New House

we got all moved in this weekend. our stuff is in the new house. granted my mom seems to keep finding things we left behind, but for the most part, it's all there. we're not completely unpacked, but for the most part, things are good. i love the new house. it's so homey. it's got lots of rooms, no more open floor plan. i always thought i liked the open floor plan but now that i have it the other way, i like it this way, too. we have three bedrooms (last house had 4) but there is room for an office in the "living room" area so that's good. plus there is a 2nd "den" area that we're using at chris's living room. his video games and a smaller couch are out there. it's probably my favorite room in the house but he claimed it so i guess... i'll let him have it. i'll try to post some pictures when i get them loaded. i'm waiting to take pics of some of the rooms until they get completely unpacked. the living room has all the boxes of the stuff i don't know where to put. there is a spare bedroom with similar stuff in it. there is a lot more wall space so i'm excited for the Warren's Cranberry Festival to do some major shopping! i also have a day off work to go to ikea aug 16th to get some things there.

i think the move has by far been hardest on savanah. she's not sure what's hers and what's not and where she should lay down and what couches she can sleep on and which she can't get caught on. we've pretty much given up keeping her off furniture but we try to lay blankets down for her. she misses grandma A LOT! my mom does in home child care so when we were living there savanah got to play a lot and was seldom in her kennel at all. now we're gone all day and we don't have the place doggy-proofed yet so she has to stay in from 7:45-5:15 everyday. poor girl. we might take her to mom's a couple days a week... doggie daycare!

Funny Picture!

these are my nephews! this was after a wedding before the reception and my brother in law, husband, and sister's boyfriend were drinking beers and tossing them in the lawn to pick up later. the boys however were bored and decided they made fun musical instruments. however, this picture makes them look wasted! hilarious... i know. i promise, they didn't drink any beer!

I like this one too!

My Summer Rocks

Got back sunday from an AMAZING trip to the beach. i love north carolina. i love the ocean. i love beach houses. i love my friends. put it all together and that makes for a good time, i'm not gonna lie. this is a picture of the girls that went to the beach with me. this was the last morning we were there and it was sort of sad. i mean seriously, who knows when we'll be together again. hmmm, sad.
the last night there we decided it would be fun to go skinny dipping... or as the heaver folk of the world should call it, Chunkin Dunkin. yea, i'm fat, deal.

We had a blast though for real. i got fried the first day there but it went away quickly and i was able to hide under umbrellas on the beach and still read lots. i took lots of naps. drank a few beers (some how stayed semi-sober the whole week though and not once did i get drunk... amazing.) the girls were extremely entertaining and made me laugh lots, just as i had hoped for.

















i can't believe it's over. i wanna go back!

gala garage sale

you may not know it but i was once a great actress. i acted in a short film produced by some dude in an exotic location... justin's driveway. i was 10, maybe 11. those days were great. the film was all about a garage sale. all i remember is it ended with my character putting a broken tennis racket over her husband's head and walking off stage left. or was it stage right? either way, it was up for an award, at the elementary school. we didn't win. i'm sure we lost out to some kid more popular. probably some current doctor or military man with great honor. i'm just an accountant. maybe i should have stuck to acting.

one week from today and i'll be heading south east to the great state of north carolina. (go heels) i can't wait. no one needs a vacation more then me. well at least not in my eyes right now. the drive may be tough, 18 hours in a car. eek. but there will be many laughs, many heart to hearts, and of course nibs. what's a road trip without nibs? i'm hoping to find some time this trip to get a sun burn, read 3-5 books, and laugh. a lot. there are great expectations on this trip for laughing. life in the real world is so damn serious. life on vacation best not be. it'll be fun to party with the girls one last time before they have to grow up and go to college and be real adults. well at least to appear to be real adults. pretty sure 3-4 of them will never really grow up on the inside, at least i hope not. whether they become lawyers or nurses or hell, bums on the side of the street, they'll go places. i just know it.

of course when i was 10 i thought i was going to be a great actress or an author at least. i'm 26. i'm an accountant.

does anyone read this thing? let's be honest. i feel like i can swear and write all kinds of mean things i don't mean right now because hell, no one will ever read it anyway. instead i'm going to go back to work.

booorrrrreeeedddd

i'm at work... should be working... but i just don't wanna. it's the day before a holiday and i'd much rather be home in bed. or at the cafe eating hashbrowns with onions and cheese and maybe a ham sunrise. yum. but nope, i'm here wasting time and space even though the work is piling up. so what if my inbox is over flowing? not it. (that will forever remind me of living in whitewater... the not it rules of life.)

last night i went to a little circus deal-o in rio. it was amazing. there were cats, yes little house cats, horses, zebras, camels, llamas, and i think that was it. how exotic is a horse? i don't know but they were part of the exotic animal portion of the show. no lie. amanda and i were enjoying it more then the kids i think but that's ok. i have pictures but i haven't loaded them yet... circus pictures yet to come.

i need sleep. it's been a long weekend and it's gonna be an even longer week. yucky.

peace out.

puppies

my puppy and my sisters puppy love each other lots.

cappy, named after the brewer player dude... whom is hot... and she's cute so it works.

savanah named after well nothing but she's my dog and i love her just the same.

my week... in a nutshell

let me sum up my week...

bought a house... yippee... we'll be living in Rio- closing August 6th

chris started his last week at associated

chris found out he can transfer closer to rio then his "new" job would be

chris goes to interview on wednesday

chris worries about letting down his "new" employer and weighs the benefits of staying with his current bank and decides he'd like to take a new route after all

FRIDAY- Chris decides to take the transfer and starts MONDAY!

so now, being Friday afternoon- we're packing up and moving to my parents for a month! (Three weeks sooner then originally planned.)

My little sister got a new puppy, Cappy -named after the Brewers pitcher! She's adorable but I was looking forward to having a lazy Saturday morning with her and our dogs but now I have to spend it packing. yucky. pretty sure that doesn't sound like much fun. so we'll see... maybe we'll just move our clothes this weekend and wait for everything else. who knows.

i'm very excited for chris to be able to stay with his job and i'm also very excited to be living in rio. i wish we could move right into our new house. our house doesn't feel like ours anymore and we don't have another one yet so it sort of feels like we're homeless. savanah is starting to feel the pressure too... she's not herself at all.

well i should get something productive done... lots to do and not lots of time!