So last weekend we were asked to dog sit for our friend's chocolate lab, Calamity (her name fits part of the experience). She is a really sweet dog. She and Sammy had a ton of fun together. They were always tired when they came in at night because they played so hard during the day.
Well, the first night we had her, we figured she isn't kenneled at home when she goes to bed, so it should be ok if we leave her out. WRONG! She pooped (and I mean nasty runny poop) upstairs in our loft. It covered one side of the room. Needless to say we had to get the carpet cleaned. It wasn't that big of a deal though.
So, they came to pick up Calamity on Tuesday after work. She and Sammy are best friends by this point. Well, the mom brought her 2 year old granddaughter with her. We were sitting at the table talking about the weekend and all of a sudden the little girl was in the other room and crying. She was crying because she peed her pants and it went all over our carpet! At this point I just had to laugh. It was an accident. I think the mom was more embarrassed than we were upset. We cleaned it up pretty good and let it be. They brought us cookies the next day.
Overall, we were glad to have Calamity stay with her... even both of the messes. :)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Young Womens Fund Raiser
Last Saturday, Joseph and I went to the Young Women's Girls Camp Auction. It was a lot of fun,. We even met 2 other couples who we will be hanging out with soon. People in our ward were asked to donate goods and services that others would bid on. All of the proceeds went to pay for Girls Camp. Joseph donated his time to fix someone's computer. His was the first item on the bidding list, so his service only raised $10. He was pretty sad about that, but I think the only reason it went for so cheap is because it was the first item and people weren't warmed up yet.
We ended up bidding on two things. One was a really pretty green glass vase that a sister in our ward made. I love it! And the second thing, which Joseph said we should bid on, was DANCE LESSONS! I was so shocked! If you know my husband, you know he does not like to dance. We bid on them, and won 2, 1/2 hour dance lessons from a sister in our ward. She teaches ballroom dance classes at her home. I'm really excited to go. I think Joseph is too :)
We ended up bidding on two things. One was a really pretty green glass vase that a sister in our ward made. I love it! And the second thing, which Joseph said we should bid on, was DANCE LESSONS! I was so shocked! If you know my husband, you know he does not like to dance. We bid on them, and won 2, 1/2 hour dance lessons from a sister in our ward. She teaches ballroom dance classes at her home. I'm really excited to go. I think Joseph is too :)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Valentine's Day Weekend
Joseph and I had a fantastic Valentine's Day weekend!
Well, first before the weekend started, I went to a TMJ specialist, and he was able to diagnosis me with arthritis in my jaw. He said that is what's causing all of my TMJ pain. Fortunately, there is a treatment! He gave me 12 shots on the right side of my face/neck/scalp. One of those shots put a liquid in my jaw which acted as a cushion for my jaw joint. This made the right side feel so much better! It was amazing! I went back this week, but instead of giving me the shots for my left side, he gave me my night time splint. This is basically a huge hard plastic night guard that snaps onto my upper teeth. This splint will help move my jaw into where it is supposed to fit. For now it is somewhat painful, but I know it's going to help and make it so this pain is manageable :)
On Saturday (the day before Valentine's Day), Joseph and I went to the Renaissance Festival. It was so much fun! We got there around 10:30am and left around 4:30 pm. There was tons of stuff to do and see, lots of fun shows, and amazing food! We saw this one act called Barely Balanced. They were really talented and funny. Here are some pictures:
They also had a petting zoo with some fun animals. The cow was my favorite.
On Sunday we went to church like always and taught our Sunday School class. I made Joseph chicken pillows for dinner and he gave me these really pretty red roses. Kacey and Chris were given 2 nights free at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel, but they weren't able to go, so we went in their place. It was nice to be away from home for a night and feel like we were on vacation.
On Monday our good friend's Brenda and Orson had their little girl, Brooklynn, so we went to visit them in the hospital. She was only 5 pounds 10 oz but full term! She is so small and beautiful!
Overall, we had such a great weekend together. Hope you all had great Valentine's Day weekends as well!
