So much for that...

Hours and hours I spent toiling in our front yard attempting to grow grass. I had a vision of a lush soft lawn, perfect for a mini picnic or mini mini slip n' slide or... not. In anycase, my vision did not come to pass. At first little shoots of fresh grass sprung up everywhere! It was so exciting, but the first rain storm took a good toll- wiping out my crops. Then, our trip to california left the poor lawn parched and it never quite recovered. Finally, to top it all off... last week verizon came and destroyed what was left of my little lawn to instal fiberoptic cables. Hmph.

So, now what should I do? I've heard that now is the time to re-seed. But man. It seemed to take way too much energy for nothing in the first place!! Maybe I'll find the motivation this labor day weekend. Wish me luck!

Orange you glad?

August 18, 2006:
I came home to beautiful flowers, a coordinating bear, and a lovely card (which, at first glance, looks like it's us!) ! Inside the card: "Orange you glad we're married?!" My sweet sentimental husband. I love that he celebrated our 20 month anniversary :) Yes, my darling. I am so glad that we're married forever.

New Camera!!! Yay!

Horray! I Love my new camera!! In an effort to make sure that it was a quality and worth owning camera I had to test it out. First- take a picture of the fan on low. Result- nice and clear. Second- take a picture of the fan on high. Result- suprisingly nice and clear. Third- toss Belle (you all know Belle, I hope) into the air for a dual action shot. Result- highly successful! I started laughing so hard, that I took like 12 of these pictures. Here is the best of Belle, along with a little other pal that Nathaniel threw in there.

Another really cool feature of the camera: Nathaniel shakin' his groove thang.

Not for the faint at heart....

So! Now that said new camera is up and running, I managed to get off all of the other pictures that we had stored on our memory card! I warn you... Do not scroll down if you get squeamish at the sight of a recently operated on knee (which by the way, is healing slowly but surely).
Before: The before shot- after Nathaniel went to town on his knee with my venus razor. He was certain with his experience shaving his legs that he would be better qualified then the medical technician. I'm sure he was right- what a beautiful knee:

AFTER: Nathaniel still drugged up- Sweet wife, Felicity, gets to change the 'dressing' and take pictures.

Like a hole in my head...

Yes... I need a hole in our lovely painted ceiling like a hole in my head. Regardless of my needs, however, we have a hole in our ceiling. On Monday- in true Monday fashion- when Nathaniel walked in the door from work he was greeted by our dining room ceiling with a drip of water right down in front of him. While in some cultures, this could be a sign of good luck, such was not the case for our AC unit. The past months record breaking temperatures took their toll on our sweet AC unit and it froze over. Can you say "DANG IT"? We did!
Thankfully! We have a wonderfully talented friend named BJ and his very accomodating wife who promply came over to calm my husband while I was still at work and to blowdry away the ice. I'm really not sure if Nathaniel and I would have qualified to be homeowners without having the Mitchells as our friends. I'll try to work our camera and document this hole for all to see shortly!