MIA

alright, I realize that a month and a half without a post is pretty pathetic. i will attempt to catch you up on what has been going on...but since it has been so long i am bound to forget some things. here are some of the things we have been up to in the past couple of months:

• Marriage Retreat at our church. I am sure that we learned something while we were there :), but what I remember most is that I won a gift certificate to Sonic! woohoo for free stuff!


• Medievil fair in Norman. Andy bought a didgeridoo! Yoda and Tucker are terrified of the noise it makes.


• Andy is playing softball on Thursday nights. Their games have gotten rained out almost every other week.


• We are still playing volleyball at church on Wednesday nights. We finally have a pretty good sized group that plays each week and we are getting much better!


• Vacation! (I will write a separate post about that)


• OKC Arts Festival


• Planted flowers
  
• Played Wii carnival games



• Our 1 year and 2 month old washing machine broke. (1 year warranty, of course) The repairman gave us a quote of $560 to fix it. I can buy a brand new one for $619. He was telling us we needed to replace the rubber gasket (it had a huge tear in it) as well as the door switch. Andy decided he would just order the gasket and replace it himself ($100). Too much explaination required here....we were just pretty sure that we did not need to replace the door switch. We waited and waited for the part to come in and after 2 weeks with no functioning washer and no part or estimate for its arrival at the parts store, we called a store in Tulsa. They had the part in stock so my mom and dad picked it up for us and delivered in when they came for my dad's dr. appt. Andy replaced the part and our washer is working!!!! I have never been so excited to do laundry!


• While the washer was out of commission we painted and tiled the laundry room.



• We cut down the big maple tree in our front yard. Half of it was already dead and we saw more and more dying all the time. We thought it would be best to cut it down before it fell down on our house.

Happy Easter!

"Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn't here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying."

Matthew 28:5-6, NLT

New bloggers

Sara Froese has joined the blogging revolution.....wahoooo....check it out. www.joshfroese.blogspot.com to see photos of Josh, Sara and Jake!

60 pounds!

Birthday

Today is my 26th birthday. I am at home with the flu....well, recovering from the flu. I got sick on Wednesday and missed work Thursday. I am normally off Fri-Sun and then the doctor told me not to go back to work until Tuesday so that I wouldn't get anyone else sick and so I wouldn't catch anything else while my immune system is already weakened. So I am on day 5 of my sitting on the couch wathing movies/home improvement tv shows marathon. 5 days of that is really about 3 1/2 days too many. I am feeling pretty good with the exception of a cough. Andy brought lunch home and while he was here the doorbell rang. The FEDEX man brought my birthday present! Andy got me these really cool stackable rings from Sundance (my favorite jewelry place!)

The blue one is technically blue topaz but it look just like aquamarine which is my birthstone. Yesterday Liz and her sister Sus came by on her way to the airport. She was in OKC for a couple of days and we were supposed to meet for lunch on Friday but since I was quarantined I couldn't make it. So she brought me a bday present (some earrings, a scarf, cd, and pjs). Thanks Liz! I tried to wear the scarf this morning but Yoda just kept sniffing me because I guess it smells like Schnoozeberry. I also got to talk to Amy Riedel yesterday! It was so great to hear from her....I havent talked to her in over a year. She is going to become a loyal reader of this blog :) HI AMY!

Liz "tagged" me on her blog probably over a month ago...but I forgot until now so here it goes....

Share 5 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog and Share the 5 top places on your “want to see or want to see again” list.
1. I cannot live without Dr. Pepper. And I really like it ice cold, in an insulated mug thingie, with ice and a straw.
2. I really like filling out forms....applications, rebates, warranties, etc. There is something strangely satisfying about completing them.
3. I would have 70 dogs if I had the space (don't worry, I do NOT have the space)
4. My dream house is the house from Father of the Bride.
5. I have never seen the movie E.T.

1. Alaska
2. Europe in general because I can't just pick one place.
3. Australia

4. Hawaii

5. Ireland

Long overdue....

In my last post I forget to mention one of our major highlights of January....Josh, Sara, Jake and Luke came to OKC to visit! (I forgot to post these photos because they were taken with Andy's camera and uploaded on the "other" computer.) So while they were here we went to Pole Position and the guys raced while Sara and I hung out with the Jakester.

Luke

Andy

Josh

Uncle Andy and Jake playing with Grandpa Dave's guitar. Jake loved playing the guitar.

Jake was playing in the office with Andy and Luke and I was sitting in the hallway taking pictures of them. He started to play the open the door-close the door game and this was the look he gave me just before he shut the door in my face. We had lots of fun with our family and we can't wait to hang out again!

video madness

Here are a few videos from our last couple of weeks. I apologize for the first two being sideways, but I couldn't figure out how to rotate them. I will try to figure that out before i post more.

Video #1: Tucker, who is getting SO big, is playing ball with Andy.


Video #2: Yoda proving that white dogs can't jump.

Video #3: We had a young married dept Valentine banquet at church. Each class was responsible for providing a few minutes of entertainment. This is our class's contribution.

I was going to write more and add a few more pictures, but it took too long for those videos to load and now we have to leave. We are taking Financial Peace at church and tonight we are learning about "dumping debt." We will be millionaires in no time!!