Firsts

Here's just some silly survey about firsts... I thought it could be fun to fill out. I don't do these kind of things often on the blog, so here's a curveball.

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?
- Matt

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
- First real love... yes, actually

4. What was your FIRST job?
- Page at St. Louis County Library

5. What was your FIRST car?
- First ever car was a 86 Oldsmobile Cutless Ceira... first car I ever bought was my Chevy Cobalt

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
- I don't remember, I would tell you but my stupid phone is being stupid

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
- El Chad

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
- Mrs. Edmonds

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
- Orlando, FL with my dad and brother

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?
- Well I count Liz as one of my first best friends, and we still talk

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over?
- with friends? it could quite possibly been at Liz's

12. Who was the first person you talked to today?
- hubster

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
- My aunt Ruth's I believe

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
- questioned if I was still drunk...

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
- Beach Boys at the VP fair comes to mind

16. FIRST tattoo?
- Stars on my lower back to the side

17. FIRST piercing?
- Ears in third grade

18. FIRST foreign country you went to?
- Czech Republic

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing?
- Little Mermaid

20. When was your FIRST detention?
- I never got detention I was an angel

22. Who was your FIRST roommate?
- A girl named Caty... she wasn't my favorite person ever

23. If you had one wish, what would it be?
- I thought this survey was about firsts?... And I can't say my wishes out loud otherwise they won't come true

24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance?
- well it would be cool to speak another language... but some type of dance would be cool too

25. Did you marry the FIRST person to ask for your hand in marriage?
- Yes

26. What was the FIRST sport that you were involved in?
- T-ball but seriously? Track and field

27. What were the FIRST lessons you ever took?
- dance... ballet and tap

28. What is the FIRST thing you do when you get home?
- it's usually between 3 different things... let the d-o-gs out, give Chad a kiss, or pee

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30. When was your first kiss 'that you would count'?
- summer before eighth grade (or possibly seventh grade) in Florida

31. In what grade did you feel really confident?
- sometime in high school I became much more comfortable with myself

32. When did you receive your FIRST "F" in school?
- never

33. FIRST important event / activity from which you were cut?
- um, I don't recall

34. When did you first realize that you no longer believed in what you once believed in?
- santa?

35. What is your FIRST memorable family vacation?
- I think I remember all family vacation

36. What would you do over if you could?
- college

37. Besides raising your children and marrying your spouse, what accomplishment are you most proud of?
- right now? Having my current job.

38. What's at the top of your "bucket list"?
- visit all 50 states , skydive

39. Who's the most famous person you've ever met?
- while thinking of this question I'm not sure what famous people I've ever met...
EDIT: I figured out who the most famous person I met... when I worked at Schnucks (the overnight cashier) Murphy Lee came in and bought a lot of stuff... I didn't realize it was him until after he left and the janiters let me know... but that was kinda cool

Wheel

Near our neighborhood there is this house that has a giant wagon wheel in front of it leaning on a tree. A couple of months ago I drove by and saw that they had placed a sign on the wheel. It took a couple of trips by but I finally was able to read all of the sign... it said something along the lines of

"For Sale, $50"

I couldn't believe it... who would want to buy a wagon wheel for $50?? Maybe it's some super cool wagon wheel that's really old and worth more than $50 and therefore it's a good deal? But how would you know this by this sign? This house it's on a main road... so not many different people would drive by on a day-to-day basis... So I'm not exactly sure they would catch people in the wagon wheel market... It just all seems sorta strange.

Well a couple of days ago I noticed that a new sign was on the wheel, "For Sale, $50 $40"

If my old school wagon is ever missing a wheel it might be worth it.

Happy (belated) Birthday Bro

I'm a day late in writing this blog... but I wanted to wish a very happy birthday to my brother, Keith. Keith is a truly awesome person. I am very lucky to be his sister. Keith and I have always been very close... it's so nice to have such an awesome brother.

I dote on him a lot... I'm a very proud sister... I always say Keith would be my "phone a friend" if I was ever on a game show (Chad agrees)... he knows so many weird different facts... He is very intelligent, but doesn't act cocky b/c of it. He is a very different person, with a different kind of style. And I love him.

Keith... I hope that you have (had) a very happy birthday!! You are one cool dude. And like I said earlier, I'm very lucky to be his sister.

Who dun it?

