I almost forgot...

So I almost forgot to show my new floors, courtesy of my tax refund and Brandon. He did such a great job. I love it.

I included these of my room to prove to some people that my room CAN be spotless sometimes:)

It's the MOST wonderful time of the year!!!

Ahhhh rugby season...my fave. Since this is His Royal Teen Highness's (Keaton's) last season playing for Highland, I thought I'd post some recent pics I took of him. Way to go Tween! We are so proud of your hard work!



Big Lar...he's a gem.

Spring Break 2009!!!!!!! Wooooooooot!!!!!!

Since I have the schedule of a 10 year old, Brandon and I decided to take a jaunt on down to St. George and Vegas for Spring Break. We stayed at his parents' fun house in SG, then got a room at Bill's Gamblin' Hall and Saloon. What it lacked in appearances it made up for in location and cheapness:) Excellent. We had some fun, when to the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor, and had all the access we wanted to people on the streets slapping porn cards at us trying to get us to take them. What a treat:)


Excellent! My room is on Brandon's street!

So I've always wanted to eat at a buffet in Vegas, so we went searching for one and happened upon quite possibly the best one ever! It was at Planet Hollywood and was voted the 07 best Vegas buffet or something like that. So we sat down to a tremendous feast and these pageant girls started walking in with their sashes on. Turns out the Miss USA competition is going on this week. So we stopped Utah and had Brandon fulfill all his wildest fantasies by getting his picture taken with her.
We both love our sweet racks...

This was Mariana, the coolest dealer ever. She is from like the Ukraine or some Russian related place like that, and she was so awesome and would squeal when someone did well or when she would bust.

Our classy hotel...


Ahhhh road trips....
To top it all off, we had deliciousness courtesy of In-n-Out:)

My poor baby!

So I know many of you know my little twinkie Wicky. Well, he's 11, kinda old, and we take him in every year to the vet to get his teeth cleaned. I took him in, same as usual, on Friday. Long story short- they had to extract 9 of his teeth and keep him overnight for observation. He already had 2 teeth extracted 2 years ago, so my first reaction was to ask if he had any teeth left. Turns out he does, so that's a relief. The thought of my little baby gumming his way through the rest of his life was not pretty. So I went and visited him in the hospital Friday night, he had a little doggie I.V. and everything. I picked him up Saturday morning and he's been sad and whiny from the surgery and drugs.
Then today I'm just giving him some TLC and notice the back of his neck is swollen and when you touch it, it feels like air bubbles are in his skin. So back to the vet we go! His back major chewing tooth that was abscessed (sp?) created a pocket into his nasal cavity and so it's letting air into there. Ughhhhhhh! It should most likely fix itself, but now I have to make sure his neck doesn't get crazy swollen and choke him. Fun stuff. I know I have a small obsession/attachment to my dog, and this totally blows. The poor thing has been traumatized and just wants to be cuddled all day long- which is fine by me! Done and done.
Sorry about my little self indulgence telling you all about my interesting weekend, I figured it was something new to put on this long overdue blog. HAGS!!!!

Goodbye musty carpet!

I have not so cute carpet and quite possibly the worst pergo you can find. Brandon texted me the other day when some excellent pergo went on clearance at the HD, so we decided to go for it. Tax Return...Hallelujah! The most fabulous part is that I have my very own Captain Home Depot in my midst, so I have much to pay back to Brandon for his time and hard work.:) We ripped out the carpet(except in part of my bathroom- that's next on my list for redoing, and in my bedroom) and Brandon is pouring self leveling stuff on my concrete at we speak. I don't have a "before" picture, but I'll post progress as we get there.

This is kind of "before". We moved everything into my room except the TV and couch oh and the big appliances-they wouldn't fit. You can see the wonderfully classy carpet that came with my condo. S-T-Y-L-E:)

You can't tell here, but the old pergo has a hint of purple with it- I think the previous owners went for the cheapest remnants of pergo to try to "spruce up the place." Blech.
Sara giving Brandon nourishment after his hard work.
Ahhhhh, the new floor.
Sara hung out with us while she corrected papers of her Jr. High students that she's student teaching. It was a hoot hoot listening to her disgust as she read some of the answers her students gave for really easy questions.
Old floor-goodbye! Except again- the previous owners glued the pergo on top of the old ugly 80's vinyl flooring that's also glued to the ground. My! What a great job they did-super attention to detail and quality:)
Sara decided to do Charly's hair. How beautiful.

Not Just a Running Shoe...

It's a chin rest, too!
Wicky has arthritis and a bad back, and has little episodes now and again when he has trouble walking, sometimes can't move, or just is really uncomfortable and in pain. We had a little bout on Monday at Brandon's house (which always just makes me a wreck with worry) and after I gave him an anti-inflammatory pill he was able to walk around again, but was whining and moving around because he couldn't get comfortable. I was busy doing something for a few minutes and looked over and he had found himself the most comfortable spot-right on my shoe. I thought this was pretty freakin' cute so I thought I'd share...

And for those of you sick with worry;), my little twinkle Wicky is doing just fine now and is running and bouncing around like normal.

Super Bowl Extravaganza

Brandon and I prepped for days, and our Super Bowl bash was a success...exciting game, good peeps, good eats...what more could you ask for? Oh, I can think of one...we also saw this crazy totally drugged up guy walking back and forth down the street (we thought for sure waiting for a drug deal since he did the same thing a few hours earlier and was picked up by a car, it drove around the block and dropped him off), so Brandon called the cops and they came and pulled the guy over right after he got in a car-right in perfect view in front of Brandon's house...excellent.

Keaton, Sara, Laura
Brandon and me
Sterling, Brandon, Diane (B's mom and step dad)
Emily and Brian
Brandon making buffalo wings...he made gluten free ones too for Sara:) How kind:)
Some of our delicious food.
Brian thinks it's eagle quarter...;)
Emily and me