Updates finally-with picture!

So much has been going on! Where do I even start??? I guess I'll start with what I have pictures of. Anyone who knows me will be totally shocked to hear that we got a DOG. I know, ew, not for me! We are not dog people whatsoever. Not me, not Mark. One of his co-workers found him and asked us if we could take him (he already has 2 big dogs) and Mark and Cade went to "look" at him, which we all know spells trouble. The kids have been asking us forever for a dog too of course. When they brought him back I actually started crying because I just couldn't stand the thought of a dog. But then I guess he won me over, plus if we gave him back to the guy he was going to take him to the pound and he'd get put down. He's a bulldog breed, and for that matter kind of a reject of his breed. He's definetly NOT cute, but he grows on you. He dosen't jump, he's house trained, he's too short to sniff crotches, I haven't had to feed, water or walk him because the kids do it, he dosen't bark (not even at other barking dogs) and has already been learning some things we've been teaching him. He basically lays around and chills out all day but has fun playing with the kids when they are around. He's actually kind of funny, he teases us! We don't let him on the furniture, but if he sees Mark is going to sit in his chair he'll run ahead and jump in his spot. He did it to me once too. Punk. :) And he keeps our floors clean :D The downside, he is kinda smelly, even after a bath and he has marked a few times here and there and he needs to get neutered. We will have to have him checked out and get his rabies shots too. Anyway, the kids are thrilled, and so far he meets the criteria for sticking around so I guess he's staying. We named him Mack as in Mack truck (the logo is a bulldog) so everyone say hi to Mack!

He's super nice, lets see how it goes.

On Thursday I got to chaperone Cade's 6th grade to the Renaissance Festival. We had never taken the kids so I took the opportunity. It was really fun. If I had an extra 300 bucks laying around it would be fun to take all the kids. Anyway we had a fun time and Cade's group was well behaved. We had giant turkey legs and watched sword swallowing and jousting and saw lots of fun things and people. Heres Cade doing knife throwing and watching the joust. Fun times.

It was the first time I ever chaperoned for Cade, how sad is that?? Oh well it was a good one. Next week I'm going to the museum with Dayton.

Monday I spent painting my stairwell. Yikes. It is so HIGH up there and my legs were dead the next day from going up and down the ladder a gazillion times. It turned out ok. I struggled with my ceiling line, but considering i was 30 feet in the air with my face 4 inches from the wall trying to paint straight, it's not too bad, I'll live with it because I won't be redoing it anytime this century. At one point I was on the ladder on the stairs with one side of the botton of the stair balanced on 2 nested stepstools and a paperback book, with Mark holding it steady. *insert scream* I painted the whole upstairs as well, and got rid of all the blue but I don't have a pic of that yet.

Blogging to come: Awesome fun GNO with my jr high/high school friends and lots more projects