Olive's first trip

Is everyone sick of Olive being the star of every blog post yet?? I'm truly sorry. Having a puppy, we are learning, is pretty all consuming. I just wanted to share some pictures of her first cabin adventure. Like I said before, she was a good little traveler and loved being in the great outdoors.



My sister Kellie is no dog lover, but Olive is slowly winner her over.



She has yet to experience the pontoon. That was a people only activity.





Where's Dave you say? It looks like he wasn't even there?? Oh he was there alright...hanging out with this guy!



Can anyone guess where this picture was taken? Some of you have been there. I promise. Rachel and Janet....you know the place.

Olive vs. Sunshine Bear

We took Olive to the cabin for the first time over the weekend and she handled it like a champ! She felt so much like a champ that she decided to take on the likes of Sunshine Bear. This is canine/stuffed animal fighting at its best!

A New View

Well my position has changed a little bit at work, and that means that I was able to switch desks! I was really enjoying my desk today, so I thought I would share it with everyone. I hope everyone is enjoying their Tuesday. Here's some things to look for…..

A skateboard
Picture of Ryan from the Office
Stamp from 1989
Pen from Belize.
Best niece and nephew you ever.
Best Wife Ever.
Uncle Leo
New Iron & Wine CD

How Quickly I Crush

I'm calling it a crush. Not an obsession, not an infatuation...a crush. It's not a crush on a person (although I have a mad huge crush on Dave), it's a crush on computer related things. Dorky I know.

My crush first started with the blog craze. It was probably more of an obsession, but shhhh....I dont like that word; hence the crush. I wanted to read blogs all day long. And I would. Every time I would be on the computer, Dave would say, "are you looking at blogs?" And I would sheepishly smile and say, "noooo" even though that's exactly what I was doing. My crush on blogs has since faded. Don't get me wrong, I still love looking at and reading blogs, it's just not quite on the same level as it once was.

The crush on blogs soon morphed into a love for Craigslist. We had a house with no furniture and all of a sudden I NEEEEEDED to fill it with stuff from Craigslist. I would search for everything I could think of, emailing people to see if things were still available, forwarding Dave links at every turn. "What do you think of this couch??" "I really want this hutch" and on and on. We ended up purchasing a few things from Craigslist and then my crush kind of faded. Don't get me wrong, I still look for things every few days, but it's just not quite on the same level as it once was.

My new crush? Twitter! I can't really explain why I like it so much. A status update website? Really? Kind of lame right? But let me tell you....there's something about it that just sucks you right in. And it's fun. It's fun to read little blips about what people are doing. I'm still crushing pretty hard on Twitter. But how long will the crush last? And the biggest question of all....what will be my next crush??

Wordless Wednesday

These

Are growing on the tree in our front yard.



And that makes me happy.

The Hippie and Me

I had an encounter with a Michael's employee yesterday that I would like to share. Keep in mind that this employee is a dude, long stringy hair, and most likely smoked out of his mind.

Me: Excuse me, can you tell me where I can find cheese cloth?

Hippie: (looking extremely confused) um...er...uh...hmm...are you referring to the color?

Me: (looking extremely confused) uh...no...it's a kind of fabric....

Hippie: Oh...well (looking around the isle we are in) this is all the fabric that we have...

Me: (looking around the isle we are in and only seeing felt) well, it's not felt...

Hippie: hmmm...

Deciding that my efforts to get information out of this particular employee were completely fruitless

Me: moving on to my second question, can you tell me where to find gift boxes?

This, thankfully, he was able to help me with and I went on my merry way to find an employee who could tell me where to find what I needed.

Now, I have no problem with men working at a craft store, but please be familiar with the merchandise. If you work at a craft store, you should know that cheese cloth is not a color. Thank you.

That Just Happened

In our dining room, on the floor, there is a wooden vent cover. The other day while we were watching Olive scamper around the dining room, Dave thoughtfully asked, "wouldn't it be awful if Olive peed in the vent?"

"Yes" I replied. "it would be awful indeed."

Last night while I was making dinner and Dave was on the phone, Olive decided it was in her best interest to....yes you guessed it...PEE IN THE VENT.

Thanks Olive. It's a good thing you are so cute.

Olive Oyl

Well we have survived the first two days of having a new puppy. It's a lot work, but it's pretty fantastic. She slept the whole night, so that was cool, but getting up at 5:30am was not cool. Here's some pics and a little video. Just to warn you the video is pretty much Spielbergian, so get ready to get blown away.

A new addition.....

Jessica and I have been married a little over year, and we recently bought a house. Honestly, we feel like well established adults who know what they are doing and they LIKE it! We are bold, we are awesome, we are Hilden FIERCE! I happen to know that everyone reading this blog thinks "oh man, Jess and Dave are soooo sweet. They are the epitome of cool. They are so active and have everything together I wish I could be their best friends, and we would laugh over the roaring coals of their brand new BBQ." Alright so that's a bit of a stretch....a huge stretch...last time we used the BBQ, I somehow torched our concrete sidewalk...I probably freak out a few times a week just thinking about being a adult. What happened?? One minute I was planning my summer vacation....and now WE'RE paying a mortgage! (see the jump from I to We're?) A lot has changed. A LOT.
One more thing is about to change. One. More. Thing.......BUT before I say what I should step back a little bit....

Growing up I always wanted to be Dr. Dolittle, not the Eddie Murphy Dr. Dolittle, BUT Rex Harrison's Dr. D. I wanted to ride inside of a giant snail, and laugh with the armidillo that just cracked a joke.



As I grew older my feelings changed, I knew that animals didn't actually talk to people....well they MIGHT, but they don't choose to talk to me. I decided that I would just own a bunch of pets instead. A few fish tanks, cats, a lion, and possibly a dog or two.



I grew,developed, and realized that my hopes of owning a lot of animals would probably not come true. I'm still holding on to my thoughts of owning a lion. ( I just have to sweet talk Gov. Pawlenty on over turning a few pesky laws. my next post is going to be about a petition that I am starting...). I settled down with the idea of just owning one animal. One sweet, sweet, honey of an animal. A Welsh Pembroke Corgi.



Then I met Jessica. My wonderful wife....who hates animals. How did God bring us together??? That is a whole other story with LOTS of twists and turns. Have you ever seen the show Family Matters? Let's just say I was Steve Urkel and she was Laura....



Growing even older, I learned life was filled with compromise and love. I learned that wives love their husbands and husbands love their wives. They want dreams fulfilled and hope to be had. They want to show love in mysterious ways and encourage each other. They want their spouse to smile, dance, and laugh with glee. They want them to be Dr. Dolittle.........

My dreams are being fulfilled on Saturday, May 2nd 2009......


Meet Olive Oyl.