pop quiz:

which cookie will dallas eat last? a, or b?answer:

A

why? because in dallas terms, it's not "poofy" enough

homework

ez thought that it was a really great idea with me working part time, studying part time until he realized how much "fun" it was going to be on his part when i was home studying. sorry buddy...

tonight was bath time for all furry creatures in our house

ez is somewhat fit and doesn't look bad soaking wet

on the otherhand, william does.
at least everyone smells good now!

many have heard of selective hearing, but, not many have heard of the disease called,
SELECTIVE SEEING

on thursday before class i wrote dallas 2 notes.... on my break i called to see if he got them (them as in plural). he said, yes, i got the note about ezra but what else was there?

way to conveniently avoid seeing the honey-do list dallas!

note on top of picture: honey-do list
note on bottom: about ezra

really now, how can you not see both?

yesterday something happened....

it is rare that dallas thinks of me when he's at work. their company rule is that personal calls need to be kept to a 5 min max. in the burnum house this translates to no more that 56.3 seconds.... so the fact that i got an email from him yesterday was extremely astonishing. i was extremely excited about this until i saw what it was....

a forwarded email from the office secretary about taxing car mileage WITH priceless closing:

regards, dallas

i rank pretty high, obviously

and it starts.....

i'm back in school to boost the 'ol GPA up a bit before i apply to big person school. thankfully i have a new study buddy. although william doesn't help much with class discussion he does offer wonderful moral supportwhile we are hard at work ezra gets to play. tonight he found a new toy

as you can't see from our dark picture, the ayes won and our basement is a beautiful "classic carmel" color. please note that carmel is in no way shape or form any sort of beige. those caught mentioning the "b" word will have to sit in the corner of the laundry room and listen to everyone else having fun in the CARMEL room

we picked out carpet tonight! it is called "wheatfield," which also has no resemblence to the "b" word.

i love my puppy dog
and i'm pretty sure he loves me

it's friday!
this week was crazy, thus the lack of blogging

ez gets 2 walks + ball/frisbee a day
william gets none

sit down for this one---
i made dinner EVERY night this week (yes, shocker)

i started orientation for my new job. although this picture is hard to see, you are looking at a 1" stack of papers that we went thru this week. kind of info overloadalso, william got a new bag of cat food. it's cheaper to buy economy size. who wants to take bets on how long 18 lbs will last him?

william has started fighting back

now at our house when you use the restroom, william stealthily waits behind the curtain and gives ezra a little tap tap tap-ero when he walks by

ez is nice enough to play along and ignore william's immaturity

bowling... again

every night dallas and i play a couple games of bowling. monday he was extremely delighted with his score of 243 until i blew him out of the water tonight. look very closely and you see a shadow across his 10th frame and final score. VERY SNEAKY dallas--- way to cover that 118 up!

dad--this one's for you---
9 strikes in a row!

ez finds bowling not so exciting but still participates in family time

when we went to ulysses this year for Christmas, carol, dallas' mom, was chomping at the bit to get rid of a few of his things he conveniently left for storage in her closet

among the things we were so fortunate to re-adopt were some baseball cards, pilot log book and above all, the beloved letter jacket

i'm getting my stuff together for my first day of work tomorrow. i'm thinking it would be that perfect outfit accessory that will make a lasting first impression on most of the office

just what every wife loves to see...
their steak knives being used to cut drywall

nice one dallas

10 lbs lighter and 200 kleenexes later i'm feeling better!
i've been sleeping a lot, thus less blogging
i've also forgot how to ride a bike, so if my mucus-infected lungs feel good enough and the weather is nice this weekend, i'm hoping to get out a bit

onto the blog:
i guess in order to look better the room has to look worse.
dallas has everything ready to pull wire and my project (under supervision) has been the screen. here are my directions:

1) make the screen PERFECT.

i've been getting text messages all week reminding me that "screen paint comes on friday"

translates to: the screen better be ready by the time the paint comes so that it can go on ASAP otherwise if left alone for more than 1 hr in the box after arrival may cause it to explode. (as anyone with common sense knows....)

your job: pick out color. many of you will hopefully be enjoying this room. what color should it be? vote on right side of blog, PLEASE!

for those of you who don't know, we, or more like i caved in and got our house a wii for Christmas this year. this spurred the kick off of....

project entertainment room

current projects include:
joint compounding screen
painting special screen paint
installing speakers and wire
installing receiver

upcoming projects include:
carpeting room
painting room
purchasing couch and furniture

so far we are enjoying our wii on the 9' screen without soundother exciting news:
after sleeping for 14 hrs yesterday i can finally function in society
after 2 months without, we finally got a new microwave!!

i've been pretty sick lately and don't feel like taking cute pictures and adding captions to them. sorry

for the william lovers out there:
while we were gone he paced himself very nicely thru his 8lb bag of kitty food, even with a little to spare. we can't tell if he has his winter coat or is getting fatter. i'll post pic tomorrow

also, officially tonight, wii has declared me a pro bowler.
bring it on mom! :)

almost 29 car hours later.... we're back!
who wants to help us unpack?

happy new year!

this year we did Christmas on New Years.

we found out that 4 people playing tennis is better than 2
my siblings and i got some ridiculously amazing nerd presents. here we are trying to see which couple is the fastest nerd getting them started up. fortunately dallas is on my team and we won

back at blogging

it's been a long 2 weeks.....
here's our kansas stay in a nutshell:

friday (19th):
dallas, who has been gone for 3 weeks, gets delayed 3 times back from ND. apparently they are notorious for blizzards up there

sat (20th):
dallas gets in at 2:30 and we leave 45 min later.
to: CO springs for Christmas with the burnums
TTTTD: (total travel time to date): 3 hrs

21st:
dallas gets first phone call for work at 8:30to CO springs for nephew's 1st birthday party
TTTTD: 6 hrs

22nd:
dallas and i buy new shoes for Christmas. he's not a fan of the extremely flattering free sample panty hose at the shoe storecaravan to u-town (ulysses).
ez is a trooperTTTTD: 12 hrs

Christmas day, the 25th:
my grandpa decides that he'd like to go to heaven for Christmas. this was a hard cookie to swallow and difficult to accept but he's in a much better place now. we'll miss you grandpa!

23-26th:
we had a really good time hanging out with the Burnums for the holidays. it was fun seeing what kind of stuff they come up with for kids and being with the family. randy, dallas' dad has 2 memory cards full of hi-def pics but somehow i have none

we go to atwood; TTTD: 15 hrs

28th:
travel to Manhattan ks
it was surprising to see how the landscape has changed a bit since we last went to schoolTTTD: 20 hrs

29th:
celebrate my grandpa's life
get coffee at radina's with cammie, just like old times

30th:
take ez out for a walk around campus and play ball before the car ride home
it was extremely nice of mr wefald to let us play ball on his lawnTTTD: 25 hrs

up to date:
celebrating the new year with my family, and headed back the 2nd
ez found out he loves milk, wears himself out on the farm and goes to bed by 7:00
consider this picture our Christmas card as i'm not sending them out this year
don't worry willie--- we're coming back for you!

we have a fat cat, as everyone knows

willie loves his food (obviously) but so does ezra, thus the cat food dish is stored on top of the washer and dryer. unfortunately william is so fat that he cannot jump up this far to get his food so every time we go downstairs we have to lift him up to his food dish

my question: by lifting willie to his food dish, am i helping the fat one or am only the enabler for his ever expanding girth?

who knew...

crisco freezes!?