11 years!

Today is Ryan and I's 11th anniversary. Not of marriage, but of being together. I met and started dating Ryan at the hayride in Oklahoma City 11 years ago. We dated long distance (he lived in Oklahoma, I lived in Colorado) for 2 years before we joined lives. I can't believe how fast time has flown by! I'm so happy to be his wife, and love him SO much!

Meet Indiana Jones!

Blake is "into" Indiana Jones right now, and he came in and told me that he was Indiana Jones. He even has the whip, LOL.

Cleaning flower beds

We moved to this house 1 year ago this month. You know how the first few months, you are basically just settling in, well that's what I was doing 1 year ago. Then we had a hard year with money, so I went to work part and full time as a server. It left me so tired that I couldn't do a lot of extra things around my house that I wanted to. I have a area in my front yard that filled up with weeds last year. I pulled weeds a couple different times, but as much as it rained, it was overrun with weeds. Well this year, I'm not working outside of the home and I can get some things done that needed done. Ryan was working out of town this week so I thought I would do a few extra things this week. One thing was to get ready for a yard sale (which I plan to have the first weekend in April). I have been working in my garage like crazy, and I will post pictures of that accomplishment, but it's not QUITE finished yet. So when it is, I will post pictures ;) And my second goal was to clean up the flower bed in my front yard. I pulled all the dead weeds, and basically just cleaned the area. I put a weed barrier down and put cedar mulch on top of it. I plan on planting a few, or maybe a LOT of flowers very soon, but the first step was to get the area rid of weeds and prevent weeds from coming up. So I am really happy with what I have accomplished. I have just a little bit left to do, and I ran out of cedar mulch, so I need to go buy more, but I have maybe another hour worth of work left. I'm VERY happy!

The black (plastic) is the weed barriers that I was talking about. To the right, you'll see about how many weeds I had to pull throughout the bed. This is the last section that I have left to do!

The finished look, well at least until I have flowers in it!

My Buddy

I really wanted to write about something today, but couldn't think of anything really going on. My cockatiel is making so much noise that it drew my attention to him. So that's what I decided to write about today. Buddy is our 2 year old cockatiel. We bought him in Colorado when he was about 3 months old. When we first got him, I was scared to even touch him, I thought he would peck at me. Finally I put some seeds in my hand and he ate out of my hands for a few days, then I decided that he was warming up to me and I put my finger out for him to climb on. And he did. It took a while to get used to holding a bird and having him on my shoulder. We eventually built a bond with him. Then after 6 months we decided to get him a girl cockatiel. Her name was Cheyenne. After we got her, he didn't act the same towards us. We just lost that bond that we once had. We never did get a bond with Cheyenne. We would try to get her to get on our finger and all she would do is bite, and she bit kind of hard. And she didn't like us picking up Buddy, she would throw a fit when we were holding him. When we moved out here, we decided to get rid of her, because we were sick of her. I sold her last summer. It was the best thing I could have done! Buddy went back to being the same sweet bird again. We have had him close to 2 years, and he has learned to do so much. He copies the way you whistle. He whistles (like a guy whistles at a pretty girl) WHIT WHOO. And one of the funniest things he does is he BARKS! When the birds would get on our nerves, we would put them outside in our backyard. Our next door neighbor has a schnauzer dog that barks CONSTANTLY and Buddy picked up on his barking. It is pretty funny! Oh and my favorite thing that Buddy does is he kisses. It is so cute. He has been a fun bird to have. At times I wish we didn't have him (like in the morning when he wakes up and starts whistling) but for the most part, I love having him!

Buddy (white) and Cheyenne (gray)

Buddy and Cheyenne taking a nap

I hate this picture of me, but it is so cute of Buddy giving me a kiss :)

Easter Fun!

We had a great Easter! We went down to Ollie and Sharon's. Lee & Cherrie and Kevin & Michelle brought their families down as well. We all went to church, came home, had a great lunch, and then we hid a VERY large trash bag full of eggs all over Ollie and Sharon's yard. The kids had a great time while they stayed with them for a few days but Blake was READY to come home. I was ready for them to come home also. Ryan is going to be working out of town all week, so I'm already missing him! But I do hope that everyone had as nice of an Easter as we did :)

Lee was doing his annual "tricking the kids." He ties fishing line through some eggs and when a kid goes for them, he moves it. It is hilarious! Blake fell for it last year, but this year was Samuel's turn ;)