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We like dogs and fried dough

Aug 112010

Well as I have eluded to last weekend being an interesting weekend, that’s to say the least. We had 7 dogs here that we were watching, as well as the chicks and the cats. So pretty much our entire life was consumed with animals. Honestly, we enjoyed it. No, we wouldn’t want to do it every weekend, but yes, they were fun. And pretty freaking cute.

Erik loves Lizzy. Okay well maybe it’s me. Okay maybe it’s everyone. She is the best little dog ever. She is the sweetest dog in the whole wide world. She also makes the cutest little squeaking noises when you cuddle her. Everyone wants to snuggle her up.

I would keep her if I could. I suppose being the puppy sitter is sufficient. : )

The old man. We like the old man.

We also pretended that we were cool and had a life and went to the Spiedie Fest in Binghamton on Saturday. We love to pretend. We pretend like once every few months.

I really like to pretend when we go to the Speidie Fest because I gotta tell you, I love fried dough. Fried dough is like my caviar. It’s a special treat to get it and is really expensive (in retrospect, it’s a piece of dough for 5 bucks). And this year I got the boys hooked on it too. And that’s how it should be. Everyone should be hooked on fried dough. There should be stores solely dedicated to fried dough. Just imagine. Then I’d be really fat. But I would be fat and happy.

He cleans up nice. Even with his scabs. ; )

I will do another post tomorrow entirely dedicated to the balloons. There are so many pictures and I can’t just choose a few – I love them all. Such a beautiful sight.

I’m off to drown myself in last-week-of-school homework. I hate this week.

More puppies

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Jul 182010

So strangely enough, I am still alive. We have been going through the motions of life but barely getting to sit down and just live. Life has been unusually hectic, and well, I like it.

And the next thing to register on the strange-o-meter, I still have some pics from our garage sale that happened forever ago.

This here is my dear friend Jen looking oh so happy. I’m sure she will murder me for this picture. It’s alright. I’m prepared to be murdered. I’m a happy little girl, so I don’t mind. : )

And this, this is my baby Lizzy. I know I’ve already posted about her, but man, we love this puppy. As well as her sister, Miley.

So moving on…Erik has decided that he has started to like going in the lake all by himself. This is a large feat for our little, as last year for awhile we couldn’t only get him to walk in up to his shins. Now he goes up to his chin. I love watching him do it, and I am reminded everyday how much he has grown. I can’t believe that he is such a big boy. I am so proud of him though. He is starting to learn to have no fear, and runs full speed at life. I can’t wait to see him grow up and watch him go to his first day of school, and listen to his voice change, and watch him graduate. My boy is special, he makes me happy, and damn is he cute.

Aunt Ashley has also been teaching him how to be a fishy since he will go in the water now.

And he loves it. And Aunt Ashley.

Generally here at the lake it’s a dog pow wow. This summer is no exception. We enjoy having them around though. Because, hell, we are completely dog people.

Lee likes to fish.

This weekend we also got the blessing of watching Jen’s puppies again! Despite the minor accidents we love having them here. We actually ended up with five dogs Friday night. People must think we’re going out of our minds since our house is pretty tiny, but honestly, it was no big deal. They’re much fun. And, quite funny.

We had a wedding yesterday that we attended, so of course I have some photos from that. Surprisingly enough, I really don’t have that many. Next post.

I must be high on life or something, because I can’t sleep. This girl is going on about 3 and a half hours of sleep. My poor husband is ready to kill me I think. On those wonderful nights that I can’t sleep, he always wakes up, and in his half asleep state, gets crispy at me for being awake. He always apologizes later when he wakes up, but it’s still kind of funny.

Well I’m off. Not like a prom dress, though.

I'm grateful

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Jul 052010

I’ve never done a post like this before, but I figured it would be fun. And possibly interesting. And at least self-soul-searching. Well, kind of.

On the 4th of July, you are supposed to be grateful for being an American. Proud.

So here are some of the things I’m grateful for. And definitely proud of.

Organic Raspberry Lemonade on a warm summer day. I even love the little bit of pulp that is in it that gets stuck to the inside of the glass. Makes me feel like my grandmother just made some fresh squeezed lemonade. Even though my grandmother never made fresh squeezed lemonade, but if she did, it would definitely feel like this.

And of course beautiful bouquets of flowers. And it’s even better that these flowers grow around our house.

And for really crazy sun rays that make for cool pictures.

Oh, and our new glasses. Our new glasses are cool. Very retro.

I’m extremely grateful for boys who are so tired out from playing so hard they almost fall asleep while driving around their power wheels. There is nothing better than a beautiful summer day and skipping naps because well, Momma doesn’t want to have fun without her boy, either.

