Rainy Days

I'm getting sick of the rainy dreary weather.  It's good for our lawn at least!

We've been getting bombarded with every construction company within a 100 mile radius, calling, knocking on our door, leaving fliers.  It's annoying.  People are really pressuring when they stop by for you to set up an inspection immediately and get angry when you don't. I'm sorry but dude, I have ZERO idea who you are and I've never heard of your company I don't think I'm gonna set anything up with you.  This guy called the house and strictly went by Jerome...no company name or anything.  It's like seriously?  I'm not that much of a moron.

We had a great time over at Dave's mom's house on Monday.  Too bad the weather wasn't warmer.  She has a fantastic view of Lake Minnetonka and it would've been nice to be able to be outside more to enjoy it.  But it was just a bit too cold and icky.  We'll have to get over there more this summer and enjoy the lake!

Dave will be out of town next week...he'll be in Chicago for a Navy class.  My sister is coming to stay with me to help with Carson.  I have a small bleed near the baby and instead of getting better over the last week it got slightly larger so I need to avoid lifting Carson (HA!) so I will need some help with Dave being gone.  Luckily she will be able to be here almost all week.

I'll have another follow up ultrasound next week, probably Friday to check in and make sure the bleed isn't getting any bigger and hopefully I'll be able to take it easy enough that it will be resolving itself.  I had the exact same thing with Carson and it ended up being no big deal so we'll hope that we follow the same path this time around.

Talk to you all soon!

Yep, We Got Hit

Yep, we got hit by the storms that rolled through this afternoon.  I think it was the largest hail that I've ever seen.  Not quite baseball sized but bigger than a golf ball.  It seriously sounded like the roof was going to crash in on us.  No tornado at least.  The storm passed us before it created one...I think it was in Coon Rapids that the tornado hit.

However, we do have holes in our siding.  Kind of sickening in a home that's not even 2 years old yet.  So, I guess we'll see how to go about getting all of that fixed.  Yuck!  

Carson woke up on the total wrong side of the bed today.  He was a complete crab-ball all day and wanted nothing to do with me 95% of the time.  Exhausting for Dave.  Right now, he's sitting in his chair watching "Meet the Robinsons" a pretty cute Disney movie but it's also super confusing. Haha, the first time I watched it I was like "What just happened?" lol

We're going over to Dave's mom's house tomorrow for a BBQ and relaxin by the lake.  I'm really looking forward to it!  I'll make sure and post pictures tomorrow!  But for now I'll leave you with pictures from the storm.

Coolest Thing EVER!

Pathetic Eh?

This is Carson angry about having to come inside for lunch yesterday.  And yes, that is both black dirt and sidewalk chalk on his face.  Both of which were obviously in his mouth.  He was "helping" yesterday while we did our spring outside work.  We cleaned up the yard, cleaned out the garage, pulled weeds and planted some new flowers.  

As I was spreading some fresh black dirt over our hostas, I look down and see Carson kneeling beside the freshly laid black dirt, shoving a handful of it into his mouth. YUCK!  Haha, it was pretty funny though.  We were also watering the new plants and our trees and Carson figured out that he LOVES the hose.  So he was just soaked.  Luckily it was warm enough outside that we didn't have to change him till we went inside.  So, I stripped him down for lunch and the result is above.  A very tired, hungry baby who wanted to stay outside just a bit longer!

Can you believe that it's almost June already?  Time is just flying by.  Work has been very busy, which is good for me.  Every time I drive to the Target by my work, I see our new building going up.  It will be so nice when it's finished.  It sucks having the company divided.  Especially since I began working in the main building and when I switched departments I got shipped to the other building (which pretty much sucks). So there are so many people that I don't see nearly as often as I'd like.

It seems that everyone around is getting new cars.  I have serious car envy.  I know that mine is just fine and has treated me well, and with the cost of gas I don't also need a car payment but man...it would be nice to have  a beautiful new car.

Well, it seems to be another beautiful day outside.  We should probably get Carson out there again!  Bye!

Relax

Carson got this AWESOME gift from daycare.  He seriously freaks out if it's not out in the middle of the living room so he can get up in it and down as he pleases.  It's nice that he can have a little seat that is "his".

For Mother's Day we went to brunch at Grandpa and Grandma Theisen's house.  Unfortunately, we were meeting at Noon, and Carson naps at 12:30 so he was a bit crabby.  We ended up leaving at 2:00.  Carson napped at home while I played around on my computer and tried to learn my photo editing program a little more in depth.  It's got a 700 page user manual so I've got a lot of studying to do.  That doesn't happen so easily with Carson around.

Jessica came over on Saturday night to play Mario Kart with us.  We had cheeseburgers on the grill and hung out for a while.  Poor chica still recovering from her foot surgery.  So we like to keep her as busy as possible. Hopefully she'll come out and hang with us again soon...it's pretty fun!

Well I don't have much more to update yet...I'll leave you with some great Mother's Day photos!

Smilebox

Look what my friend Kate made me!!! *tears!* I love it.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Yard Work

We just got inside from doing some yard work.  Carson more or less ran around and walked all over my plants.  Haha,  he just LOVES being outside thought so it's nice to be able to get out.  It's not as warm as I'd like so we weren't out terribly long but it was long enough!

My tulips started to come up probably 3 or 4 weeks ago now and have just been stalled due to the cold icky weather.  I can't wait to see what they look like so I'm getting very impatient.  So far, everything that was planted this year is at least starting to grow so I have some faith in myself! Haha, that is more than I had last year at this time when we were planting everything!

I'm really excited for this summer now that Carson can run around.  It was so hard to get out and get anything done because at this time last year he was still so young, his nap schedule was so unpredictable and made it so we could never really start and finish a project in a timely fashion.  Hopefully we can get more done this year!

We had our friends Erica and Brent over last night.  They have an 8 month old daughter and we ate some burgers and played Mario Kart for the Wii.  We really had a good time!

We're doing some re-structuring at work.  Starting next week things will be a little bit different.  To be honest, I'm really looking forward to a little mix-up.  Change is always good I think.  

Well, I will se a lot of you family folks tomorrow!  Talk to you all soon!