Smilebox

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

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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!

Shave and a Haircut

Dave is on his way to go pick up Mario Kart for the Wii!! How exciting! I love it. Best Buy sold out of it right away but it sounds like the Game Stop near us will have it. Yeah baby. So Dave is on his way.

Carson got his first haircut yesterday. He looks like such a little man now! His hair isn't that long on the top but it was just long enough in back to have a mini-baby-mullet. So he got a little trim and I got my hair done as well. It was all one solid color dark brown but we added some highlights and lowlights. I wasn't planning on it but my hair lady was like come'on it's spring, you gotta do something fun! So we did!

Our guest left yesterday. On Wednesday we went to the Mall of America to shop and we went to the Underwater Adventures. It was nice because we were there at like noon on a Wednesday and there weren't too many people there. On Thursday we drove down to the Science Museum of MN, that was pretty fun. Then on Friday we went bowling with my sister. I swear we found the smallest bowling alley on the planet. There were maybe 6 or 7 lanes total. And we were the only people in there so we could make total fools of ourselves, and we did because none of us are good at bowling. But it was raining out so what else do you do? Haha, On Friday night, we went with my parents to Seafood Buffet. FANTASTIC! Then he headed out on Saturday morning.

We woke up to a little bit of snow on Saturday. Which WTF?! It's like almost May dudes. So much for global warming right? Haha, anyways my mom was totally depressed about the snow so we headed to the Mall of America AGAIN and went to Underwater Adventures. This time we brought Carson along. Of course it was icky weather and a Saturday so the place was pretty much cram packed but we still had a good time.

So Mini -Rant time. You know what I don't get at all?! Why in the EFF would you prefer to take an elevator over an escalator? I mean, if you are not in a wheel chair and do not have a stroller or 17 kids, you DO NOT need to use the elevator. Especially when in the Mall of America there are like 4 elevators and 12 zillion escalators. The escalator is SO much faster, it's right behind you and you don't have to stand here looking like a moron waiting for the elevator. It does not make sense. Can someone shed some light on this for me? Because if I remember right, using the escalator does not require you to climb stairs if you don't want to. You can just stand there. It's JUST as lazy as the elevator but takes less time and then I don't have to try and maneuver my stroller around your dumb butt. What the EFF ever.

So today brings us Brunch with Dave's family this morning and Mario Kart this afternoon if Dave can catch a copy before the video game store sells out. Talk to you all later!

Convert

I am the proud owner of a MacBook and I am in love.  I swear this is a thing of beauty!  I am officially a convert and I'm pretty sure that when we need to upgrade our desktop I will be pushing hard for an iMac.  We'll see how Dave feels about that one!  It was hard enough to convince him that I needed this one.  Trying to convince him that he needs one is another story! Haha.

We have Dave's buddy coming into town tonight for most of the week.  I'm out of work Wednesday through Friday to assist with the requisite Minnesota "sight seeing" you know, the Mall of America, Science Museum, IKEA (that's probably more for me), the Zoo you know whatever he wants to do.  Dave's schedule is less flexible than mine so I'm not sure how much time he'll be able to actually be out of work.

So...if any of you all have an AIM account let me know, as now I have a messenger.  We'll definitely be using that when we leave so I'd like to build up my contacts while we're still here.  Leave me a comment or shoot an email.  I'm honestly not even sure what mine will be since I haven't used it yet.  Haha!  K - here's my latest photo-editing project.  Talk to you all soon.

How You Know You Live in The Country

Today will be a picture-less entry.  I have some to edit before the are Blog-Ready.  So...we took Carson to the park today to play and honest to goodness some girl had her pet lamb there.  For serious.  I mean at first it just looked like a Standard Poodle until it started "baa-ing".  I mean Really?!  REALLY? Is Otsego that far out there that people bring their lambs to the park?  Weird stuff.

So, the weather is starting to get so nice!  We did some outside stuff both Saturday and today.  Carson loves to be outside and gets all angry when we try and bring him in.  We just hung out in the yard on Saturday and went down to the park today for a bit.  Carson really just likes to walk around he for sure doesn't get the climbing quite yet.  He was totally indifferent to going down the slide.  It meant nothing to him.

