Week of August 19

Another week has gone by already?  It's going to be Christmas before you know it! 

Here's a peek at our week:

Sunday

After church on Sunday Caleb and I walked to Burger King and this was sitting on our table.  Umm, gross! Caleb said he would be willing to try it.

 

Sunday night I was skyping with my family and I got Oscar out to say hi to them, and the little goober bit me.  I don't handle him much so I dont know if he just got scared or what his deal was. He's never bit me before. As punishment I didn't break up his pellets Monday morning when I fed him.  Turns out, he's big enough now that I don't need to break up his pellets.  Sigh.

 

 

There's guilt all over that face.





Monday:

This was a beautiful sunrise Monday morning.

Please don't mind my dirty windows.

Tuesday:

Oh look!  Another pretty sunrise!

It was also the first day of school for Louisville's public schools.  The school along my route to work doesn't have a place for buses to drop off students other than right on the street. So,if the timing hits right, I have sit and wait for mutiple school buses to drop off kids at their "mini-versity".  That's what it's called, I don't make this stuff up.

 

There's a Save-A-Lot that is not too far away from where we live.  I go there for several things that I can get cheaper than anywhere else.  The only problem with it is that it is kind of ....ahem...ghetto. On Tuesday as I was getting ready to back out I saw this car.  I've seen this kind of thing as decoration before...but I'm pretty sure this wasn't decoration.  You never know what you are going to see here.

 

Wednesday:

Today was a big delivery day for us!  A few more of Caleb's books came in.  He now has all of them except for 2 that are available for free as pdfs that he can download to his kindle, one that he is borrowing from a friend, and one book that isn't published yet.  Needless to say, I won't be hanging out with him much this semester.

 

Thursday:

My seminary wives program started up again tonight.  I'm taking a class on women of influence.  It's a pretty small class and I'm excited about it.  :-)

 

Also, Caleb decided to drop a class today.  There is just too much reading to do along with being on call for work on the days that he doesn't have class.  He dropped one with a super heavy reading load.

Here's his new stack of books for the semester.  :-)   It took out 4 books along (including the one not published yet) with some hefty required Bible reading.  It doesn't look like much of a decrease, but it is.  Some of his books are for a marriage in ministry class that met this past week for 2 days and all he has to do now to complete his credits is read some books and write a response and a paper (i think, there may be more).  I'm planning on reading some of the books to himwhile we travel to and from Missouri next month.  That way I can have the benefit of reading them also and he can listen to me talk for hours at a time because i just KNOW that it's one of his favoritest things to do.  Right, Caleb?  :-)

 

Friday:

 

I got all of my hairs cut today.  I wanted it cut just like I got it cut last time, but she hacked off a little more than I expected.  It's more noticeable in the back.  I'm still happy with it though.  I don't know that I have ever had my hair this short before, other than when I was a wee tot.

Saturday:

I got some mail from my pappy yesterday.  It was my all time favorite movie when I was little.  I used to watch it over and over again.  I'm not quite sure why, but I did.  He got it for free at a garage sale and mailed it to me.  Since Caleb had a lot of reading to do today, I decided to watch it and boy did the memories start flooding back.  I still don't know what I liked so much about this movie.

 

 

This was a project that I started a few weeks ago.  Caleb found a hunk of wood one day out by a dumpster and he brough it home.  I drew an "S" and had him cut it out.  I painted it and tried to crackle the paint it but I couldn't get the paint to do what I wanted to, even after two attempts.  I decided just to cover it in some fabric that I got on clearance at Walmart awhile back.  I hung it on the door at the top of our stairs that leads into our living room to replace our year-round Christmas wreath.  I think it turned out good, I just feel like its missing something.  Opinions, anyone?

 

I'm excited for this upcoming week...my family is coming into town!  Even my sister gets to come this time.  :-)





















Week of August 12th

This was a good week, especially since I got to take a little bit of vacation time off! 

Sunday:
We went to Arby's after church.  We got a little bonus with our mozzarella sticks...a siamese one! Definitely a win.

Caleb also got a super long curly fry. 

Monday:
Caleb and I went to the seminary to price compare books with amazon.  While we were there, I found a pretty little Bible for $5.  It's a Holman Christian Standard and I've never had one in that version before.  I love it.  :-)

Tuesday:
I got a letter from our Compassion child in India!  She called me her loving aunt again.  :-)  I have a letter ready to go to send back to her.  I wish I could meet her.

Wednesday:
This is what most of our nights look like these days.  Caleb is taking 15 hours and has a lot of reading to do.

Thursday:
This day didn't get documented.  Sorry about that.

Friday:
We got to meet the new little nephew via skype!

Saturday:
We went to the waterfront park in downtown Louisville to read.  It felt awesome outside and it was a nice change of scenery from our dark-ish apartment.

Our afternoon reads:

This is Caleb's book...this chapter is titled Silencing the Bishop Part II: The  Ugly Irenaeus.  Sounds interesting, right?

But he's still cute and I adore him. 

Love this boy!

 On our walk back to the car, we saw this segway tour.  :-)

Week of August 5th

This week I wasn't as dedicated on taking a picture everyday.  I do have pictures from this week to share though!

Here is the finished product from the table I painted last weekend:

I'm not the greatest with stencils, but hey, its just going in the laundry room.

In it's home.  Look at that!  Color in the laundry room!  :-)

This lovely spider web greeted me as I opened the door to go to work Monday morning. Its kinda hard to see in this picture. It was lovely to try to destroy with my car key in hand, then get the spider web off of the car key, while still getting it on me. 

