The day Dalan lost the dog...

Last night I started the dishwasher (girl job), and did some dishes by hand. I then noticed that the rug was wet, and that the dishwasher was leaking. Great! I put a bowl under it, and told Dalan to look at it when he got a chance.

Today, Dalan went to do some investigating into the broken dishwasher (boy job), and moved some things out back. He worked on the dishwasher, only to find nothing wrong. In fact, there was not leaking at all while he was working on it, which is mysterious, but I guess a good thing. He then noticed he had left the back door open. He called out to Piper several times, only to have no response. He walked around the outside of the house, like a mad man, calling out for the dog and looking for her. No Piper. Piper has been a low AWOL risk since we have moved into the house, but she used to take off at any chance she got, so it was possible she had run off.

He came back to the house in a total panic to get his keys, so he can drive around and look for her. When Piper heard his keys, she came wandering down the stairs to see what was going on. Dalan is still unsure if she was upstairs the whole time, or if she had returned to the house while he was out looking for her. I tend to think she was napping upstairs the whole time, but who knows, she could have gone running after a bird or a cat if she had seen one.

A nice little Saturday

Saturday was a fun little day. Nothing outrageous or flashy, but fun! It started with Dalan going to the Utes spring football preview scrimmage thing at Rice-Eccles, while my mom and I went shopping. I needed to get some things for my classroom, and Patti offered to come so I would not have to go alone. Shopping is always more fun with someone else. We went all over town and found most of the stuff I wanted, plus we got dollar sundaes from McDonalds. Delish. On the way home, Patti suggested we stop by Costco, which was perfect, because there were a bunch of things Dalan and I needed from there.

We went back to my mom's house, and learned that Ali had earned the honor of Employee of the Month! Ok, we already knew, but it was fun to see Ali's balloons, cake, and gift card. Way to go, Ali! Then Griffin tried to play with Piper, and Piper tried to fight Griffin, so it was time to come home.

I came home to a very sunburned husband. The poor guy. Half of his face, and his whole head were bright red, minus where his sunglasses were! Then, it was time to go to Buca di Beppo for Dalan's cousin's engagement party. When we got there, we were greeted by Cole! We had no idea he was valeting cars that night. He totally gave our car the best spot in the lot. He was pulled and sent to another location though by the time we were done, so he missed out on our generous tip!




Dinner was fun. We had good food and good converation. Dalan's cousin, Rob and his finace, Jen got a lot of fun stuff. They are great people, and I am so excited for there wedding. We also got to play Dalan's other cousin, Randy's, little boy, Morgan. He is 16 months old, and ton of fun. His favorite things to do was to shove items into the glass of water, down through the ice, and clap for himself.

I am glad that we had such a nice little Saturday, minus the sunburn!

Sleepless in Salt Lake

Last night, I once again found myself awake in the middle of the night with some intense pain in my back. I could not go back to sleep, and found myself awake, and in pain for about a solid hour. The pain eased enough and I fell back asleep, only to have a nightmare.

In my nightmare, Dalan was having an affair with a woman from his work named, Maria. He works with all men, by the way. In my nightmare, I was still awake, but Dalan didn't realize it and took a call from this woman. I caught him saying, "me too", in response to her, "I love you." I confronted him, and he was just totally indifferent and chill about the whole thing. Then I woke up for real, and was pissed. It took me a while to fall back to sleep after that.

Beauty school dropout

Over the weekend, my eyebrows were in need of some major shaping. I hate tweezing them, mainly because I am lazy, and because Ali usually has some wax. On Sunday, I asked Ali to please wax my eyebrows for me, but she was out of wax. However, she offered to pluck them for me. (Or did I whine until about her plucking them, and she gave in...hard to remember exactly.) I think when someone else doing it, it hurts more than doing it yourself. The good news is eventually my eye regions went numb, and now they look fabulous. Thanks Ali. Here are some pictures of our grooming.

I did this to myself

I am pretty sure I have the stones again, kidney stones, that is. Last week, I binged a little on caffeinated beverages. I went to a training for two days that included breakfast, and lunch, and figured they would have bottled water as a beverage choice, and did not bring a water bottle. They didn't, so I drank Diet Coke both days. I could have surely brought water with me both days, or at the very least, the second day, but alas, I did not. Later in the week, I went shopping with my mom and Ali, and we stopped and got iced coffees. I could have gotten a non-caffeinated beverage, but alas, I did not. Over these days, I could have doubled up on my water consumption to balance out all the caffeine, but alas, I did not.

Therefore, last Thursday night into Friday morning, I had one of my "attacks" in which I am woken up in the middle of the night from immense pain, and feel toxic. (One sign of the stones.) Then for the entire weekend, I had to pee and pee and pee. (Another sign of the stones.) Last night, I was woken up throughout the night with intense back pain. (Another sign of the stones.) At first, in my sleepy state I thought I had been sleeping wrong, but eventually it became clear, it was that old familiar pain of the stones. Today, I felt just ill and tired, (Yet another sign of the stones.)

I know I did this to myself. I tested the boundaries and lost big time. I have hit the water and lemonade hard today, so here is to hoping I pass the stone with no further pain or misery.

Easter Day

Easter Day was a blast. The Easter bunny came to our house, and brought some goodies. Piper was very excited about her new shirt, toy, and treats.

Later, we went to my parents' house for Easter egg hunts and for Easter dinner, we were unable to make it Dalan's side, because Dalan had to work. I am going to go up there this evening to visit with the ladies!

My parents had two Easter egg hunts planned- one inside with the real eggs, and one outside with plastic eggs, and our baskets. It was a lot of fun with Dalan, Ali, McKay, and me participating-Cole had to work. McKay found the most eggs inside, and Ali found the most eggs outside.

We then ate a super yummy dinner, and then settled down to watch our Sunday shows. It was good times and happy memories.

Dying eggs with the family

Tonight, Dalan and I went over to my parents' house to dye some eggs and eat pizza. It was a lot of fun, although Cole and McKay were unable to make it. My parents' boiled 4 dozen eggs, so there was a lot of dying to be done by all. I like to to multi-colored ones, or ones that are blend of a bunch of colors. I have yet to perfect the perfect brown egg. Tomorrow we are going over to find eggs and eat dinner. I love holidays!