Vacation

Going on vacation for the next 10 days. On the blogging agenda when I get back....

1. Weird Al concert last night- AWESOME!
2. How many time Dathan and Natalie fought in 10 days
3. All the cool crap that I bought, saw, or did.
4. What it's like to officially be living like rockstars.


Karen better have that damn baby while I'm gone too! Othewise, she's going to be really miserable! Sorry Nicole, but I'm friends with your mommy first. =)

Happy 4th of July to all!

To the Jerk Posting Anonymously to Karen's Page

STOP HARASSING MY FRIEND YOU JERK! Get a life! Go read someone elses blog! Write your own! Get laid! (Okay, that one was added for comedic value...)

OINK!

I was driving along the highway today and saw a truck full of piglets! After speaking with Kendall I felt better about it because he assured me that they don't kill baby pigs for food (like veal). Now even if he was lying to me, please don't try to set me straight. I like the idea that they were all on their way to a nice farm. Where it was sunny. And they could run in the fields. Not some type of "pig plantation" where they are cramped together and force fed.

I also told Kendall I wanted one as a pet. He didn't like that idea too much. I promised to not let it sit on the furtniture. I still didn't win.

I Have Pepper Up My Nose

This is Carl. He is our resident cardinal. Since we moved in, we've seen him almost every day. Some days he comes and sits on the deck. Come days, he's out in the yard. Once we started seeing him on a regular basis, we decided he needed a name, hence "Carl". He also has a mate who we see every once in a while. We named her Carlita. I assume we don't see her as often because she is barefoot and pregnant in his little cardinal kitchen. Carl is a beast. He scares many of the other birds away. We love Carl. He is currently our second favorite neighbor, right behind the Showalters who brought us cookies the first week we were here.

This is my niece, Annaliese. She has just finished eatting the pasta bake I made for the graduation party. She obviously has excellent taste and was extremely pleased with the food. She also loved my homemade garlic bread. You note the messy face made from cramming in the delicious pasta at excessive speeds. Also, you should note that she is appaulding my culinary skills.

Yes, I am in a strange mood today. I think the pepper did it.

Pictures and a Party

So, the first picture is of me and one of my favorite students. She'll remain nameless, since this is blogger and I don't want anyone to stalk her. Or me for that matter.

We had Kendall's graudation ceremony on Saturday. We had the biggest crowd by far. Two tables of people. My mom, Kendall's parents, his grandparents (all the way from South Dakota), Dathan, Natalie, Annaliese, and our friends Jessica and Aaron. It was a great brunch and a relatively short ceremony. Here's a picture in contrast: Fat and Skinny. I feel so chunky next to Jessica's skinny frame! PS- I had to wear that sweater because my dress didn't exactly work out the way I thought it would with a strapless bra. Yeah, I was totally boobing out and had no time to change!

Here is my SEXY husband with his award of the afternoon. He won the H.R. Bath Family Physician Award. His name is on the plaque and he got a 500 dollar check! Bascially he won it for being the most caring, compassionate physician of his year. He also won a similar award in medical school. I am EXTREMELY proud of my husband. His colleage had this to say about him, "Kendall is the perfect doctor." I almost cried! All of the faculty gushed over him and talked about how he challeneged them to be better doctors. Even his handwriting (his one weakness according to his evaluations) made him a perfect doctor! I was puffed up with pride. (And psyched that we got a 500 dollar check!)

I had to get in one shot of the two of us rom that day. While I think my own hair looks icky, and I definitely need to whiten my teeth, I think my husband looks amazing and I'm so proud of him! I just had to add one last shot of that day!

This is a picture of the cupcakes that my coworker Noreen brought to Kendall's party on Sunday. Her daughter made them and Kendall and I thought they were so clever!!!! The "pills" are actually Good-n-Plenty (sp?) and there are also gummy Lifesavers. Plus, they were DELICIOUS! We should have had her make the sheet cake too! This girl needs to start a cake business! They were made from scratch. If you were there and didn't have one, you missed out!
My dear, sweet husband allowed me to take the picture of him with the plastic hat that came off his cake. LOL! We had about 60 people over to the house yesterday. We made way too much food, but I think everyone left full. We begged people to eat seconds, thirds and fourths! We were even able to pawn off some "doggie bags" on the few friends that stuck it through to the end. We had people from all walks of our lives in attendance. High school, college, medical school, residency, church, new job, new neighbors, old neighbors. It was awesome! And I didn't get to eat anything but a hotdog because I was so busy talking to people for 5 hours! I think I managed to chat with everyone for at least a moment. It was great. I felt bad we didn't get to spend more time with people individually, but we promised everyone that we would have smaller gathering sometime soon so we could all have more fun. Everyone loved our house and said it was very beautiful. It was extremely flattering and it made all of the hard work feel worth it.

