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I’ve had better

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Jul 272011

You know, I’ve had better days.

I feel quite uninspired and unhappy right now. I went running this morning and it felt great. It makes me feel accomplished, and I love that after all these years jogging doesn’t make me tired. I have to eventually stop because of my heel, and my legs get sore, but one can hope that will get better soon.

But now, I just slammed my head into the ceiling. Like deforming your head slamming your head into the ceiling. And my carpet is still wet from yesterdays storm. And now it’s starting to smell. And I don’t enjoy my house smelling like wet carpet. And my dog is being a pain by continuously opening the screen door and going out on the deck, leaving the door open for our indoor cat to get out. And, well, Erik. Must I say more? I think it’s time to go back to bed.

On a side note, Erik has started to swim on his own. Well, he wears his life jacket, but he likes to swim out in the middle of the lake where he can’t touch for hours. It’s quite cute.

Alright, I’m going to shower now. And maybe I’ll start to like these two again.

Just kidding. I always like them.

Summer rules

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Jul 032011

Our love is overflowing…. Gotta love Pete’s Dragon.

I can’t believe I’m actually taking a minute away from our other website to write on this website. Brandon and I have put a lot of our time over the last few days into the website for the daycare Erik attends. Brandon and I are on the board to said daycare so we have been devoting some time to make it right. I have been ridiculously excited about it, as it looks amazing already. We have lots more work to do, but…we are awesome at making websites. Just saying…. The address is: www.preblechildrenscenter.org. Go look at our amazing work.

Since I have lacked in sharing any pictures as of late, even on FaceBook really, we will post some today. Yes yes, good idea.

We took Erik to the zoo for the first time recently. Since we are such wonderful parents, and the very first time he went was when he was four….ahem….. He really liked it, anyway. Of course.

I actually have kind of sucked during the month of June at taking pictures. But during the month of May, I was rocking.

That last one there Erik was trying to jump for a rope that is about 6 feet in the air. He really believes he is almost able to grab it.

I know I’ve gone on before about Erik playing soccer, and he did again, but it’s done already. But then again, he starts up again in a couple of weeks, so, eh. There was a lot of agains in those last sentences. Ha. Anyway, he’s gotten much better actually. Still not quite there, and when they’re scrimmaging he runs away from the ball. He will learn.

So we live on a lake, right? Well, Erik doesn’t like the water. He is refusing to learn how to swim. It’s quite frustrating, but at the same time we are hesitant to try and make him because we are afraid he will then hate it. Hopefully soon he will start to like it again.

Drake on the other hand, loves it. He has really come into his own being the only dog. He is such a sweet boy, and we pretty much take him everywhere since he is smallish. He got much bigger than he was supposed to, and he definitely thinks he is a big dog. He is tennis ball obsessed, loves to swim, and is lately trying to play frisbee. He is ultra spoiled, but we love him so.

Have a wonderful day everyone. I’m off to work on the other website (which I should be doing! sheesh), and…we have 3 places we are supposed to be today. I should probably…shower…maybe?

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 going to break this up this time

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Jun 282010

Last Wednesday Erik and I went on a date. We’ve really never done it before, but we had a wonderful time. I’m sure Erik had such a wonderful time because he ended up with a rockin’ day, but I loved the day too. Erik is a movie connoisseur, so going to the movies for him is like it is for an adult. A serious affair that should be conducted with utter respect. He really is an angel whenever you take him to the movies, and it makes it that much more enjoyable for me. He was so excited for our date day that he was running around saying “can we leave now Mommy?”

We went and saw Toy Story 3, and I gotta tell you, it’s worth it. Go see it. Amazing movie. We of course had to bring Buzz along to watch it with us. He said he loved it, too.

When we were waiting for our movie to start, Erik and I decided to venture over to Build-a-bear. He had never gotten the opportunity to make one before. I let him pick out whichever animal he wanted, and he picked an adorable little puppy. When we went to have the nice associate stuff his bear for him, Erik thought she was pretty silly when she asked him to do crazy stuff. He still liked to put the heart in his puppy. Then we went and picked out a shirt, and good boy grabbed a Syracuse shirt. He always says he’s going to go to Syracuse when he gets older and play basketball. : ) I asked Erik what he wanted to name his puppy, and he said Drake. Him and I agreed that he would call him D.J. for Drake Junior.

Erik carried D.J. everywhere. On the way home he fell asleep, and D.J. was right there with him.

On to Friday – Erik and I went to yet another movie with a friend, and this one was Shrek. Erik got to play with his friend Lea, and I think he’s in love!

Later that evening, Erik and Aunt Ashley decided to play a new game of sumo wrestlers.

Also on Friday evening, Brandon finally got the boat running. It still needs some TLC, but at least it’s in the water. Brandon dad was up for a nice belated father’s day dinner, and the two of them took the boat out for a quick spin to see how it was running. Erik wasn’t invited, and he was really disappointed. So Aunt Ashley picked him up and let him watch to make him feel better.

Lee decided he wanted to watch, too.

We finally got to go on the long awaited and highly coveted cruise around the lake. Erik was finally happy. He is a water boy at heart, and I have a feeling will always be.