Naked

After the last wind storm we lost one of the big trees in our front yard. It was ugly, but still a tree. I casually mentioned our (rotting)split rail fence to the tree guy. For $25 they would chip it up for us. I couldn't pass it up.

Our yard looks so naked now!

Hard to feel sorry for.....

Long walks, lots of frisbee, clean beds and bath day.

Poor doggies.

Dallas' photography

D loves his camera and his editing software. Anyone need a pet portrait?

How great is Dallas?

Great.

He ran cables all through the house so he could install a tv in my art room!!!

March madness just got super great--- college hoops and art. Good stuff.

Our last week!

Last thurs I had my shoulder surgery. It went as expected--- which is great! I'm still recovering (and expect to be for a couple more week here). Movements like out and up (ESP with weight) are out of the question. Ponytails are impossible. Dallas has been my personal hair stylist for the past week. However, I'm getting better every day and can't wait to get back to running (and biking) eventually. My surgery was a Mumford (shave off the distal end of the clavicle) and subacromial decompression (shaving off part of the acromium of part of the scapula).

We have been ultra boring otherwise. Dallas continues to play with his camera every spare minute. I find myself between watching bb and working on my art project which I'm trying to get done and framed before an upcoming show. Its going slower than I thought but, that could be due to my perfection problem. Most of the picture in doing with tweezers. Ive almost convinced myself that i have a mental disorder for doing this. There is a sneak peak shown here!

I'm also checking the kitty shelter weekly for a new kitten. The dogs are boring and I miss little William wandering around, even though he was annoying and shed all over.

What's wrong with this picture?

If you can't see.... A man wearing a cowboy hat is driving a fiat.

I think he needs a ford truck or something

Happy valentines day!

Usually I am anti-buying anything on valentines day- but I admit it was pretty nice to get a bouquet today!

Dallas to Andi:

"you're a better person when you don't have gluten. "

Why, thank you Dallas!

oh boy

its been such a long time since i blogged, im so sorry.  things i hear happen in 3s....so i hope to be done for a while.
1.  just when i thought things were going well i started getting this nasty little rash....a lot of details spared it boils down to an undiagnosed case of gluten intolerance.  i've had to be "good" for the past 3 weeks (ie no girl scout cookies) and back to normal.  unfortunately i think gluten is outta my life forever

2.  just when i get done diagnosing my rash, my boss goes to vegas, gets the worst cold imaginable and shares with me.  fever, chills, it was a long weekend.  fortunately he got the green snot before me and put me on antibiotics right away.  5 days later i'm finally feeling better

3.  yesterday was my shoulder surgery.  i almost got cold feet and backed out (i've been avoiding it for 5.5 years now).  my surgeon did a mumford and a sad..... it was outpatient, and went well.  now i'm stuck in a sling only for a week.....and 2012 is looking up again!

dallas enjoys his camera.....a lot.  it's the first thing he does when he gets home---play with the camera. 

i promise to be better w/ the blog---i'm sorry!  but having health issues for the past few weeks hasn't helped a whole lot.  here is one of dallas' pics labeled "super ez!"

Dallas is enjoying his new playtoy.

Ez

Currently our little blue room is serving as a dog/bike room.

I love watching ezras frustration as he loses his current favorite ball behind the spokes.

I am happy to report that there is still a toy standing from Christmas!

Also, this week Ezra ate 3/4 a roll of summer sausage, plastic casing and all. It will be interesting to see how this one ends up.

Go Andi!

Today I got my belmar running shirt since I've been to the running club 10x. Anyone can come and it's free! On Thursday nights at 6. Let me know if you're interested!

Last week when we got home we went to find some food.... And went to bed. After all, waking up at 2:45est (12:45mst!!!!) in order to stage for this thing left us exhausted.

Hours later I find myself nestled next to the porcelain god for the next 13 hours. All week d and I have had the GI bug. Has anyone else had this thing? It's a nasty little sucker.

