What We've Been Up To......

I'm so sorry that it's been so long since I've posted anything! Two months ago I started working full time at a bank and while I've been enjoying it, it's long hours and long weeks and we really haven't been doing much! Now that I've started getting adjusted to a 45 minute commute and six day weeks, I'm getting a little better at doing things after work. Still, we haven't been doing a whole lot to take pictures of. Chris and my brothers have done a lot of work in the basement, but I'm not taking pictures of that yet because it's still such a mess!

At my friend Marley's birthday dinner

We rearranged our bedroom!

Ice skating with a friend from work, Amber. Chris was nice enough to take pictures for me. Below is a video of me "jumping", which I haven't done in three or four years!

P.S. For those of you who couldn't find me in the movie clip, it's okay, I'm not that easy to see, I'm behind Nicole Kidman when she first enters the subway, but I'm blurry, in a long tan coat, and then you see again for a split second as she comes out of the subway, I'm walking away from her.

My Movie!

Anyone see The Invasion with Nicole Kidman? I wouldn't really recommend it, except that I'm in it!  I was able to be an extra for one very looooong day and it was a lot of fun.  I anxiously waited for the movie to come out and was thrilled to be able to pick myself out!  Chris ripped off the clip I'm in, see if you can find me! You can actually see me twice.

My new car!

Chris and I spent two weeks trying to buy a new car, we first were going to buy used, then decided to look at new, then went back to trying to find a used, then decided it was really only a couple of thousand more to buy new, so then we had it narrowed down to two cars and spent several days trying to decide which one. He told me I had to pick because he wants me driving the newer one since I drive farther to work now, so I test drove both cars back to back and decided I liked the Corolla best. But I wanted a green one, so the dealership gave me a loaner car, a RAV4, while they tried to find a green one. Apparently green is not a color they make a lot of, so the guy finally asked if I would be okay with another color, so I said blue would be fine. It took him another day to find a blue one, apparently I just like rare colors. I finally got to pick it up this past Thursday and I've been having so much fun driving it! It's an 09 and I got it with 20 miles on it! I drive about 50 miles a day, and that's if I only go straight to and from work, so unfortunately I'm racking up miles pretty quickly, but I'm very happy with it and hope to have it a long time! Isn't it so pretty?!?!

My very own pet hospital!

Ever since moving back to Maryland I have helped take care of the pets on our family farm, it was a lot easier when I lived there, but even now we watch the dog when nobody else is there and check on the cats. Last week I noticed the dog and one of the cats seriously limping. Well, nobody else was around this week, so I got to spend two mornings at the vet, one with the dog, one with the cat. They both hurt the same paw and have to be kept inside, given antibiotics, the dog has a spray for his paw and the cat has a cream, and they both have to be taken back to the vet in a week for checkups. Unfortunately they both love being outside and obviously don't like being cooped up. Good thing I think they're so cute!

Cute little Bay

My parents came out for dinner, which they do quite often, and they brought their 2 year old Chesapeake Bay Retriever, named Bay.  She likes to play with Roxy's mice, so we try to hide them before she comes.  Today she found another of Roxy's toys and occupied herself for quite awhile.  It was too cute, I had to get a video.  It's a mouse that "runs" inside this plastic thing, so they can't ever get it.  It's pretty funny how much she likes cat toys.

My Husband Tag

1. What is your husband's name?

Christopher Larry Brown

2. Who said I love you first?

I did, by accident, we were making out and it just slipped out, I did mean it though.  It was several more months before he said it.

3. Who is taller?

Chris, by like six inches

4. Who is smarter?

I think we're equally smart, but in different ways

5. Who is more sensitive?

Definitely me

6. Who does the laundry?

Me

7. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?

If you're looking at the bed, I sleep on the right side

8. Who pays the bills?

I do

9. Who cooks more?

Lately (finally) I do, I'm in charge of meals during the week and he's in charge of meals on the weekends, he enjoys doing big fancy Sunday meals

10. What meals do you cook together?

Nothing, unless one of us is running late and we ask the other to start

11. Who is more stubborn?

Me, by far, come on, I am a red head

12. Who is the first to admit they are wrong?

We'll both say we are and we'll both say the other is wrong

13. Who is more clean?

I think I am, but he's also not usually home enough to make too much of a mess of anything

14. Who has more siblings?

I have five, he has one

15. Who wears the pants in the relationship?

Definitely me, but I'm getting better at relinquishing control

16. What do you like to do together?

Watching movies, playing board games, going to the beach, playing with the dog, entertaining

17. Who eats more sweets?

Definitely me

18. Guilty Pleasures?

Any kind of war game on the computer or Wii, cold reeces cups, sour cream and onion chips

19. How did you meet?

He was the resident assistant in the dorms we were living in in college and we had mutual friends, I don't remember the first time we met

20. Who asked who out first?

After a month of flirting he still hadn't asked me out, so my friends and I hatched a plan so that I could ask him out - we went on a triple date for my birthday

21. Who kissed who first?

I always refused to be the one to give the first kiss, so he kissed me first, it caught me by surprise, but again, it came after a month of waiting

22. Who proposed?

Officially he did, but I tried to propose once, because, again, I was tired of waiting. But the proposal was prefect, it would take me too long to tell the whole story, but it was very intricate and special.

23. Best features?

His smile, his eyes, his comfy shoulder

24. What is his best quality?

His patience with me!

Playing at the Pool

My "other family" the Washburns bought a pool pass for the summer and as part of the pool pass they can have a designated "sitter" and who else would they have chosen besides me? Hehe. I've only gone with them three or four times, but it's always been fun. Today I thought to take my camera along.

Briella has gone back to not liking me too much, which is why she's not so thrilled in this picture
The boys decided early on that I am their personal jungle gym.



I had to include a picture of Kamberlynne! She and my brother spent most of the time playing catch or monkey in the middle.