Well, first before the weekend started, I went to a TMJ specialist, and he was able to diagnosis me with arthritis in my jaw. He said that is what's causing all of my TMJ pain. Fortunately, there is a treatment! He gave me 12 shots on the right side of my face/neck/scalp. One of those shots put a liquid in my jaw which acted as a cushion for my jaw joint. This made the right side feel so much better! It was amazing! I went back this week, but instead of giving me the shots for my left side, he gave me my night time splint. This is basically a huge hard plastic night guard that snaps onto my upper teeth. This splint will help move my jaw into where it is supposed to fit. For now it is somewhat painful, but I know it's going to help and make it so this pain is manageable :)
On Saturday (the day before Valentine's Day), Joseph and I went to the Renaissance Festival. It was so much fun! We got there around 10:30am and left around 4:30 pm. There was tons of stuff to do and see, lots of fun shows, and amazing food! We saw this one act called Barely Balanced. They were really talented and funny. Here are some pictures:
They also had a petting zoo with some fun animals. The cow was my favorite.
On Sunday we went to church like always and taught our Sunday School class. I made Joseph chicken pillows for dinner and he gave me these really pretty red roses. Kacey and Chris were given 2 nights free at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel, but they weren't able to go, so we went in their place. It was nice to be away from home for a night and feel like we were on vacation.
On Monday our good friend's Brenda and Orson had their little girl, Brooklynn, so we went to visit them in the hospital. She was only 5 pounds 10 oz but full term! She is so small and beautiful!
Overall, we had such a great weekend together. Hope you all had great Valentine's Day weekends as well!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Christmas and New Year's
Before we get too far into 2010, I figured I should probably write about Christmas and New Year's. We had a wonderful Christmas and a not so good New Year's. But either way, we were together so that makes everything better. :)
First of all, let me just say I am a spoiled girl and my husband treats me VERY well. Joseph started asking me what I wanted for Christmas way back in November. He said he was too nervous to buy something for me without my approval. He knows that I will like it even if it's not what I really wanted. But at the same time, I didn't want to tell him what I wanted because I wanted to be surprised. So, my friend Brenda had the idea that I should send him an email with screen shots of different things that I wanted. I made sure to put the Love's Embrace necklace in there. I also made sure to put the advertisement for it on his desk and to mention it every time it was on tv... and tell him that's what I wanted whenever he asked. I was pretty sure he got the hint :)
I was really excited about the gifts I found for him. I gave him a telescope, an astronomy book to show where the stars are, the Simpson's Scene It game, some shirts, ties and candy. I was really happy that he liked all of his gifts :)
Joseph gave me a Christis statue and wind chime. Now don't get me wrong, I love my gifts! He did a really good job at picking these gifts out... he even did it without my help! I am just so spoiled that I was a little sad I didn't get the necklace. I even thought to myself "maybe we can use the gift cards from our parents to get it". Then I thought "no! I can't buy myself the love's embrace necklace! Someone has to give that too you."
So after all of the gifts were opened, Joseph asked "Did you get everything you wanted?" I said "Yes, Thank you baby." He said "No, I can see it on your face. What else did you want?" I said "Nothing". He said "what about this?" And then he pulled the necklace out of the basket in the tv unit. What a sweet husband I have! I love my necklace, and my statue and my wind chimes. We hung the wind chime up on our back porch. It sounds beautiful in the wind. And for now we have the statue in our bedroom because there is so much dirt that comes in from the outside since we don't have grass in the backyard yet.
I really do have the best husband in the world!
On Christmas day we went over Brenda and Orson's house. That was a lot of fun being with them.
New Year's Eve was not as fun. We decided to get Sammy neutered that day because we would have a 3 day weekend to be with him. If I had known how much pain he was going to be in, I don't know if I could have done it. Everyone told me that their dogs were just groggy and knocked out, but Sammy cried all night long. He had a difficult time walking, sitting, and laying down. It was really tough to see him like that. Luckily when we were able to give him more pain medicine, that helped him out a lot. He was so drugged up that he would fall asleep sitting up. It was funny and sad at the same time. After 2 weeks, he is doing fine. You would never even know he had surgery.
Now that it is the new year, Joseph has started working in his new position at work. He seems to like it a lot more and doesn't get as frustrated working with the staff members as he did working with students.
Other than that, things are going really well. Hope you are all doing great too!
First of all, let me just say I am a spoiled girl and my husband treats me VERY well. Joseph started asking me what I wanted for Christmas way back in November. He said he was too nervous to buy something for me without my approval. He knows that I will like it even if it's not what I really wanted. But at the same time, I didn't want to tell him what I wanted because I wanted to be surprised. So, my friend Brenda had the idea that I should send him an email with screen shots of different things that I wanted. I made sure to put the Love's Embrace necklace in there. I also made sure to put the advertisement for it on his desk and to mention it every time it was on tv... and tell him that's what I wanted whenever he asked. I was pretty sure he got the hint :)
I was really excited about the gifts I found for him. I gave him a telescope, an astronomy book to show where the stars are, the Simpson's Scene It game, some shirts, ties and candy. I was really happy that he liked all of his gifts :)
Joseph gave me a Christis statue and wind chime. Now don't get me wrong, I love my gifts! He did a really good job at picking these gifts out... he even did it without my help! I am just so spoiled that I was a little sad I didn't get the necklace. I even thought to myself "maybe we can use the gift cards from our parents to get it". Then I thought "no! I can't buy myself the love's embrace necklace! Someone has to give that too you."