What do our friends think of us? This is the booze that we got as both graduation and housewarming gifts! We can't wait to try each of them, and hopefully invite the people back who gave them to us! We also got some other really fun gifts including a candle set, a "chicken chucker" (you have to see it, it's so cool!), a gift certificate to the Fraze pavilion from our realtor, a certificate for dinner and games at the Williams's (which we can't wait to redeem!), and a Wii game from Karen and Jim! We almost want to wait to crack it open until they can play it with us! We were overwhelmed by the generosity of our friends, especially since we didn't really expect anything!

And here we are at 10pm that night. Exhausted but happy. We really had a great time and I wish I had more pictures of our friends to share with you! I'm hoping that other people took pictures that I can get copies of. It was a great time and totally worth the effort. I'd love to do it again....but maybe not for a long time! And maybe someone else can plan it and make all the food!

Thursday Thirteen- On Summer Vacation!

Thirteen Things That I Did on a Typical Day of Summer Vacation 1. I saved my husband from being late to work by waking up at 6AM and saying, "Honey, don't you need to get up?" Which turned my husband into a maniac. 2. I slept in until 11 and it felt GREAT! 3. I unpacked our childrens books. Some old some new, all really cool. 4. I finished a trashy romance novel. 5. I folded laundry. 6. I posted a new template for my blog. 7. I organized the guest bathroom for my brother and his girlfriend. They're coming down on Saturday for Kendall's graduation. 8. I found a cool new toothbrush holder for our bathroom at Meijer for 5 bucks! 9. I watched Jeopardy and got almost half of the answers right! 10. I tried to hang some pictures by myself...it didn't work. 11. I unpacked the last of our clothes. 12. I successfully avoided taking a shower. 13. I took the dogs for a nice long walk, where Morrie proceeded to poop 9 times! It was stinky! See, this is what happens when you're on summer vacation and your husband doens't come home! He's stuck at the hospital an hour away waiting to deliver someone's baby! Hopefully this means he'll get the afternoon off tomorrow! The house is mostly ready....I think. I'm going to run out and get a few last minute things today and then tonight Kendall and I will begin the process of hanging some of the pictures and such. I mentioned the Kipps yesterday, I added their blog to my links. I didn't even realize Laura had started a blog! She never told me! She posted some pictures of Ella and talked about her delivery. For those of you that don't know, Ryan and Laura lost a son during pregnancy in March of '06. (I hope they don't mind me saying that here.) It's one of those things you don't know what to say to, but Laura and Ryan were so strong and brave. To finally see them with their baby girl, it's beyond words. It makes me cry to just think about it. Because they are exactly the type of people who will make great parents. It just gives me hope that Kendall and I might some day have our own biological baby. When I see what the Kipps went through and then to see their baby girl, it's just amazing. Congrats Ryan and Laura! And if you guys have a minute, check out their link! They're pretty funny people and I know I laugh out loud, especially at their pictures! Wednesday, June 20, 2007 Update Okay, so many of the boxes are now unpacked! The house still feels "messy", but I still have two days to clean it too. We are getting more organized with furniture and such. It's so hard to decide where to put things when you move. When you bought them, they all had a place. And now, when you move them, you have to find a new one. Sometimes things change rooms completely! I think the thing that drives me the most crazy is that everything doesn't match the way I want it to. And it's because I'm too impatient, and a little compulsive. I want everything to match right away, and it doesn't. We're still poor. And we don't want to go overboard. Plus, we don't really have anything hanging on the walls. That makes it hard too. It just doesn't feel lived in yet. I know that it will take time, but once again...impatience. Our new furniture purchases are all in the house. I still have so many things I want to replace! Much of our old stuff is mismatched items from garage sales and hand-me-downs. I think what makes it hard is that it seems out of place in our new house. In our old house it felt right. The house was old, our things were old. Maybe it will just take time. No real excitement here anymore. I turned down another chair from our dining room set. The stain still didn't look right. Arhaus has had to come out twice now with a replacement chair. I feel bad telling them no, but those chairs were 300 bucks a piece. I want them all to be perfect! They have to last until I die!! LOL! Our new desk is nice. It seems a little big for the room, but Kendall is happy with it. I try not to be too pushy with my tastes, I want him to have input too. Wow, what a boring post! I guess that's a good