A few hours ago Chad burst into the the living room from the backyard fuming mad... This is possibly the maddest I've seen Chad. I asked what was wrong... and he explained to me that he just pulled a pellet out of Rowdy. Someone shot a pellet gun at our dog. He decided to go talk to the neighbors he thinks may be responsible for it. They admitted to having a BB gun, but not a pellet gun. Chad thinks it's them b/c their youngest son has taunted (and other things) our dogs in the past. Rowdy is just fine... still wanting to play fetch and he's acting completely normal, but he does have a spot on his chest where he got shot...

We decided to call the cops just to document the incident, in case something else happens in the future. Someone came out and took the account of events. Hopefully this is just a fluke accident... I don't want to believe that someone is harming our dog on purpose. But if someone is hurting our dog, I hope we find out about it and justice can be done...

Here are some pictures...
Here's Chad laying on our couch with Rowdy... this was taken earlier this week.

Here's his wound
Another picture of it
Here you can see the location of the wound
He's such a good dog... so sweet and kind... wouldn't hurt a fly
Another picture b/c well... he's freaking adorableHe looks silly here...

Here's the pellet Chad pulled out of him
A close up
And this is just a random picture... we had chili earlier this week... and how delicious does this look... mmm... I want it again!!

Elephant Rocks

Last Sunday Chad and I took a day trip to Elephant Rocks State Park. Neither of us had been in forever... and I really wanted to do something different over the weekend. So we packed up the cooler and headed down south. The drive out there was nice, and we went on a pretty nice day... it wasn't hotter than balls which is always nice. We climbed around on the rocks... well Chad did more climbing than I did... but we both had a great time. There was plenty of energetic kids running around, which only reminded me how much fun it was being a kid... It was really nice to take a day trip.

Onto the pictures (and FYI with how blogger loads pictures it's backwards so the pictures earlier in the day are on bottom, since these pictures really don't tell a story line I didn't bother switching them around)

I like this picture of me and Chad... other than my arm is cut off...
I thought this picture looked really good
Chad on his favorite rock in the park.
Looking up through the rocks
Chad wouldn't do any silly poses... but this picture is kinda cool with the sunlight
Me looking out over the quarry... Oh... here's a story from the day... Chad and I watch this show on Animal Planet called Whale Wars... in a nutshell it's these crazy people floating (Sea Shepherds) around the Antarctic battling Japanese whalers... the problem is they don't really have authority... it's a crazy show, but anyway they the Sea Shepherds throw bottles of smelly crap onto the Japanese whaler boats, and Chad totally proved at the park he could be a bottle tosser... I guess this is an inside joke between us, but if you've seen the show you know what I'm talking about.
Here's the cliche Elephant Rocks pose... Chad wouldn't do it for me
Chad climbing...
kissy
That girl behind us kinda ruined the picture... Chad thinks he could photoshop her out... we'll see about that one.
Classic picture of Chad

WALL-E

Was anyone else just completed touched by this movie? For some reason it makes my heart sing and just really touches my soul for some reason. I can't even really describe what I feel when I watch... it's a very different feeling.

Zucchini Bread

About a couple of weeks ago my good friend Liz came over to visit. When she came she brought us a cucumber and a zucchini from her (or maybe her mom's garden.) We don't normally eat cucumbers or zucchini but when I saw that big beautiful zucchini one thought popped into my head... zucchini bread!! I haven't had that stuff in forever, and what a perfect opportunity to try out a new recipe.

So I googled zucchini bread and came across this recipe. I had all the ingredients except baking soda... so I picked that up from the store and borrowed bread pans from my mom (thanks mom!!) and got to baking.

Mixed all the dry ingredients together... the flour, salt, baking powder and soda, and cinnamon together
And I beat all the wet ingredients together... eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla
Then I mixed the two together...

Meanwhile Chad helped me grate the zucchini and measured out the right amount ~ speaking of, I read that you shouldn't drain your zucchini b/c it adds moisture to the bread.
Then I (by I, I mean Chad) mixed in the grated zucchini and some walnuts

Chad also helped me pour batter in pans... he's always much better at doing that than I am.
I baked for about 60 minutes...

It's delicious bread... mmm... very tasty... Chad says he's never had zucchini bread before... I think he wasn't sure what to expect... but he ended up liking it a lot.

I'm very happy with how it turned out... this recipe is a keeper.