So after all of the gifts were opened, Joseph asked "Did you get everything you wanted?" I said "Yes, Thank you baby." He said "No, I can see it on your face. What else did you want?" I said "Nothing". He said "what about this?" And then he pulled the necklace out of the basket in the tv unit. What a sweet husband I have! I love my necklace, and my statue and my wind chimes. We hung the wind chime up on our back porch. It sounds beautiful in the wind. And for now we have the statue in our bedroom because there is so much dirt that comes in from the outside since we don't have grass in the backyard yet.
I really do have the best husband in the world!
On Christmas day we went over Brenda and Orson's house. That was a lot of fun being with them.
New Year's Eve was not as fun. We decided to get Sammy neutered that day because we would have a 3 day weekend to be with him. If I had known how much pain he was going to be in, I don't know if I could have done it. Everyone told me that their dogs were just groggy and knocked out, but Sammy cried all night long. He had a difficult time walking, sitting, and laying down. It was really tough to see him like that. Luckily when we were able to give him more pain medicine, that helped him out a lot. He was so drugged up that he would fall asleep sitting up. It was funny and sad at the same time. After 2 weeks, he is doing fine. You would never even know he had surgery.
Now that it is the new year, Joseph has started working in his new position at work. He seems to like it a lot more and doesn't get as frustrated working with the staff members as he did working with students.
Other than that, things are going really well. Hope you are all doing great too!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Tick Tock
I'm so ready to get out of work for Christmas break! If you haven't noticed, I like to have countdowns. Only 25 minutes until lunch, 1.5 days left to work this week, and 3 days until Christmas!
Here is a picture of our our decorated house. I've added a few more things since my mom sent me some Christmas Decorations last week. But I took this picture right after we finished decorating the tree. 
And here is our cute Sammy. He was wrestling with his bed one night so I said "Sammy, what are you doing?" And he looked up at me like this. So cute!
Sorry the picture is dark. My phone doesn't have a flash on it.
Some really great news is that Joseph was promoted at work! He no longer takes phone calls from students. He now only takes phone calls from employees. Hopefully that will relieve some stress for him. He was really excited this morning because he now has 2 monitors :)
In other news, I started the MBA program. I made it through my first week of class. Now we have a 2 week winter break. If things go as planned, I should graduate by July 2011. Joseph is only 6 classes away from his Associates degree :) He'll hopefully graduate with that around July of this year.
We hope you are all doing really well! Merry Christmas!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Christmas Season
Hi Everyone!
Sorry we haven't posted in a while. Things are going really well though. We went to Texas for Thanksgiving. We had a really great trip! I was able to meet all of Joseph's grandparents and extended family. They were all awesome. :) On our last night there, Joseph's parents paid for us to stay at the Texan Gaylord Hotel. It was beautiful!
The day we came back to home, we went and picked out our Christmas Tree. That was a lot of fun. I also decorated our house for Christmas. We even hung lights outside.... Well, Joseph hung the lights while I held the ladder :)
Sorry we haven't posted in a while. Things are going really well though. We went to Texas for Thanksgiving. We had a really great trip! I was able to meet all of Joseph's grandparents and extended family. They were all awesome. :) On our last night there, Joseph's parents paid for us to stay at the Texan Gaylord Hotel. It was beautiful!
The day we came back to home, we went and picked out our Christmas Tree. That was a lot of fun. I also decorated our house for Christmas. We even hung lights outside.... Well, Joseph hung the lights while I held the ladder :)
Sammy is great. He is so much fun to have around. There was a little bit where if we told him to go lay down because we were busy, he would go and pee or poop upstairs behind the pool table. I'm not sure if he stopped doing it because he didn't like us getting that mad at him for the mess he made or if it is because we stopped telling him to go lay down. Now we just stop petting him. He eventually gets bored and goes to lay down by himself. Either way, I'm glad he stopped making messes.
That's all for now. Merry Christmas!
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