Medical Conclusion...

SELECTIVE MEN'S SYNDROME

Definition: When men don't want to admit some of the things that are a part of normal, every day life.
Stage One: Selective Hearing- comments like, "huh", or "you never told me that," are normal answers when the selective Hearing stage has set in. Its funny how they hear what they want... Instead of what was said.

Stage Two: Selective Smelling- occurs 3 years into your marriage (probably earlier if you have kids). Stinky Diapers are the most occuring selective smell...

* I'm sure there are many more stages... but sadly...this is where we are at at my house.

I came home tonight to Justin babysitting his nieces. As soon as I walk in the house, this awful smell hits my nose (and because I've had a cold, my sense of smell is almost nonexistant). When I say "someone is stinky," Justin replies...."That must have just happened, I didn't smell anything." So I change the cuplrit.... there is NO WAY that just happened.... We were lucky it didn't go on any longer or we would have had a MAJOR blow out!

This must be a part of being married for 3 years. It used to be, "honey, someone is stinky, its your turn to change them," but tonight stage 2 has set in, and it is now "I didn't smell anything".... Women, Beware of Selective Men's Syndrome.

Three Years Down Our Path....

And Eternity To Go!


I guess you know when you've hit that 3 year mark, because even though anniversaries are special.... sometimes life gets too busy to celebrate too much :). Between Turbos, Yard Work, Church Interviews, My Work, and Grave Yards for Justin..... There hasn't been much time to celebrate, but ya know, I wouldn't change a bit of it for the world! I am so happy to be married to such a wonderful man. I'm so lucky to have a man who, every single day, I can't wait to get home and be with. A man that makes me laugh, is a great example, and makes me want to be a better person in everything I do. So even though your sleeping soundly right now..... I love you Justin! Thanks for being such a wonderful husband and amazing man. I don't know where I would be without you, and I can't wait to see what the future has in store for us.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Lovin' Every Minute!

Life is GREAT isn't it! We are having such a great time as a married couple! One week from tomorrow we will have been married for 3 years. Crazy huh? I am such a blessed girl to have such a wonderful husband. I honestly have no idea where I would be without him. I love him so much, and I'm so happy to be his wife! Justin makes me laugh every single day. Here is one of my favorite "Justin Funnies" for the week.

Justin and I decided to BBQ last Sunday. We've never cooked ribs before.... so we thought we would give it a try. I called my mom and she said that pork needs to be white to eat it.... no pink. So we cooked, and cooked, and cooked them. And they turned out awesome, right! They looked beautiful, and tasted even better......

Except for one. It had alot of pink in the middle, so we decided to put it back on the grill. Justin had put the grill on high so that the extra stuff would burn off..... Not quite thinking about that little detail, we put the ribs back on for a few minutes. Justin went out to get the ribs and came back in with this look on his face. Showed me the ribs...

Then told me to go look behind the BBQ.... This is what I saw....

Yup, your right that's our siding stickin out there.... The BBQ just happened to be a little too close to the house, and totally melted our siding! Luckily, we had a few extra pieces the people that sided the house left, so its all fixed now! It was pretty funny though!

On Monday... I GOT A PIANO! No its not new, No its not perfect, but YES, Its MINE! I haven't been so excited about something in a really really long time! It's been stored in a feed shed, so it was really really dirty, but after at least 8 hours of cleaning it...

It now looks like THIS!

Not too bad for FREE huh? Its a little beat up, needs tuned, and the inside needs cleaned... But for the most part it works, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE It! Its been so nice to have a REAL Piano to practice and play on!

We have also been working on the yard... Inbetween crazy spring storms, sticking snow, and COLD wind! Thanks to Brady, we were able to get our well dug. We were a little worried about putting all this money into a surface well, and having it produce no water, but we have 6 feet of water thus far... so hopefully it will continue to work "well" for us!

This hole doesn't look too deep in this pic, but it's about 14 feet deep. It was pretty dark by the time we got the pipe put in there so we didn't get any pictures of it, but it seems to be doin its job! We are hoping that it will work good enough to water our lawn that we are getting.... In JUNE!

Now that we have the well dug, we are getting the sprinkler system done. The 1 weekend that we could actually rent the trencher we needed, we woke up to snow. So, we pulled out the ol' long underwear, long sleeved shirts, hoodies, and carharts and got to work. The trencher got stuck once... thanks to the awesome mud the snow left! We got the lines painted, and trenches dug. Our yard still looks like this because we weren't able to put down the poly pipe since the weather wouldn't cooperate.

We are hoping that the weather will cooperate a little better for us this week so we can get a few more things done in the yard. I have the brick that needs put up around the house for the flower bed, and get the pipe down for the sprinkler system.... Guess we will wait and see!

Landon's Jr. Prom

Here are some pictures from Landon's Jr. Prom. Annie..... these are for you. Love ya!

Justin and I did a breakfast for Landon's group this morning. We had fruit, yoguart, french toast, hash browns, eggs, bacon.... It was soooooo goood!

These are before Landon went to go and get Tiffany.

Yes we made him pose!



Landon and TiffanyTheir decorations
Floor Show
Parents Dance

Just a few more cute pics.

A Little Bit Of This.... A Little Bit Of That

I think I need to start naming my posts "renovating my home part 1,2,3 etc." It seems like all I post are things that I do around our house, but I guess that's because that's all it seems like we do sometimes. Welcome to being a homeowner. So sorry, but I'm going to post my newest project. As we now know..... Modulars come with a crappy flat paint that doesn't like to stay on the wall very nicely. This fall we are hoping to paint the house completely, but for now the best I'm able to do is the closets, (because we had the leftover white paint from when we painted the bedroom). I painted them all this winter, but saved the best for last which i finally acclompished last weekend.... THE PANTRY..... I wasn't looking forward to it at all. It is a BIG pantry, and there is A TON of food in it. But since Justin was on his crappy schedule... and he was a gimp anyways (I'll explain later) I finally got the ambition to do it since I had nothing else to do over the weekend. So here are my before, during, and after pictures :)

Before!!!

During... It looks like we had a grocery store, these were only 2 cabinents filled with food.

After! Much more organized... and a better paint job! (and no that is not a bottle of champange, it is a bottle of sparkling apple cider left over from New Year's)

I've been playing Nurse lately. Like I said, Justin has been a bit of a "gimp" lately. He got his hand burned at work, thanks to a malfunctioning radiator cap. Needless to say... I'm getting really good at wrapping hands if anyone ever needs help! He's been going to work still, but he has been on light duty, and hasn't been able to enter the mine all week. Instead he has been cleaning, "staying out of sight and mind", and blasting with dynomite. Anyways, I wanted to post pictures of his hand.... be aware, they are pretty gross!

This is what I came home too, Justin with a little red cast waving at me. I'm a mean wife and laughed at him... in fact, I am smiling just thinking about it lol.

This was the main blister before they drained it. it looks like he has a slug on his thumb. You can see the skin flap from the other blister, and below that is a big red spot where he also got burned.

Here is a blurry picture of his thumb now.... Blogger won't let me delete it. Does anyone else have this problem?

Here is a little better picture.

We haven't been doing much more than that lately. We have been drawing up plans for the front yard so we can get started on the landscaping. YEA! This was supposed to happen last year... but we ended up buying a car instead. I think we have figured out what we want finally with the yard, and now we just have to go and get the stuff. Brent and Elizabeth... You will be glad to know that we are going to do a little to the back yard... even if it is just pouring a cement pad for the bbq! Tomorrow we are going to go and look at stone, sprinkler system, and other yard decor so we can finally make our mud hole, a pretty place!