OMG Spiderman!!!

Okay, so I am officially a bad blogger. Sorry. I sometimes find, as mentioned before, that I have a pretty boring life. Update on work out plan. I have gone ONCE to the gym. I am proud that I went that day but desperately need to go back.

Well you are probably thinking, what's up with this title? Well, let me just enlighten you dear friend. Ben and I have been wanting to do some landscaping around the house before the weeds eat us alive, so we go outside this afternoon to measure for the landscaping fabric and rubber mulch. Much to our surprise we found that we have some icky house guests. I am under the cantilever at the front of the house with one end of the measuring tape and see....a black widow. I was freaking out. So I called Ben over to see this horrible spider and its nest. As I am backing away, losing the mark to measure from, I see this HUGE web at the corner of our house with a gigantic black spider with yellow on its back. This thing is almost 2 inches long. Ben is heading in the garage to find something to kill it with and I am like, wait I have to get my camera to capture this beast, no one will believe us. I take some pics, Ben wacks it a couple of times, and splat, its dead. YAY. Well, he had tried to kill the black widow prior to me unleashing the camera, so no pics. The spider went back in the nest, but I did get some pics of my hero taking out that nest. So spider saga is over....so we think. Ben goes back to remeasure the flower bed because his dingy wife lost the spot to measure from and sees more spiders. There were like 13 Grand daddy long legs. We left those, we aren't scared of no grand daddy long legs. So, we get all the measurements that we need and I head to the computer to look up this crazy big spider we found. If you already know what this gigantic black and yellow spider is, please don't be too harsh. To the others of you out there like Ben and me, this is a completely harmless garden spider. Everything I read said, "DO NOT KILL." Uh, too late. If we do see one again, we will follow recommedations to remove the web to force it to move to another spot. (Well, that is what we say now.)

So, just to freak everyone out and make your skin crawl like mine, I have the pictures of these icky things and my super duper spider killing machine.

Hope I didn't freak you out to much. Talk to you guys soon!!!

Its a Pretty Boring Life I Live

Alright, so my life is pretty boring. Right now Ben and I really want to get in shape and lose some weight however our motivation to do so is barely there. A couple of months ago some girls at work convienced me to purchase P90X, bad idea. The test you do to decide if you can start the program almost killed us. But we decided to go ahead and try it out anyways. Well, I wish someone could have recorded that. It was pretty funny. We haven't arranged an area in the basement to workout yet, so we moved the cocktail table in the LR, threw down our yoga mats and started the DVD. After 10mins of us rolling on top of each other doing banana/superman moves, the most rediculous lounges (I had 2 8lb weights and Tony Horton "Mr. Fitness" with his 2 10lb weights), and push ups that don't even make since, I was DONE!!! Ben continued on for a couple more minutes, then we decided a gym membership is more our style. He wants to get into shape to be able to do P90X. We are SAD. So last Thursday we go and get a membership at the YMCA. You may be wondering how that is going. Well, we discuss going A LOT, but again with the motivation thing. Needless to say, we are pretty lazy when it comes to physical fitness.

So I had to work this weekend and it was so beautiful. I was pretty bummed, but it was easy money. Slow days in the NICU = sitting on your butt and getting paid. Today when I got home from work I played with my babies since it was still so nice out there. Max has this green ball that we have replaced 3 times. He loves this ball for some reason. The other day when I brought his new one home from Petsmart, he would not bring it near me (I guess he thinks since I threw the other 2 over the fence and unable to find them, I am not capable of playing with him). Thank goodness he came back around. In our backyard, we have a cross fence separating them from us all behind a privacy fence. So when he wants to play ball, especially the past couple of days, he drops his ball through the fence and whines and barks until I come out to throw it. He had me out there all afternoon. He is so silly. Bruno of course decided he wanted to play too so I would throw him the ball to catch in the air and then he terrorizes Max by keeping it in his mouth and running back and forth in front of us. Meanwhile my sweet Phoebe just wants to give kisses. They are so much fun. I hope our kids are as cool as the doggies are. So as you can tell my dogs truly are the center of my universe, and they know it.

Alright, well, I told you I have a pretty boring life. Couple more of these and you will agree I'm sure. Anywho, I will try my best to blog every couple of days, but again my life is not exciting at all so I may be at a lost for words at times. I hope you all have a good week. Talk to you in a couple of days.

A Little Introduction

Hello, visitors. Welcome to our blog. I am new at this, but I wanted something new to do, and I feel like there is a lot on my mind all the time. So many friends know what is going on in our world right now, but unfortunately I am not comfortable talking about it on here just yet. Maybe in the near future :) So anywho, I think a little intro is due for our very important kiddos. These rotten guys are my world. Ben will tell you, they tend to rank higher than he does with me, and you guys know how much I adore him. Okay, I am going to stop rambling for a moment and get to some pics.

This is our sweet Phoebe. She is our oldest and the only one who chose us.

Bruno is such a momma's boy. He is the largest but last in command.

Max is an interesting breed, Shar pei/Shih tzu. He is the dominant doggie.

More intros to come. I am just trying to figure this thing out right now. TTYS.