Powerless

We havnt had power since 2 am this morning. Supposed to get power by noon tomorrow? Today was a long day! No power at work so we left early and now just hanging out in our 58 degree house in down jackets!

wanna be a gangsta

today instead of doing fun stuff out in the nice weather we did things to help winterize the house.  one being raking all the leaves so they aren't a wet mess wednesday when it snows on them.  usually the dogs are very photogenic but this time they looked at little T-O'd taking the pic.  

i couldn't resist photoshopping

Sunflower showdown

Today ksu travels to stinky lawrence to play football. My uncle dan decided to make a bet. It's official--- He signed on the line!

Africa

tonight we met w/ our African travel agent.

stumped as to what to get us for a gift for any occasion?
(columbus day, Washington's birthday, thanksgiving, Christmas, valentine's day, First day of passover, 4th of july, ezra's birthday, random feel like giving something away day, etc....)

the answer: cash.

it's gonna be a trip of a lifetime.....if we ever get over there!

(planning for next october--this way we can see all the animals, birds like flamingos migrating, able to swim with the penguins and still hit octoberfest in frankfurt w/ some good college friends.)

in memoriam

we havn't seen the little guy for >36 hrs and the dogs and i have been seeing a lot of coyotes on our early morning walks.  sadly, i think he's gone.

miss you little guy!

Finished!

And sold! (a miracle!). After months of not working on it I finally got it done!

Sorry for the lack of blogging. I feel like I have nothing going on but yet am so busy. Stick with me- I promise to be better!

Modern day segregation

(please ignore ezras eyes)

Running

Today I learned that even if I don't have time to eat breakfast and am starving at lunch that is no reason to eat the entire chipolte burrito the rep brings me. This lesson is only appreciated if you try running for one hour after work and have horrible stomach cramps the entire time.

That will never be happening again!

For beezer

Look Beezer! We get summer and winter at the same time here!

trip #2

trip #1---running the walt disney world marathon

are we in shape yet?  

hardly.

trip #2---- (i can't believe i havn't posted sooner!)

a couple of weeks ago we were at a fundraiser auction and for an extremely discounted price, bought.....

a 6 day 6 night safari trip in south africa!  

weeks later i'm still pinching myself....whether that be from the excitement of the trip or the cost of the airline tickets i don't know yet.....

so once we get our airfare saved up we're taking the dogs to the farm and we're going to see some bigger kitties!

fairly big kitty

which would be breakfast for this one

Money savers

Going on two different trips is exciting but a financial drain. We have totally had to refocus our budget to save! Save! Save! That being said our eating out every few days due to pure laziness and convenience has came to a screeching halt. We have to be creative with what is in our pantry. Tonight I was totally craving ice cream or something sweet. Instead of going down the street I pulled out the double boiler and made these scrumptious little bites!
I think in the long run this was a better option after all!

New house rules

What is our entire house up to? Cesar Milan time! (he is the dog whisperer) Glad the dogs are eagerly soaking it up!

hey forrest......

catch me if you can!

(please, everyone, excuse my extreme amateur photoshopping skills!)

it's true.  d and i are signing up (bought the plane tix already) for the 2012 disney world marathon in orlando jan 8!  i can't wait.  we really wanted a goal to make it thru the winter and here we go!

on a side note, i had wanted to race cross this year.  i helped mentor some awesome women and did one piddily race and my shoulder was having none of it.  i'm back to pt, doing some upper body strengthening and getting ac injections again so i'm hanging up the bike and running instead.  the ortho "shooting me up" said i best stay off my cross bike for awhile.  by the time i get back on i'll be ran over.  best of luck this year, crossers!

Smokin on the Beaver

this past weekend we went home for:

a) my mom's youthful birthday (she really is so young!)

b)  the 2011 smokin on the beaver competition

basically it's a bunch of people smoking meat all day and entering it in competition.  there are categories for wine, food, beer, and beans.  while the meat is smoking we watch football, ate homemade ice cream..... it was a good weekend!

and can i just say how much i HATE the new blogging system?  it's so hard to use!

Andy, my good friend's husband showing his pheasant he's entering in the open category.

 apparently you get extra points for presentation.

it was great seeing old friends!

a look at the crowd.  

Monday

We had a really great weekend(more to come later)... But onto monday....

Brian, the surgeon I work for was out of the office this past week and so we decided that it would be absolutely hilarious to switch his "rich chocolate" protein powder out for rich chocolate ovaltine

Now it may just be that he has a cold and his taste buds aren't functioning on full cylinders, but he drank the ovaltine with water and failed to notice it wasn't his protein!

i could barely keep a straight face.

now i'm in big trouble. i either:  a)  tell him i switched it out and get in trouble for doing so, OR b) don't tell him until he runs out and then i'm in trouble for him not getting his protein in.

either way i think i'm hosed.

Happy birthday dallas!

All three of your jeeps and all three of your animals and I love you! Have a great day!

our weekend

in the words of one of our orthos was, "magical" (although when he uses it, it is in a sarcastic tone, this is not).  more to come later on that.  

today we hiked harvard.

last night was exciting, it was hard to go to bed, it was hard to get up....so we got up an hr late and ran out of here, barely making it back for my church pre-school duties.

i digress.

we set out to hike harvard & columbia.  it's 12.5 miles to do harvard, 13.5 or something to do columbia.  why not do them both?

dallas headed up the valley

looking west of harvard.  there was a lot of low laying clouds and the moon was still out.  it was amazing

looking across the valley.  the south side of harvard faces yale

was really trying to get a self portrait but found myself turning around and looking for dallas

who was coming down from the boulders

we tried.  but after trying the traverse, much of it boulder climbing on melting snow we turned around as it was going to take us all day.  plus my hands were numb (i'm a cold weenie).

with a little dusting on the mtns they were in spectacular form.  this was one of the most scenic hikes i've done.  definitely worth every step!

Some like it soft

Ezra is the perfect example of spoiled, snobbish dog. Pillow on top of pillow on top of baby mattress.
Yes, pathetic is the word youre looking for.

Gretta could care less if she has a laminate floor for a pillow.  Low maintenance.....my kind of girl!

William is hiding in solitude.....somewhere.

our weekend

this weekend was nice.  

friday we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary.

how does time fly like that?

we went out to eat with one of our favorite friends in boulder.  

it was great!

saturday i cross raced.  

i can't really remember the last time i did this...well it was october of last year, right before i crashed.  even with a mechanical and a loaner bike i had fun.  unfortunately our weekends have started filling up so i don't know how many more i'm going to be able to do this year.  

today we were supposed to hike, but at 4am dallas want' "feeling it" and if yo'ure not feeling it then it's kind of hard to get motivated to go.  except for evans, the mtns we havn't done close to our house are at least 13mi hikes.  

that could make for a long day.

so instead we went to ikea, and rei and i'm doing my art homework.

dallas found a great way to polish the aluminum on his jeep and it's SO much faster than the stupid airplane stuff he was using.  he is almost 1/3 done.

how shiny is this thing? 

here is our reflection in the jeep

(by the way, i love pictures in series)

Studyin....

This semester i am taking an art history class purely for fun and i love it!  William now has a deeper appreciation for 15th century art as he gets snuggle time away from the canines.