Yesterday we went to get the air conditioning in my dodge fixed (long story, it's not fixed yet) so after we dropped off the car I slyly asked, "wanna go look at yard sales? I bet we could find some fishing gear for you." -- i knew that's all I had to say.

Ryan's been fishing lately (I'll show pics later) and his new hobby means he has shopping and searching he can do and means I can go look at yard sales and he won't protest. I don't really go searching for anything, just like browsing and a good bargain or new treasure.

Ryan found this awesome fly fishing kit for $10




and at the same house I scored (he he, get it?) this pack of vintage Uno scorecards and unopened 1978 Uno box. and he gave it to me for free! Thought it was somewhat rare to find a shrinkwrapped game from 30 yrs ago...yay!

Don't forget...

Ryan's been at work since Wednesday (they went camping with some of the clients in Moab) and they gave all the staff a packing list. well, Ryan just happens to be the cutest thing ever...

After he left I was going through and noticed he put a checkmark next to each thing...



including his smile.

what a nut.

He comes home tonight! hoorah! Been weird (and oddly quite a bit more spacious) sleeping without him the last few nights.

Also, this is what I ended up mailing to Audrey...i think the little tag makes it so stinking cute! (she should have it by now so I'm not ruining the surprise).


Happy FRIDAY!!!

Loss of Wisdom

I mentioned a few months ago how I had a problem with one of my wisdom teeth and it finally culminated last night when I whined to Ryan that I HAD to go to the dentist and get it taken care of (it ached SOOOO bad all of a sudden.) I went to a dentist my boss recommended--one of his childhood friends--and figured I'd get it over with.

So Dr. Brian Isaacson's office (shares with his dad Dr. Ed Isaacson) was the best dental experience ever. shore, having laughing gas (which did NOT loosen me up, by the way) and novacaine shot into my body wasn't my choice of lunchtime fun, but they're brilliant! They give you a choice of movies you can watch while you're lying back and give you headphones to distract you. Seriously, if Seinfeld wasn't there to yank my attention from the doctor messing around with my tooth and tearing it from its roots, I would have freaked out a little more than I did (I teared up a bit from the novacaine shot...*shiver*..gives me the heebies).

Genius. I'll be going there from now on. And so will Ryan.

Cedar Hills Family Dentistry
4565 W Cedar Hills Drive
756-9154
General Dentistry
Contact: Dr. William Isaacson & Dr. Brian Isaacson

Callie's "So you think you can dance " first audition

My sister doesn't post all the time, but when she does, it's 2 weeks worth of lil gems. This video is now on her blog of Callie singing one of her favorite songs at the moment.

If you go to 27 seconds, it's THE funniest thing I've seen her do.

what the blimey...

I played hooky from work today...for a few reasons.

It was sooo nice snuggling next to Ryan for the extra couple of hours this morning. I'm always so jealous that he gets to sleep in a few extra hours when I struggle with NOT hitting the snooze button a fourth time (yep, 3 times usually does the trick). So I sent off a quick email to my manager (which is reason #2) and went back to sleep and snuggled with my sweet hubby.

Also, I'm really really really struggling to deal with my manager. He was hired a few months ago and for the first two months, seemed to come in and out of the office and no one knew where he was and when he was coming back...so finally the owners said something to him and he seemed to be getting better...at least the ratio of personal calls to business calls is in favor of business now.

But last night right before I left the office I thought of a customer I hadn't talked to in awhile and started looking through the notes for him and saw that said manager has just seemed to...hmmm...i dunno, sell him stuff...WHAT THE CRAP! It's so frustrating (anyone who's ever been in sales can empathize) that I've been in touch with someone over the course of a year and a new guy comes in and just jumps on it! I'm so pissed off right now, i don't want to be around the guy...I'm having a hard time working for someone I have no respect for. I'm going to ask him about it tomorrow and if he doesn't give me any of the credit, I'll talk to the owner --he won't stand for this poor business etiquette...just poor practice and lowers morale for everyone. Anyone have stories like this? Having to deal with something at work that is totally out of line? - OH! just found out a SECOND person. THAT'S IT!!!

damn dog

I get an instant message from Ryan today that says:

"Our dog puked. I want to kill him. I can't get the smell out of the carpet/house from the three places he barfed."

me: "i'm sorry, hon, anything I can do for you?"

him: "I'm going to just burn the house down"

He's not in the best of moods. Anyone have ideas on how to cheer up a husband? (killing the dog isn't an option...yet)

Also! here's the banner for my etsy shop that i had someone put together. it's cute, huh?


I haven't posted the blankets yet, as I can't seem to take decent pictures of them. Working on it.

Oh, and the avatar i made: