If you don't know, we have an English Bulldog, his name is Kipling. He is 60 lbs of pure sweetness and sometimes spurts of crazy. For example, he is scared of our kitchen. He's always a little trepidatious when entering or exiting the kitchen. While sitting at the dining table tonight I heard a little scrambling in the kitchen and found the boy desperately trying to get out of the tile dungeon. After a few moments I grabbed my phone and caught the last few seconds of Kipling's close encounter with the kitchen. I love how he had to back out just to be sure that nothing was going to get him.
I am totally one of "those" dog owners. Everything he does is hysterical to me. Next thing you know I'm going to be wearing this
and decorating my home with lamps like this
(but I'm not paying $149.95 if the shade isn't included)
I get it, I totally need help. But before I do I am going to order one of these for each of you for Christmas, I think you're going to L-O-V-E it!!!
We have sold the yak (and when I say we, I mean Andrew. I had about 0% to do with the whole thing) all but 50 yak have been shipped out to far reaches of the country and they should (cross your fingers) be out by the end of the week. A very short lived and interesting adventure has come to an end. This summer will be a whole lot of poop clean up at the ranch, get ready for an exciting post about that in mid May.
bye guys, have fun! write me!
Remember last Christmas when we got the yak? you can go here to refresh your memory.
Just to mix it up a bit I'm following Tia from Pretty Little Word Vomit's example and filling out this little survey. You can go here to see her answers. You should fill it out too, just for fun.
A. Age: 25
B. Bed Size: King, king, king. Never going back to anything else
C. Chore That You Hate: Anything to do with the bathroom. And then there's the laundry...oh I loathe laundry
D. Dogs: Sir Kipling Ludlow Esquire, the most regal English Bulldog in the whole world
F. Favorite Color: blue, any shade. it's glorious
E. Essential Start To Your Day: Life cereal, I'm 5 years old
G. Gold or Silver: wow, you can never make me choose
H. Height: short
I. Instruments You Play: I can play (not very well mind you) exactly 3 songs on the piano, one being "Tale as old as time" from Beauty and the Beast, and 2 songs on the guitar.
J. Job Title: Salesperson at Nords for exactly one and a half more weeks, HIP HIP HOORAY!!!
K. Kids: a 60 pound wrinkle face who has really bad gas
L. Live: in the Clevey-Stevey
M. Mother's Name: Victoria Lynn, so graceful
N. Nickname: Styles-given to me by my sweetie while we were dating because of his fascination with Teen Wolf and/or he thought my clothes were cute
O. Overnight Hospital Stays: no no no
P. Pet Peeves: girls who come into my work 15 minutes before we close and want to try on every sparkly dress we have, just for fun. open mouth chewers. bad drivers. rude people.
Q. Quote From A Movie: "Chancho. When you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. Just for fun." Nacho Libre
R. Right or Left Handed: Righty
S. Siblings: 2 brothers, one older and one younger.
T. (? There was no T) So let's pretend it said Toothpaste: Colgate something or other
U. Unicorns: totally real
V. Vegetables You Hate: onions, I want to like them but I don't.
W. What Makes You Run Late: slow drivers, Kipling taking a long time doing his business before I go to work, waiting 20 minutes for the shower to heat up to at least luke warm. I live in the Cleve remember?
X. X-rays: just my arm when I was in first grade from rollerskating down a slide
Y. Yummy Food That You Make: spaghetti, Mexican food, crepes
my parents used to sing this song to us and my dad would play it on his guitar, us kiddos would always come in on the "yippee ki yay, yippee ki yo" part. We were really good at it.
and my personal favorite, not written by Johnny but incredible.
I have realized that A and I are not photo taking people. We don't document the midnight runs to Wendy's or the lazy evenings in. We don't even document important holidays.
Example A:
The only shot, and I mean only shot, of Thanksgiving.
Whoo hoo, a very ordinary place setting.
But I try not to despair and tell myself that when we have kids I will be much better. We'll see.
But I did document a 4 wheeler ride from the summer that I forgot to post...
such a fun filled day! Thanks Dad!
and then Aaron, my lil bro, and my dad came out to the Clevey to visit...
We went to the John Johnson Farm, Kirtland, around the Cleve (more importantly, to the Christmas Story house) and to Niagara Falls. That's why we look so sexy in our Maid of the Mist ponchos.
I took a total of 5 photos with my camera. Nicely done.
Then in November we celebrated my Grandpa H's 90th bday!
Seriously, he's 90 years old. Almost a century. 9 Decades. 90 big ones. 1921 people!!!
Do you even know what this means?!
Warren G. Harding was President when he was born. (I've never heard of him either.)
He has seen 15 Presidents in his life.
Lindburg made his first flight when my Gpa was 6.
The first "talkie" movie was released that same year.
Amelia Airhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean when he was 11.
Al Capone was running the streets of Chicago and prohibition was still in place.
He lived through the Great Depression, start to finish, on a watermelon farm in Oklahoma.
Saw WWII, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Gulf War start to finish.
The Indian Reorganization Act and Social Security Act, NASA was formed, Civil Rights Movement, Hawaii became the 50th state, first man to walk on the moon, Watergate, first personal computers, Oklahoma city bombing and WTC bombing, the internet, WTC terrorist attack, War on Terrorism, Hurricane Katrina...I could do this for a while but I will spare you.
Instead here are some precelebration photos...
We went to Santa Cruz for a day, ate lots of Boudin and Ming's,
and wandered around Fisherman's Wharf.
then the celebration...
family and friends came from everywhere to celebrate and boy, did we celebrate!
His 93 year old sister even came, what a sweetie.
Out of our entire family we were only missing my cousin Beri and her hubby.
It was fantastic and I think everyone cried at least once.
I pretty much cried through the entire thing because that's what I do.
Tyler sang an impromptu "Happy Birthday" that was my favorite.
I made this little ditty for the occasion, don't mind that none of us can sing on key.
Kind of a lot of stuff, I know. Thanks for bearing with me.
Happy Thanksgiving!!! I can't even begin to write down all that I am grateful for. Let's just say that I had a wonderful heart to heart with Heavenly Father this morning. He knows. But just a small recap for all of you...
my sweet husband. our marriage. my family. my body. my health. the gospel. hugs. the sun. quotes. my testimony. my education. a's education. the preisthood. temples. interior design. church callings. kipling. exploring. cell phones. the prophet. my friends. their families. computers. enough food. brave people. our apartment. this gorgeous autumn day. an income. forever families. our car. books. animals. history. my journal. art. pinterest. experiences. make up. nice people. love. photos. trials. movies. laughter. fruit. babies. blogs. my freedom. holidays. life.
We started this day off right with sleeping in until 10 am (I can't remember the last time I did that!!!) We made bfast while singing and dancing along to Les Mis and the Cure (strawberry and nutella crepes mmm...mmmm) and a little Arrested Development. Can this day get any better?! Seriously...it really can.
The menu for this blessed day
spinach artichoke dip with crostinis
Grandma's famous mashed potatoes and gravy
old fashioned sage stuffing
Rhodes rolls
ceasar salad
baked zucchini
sweet corn
strawberries and raspberries
Pumpkin pie a la mode
cranberry sauce
and turkey turkey turkey!!!
We really wish that we were with our families today but a low key Thanksgiving is just as wonderful. I am so grateful for this experience here in Cleveland. It has been hard and even miserable at times but A and I have grown so much closer and really become our own family. I never thought that I would say this but I am grateful for Cleveland. :)
I'm off to take the boy for a Thanksgiving walk before the food madness begins! I hope you have a fabulous Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for YOU!!!
