J-House Guys Take Over...

So right after camp I headed out to Megan Millers for a nice relaxing weekend. It was so nice to just hang out and spend time with Megan, Becky, and Leah. Meanwhile... the J-House guys (22 of them!) had a "man" weekend at our house. I'm sure BJ will have me add some more photos later, but here are a couple that are normal enough to post online... :) Guys came from all over, including California, New York, and Texas - so cool!!!

Sr. High Camp :)

We had so much fun!!! It was awesome to get to know some of the students better. Here's some of my favorite picts from the week....

The best sculpture and just about the two cutest grins ever!



Where we spent most of our time...



Chappy...



PS. We may be playing a game called snaps. You get it yet? [snap] [snap]. [snap].

PPS. View all of our photos here.

Holycrap-arama 2007

So these crazy houses go for millions. We walk through them for money. :) Thankfully, BJ and I had free tickets, so we got to see this crazyness for nothing. Here are some of the cooler things we saw...

It may be hard to tell, but behind this fish tank is the walk-through shower.



A mini soccor field in a basement...



A pond from the outside... with a view in the basement of the fish...



The same thing from the basement view...



The rest of the pond / pool...



View all our Homearama photos here.

It's Official... We're All Old!

The planning for my 10-year high school reunion has begun! Yikes! I think I'll need a study session with Kate ahead of time to remember who people are! Something like 600 graduated in my class... I can't remember. There is a definate theme to this post.

New Shirt.... :)

Uncle Bill Calls The Orange One "Beans"

You leave a bit of laundry out for five minutes and it becomes a feline Discovery Zone. Five minutes! Okay, I'm just pretending to complain. They crack us up.

Fish.Rain.Shelves.Work.

It's been a while. We got fish. We got rain. We made shelves. We drove to work. We worked. We got sunburnt. We (really, just BJ) got poisen ivy. Bad. We (again, just BJ) got an in-the-park homerun.

Remember to smile.

Larry King

Tonight Larry King will be talking with Paris Hilton and tomorrow he sits down with Colin Powell. Wow.

Toady / Eddy....

He's returned. BJ's named him Eddy. I don't know why. :)

Kermit in Lights...

In school I learned that amphibians lived on land and in water... I never learned anything about light fixtures....

Me, I Want a Hoola-Hoop...

This morning a chipmonk used my car to commit suicide. There are great things in a chipmonk life... running up trees, running fast, eating nuts, other chipmonks... why he chose to end it all, we'll never know.

She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy...

We finally have our lawn mower! BJ's currently taking it for a four acre spin... :)



Also, the following circle-action is dedicated to Tim and Erin. Big :)



Not much else to say, except about how hard it is to be back to work after a vacation. Also, Annie is meowing at me like she's a little ticked. I'm not sure why.

IDK My BFF Jill...

We've had such a nice vacation, it's hard to see it come to an end! We have been blessed with such wonderful friends! Thanks again to Jeremy & Jessica for a great time in Tennessee, and to Tim and Erin for coming to visit us this weekend! We had a great time just hanging out relaxing. You guys are awesome! :)

We bought DDR... this may finally be the way we get regular exercise! Sad, I know. :) Also, BJ has been creaming me... but I managed to beat him twice in a row a few minutes ago. Oh yea.



Also, Erin and Tim now have a blog (content coming soon!)! Yea!

Back From the Mountains!

BJ and I just got home last night from an awesome trip to the Smoky Mountains. We had a really great time hanging out with Jeremy and Jessica and meeting their friends. We also got addicted to Dance-Dance-Revolution! We are so bad about exercising, so maybe this will get us going!

On Monday we headed down to Gatlinburg to shop at the outlets and hike up to Grotto Falls (which was beautiful) with Jeremy and Jessica. Later BJ and I checked in to our hotel in Gatlinburg and had a really nice anniversary dinner at the Peddler in Gatlinburg.

On Tuesday BJ and I tackled a much larger and steeper hike, for which we are now paying! Here's us at the bottom, getting ready to hike.... (for the full effect, turn the volume up!)


Here's some photos of us as we stopped to rock-hop on the way up...





On Tuesday we also headed through the park to North Carolina and the Cherokee Indiana Reservation to hike up to Mingus falls - so total on our trip we visited KY, TN, and NC!

Today BJ and I are getting to catch up on some much needed projects. We're going to buy a tractor (which is more like buying a car than a lawn mower, as it turns out) and I am going to finally finish the bed I've been working on! Right now our leech line for the septic system is being put in, and we're really happy about it! We've had to be really conservative with our water over the last few months (like not doing laundry here at all). This video is about 5 minutes old...

Landscaping & Chad Johnson

So yesterday, Chad Johnson was on Xavier's campus for a photo shoot on the soccer field, so a few of my friends from work and I headed over there to check it out. I guess the photo shoot was for Men's Health magazine or something. Watching the photo shoot was pretty cool, especially seeing all of the professional photography equipment. Once everything wrapped up I was able to ask for an autograph for BJ (on the official NFL hat from BJ's uncle Steve). I was so happy I got the courage up to ask, because I would have kicked myself to have the opportunity and not take it. There were only a few people there hoping to get autographs, so I didn't have too difficult of a time getting one. :)

On a completely different note... here's some new photos of our landscaping efforts...





