kansas city here we come!

we escaped town this weekend!

we thought we'd never get out of denver with our 15" of snow but friday morning found us on snow packed 70 headed to the airport
but we got into kc and it was great to see teri for lunch!
like a magnet the storm followed us cross country. by the time we had got to go to the engagement bash and on the way back to stay in kc we found ourselves driving in winter storm conditions hour 6
at the great wolf lodge we found it necessary to take a jr. high picture by the ginormous dorky bear
then we went swimming for a few hrs in the indoor water park. fortunately for everyone my bag wouldn't fit inside the super tiny lockers thus i couldn't take my camera in for live footage. my in a pinch target suit did pretty well. hours later we are eating dinner and playing mexican train dominoes. dallas and i had the all time biggest loser score that we've seen in years.thanks mom and dad for making this trip possible!
it was really really great!
also, thank you (!) gwen and mike for watching ez!

we must be getting old because we came home and napped for 2 hrs

with so much snow today dallas and i had no choice but to......

go swimsuit shopping!

we are hopefully leaving on a jet plane tomorrow to kc for my brother and his fiance's engagement bash! afterwords my family is going to kc's great wolf lodge for some great indoor swim park action. tonight when i pulled out my swimsuit, which i havn't worn since college, my elastic split (as my mom told me it might have and i procrastinated until now....)
nothing beats a target special

is it really thursday already!?

this week has flown by with a couple tests and papers to write ahead of time so we can hopefully get to kc this weekend guilt free!

ez hates boring snow days

tonight on the way to church dallas told me that he was scared his tan lines were dissing appear. not only are his tan lines leaving but his mind as well

Happy 3rd Birthday Fat-so!!

today at work was extremely sad, but such an eye opener.

we had a patient come in with extreme MS to the point of having extremely blurred speech and was in a motorized wheelchair. she needed help finding a primary care physician in the facility and so i helped her. as we were going up the elevator together she said, "always take the stairs while you can."

i almost cried.

falling asleep studying mircro somehow made me
the new animal whisperer

yesterday i took a big step and decided to commute to work. wednesdays are a good day for this since i don't need to be at the office at any particular time. note that this is the longest distance i've gone in about 3 years and i decide to do it on this route with back pack. yes, i'm a real thinker...

i almost made it the entire way but just a few small miles from home dallas had to come find me eating sour gummy worms and laffy taffy at a loaf'n'jug. next time i'm packing more food, that is if there is a next time. one of my teammates does this more than once a week. i'm thinking once a week is enough for me!

apparently william thinks that he needs a full size bed
to himself for ultimate sleeping comfort

we survived!!!

dallas did pretty amazing on his first ever day skiing

dallas was trying to be a wonderful kitchen helper last night but unfortunately didn't pass "using the mixer 101" in which you learn that after putting flour into a mixture you should never automatically put it to speed 6

today....

ta da! vacuum cleaner fixed!

YAHOO!!!

bad boyz bad boyz

watcha gonna do when they come for you?

for a little while now this pesty little motorcycle-er has been blazing up and down our street for fun at nights. the other night the cops finally got him at the end of our block!

how exciting are we in the evenings?
so exciting that dallas will stand in the corner of the living room for 40 min watching the dude get ticketed, for lack of better things to do

what do you do when yo'ure married to the m&m monster but they're on sale and want 4 bags to last more than 4 days?
yes, it's true.
i individually bagged reasonable portion sizes into snack sized baggies.

you wonder, isn't this what you do for little kids?
the answer: yes, and in special circumstances for big kids, too

it's been pretty boring around here... school.... work.... walk the dog...

i did have a blond moment the other day:

the circut city down the street from us is going out of business so we went down to snag some good 70% off deals.
i found an awesome deal: label maker for $3.00!
how could i resist? so we picked it up and brought it home....

i HATE packaging like this! why do they show a label maker on the front when there's not one inside? so now we're stuck with 400 3/4" x 2" labels.

way to read the package, andi.
yipee.