Dog.

The dog has ruined almost all my pepper plants. We put a fence up so he would not get in. He jumps over it. He tries to eat my strawberries. The two things I was most excited for, and he ruins it. I hate it. Dumb dog. I even made up a rhyme.

I do not like you Tweeg you are.
I do not like you in my car.
I do not like you here or there.
I do not like you anywhere.

I do not like you in my garden.
I will not beg your pardon.
You ruined it and you do not care.
I will not, WILL NOT share my garden.

Almost There...

Mike and I have almost reached our one year anniversary on August 21. With it drawing closer each day it is increasingly on my mind more and more. Why? Because I think and over analyze things too much.

I have come up with the pros and cons of being married for one year.

PROS-
I will have been with the love of my life for 1 year, and have amazing memories and will be looking forward to more.
Everyone says the first year is the hardest, and we will have made it through the first year!
We have our routines set up for getting up in the morning, bedtime, meal time, etc.
And more, but I don't feel like typing them right now.

CONS-
Being married for one year gets closer to the stage where we won't cuddle in bed anymore, when we won't hold hands in public or when we are watching a movie. It gets closer to no more pet names and just being a normal married couple I guess.

Going over the pros and cons I think there are more pros than cons.

Vacation.

Sadly, our vacation is coming to an end. We have had sooo much fun! Most of my pics from our trip are posted on my Facebook account, but here is a sneak peak.

Oneonta Falls

At the baseball game

Safeco Field

Mount Hood

Ponytail Falls

Deep Sea Fishing

On Tuesday we went deep sea fishing! It was Mike, Mike's brother and dad, two of Mike's friends and me. We had to be there by 6:30 to be on the boat and going at 7. We drove down the night before with Mike's friends, Adam and Sean, and stayed at Adam's dad's beach house. We met Steve and Brandon bright and early in the morning. We got on the boat and Mike and I were REALLY excited! Mike had been looking forward to deep sea fishing for WEEKS!! We took off and started our 45 minute journey to the fishing spot. On the way out of the port we saw two seals! As I sat I started to feel sick, so I just prayed I would make it till the time the boat stopped and I figured I would feel better. The boat finally stopped and we were able to stand up and fish. As soon as I stood up and looked at the water I got really sick... Blech. I was the first one on the boat to throw up. I stood there for a minute as everyone else started dropping their lines into the water. One guy on the boat came up and asked "Are you going to fish?" I gave him a dirty look like did you not just see me puke? You were right next to me dummy! Steve told him I was sick so the guy just moved on. Mike started reeling in and dropped his line again but then he got sick so I took his pole. I reeled it in and then threw up again. Both Mike and I sat down and sat down the remainder of our 5 hour trip. We both threw up and dry heaved the rest of the time. It was horrible. I don't think we will ever do deep sea fishing again. Poor Mike. I felt so bad because he was soooo excited! Oh well. Brandon got sick but he never threw up. He said his iron will held the puke in. LOL. My iron will was no match against the sea. After we got off the boat and sat around for a bit Mike and I felt better.

Later that day we went to the Tillamook Cheese Factory! It was so fun! I will have to post pictures! We saw the cheese makers and how it was packaged and stuff.. it was cool! We also got ice cream. It was DELISH! I got a strawberry cheesecake shake. Mmm mmmm!!!

Mike and I are feeling a lot better and our trip has been so much fun except for those five straight hours of dry heaving and puking. I have some pics up on my facebook already of Mount Hood and some other sights.

Mike.

I don't really know how t o start this blog post except for Chelle, you may not want to read it. Its one of those lovey mushy gushy ones.

Mike is the best person ever. He is perfect for me. He is laying in bed next to me and all I can do is think of how lucky I am to have him for forever. I am so lucky I get to go to bed with him every night. I get to hold him or be held by him every night. I get to hold his hand while we drive in the car to the grocery store, or to Ogden, or any of our other adventures. I am lucky enough to be the woman he hugs and kisses when he gets home. I get to read scriptures with him every night before bed. I get to be the one who tickles him. I get to be the one who hides from him to scare him when he comes around the corner. I get to make dinners with him. I get to take walks with him around the block. I get to be the one he tries to make laugh. I am lucky enough to be the one who sees every side of his personality. I wish I could somehow convey with words how much he means to me and how much I love him. I am so lucky. He puts up with me, and he loves me. He probably won't read my blog, but if he does.. I love you Mike.

Job

Good news! I applied for a job at Discover.. and got it! I will be off the phones which will be really nice and I will be in the Back Office Support group. I am excited! I will start July 12th, right after we get back from our Oregon trip, which I am REALLY excited for!

This week my mom has been gone at girls camp. I hope she is having fun, and I hope Syd is too! I have not been able to call and talk to my mom at all this week, I miss her!

We are leaving for Oregon on Saturday... WHOOO!!! I will be sure to post pics!

Lunch!

This week I had Wednesday off, and Mike was working so I headed up to Ogden to go to lunch with my mom. We went to one of my favorite places.. Kirts!! I got my usual.. A BLT on wheat bread and a chocolate banana shake. Yum! My mom also got a BLT but she got a Reese's shake. We shared some fries. It was delish, with great company. It was really fun to spend some time with my mom.

