Punkins

I LOVE holidays, especially Christmas and Halloween. So I got really excited when Greg's brother Garrett and his wife Josie wanted to carve pumpkins about two weeks ago! I've been way too busy to actually decorate my front door or anything. So we put our awesome pumpkins, that we carved to look just like Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street (minus Bert's unibrow, we are going to put a piece of black felt there), out on our porch. I am SO happy that we are being festive...Mine's Ernie. On the right.

10/10/10-cool

I get excited when dates line up like today's. I remember how excited I was in junior high about 02/02/02. Its just fun and I'm a dork. Whatever.

ANYWAY...This has been a crazy/fun/tiring/exciting weekend. My cousin Rachael just got married so we had tons of family up here to celebrate. I just love seeing my family, I know I already said that in my last post-but again, whatever. I don't have any pictures yet, but she was a gorgeous bride and Andrew Sparhawk is one lucky man.

*Star it was so good to see you there! I just love you and Becky and Kat.

It is always the weirdest feeling after having a house full of people to suddenly be sitting here alone. Even my little bud seems out of sorts, just wandering around like he has no idea what to do with himself either. Its SO quiet... And kinda lonely. Hence the blogging, I guess. I better enjoy the relaxing that I have left this evening before another crazy week starts. I picked up some extra shifts at work and have a ridiculous amount of volunteer hours to complete for some classes-gonna be busy for like, the next 8 weeks! I guess that should keep me out of trouble though, or just make me pissy enough to cause more trouble than normal. WE SHALL SEE!

We love messing with Wallace, so we took apart his little crate. When he's in trouble or when we are leaving we tell him "CRATE!" and he runs in. So after we took it apart we said, "Wallace, crate!" and he hopped right in and sat there looking a little uncertain.

But even better was when we stopped messing with him and he crawled into the top part on his own and curled up in there. We couldn't get him to come out. Must've embarrassed him...

Mini Vacay

Went down to Utah for the first time in a LONG time. It was such a great weekend. We were able to go down Friday morning and come back Monday night. I just love my family. It is so fun getting everybody together and having big dinners and laughing with them. And what a great little break from work! I needed it.We LOVE floating down the Provo river. In fact, we enjoy it so much that we actually went twice while we were there. About 5 years ago we got a bunch of these little blow up rafts, they have always worked great! . . . except the second trip down. We spent all this time making sure that all the rafts were river-worthy, no leaks, nothin'. but somehow about 2 minutes after we pushed off the bank, the one my mom and I were in started sagging. There was a hole! But with our muscles and mad paddling skills, oh! and super-duper awesomeness, we miraculously made it through. (these photos were from the first trip down on Friday, the second trip down was Saturday)

We went for a little bike ride up to Bridal Veil Falls. Greg had never been, so we hiked the little ways up to the falls and took like thirty photos before we got a good one (the one below with all 3 of us). It sure is pretty up there.

"This killin time is killin me..."

Seems like the last 2 weeks Greg and I have had opposite work schedules. Both of us are working and that's great, don't get me wrong, but I just think it would be IDEAL if we were gone at the same times so that one of us (Me) wasn't sitting at home for forever (not really). Today I only worked until about 1, and then Greg went to work from 3 to 11:30 pm. So here is a list of things I did today in no particular order:

ate lunch

went for a walk

ate handfuls of jelly beans

went for a bike ride

took a nap

read my book

ate 2 packages of fruit snacks

ate second lunch

threw the ball for Wallace

vacuumed

read the Drivers Manual for Idaho

thought about eating more jelly beans

had dinner instead (but still secretly thinking of jelly beans)

I don't usually mind having time to myself, but I guess I just didn't plan well today or something and couldn't wrap my head around actually doing something productive like CLEANING or ORGANIZING or something... I heard the neighbors next door, the kids screaming and scampering all around their house, little feet pounding on the hardwood floor, and I think, "Oh ya, I want kids... right?" Then I hear their baby cry. . . And I'm positive that when its my turn, to have kids I mean, I'll be wishing for all this time that is currently killing me.

Cat Fight

So I've mentioned in a few previous posts that I currently work at Jimmy Johns. Its not what I would have wanted for myself at this point in my life, not the glamorous job I dreamed about, but whatever. . . Well this girl, we'll call her Catface, who just got demoted from a management position, and they promoted me to her position. Unfortunately, since Catface was only demoted and not fired, I have to work with her during many of my shifts. This makes me feel uncomfortable because 1. I am new to the position and don't know everything yet 2. Catface is fine one minute and then incredibly snappy or rude the next and 3. I instantly get in a bad mood every time I see her, whether or not I've even talked to her, right as soon as I see her I get on edge and feel like slapping her. This is so immature and childish - I'll be the first to admit it, but I still don't LIKE IT! I didn't like her before I got

WALLACE

This is what Wallace has been up to lately :)

His new best friend is Grace, our 4 year old neighbor. She comes over and peaks in our window, which makes Wallace bark like crazy, and she's gotten brave enough now to just come knock on our door or ring the bell, which also makes Wallace bark like crazy, to see if Wallace can play.

We showed Grace all the tricks he knows, so now she tries to get him to do them, and when he actually does respond to her commands, she says "thank you" and gives him leaves for treats. The crazy thing is, Wallace actually eats them. She has been coming over regularly now for the last 2 weeks. I have a hard time saying no to her, since she is getting him out to play, exercising him, and well, she's 4. The funny thing is that even as I am writing this, she knocked on the door and I'm finishing up this post outside to keep an eye on them :)


We got him these little tiny tennis balls with squeakers in them. There were three of them, and within about 20 minutes the squeakers were broken and he had torn off all the green fuzz. Worst 4 bucks I ever spent.

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