thing! Oh, those of you that know the Kipps....they had a little girl on Tuesday, Ella Elizabeth. She weighed in at 6 1/2 pounds. And for those of you that don't know them....they had the same due date as Karen........hmmmm......Any day now???? Monday, June 18, 2007 FINALLY some time..... This is the first day that I've slept in past 8...and I'm on summer vacation! Sheesh! Actually, this is the first day in 10 days that I haven't gotten up and immediately unpacked a box or cleaned something. I've been exhausted! Poor Kendall has too, and unfortunately, he had to go back to work today. Okay, so without going into all of the details, here's what's happened over the last 10 days...This might be longer that I thought it was going to be.... Friday, June 8th- We were supposed to get possession of our house, but the Romeros (the people who we bought it from) couldn't get their sh*t together and ended up needing to stay an extra night. The irritating part was that they kept calling us that afternoon promising they'd be out but then calling at like 8pm to tell us they wouldn't. (We kind of figured that our on our own....) Saturday, June 9th- We arrived at 8am to find the house a MESS. They had barely vacuumed, their was a heavy filth on the kitchen floors, marks all over the walls, and dust everywhere. It looked like hadn't cleaned since we made the deal on the house 2 months ago. It was awful. And incredibly overwhelming. We cleaned our butts off all day. Sunday, June 10th- My m-i-l started washing walls to discover that the marks that we thought were dirt, were actually giant gouges in the walls of our family room, coat closet, and kitchen pantry. So we had to Spackle and paint. It took us all day to paint the family room (3 coats) plus the two closets. My mom arrived that day to immediately be put to work. We worked from 8am to almost midnight. Monday, June 11th- I had to go to work. Yeah, it sucked. I was exhausted. The best part? I got my period AND the start of a cold. Ick. Double ick. Worked a half day and then headed back to the house to keep working. Again, worked til almost midnight. Tuesday- Stayed at the Creighton house all day to supervise the packers. They exceeded the box estimate by quite a few boxes, which we later discovered (from unpacking later in the week) was due to careless waste of space in boxes and uneducated packing. However, as I didn't have to do the packing and I didn't have to pay them, I'm living with it. Wednesday- The longest day by far. The movers showed up at 7 to start loading. 15.25 hours later, they left our new house. Yeah. They loaded all morning. At 12, they took off for a 2 hour lunch break. We also took a lunch break and headed to the new house. When they arrived at 2 to start unpacking, that's when the hard work began for us. I did most of the directing for the movers. Telling them where to put boxes and furniture. They obviously did all of the heavy lifting, but standing out in the 90 degree heat wasn't easy for me either. They had to disassemble some of the furniture to get it in the house. At the end of the day we were extremely pleased with the work they had done. They literally didn't stop moving my stuff in until the truck was empty. No breaks for almost 6 hours of unloading. Oh yeah, and at this point both my mother and I had horrible colds. Thursday- My mom left and then I had to wait around the new place for the movers to bring the stuff from London (Kendall's parents' house). When they arrived, I was faced with a RIDICULOUS 30 boxes of Kendall's childhood crap. I was furious. What's wrong with my m-i-l!?!?! Like we don't have enough other crap to unpack and sort through. At least we got the ping pong table though. Once they left, I headed down to help Kendall clean the house on Creighton. We cleaned as much as we could without going overboard and then spent a good hour walking through the house crying because we didn't want to leave. It was a bittersweet afternoon. We intermittently laughed and cried and talked about all of the good memories we had in the three years we lived in our "first house". I have such a great husband. He's not afraid to cry with me, and I love that. We left that evening, knowing that we'd never again step foot in our first home. Dathan and Natalie made us a surprise dinner at their house, which was very nice after a hard day of work. Friday- Our dining room table was delivered from Arhaus. I had to send one chair back right away, and now we're probably sending back the table because it has a knick in it. No biggie though, they let you keep the furniture until they replace it. And Arhaus is all about the customer being right. They want to make buyers for life, and they're definitely impressing me already. Then we went and sold our house. It was sad. We signed the papers and handed over the keys. Then we headed "home" to wait on the washer and dryer. Let me just say, they're kick ass. How did I live without these things?!?!?! Front loaders are the way to go. We even had time to watch a little TV. That night we got in the hot tub for the first time. KICK ASS. Everyone should own one of these things. Let's