Yea... roses! :)

Annie the Furball

Annie has some stay furs stuck in her mouth and it's funny. :)



Not much going on here... work and digging in the dirt and working some more! Next week BJ and I are taking off for a much needed vacation to Knoxville to see Jessica & Jeremy, visit Mark and Monica at Crossings, and spend some time in Gatlinburg! :) Surely there will be photos so come!

3 Years from 30

The title says enough - eek! BJ is so sweet! He made me my favorite type of cheesecake from SCRATCH last night for an early birthday present. "Adam's Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple" - from the Cheesecake factory. Check out that drizzle!



This is from a couple of days ago, but I love this scene of Annie eyeing BJ's dinner. She's a goat. :)



This is also off-topic, but I have some new shirts! These have been inspired by my recently pregnant and currently pregnant friends (Kate and you-know-who-you-are)! I love you guys!







I also have this one just because its funny and this one in honor of my awesome mother! :)

Hay!

We have hay! And hopefully some grass seed under there as well! Now we can finally get landscaping! BJ gave me an early birthday present of landscape design software - so I've been plotting out our trees, shrubs, etc. :)

Long-overdue Photos

Here's some photos that have taken me way too long to get up here. We have a little bit of craw fish action, bed refinishing action, and cat-under-the-door action. :)

Sooooo ready for the weekend!

This week has just dragged! I can't wait to relax a little!Tonight we're going to try our luck at getting in to see Spiderman 3, and tomorrow we're going to get to visit with our good friends from Purdue Megan and Mike. They live so close but we barely ever get a chance to visit with them. This first photo is from Senior year at "That Dance"! All us girls lived together in one of Campus House's houses. :)

The best memory I have from that year is waking up to a J-House prank (cow pictures everywhere - EVERYWHERE!) and Megan sitting stunned in her p-j's on the kitchen floor. :) We had a really fun year. :)

I Just Like to Smile, Smiling's My Favorite.

I just love this CafePress stuff. With all my shops I am making now about $120/mo. from these silly shirts! Here's one of my latest! :)

Today BJ and I worked our butts off around the yard and garage. BJ got a pile of old wood that was piled up in the yard and cleaned out the garage (we had a lot in there that we hadn't gotten to since the move). I worked on sanding down BJ's old bed - which turned out to be a much more time consuming and strenuous job than I expected (I thought having an electric sander would make things easy). The work is almost done now though so hopefully I'll be able to finish it tomorrow.

Pictures to come!

Global Rich List

Saw this on Amber's blog just now and thought I'd share...

"Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out."
http://www.globalrichlist.com

Wiped Out, New Photos, Etc.

As the title of this blog says... we're a bit wiped out. As I write this BJ is sleeping in the hammock in the back yard (and the cats are sleeping on the carpet in the sun - it's the definition of a restful moment). A couple hours ago we got back from spending the weekend with over 50 high school students out at camp. We had a really great time, but sleep doesn't happen much at camp so now we're just taking it easy and coming to grips with the fact that we have to get up bright and early and go to work. :)

When we got back we found that we had two trees delivered from the Arbor Day Foundation, so now we have a new maple and douglas fir in the yard. We can't wait for our yard to get finished so we can create our landscaping around the house.

As promised, here's some pictures from BJ's birthday! We took a gazillion pictures at the game... here's just a few. Here's BJ with one sportscaster moving out of the shot...



Here's how BJ and I compare on vertical jumping skills...



Here's a shot we took from right field. Is it me our does Ryan Freel seem a little uncomfortable with this hug from Josh Hamilton...?



Here's the "Reds" cake I made for BJ...

Happy (belated) Birthday BJ!

Yesterday was BJ's 26th birthday! :) I took the day off to spend with him and dispite a little bit of rainy weather we had a really nice day. We went to the driving range and the pro came out to give us some tips, which was really cool (we were so bad he felt compelled to help us!). After that we headed over to Montgomery Inn for some ribs and off to the ballpark. We were able to see batting practice, which I love! We really put our telephoto lense to use! The game was really fun (except for the port-Bronson part) - thanks Mom and Dad for the tickets! :)

This weekend we're off to camp with the high school for a retreat. I'll post some pictures soon!

Berries & Cream, Berries & Cream...

...I'm a little lad who loves berries and cream!
I have a new shop!

My Autism awareness shop has also been doing quite well. I'm selling about 1 shirt a day!

And the 3 official turkey poses shall be...

These turkeys are so funny to watch! They get all puffed up looking for some turkey love. Here's a photo more that's more zoomed out so you can see just how many turkeys we have around our house! It's like a turkey HERD!



The other day we had some wild storms but also got to see some really cool sky. There was a huge rainbow that I missed getting a picture of, but here's a photo of the clouds behind our house and BJ looking cute as always. :)