Welcome, Welcome Sabbath Morning

Our morning started bright and early at 5:30. Miss barky pants, aka Rukia, started to whine and cry. Now this is nothing too new. If we both happen to wake up in the morning and she sees this she will start to whine a little. She wants to play, go outside, go potty or just jump into the bed with us.

As for the "hair free zone" Rukia has wiggled her way back into our room. She sleeps on the floor though and it has worked out nicely. Anyone with a golden doodle will tell you that they don't do well if they can't be with you. She follows us from room to room and won't go outside and play on the patio with the cats unless we are there. She's a people dog. Anyways... back to this morning.

So as usual, we petted her a little then Chad kicked her out of the room so she could huff and puff on her own, get bored, and then go back to sleep smashed up against our bedroom door. Instead the lovely aroma off poop wafted into our room 2 minutes later. Apparently home girl wasn't kidding with all that whining. But that's what happens when you've been crying wolf.

So at 5:45 we are cleaning up dog poo, washing the carpet, taking her outside to poo some more and trying to get the poo smell out of room. In all fairness, Chad was mostly in charge of this while I sleepily watched and stood around.

But wait.... there's more. Mad that I was up at 5:45 with dog poop all over our stairs, I decided to sleep in as long as possible. The sun was shining through our windows, birds chirping and the breeze was perfect. Finally I peeled my butt out of bed around 11. I stumbled into our bathroom and stepped into... dog vomit. But not just vomit. Dog throw up that had been covered up by the bathroom rug. Our poor pup feels so bad when she gets sick in the house now (diarrhea, vomit, poo) that if she's given enough time she will try to hide it.

I see her curled up in the corner by the stairs giving me the saddest puppy dog eyes and between the eyes and the cover up attempt I can't manage to be mad at the poor sick girl. So I start a load of laundry and throw in the two rugs from the bathroom, clean up the vomit that's covering the bathroom floor and take her outside to poo some more. Because there's nothing worse than cleaning up diarrhea off carpeting. Or maybe there is, I don't know, I'm not a mom, just a fur-mom. We head back inside where I then have to wipe her poopy butt like a little baby, proceeding to get more poo all over me again.

So congratulations to all of you with kids out there, you can stop laughing now :)  I really don't know how you handle all the sick kids you have... or the potty training... or the bed wetting...  or any of that really. Because I can barely handle my dog.

Awkward and Awesome Thursday

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Awkward:

• My popularity with bees. We were out taking pictures for Chad's class and I had 5 bumble bees following me for the entire time. The buzzing itself was some kind of Chinese water torture. There was flailing, running, more flailing and then short lived acceptance. Followed by screaming, irritation and of course more flailing. It's a good thing his pictures turned out so well.
• Chad's hands. I swear he's been rock climbing on glass.

Awesome:

• In the past week Chad has been compared to Dierks Bently, Dr. Who, and James Bond. 
• Brittany moved out last night! Hallelujah!!! Let me just say it again, Brittany. Is. Outta Here!!! In true Brittany fashion they were moving all night, aka her child was running around all night outside screaming and they were vaccuming at ridiculous hours. Small price to pay to never see/hear them again.Woot!
• Chad's cooked dinner every night this week. Every. Night. He comes home from class with a grocery bag full of fruits, vegetables and a piece of fish and.... wala! Dinner!

Any Awesome's or Awkwards out there? How has the week treated you?

Pinspired: Sugar High

 

Mmmmm Easter, the best excuse to eat as much sugar as you possibly can.

Challenge Accepted.

We made this lovely Lemon Pull Apart Bread for breakfast. It's basically lemon monkey bread and it's basically delicious.

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Later that afternoon I started to whip up some Strawberry Cake, then decided to practice the tiniest bit of self control and halved the recipe to make cupcakes instead. By the end I was licking the bowl - both batter and frosting :)

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Of course there was the required Cadbury mini eggs that Chad somehow doesn't like?! Which is a-ok in my book because the 2 bags I snatched up at the store are barely enough for me. There were also some brownie sundaes involved too.

So if your in the mood for some lemony and strawberry deliciousness check these two recipes out. They don't disappoint!

Sunday Dress

Skirt: F21, Cardigan & Shoes: Target, Necklace: Aldo

Happy Easter!

