Number Two

Ok, I know I just blogged once today, and literally just posted it, but I had just had to write about our trip to St. Louis!

Last weekend we went up to STL for the JOHN MAYER CONCERT! WOOT! We left Saturday afternoon, arrived afternoon-ish and went to the mall. Surprisingly, I really wasn't in much of a shopping mood, so I walked away with nothing, but Micah got a hat and shirt which he wore later that night. BUT, we went to this tea store and sampled all these great teas. As you know, I am a hardcore coffee girl, but I have caught a bug for learning more about tea. It was SO GOOD! They had all these cool tea kettles and tea pots and amazing smelling/tasting teas. We didn't have any extra money to fork over for $18 4 oz. bag of tea, but maybe one of these days we can splurge.

We headed to our hotel, freshened up, and began our search for a good place to eat. We got advice not to go to Houlihan's because it wasn't that great, so we drove around and found this "saloon" and ordered some amazing burgers.



After dinner we picked up my sis and her friend and headed to the concert. We had paperless tickets, so we just had to show our IDs at the door. Oh, and the credit card we bought the tickets with. Yeah, left that in our car. Oops! After successfully making it into the venue, we were escorted. Yes, escorted to our seats. On the floor. 5th row. They were great!

The first band was full of energy! We were only familiar with one of their songs, but they put on a great show.

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Micah and I mid-concert

There were so many good shots...I just gotta share them...



Assassins was pretty cool...he was right by us!





Unfortunately it had to end. So, we found Taylor and Allie and took them back to their hotel, while the whole car ride was spend raving about our out of body experiences.

The next morning we got up and headed to this amazing breakfast place. (Thank you iPhone and Urban Spoon App!)




AMAZING food!!!




After breakfast/lunch we headed to visit some relatives on the way home and had tons of fun. Remember Maggie Moos? OMG. We had some while we were there. It is way better than I remembered, and way better than coldstone. Not Andy's, but close. I had Red Velvet ice cream with reeces in it. Now I am craving some. MMMmmmmm...

Needless to say, we had an amazing weekend! Thanks for listening/reading again!

Produtive!

I feel super productive today! I woke up this morning knowing I had the whole day off and wondered how I should spend it. As Micah was leaving for work this morning he mentioned I should deep clean the house. At first that didn't sound that appealing, but after I thought about how much this house needs it, there was no question. So I started by making a list: vacuum, clean the kitchen floors, toilets, bathrooms, showers, do the laundry, dust, and clean the carpets. Whew, lots to do! I called to see if I could borrow my momma's carpet cleaner and after discussing the weather and the current state of my kitty (I'll explain in a bit.), I decided the carpet cleaning should wait until next week. So as of now, everything else is done and I'm waiting on the last load of laundry to get out of the dryer!

As for our cat, I think she has a bladder infection. Micah came into the bedroom early this morning fuming because the cat had peed in the corner of the living room. I thought that was really odd, because she never does that. And then before Micah left for work, she had peed in the corner again. And as of now, she has tried to pee at least a dozen more times. So, I think there is a problem :( She has been acting mellow and wanting to cuddle a lot too, which if you know Bella, this is very abnormal... Since it's Saturday afternoon, we'll have to wait until Monday morning to take her to the vet. Hopefully she's not in too much pain by then.

Not a great transition, but I am really in the mood to cook tonight. Since I get off at 8:30 during the week, it doesn't leave much time to whip much of anything up when I get home. So I usually get the urge Saturday and/or Sunday to make a big 'ol meal. Since we are running low on supplies, I may need to take a trip to the store before I can tonight. What do you think I should make? We've had Mexican for like the past 3 big meals, so none of that. Pasta? Micah'd love that. Healthy salad and fish? Micah would like to think he'd like that... ;) We'd have to hit up Andy's afterwards. Only sort of kidding.

Well, I better freshen up before my man gets here. Speaking of, sorry for the randomness, but because of him I have solidified a pet peeve of mine lately. It bothers the poop out of me when there is time left on the microwave. There. I had to tell someone. I feel better now. I do love him, so. Can't wait for him to get here so we can just have fun together! I think we're going to hit up some thrift stores and see if we can find anything good. Last time we found these really cool, old tennis rackets that we have yet to hang on the walls. They'll make it there someday.

Too-da-loo!

Bath Time

What does a mixture of rain, dirt, and puppy make? A filthy mess! It's been rainy around here lately and has turned parts of our backyard into mud piles, and apparently our doggies are lovin' it. Maya has it caked within her fur and little Lady no longer had a white tail, but was brown alllll over. So....time for a bath! Here is what Lady looked like BEFORE:





...DURING:





Bella: "What are they doing in there?