just say, it rekindled the "romance". LOL!!!!!!!! Saturday- Kept unpacking boxes and then took the afternoon off to go see the Marilyn Monroe exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute. Totally not worth the 28 bucks we spent, but we still got to see some really cool pictures of Marilyn. They had zero memorabilia though and we thought the exhibit was definitely lacking. Then we headed out shopping for a while and bought new garage door openers. The Romeros only gave us one old cruddy and sticky one. So we bought two new ones. AND, they only gave us one key that only worked the front door, so we started looking at new locks for the house. Sunday- Father's Day. Kendall's parents came over and helped us some more and then we cooked out. Then Warren opened his gifts....and we worked some more. Then we stopped for dinner and relaxed for the rest of the night. Took the dogs for a walk and met three of our neighbors, really nice people. All of them dog lovers. Came home, went to bed, and here I am Monday morning. Now it's time to put on some bumming clothes and go look for a couple more things we need at Target. Kendall will probably work late so I'll have plenty of time to lounge in between unpacking boxes at a slower pace. It's all coming along, but if anyone has free time and wants to come help with something, I wouldn't say no! This post is long enough, so I'll try to keep up better now that most of the craziness is over. Monday, June 11, 2007 Exhausted So tired. Weak. Three days of working from dawn to....dawn. Old homeowners were slobs. Can't say much more. Too exhausted. Packers come tomorrow. Movers come Wednesday. I collapse Thursday. Will post more later. Old homeowners were jerks too. UGH. Friday, June 08, 2007 Day of Conflicting Emotions So today is my last day with my favorite group of kids EVER. I'm pretty bummed. I cried three times yesterday when I said my official goodbyes. Some kids won't be there today. Then I cried twice at graduation last night. I'm sure I'll probably cry again today. On the other hand, I'm stoked that it's the start of three months off. No more getting up at 6 to get ready for work. Laying around and reading books and watching Little House on the Prarie. Plus, we're getting the keys to our new house today! We'll be spending the next week working on moving in. We're going to move small things this weekend and making sure nothing needs painting. Then the packers come Tuesday and the movers Wednesday. By this time next week, we'll officially be living in our new house and be only 2 hours from handing over the keys to our old ones. Which brings me back to being sad again! I'm sad we're selling. It didn't really hit me until a couple days ago when we gave Mike our dining room table. It looked so empty in there! This is so different than a rental. *sigh* Oh well, off to work I go! Sunday, June 03, 2007 My Weekend (in a quick blurb) Friday- The Eutslers came up and we ate burgers, salad, and chips. We showed them our super cool new game Super Paper Mario (SPM for short) for Wii. Karen and I chatted a bit while Kendall took some phone calls and Jim played boxing on the Wii and almost broke a sweat. Then I got to feel Nicole move which was AWESOME. She was very active and you could see Karen's belly moving. Wildness. We finished the evening by playing three rounds of Sequence....which Jim and I won all three times! It was a lot of fun...for the winners!!!! Hahahaha! Kendall's first comment after they left that night, "I can't believe how much Jim ate! He's never eatten that much food!" Needless to say, we were flattered. Karen even took our picture for the last "E Squared" gathering in our old house. She'll have to come up soon and take the first gathering of the "club" at the new digs. Saturday- Slept in til 10. Played SPM for like 3 hours til Kendall got home. Yes, it's addictive. Showered and then went to a residency gathering. One of the last probably. The food was scarey and too ethnic for me, but I tried a little of everything. Confirming that I don't really like Indian food. Dessert was good though. =) Sunday- Slept in again until 10. Again, played SPM for like 3 hours. Showered and went out with Jessica for a couple of hours. Bought some KICK ASS bras at Cacique (the big boobed girls store) and my boobs now look as perky as they did when I was 16 and they were only B cups! HELL YEAH! I'd take a picture....but that just might be too naughty. ;) You'll have to see them in person. They're amazing. Wrapping up the evening with....SPM. Yeah. We're out of control! Okay, I have to go play some more! Bye!!!!!!!!!!!! Friday, June 01, 2007 Hooray! I am officially a part of the "Feel Nicole Move" Club! :) And boy was she active! And that makes me very happy! The best part was when I asked Karen if it felt like an alien trying to burst out of her body when Nicole moved and she said, "Yes"! Hahahaha! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) About Me LisaMarie Troy, Ohio, United States Thirty-two year old teacher, mother and wife just living in small town Ohio. 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