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!

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! :)