We watched the Wild lose and get eliminated on Saturday night.  Quite depressing post-season I must say.  I think Dave will need at least the week to get over it.  

We don't have a ton of plans for the week.  Just the norm but we are having dinner at Northland with my parents on Friday. Good stuff.  I just love the seafood buffet and am totally excited to go again.  

Carson's new big thing is saying "yeah" to pretty much everything.  He will shake his head for "no" if he means it but most things get a very excited "YEAH" and hand claps.  It's pretty cute.  He also says "Hiiiiiiiiii" just like that usually.  Too cute.  Ok well I hope everyone has a great week!

Just Kidding

Welcome April! I've lost track of all Blog Time...it seems like we went out with our friends and I've been trying to catch up ever since! We actually went out and had a great time, stayed up way too late and then have spent the last month (?!?!) making up for it! Haha!

We had a pretty laid back weekend...My parents came over for the Wild game on Friday night, my sister came over on Saturday and Dave's birthday was on Sunday. The Wild won on Friday!!!! We stayed up WAY too late on Saturday with Jess playing 'Sorry' and 'Phase 10' I lost miserably at EVERY game we played too...suck. Then on Sunday we just hung around...taking naps here and there.

Carson has been doing great. He's still teething so he's still been kind of...well we can call it *spunky* haha. He's been just a little crabbier than usual. He's sleeping at night just fine though which is good, I don't know what I would do if he wasn't sleeping. But he's been hitting and screaming just to hear himself scream. I'm so ready for all the teething to be done!

The Wild have been doing awesome in the playoffs...Game 4 tonight!! Too bad it doesn't start until 9:00. I had a hard enough time watching last night's game which also started late and I've been paying for it today. I'm not sure I'll make it through tonight's game at all.

Well, I'll leave you with a clip of SNL that we watched when Jess was over on Saturday. I don't know if it's just that it was like 1:30 when we were watching this (DVRd) or what but I was laughing so hard I was pretty much crying. Random I know...but please enjoy! :)

Addiction

I've gone over the deep end. I am addicted to Goldfish crackers. SERIOUS! Cant.Stop.Eating.Them. I go through weird food phases...it's kind of OCD. I'll be stuck on something for a few weeks (stuck to the point that if I don't have whatever it is, it's all I think about) and then it passes and I move onto something else. The last few weeks it has been Reese's mini peanut butter cups...now it's Goldfish. I suppose Goldfish are a little healthier but still. I worry about myself! I mean, I'm even taking pictures of them!! :)

Carson is getting more teeth. I think I mentioned already here that he had a new one pop through a few weeks ago, but seriously it feels like all of his gums are swollen. I was feeling around in there tonight and I can feel a little one poking through on top, it might be a molar even for where it's located. Exciting stuff. I'm for sure ready for the teething to be done!

We have a very exciting weekend coming up...We're going out to dinner with Dave's Mom, Aunt and Brother!! WOOT! They are taking us to Northland Inn for seafood buffet which most of you know is a total favorite of mine. The food, the desserts, EVERYTHING is fantastic! After dinner, my parents are taking Carson overnight and we're actually going OUT! I got to go out drinking once in September right before Kate had Lydia but Dave couldn't come, so it will be nice to get out and get to bring him along! Exciting stuff!

There is a hockey game on tonight...actually it already started but Dave isn't home so it's recording and we'll catch up once he's home. I'm really hoping we win tonight. Monday's game was pitiful!

OK!! I need opinions, of the two pictures below, which do you prefer? Color or the B&W. Please be honest! I'll give my opinion in the next entry. I'm curious to get some unbiased feedback! Thanks All!

Back Off My Mouse Cake!

Happy Easter everyone...a day late! :)

We had a good day yesterday! It was nice and low-key. We went to Dave's grandparents around 11:00 and were there for about an hour and 1/2 and then we headed to my parents. We had a good time there. Carson was exhausted and wouldn't nap anywhere but on me and only then for about 45 minutes. He woke up and started grunting and that had him laughing, when then started me laughing and he was up for the afternoon. He thinks farts are funny now, such a boy!

