a perfect day

It’s a beautiful day in Fargo today! The sun is shining, there is no wind and it’s the perfect temp. What more could you ask for?

Oh and did I mention RED PEPPER is in town too?!

Every year there is this police department festival of sorts at Island Park…and the Red Pepper mobile comes to town! I only know this because I’m a fan on Facebook – don’t judge me people.

(Alicia thanks for joining me and making me not look so pedophile-like at this obviously kid oriented family fest.)

In addition to the Pep, there was cotton candy. MY GOD. Could this day be any more perfect? Probably my two favorite (edible) things rolled into one glorious afternoon. Oh the delight!

(Grinder to go because I already inhaled my beef tostada.)

Bold and Boring

It was a low key, boring in a good way weekend at the Fellows’. I don’t know how people can be go go go every weekend. I love to have some time to relax, get the house together and nap of course.

It was a super rainy Saturday, excellent for catching up on some DVRed shows and watching my new boyfriend, Landon play some World Cup Soccer. Sunday was windy of course, but with the sun shining, I won’t complain. Andy busied himself with yard work while Tucker and I set up shop on the deck. One of my favorite things to do is to fill up his little pool and watch his dumb ass splash around in circles - all the while singing Tommy Boy’s “Fat Guy in a Little Coat.”

Then Andy was off for an afternoon of golf while Tuck and I did what we do best: nap. I curled up in bed and Tucker curled up on my stacks of folded laundry. It was a bold move, but the stealth like jump to the bed made right as I was falling asleep paid off because I was just too sleepy to do anything about it.

And then I woke from my slumber to find Tucker’s face an inch from mine with his head on my pillow and I clearly knew it was time to get up!

UPS and down

It was our anniversary on Friday, as my blog readers know by the previous post. Andy and I aren’t really gift givers for these occasions, because well we just buy what we want throughout the year. But 5 years seems like a gift worthy, big deal occasion right?

A few weeks ago, I remembered that I fell in love with a necklace my friend Liz had on the last time I saw her. Just a simple lower case cursive “d” that took me forever to figure out stood for her last name…I of course wanted the “f”. So I emailed the hubby a photo of said necklace just in case he wanted to buy me a little something. Yeah, I’m a copy cat and I’ll admit it.

Days went by and no jewelry store description on either credit card. Shoot, my subtle email wasn’t obvious enough! Oh well.

The night before our anniversary Andy says to me something like, I bought you the necklace, but it won’t be here until tomorrow, though they promised it would be here today. Well, a) thanks sneaky hubby for using a secret credit card to buy my goods! and b) I really hoped it arrived before we left town!

Friday morning I was like a kid at Christmas waiting for the UPS man to arrive. The tracking email said he’d left at 6am…but the necklace, nowhere to be found.

We’d waited around as long as we could and finally we needed to leave. Andy mentioned that he saw a UPS truck near our neighborhood as he was coming home. Hmm…well…maybe if the UPS truck won’t come to us, we can go to him?

I’ve realized this pregnancy card is a pretty amazing thing for such scenarios. I mean, can you really turn me down?

So we headed out of town and I prayed to God we saw the UPS truck on the way out.

…and like a mirage down one of the streets in our neighborhood, I saw the brown and gold! Andy hopped out of the car with a smile on his face walked to the UPS truck shaking his head and got the package! What a husband!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
F is for Fellows!

5 years

Happy Anniversary to my favorite person in the world! Love you today.

And who are the little kiddos in these photos?

All smiles after the ceremony is a good thing right?!

Big shocker, a windy day in Fargo.

And that's a flooded river behind us, not a lake!

Dog Sitting

This weekend was spent puppy sitting for Todd and Alissa's baby, Lexi. Lexi is a ten pound ball'o'fluff…so not what we’re used to! She’s a stealth like little thing. You never know where she is because she is so quiet and tiny…Tucker breathes louder than Lexi walks.

Lex was not a fan of Tucker, hey I totally know how that goes! And Tucker was super jealous of Lexi’s lapdog status and was moping around every time we held her…get used to it dog!

And in classic Tucker short-bus-behavior, we told our dog to kennel up and the closest kennel was Lexi’s, so he crawled in. Yeah, we’re mean parents…but it was hilarious.

1/2 Year in Review

Wow! Where did the first half of this year go? I suppose it’s time do a little assessment of how the 2010 resolutions are coming.

1. Start blog. Check. Actually, I started two!

2. Keep blogging. Check. I’m trying to stay on top of the blog scene. I don’t always have the most entertaining stories to report, but I try.

3. Tip more. That’s a work in progress. Again, trying to figure out the tipping on take out situation. I mean, car side to go, definitely. But when I have to walk in and my food is waiting at the bar, I don’t know.

4. Stop saying I’m tired. It worked for a while and then I fell off the bandwagon. But I’ll try harder now, no caffeine is tricky.

5. Finish the project I started over two years ago. If you didn’t know the project, that would be project baby. And with 14 weeks under my belt – I’m definitely on my way!

So that is my half year in review, I hope the rest of the year brings more miracles and much happiness!

*This is going to remain my “non-baby” blog…until well, life excitingly becomes baby. If you’d like the link to my other blog that will have all the baby details, bump photos etc. just send me a message!

This is not my first 'I love beige' post

I’m a sucker for white and tan.

Cases in point:

My house: white trim, tan walls. In basically every room in the house…and I love it.

My outfit today: white pants, tan heals. I could wear this bottom combo with probably every top in my closet.

My husband: he’s tan, I’m white. And I really like him.

So far, it’s been a winning combination that hasn’t steered me wrong.

So when we were just window shopping for new vehicles and a white Honda Pilot with tan leather interior looked my way, I guess I should’ve known that hours later it would be mine. I truly didn’t even want to buy it at first…but it just fit too well!