If You Really Knew Me

 I saw this floating around last week and since I was still recapping my trip I couldn't join in. I know I still have to finish recapping, but I miss regular blogging!!

So here we go:

If You Really Knew Me:

- I sleep with my "binki" still... aka my baby blanket. I cannot give it up! I have 2, but one has been retired. It got too many holes in it, and I promised my Grandma I would put it away. But I had a back up and it is in bad shape now too!! I NEED a new one badly!! Any knitters out there? Please?

- I love to sing. You will always find me singing along to the radio, rapping, you name it I have probably sang it! I also used to be a part of the church children's choir!

- I bite my nails - hence why I pay $45 bucks a month to have pretty nails, because otherwise I have none!! I thought having the gels for over a year would break my habit, so I stopped for 2 months and I just got out of control again!!

- I am a picture finatic!! I love pictures! I love having them, I love taking them, I love editing them, I love everything about them and I always have!!

- I can drive a tractor, not well, but I can get it done!!

- The bottoms of my legs do not have pigment. It runs in my Mom's side of the family! I'd say I have my Dad's skin from the knees up! However, I have been working on establishing some color. This year I just had to put on bug spray and I now have a tan, but I don't expect that to last long!

- I love curling my hair! Infact I prefer my hair curled over straight! Although I have become pretty lazy with my hair lately...

- I have really picky feet! Takes me a long time to break in a new pair of shoes, especially if I get blisters after the first wear, there is the possibility that I will not wear them again! Sandals are the worst!

 

- I also do not wear high heels! I am tall people!! So not only do I save myself from breaking an ankle and being uncomfortable, but I still manage to have height as well!! Thank goodness hubby is tall too!!

 

- I actually enjoy reality tv shows, for the most part that is! I don't even know why I watch Teen Mom - it drives me batty, but I like The Bachelor/Bachlorette/Bachelor Pad, Love in The Wild, Texas Women, the odd Real Housewives, Jennie Garth's A Little Bit Country, etc.

 

- I can't watch scary movies anymore!! I used to love them, but not anymore and neither does M! Jeepers Creepers scared both M and I and we haven't watched another scary movie since!

 

- I am afraid to drive beside transport trucks! It freaks me right out. They never drive straight. When passing one I will drive on the rumble strip if necessary!

Weekend Rewind

What awesome weekend we had!!
Friday night we have Mike and Nicole over for dinner!! We hadn't seen each other in waaay to long!!! It was nice to finally have some time together! We also made our first dairy/wheat free meal. We did Italian Chicken, rice and fresh green beans!! It was delicious!! Nicole brought a gluten free cherry pie. This was my first gluten free experience and I will be honest.. soo happy I am able to eat normal food! Not my thing! The pie filling was good though!!

Saturday we celebrated our 5 year anniversary! We did not do too much, just enjoyed a relaxing day together outside by the pool! M gave me the sweetest bouquet of flowers (filled with my favorite flowers, as well as some of the same from my wedding bouquet!!), as well a really pretty bracelet!! He loved the video I made him!!

The bouquet also had the coolest roses:

We went and got some groceries and ice cream with friends in the evening!!

Sunday, we decided would be the perfect lake day!!!

And in deed it was! We took our friends boat down for them, and all packed into the truck and headed down! The weather was perfect and the water was warm!!



When we got back to the dock, Gracie decided she couldn't wait to get onto land and attempted to jump onto the dock, when the boat wasn't quite close enough and ended up falling in the channel! YUCK! The water is soo gross in the channel!! Grandpa hauled her back up on the boat:

She ended up getting a bath!! Luckily he Grandma let her borrow her blonde shampoo!!

 Little stinker!!

We had the dogs in the box of the truck, however the weather was beginning to change on the way home. The skies were getting darker and it began to rain. I checked my phone for a weather update and there was a tornado warning, as funnel clouds were reported in a nearby town. So we pulled over and moved all of our stuff in the cab, as well as the dogs. We still all managed to fit!! The weather only got worse as we got closer to home! It was a crazy storm, but luckily no tornado!!

I also didn't lose my satellite so The Bachelorette PVR'd just fine! I am glad Emily chose Jef, but felt horrible to Arie!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend as well!!

A Special Letter

Today I am writing a special letter, to just one person instead of several today! Today I am writing to my husband!!

Dear Mike:

Tomorrow we celebrate 5 years of marriage!  5 whole years - where did the time go? How perfectly does it fall? A hot Saturday in July 5 years ago and now tomorrow!! To be honest, I would be willing to put my dress back on, dress you up in a tux with a pink vest, invite all our friends and family all back to the farm and do it all over again tomorrow!! There is just one thing missing and he can not be replaced - your Grandfather! I miss him. He will forever hold a special place in our hearts, but I know he is smiling down on us and would marry us again, but from heaven!

In 5 years we have been through soo much! We lived in a tiny little house and started our family there with 1 cat and 2 dogs, from there our family blossomed! Many people define family by the amount of children you have. We became a family as soon as we said I do, whether it be just you and I and all our crazy animals, it is perfect! Our kind of perfect! 

We sold our first house, leaving many memories behind, but we have moved into our HOME. We have poured love, sweat and tears into this house and we are both so proud of all that we have accomplished! I cannot thank you enough for all your hard work. 

