What's Up

This has really been quite the busy week, I didn't think that is was going to be but life happens. Last weekend we went down to see Caleb and help him on his house, Yes it was my birthday and I was working like a mad dog but it was fine I had a good time. There is not such thing as a master bedroom and bathroom there that's for sure. We went out to Buca di Beppo and it was so delicious we ordered spagetti, A pizza, and cheese ravioli's. Everything was so good. Ben got an Ice Cream Cake and when they asked what color to write my name in he said pink. He knows me all to well, I would have went for pink or purple. We made some dinner and cookies on Sunday at Micah and Jennifers and then headed home.

Monday I worked and I so thought that I had to work on Tuesday too, but as I was getting up in the morning and thinking about it my schedule seemed off to me so I looked at my calendar and I had Tuesday off, I called work to make sure and hopped right back into bed. It was great to have a day off when I didn't expect it.

I ended up doing quite a few errands on Tuesday and got these from my mom.



All the typing that is on there is for my photography class, but the point of this was that on Wed and Thurs I canned! Jade, my friend from church, has been really bored and needed something to do so she wanted to can and looked it up on the internet bought a pressure cooker and started to do it. So, Wed we canned pears and Thursday my mom came over and helped us can nectarines. It is messy and sticky but alot of fun. Of course when my mom came out on Thursday she said well did you do this... or did you try this... This is what i have done... It all made sense but I only remember my mom doing some freezer jam when I was eight. I have no Idea what I am doing so it was great to hear her "Sage Wisdom" as she called it. What is so great about the jars though is that with the fruit in them they look so cool that I will probably put them on the top of my cupboards for storage and decoration.

Today Ben offically got the papers for the dogs and they are ours. I need to figure out how to call and get that chip switched though so they don't call the previous owner of them.

I really hope that all is well with everyone else. Type at you all later.
Anna

ShaZAM

At Jessica Sprague's blog today she posted about editing Photos in Photoshop. She does this quite regularly this one just interested me. So here are some before and after's for you viewing pleasure.

Here's Eden



David and Erin



Erin and me




I did quite a bit of editing on this one. Most of the stuff I had never done before, but it was fun and I LOVE how it turned out. I hope you do too Erin. I think you look beautiful.

Hope that everyone has a great weekend. It has been Miserably hot here, and with all of these forest fire around it looks foggy even at 7:30 at night. Way gross. Type at you all later.

Anna

Dogs...

Here's the story. Remember we went to the vet and got the chip read in the little one and the owner was notified but we haven't heard from them. Now we come to Friday. Ben opened the shed Friday night and forgot to close it (by the way they both didn't even flinch during the Fireworks and watched them with us). Saturday Morning we woke up to my kneeling garden pad being destroyed. I also had a 2lb box of Bone Meal (flower food) that I had only used a cup of and the box was destroyed. We didn't think much of it until Saturday night when the little dog started wigging out and couldn't walk straight. We took him in to the ER and nothing was really figured out they just said to watch him and make sure he stools. We think he ate the bone meal box all by himself since his stools have been white, but he seems pretty well back to normal.

Sunday we get a call from the ER saying they have contacted the owner and he should be contacting us. We learned that he had been in and out of the hospital for a month and his ex was to be watching them, they took them to her house in Sanger then to a Ranch where they escaped.

Monday we finally talked to the owner and didn't really seem interested in keeping the dogs the little one is chipped because he paid $3500 for him because of his pedigree and they are both Chocolate Labs and they are about 5 years old. Hopefully we will be able to soon get the paperwork for them from the owner so that we can re-register the chip in our name and get the other one chipped too.

I am pretty glad that we have spoken to the owner because that would have been worrying me if they really wanted the dogs and just hadn't found them yet. Hopefully everything will get resolved soon.

I am at work the next couple of days. Hope all is well with everyone. Type at you all later.

Anna

I am so not here

I really have not wanted to do anything but read and watch movies these past few weeks. I think I will be snapping out of it soon. At the very lastest Aug 4th. Things have been getting done around here but very slowly and when I am not glued to a book. So, this is just going to be a ramble of stuff.

The garden is growing even without me doing stuff to it. We need to change our watering system though we thing that the plants need more water. We have some tomatoes and I can see some corn ears starting to show. I guess I need to figure out when to pick the corn.

I am working tomorrow and so I won't be doing the family thing but we will be watching the fireworks that go off at the high school. last year it was fun to watch it from the backyard. You could even hear the music.

My photography class started on Mon and she has given us some tips on taking pics of them. So, we shall see how that turns out. This weeks lesson was shutter speed. I have to take some action shots. So, I will get Ben to do something tonight.

I have finally decided that when I start printing my scrapbook pages they will be 12x12 and I will have some pages in the album for the pictures that I didn't scrapbook, if I scrapbooked everything, nothing would be done. I guess I just need to start pringing them. It is a little duanting when I have quite a few pages completed and a ba-gillion more after that not done. I have to take it a few at a time, not looking at to whole picture is better.

Last night Ben and I went on a date. We went to dinner and a movie. The best part was it was from gift cards. For Christmas we had a Tahoe Joes gift card and a Visa gift card that we haven't used (I know, Why Not??) I finally remembered that we had them so we had a great dinner and we went and saw Wall-e. It was a good movie. I did think that it was a little erie what the storyline was, Earth being uninhabitable, everyone out on this space ship not knowing what was really going on, robot everywhere. A little weird. There was the happy ending of course, I won't spoil it for you though.

In case you were wondering last Friday Jade and I watched Sense and Sensibility, my copy came that day and since we were on the Jane Austen kick we watched it. It was great fun. Well, I think I am going to leave you now with a couple parting gifts though

What Your These Fireworks Say About You

You are focused, single minded, and intense. You don't let others see your intensity often, and when they do, they are quite surprised. You burn brightly, but you also burn steadily. You have the endurance to get the one thing you desire most.

The Fireworks Test

Type at you all later.
Anna