~{ a work in progress}~

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Clean Sheets

I love the smell and feel of clean sheets! I do wash ours quite often but I had to today due to muddy puppy prints if you know what I mean! :) Today was the first day that we had the sprinklers on and they went crazy running through them. But right as I was about to put the load in the dryer I heard it......a loud, scared scream followed by horrible scratching. I looked around for my dogs, of course they were right behind me. I listened for a bit longer and heard it again. I called Josh at work to see what the heck was going on and he told me that he was sure a squirrel was caught in the dryer vent but did not tell me this morning because he thought I would freak out- he was right! I was freaking out! He tried to tell me how to get it out.....

Instead I called my dad, yes he is in Montana, to see what I should do. My dad used to tell me that he could fix anything from the crack of dawn to a broken heart and I guess sometimes I really think that! Plus I wanted a different answer besides me having to open the vent. For some reason I could picture this big, angry squirrel jumping out to attack me. However, dad told me the same thing, I hate that! So I tried....I played (okay, looked and poked at the vent) for about five minutes when up the driveway came Jesus, our neighbor boy.
What a super hero he looked like! Of course he was just here to ask me if I wanted him to mow the lawn, but I gave him an extra job this time....GET THE ANIMAL OUT OF MY WALLS! He said he did, I did not see it, but I do not hear it anymore. I guess I will know if I smell something in a few days....
So now my sheets are in the dryer, another load in the wash, a Redbox DVD to watch, some new pictures Josh picked up for me before he left, and a big pop from Sonic to enjoy! Yes, this is the life! Josh is at the fights tonight with some buddies from work so I might head to a scrapbook store for a look (yesterday was payday!) but I haven't decided yet. It is so nice to have a chance to choose what to do now!

Monday, April 21, 2008

The fun of blogging

Oh the fun of blogging.....my dear friend Tammy, who also has a blog, recently wrote a funny blog about a speeding ticket that she almost recieved this last weekend. Everyone knows that speeding is not a joke, including Tammy, but she wrote a blog about it in a humorous manner. It was funny and a good laugh for those who know and understand Tammy (and her dad, there is a very funny story about her dad and a ticket as well)......however there is some person that keeps leaving rude, unwanted comments on her blog. (This person has also been told that they are unwanted comments, but just keeps going and going!)
I do understand that blogs are out there for one and all to read being on the internet, but who really goes out looking for someone who is unknown to them and starts making comments like that? I know that we both created our blogs to keep friends and family connected with our happenings, NOT to start problems. I wish that I had the time to take part in things like that....oh the things I would do! A list for some other day I suppose.....
I guess it really does just go to show that there are people out there that will find a way to ruin everything! Some people are really just so unhappy with themselves that they need to bring others down to feel better. I guess I just feel sorry for them....

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Sad day

Not going to lie about it, but it does not look like I am the best blogger out there. I am trying to get my life orgainized so I will just have to find a way to fit this in there too! I just wish that getting organized was as easy as being organized! I do know that is true because there are a few small things that are organized in my life, my scrapbooking things, some of my books at school, my coupons, you know the things that count! :)

I returned yesterday from four days in Sun Valley. It was a great experience for me and I will never pass that up! It is always nice to get out, but I was exhausted and therefore did not take full advantage of my time off. Josh did come up after work on Thursday for the night. It was nice to have him there, after dinner with another couple he slept on the couch as I read my book (19 Minutes and it is very good so far!) Just like being at home!


On Saturday morning we had our final session and yet another key note speaker.....but WOW! This guy was AMAZING! Michael Percher? (spelling is a little off and my stuff is at the school I will get back to you on this one!) He is what I needed to revive me and my energy in the teaching field. With all the BS that takes place with No Child Left Behind, ISATS, Istars, parents, and other teachers I was starting to think that this was not for me.......until him. He had me laughing and crying in the same sentence and it all had so much meaning to it! He said that it all starts with the heart and I could not have said it better myself..... funny how it sounds on here but if you could hear him said it with the added extras you would get it! I am going to stop at nothing to get him to speak in Caldwell. My principal in wonderful and I think I can talk her into it, and if not there is a teacher from another school that is talking to her principal!


The drive to and from Sun Valley was beauiful! It reminded me of driving in good ol' MT! I miss it there sometimes, especially now. My parents called yesterday and my "brother" died while I was gone. They decided not to tell me until I was home with my babies, and for once I am so glad they waited! Cletus was the BEST dog I have ever seen, even better than my two now. He was so kind and gentle......and my dad's best friend.

Every morning Dad and Cletus would start their day by going to the garage, where they each had a recliner to sit in, then head to coffee with the guys, head to work with dad in the drivers seat and Cletus as the passenger. They would go to location to location with dad doing his thing and Cletus chasing rabbits or whatever other animal that was there. Everyone knew and loved Cletus! There was even an article about dad and Cletty in the Sidney Hearld a few years back about that!


I remember the first time I took Josh home with me......we went out to the garage to "meet" Cletus and he was no where to be found! Dad said to look in the pick-up and sure enough..... Turns out dad had went to the store earlier without Cletus and so he jumped in as soon as dad got out in case there was going to be another ride, it was not going to miss it!

It is so sad to lose an animal, who is a member of your family, and has been for 14 years! Dad said that he is nowing chasing all the rabbits in heaven without pain. Sounds corny, but it does help knowing that!