We've been through soo much in the last couple of years and I am lucky enough to have you by my side! Our strength together can conquer more than I know. You have taught me soo much! You have given me the strength to stand when I have fallen. You have wiped my tears and put a smile on my face. You have found a positive in my negatives. You have held my hand and walked a journey with me, picking me up as I stumble, teaching me to dance in the rain. You have shown me that I can do things I never imagined. In sickness and in health, you have been by my side and have never failed me. You have made me smile when I cannot find a calm in the storm. You have shown me what strength is. You have taught me to look fear in the face and conquer it. There have been soo many opportunities where we could have just given up and we haven't, we push through, we find laughter in our sorrows, and we find strength in one another! We have fun despite the storms that pass our way.

I could not have found anyone better to have by my side! I will forever cherish our nightly argument of who loves who more and why. (P.s - I win!) My forehead lives for your kiss goodnight and good morning!

I "promise promise" to love you forever. I hope that I am able to give back to you what you have given to me! I hope that you feel as much love as I do. There are not words strong enough to explain my feelings. Without you, I would lost.

It has been a crazy 5 years, but I am ready and willing to take on another 80!

I love you,

Here is a video I have made to celebrate the past 5 years! The songs lyrics match my hearts.

Thoughts On Thursday!

I'm taking another break from the road trip recap... I will finish that next week!!
Here are the random thoughts and happenings of this week so far:

GUILTY!

This is Lily after I came home from work and found that she had chewed a pair of my clean underwear! She had a whole basket to choose from and still chose mine! She totally gives herself up and punished herself! I found it soo hard to not laugh! I had to give her a time out in hopes to correct this behavior! I know she was just mad because this was their first day in over 2 weeks of being left home alone! She is too stinkin' cute to be mad at! She just kept wagging her tail, but cowering!

This is Lily sneaking out of her time out! At least she knows she was in the wrong!

- I was back to work yesterday and had soo much work! No complaints! But I actually have a lot of work to do Friday too!!

- I woke up yesterday on time, without help of the alarm clock! The volume was turned right down!

- After waking up yesterday and hoping to enjoy my last rice krispie for breakfast, M had taken it on me! Not impressed! Fruit bar it was!

- We played ball last night and won!! Broke us out of our losing streak hopefully!

- It is raining today!!! I wouldn't normally be happy about this, but we haven't had rain in like a month!! It is a nice gentle rain and smells awesome!!

- I am planning on making homemade perogies and today would have been perfect, but I don't have any bacon! I don't want to waste a trip to town for one thing!!

- We have dinner with Nicole and Mike tomorrow night! We have not seen them in waaay to long!! Where does the time go? I will be making my first wheat-free meal!

- M and I are celebrating 5 years of an awesome marriage on Saturday!! How awesome is it that it is falling on a Saturday too!! A letter will be posted on the blog to him tomorrow!! 5 years!!!

- M plays ball tonight! Hoping for a hometown win tonight!!

- I got mail today!! And it was just what I was waiting for!! My pictures from Whitney Cowan Photography!!! I love love love them!!!

- Not only do I have the pictures now, but Shutterfly is having a photobook sale!!! Perfect timing!!

Happy Thursday Friends!!

Road Trip: Day 7

I am back at work today!!! Soo I hope you enjoy Day 7!!! We are just about finished with the recaps!!

July 8, Day 7:

This morning M and I managed to sleep in until 8! After we got up and realized that the dogs had not woke us up, but instead they slept in Jenna and Brent's room and Gracie woke Jenna up several times! Stinker!

After our pancake breakfast, we got the quads all ready to go to move the cows!

What a neat experience that was, except it took a while as the cows did not want to go! Once we got them out of the yard they co-operated a bit more!

After getting them to the new pasture, we headed out for a quad ride and Brent gave us a tour if the land around! The quad trails were fun! Us girls ended up with mud on our feet and legs and a few splashes on our clothes.

We stopped at the mountain peak and took in some fantastic views! We decided it was not the best place for our wiener roast and went to the cabin instead!

We roasted up some sausage and hung out! Jenna and Brent's friends Kevin & Christine came up as well! We had a fun time!

I found a couple of ticks crawling  up my leg! Yuck! I became paranoid and applied more musk oil! I don't usually wear a high spf sunscreen but borrowed some of Jenna's, but it didn't matter! I got burnt! I don't usually burn ever, but I am guessing it is because of the Musk-oil! I was glistening pretty good!

Before heading back to watch the Riders game Christine and I couldn't help but to comment on how dirty Jenna's shirt was! All three of us were wearing white tanks (and pink underwear which came into topic later)

Jenna fixed our white shirts on the way home! Christine and I were covered in dust! I was pretty much driving with my eyes shut! Once we arrived back at the farm and realized how dirty we were we couldn't help but to laugh and share a few more drinks!

A few more friends came over to watch the game. Brent brought the TV outside and we watched the game. According to everyone over here, M and I have accents, which to us they do! So much time was spent joking around about the differences! The language interpretation only got worse as the night went on!

The Rough Riders actually won!

It was a super fun day, aside from my intense burn!