I'm thankful for understanding dogs who like to snuggle and snore. They have been most supportive of our need for rest.

Our marathon trip

It's been a good (very long) week since we got back from our trip. But, we are happy to report that we in fact finished the Disney marathon together and it was a fabulous venue. If you are just going to do one marathon in your life do this one! It is worth is (keep in mind when looking at registration costs!)

We went down early to spend some time w our nieces at Disney, ran the marathon and ended up running into carrot top in a boat crossing a canal of all places.

I can't figure out the blog application on my phone but will get labels on these pictures promptly!

We had an awesome cheer crew!!!

Made it!!

Magical day at Disney

Hmmmmm

Who is more ready for their Florida trip..... Andi? Or Dallas?

View from the office

So I may have enhanced this a bit but we still have a good view from our office!

My manager is awesome

Forgot to post how great my manager is. We had a surprise new years bash. Awesome!

Cookie making

In our house, Dallas calls this movement, or lack of, "occupy kitchen.".

Seriously I can't turn around without running into dog

Happy new year!

Mother nature was overly-generous w her cheer. Our tree split in half and now lays in our front yard

merry Christmas!

sorry it has been such a long drought since last time!  it was a much needed break from EVERYTHING!

i had a fabulous Christmas back home.  it's always so good to get back to the farm, open country and things to do outside!  everyone was able to be there which made it even better!  here's a quick run-through.  besides eating too much delicious food, we.......

walked over to my uncle Herb's house 

 to celebrate a little Christmas with him.  

we also had an ugly sweater contest and exchange at my parent's house.  dallas and i made our ugly sweaters out of goodwill finds.  dusty was fortunate enough to draw dallas'.

i would say my dad might have the ugliest sweater as his says "nebraska football" on the back.

 

i'm going to use my sweater for halloween next year and go as "where's walda".

we were all very happy to be members of the happy hands club

and all of the cousins (minus 2) were able to make it for a little brunch get together.  here are all of us with our spouses!

right now we are tapering for our marathon as we leave next week!! 

I like this!

Christmas trees

After seeing the sign at king soopers for "live cut Christmas trees" Dallas thinks it should be rephrased to "real trees"

He is also wondering if someplace in boulder is advertising "organically grown Christmas trees" this year

He would like to let everyone know that his plastic tree is organic, as plastic is made of petroleum, which in turn comes from mother nature. :)

Ezra has needs

Takes two to tango

Last year I blamed our naked Christmas tree on William. This year i know better.

Dallas has a new hobby

Because we can't seem to get enough hobbies at our house, Dallas decided to start a new one tonight: animal trapping, exclusively mouse trapping.

Ever since William got chomped the mice population around the place (not the house mind you) has been partying. D said himself if he can't get them another cat is in store for the house. This time we will make sure it has claws!

At our house....

We find it necessary to label the jars of peanut butter

Pathetic

There is a reason we don't have kids yet as my dogs are ridiculous.

Tonight ez was already downstairs in bed. I got home and threw some food in the microwave. As soon as ez heard it running he came up to see what might be cooking for him.

He may or may not have had a sample. :)

Just call me Andi pavlov

Moving

We are doing a huge remodel at the clinic. Once it's done it will be pretty great! We make our surgeons earn their keep. After surgery today we made them move all the heavy furniture in the office. It's our version of two men and a truck, although our boys are truckless

Sunday fun day!

Today I went snowshoeing with some of my favorite people. It was a blast!

Last of the season

Today I got the rest of the truffles done for the christmas season! Phew! What a relief. These tasty little things are white raspberry with an almond on top.

This year we have: white raspberry, double chocolate with toasted coconut, orange chocolate rolled in toasted pecans, peanut butter rolled in chocolate graham crackers and mocha. We also have cute foils to present them in. Movin up in the truffle world!

Resourceful

Some might call it cheap, but I laugh at myself every time I put the tree "skirt" up. I doubt that anyone else in America uses their old toga party toga from college as their skirt. (I do believe that party was a good 6 or 7 years ago)