Fall!!!!!!!

YAY! FALL! i love me some fall...i'm not sure if that is clear here.

Anywho, Sarah is in from the good old Dela-where, and we did some classic fall activities. We went camping the weekend of my bird-turd, and had some classic fun. I shall walk you through the photos.....

Simba loves a good trip to the cabin

Sarah and I also love a good trip to the cabin...this is our sexy hiking pose

Dan getting fancy with the camera

Quita looking fancy in front of Dan's grama's cabin in Alleghany

Dan let Sarah and i take turns splitting fire wood, old school style...Sarah got a little attached to the wood she split....

I didn't end up with a hole in my lip don't worry....

This is my sassy slice of wood

Dan let Sarah work on some target practice

A nice night by the fire....with only ouor second class of wine

Let's skip to Dan's 965th drink and when he found the caution tape

Sarah trying to perfect her s'more and make everything melty

Skip to Katie and Sarah's 544th drink and "walk like an egyptian" came on the radio and let the dancing commence

Still egyptian-ing

My special bird-turd cake....make with Diet Coke....SOOOO GOOD!!!!!

BLOW!

We returned to b-lo with some fabulous pumpkins from pumpkinville and i was a little punchy....please hold back your surprise

Pre-carved pumpkins

Post-carved pumpkins....Sarah did the horse, I did the sea turtle and Dan has the SCARYYYYY wolf face

This was a completely sober activity....tell me he is not the cutest piggy dog you have ever seen!

Ok kids thats it...Happy Fall!!!!! Can't wait til next year!!!! Turkey day here i come!

Anything Lou can do i can do better....

So as mikey described, Lou challenged my skills, so here it is loobers i hope i can keep my lebeshian title afloat!

I can do 50....."I'M 50!!!"

I think i even beat mikey....hmmmm...not sure this is a good thing

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

Medical
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive

Holy-get-your-tissues-batman

What a cool video...and the song is one of my all-time favorites....

I promise to stop...right after this...:)

SOOOO i'm getting married, i'm not sure if i mentioned that yet....I'm a dork and I made one of these just to keep all 5 of you who read my blog updated, if you so choose to be updated. :) Ok i promise to get back to my entertaining and ridiculously pointless blogs ASAP. Cut a girl some slack, just started fall semester....taking 20 credits. WEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Somebody's gettin' Married!!

I'm a little late on the posting of the engagment but it's a long one. I just wanted to make sure I got it right. :)

Ready.......GO!!!!

We were on vacation in Marble Head Ohio with Dan's family. On our first day there, Dan started the day off with a nice boat ride, we went and got a couples massage and were going to round out the evening with dinner at one of the local wineries. You would think after all this goodness I would have a clue. Nope...not even one.

We had dinner reservations at the winery 4pm (also should have been a clue, what are we 80 eating at 4pm?). We arrived at ten minutes to 4. Dan "decides" we should do wine tasting before dinner. Wine tasting in a matter of 10 minutes is not my idea of wine tasting but i humor him and go a long with the decision. Did i mention i was starving, because i was saving myself for a nice 4pm meal. We wine tasted in record speed. Why? #1 We had dinner reservations in 10 minutes, #2 I hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast and full blown wine tasting would have made me a stumbling moron and #3 I-was-STARVING!

I moved along the tasting and got us all wrapped up and ready to go in time for our dinner reservation. I decided i liked 3 of the wines we tasted and purchased them. The nice man behind the desk told me i couldn't take my bottles into the dining room. Merrrrrrr....fine. I moved things right a long and grabbed Dan's keys and took the wine out to the car.

Meanwhile.....Dan and John (guy who worked there) took this opportunity to run down to the wine cellar and set up the champagne and video camera for the proposal.