I got ovaltine samples in the mail this week!  Yay for two mornings of chocolate milk goodness!

You know how awesome my husband is?  Yeah, he made this shelf thing.  We recently bought a toaster oven to use to try to help with our electric costs so we don't have to heat up the big oven as often.  The only problem was that we didn't have any place to put it, and I had been wanting a new microwave cart anyway because ours was pretty old and make of particle board so it wasn't nearly as nice as this beauty.  He got the logs from the woods around his parents' house, then he just bought the boards at home depot. It took him about two months to make, inbetween working on summer classes and stuff like that. I'm pretty stoaked about it, I think it looks awesome.  One step closer to Caleb making all of our furniture from cedar wood!  :-)

Here it is with all of our stuff on it.

One last picture for you.  When I was loading up my target deals into my car today, I noticed these little scratch marks.  There are actually two sets of them.  I'm guessing a raccoon or a cat did it.  It doesn't take much for the paint on my car to come off.  I've got scratches all over it from my days of working at Target.  If someone just even happened to touch my car with a cart, some paint would come off.  I sneezed one time and I'm pretty sure it took some paint off.  Ok, not really, but you get the point.  (Insert cheap foreign-made car joke from Caleb here.)

That's about it!  Just a week of finished furniture excitement over here.  Now to go enjoy my four day weekend with no plans.  For once I got to take a day off work with no reason and no travelling to be done.  :-)

7/22-8/4

Sorry for the delay on updating this, but I'm here to catch you up with pictures of the past two weeks!

7-22: Emily went to church with us and sadly had to leave after lunch. It was so good to see her!

7:23 Fourth Street Live is an interesting place in downtown Louisville. My in-laws came to visit on Monday and we got to go eat dinner at TGIFridays that is along this strip. It was definitely yummy!





 7-24: Fourth Street Live has a food court, so this day I went to eat lunch at Subway and the girl gave me a free cookie. After I took two bites, I knew I had to take a picture to remember just how good this cookie was, and it wasn't even because it was free, but that does help.

7:25 - Caleb's parents brough us a cucumber amongst some other fresh produce and I got a zucchini from someone at work who grows them. I love getting fresh food!





7-26: This thing scared the begezzies out of me. He decided to hitch a ride to work with me and now no longer lives. His brother showed up on my desk at work a few days later. Sick.

7-27: While I was out walking, I saw this crowd outside of the Kentucky Center for the Performing arts. There was some sort of brass ensemble playing and lots of soulful people standing all around, even on the other side of the street and they were all dancing.  This day I also saw a woman with an afro that was at least a foot tall but I couldn't get a picture without totally looking like a creeper. 



7-29: Caleb and I went out for a walk and we are always amazed at the weird art/statues all around this area. This one was in someone's yard.





7-30: I made a present for Caleb. He thought it was a bit cheesy, but I had fun making it. Melissa actually means Honeybee. :-) 



7-30: Bananananana ice cream! It's one of my hubby's favorites and we had some browning bananas. All it is made of is frozen bananas, peanut butter, and chocolate syrup. We can eat lots of it for dessert and not feel guilty! :-) 

 7-30: This is what I consdier a good day at work. Lots to keep me busy! :-)





7-31: I didn't take this picture, someone in the newsroom at work did. I saw this opposum when I was out walking. I just saw it out of the corner of my eye and thought it was a cat, but it turns out it was a oppossum. It moved away too fast for me to get a picture. I'm sure he was bad news since it was clearly daylight outside. 



 8-1: This day gets 4 pictures because it was such a good day. Caleb came to walk with me during my lunch break.  We found some more art!

 Then Caleb came and picked me up from work that night to go eat dinner with some friends from seminary.  Along the way, we saw this little tonka truck strapped to the back of a semi.

Then when I got home that night, these beauties were waiting for me on the countertop.  Daisies are becoming one of my favorites because they last longer than other flowers he has bought me.

8-2: There's a bit of a back story to this picture.  Friday when Caleb was at Wal-mart he texted me and asked if I wanted some real cherries (as opposed to the little marschino cherries I pile on top of my ice cream) because they had 2 lbs for $1.50, originally $5.  Well, I happened to read that text as "do you want some reg cherrios".  First of all I was trying to figure out why in the world Walmart was selling cherrios by the pound, but I do like to eat them plain as a snack, so I told him to get them.  When I got home Thursday night there were 2 lbs of cherries in the refrigerator.  I asked Caleb why he got cherries and he reminded me that he had texted me about them earlier.  Then I realized there were no cherrios, just cherries.  I checked the text message, and he definitely said real cherries, not reg cheerios.  Only one problem, I'm allergic to a lot of fruits.  I can have them if they are cooked, just not raw.  Friday night I was home alone since Caleb was at an all-guy campfire and I tried one of the cherries and right away I started having an allergic reaction.  I found a simple recipe for a cherry crisp and I figured that I would attempt to make one since I obviously couldn't eat any of them plain.  Here is one of the two crisps that I made and let me just say, they are amazing.  Absolutely amazing.  Caleb told me he wasn't a cherry person, and he really liked it.  Score!

 8-4: I got the itch to paint something and here is my victim.  Caleb made me this table when we moved to fit in between the washer and dryer just to have more space to fold clothes and have a convenient place to keep detergent.  Stay tuned to see what I did to it.  (and yes, I painted this in the bathroom because we have a big bathroom and Caleb has our other extra room covered in sawdust at the moment)