Quick recap

Sorry blogger world (i.e. family in CA) that I have been MIA on this here blog of mine. I've been busy with a toddler, enjoying the spring after a LONG Michigan winter, hitting up garage sales like crazy, and house-hunting. Before any more time passes, I wanted to at least get something up here...so I thought some photos would suffice for now. :-)

Kids really do grow up so fast, don't they? :-)


I have THE BEST HUSBAND EVER! He knew it was my heart's desire to attend my childhood best friend's wedding in CA this August. We didn't know if we'd be able to get me out there for it though...on Mother's Day he gave me such a wonderful gift - an airline ticket to CA in August (itinerary wrapped in a scroll, actually given to me the Saturday night before Mother's Day - he can't keep surprises in too long) :-)


"One man's junk is another man's treasure"...a garage sale find!


Moments after we found out we had a "verbal agreement" for an offer we made on a house (we were in Lowe's). Wow, our first house!! We are super jazzed. That dining room table now has a home too!


Scotty and Micah cleaning up the grill! We've had some mighty tasty meals this week! Oh yes, and Micah's Krsipy Kreme hat - he's fallen in love with hats these days.


Scotty promised long ago that he would teach me how to fish (I've never been before) - took almost 3 years of marriage, but now I know how to cast and reel 'em in (though I haven't caught anything yet).


Another of Micah's hats. He rarely leaves home without this one. It's actually a hand me down from another "Micah" from church. :-)

Swine Flu Update...

Here's a forward I received in my inbox which I thought was worth forwarding on...(it had funny pictures in there too, but I couldn't successfully copy them to Blogger).
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Can't eat pork,
Swine flu...

Can't eat chicken,
Bird flu...

Can't eat Beef,
Mad cow....

Can't eat eggs,
Salmonella...

Can't eat fish,
heavy metal poisons in their waters...

Can't eat fruits and veggies,
insecticides and herbicides...

Hmmmmmmmmm...

I believe that leaves Chocolate and ice cream!!!
Remember - 'STRESSED' spelled backwards is 'DESSERTS'

Cow-Boy, not cowboy

This is not your typical "cowboy" with boots and a hat, but a boy with a cow hat upon his head. Still makes him a cow-boy.

A boy's best friend.

Micah loves dogs, or I should say "puppies" as he calls them (whether they're small or large...or even the squirrel he saw last week). Needless to say, he really enjoyed my doggy duties this week while taking care of Rex. I will have to say it warmed this mommy's heart to watch him enjoy the great outdoors with this friendly canine during the week. :-)

Some recent Micah photos

With daddy's sunglasses:


In "DeeDee's" (auntie Amanda's) shoes:


Being Loco:


Still being loco:


Getting a haircut from daddy...way better than when mommy does it


New bat and ball from "Mama" and "Papa" (grandma Lisa and grandpa Scott)



He would've slept with it in his crib that night if I would've let him

Tax Day TEA party.

Scotty and I took Micah to his first rally last Wednesday - the Grand Rapids TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party. It was fun...and inspiring. :-)

Total turn out was about 2,000


Protest took place in front of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum


Rally boy


He was using a hockey stick for the pole :-)


This fact still shocks me, and bothers me


The Ruth family at the peaceful protest :-)


Micah wearing a sticker with the following statements:
Common Sense
1. To preserve the economic future for our children.
2. To work for a return to the principles of our governing constitution.
3. To demand limited government.
4. To promote the free market that made our country the leader of the world.
5. To give support for individual property rights.
6. To provide a platform for giving like minded people a voice.


I was displeased to find out that much of the mainstream media presented protesters as angry, silly, purely right-wing conservatives, fueled by Fox news, and many other false assumptions. No, we're just people who are taking a stand against out of control government spending. Here's a statement about the TEA parties that I can agree with: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/24073/

Rex

I am currently dog-sitting for a neighbor down the street. The pooch's name is Rex, and he is an adorable 8-month old Beagle. He absolutely LOVES people, and whimpers EVERY time I leave him (we meet up and part ways 6 times a day, and the only time he hasn't whined is if he's busy eating).

He's been having some accidents. I don't know if it's because he can't hold it, or if he's rebelling because his "people" are gone. Either way, I've gotten real good at seeing the poo pile or pee puddle and 409-ing it with some paper towels. But today, I missed a pile, and I was not the one to first find it...

It was about 10:00 a.m. and Rex and I had said good-bye to each other just 2 hours prior. I had Micah in tow, and I got to cleaning up Rex's breakfast dishes while Micah watched the "puppy" out back. All of a sudden Micah started acting very concerned, may've have even declared an "uh-oh" or two, and kinda started panicking behind the dining room table. I came to his aid, and found his little brown shoe even browner. Now, he hadn't merely bumped into the poo pile, but from the looks of it, he had deliberately stepped directly on top of it and was pushing his little shoe deeper still into the muck. Gross.

I popped his little foot out of the mess and let him walk around with one shoe off and one shoe on while I decided what to do next - do I actually salvage the little loafer that has poo in every single groove on the bottom, or do I chuck it? (I had just bought these shoes a few weeks ago)! Whatever I decided, I knew Micah was going to have to travel in socks the rest of the day, because these were currently his only pair of shoes!!

I stomached the clean-up of both the floor and the shoe (I wore a plastic glove while de-pooing the shoe grooves), said my good-byes to Rex, and hopped in the car while I used (800)GOOG-411 and declared "Shoe Store" (a GREAT and free service offered by Google). It connected me to a Payless Shoe Source, and then Micah and I were off on a mission - new sneakers!

Micah entered the store in only socks, and exited the store wearing some brand new shoes (mommy also got a super cute pair for only $4 - there was a really good sale going on)!

I am still dog-sitting Rex for about 5 more days. Oh what adventures lie ahead?