April 8, 2012

Today was a beautiful day.  We got a lot of gardening done and spent a lot of time just sitting in the sun.  Last year, we transplanted a couple of ferns, and one of them looked as though it had died.  Imagine our surprise when today we saw new curly growth :)  We didn't kill it after all.

 We got a pretty plant for our front porch.

 And I made my first real bouquet of the year with assorted flowers and clippings from our yard.

Hopefully the warm weather is actually here to stay :)

April 7, 2012: Gross!

Today was a beautiful day, and we got a lot of yard work done :)  Rob took on the brave task of draining the pond.  Ewww!  It smelled so gross!  As you can see there is a lot of algae still on the sides of the pond.  Tomorrow we will be buying some kosher salt to remedy that gross problem.  I am excited to fill it back up and buy a new batch of feeder fish.   Last year we bought 11 feeder fish.  Three of them survived the whole summer, but were eaten by a raccoon sometime in fall.  When the weather got cooler, the fish slowed way down, and I guess they just weren't able to hide quickly enough :(    Hopefully we have more survivors this year.

April 6, 2012: French fries

Rob had a field trip today to the bowling alley and got to enjoy some yummy curly fries.

April 5, 2012: Eerie

April 4, 2012: Dexter

We love Dexter.  If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.

April 3, 2012: Cat

Have you ever wondered what your cat does all day while you are away at work?  When our cat, Kia, was young, I always wished I could attach a little camera to her collar.  I wanted to know what mischief she got into while we were away.  Of course, she would never wear a collar, so a camera would obviously have been impossible.

 Today, I was home sick and I got to see what my cat does all day.  She's older now, about 14 years old, and it was not very exciting.  She started her day curled up on the couch and she didn't stray from that spot all day, except for meals.

 It wasn't until later this evening that she got a little burst of energy, mostly because the washer gave her a fright :)  Of course she decided to jump up behind my silk scarves and got her claws into them.  Argh!

April 2, 2012: Bees

Today was beautiful, in the 60's.  It figures, since it was the first day back to school after Spring Break.  When we got home, the bees were moving busily among the flowers.  It was hard to catch one sitting still long enough for a photograph.  They really love our grape hyacinth.

April 1, 2012: Alphabet

Today is the first day of the a to z challenge.  Welcome to any new visitors.  Hope you enjoy our pictures and please leave comments :)  We usually post late in the day; it gives us the whole day to find our pictures and makes sure you don't miss out if we see something extra cool.

 A is for alphabet.  I bought this printing press alphabet from Craigslist to do crafty things with.  I have many ideas of what I would like to do with all these letters, but have made no decisions yet.

There are just so many possibilities!

Blogging From A to Z

Tomorrow, Rob and I will be starting the A to Z Challenge.  For the month of April, we will be blogging and photographing our way through the alphabet.  We hope you will follow along :)Want more information, check out the Blogging from A to Z Blog.

March 31, 2012: Garden

March 30, 2012: I won Soap!!

I won a bar of Orange-Mint Soap in an online giveaway!!  Check out Megan's Etsy shop.

March 29, 2012: Rob saw a Hummingbird

March 28, 2012: More Forks!

There are forks hanging on our clothesline, too.

March 27, 2012: Leaving Las Vegas

Our visit to Vegas made us all think of the Capital from The Hunger Games.  The food, the glitz, the glamour, the style, the fashion....although we prefer the food choices in Oregon :)  We sat at the Las Vegas airport and said goodbye to the sun :(  We had a feeling we would not be seeing it again soon.  The flight was easy.  In fact, the flight was not full, so I got three seats to myself and could lie down and sleep (which was really good since I had come down with a fever the night before and was still feeling crummy).

 When we arrived home, we found a beautiful piece of art awaiting us on our back lawn.

 Two friends had stopped by with 2,000 forks and left us a surprise while we were gone. Pretty creative :)

 Kia quickly decided that we were never leaving the house again, and she staged a sit-in on our suitcase.

March 26, 2012: Vegas Day 3

Our last full day in Vegas.  We spent most of the day sitting by the pool.  It was so warm and beautiful.  The hotel has a regular pool, a wave pool and a lazy river.  I liked the lazy river, personally.  That evening, after dinner, we shared a cupcake my mom bought at the Cupcakery.

 Lemon cupcake with blueberry frosting.  It was amazing! and sparkly :)

March 25, 2012: Vegas Day 2

Rob and I started our first full day in Vegas by taking a walk all the way down the Strip to the Treasure Island casino.  On the way we stopped at Margaritaville and had a drink at the 5 O'clock Somewhere Bar.  The bartenders did awesome tricks every time they made a drink.  It was pretty entertaining.

 We also walked through Caesar's Palace, where we saw these huge statues.

 To get a picture of this one we had to ride the escalator a couple of times.  I don't think you can really tell in this picture, but the escalator is curved and tall.  It was a little scary at times.

 That night we went for cocktails at the Chandelier, a bar that is made to feel like you are sitting in a chandelier.  It was really cool, and the drinks were tasty.  I recommend the Fire-Breathing Dragon.  Yum!!

 Even behind the bar was shiny and shimmery.

 After dinner we went exploring in Excalibur and New York New York.  We had too much fun.  I'm still not sure if this poster is a spelling error, or if they wanted to say Hungary.  Either way, we thought it was hilarious, since my brother-in-law is Hungarian.

 Excalibur always makes me think of a giant bouncy castle :)

We found this sign outside an Irish bar.  My favorite soup!  How did they know??

 Digging for gold in a bobble head :)

 The devil made him do it :)

 Rob really wanted to chill with the penguins at the ice bar.

 We also did a little gambling.

We won a little; we lost a little.  Who cares?  It was fun!

March 24, 2012: We arrive in Las Vegas!

We arrived at Portland Airport to find that our flight was delayed.  We had a whole extra hour to play with, which was great because I had forgotten to pack a lunch to eat and we were not arriving in Vegas until 5ish.  We decided to eat at one of the restaurants in the airport.  Unfortunately, the lighting was really bad for pictures; it created all kinds of shadows that weren't actually there.  We tried to improve the situation by looking up directly at the light.  

It started to look like we were talking to a divine light or something :)

When we arrived in Vegas, we checked in at the hotel, the Monte Carlo.  This was the view from our window on the 17th floor.  The room was nice, although we had some really noisy Spring Breaker neighbors who liked to wake us up at 4:30am.  I swear they never slept or left their room :)

 We had dinner at an Italian restaurant in the hotel.  We had pizza!  This picture is kind of dark, but you may still be able to notice the wall of wine bottles in the background.

 Outside the restaurant, in the casino, there was a woman in very little clothing dancing on a bar.  We had a pretty good view of her from our table :)

 After the meal, we headed out to a show:  The Amazing Johnathon.  He has a Comedy Central Special that is available on Netflix streaming.  He was absolutely politically incorrect, but actually very funny :P It was a fun first night in Vegas!

March 23, 2012: Nap Time

I spied a fuzzy kitty on the bed today and decided to steal a snuggle and take a little nap.  For some reason I cannot explain, the kitty insisted on putting a paw on my mouth.  Maybe my breath stinks?