the new iphone

Ryan is the best husband ever and stood in line again to get my new iPhone this morning... So now I'm posting my first entry from it...yea!

The next step will be learning to post pictures from it!

this made me laugh...

Who thinks that we should dress Olive up like this for Halloween this year? This picture completely made me laugh, I don't know if they are supposed to be circus monkeys or the scary flying monkeys from the wizard of oz, but either way, i love them!

Lauren and Nick.... yea!

ENGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGED!!!!!!!

Congratulations to my two sweet friends... here's to waking up with the one you love...

In the Soil...

Please come see Ryan's Photography on display at Xnihilo Gallery at Ecclesia. Opening Friday, July 25, 2008.

Happy Birthday LEK...

one day late posting, but i love you nontheless!

olive's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weekend!

So... since i posted yesterday about olive, her weekend has taken a turn for the worst. Last night, she somehow managed to stab her left eye with the plastic end of a balloon that I was (whoops) letting her play with. After letting out a very sad yelp, her eye immediately started swelling up! For a dog who already has bug eyes, this is a very very sad sight. So, being the caring, yet financially impaired dog owners that we are, we tried to apply an ice pack to her eye (not very successful) and gave olive several cloves of fresh garlic, which I have heard from many sources can work as a natural antibiotic (for people and animals apparently). So we ended up with a much subdued and quite smelly dog with one giant eyeball.

This is when the story goes even further south. Ryan works on Sun mornings, so Olive and I got up and took a walk to starbucks before we had to get ready for church. I thought this would be a nice treat because I was still feeling bad about the balloon incident. Little did I know that a beastly little white dog would attack olive on the starbucks porch and put two puncture wounds in her little face... on the SAME SIDE as her already swollen and pitiful eye!!! This stupid little crazy dog actually dragged olive about a foot by her lip! Poor dogger... anyways, i now feel like the absolute worst pet owner of all time! I'm trying to spoil her today by allowing her to sleep in her favorite spot between the big pillows on our bed. She's snuggled up next to me on the couch as I type, so I think that she's going to be alright and has forgiven me for not protecting her against crazed dogs and poking balloom stems.

How do people have children?? ... Seriously....

olive + johnny jump up

this is what happens when my brother and I have too much time on our hands and my baby nephew just got a new johnny jump up seat...

Egg Press...

Just wanted to share a super cool website of a company that does letter pressed invitations, birth announcements and prints... you know me, loving all things that have to do with really awesome paper good, this was right up my ally. Check it out here. I'm not sure when I would ever need or be able to afford something printed by them, but it sure is fun to browse. Maybe one day when I open my knitting/paper/coffee shop, I'll get them to do my business cards... until then! amb

old people...

i truly do love old people... old people sounds like a negative phrase, but I don't mean it that way at all, these are amazing, entertaining and awesome people. In the past few days I've been called darling, sweetheart, beautiful, and honey and have been patted on the hand numerous times.... what could make you feel any better than that?? So even though this internship was an unexpected last minute situation, I'm so thankful today to be working with these people... they make me smile... and laugh, especially when they tell nurses that they are going to smack them. hehehe....