Its been raining for the past few days, so we haven't had to water the plants. Our garden is doing good, our corn is starting to come up and we have some peppers coming and some tomatoes on our plants already! Our strawberry patch is looking good, but we need to get out there and weed it.

Tweeg's last dog class is this coming Friday, so we will see if he passes. We had a pretest this last week and he did pretty good except for the stay for 1 minute. It took us a really long time to get us to even get him to stay for 30 seconds, we never got a 1 minute out of him. When we first started trying to teach him stay, he did pretty good and we have tried to work with him on it but he seems to be digressing. So we will see how he does on Friday.

We are going to Oregon soon, and I am super excited! We will also be going to Seattle, it will be a lot of fun. Not to mention a nice getaway from work.

With or Without You

As all of you know, the U2 concert was on June 3rd. As all of you know I LOVE U2 and was so excited to go to their concert. As most of you know, Bono had emergency back surgery in Munich. The concert is postponed. I was so close. SO close to seeing U2 in concert. I hope its not postponed for too long.

Get better soon Bono!!

Worst Dog In The World Award

Sometimes I feel like our dog could win the worst dog in the world award. I still don't like him. We are taking him to obedience classes, which have been nice because he is doing a littler better I guess. But sometimes he still just gets up under my skin. I can't stand him. Still. I feel bad cuz I complain to Mike about it sometimes, and then Mike just tells me "well if you hate him, get rid of him." But if I got rid of the dog, Mike would be unhappy. Plus all the money we have "invested" in the dog. I wish he would just be good. I wish he would not jump up and he would always listen when we tell him to sit or to come. I wish he didn't shed. I feel bad for not liking the dog, but I just don't. I try to like him, I go to his classes and I give him treats and I try to teach hum, but I still don't like him. I can't get rid of him because Mike would be so so so sad. And that's not worth it to me. One day maybe we will have a good obedient dog.

We are trying to build a garden. Or, we are trying to dig out a place for a garden. Its super hard work! It rained a lot earlier so the grass and dirt are coming out easier now, but its still super hard! It will be nice when we get all the little plants in. We are planting corn, tomatoes, onions, green, yellow, red, banana and anaheim peppers, strawberries, blueberries, watermelon, lettuce, grapes and cantaloupe. Hopefully it will all fit.. and grow.

Work has been the same lately, I'm not enjoying it at all. They implemented a call tier structure, or they have put in one tier so far. The people on the first tier have like 15 minutes between calls, and the people on my tier are basically back to back calls. Needless to say, I'm not a fan.

Here are some more random facts- I enjoy doing these.

1- When I wear my hair curly at work my coach calls me "Sassy Pants"
2- I think Mac and Cheese and stuffing are a delicious dinner. That is what we are having tonight. We don't mix them together though.
3- I wear orange scrub pants for my PJ bottoms
4- I am going to the U2 concert on June 3rd, and I CANNOT wait!!
5- Today I had a super long nap with my hubby while the rain was pouring outside. I love falling asleep to the sound of rain.

Funny story.

Yesterday Mike and I needed to buy dirt for our becoming garden. We were at Lowe's and I called my dad asking what kind of dirt. We had 3 bags of potting soil. We have never made a garden. The story goes as follows:
Me: Dad we are building a garden and we are getting dirt. We have 3 huge bags of potting soil. Is that what we want?
Dad: Potting soil (chuckles) no you don't want potting soil. You will want a huge bag of peat moss, and some manure, etc etc.

I felt pretty dumb when my dad used his "I can't believe you just said that" voice and chuckled at our attempt to pick out soil. Oh well. We have the right stuff, now we just need to put it in!

I think that is all I have to blog about. Until next time.. just remember
"My awesomeness is only exceeded by my humility"

Tired.

Its been a while since I blogged. I am exhausted. For the past 3 or so nights I haven't slept good at all. I have nightmares all night and my allergies bug me. So if I'm not waking up cuz my face is itching and I'm uncomfortable I wake up cuz I'm having a horrible dream. Its not fun at all. I'm not sure where all my nightmares are coming from. And they are usually different, but I have had one that is kind of repetitive and I've had it 2 or 3 times in the past week or two. I take an allergy pill in the morning so I don't know if its wearing off by the time go to bed or what. But I'm only supposed to take one every 24 hours. I hope I get sleep soon. I just tried to take a nap. I slept for a whole measly 20 minutes. This is terrible. And I hate the dreams I have.

On a happier note, we are taking Tweeg to his first obedience class tonight! Hopefully he does good and we can get that dog to behave so we can keep him. I told Mike we need a behaved dog or no dog. So we shelled out the money for an obedience class so hopefully it works and we can keep him for Mike's sake. He loves that dog.

Its been snowing a little bit down here. I do not like the snow, and all my neighbors tulips look so sad in the morning with the snow on them. :( And when I drive by the birds and quails on the road they are too cold too fly so do their bird walk away from my passing car. Poor little birds.