My Family

Me: Are they ready for us?

Garrett: Don't you mean ready for the dogs?

Me: No us. I want us to stamp our hands too.

Garrett: Do we have to?

Me: Why are you embarrased because those men outside doing the concrete will think you're totally lame?

Garrett: Yeah.

Me: Haha. Yes you have to or I'm not writing a check.

Garrett: Well I could get a new checkbook and write one myself.

Me: Fine, I'm telling everyone that you sing the "My Buddy" song (you know the one...My Buddy, My Buddy, Where ever I go, you're gonna go...My Buddy, My Buddy, My Buddy and Me" only you sing it to Munch and replace the word "Buddy" with "Munchie." Now we'll see who thinks you're totally lame...EVERYONE!!

Garrett: I'll go see if they're ready for us.

After

TaDa! Here it is. I think it turned out great, even better than expected. We have to wait a couple days before we can drop a hot tub on it, so I'll just try to enjoy it as is...which is somewhat difficult. For me, it's kinda like visiting the Grand Canyon. Yep there it is, awesome, now lets do something else...hottub anyone?

Before

In the quest to see exactly how much money 2 people can spend in one month, we are having a really large patio put in today. Here is the before picture...pretty pathetic isn't it? I'll post some "after" pictures tomorrow, complete with Munch and Mogley's paw prints.

New Bike

Introducing the 2009 Trek Top Fuel 9.8 WSD, my new mountain bike. Well I don't have it yet, but it's ordered and I've paid for 1/2 of it. It probably won't show up until February-ish but thats fine...race season doesn't start until April. Isn't it lovely? I'm pretty excited about it. I love the look of it...good job Trek! After years and years of producing crappy, ugly bikes just because you can, you have finally got your shit together. The carbon fiber frame and sexy pink/black color scheme make me smile. I love the fact that these things are still made in the USA. My pink Yeti was the last year for the Yeti's to be made in the U.S. Now they're made in Taiwan so the novelty of owning a Yeti has kinda worn off for me. I'm ready for something new.

Holy Hottub

So we are now the proud owners of a hottub. It's definitely used but it works, doesn't look too terrible and only cost us $300. I've been wanting one since we moved into our house, so I'm pretty excited. As you can see from the picture, its currently sitting on a trailer in my driveway, doing me absolutely no good, but all in good time. The inside is perfect, so I think it will look good as new with a coat of paint to the outside, I'm thinking a funky green. The new patio is supposed to be poured on Wednesday, so maybe, just maybe (but I'm definitely not getting my hopes up) we can use it this weekend. Garrett mentioned something about working on the sprinklers this weekend and I'm not feeling very confident that my SAD FACE and sigh did the trick to make him reconsider. We'll see.

Anyway, so this weekend was very labor intensive, preparing the backyard for a hottub, I mean patio. Saturday morning we got up, went for a 5 mile run, filled a truck full and trailer full of crap and went to the dump, one of Garrett's very favorite things to do. I'm not sure if my favorite part is the horrible smell (Garrett's truck does not have a functioning a/c so we get to ride with the windows open) or the blood sucking flies. Toss up. So after unloading all our garbage, we headed back home to attach the trailer to the 4Runner so we could go pick up our new (new to us) hotttub from ParkCity. This is the part where things get tricky. Garrett measured the trailer and we realized it was about 4 inches shy of being wide enough. Super. After some thought, Garrett's idea was to prop it on some 2x4's and strap it down. It worked, thank god, but I'm not going to lie and say I didn't cringe the entire way home, waiting for the hot tub cover to launch off or the hottub to slide right off the back. Luckily, we made it home safely.

Sunday sucked. Garrett and I spent the ENTIRE day putting in window wells. You see, almost a year ago, when we dug out the windows, we never bothered to put in the wells. Not so smart and we payed the price for our laziness yesterday. My husband bought the window wells on Friday and decided to go with the 4 foot deep wells, not the 3 foot ones as discussed. So not only were they $20 more per well, but that meant some very serious digging and pickaxing. The wells are 4 foot deep and they have to sit a foot under our windows so you can just imagine a very deep hole. After the holes were dug, we had to screw them into our concrete foundation. I didn't do all that much for this part, but I was an essential part of the process, the hander of tools. I think I did a fantastic job and as in normal Brittany fashion, managed to burn my hand on the drill bit. After they were screwed in, it was back to Home Depot for gravel. We put gravel in the wells and had to back fill the holes. I'm trying to see the bigger picture here...see the weekend as productive but I'm having a hard time today, well my sore body is anyway.

Haircuts

After over an hour of fighting and frequently taking the lord's name in vain, this is how Mogley's haircut turned out. We borrowed some friends' dog clippers and gave dog grooming our best shot and I think after this experience I have a very deep respect for dog groomers across the nation. The way they can take our furry loved ones, and have the patience not to ring their necks is really quite admirable.

Happily Ever After

SPOILER ALERT: Don't read this if you plan to read"Breaking Dawn." It will totally ruin it for you. I've been waiting a while to post this to give people plenty of time to finish it.

I have mixed feelings about this book for sure. While I really enjoyed the read, maybe even the most out of this entire series, the ending made me want to bang my head in the wall. Lets start with the vast majority of the book.


This epic long book was a fast read for me. Stephenie Meyer really dumbs it up for us so even if you're not paying the closest of attention, you still totally get what's going on. So cheers to her...I can officially read while watching TV. Anyway, I enjoyed the fact that there was a lot of different things going on in the book, meaning there were not chapters and chapters of the musings of an undecisive, hormonal teen. Meyer really sped things up and did a great job of keeping my attention. While it did keep my attention, the happenings were a little bit ridiculous...a mortal getting pregnant by a vampire, a baby chewing its way out of its mother's womb, an adult werewolf falling in love with an infant...now that I'm writing this, I can hardly believe I enjoyed it. But back off, it was good.


Now the bad part, the ending. Some people thought the ending was perfect and I do give her credit for tieing up all the loose ends. But for me, it was way to Disney movie-ish. For so much drama going on, everyone being near death at so many points, it was just too happy an ending for my tastes. Call me horrible but I was really hoping someone would die...at least one person. I don't think I'm being negative, I think I'm just trying to be real because you know vampires and werewolves are totally real.