It's been so long since I've blogged about what we're up to. I get so busy looking at all your blogs plus blog stalking other people I don't really even know that I forget to update my own blog. I bet it's boring for all of you when you click on my page. SORRY!! I will try to do better. This will be a long post to make up for it. Break it up and read it on different days. :)
Not much is new in our house. We still go to work everyday and come home to excited, barking dogs who want in the house. Touille has recently learned how to do a circle. We make them do this before they get a treat. On occasion Bessy just starts running in circles indicating that she wants a treat. It makes us laugh so of course, she gets her treat. They are pretty entertaining. Who needs kids when you have dogs??? They are both potty trained and sleep through the night!! They do get a little car sick though. I found a product at Zamzows that makes them drowsy. We are still experimenting with the time frame of when to give the pill prior to the car ride. We've had a few messes to clean up.
We went on a camping trip to Donnelly with my side of the family last weekend. The dogs got to come too. They didn't enjoy the car ride very much (left us a few messes) but had fun with the other dogs in the family who also came. The dogs did really good on the ride home after their pills kicked in. They were both so tired Bessy fell alseep on Touille's head but they didn't seem to mind and I wasn't going to wake them up and risk more nausea. While camping, we went four-wheeling, played games and found a rope swing that was a lot of fun. It's so nice to be in the beautiful mountains and enjoy the scenery. It was kinda gloomy but it only rained on us when we were sleeping. We were lucky!
I'm still working on decorating my house. I tried a new idea in my bonus room. I think I like it but need more colors of paint for additional squares. (pics on bottom of next collage)
A couple weeks ago I found some individual metal square art at Craft Warehouse that match my big collage on the wall in our front room. It's nice to finally have more decoration on my walls!
Also, I finally found the mirror I've been looking for for about 6 months to put my vinyl lettering on!! It was at Bed Bath & Beyond. I was so excited but I was in my car and didn't have enough room for it. I drove back home, got Matthew and the 4-runner (bc the mirror is so huge!) and went back to the store. Nothing I've found prior to Saturday was long enough so I had to jump on the opportunity. When we got there we couldn't find anyone to help us get it off the top shelf so we had to go up front and ask for help. Then we waited for at least 10-15 minutes for someone to finally come. I guess Matthew gave the guy a bad look and he said, "Sorry about the long wait, we'll give you 10% off." I was even more excited!! It was supposed to be $99.00 but I had a 20% off coupon plus the additional 10% off that we got for waiting so long. What a fabulous deal I got!!
Matthew and I put most of the lettering on last night. We have to order a #6 though bc my mom realized (after multiple people have seen it tacked on my wall for 6 months) that I ordered est. 2005. Funny thing is Matthew and I were married in 2006! Opps! Good thing my cousin sells vinyl lettering.The mirror is almost the size of a pool table and I know because we have a pool table in our front room. In case you didn't know, we are "storing" it for Matthew's brother. What a nice sister-in-law I am. I apologize for the not so great pictures. I'm not very good--Espscially with a reflective mirror and glass.
The empty room is Michael's old room. Matthew's other brother. He moved out last month after living with us for about a year. We felt like empty-nesters for a while but have now adjusted. The night he left, Matthew and I were giving him advice and telling him to come back and visit and blah,blah,blah. We felt like our child was moving out. A while after he left, Matthew looked at me and asked what we were supposed to do now. Our entertainment moved out and our house was surprisingly quite. It was weird!
Not much is new in our house. We still go to work everyday and come home to excited, barking dogs who want in the house. Touille has recently learned how to do a circle. We make them do this before they get a treat. On occasion Bessy just starts running in circles indicating that she wants a treat. It makes us laugh so of course, she gets her treat. They are pretty entertaining. Who needs kids when you have dogs??? They are both potty trained and sleep through the night!! They do get a little car sick though. I found a product at Zamzows that makes them drowsy. We are still experimenting with the time frame of when to give the pill prior to the car ride. We've had a few messes to clean up.
We went on a camping trip to Donnelly with my side of the family last weekend. The dogs got to come too. They didn't enjoy the car ride very much (left us a few messes) but had fun with the other dogs in the family who also came. The dogs did really good on the ride home after their pills kicked in. They were both so tired Bessy fell alseep on Touille's head but they didn't seem to mind and I wasn't going to wake them up and risk more nausea. While camping, we went four-wheeling, played games and found a rope swing that was a lot of fun. It's so nice to be in the beautiful mountains and enjoy the scenery. It was kinda gloomy but it only rained on us when we were sleeping. We were lucky!
I'm still working on decorating my house. I tried a new idea in my bonus room. I think I like it but need more colors of paint for additional squares. (pics on bottom of next collage)
A couple weeks ago I found some individual metal square art at Craft Warehouse that match my big collage on the wall in our front room. It's nice to finally have more decoration on my walls!
Also, I finally found the mirror I've been looking for for about 6 months to put my vinyl lettering on!! It was at Bed Bath & Beyond. I was so excited but I was in my car and didn't have enough room for it. I drove back home, got Matthew and the 4-runner (bc the mirror is so huge!) and went back to the store. Nothing I've found prior to Saturday was long enough so I had to jump on the opportunity. When we got there we couldn't find anyone to help us get it off the top shelf so we had to go up front and ask for help. Then we waited for at least 10-15 minutes for someone to finally come. I guess Matthew gave the guy a bad look and he said, "Sorry about the long wait, we'll give you 10% off." I was even more excited!! It was supposed to be $99.00 but I had a 20% off coupon plus the additional 10% off that we got for waiting so long. What a fabulous deal I got!!
Matthew and I put most of the lettering on last night. We have to order a #6 though bc my mom realized (after multiple people have seen it tacked on my wall for 6 months) that I ordered est. 2005. Funny thing is Matthew and I were married in 2006! Opps! Good thing my cousin sells vinyl lettering.The mirror is almost the size of a pool table and I know because we have a pool table in our front room. In case you didn't know, we are "storing" it for Matthew's brother. What a nice sister-in-law I am. I apologize for the not so great pictures. I'm not very good--Espscially with a reflective mirror and glass.
The empty room is Michael's old room. Matthew's other brother. He moved out last month after living with us for about a year. We felt like empty-nesters for a while but have now adjusted. The night he left, Matthew and I were giving him advice and telling him to come back and visit and blah,blah,blah. We felt like our child was moving out. A while after he left, Matthew looked at me and asked what we were supposed to do now. Our entertainment moved out and our house was surprisingly quite. It was weird!
