happy 3rd ezra!!!

today is my baby's birthday.
it's so hard to believe he's already 21.

he's 21 and still requires more attention than most human 3 year olds.

today he got the barnyard naturals 4 pack from costco.

i love my little pitbull

this weekend my beloved door is being auctioned off.
if you are bored, you should come down here and buy it.
you dont' even have to buy it.
just up the price so that doesn't go for $5.
that's what i'm really scared of.

since i'm an artist, i figure i should probably dress up a bit.
who wants to buy (or bid) on a door from a frump?

yesterday i went shopping. my shoes were on sale.
so i got shoes AND shirt AND (cheap-o) necklace for what the shoes were originally going for.
of course i can find neither shoe or shirt on the net and my camera is not here.

just look for the blonde walking awkwardly in 4" heels.....
most likely falling flat on her face.

good thing i work in orthopedics....for when i break my ankles.

COOKIES!

the other day i had a weak moment....
a very weak moment.

only because i CANNOT say no to cookies of any kind.
not eating, but making them.
and any magazine that has color on the front WITH cookies---
in my world it's a must have.

this year i'm working on truffles for Christmas.
there are over 20 truffles in the magazine. yahoo!

go get it.
you won't regret it
if you don't want to spend $10 for 136 pages of pure (mostly chocolate) bliss, go here and get 12 free cookie recipes to try out.

you'll like them so much you'll go buy it anyway!

today we got our birthday present in the mail!
thank you ad & chelsie for the awesome ksu flag!

they had warned us before it came that they had to get willie a toy because:
1) he gets less attention than ezra
2) if they ordered a small item it would put them into the free shipping category

it really makes sense that the extra free shipping item is boxed separately.
way to go amazon.com

as of monday morning, i've put 340 miles on my car.
i hanv't got anywhere particularly awesome,
just around denver...
but, it did involve a trip to the airport to pick up my long lost best friend from college!

danielle and i havn't seen each other for 4.5 years.
since then, she has gone thru 4 years of med school,
i've hiked some mountains,
but in the end......
we started off exactly where we left off.

it was awesome!
hope she gets her surgeon residency in denver for the next 5 years.
good luck danielle!

happy birthday to me!

THANK YOU THANK YOU
to everyone who made my birthday so special!

the cards.... the flowers..... my parents visiting!

thank you!

william is the best painting buddy ever

i went home last night because today we got to work cows! yeah!
working cows is my favorite.
for the most part they are easy to work with
and never talk back.

for those of you interested,
thanksgiving meals are still walking around if you need one!
conversation when i got home tonight:
andi: hi.
dallas: wow! you smell like farm
(meaning....eeew you stink)
andi: we worked cows, what did you think i'd smell like?
dallas: it's not bad.
(meaning..... i'm grossed out by you).
it's just strong
(meaning.... i will need to roll my car window down on my 2 min ride to get a burrito)

he really tries to be nice.... but i can decipher his language

yeah wind!

i can't complain about the recent week of winds.

when i went out to rake the leaves,
all i found of this:
was this dinky little pile!i'm incredibly sorry for whoever got these in their yard.
well, only a little bit sorry

door

besides working full time, i somehow got suckered into:
plastering someone's house
painting a door for this

"this" has a link, but if you don't want to check that out, its a door and art auction with benefits going to those in boulder who lost their homes in the fire.
anyone is welcome to come!

so there is a door auction there and i painted one for it.
originally white, now this:

happy halloween!

from ez, the alien

wednesdays rule!

i love wednesdays.
they are so productive.
productive, but yet, i never get as much done as i want to.

today ez and i went for a small hike, and then, jsut because it was SO nice i attempted to ride my bike. this lasted for 40 min, which was really 10 min too long because i thought my knee was going to explode. i still have to wear my compression hose (that goes from my foot to my butt), but that would be ridiculous-looking while riding my bike, so i took them off. by the end of the ride i had patellar-floppage.

what is patellar-floppage?
it is when you have so much swelling on your knee that when you make any kind of movement everything shakes. it's like having a double chin/spare tire on your leg and it is quite uncomfortable.
plus it makes you feel gross.

so i got a bike ride in.
and then got a pedi/mani, because i havn't got one for 2 months.
i have clear polish on my fingernails.
this is the first time that has happened in 13 years.
"so short, so short" the lady says
i didn't want to tell her i still, at 26 5/6 years old, chew them out of nervous habit.

next i vacuumed out my car, washed it, and ez got a bath too.
i love it when he smells like coconut!

