i finally have some updated pictures i wanna post and blogger hates me. please understand.

Ketchup

ok, here's a quick catch up since it's been MONTHS (quite literally) since I wrote last. we're all settled in the new house. savanah loves the big yard and the woods behind us. she comes home with more scratches then i've ever seen on one dog, but she keeps going back for more. having to jump around all the retaining walls has kept her busy as well so she's been much calmer when she's inside. that's not to say she stays that way, whenever guests arrive, whether she's seen them a million times or for the first, she greets everyone with the same love and excitement.

chris is settled in with his new job. he loves his short commute. not sure if i mentioned this or not but he got a "new" truck. well a different truck awhile ago. it's big. it's a ford. and that's about all i know. i will have to take a picture or two to post. it's cute but i would have perferred an suv. he's loving being close to his parents/grandparents for hunting purposes. he got a small doe with his bow. it's earn a buck, so he had to get a dow to get a buck. i don't care for venision unless it's hot sticks or sausage so i'm fine with it if he doesn't get another. his dad and him spend lots of time "fixing" things that probably dont' need to be fixed. his mom has turned into our personal gardener and i'm loving that part of them being so close!

my life is crazy right now. i joined the rio athletic booster club. i'm the treasurer. i love it. i love crunching numbers and making reports and being able to help out whenever i can. we were a part of the homecoming parade this year which was fun. i love to see how excited kids get over candy. it's just sugar but even kids know the fun sugar can bring! the rio football team just completed the best season in rio history. no lie. they were the first ever team to win a play off game. they were taken out the next round but that's not to undermine the amazing efforts those boys put in. off to college for most of them, next year will be a struggle again. however... i hope they are proud of themselves. i am coaching again! FINALLY!!!!! i've missed being a part of basketball while we lived in janesville. i'm coaching 4th and 5th grade girls. they challenge me each and every practice. sometimes i come home and i want to cry and other nights i come home beaming with pride. i love to see them when they finally get something i've been saying. you can see the light bulb pop on and they finally get it. its' the most amazing feeling as a coach.

other then that we're just busy. we LOVE being close to friends again. in fact we have 7 weddings next year! chris and i will be a part of most of them which is both good and bad. we're very excited to celebrate with our friends and family but gosh that's adding up quick. they are pretty spread out though so that's good. we don't have to take out second jobs, well not yet anyway. i'm still waiting to hear the good news that my little sister is getting married... i'm hoping it'll be soon!!!

a couple weeks ago i went on a field trip with my nephew ryan to the apple orchard and crane foundation. spending the day with him was great. it almost made me which i had kids!!! this weekend Alex, my 11 year old neice, Ryan my nephew who is 7 and Tanner my nephew that is 3 will all be spending the night! i can't wait... i love them. we always end up cooking something and making lots of messes. sunday night i'm sure i'll be busy cleaning house but that's ok. it's so worth it.

well i should get back to work... thanks for letting me remind myself how happy i am we're back. back in R-10.

i hate technology

so we finally got a home email account and of course... i messed it up some how. i tried to send our family our new address, email, and phone number along with 4 pictures of the new house and bam! it goes crazy. it sent the email 56 times. the same email. i did not hit send 56 times i swear to god. then what it sent made no sense... i don't get it. i hate computers.

sick of being sick

since we got back from nc i've been sick. sort of on and off for three weeks now. it sucks. i feel ok for a couple hours then i get a pain in my side, feel like i could vomit, and often get light headed. not always does it all come at once and sometimes it lasts hours other times just mins. well it's annoying the heck out of me so i went to the doctor today. she had no idea what was wrong. mentioned my gall bladder and ovaries and said she wants to run more tests. and no, i'm not prego. so i go in thursday for 4 hours of "tests". i can hardly wait to sit in a hospital for 4 hours while people poke at me and ask me the same questions over and over again.

i was supposed to be going to ikea on thursday but nooooo i get to go to the hospital instead. i can hardly wait.

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!