My mom made this awesome cake yesterday...it looked like a little bunny! It was so awesome! My sister told her it looked sorta like a mouse (before she added the nose) so it was Mouse/Bunny cake, and now Dave and I have just referred to it as Mouse Cake. Which reminds me of "Face Cake" from Scrubs. Does anyone else secretly love the first few seasons of Scrubs? I don't love the newer seasons as much (and I think it's almost the last season) but Face Cake is classic!

I've been trying to find a link to the video clip that shows the beauty of the Face Cake and I discovered that there is a FaceCake website! Haha, sadly it's a marketing website and not cakes.

No luck on the Face Cake clip...and I got totally side tracked when Dave told me to search Guitar Hero on You Tube and I got sucked in watching this video of a 9 year old playing the hardest song on the game on the hardest level. Geez, I can't even comprehend what's going on in the video...I don't think I could even begin to try it on the game. I can barely fumble my way through this song on EASY!! Haha...seriously watch it. You will be amazed.

Ok well, we are watching hockey so I should go catch up! Talk to you all soon!

Nifty!

I woke up this morning severely irritated with the weather. I'm DONE, so over and beyond winter it's not even funny. It will be nice on Friday when it is OFFICIALLY spring! Yay!

Bits got out of her fenced in area today. This is the second time that it's happened and the second time I am amazed that there is not one mess anywhere. I even checked under furniture, everywhere that I could think of! Nothing. She waited about 10 minutes after I got home to whine to go out (pretty typical) and did her thang so I'm fairly positive I'm not missing anything. She really doesn't have accidents unless they are our fault. Like she whines to go out but we don't take her in time or there was a time that I was giving Carson a bath and she was whining to go out. I very obviously couldn't do anything about that one so I had a mess to clean up but I couldn't really blame her for that one.

I ordered some stuff from a girl who was hosting a PartyLite party a few weeks ago. I couldn't go to the party but I needed some tea lights. I ended up buying more than I wanted to but I think what I got is pretty cool. Is it worth the $75.00 **cringe** I don't know quite yet. But time will tell! :) Carson had a new tooth break through over the weekend. That is #7 and the first in a long time! I think he's working on about 3 more though because he's been completely clingy/crabby the past 2 or 3 weeks. He's over his "I hate Mom" phase for the time being at least. I must say that gets to be tough to take even though I know he doesn't do it on purpose!

Well, speaking of clingy/crabby...Blues Clues isn't keeping him occupied anymore!

This is for Karen!

Carson got upset when he heard you were threatening a boycott of the blog. Haha, so we took pictures today especially for you. Carson wasn't thrilled about it at first but warmed up quick enough!

Carson had his 15 month check up last week. He's 24.5 lbs and FINALLY is done with shots until he is 5, with the exception of flu shots. Nice! He remembered the doctor's office and right when we got there he threw a fit. It's nice that for the next few appointments anyways he won't have to get poked at all. The doctor did most of the exam with him on my lap to keep him calm since he was pretty upset about being there. Healthy as can be though!

Work has been same-old, same-old. Very, very busy. Usually that was my update time, during the day during a down period but I don't have many of those anymore! It's nice to be kept busy but at the same time, I'm feeling neglectful of the blog. I've got to set myself some calendar reminders at work to keep up! I'll try that this week and see how it goes!

Well, we found out last week that we didn't get the extension with the Navy that we were hoping for. So, it looks like we'll be leaving Minnesota sooner than we'd hoped. We're still trying to get everything figured out as to when we'll be leaving and where we'll be going so I promise that as soon as we have more information we'll share it. I haven't told my work yet and I'd rather not get into specifics until we know for sure. It's still sinking in for me honestly.

We had Kate and Erik and kids over last weekend and I took some pictures for them with my new backdrop stuff...still trying to figure out the lighting and how to get it right. I think I did a better job with Carson this afternoon. It's funny how the things you should try come to you about an hour after you've taken the pictures and then you do the *face-palm*. I'm getting better though and I'm just leaving my stuff set up in the basement for now so that I don't have to worry about taking down and setting back up. That tends to be a deterrent because it takes so dang long. If I just leave it all set up all I have to do is insert children. Haha!

Well, tis Sunday night and I really should get headed to bed. I sure do love the later evenings with the daylight but going back to super-darkness when I wake up in the morning is rough. I have to be extra-motivated to drag myself out of bed to get to work in time.

Talk to you all soon!