It's Here!

I am the proud of owner of a new Toshiba laptop. (That looks something like this minus the frog.)

My Dell served me well - okay it served me - through all of college. And after all the work I do on the computer at home, (like real work that I get paid for, not just this kind of thing) it seemed like time. It was overdue for retirement anyway.

We ordered from Overstock last weekend and it arrived today. That's great service for only a $2.50 shipping charge. Now I just have to get all my files switched over and we're good to go.

Say it isn't so

Sadly I have to admit that I am much more interested in who get voted off than who gets voted in.

Look what I found!

I love this girl! And this pic. :) I love that Krystal is one of my longest friends. And that can't get rid of me since she married into the family. ha! AND that my new little nephew will be here in five short weeks.

More fishy fun

Our tank has grown some in the last few weeks. Well, the tank is the same size, but it now has more in it. :) I thought I would introduce our new fishy friends.

This is the underside of our chocolate chip starfish, Episky.









These are our clownfish. The orange one is Lumos and the black one in Nox. They're buddies.







This is our bright little crab. His name is Diffindo.













And lastly, even though he has been with us the longest, is Reparo. Reparo is pretty timid, so it's harder to catch him swimming around in the tank.


That's probably all the additions for now. We may expand more as more funding comes through. lol Mostly it is Josh's hobby. He has to do all the dirty work like add more water and check the levels, blah, blah. I just get to sit and enjoy. They are pretty relaxing.

You ain't got no alibi

Last weekend we celebrated our church turning four. After church services we went out to the park/lake for a picnic. The weather was absolutely perfect, btw. Of course, we had potluck style so everyone brought food. I made a cake on Saturday night and even had some confetti icing on hand so it could be festive.

Instead I ended up with this ...
U-G-L-Y

You would think it's hard to screw up a cake mix and can of icing. But I made it look easy and I'm going to share my plan with you so you too can make an ugly cake.

Step 1: Remember, you will be traveling with this cake, so you need to easily transport it. After considering the size and shape of your cake-taker bake a round cake.

Step 2: Go to get cake-taker (while cake is cooling) and remember that you don't have a round one after all. It is a rectangle.

Step 3: Put icing on first round. Set second round on top of first and realize that it is upside down leaving the two highest points of the cake touching and resulting in a large gap all the way around.

Step 4: Try to fill the gap with icing and realize that you are running out of icing.

Step 5: Also now see that gravity is taking hold of your cake and the top round is breaking into large chunks.

Step 6: Figure at this point it can't get much worse, so go ahead and force the lid on even though the cake is too tall.

Step 7: Go to Kroger and buy a pre-made cake.

aww man!

I was just uploading some pictures to my computer and realized I thought I had uploaded a whole group of pictures that aren't there! This wouldn't be a problem except I already deleted them from my memory card. :( So I don't have any pictures now from our trip to the Creation museum. bummer.

wohoo weekend

I'm am so ready for this weekend.

Usually when people talk about seasons in their lives they are referring to circumstances. Well, this season is literal. It's called the holiday season. And maybe you haven't felt it yet, but I'm feeling it. ... to the tune of 10-20 extra hours of work per week. I'm not complaining because we can use the extra $, but I have come to appreciate my weekends so much more. :)

I'm ready for the Cafe, the our church birthday, and dinner with the Taylor's. Who knows, maybe I'll even do some laundry. ... maybe.