Easter Eve

I really need to try and be semi regular about this whole blog thing. But there really hasn't been much to blog about to be honest. We're mostly unpacked I think. Haven't touched the garage yet since there are a million boxes in there, but I really do need to find the hammer and nails so I can hang up pictures and really make it feel like home now. I do love our little living room though. While it's tiny in comparison to our living room before which was probably 4x the size as our living room now-it's "cozy" I guess you would say. But having the large kitchen and den makes up for the lack of space. I guess if we didn't have a ginormous sectional, it would seem so much bigger but I wouldn't trade this couch for anything! Other than not having pictures on the walls, the living room is finally complete. I really love that there are nooooooooooooooo video games in here! Those are in the den and they will stay in the den. We usually lay around on the rug in the living room and read, watch tv or play on the computers.

Ah, I know what I can mention! I have been here for 18 days now and today it rained finally! The other day I saw a couple (and I literally mean like TWO) drops of water fall on my windshield, but today it actually rained enough to get the patio wet. The pigeons were beside themselves excited and ventured out into the middle of the yard to take a shower. Of course it started raining right as we were about to drive through the mountains to get to the outlets. But it wasn't too bad. It stopped raining before we got to the other side. The wind was more of an obstacle than anything (as usual). It was only about a 15 minute drive to the outlets from our house which is awesome. Beats an hour like before anyday. They have an awesome selection of stores. I know where I'll be doing all of my clothes shopping for now on! Of course they also have two kitchen stores which will be the death of me. I picked up a food grinder for my stand mixer along with the pasta discs to go with it and I'm super excited about that. I really think John's a closet kitchen fanatic. He's been watching quite a bit of food network with me lately and even leaving it on there after I tell him he can change the channel. Hmmmm, suspicious no? Oh and I should also mention how he was eyeballing one of those vintage looking milkshake makers today in the store. So I am no longer the only kitchen appliance fiend in this house since it is sitting proudly on the counter now lol. I was a little disappointed that neither store seemed to carry the Le Creuset dutch ovens, but I did see some at Marshalls last week so maybe I'll venture back that way one of these days when I can justify spending that much for a kitchen pot. Although....someone does have a birthday coming up. Hmmmmmm.

Anyways, I've been toying with the idea of going to culinary school. I am certain that I want to go back to school. That much I know. But everything seems so boring to me and nothing I could really see myself wanting to do on a daily basis. I'm not the office type. Sure I could probably do some computer science major and do well at it, but eh. Too mundane and I am sure I'd end up hating going to work on a daily basis. I like to cook, I like to try new things in the kitchen and I'd like to really learn how to be better at it. I think the only thing keeping me from just going for it is fear of failure. I have a little bit longer to really think it over, but I need to just do it. I know I want to, so the rest will just have to fall into place I guess. Not to mention that the school is like oh....five minutes up the street from me.

John is really enjoying his new job so far. He hasn't really gotten to do much yet since the 2nd day he was actually in his unit-they said "Okay, keep your cell phone turned on-we're on call for the next nine days" John was of course a little confused at first and said "soooo tomorrow we do what?" and they said "stay home, dont' come in unless we call you". So my week was all mixed up with me thinking every day was a weekend since he was home most of the week. He went in on Friday to do a range and was home by lunch. It makes me happy that he is actually enjoying what he does. I am sure he enjoyed it before in its own way, but there's alot of crap that comes with being in a large unit like he was in. Now, his entire battaltion is the size of his old platoon. he came home the other day and said "I have to go to Mississippi in the summer" and here i'm thinking he'll be gone for a month and a half or longer like his last TDY and when I asked him how long-two weeks. Hahahaha, I really did laugh out loud when he told me that. Two weeks is NOTHING. I suppose it's sad that I think that way but look at the last six and a half years. Two weeks isn't even a drop in the bucket.

So I guess that's about it. Both of these boys have passed out on the couch so we need to get Chance up in bed before the Easter Bunny makes an appearance. I'll post a couple of pics from today when we drove out to the outlets.

In this one, you can see the dust storm off in the distance.




And when I say we had to drive *through* the mountains to get to the outlets-I meant that in a literal sense. I love that they had the areas where you could pull off of the loop to look over the city and take photos. They even have bike lanes but I would be too scared to ride a bike there after seeing the way some of those whackjobs were driving!





I can't do a post and not include a few pics of our feathered friends.
Here they are today enjoying the shower.


Okay this. Lol. This scared the ever living crap out of me. John was going somewhere...maybe to pick up something at the store, I can't remember. I just know he was standing right outside the door, and me half inside and half out talking to him. We had been talking for a minute when I happened to look up not even a foot away from me-there was this guy just sitting there. It had been there the entire time we had been talking and didn't seem to care that we were standing there. At first I wondered if it was dead or stuck since it wasn't moving but then it turned and looked at me as if to say "what's up?" or I should say "Que pasa?" here in this neck of the woods. Then after it looked at me, it went right back to what it was doing before. It wasn't even phased when I started snapping pics of it.



Happy Easter!