I return to the restaurant lobby to find Dan and John coming out from the staff only area...clue #2 i failed to pick up on. John proceeds to tell me that our table was not ready yet and if we were interested we could go on a short wine tour. Cue me looking into their dining room and seeing every...single....table....OPEN. At this point I am not thinking that this is a shady situation...i was thinking....THERE IS NO ONE IN THERE WHY CAN'T WE EAT NOW. I am one classy broad who apparently can think of nothing else but food. Awsome.

Needless to say I agreed to the tour. John led us into the kitchen past the staff bathrooms and down a sketchy set of basement stairs. Where in God's name are we GOING! John leads us into a storage room...a STORAGE room...and claims he forgot his "tour script". Again...i'm still not seeing the shadiness...i'm just annoyed we now have to wait longer to eat. (i think i need a support group) :)

Dan and I wander into the next room, which by the way is beautiful. It is a huge room with stone walls and an incredible stone ceiling. The lighting was low and romantic and guess what I still didn't get it. I wandered over to what looked to be a well in the ground with pretty lighting around it. I look down and there are amazing racks full of ancient wine bottles. Very cool. I was completely oblivious to the table 6 ft from me with champagne, candles and champagne flutes. OBLIVIOUS. Dan clearly had enough of me being oblivous and pointed out the table to me. I did not give it a second thought and assumed it was set up for an event later or was just part of the tour. Dan requests I take a closer look at the table. I humor him....and my eyes stumble upon the champagne flutes....

There it was plain as day, "Katie and Dan - August 3, 2008"

**Click**

In my confused daze i turn to Dan who is already on his knee reaching for the ring in his pocket. I remember looking at him and i remember him trying to put the ring on my finger, but i heard not a word he said....that voice in my head again. "HE'S ASKING YOU TO MARRY HIM!!!!!" The best part...Dan doesn't remember what he said either. I do remember saying yes, and i remember chugging the glass of champagne Dan handed me. I cried my face off and cursed Dan when he told me he was getting it all on film. We ventured up to the dining room and guess what....i wasn't hungry anymore. :)

Here's the video if you choose to see my obliviousness and my blubbering. WEE!!!
Feel free to fast forward the empty room from 1:45-3:40. It was a very echoy room so you can't really hear too much but there are a few choice things you can hear. Fun stuff!!!



PS....Dan has been planning this since Februrary. He may or may not be my favorite person. :)

Because i can't wait til i get home on sunday...

Dan proposed.....

and

I

SAID

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are currently on vacation and won't be back til next week...stay tuned for the full story!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! :)

Just cause...

cause i don't think i've posted pics of us before....shame on me!

schmoo

Happy Two SCHMOOO!!!!!!

Who doesn't need it?!

Need HELP? Are you BORED?

I've got just the thing...

i don't know how i find this shit!

Working is haaaard....

We take oil spills very seriously...NO FUN!!!!! :)

It's going to be a long week

I have a long week ahead of me....this is going to be me everyday....

PS i love these guys...they are hilarious.

spelling bee champ

When i was in 8th grade i qulified to be in the school spelling bee. Wanna know what word i got out on..."monsoon". I never said i was all that bright...i again have displayed my efficiency for spelling. I paid Annie for one of our split utilities...merrrrr.


"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

"Petaling" for a Purpose

Ok so no Dan will not be putting on a tutu and carrying a little wand but he WILL be Riding for Roswell on June 28th. He and a few of his family members will be riding for an incredible cause. AND yes i wrote "petaling", their logo is a bike with a big flowers where the spokes go with a name of someone who has fought for their life on each "petal", pretty cool. Check out his blog and his "Petaling for a Purpose" page and throw him a few bucks if you can...it will be well worth it...i promise!!!!

Summer is soooo close!

Maybe it'll get higher than 70 soon...I think it has to be in order to legally enter the month of June. :)

i spoke too soon

I finished the spring semester with a 4.0, and damn i was excited. Excited to be done with the semester from hell, excited to have done well, excited to start a much calmer summer. This summer i will only be taking 4 classes over the course of two sessions. 2 in the first session and 2 in the second which is a huge break from the 7 i took in the spring semester. I knew it was going to be a little bit of juggling with work and school but i wasn't worried..i have been through much worse.