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Friends make the world go round

Well second post in just one short Sunday! I cannot believe the day is over, or at least I should be in bed and the day be over! It was a great day though, 81 degrees here....can't beat that! I had the doors and windows open all day and we had BBQ again for dinner! Love that! I made my famous cabbage dish, I will give out the recipe if you want, and it is so good! We cooked together, I got dinner ready to go in the over for tommorow night.... a Monday night and we both have to work all day, what is better than having dinner ready? And we watched the season finale to our favorite show "Rock of Love 2". Crazy dumb show but we loved it! It was so nice to just be together and relaxed.....although Josh did stress a little bit when he could not get the proane tank opened! Hard to open those dang things when you have already opened it! I got a good laugh out of it at least! :)


I also got to talk to a very good friend of mine that I have not talked to in a long time. I miss knowing the little things that are going on in my friends' lives. They all mean so much to me and I hate that it is so easy to just not talk.......and then it turns into a longer time, and longer. I did it though, I called her and we were able to talk and it was so nice! I am so mad that I can not be closer to see her and her little girl Ella grow! I have seen some recent pictures and she is beautiful like her momma!


I also talked to my best friend in the world, Renae. I have no idea what I would do without this girl! She is the BEST friend I could ask for.....and she will let me know if I forget! She was a bridemaid at our wedding last July and so I am including pictures of her. She has a little guy Easton that I am in love with and is getting ready to have her second one on Thursday! Second baby, I am still thinking about how many years until the first one!

She was so funny after she had Easton.......I was in Montana and she went to the hospital. We talked a couple of times throughout the day and the last time we talked I told her to call as soon as she had the baby...... so I got the call and she told me she had just had a little boy 20 minutes ago! I was crying with excitement and laughing at her for literally calling as soon as she had the baby! That is just how we are though......it is the BEST feeling knowing that someone out there is there for you no matter what! I just wish we were closer so I could more a part of their lives! She does offer daily for me to live with her and her husband.....and we always change the plan and move him out so it can be us, Easton, and our four dogs! One day......



Well morning is going to come early so I need to quit for now. Have a GREAT Monday, or at least as good as a Monday can be! :)

Sun Valley here I come!

So I am heading to Sun Valley, ID this week for a four day conference that work is sending me to... watch out Demi and Ashton I am NOT afraid to come talk to you! :) It is a great honor that the school is allowing me to, that they want me to help guide the school through changes we need to make, and lets face it..... again, I am going to Sun Valley for four days! But.....of course there is a but....I always get so nervous when I have to go to these things alone! I know I will meet people there, and I know that there will be others that are in my same boat, and I know all of this! But it is so hard until I met one of those people or someone and I have the chance to talk! Most of the time I am so shy (believe me, it does happen!) that I miss the first chance at a friend and have to make myself talk to someone later on. I have no idea why I am like this, but I wish I knew how to stop it!

The school even told me that I was SUPPOSE to bring Josh with me! We are staying in "townhouse" and they said they hated to see it go to waste! Of course he has to work, but he is trying to work out something with a coworker so he can come for one day and night. The first thing I did was call to see if the dogs were allowed....and they are! There is NO way we could leave them home alone that long, so this makes things so much easier, and maybe a chance for some stress free, relaxing time!

Now for some more of my favorite pictures..... I added ones of our nephew Teegan Bullrider with each of the puppies, as he would say "his cousins". One was the day we moved from Deer Lodge and then the other was when he was visiting at Thanksgiving time. I snapped a few of the puppies and their hard morning while I was on the computer....so rough. My mom always says that when she dies she wants to come back as a pet with either my dad or me! Hard to see why, huh?
Here is something new to me.....Maggi is having a "Fake Pregnancy?" What the heck is that? She was in heat last month, for those of you who have not had to deal with that you are so lucky! But since she has been out of heat her milk jugs, as Josh calls them, have been getting bigger and bigger. Of course she could actually be pregnant.....some dog could have gotten into the yard, done his job to Maggi, and then left all in the 10 minutes she is outside unwatched a day, but the chances of this happening without Lilli going crazy because someone else was in her yard in slim to non!..... but everything that I have read says that it is just fake?! She is not acting different or gaining weight....its just the milk jog thing!


Well I promise that I do have other things going on besides my dogs......I just have to get it all out now so I can get to the good stuff..... that sounds good, now I just have to find some good stuff! :)

So now I have to go.....I am so over due on some phone calls to some very dear friends, and it is ALL MY FAULT, and I am completely out of diet coke so I need to make a quick run to Sonic! I love that place ! Who knew that Dt. Coke or Dt. Dr. Pepper could be so good with some added flavors? And happy hour, love that, even without the liquor! :)

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Where have I been?

Where have I been? I really have no answer for this question..... I am ready to move on though..... ready for a new start, ready to think, ready to forgive, ready to move on, and ready to do this! It seems so funny to me that while I was setting up this account I had hundreds of things running through my mind of what to write and now that I am typing I am drawing a complete blank!

I am finally okay with living in Caldwell. The move was not as hard as I thought it was going to be, thank gosh I have Josh, but there is no way I would say it was easy! I have been burned a couple of times though, and that hurts. I am always too quick to trust people and therefore I get my feelings hurt- ALOT. For a girl that already has super sensitive feelings, this is hard! I do have friends and I would not change things now.....now being the key word there. I am excited to grow in and with these friendships and see what comes from them! :)

Oh.......I have to add some pictures to my blog....Without pictures things are just too boring and I am always surrounded by them. Of course I have to have pictures of our babies, Lilli and Maggi Mae. They are long haired mini dauschands and I am not afraid to say that they
ARE the CUTEST things around! I have no idea what we will be like when we have kids because we are so crazy about these two! And then there is a picture of our little family at Christmas time!

I am so lucky because I have been able to scrapbook as much I have wanted to since we have lived in Caldwell. I will post pictures soon of that! I am really proud of myself for the things I have been creating! It does help that there are wonderful scrapbooking stores here, my husband completely supports my habbit, and I have a great friend who whats to scrap all the time with me!

Well, I can smell the BBQ so I better head outside to watch my husband cook :)....the weather was 75 degress today! I LOVE IT!