then ez and i stole all the neighbor's patio furniture.
you may wonder how i did this with a bum knee.....
but i can do anything with a wheelbarrow!(ok, so the neighbors are moving and sold us their set and are out of town but said i could come get it whenever. for $150 its awesome!)

lastly, the cookie nook has started up again and we're baking tonight.
this is the time of year that you walk thru the baking isle in the store, even if you don't need anything, and buy 5 of whatever is on sale cause you're gonna need it sometime.
the end. go check out the nook.
we're back up and running!

coffee cups

dallas wondered where all his coffee cups went

i dont' use coffee cups.
i'm like my grandma holste.
your coffee has to be HOT (or COLD, in my case)
but, it cannot be inbetween.

coffee cups go lukewarm too quickly.
dallas likes them, and he has quite the collection.......

COLLECTING IN HIS JEEP!
bad dallas.

1) today was my boss' birthday. he wanted a german chocolate cake, so he got it.....gluten free style. i must say.... very tasty.


if you do the gf thing.... the best flour is in a little green box. no xanthum gum needed.

2) i set up the little blue room in our house for tv. it's a small room and we have a small tv. it works. ezra seems to think this is now his room.

3) as much as i hate to rub it in, ksu really did a outstanding job killing ku on tv. later in the game when a ku dude running the ball slipped w/out anyone touching him, the announcer said, "looks like he slipped on the logo. those beaks are slippery little suckers."

and that right there pretty much sums up the game

mmmmm.....rolls

for the past 4 years i have been scarred.
around 4 years ago i tried making a recipe requiring yeast and it failed.

i couldn't believe it.
i failed, at a baking thing?
impossible.
i've stuck to quick breads and cookies ever since

until last night.... when, in my non-bike-riding boredom decided it was time to make cinnamon rolls. it was cold, and dark, and dallas needed some comfort food.
unfortunately, cinnamon rolls require yeast.

with patience, THEY TURNED OUT!
it was a miracle! i did it!
i have broke into a whole new world of baking!
i have limitless options!

today, i don't know what i was thinking. i did, after all, make homemade cinnamon rolls from scratch, with frosting that seeped into every single crack.

i thought i should be treated like a princess.....
shouldn't i get to go get myself something special?
wouldn't i be praised for my valiant efforts for the rest of the weekend?
wouldn't i get "wife of the year" award?

life goes on,
even after you make homemade cinnamon rolls
onto the next yeast requiring recipe

ez thinks he is this small

but in reality he's a bit larger

longest week of my life

sorry we are so uneventful around here.

but when your leg looks like this:
(bruising extends down to front of tibia and around the back of the leg)

all you do is this:

our house is full of encouraging words,
examples include:

"why are you so grumpy?"
(well, my leg HURTS!)

"wow, it looks like you spilled a bottle of ink on your leg"

"your leg is ugly"

nothing like a bit of encouragement to hurry the healing.
it's taken me all week to get to
1) 90 degrees of bending
2) not as noticeable limp
3) able to sort of sleep again
4) wear pants w/out noticeable swelling (ie wide leg dress pants no longer get stuck around my thigh)

onward to the longest weekend of my life

36 hrs later

i have successfully beat mario brothers world 4 on wii
(i know, real high ambitions over here)
made a double batch of cookies,
snuggled w/ william
and had my oil changed

not exactly the weekend we had in mind, but it could be worse.
i did hit my head (as proved by this bruise on the back of my head) and havn't felt the best

for the most part, my swelling has significantly gone down and the blue bruising has came in. walking is still extremely painful and there is some burning sharp pain inside, which worries me a bit.

good thing i work in ortho. we'll find out tomorrow!

i knew things were going too well.
our house has been injury/surgery free since august 14.
we went over an entire month!
we went 6 weeks!
(speaking of which, ez has a f/u appt that needs scheduled.)

in order to break our streak,
me, in one of my not-so-brilliant moments wrecked my bike
on a JRA (just riding along) gig before tomorrow's race.

now i have a grapefruit attached to my knee that is turning blue.
awesome.
no: hiking, biking, racing, standing on my feet for more than 10 seconds, walking faster that 0.2 mph) or basically anything fun for a long time.
yes, we're looking for my knee in this pic. oh yes, it is on the OTHER SIDE of the scab. everything scab left is awesome swelling
i'm so special, in a bad way.
nuts
this is gonna be a LOOOOONG weekend

birthday party

we went to a giant "let's celebrate everyone's september birthdays" party last night.

i took homemade german chocolate cake

when we were getting ready to go home there was a little bit left. the hostess insisted that dallas take it but much to my surprise he blurts out,
"its ok, she can just make me another one."

hmmm really, dallas?
we'll just have to see about that