Halloween Pictures

I know I haven't posted in a really really long time and I apologize. I am going to try to do better. Life has been pretty boring lately so I haven't had tons to write about. I thought some of you might enjoy a picture of us at our church Halloween party. We had a really good time and unfortunately I forgot my camera and don't have pictures of some of our favorite costumes. I stole this off my friend's blog who took a picture of Ryan and me. Thanks Angie!!!



We were GM and Chrysler CEOs coming to ask Congress for a bailout in our private jets. I thought it was fun. I had 2 hours to make the planes and ran out of time, so the writing is a little pathetic looking, but you get the idea. Our printer was also broken. I had wanted to type up the company names and print the logos for the planes. Oh well!

Michael Buble

David Letterman

Many of you are aware of my love for Michael Buble. I was looking on his fan page (yes I know I'm sad) and I found a video of him doing Letterman's Top 10 list. This explains exactly why I love him so much. Listen to that beautiful voice and he's funny too! Click on the title of this post to go to the video clip.

FOR SALE: 2003 Honda Accord - Gently Used!

So as you can see, our car isn’t really in working condition anymore. Unfortunately, on Friday night at 3 AM, a drunk driver hit our car. My mom was visiting this weekend and we all woke to a screeching noise and the sound of metal hitting. I thought it was someone screaming, but Ryan thought there had been an accident. Sure enough when he made his way outside, he saw a man crawling out of his Dodge Ram truck window. Ryan told him to stop and had him sit down on our camping chair (the guy is lucky I didn’t get out there first because I probably would have been a lot angrier).

First, the drunken man hit a celica and then hit our car almost head on and scraped along the driver side of our car, moved it about 3 townhome units down the street and onto the curb. The driver then went into the Wheeler’s front yard and struck their tree. Brianna’s sister saw him try to reverse, but he couldn’t because his front tire and the ball that connects to the axle had been ripped off when he hit our car.

Ryan came out of our house when the guy was climbing out of his car window. Ryan sat him down in the camping chair while a witness called the police. When the police arrived they gave the man a sobriety test and then placed him in the back of the police car. He had already passed out a number of times in our camping chair and passed out a couple of more times in the police car. Over the next hour and half, 5 police cars, 1 ambulance and 1 firetruck showed up at our house.

When the ambulance got there, they put him on a stretcher and cut off his clothes to see if he was bleeding anywhere. They kept having to roll him on his side so he could throw up. He was taken to a hospital and then I assume to jail after that.

We still do not know if he was insured or not. I was a little irritated to learn that our tax dollars take care of his towing fees since he was going to be sent to jail. However, we were required to have our car towed on our own dime. I am hoping that we can find as good of a car for the money we receive from the insurance company as we had, but we will see. FYI, I advise checking your insurance policies and making sure you have uninsured motorist and underinsured motorist coverage. Thankfully we were covered although we have a $1,000 deductible.

I was very thankful that no one was hurt and that the Wheelers car was not impacted by the accident. The truck ended up about a foot from their Impala. It was truly miraculous that their car hadn’t been hit.

I hope that people will think twice about drinking and driving. We were so lucky that this happened when everyone was in bed and not during the early evening when people are outside and could have been hurt.

Hair cut!

I cut my hair short two weeks ago and have been promising pictures to some of you. Be mindful that these pictures were taken at the end of the day after work so my hair isn't looking fabulous and I took them myself so the photography skills are lacking.

My Sisters Keeper

I just saw this movie tonight and loved it. It was probably the saddest movie I have ever seen, but the story was so beautiful. It was a good reminder of what is really important in life.

3rd of July

On the 3rd of July, Columbus Ohio has a firework spectacular. Fireworks are shot of to music on a radio station and hundreds of thousands of people come out to enjoy. It is one of the largest firework shows in the Midwest. We had gone last year and decided to go again last night.

The evening began with a wonderful barbeque in one of the parking lots downtown. The food was so good and the people watching was even better.

