Daniela's Birthday

Last weekend was Daniela's 27th birthday! She had a big party with friends and family, and I made her a very special cake. I think it was a good time had by all.

The LHS Ladies

The Cheat cake!

Mario Marathon

I know I don't have a ton of readers on my blog. But just in case you happen to stumble by; you should check out the Super Mario Marathon 3 that's going on this weekend.

Basically it's a bunch of 30 something (awesome) nerds that are having a Mario Marathon to raise money for Child's Play Charity. Child's Play raises money to buy games and toys for sick kids in the hospital. Please check it out!

You Capture - Get Down Low!

I think my take on this week's theme is kind of a stretch. . . .but I'm going to go for it.

We have been getting many scary storms lately. These were the pictures I took of the sky after I was getting down low in the basement cowering in fear as the tornado sirens went off. Too much of a stretch? Ah well. Technically I'm a lot lower down then the sky. . .so. . .it works. :-)

All photos are SOOC, no color editing or enhancing. I've never seen the sky these colors before!

Killer Cat

This morning I noticed a fly flying around the house. The Boo also noticed the fly and started stalking it everywhere. I don't know how much I've written about our cat, but she is the most klutzy uncoordinated cat that ever lived. The reason why I enjoyed her stalking the fly was her cute failed attempts to pounce on it over and over. She does that cute butt wiggle before she jumps (if any of my readers are familiar with cat antics)

Then the impossible happened. She killed the fly and brought it over to show me. Gross, but also amazing and cute. I'm sad I missed the kill.

You Capture - Water

The "Moat" is one of my favorite things about our back yard, and it fit perfectly with the You Capture theme this week "water."

The back half of our lot is still densely wooded, but our neighbors cleared theirs out and built a bridge.

I love to sit in the yard, dangle my feet over the edge and listen to the water trickling down.

Check out more "water" shots at Beth's

Spring Things

Well folks I finally uploaded some pictures! I was able to borrow Daniela's battery charger since we have the same camera. :)

One of our more recent big purchases for the house was some patio furniture! Our backyard is one of my favorite parts of our house, so I was just itching to get some seating so we could enjoy it more. We ended up getting a 10 piece set from Menards for a really reasonable price, it's nothing fancy but it works. :) The base set included: a glass top table that seats 6, 4 regular chairs, 2 reclining chairs, 2 ottoman, and a glass side table. About a week after we bought the patio set, my parents bought us the umbrella and stand for our 4 year wedding anniversary. So now we have the complete set!

I also did a little bit of container gardening recently. I had bought a few pots when we lived in the apartment with the intention of making a balcony garden, but it never really happened. Now that we have a nice big deck and front porch I was more motivated to make it happen.


We shall see if I can keep everything alive! I definitely don't have my Mom's green thumb.

June?

Wow, June? It's already June? That means at the end of this month the year will be half way over. It's just crazy how fast time flies after college.

The whole month of May I was horrible at posting. I had a few excuses, but I'm determined to post more this month! June is set to be packed with fun things like Daniela's birthday, a BBQ at my buddy John's. . .and. . um. . .work? Actually I'm mad about that. I really wanted to do an autism awareness walk on the 12th of June, but I'm stuck at stupid work. Apparently patients get upset when I'm not there so my office manager hasn't been as generous with my "I'd like to not work any Saturdays this summer" campaign.

I will make one little excuse for not blogging the next few days. My camera battery is dead and I left the charger at my mother-in-law's house in Corydon Indiana this past weekend. She is sweet enough to mail it to me, so I will be desperately watching the mail for it's arrival so I can start taking pictures again.

I hope everybody is enjoying the short work week! Mondays off are the greatest.