I'm Not Saying Anything

The other day I poured myself a bowl of cereal, I must have been more tired then usual because I found myself staring at the shapes in my bowl. That was when started noticing this shape....

I'm not saying what I think they look like but seriously what do you think???

 What the heck does the fleshy colored shape have to do with anything marshmallow matey? David said an anchor or a fish and our friend said a mushroom. I'm not seein' it.

I mean these shapes here obviously have some thing to do with marshmallow matey sea, and pirate stuff. 

Right to left you got the pirate sword, his parrot, some kind of treasure chest, a sea shell, a dolphin or shark, and a swirly colored diamond shape. ANYWAYS I just thought it was funny, in kind of an inappropriate way.

Oh and a PS from David, and I quote "they could be the things that make sea men" ;)

Oh boy!

You Won't Believe It

So I have made several recent blog posts and yet I still don't feel like I have told you all what has been going on around here. So now for the part you won't believe, I have officially been called as the young womens second counselor. I know shocking right? I can't lie I've been dying to be there ever since I got kicked out, I mean had to leave young womens, only now I think I can honestly say I'll be able to handle it (kind of, sorta or something like that).  Haha, also I think it's funny because I have been telling David for several weeks or possibly months now that if I got called to another primary calling I wouldn't accept it. Maybe that sounds bad but I'm seriously burned out on primary for the time being, it's the only calling I've had in the last 5 years.

 I still think the craziest part about all of it is I can remember my days in young womens vividly. I loved just about all of my leaders they taught me so much and helped me gain such a strong testimony of the gospel I don't know where I would be without their examples. Let's just say even though I'm totally excited but also a little freaked out.

In other news David and I moved our exercise bike into the living room and it's been great! I've been using while I watch our favorite TV shows for two weeks now, like Chuck :)

Oh yeah and did I mention that once again my job is NOT working out. I don't know what my deal is. Apparently getting Sundays off and an occasional Saturday is impossible here in Ohio. Also when I was hired I was told I would get 20- 25 hours a week and it would go up the longer I was there. Well now I'm working on average 16 hours a week, I never know my schedule more than a week in advance and I'm trying to juggle a church calling that requires me there every Sunday (nursery was the same way).

Some times I feel like I'm just complaining and I need to get over it but EVERY job I've had since we got here has had at least one severely down side. Dillard's made me work almost every Saturday, every other Sunday and most of all they wouldn't write a letter stating that I worked for them full time. If you are thinking "that's not so bad" just know this, that letter would have saved us David's out of state tuition for a semester ($15,000). Working at Fringe by Carrie made me crazy but most of all it made me feel like I couldn't do hair, oh yea and I was working 32 hours a week with a paycheck of $80 every two weeks (and most of the time it wasn't even that much). But she did write me the letter that saved us the second semesters out of state tuition.

Now at Smart Style I feel like I've finally gotten into my hair groove again and that is great, but I just can't handle not knowing my schedule and not getting the hours I was promised. I've been able to work with more ethnic hair lately which has been great fun! Just check out this cut and flat iron job I did.

I know what you are thinking "so shinny" and you are right

I really enjoy learning new ways of doing hair and doing different types of hair. 

 I just don't know what to do anymore. I was thinking about it all day today, or rather fretting, and by the end of my shift I had the best headache ever. Where do I draw the line? Why can't I just find a normal job? It's so frustrating! I am seriously at my wits end. I guess that is all for those subjects.

St. Patty's Day

Honestly I had no clue it was St. Patrick's day, until I picked my buddy Dannielle up from school, we got to the mall and I saw everyone wearing green. I am that observant. We really didn't do much except for follow David's family tradition of making green spaghetti. Here are our pictures.

our pot of green sketties

makin' some sauce

our friends!

Making cheesy garlic bread. It really is more David's specialty so he ended up taking over my attempt. He doesn't like to cook but if I start doing something different from the way he is used to he will take over. Haha I'd love to complain but I just watch him to his thing.

Doing the Vanna White with our green skettie

Green Cups and plates

Dannielle's nails, very skittles taste the rainbow, huh? She's always got her nails painted up all purdy like and she does it on her own hands. I just wish I could do my own nails that good.

look at that not a stitch of green on me

I grabbed my cup and she grabbed the parmesan cheese.

Say  *CHEESE*

She got really impatient

The spaghetti looked really cool

Yummy yum! I put two drops of yellow food coloring into my powerade zero to make it green

Getting ready to watch a show

Haha, I love the look on Tyler's face in this one, it makes me laugh. As you can tell we have tons of fun with these two.

Now it's David's turn to be in a picture with us

We were going to play a game of settlers of Katan but time just didn't allow, so instead we watched an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun. It was a pretty good day even if I didn't have a speck of green on me.

Good-Byes and Welcome-Backs

We went to Detroit to see David's parents off and we all got to go to the museum. I think it would have been a lot more fun if we all weren't so tired. David and I stayed up pretty late most of the days his parents were here because they are two hours behind us here in Ohio BUT they also had to get up two hours earlier. Let's just say the schedules made everyone a little tired. 

We are all couch potatoes

There were little kids everywhere

Such a cute face :) 

We got to see a way awesome IMAX film about the hubble telescope. When they get talking about how huge space is and all the crazy stuff in it my mind starts to short circuit. I can't even fathom what is out there but it does make me realize how amazing our little planet really is.

My chromosomally correct restroom 

XY potty

Cool purple car

touching electricity 

Dinosaurs!!

Ouch

Punching a velociraptor. Sorry these pictures are so horrible, there was no light in there.

I'm strangling a dinosaur !!!!

Take two

After we said bye-bye to David's parents we sat in the car or rather slept. Then I made a sign for our friends so I could hold it when I saw them in the airport.

Tah-dahh!

Don't you just love how tiny my sheep is? Also I like how David's sheep's hair is like falling off his head. You still have to give me props though because I drew the whole thing in the car on the dash.

They liked it!! It was sad to say bye to David's parents but it was also really good to see our friends again. They went to Utah for spring break so they could go to Tyler's sister's wedding. The best part was afterwards when we got to go to Chipotle for dinner. It's good to have friends and family even if we don't live close to all of them.

Party Time

Two weeks ago David's parents were able to come out to Toledo and visit us for about 5 days. It was lots of fun to be able to show them around town and let them see our house and David's school. Not only that but it was great to not have to cook or clean up those days either! We had lots of fun, I honestly can't believe it's over. David and I had been looking forward to them coming since Christmas and now they have already come and gone. Now we are crazy excited to go out to Idaho this whole summer!! It will be the last summer like it for us. David has school off from the end of May until mid August. 

We all got to go to Ikea. As you can see David and David were SOOO excited :)

I love taking surprise pictures of David.

Yay, Ikea!

Eating us some Swedish food. No need to mention that I had chicken fingers and french fries. (Jessica I figured someone needed to have them since you weren't there)

Let's take a picture

take one

take two (thank you random stranger)

 After Ikea David's dad HAD to go to the mall so he could try and get an iPad2. 

 standing or rather sitting in line

it wrapped all the way around the mall

Alas his hopes were crushed because we stayed to long at the Ikea. In the end my David was the only one who was able to suggest the solution to make his Dad happy and that was a rootbeer float at Denny's. Then he later wrote this on his facebook as his status- iPad2less please help. Will read brain MRIs for iPad2. Gotta love him :)

These are the bedside tables David's parents got us from Ikea. Thank you!! It took us a little over a week to find time to actually put them together but we LOVE them. Thanks Mom and Dad we love you!