Well.....i had my first class today. For tomorrow i have to read 100 pgs and do a 5 page paper.

Summer was nice while it lasted. :)

Happy Schmoo-ughts

Thinking of schmoo today...she is a little under the weather. She's a trooper though!!!

Mike and i are trying to teach maeve how cool it is to stick things in your nose....she's getting there but we haven't quite mastered it yet.

We started small with spoons....

We are shooting for excellence here!!

Little ones!!!

Tis the season to be pregnant apparently!! This is one of many well wishes i will be sending over the next couple of months, but i must say this one is an adorable one. Dan's sister and her husband had their first baby on saturday morning. Karah Grace is b-e-a-utiful and doing well. Check out some more adorable pics of baby and mom over on Dan's site and stay tuned for more to come for sure. There are a lot of babies on the way!!!!!!! I can't wait!! :)

Welcome Karah!

Congrats Kelly and Mike...you done good!!!!!!!

Waiting....

I'm hanging out at Millard Gates today while Dan has his surgery. Back surgery that is. I don't envy him one bit, but my stay here at the hospital has been made a little nicer when i turned on my laptop (cause why would i leave home without it) and found Gates has free wifi. God bless America i say. So here i sit. I will give a healthy update when all is said and done. Peace out kiddies. Maybe i'll take a nap since we had to be here at 6am. Merrrrrrrrrrrr.

"Happiness is Lake Erie"

I was so productive recently i can't even stand it. I live in an incredible that is ENORMOUS in size with exception of the bedrooms and i have A LOT of stuff. Needless to say i have a lot of things to fit in a little room. This past week i have had enough. I moved my bedroom furniture around to be alittle more space conscious. That helped. Then i decided i needed to also clean out my closet and dressers. I had a VERY hard time deciding what to get rid of..but i knew i HAD to get rid of something. I made up some criteria.

Throw away/give to goodwill if:

- it has not been worn in over a year

- i realisitcally will not fit into it again

- there are holes in it

- If it belonged to someone else i would make fun of them

So given those criteria, i filled 5 garbage bags to the brim and another bag with 11 pairs of shoes. 'Funnily' enough the point of this post was not to discuss the amount of crap clothes i got rid of. It was supposed to be about the incredibely hard decision i had to make today.

I was faced with getting rid of some of my favorite funny t-shirts. It was time to say goodbye to the oldies and make room for some hilarious new ones that i have aquired.

So please.....a moment of silence for:

"Ewe's not fat, ewe's fluffy"

"Happiness is Lake Erie"

"Somebirdy loves you"

"Diet Coke; because i love it, not because i need it"

And some of the newbies I have welcomed:

"in case of an emergency, breakdance"

"Sublimi'mawesomeinal"

"Haikus are easy;sometimes the don't make sense;refridgerator"

"Let's hug it out"

Soooo there you have it...change is good right? right. Tomorrow i will say my final goodbye when i drop everything off at the Goodwill. So if you see someone around with a worn green shirt that says "Happiness is Lake Erie" think of me...and if your ballsy ask them where they got it. :)

TV topics

I love TV. I love everything about TV. There are not many shows on that i cannot watch. I do not descriminate between the scripted and nonscripted varieties. They both have their ups and downs. I would keep you all here for days and days and days if i listed all of the shows that tickled my interest. There are far too many. Instead i am going to show you how my all time favorite show relates to my life. "Friends" by far is my all time favorite show. I have seen every episode at least 3 times. It is one of those shows that i may or may not know most of the dialogue for. I use annoying lines from the show often that people don't understand. I am THAT girl. See below for just a snipit of how this tv show relates to my life. If you do not know me that well you will now know something that i feel very strongly about. Enjoy!!!

See you all tomorrow for my last bopofomofosho post...WEEEEE!!!!!