Unfortunately, we had forgotten that the bathrooms were pretty limited downtown and drank too much soda. We ended up having to wait in a 30 minute line to use 1 port-a-potty without any toilet paper. Lets just say that it was on my list of the top 5 grossest bathrooms I have ever seen.

The line was about 30-40 women long. Pretty quickly, we realized that there was a men’s restroom that people were cutting in line to use. We had two women in front of us that were pretty upset at all of the cutting and it made for a very entertaining wait.

One was cursing at the girls who were cutting and going into the men’s bathroom. There were a number of guys letting one girl in particular cut. The woman in front of us kept saying things like:

“Just because your cute, it doesn’t mean you can cut all of us.”

“Look at the kids in line you (bleep), I can’t believe you are cutting kids!”

Some how, I can’t remember why because it didn’t really have anything to do with the port-a-potty, but she kept mentioning how she was a lesbian. Anyway it was pretty funny. I am going to get some pictures from and upload them.

It was also pretty funny to see all of the drunk people that had apparently not thought about drinking and the lack of restrooms available. There were people in tears because they had to go so badly. Seriously, I love red white and boom.

BUT THE BEST PART OF THE NIGHT WAS:

We had been walking around for a while and decided to head back to the car. When we got back to our car we saw some couples camped out on our car. They had also parked themselves on some other people’s blanket. Seriously, no shame!

Later Ryan wanted to get some soda out of the car. When Ryan walked around the back side of the car and saw the people with their plate of food resting on our trunk, he said “Excuse me, I need to get in my trunk.” They apologized, but still continued to loiter around our car.

Justin Wheeler was also with us and caught them changing their baby on our trunk and was offered one of the joints they were smoking. The saddest part was that the people probably had 4-5 little kids with them (great example).

Well, I am glad we could provide them with a nice seat because all 6 adults enjoyed sitting on the hood of our car while watching the fireworks. We didn’t really get to enjoy the show because we were afraid they would try to put out their cigarettes or joints on our car or key the car. The whole time I wanted to say something to them about sitting on car, but they didn’t really look like the kind of people you wanted to mess with.

Overall, it was a fun night with lots of fun memories made.

Bulbs

I officially have a love hate relationship with all of the wild animals in Columbus. I loved coming out of my house last winter and seeing 5 dear standing in my front yard. I enjoy driving down the road and seeing the wild turkeys and beavers off to the side. Unfortunately, we also have the raccoons and squirrels to deal with as well.

For mother’s day, I usually buy my mom flowers but decided this year to get her some bulbs so that she could enjoy the flowers year after year. When I was in Georgia last weekend we planted them and then she gave me 40 of the 200 bulbs home to plant in my yard.

Two days ago I started to plant the bulbs, but it seemed that nearly ever time I came outside, within 15 minutes we would have a downpour. I would quit and decide to come back when it stopped. The next time I came outside, it happened again, but I was nearing the end of the unplanted bulbs so I kept going. Wet, yet satisfied I looked at my flower bed and was so excited to wait and see what all of the flowers would look like in the coming months.

Yesterday, I came home from work and was walking home from my bus stop when I noticed one hole dug into my flower bed. I stepped closer to get a better view and then realized that the squirrels had gotten to my bulbs. I couldn’t believe it. Of the nearly 30-35 bulbs I planted there were at least 15-20 little holes throughout my garden, right where the bulbs had been planted.

When Ryan and I first moved here, he always talked about getting a pellet gun to shoot the squirrels with (not kill them, just stun them a little bit). I always thought it sounded so mean and heartless until last night. 2 hours of manual labor after working a full day and nothing to show for it, I was angry and ready to declare war on the squirrels of our neighborhood. Honestly, I don’t know what to do to keep them away. I have some bulbs leftover to put in my backyard, but am afraid of what will happen once I bury them. Please let me know if you have any suggestions of how to keep all the vermin in Columbus away from my flowers.