Mission Call

My parents received their mission call today, and they aren't doing a mission at all, but a vacation! They are going to Honolulu, Hawaii! We just set up their blog to share their adventures as they prepare for their mission, and throughout their mission. It is http://steveandmickeyrobbins.blogspot.com/

Marley Strikes Again!

This actually happened a few weeks ago, but I am just now blogging about it because it is no longer fresh in my mind (and heart) to where I want to kill Pig. Ahem. So, the DiRtY deed! Mark and I came home from church two Sunday's ago, and this is what we found, with a smiling Pig right in the middle of it! We don't know who actually did it, we are pretty sure that Polly did. We don't believe Ros to be innocent. If she didn't participate in the actual destruction, then she was probably encouraging Polly to do it, as she often does!

Polly and Ros greeting us, very pleased with themselves.

They still can't figure out why we aren't excited to see them.

The mess! I don’t know how a nylon ended up in the middle of it. Talented puppies!

You can see where her target was in the planter. It used to be a geranium that I had received several years ago from the branch for Mother's Day. I had taken such good care of it, so it had grown quite big.

One of the plants that we had recently potted that we managed to save from the wreckage.
The pile of mess that she created. Oh, and my toes.

What's left. The stick was the geranium.

My "geranium"

Our very own Marley

A month ago we went to see Marley and Me, and it was so funny!

After leaving the theater we realized why it was so funny to us, we have our very own Marley that we can't imagine living without. She is our Discount Dog. (We paid only $80 for her)

We got her because she was just so cute and playful. She had big floppy ears that we thought she would grow into.

She got along very well with Roslyn.

She was small, close to Roslyn's size. She loves to eat! She doesn't crawl around in her food, but she does hork it down, and then belches right after.

But then the mischief started....

...and as she has gotten bigger it has gotten worse.

She now picks on Roslyn, loves carrots (so much that she will go outside and pretend to use the bathroom to get one)...

...and is now always getting into stuff. She hasn't chewed through a door just yet, but she has almost chewed through the bars of the baby gate that keeps her in the kitchen. (The bittering agent didn't work)

The reason for the post today is because I looked over and she was laying on her blanket, eating one of my pansies. Not just one of the flowers, but she had pulled out the entire plant, and was sitting there eating it!

So, I just needed a reminder of why I love her so much , thus this journey down memory lane!

My bout of craftiness!

I have been feeling ambitious lately, and creating lots of things for myself. I have been looking for shorts to walk in that had pockets, and I have yet to find any. So, I found some shorts, and got some old fabric out and added pockets. So now when I go walking at the park with the dogs, I have somewhere to put my keys and my phone! They are kind of ugly, but very functional!

Before the pockets...

After the pockets! The color of the shorts didn't really change, I'm just not a very good photographer.

A couple of weeks ago I realized the reason my geranium, which I have had for a year now, was dying was because it needed more space. I also had some seeds that the utilities company sent us that I wanted to use. Well, I got carried away! I bought a large planter to put the geranium in, put my ivy in as well, and bought some pansies to go with it. Then I planted the seeds from the utilities company in the old pots of the Ivy and geranium. Not yet satisfied, we also got some lavender seeds, and a little seed starter. The Ivy and pansies aren't doing very well, though, because Pig keeps eating them. We do feed her, I swear!

Here are the pellets before we opened them up and planted the seeds.

Mark "planting" the lavender seeds. He just put them on the end of the pencil, and shoved them in the dirt. They were tiny seeds!

Here is my new planter!

Needless to say, my house will soon be overrun with plants. I need my own back yard!

Mark's Birthday Weekend!

So, Mark hit the big 27 on Saturday! Yea! We started the festivities on Friday and went to HuHot. A friend had mentioned that it was their favorite restaurant, so we decided to try it. It was pretty cool! We took pics with my phone, but I can't guarantee they will ever make it on here. Then Saturday we went to see Monsters vs. Aliens. Pretty funny movie, but not for kids. Mark's birthday dinner was at Chicago Pizza, which is one of his favorite restaurants. We were going to go to Texas Roadhouse, but it is fairly new and still a novelty, so the wait was over an hour long. He got a ton of presents, and loves all of them. His family gave him a bunch of tools, and so now he can't wait to use them. He now thinks he is a fix it man! I got him an HTC Touch Pro (from Craigslist, of course) and all the fixin's, but that doesn't compare to his tools! So here are some pics of his goodies!

Update: I sold my phone, and now I can't access the pictures. What a bummer!