We are celebrating by sleeping in, eating lots of sugary food and lounging in our p.j.'s all day. And just to make all my Michiganders jealous... it really was too hot to be wearing this cardigan today. We are dangerously close to the time of year when any clothes are too many clothes. I'll let you guess whose favorite time of year that is. And on that note, I hope you all have a swell Easter :)

Speaking of the Weekend...

Ash and Pat came down to visit last weekend!!!!

We were super excited to hang out with them, keep them up waaaaay too late, and play until we were dead tired.

Friday night they managed to get here just early enough for Chad to take us all rock climbing. Whenever just the two of us go Chad climbs and I belay. That's it. I have little to no interest in climbing up the side of a rock. I can barley climb down the path to get where Chad climbs sometimes. But we all took turns. Patrick got up nice and high, I panicked about 6 feet off the ground and Ashley was the super star of the day. She was nervous at first but then really took off!

That night we took it easy and hung out after dinner and ice cream. Ashley and I went to bed at 1 and let the boys stay up discussing pressing matters into the wee hours of the night. Patrick was a wee bit exhausted the next day... and so was Chad. Too bad though, we were off to Vegas!!!

We had a great time wandering around the shops, getting fancy desserts, gambling (just a little) and people watching. We spent the whole day and night there, finally making it home well after 2am.

Sunday was a recovery day! We filled our bellies with Mexican and Chinesse food and played Munchkins!

Awkward and Awesome Thursday

Awkward:

• Not thinking that Miss Brittany and Baby Daddy is crazy because you've become used to them throwing things against the walls and 3am scream fests directly outside your bedroom window. 
• Being reminded of Brittany's crazy when the police are at her apartment 3 times in one weekend. Really? 3 times? Let's get it together people.
• My boss at work letting me know that I can start having kids now! What to do with said baby while Chad is in school for the next 230875 years and I have to work? No worries, I can bring this child with me to work and she will watch baby Lewis. I can just hear the rest of my family cheering along with her :)
• Hearing weird chirping noises coming from the office next door. Finally realizing that the chirping is actually a tiny, little dog that is being treated in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. We could hear the technician say, "my wife will never believe this, do you mind if I take a picture?". We were practically rolling on the floors laughing.
• Running the 3.5 miles home from work yesterday only to find myself locked out of our house. No worries, Chad will be home from class in a few minutes. Wrrrooong. Chad was having too good of a time in his rock climbing class and decided to stay an extra hour. Nothing like realizing you can break into your house in 2 seconds flat. Up and through the kitchen window I went!

Awesome:

• Las Vegas with Ash and Pat.
• Ridiculously expensive desserts that taste like heaven.
• Chad's self portraits he took for his photography class.
• Face Time and Skype
• Flavored Red Bull. The cranberry kind is oh so yummy.
• It's almost the weekend. Because isn't that usually the most awesome thing about Thursdays?

Awkward and Awesome Thursday

Awkward:

• Chad's been telling me to go get my hair done since January. January people. But that would require actually finding someone to do my hair, and then paying for it, and then crossing my fingers that this new person actually knows what they are doing and worth the ridiculous amount of money they always charge. Who in the world ignores their husband when he tells them to go out and get their hair (and even nails) done? This girl.
• Taking Rukia running with me and having to drag her along the sidewalk. I finally look back at her to see what the freak is going on and find her squatting as I'm pulling her along, leaving a little (ok, not so little) trail of poo.
• Wanting to tell the woman hiking behind us with her 4 small children that the "worst that can happen" is that her kids (who were nervous to keep going on the sloping rock) will slip and fall on the rocks, hit their head on said rocks, pass out and then drown in the river since she "can't help them" because she's holding a baby. I kept that awkwardness to myself though and let the kids believe their mother who told them that the worst that would happen is they would get a little wet from the river.
• The amount of past Top Chef episodes we have been watching.

Awesome:

• New makeup. I never get new makeup. So while Chad helped out with a church activity on Wednesday night, I ran over to Target, got completely overwhelmed, but found a few things to spruce up my face. Side note: why have I never owned a brow pencil until now? Miraculous.
• Running outside! So happy that it's warm and sunny! My freckles are back :)
• JT's new album. Awe-some. It's been playing non stop since we got it.
• Ash and Pat and Vegas this weekend! Don't be jealous.