...and AFTER:



She's a sweetie pie and a great bath-taker. She doesn't fight it but just stands there while you scrub her clean. She gets dirty so easily that this comes in handy when we regularly have to get her in the tub. Apparently, the bath, or maybe the playing in the mud, has warn her out. She's passed out next to me, snoring away. After getting up earlier than normal this morning for the Praxis exam, I could use a nap as well. Maybe I'll join her. :)

Picture Walk

Today I would like to catch you up on a few little details here and there of our life, and post pictures along the way. We'll start back in February and then work out way up to today!

This first photo is the morning of February 13th. Micah said he was going to play basketball that morning, but instead he decorated the entire inside of my car with "love notes". It was the sweetest thing and a TOTAL surprise!



Here is a snippet of what some of them said...





A few weeks later, we visited my sister who had just made a funfetti cake. If you have never tasted such a dessert, you need to go out and make you one. It's super easy and very delicious. Well, by the time we got to her place, all that was left was the crunchy outer layer, which we still didn't refuse to eat. But it only left us hungry for more, so the next day our craving was still strong, so we went to the grocery store and bought a box and frosting (it had to be destiny, too, because it was on special!). Here are the results...



It was super delicious and gone in 48 hours.



This past Sunday we had the delight of having a day long double date with our friends Lauren and Caleb. We started the event with Caleb and Micah playing a doubles tennis match. Lauren and I both brought our cameras in hopes of taking some sweet action shots of the boys, but they were like 12 courts away from the balcony and even with our telephoto lenses, could not get any good shots. So after about 45 minutes, we decided to go for a drive around town. We drove around with the windows down in search of some sweet photography shots. We found some. But they happened to be in some shady parts of town. We sat on the side of the road debating on if we should lock our purses in the trunk before we started. By that time, we had freaked ourselves out enough that we just drove off. We decided we should probably head back to pick the boys up since we had keys to both vehicles, their wallets and all the phones.

We headed back to our place to wash up and head to dinner. Caleb forgot a change of clothes so had to borrow some from Micah. Below is a great picture of Micah's twin. I was searching for a good picture of how Caleb normally dresses....the exact opposite of Micah. Tight dark jeans, tight black shirts, black belt and brown shoes. Micah handed him light blue jeans, a striped colorful blue shirt and blue loafer shoes and said, "Hey man, I think these shoes will go well with this outfit." :)




Shortly after this picture, he "found" some of his own jeans in his car and Micah found him a grey band shirt. ...but he kept the loafers.



Right now Micah is in the "music room" recording a few worship songs with a friend. I'm suppose to be making sure the cat doesn't meow... :) I stepped in before the magic started and snapped a few photos...




Elly is helping us out with the recording process and letting Micah use that sweet mic and all her equipment! Such a blessing!








So that's about it lately... Hope you enjoyed!

Today marks the first day of my spring break! We have nothing planned, but at the same time, that is so nice. We both take the praxis next weekend, so hopefully some of those mornings will be spent studying for that, oh so important, exam. Please pray for both Micah and me. We HAVE to pass these tests at some point in the next few months before we can graduate! Speaking of, if all goes as we have planned right now, we GRADUATE COLLEGE in December! Crrraazz-aayy!

No new news on the pets, really. Lady is sleeping next to me, snoring away. Bella is off doing her own thing as usual, and Maya is basking in the sun in the backyard. Yes, we have SUN! The weather has been so nice lately. I can not wait until Spring! One, because of warmer weather. Two, means summer break is almost here. Three, means wedding season is starting and I get to take pictures outside again! Four, I won't be a ghost much longer. Five, ....I need to start working out lots more! That's not so much of something I'm looking forward to, though. Isn't it funny how you making working out as convenient for yourself as possible by joining a gym that is so close to your house, buying a treadmill for your basement so you can just walk out of bed and start running, or for us buy P90X where we don't have to have any equipment and just work out in our living room....yet we still find reasons not to.

Sunday is our first Sunday without a regular church to attend. We've talked about going to a Baptist church down the road that we have been wanting to visit ever since we moved over in this part of town. I think I've already mentioned this, but I'm excited to see where God wants us to be. I desire to have a church family to connect with, build relationships and accountability, and people to fellowship with. I've missed that ever since I moved from Ozark, very much. I pray that God blesses us with a church home and shows us where we should be.

Well, I've fiddled around the house too long. I better get to doing something productive. The first thing on the list is to eat a big 'ol bowl of cereal!! I love how cereal has never grown old for me. I think I will eat that every breakfast for the rest of my life. And some occasional lunch and dinners, too.

Ta Ta For Now!