Love the One you're With!

I hope everyone is having a GREAT Valentine's Day! Trent and I have had a very relaxing day so far! We slept in this morning, which was very nice, because last week seemed like a really looooong week. Then we made our new Saturday morning ritual of: eggs, bacon, and blueberry muffins. Yum! We are trying out different blueberry muffins until we find our favorite one to stick with!
This year we gave ourselves a $20 limit for Valentine's Day. We like to buy gifts for each other and always tend to overspend. However, we are trying to save up for a new fence, so we decided to keep the spending to a minimum.
I had seen these brownies on a fellow blogger's site and told Trent that I would like to try them sometime, so he surprised me with Fat Witch brownies this week! They were very yummy! You might think I'm weird, but the breakfast brownie was my favorite one. It was toooo good!

And I got Trent this gray salt that he's been wanting. He used it when he was in culinary school and loves cooking with it. I'm excited for him to make me up some dishes!

Needless to say...we got both love our V-day gifts and we did a good job staying in our budget! (Last year he surprised me with a Garmin navigation system!) However, we do have plans to go see a movie today and pick up some steaks from the Fresh Market!

Happy Birthday Brother!

Today is Elvis' 2nd Birthday!!!!!!!! Trent calls Elvis "Brother" ( I think it has to do with a fascination for a certain wrestler), but I like to call Elvis "Buddy". Poor dog he is probably so confused...Anyway our little king turned two today! I wonder if he has an enternal clock that made him feel older today!?!
A day in the life of Elvis: Wake up 6:00 a.m., daddy drags me outside because I don't want to go but I really have to use the bathroom, start barking at whatever I can, rest for a little while longer, eat a little, dig a little, find something to chew on, bark a little more, dig a little more, eat a little more, wait till mom and dad get home, bark for them to let me in the house, get in my kennel, take all the stuffing out of my bed, chew up whatever they give me, play with daddy, let daddy rub my tummy, go back to kennel and go to sleep!

We love you Elvis-and Prissy does too!

Elvis at Village Creak swimming, his favorite past time!

Our baby right after we got him.

He looks so young here!

Mother Nature 2009

Yesterday Trent and I went up to my aunt and uncle's house in the very corner of Northeast Arkansas to help get some things out of their house. Their town was hit pretty bad by the ice storm last week, and as of right now they are saying it might be a month before some of the residents get power back. The devastation in that area is unreal. I have never seen that kind of damage from an ice storm. It looks like a tornado went through the town. The President has even declared it a disaster area. As we were driving up there we had to dodge high line wires and poles laying in the road, along with trees. Some streets you couldn't even go down because trees were laying across them. It will take a long time to clean up all the damage and recover. Please keep everyone that was affected by the ice storm in your prayers.

Snow Day!!!

Yea!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could say we got to sleep in, but for some reason I couldn't go back to sleep. Does that mean I'm getting old?!?..Although, somehow my husband was able to catch a few more hours of zzzzzzzzz's.

Today could have been a really productive day, but it hasn't been. We have done a whole lot of nothing, but I guess that's what snow days are for. And no work for us tomorrow either...My father is having surgery tomorrow. Evidently his scar tissue has grown from a heart attack he had when he was 39, and now he is having to get a defibulator for an irregular heart beat. The doctor described it as an insurance policy to shock his heart into beating, in case it stops. So if you read this, please keep us in your prayers. I'm sure everything is going to go fine!

Lots of Diapers

Evidently I have a new hobby...diaper wreaths and cakes. And they're kind of fun to make. It's somewhat of a stress relief for my tiny bit of OCD:). The pictures below are two projects of love for two special teachers at school. It seems like every week, if not every day, someone I know becomes pregnant. So...If you are a friend of mine with a little one on the way, look out because a diaper wreath/or cake might be coming your way!

For baby Madden

For baby Camilla

*If I can find the pics of baby Dane's, I will post those later.

Where are you Christmas?

I'm finally able to post some pics of Christmas 2008!!! And, oh how I wish we were still on Christmas break! I think I needed just one more week to re-group, but I realize we still get more that what most people get, since we both work for schools. And we should just be thankful that we both have jobs right now, with the way the economy the way it is.
I guess we had a relaxing Christmas break, but it also seems like we were busy. First, we had my mom's side get together at my uncle's. Hopefully, I can get some pics from that posted. We always have a good time when we are all together-which is getting to be less often, now that my grandparents are both passed away. Then we did our Christmas Eve ritual of going to eat at Texas de Brazil and opening presents with my parents. We usually go see a movie Christmas Eve, but the movie we wanted to see, Marley and Me, did not come out till Christmas day....As usual, we went OVERBOARD with presents. We all vowed to not buy presents next year and just take a trip somewhere-which sounds like a great plan!..Christmas day, we woke up a cooked breakfast and played with Trent's new Wii. Then we had some family friends come over and share the wonderful meal Trent and my mother prepared. (I'm not allowed in the kitchen unless it is to clean or bake.) After we ate, everyone played Wii AGAIN and then we went to see Marley and Me, finally.
We missed Trent's side this year at Christmas. However, we were able to celebrate with them earlier. We usually travel out to Colorado a day or two after Christmas and stay through the New Year, but this year we decided not to travel. We always enjoy seeing the kids open up their big present.
Here are a few random pics from our Christmas...

This is the wreath that I made...I think the week before Christmas.

A family friend participating in Wii bowling.
*Side note: I can kick Trent's butt at bowling and boxing, the latter of which I am very proud of.

Trent and my mother preparing beef tenderloin...yummy!

Prissy sitting on her throne.

Just the top of our 10 feet tall Christmas tree.

Our Santa collection with our custom stockings-THANKS to Mrs. Joanne.

My attempt at being creative in our breakfast room.

I think Trent's favorite present and ONLY surprise, and autographed pic of McFadden.

Sweet Prissy thinking, you guys are NUTTS!

I did not get a pic of Elvis while we were opening presents. If he is in the house, then he is in his kennel. I'll try to be better next year. However, I do have to share. Elvis received some stuffed animals from Santa, and one poor animal was gone in less than 30 minutes! One minute it's whole...the next minute it looks like road kill! Crazy dog...gotta love him!

Up and Running!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, I'm back to blogging....We've had computer problems for, I don't know...the past TWO months. So we ended up having to buy a new computer, and now it looks like we are going to have to get a new printer. For some reason the TWO printers in our house right now are not compatible with our new computer-which I love! It has a 24" screen, so it makes everything look ginormous!
I'm tired from trying to revamp our blog; so, hopefully, tomorrow I will get around to posting some pics from the last TWO months. Also, we are trying out our new blog name, "Hanging with the Haynes". We will see if it sticks!?!