For our furry friend visitors that take great pictures, and are a lot of fun to have around.

For dead plants that I brought back to life. Since I have this ability to save dying plants, Brandon call me the plant whisperer. So I’m grateful for silly husband, too.

And for awesome yellow petunias that bask in the summer sun. That also create sun spots on my lens.

For Grandpa’s who are patient and kind. And aren’t afraid to be silly.

And for Grandpa’s silly friends.

I’m grateful to be able to watch my boy learn how to roast marshmallows over the fire.

And to see him so proud of his work. I am also quite grateful to eat the results.

I’m grateful for others who love my little so much that they greatly care about him, and they show it.

For awesome fireworks. I love the flashes and the bangs that you hear roll down the valley.

I’m extremely grateful for my wonderful husband who allows me to take his photo so often. Who also so kindly poses for undoubtably crazy photos with me.

I’m grateful for wonderful cousins….

…and for fun days at the lake with them.

I’m grateful for fun in-laws, and falling asleep while floating in the lake. Also grateful for my sister-in-laws ingenious idea of using an anchor to keep us in place. So, I’m grateful for laziness.

For Grandmother’s who aren’t afraid to have fun with Erik.

I’m grateful for the furry ones who sit and let me take my crazy silhouette pictures.

For our view of the beautiful lake that we can look at everyday.

And I…am especially grateful…

….for a flower that has the ability to stand alone, and still be breathtakingly beautiful. It’s a lesson that I need to learn.

Hope you all had a good 4th. I know we did.

Animals and Parties (i.e. really long post)

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Jun 212010

Life has been uncharacteristically busy. Not that I’m complaining, but, I’m tired.

I remember when I was a kid, and I used to get sheets of stickers. I was always so excited, and I would carefully place them in my sticker book. I would very rarely let someone have one, or waste them by sticking them on your hand or something. Erik, on the other hand, likes to rip them up and stick them everywhere. Including the dog.

Kind of fitting, right?

Drake likes to lay like this to sleep at night. In fact, he barely moves. One would think he was dead.

He even lets me put George on him. Oh, Drake. You are too funny.

He also likes to roll in dead fish. Yes, dead fish. One of the most disgusting things ever, and I’m sure you can imagine the smell. So he gets washed, in the lake. So much easier than the bath tub, right? And my lovely, oh so smart Drake, will stick his head under water if you throw a rock. So, alas, really easy to wash him.

I also got to shoot some pictures of Brandon. He decided to be an ass at the end.

After Drake gets in the lake, and I’m sure it’s from putting his head underwater, he gets lots of water in his ears. He runs his head along the floor to get the water out. It’s totally spastic, but quite funny.

Last Friday was really a beautiful day out, so I ran around and took some pictures around the lake.

I think I’ve mentioned before that Logan sleeps with Erik at night. Apparently Erik’s bed has turned just as much into Logan’s bed.

Yes, I realize there are more pictures of the dogs than the kid this post. That’s okay. They’re cute too.

So Saturday was my cousin Suzie’s daughter’s birthday party. We ran around a lot, watched the kids play, socialized, and ate. Of course, we ate. Lots and lots of eating. Wonderful. : )

Here are a few shots from the party. I will not bore you with lots of captions, okay well not too much.

Yes, I was in a dress. I know, amazing. It was hot!

The kids were playing a game, and apparently the boys were too cool to jump.

They then had a lovely water balloon fight.

While the kids were watering each other, Erik and Brandon jumped onto the trampoline.

Then all the kids wentswimming, and after much persuasion Erik finally went in.

He was trying to make a running jump into the pool.

And when he got there, he stopped. Haha. Funny.

After much swimming, they finally decided to do the cake. And the amazing yummy cake was a homemade ice cream cake made by Suzie. Awesome job, dear.

We finished the whole cake. Seriously. It was that good.

Well that was pretty much it for the party. I will alas leave you with one of my favorite shots with the day as I normally do.

Oh Steve, you rule.

I have more pictures from Father’s Day. I will put them in the next post. Maybe it won’t be as long.

This is why

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Jun 152010

I love my dogs.

Somewhere over the rainbow

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Jun 092010

Today is one of those stay in bed and watch movies days. I could say that is what we have done, but as I have so much bloody reading to do, Erik has stayed in bed and watched movies while I have sit in much pain at this horrible desk.

Anyone want to buy us a new desk chair?

And oh yea, it really hurts my back, too (yes, my back still hurts).

I do however, have some happy pictures to share.

Before we left Florida my dear niece Simone painted all our nails. Including Caitlyn. I hope someday if we ever live near Caitlyn I can steal her for girly days where we paint our nails and do fun stuff. And of course I’ll dress her up.

