New purchases, and gifts!

So Cody and I decided that since we refinanced the house, we didn’t have to pay the mortgage this month, so that $ went toward a new patio furniture set.  Our old one was small, the glass was falling out, and it was rusting.  And I just wanted something prettier. 

So I checked out Target, Home Depot, Pier One, K-Mart, Waters True Value, Lowe’s online, and finally Sears.  And Sears had what we wanted, for a price that was more reasonable.  So after a little under two hours of assembly, here’s our new patio table! 

Sorry, this one is crooked, but I don’t feel like reloading it, so just tilt your head please!

Now I just need a chaise lounge, and I’ll be set.  They didn’t have a 7 piece cover, so we were able to get a 10 piece cover for the 7 piece price, and that’s good because when I get a chaise, it’ll cover it too! 

And the gift part…

I was kind of joking with my Dad, and he wanted to get me a web cam so I could talk over the Internet with him and my mom.  He got one for Nikki so he can see Royce and Brody, so he wanted me to as well.  I told him that I didn’t want to deal with all that with a laptop, the web cam and all, but if he bought me a laptop with one built in, then I would.   He was watching Home Shopping Network and saw this little thing, and bought it for me.  It has a built in camera and microphone, and it’s TINY!  And it’s brown!  And my favorite part is that it runs on XP so I don’t even have to mess with Vista.  I’m excited about that. 

It’s SO tiny!  It doesn’t have any kind of DVD or CD drive, but it has built in SD card slots and 3 USB ports, and it just so happens Cody got a DVD burnable drive that connects via USB port, so I can use that.  And I can just stick my SD card straight from my camera to the computer.  Pretty Cool.  I’ve been playing with it all night. 

Maybe this will help me blog more…

I love Spring!

I love Spring for many reasons, but  peonies are one if those reasons.  And I’m happy they grow in my side yard too!

I just wish that I was the only one who loved them so that I could bring them inside…

I don’t understand why ants are ALWAYS all over them.  But they are very pretty, so I just admire them from the yard.

My new and retouched tattoos!

I don’t think everyone has gotten to see these yet, so I’m going to post them. 

 

The big paw was already there, but the coloring was uneven, so I got it touched up by Matt at Stray Cat Tattoo in Aggieville.  He was very nice, and did a good job.

It didn’t hurt nearly as much as my first one did.  With the big paw in Key West, I couldn’t walk for like 2 days without being in pain.  This time it never got to that extent.

The big paw is my Annie paw.  It’s twice the size of her real paw, but I originally got it for her.  The little paw is for Henry, and Ricki, well that’s pretty obvious.  I wanted to have her name instead of a paw.  I tried to get the newt to walk on paper to get a newt print, but I didn’t get a good one.  So eventually, I want to get a newt print on my foot too.  It’s going to be my animal foot.

And that makes me happy…

I’m not really good at updating this blog!

I just can’t seem to update this as often as I mean to.  But anywho, here are a few picks of the last 2 months…

St. Patty’s Day:

Fun Nephews:

Royce road all around the mall like this waving at everyone…

Now, he’s just chillin’ eating a cookie.

Chubby babies…

My birthday and snow :(, but at least cool pictures get taken in the snow…

I still just can’t believe that it snowed the night before and the day of my birthday, and I was left with about 5 inches of snow to deal with.  And then 2 days later it  was 60 degrees and sunny, and warm enough to take the dogs for a walk.  Silly…

The one group picture we took in Lincoln before the cameras died…

Notice the scarves…what’s up with the cold weather!?

This one sort of worked at the Q… and then the camera was dead for real.

More fun nephews:

Royce likes to wears other peoples shoes now.  Although he hasn’t quite figured out how to wear flip-flops…

I love the way he smiles!  Just like my sister and I do.  It’s the Ott side of the family.

He’s just so grown up!

It amazes me how much kids can change in 2 months.  Look how big Brody is!  He can sit up by himself now!

You have to ignore the drenched, stretched out onesie.  It’d been a long slobbery day.

Just look how sweet this little chunk is!

I love those little guys!

Anywho, that’s about what I’ve been up to! 

I have a few more posts to add this evening, so I hope everyone enjoys looking at something different!  I really do need to get more consistent in updating this.  I apologize, I’m just too busy sometimes!  (and lazy…but that’s cool!)