200,000 Miles

Our cute little camry has grown up so much. It just hit 200,000 miles. Now that it has so many miles, we are all of the sudden freaked out that something is going to happen to it. We have never had any problems but now it just seems like it is so old. It has treated us so well. We have had many adventures with this car and plan to have many more. We have gone across the country 3 times and on many other road trips. I bought it back in 2002 before Sam and I got married and it only had 40,000 miles on it. Wow! We travel a lot. Thanks Camry, you have been wonderful to us and we look forward to many more years with you! Oh that just brings tears to my eyes!I knew you all would not want to miss the changing of the mileage either. So enjoy!

Office Drama

Crazy things have been going on with my work. I am working from home for the appraisal company that I used to work for out in Utah. Just a few weeks ago, a few of the appraisers decided they wanted to go off on their own. They are just going to work from their own homes. Now there are only a few of us left. There has been some shuffling around and I think we are starting to get things figured out. It is a huge change for everyone but I think it will work out for the best.

My boss called last night and wants me to come out and train someone that he has just hired. So now it looks like I am going to be heading to Utah on Thursday and will be gone for a couple of weeks. It will be sad to be away from Sam for so long but I am excited to see my family and my new nephew, Benjamin (born just a few weeks ago). Sam will be alone for Easter but he has tons and tons and studying to do so it will be better that I will not be a distraction in the nice weather. (I think he is excited that he won't have to do all of the little kid activities, when we don't even have kids.) All I have to say is that my boss sure has good timing with flying me out to train someone. I went out last year to train and it was conveniently the same time that Crystal was having Judson so I didn't miss out on all of the fun. Get ready for me Utah, here I come!!

Plymouth Rock

Not quite sure what we were expecting, but it wasn't this mausoleum. I think on the plaque it said pilgrims landed here and killed the rock and now this is it's eternal resting place, who knew. By the way, that is Ginger standing inside.

This is the actual rock itself with "1620" carved into it and to lend some perspective I have crouched down in front. Now granted, I have a huge melon for a head, but the rock is tiny. I think that with a really good grip and some stretchy pants, I could lift that thing. The best part is that there are all these pennies that are thrown around it like some kind of weird wishing rock. I just like the idea of people being confused by the fact that they actually chose to stare at a rock and then thinking there must be something more, so they pelt one of our oldest national treasures with pennies and turn it into the equivalent of a mall fountain.

Yes, I was voted most photogenic in high school, why do you ask? My gosh, what is going on here. It's like my own Benjamin Button happening and I've reverted back to my baby hair. Anyway, this was actually after visiting Plymouth, we headed down to the Cape and went to the tip and it was a little windy (hence the Bert and Ernie hairdo). On a side note, what's with highly prized coastline property being inundated with mini golf courses? I guess you go to the beach and suddenly you have a yearning for salt water taffy, bad driftwood art, and mini golf. So that was our Saturday outing, it was fun and hopefully next time we'll get to see something a little more unusual.

Mini Pepperoni

Okay many of you are going to think I am dumb for even posting about this, including Sam but I don't care! We were making our favorite pasta salad yesterday for the Linger Longer that we had after church today. It is a recipe that I think we originally got from my sister, Kelly. It is one of those that of course has the pasta, broccoli, cauliflower, olives, pepperoni and then a cheese & garlic dressing over it. Anyway, when we get the pepperoni, we have to cut each piece into fourths so you don't have too big of pieces in the salad. This has always been annoying to us even though it really doesn't take that much effort. We recently discovered at Costco that they sell a bag of mini pepperonis. Genius idea!!
Right when we saw them, we knew they would be perfect for our salad. They were more that perfect, they were also really cute. I find myself now trying to think of other ways to use the mini pepperonis. Maybe this week, we will make mini pizzas for the mini pepperonis or on the back of the bag they had a few more recipes to use them in. I know you are all jealous and are probably planning a trip to Costco to get some. If you don't have a membership, I can always just go with so you can share in my excitement for the mini pepperonis!

Happy St Patrick's Day!!

Our St Patty's was very low key. I did wear green but then didn't really even go anywhere since I work at home. I still didn't want to take my chances of being pinched. I had a lot of different things I wanted to do but thought I would give Sam a break on this holiday. It will be so much more fun when we have kids. I love doing all the theme activities. I did put together a little pot of gold (twix & rolos, what could be better that that) but that is about it. Don't be too disappointed, I did put some asparagus in our pasta and we had green salad. I will have to save making green mashed potatoes for next year.

Nevermind...

Interesting! Ice cream for $1.99 or carrots. Obviously we know what this person chose. We thought it was funny to think of the thought process of the person that ditched the carrots. I bet they were trying to stick to eating healthy but couldn't resist a bargain. I promise it wasn't us, we wouldn't have even messed with the carrots.

Jewel's teeth

I was watching Dancing with the Stars last night while Sam was on the computer. All of a sudden he looked over at the tv and said, "I have always wanted to fix Jewel's teeth every time I see them." I just thought it was funny that he is already thinks like a dentist. I am sure my sisters Crystal and Cami look at her and think the same thing ever since they had braces. I just thought that was funny for him to say that because I have never really noticed her teeth.