Sunday, December 5, 2010

Kinda Gross

My one complaint about my new job:

 I love being a school counselor.  I really do.  I love everything but one about the whole situation.  
You see I have this lovely desk. 
 And a basket of bribery candy on the corner of my desk.
 Well one day I came in to find my crackers that were in this drawer had a few nibbles taken out of them.  How a creature got into this drawer to eat my crackers is beyond me (the drawer is usually closed).  So I threw them away immediately.
 A few weeks later I come to work to find a basket of candies that look like this:
 And scratch marks like this:
So I threw all the candy away and sterilized the basket as best as I could.  Now I lock my basket away at night in a cabinet that has no secret entry ways and have not had a problem since. But let me tell you, it was pretty traumatic. I sure hope my little office friends have gone away for good.  I never knew they were quite the sneaky little beasts and climb desks. I have learned my lesson. 

Picture Collage from the past 4 months

 We have not been good at blogging about all of our happenings so today I have decided to do one giant picture blog post with all the random pictures we have in our phones and cameras from the past few months or so.

Venita's 27th Birthday celebration @ Cheesecake Factory.  Delish!
 

 Yulia and Jeph were so kind as to dress me up in this festive birthday getup.
They had decorated the entire condo with balloons, and streamers, and all sorts of fun stuff.
(We had college day at Alta so I was sporting my Alma Mater sweatshirt.)
Puppy loved the boa and enjoyed wearing it around (I think he really liked tearing it apart, but we pretend he isn't so vicious. Boy does he need a hair cut in this picture - what a mangy looking mutt).



We love going to the Utah State Fair.  However, Jeph only took one picture to send to his neighbear Rachel. 

 Jeph takes creepy pictures of us sleeping.

Jeph has not had a hair cut since probably May or maybe June.  But with time, the long hair grew on us (more so on him, ha) and we didn't want to cut it off. The day came when it was too long but Venita was not brave enough to cut it so we went to our trusted friend Lacey to get a hair cut.  here are the before and after pics. It's a good thing we have his next appointment already set up for next month because he is going to need it. (Jeph is also modeling some of the fancy glasses they carry at the vision clinic. Unfortunately they don't look too bad).
 Random picture of Venita.  I'm not really sure.

 A long time ago in a much more miserable world, I worked in this building. 
 This was my lovely office. After two and a half years I finally gained a window just to leave a few months later, back to a windowless office.  But I sure enjoyed it while I could.


 This was my awesome officemate and highlight of my last few months. As you can see, it was always a party when Sherranda was around.


 One day I was ambitiously doing sit-ups and was joined by the little pupster, he just laid there looking at me confused. 

 My scary pirate face that was my costume for work.
 Puppy needing a hair cut:
 Because we are cheap, we cut puppy's hair.  He will only let us cut so much at a time before he gets bored, irritated, and scared.  This is as far as I got one day and he walked around looking lioness for the next week or so until I found time to finish the job. 
 And when I finished, he looked much better (don't mind his nasty bone that is sometimes mistaken for something much less pleasant)

 Puppy enjoying a ride with his pa.
 We puppy sat one weekend for my brother.  Co6aka loved having Chaco over, but I think by the end Chaco was so sick of puppy bothering him so much.  But he was a good sport most of the time and it was a nice break for us.
 Jeph caught this at the DMB show in SLC.  He was pretty excited to have a Carter Beauford drum stick.  The advantages of front row.
 
 Because I have finished my major classes, I have had a little extra time on my hands.  Besides reading a few books for fun, I have become a little crafty.  These are a few things I made for my friend's baby shower.  I was pretty impressed with myself since I am not a crafty person.
 Again my attempts at craftiness.  While the boys were watching football over Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to try to make a headband out of some scraps from my grandma's house.  And this is what I made:

And that is some of what we have been up to the last four months.