who's bad to the bone?
guess again! not ez, but andi!

all a's this semester.... yipee!

how much am i enjoying minimal responsibility?
TOO MUCH!
i have 2 weeks before summer school starts up and i am LOVING it


yes believe your eyes.... i actually planted real live flowers that need care and attention

this is quite a big feat for me because i had to pick out flowers that i new i could maintain. (ie high sun, low water, come back every year). this took a very long time. afterwards i was so excited about this that i called dallas at work and told him exactly WHERE i planted them.

dallas is sleeping on the couch for 2 reasons tonight:
1) he tried walking past them on his way into the house
2) when i did make him go back and look all he says
"what did you plant? dandilions?"
no dallas, not all yellow FLOWERS are weeds

ugh, the nerve!

Dear Aunt Sylvia, (#2)

it's the middle of may and we're about 60% certain that we won't be getting any more snow. our plants are thinking the same way and only 60% of them are actually growing. this little bush (on left) is pretty ugly to start off with but when only half grows it's extra ugly. any recommendations for a beautiful, easy to maintain gets sun replacement?

also, the people that lived here before us put these (stupid) plastic round things in (look at right on picture). are they necessary if there is already a plastic seperation from the mulch stuff and the grass?

also, a reader wondered since you have advice for lawn balding if you know of any hints for head balding as well (i'm assuming this person is a man)
for readers in response to yard balding. if you were wondering:

Does the grass pull up easy or can you kind of roll it up--Could be grubs though this is a little early.

Especially if your lawn is shady and has been damp--could be a fungus. Do the blades have spots or stripes on them or a mildew or rust that you can wipe off--check on the edge of the spots where there is still some green left

whew! what a weekend! since thursday night....

we have drove over 1200 miles
AI'ed the beef cows
been in a wedding
rode the breakfast ride
went to the fleetwood mac concert

and am now studying for my final on tuesday!

dallas, heroically helped save a cow's life and injured his ankle. i just plain look ridiculous (like usual when i'm on the farm) and here is our take on American Gothic
dallas had some pretty wonderful forehead makeup going on
and uh, is a very good wedding present wrapper
cammie and i
people were kind of wondering who dallas' dressed up date was to the wedding but the tan lines helped assure everyone that yes, it was me after all
we are looking forward to hitting manhattan for a week this summer for my brother's wedding. i can't wait to hammer with the guys on flat roads in the wind with an abundance of O2. surely that's not too much to ask for, is it?

WHOA!

i think we just won the award for the cleanest (and most empty) refrigerator in jefferson county!

in the william/ezra relationship,
william definatley wears the pants

Dear Aunt Sylvia

(for those of you who don't know, my Aunt Sylvia owns a gardening business)

Dear Aunt Sylvia--
I have voluntarily signed you up for andi's yard advice committee.
here is the first problem:

after i picked all the dandilionsi found that my yard is balding. (it is doing this in a couple spots)
any suggestions?

i went home this past weekend. going home is the best vacation for me. here are a couple pics.

ezra is SPOILED. not only does he get showered with attention BUT my dad decided to really spoil him and brought ez some bones back from the pasture. unfortunately he thinks they are house worthy.my parents' cats have also adopted a new transportation system on the farm. it's called I-kitty-5. they have made their own trails on the yard.
yes, you probably think this is a RIDICULOUS concept.... but they actually use it!

new phone

this may look like dallas is listening to some great tunes, but, 3 weeks ago he lost his phone and refuses to get a new one. since he hasn't found it yet he found some app for the itouch to convert his touch to a phone via voiceover.
he has the best of both worlds: can call out, get nothing in.

i think sometimes dallas secretly wonders why some studying days are more productive than others. well, dallas, today happens to be a less productive day due to.....

what is that ezra?
you want a sandwich too?

yesterday i had to go buy some batteries.
i couldn't believe that my choices were:

4 for $3.99
10 for $11.50
OR
8 for $6.50

somehow that just doesn't make sense

it's supposed to snow for the next 24 hrs, so i feel very good about working on my report since no one else gets to ride either and i'm not missing out. :) today is catch up from the week around here....

remember barballs? i forgot to blog this earlier. this is 10 min after we brought it home
this is for my mom--- everyone wants love and william is no exception. several time a day, actually, he comes and jumps on my lap while studying
it takes a lot of work to get dallas out of the house in the mornings. i really "love" the days that i turn around after the door shuts and find a secretly placed lovely little present from his office on the counter......uhm dishwasher is on the other side of the sink!
ez has a little friend visiting for 4 days. campi is a good boy though and fun to have around!
one day i said i had to go pick up some stuff at the grocery store, chocolate chips being one of my items to buy. dallas quickly pipes in that he likes the ones in the brown bag more and i should buy them more often. hmm....wonder why? maybe because it tasts like a candy bar? (dallas is becoming quite the chocolo-holic)

dallas has lost his phone and so for the 2nd time in 3 years he has emailed in "sick" to work. he could have very well been sick but i wans't around to witness it. if you're looking for some nerd reading material check out his blog..... if yo'ure into cars and understand that type of thing.

busy week! sorry! here are a couple of pics....

william has claimed his own incognito spot in the front yard but once the sun goes down the fun is over (mom these are my 3 tulips)
dallas tried getting little blue started up. a new battery and new starter later and we're still trying to figure out the problem. maybe "we" isn't a good word.

ezra shouts out a big easter THANK YOU to a. cindy for the ham bone. it was gone in 25 min

Saturday we had Bobbi's surprise 30th birthday party! i must say it was a pretty good time!
this weekend i got a lot done but not my 4 page single spaced size 12 times new roman chemistry report that is due tomorrow (with citation)...... 11:49 and 2 pages down! William is learning a lot about robotic technology in the OR

if 3's not a crowd than 4 is for sure

somehow dallas sweet talked me into agreeing to buy the jeep he's wanted for the last 10 years. (M38) i have to admit, after it's back to military green and roll cage is off ez and i will look pretty cute driving it :)

so yesterday's blog was a hoax....... the only thing we're really expecting is a bunch of non spring weather for the weekend

ez has been extra good lately so he got to go to the toy store. anyone know where the gym is? ez has started lifting his barballs.

there's a reason i've been super tired lately.......
yesterday dallas and i went to the doctor and found we are expecting in november! although we wern't planning for it it's pretty exciting!

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.