So I know I’ve mentioned before that we have a slightly deranged cat. She always tries to clean us. Well, last night I finally caught it on camera.

It creeps me out, but it appears the boys have a little more stamina than poor old me.

Well, as we have had to turn the stove on now today (I can’t believe it’s not snowing), there isn’t much grand picture taking opportunities. I did, however, get to snap some shots of my boy loving his boy.

I’m so happy Erik has at least someone to play with.

So without further ado, I must be off to read the Bible. I’m almost done with Genesis (yayayayayay).

Brandon’s face pretty much sums up the way I’m feeling, though.

That’s his grumpy I’m yelling at Erik face. He was literally yelling at Erik. Swear. : )

Rejoicing

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May 252010

My heart is happy.

Yesterday Erik and I decided to be domestic and baked. We made those mini cheesecake things – the ones with the vanilla wafers on the bottom. Delicious if I may say so… Erik likes to help me bake though. He isn’t so interested in eating them, but interested in helping (who does that?). And since I told him they were cakes, he wanted to make sure we put candles in them.

After our cheesecakes were done Erik decided it was time to read the newspaper. He chose the comics, of course.

Today was another beautiful day in CNY. Literally, beautiful. I ended up being stuck in the house reading, the Bible (I have another post on that – don’t worry). After lunch I was finally able to venture outside and gave up on reading.

Erik has decided he likes to water plants as of late. Just the last few days of course. He gets on these random kicks, where he becomes obsessed with something and it’s all he wants to do. All day long. Right now it’s the watering. Couple days ago it was Drake. I wonder what tomorrow will be.

I had an awesome night with my boys (all of them). We went to Highland Forest tonight for a small walk. Erik ended up not napping so our walk wasn’t so long. He was ready to be carried about 20 feet from the car. It was still nice though to get the dogs out. After we did our exercise, in true American fashion, we went and got ice cream. It was quite delicious, though.

When we got home we went and sat down by the lake. I was still eating my ice cream because apparently I’m slow…so we just sat for a little while. The whole time we were sitting we were attempting to get the dogs to NOT go in the lake. Obliviously fruitless attempt for the Finton dogs, but hey, we can still try.

As anyone who has read my blog has realized that I like the “just getting dark” pictures, I was lucky enough to have a beautiful night outside with the boys…so of course I took a ton of pictures. And tonight I got to take some shadow/silhouette pictures, which are my favorite. And well, probably one of the hardest to do. Brandon tried to get some of me, but, well, he then discovered how difficult it was when you were really trying to do it. : ) He tried, and I really appreciate it. He’s still an amazing photographer.

Without further ado…(even though you probably already looked down…)

Now these next pictures are probably some of the hardest to take. They appear to be the hardest to post, as well.

The love I have for these boys fills up my heart. I’m so glad I am able to take pictures like this of them.

I do have to admit that living on a lake has its advantages, and being able to take pictures like this is one of them.

But here, is my absolute favorite from tonight. My boy. This one is definitely going to be printed. So handsome.

I don’t know what I ever did to deserve a family this beautiful and wonderful, but I sure hope I keep doing it.

Erik and Drake

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May 242010

So Erik has discovered this new way he likes to torture Drake. He finds whatever he can and attaches him to his truck while he drives around.

I guess I can’t say it’s torture. Drake prances along side him when he is driving. And when he has the chance to get away, he doesn’t.

Things that make me feel like hell for heaven's sake

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Mar 122010

The 3 (well actually 5) of us had a great weekend. Saturday we did absolutely nothing. Seriously, nothing. We all took naps, and just enjoyed the day. I made manicotti, but that was the extent of the work involved. We watched Narnia, and were generally pretty worthless. It was great!

Sunday we took the dogs and went up to PetSmart. We saw a kitty we wanted to look at, but the volunteers that work there were no where to be found, so alas, we couldn’t look at the kitty. I brought Drake into the store with me, and everyone thought he was pretty darn cute. At least someone does. We also went to Target to look for boots for Erik (that they didn’t have), and to the mall to again look for boots. The only place that had them was stride right, and we find it kind of ridiculous that you have to sign up to be waited on. So poor Erik is without mud boots. Zappos it is.

Amaroo is finally is NY! Wooohooo! Now I can torture her again! With my presence that is. The Fintons will be joining the Allyns tonight for dinner. I am utterly excited about it. Ah the little things in life…

I love Spring Break.

A Wee Bit Pathetic

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Feb 092010

Thanks to Erik and with no help from Logan we’ve reached a whole new level of insanity in the Finton household. One in which we must tuck both Erik and the dog in under the covers when it’s time for bed….

O and did you notice Logan has his own freakin pillow?

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