Morning

I woke up this morning to Gabe telling me...

"You better hurry, Edward is in trouble, you need to go to Italy immediately to save him.

Then head to Russia where the 'babbagoushkas', the russion version of the volturri are waiting for him."


Then he kissed my feet.

Is he weird or what? I'm weird too.

Then this reminded me that my new moon dvd is still in moving limbo. Where are you?

The movie was hands down my favorite in the series. Go see it. Right now.

Letter from a fan

Dear Robert Pattinson,
 My husband will give me a look when he reads this. Just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed Remember Me. A lot. Wanna know something else, I cannot wait to see Eclipse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Taylor Lautner,
 You should date Dakota Fanning, just a thought. I have always been on team Jacob (nobody hate)

Dear Indianola movie theater,
 Please don't be icky

Dear Popcorn and Diet Coke,
 I will not buy you for $15, no matter HOW GOOD YOU SMELL! But maybe if you are like at a discounted rate, I might consider.

Dear Gabe,
 I won't be gone too long. K? Wuv you!

courtesy


Dear New Moon DVD,
 Can you please reappear, pronto!

Love,
Twilight Fan

Post Edit: I am now realizing that Dakota Fanning just finished her junior year of high school. Taylor, maybe I'm giving this a second thought. I wouldn't do it.

Courtyard Hounds

We are up and I am already dreaming about bedtime. Tonight we are going to bed super early due to a early wake up time the next day. We are making a day trip for an audition for Gabe. So, hope all goes well. I'll give you more details later.


I'm kind of obsessed with "The Courtyard Hounds" right now. Martie and Emily from the "Dixie Chicks" have formed a new band sans Natalie and their new album is amazing. Once you get used to the new sounds, you will fall in love, promise.

I love when they talk about the connection they have as sisters and how it's so easy to make music together.

My favorite song is the first track called, Skyline

 

What am i doin' here 

In such a lonely place?

Birds fly below

I'm high up in my cage

Wide awake again

Or am i dreamin'?

Trains passing by

World's spinning 'round my head

Then i heard a sweet voice cry

Telling me yeah it's gonna be alright

I just look at the skyline

A million lights are lookin' back at me

And when they shine

I see a place i know i'll find some peace

I obviously relate to being somewhere different but at the same time the song is upbeat and a good reminder that we are exactly where we are supposed to be...and everything will be alright.

Happy Sunday!

I LOVE the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore I will call upon him as long as I live.

Psalm 116:1-2

The Zoo

We ventured off to the Des Moines Zoo a few days ago. It was HOT! Not Florida or Texas hot, but nonetheless. We loved it! We are members for the Houston zoo, so we got in for free. Yipee. Oh my gracious, guess which animal we happened to see first? Not one, but two red pandas. Gabe was obsessed with the one in Houston. It looks more like a racoon, than anything. But Gabe remains fascinated.

Here he is on front of the exhibit for the red panda in Houston. This picture always makes me laugh. He looks like he is going to implode with excitement, but wants to remain a casual adult. The panda is in the tree.

Back to the Des Moines zoo. It was amazing, smaller than Houston but I dare say better. There were areas where you simple opened up a gate and walked into the exhibits or "cages" and just stayed on the sidewalk and the animals roamed free, even on the sidewalks sometimes.

Peacocks

wallaby

This was soooo neat! They aren't skiddish at all.

The giraffes were my favorite. They have feeding times too where you can get really close, but we missed it. I told Gabe we should go back again just to feed them.

I just love looking at their necks. The fur is so amazing!

Here are a few more pics. Too many to share!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Healthy Marriage

Gabe-isms

1. A couple days ago we were both huddled around the computer (primary source of entertainment) and Gabe was exiting out of the internet screen. Our program asks again to make sure you are really done looking at the screen before it exits and Gabe was just staring at it. I sat there for a few seconds and finally said, "what are you doing? It's asking a simple question." To which he replied "Oh, sorry I was finishing up a song in my head."

2. He woke up a few nights ago, rolled over and said "Boobsicle" I laughed out loud at 2am. Boobsicle. Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

(I hope he doesn't make me shut down this whole operation)

3. That same night I actually heard him singing in his sleep. Singing. It was unrecognizable, but defintely some type of song.

4. Hi honey, what did you have for lunch today? (They give them meals here) Oh I ate a salad, so that was healthy, then I had a bacon cheeseburger, pizza, pasta, broccoli and cheese, chicken sandwich, tater tots, carrots, and a root beer float.

Oh, okay, glad you started out healthy.

Just to be fair, I let him embarass me too

Christina-isms

1. I came home and told Christina that I needed to take my shirt off for a scene, to which she quickly replied, "Oh, you better do some push ups."

2. I come home with a diet coke as a generous gesture for my "diet coke obsessed" wife and instead of thanking me she quickly asked what's the "diet coke to ice" ratio, how long had the ice been melting, is it from a fountain.

3. (Night routine for Christina)
    10:00pm "snuggle me"
    11:00 "snuggle me"
    12:00 "GABE, SNUGGLE ME"
    1:00am "snuggle me uuuuhhhhhhh..."
    2:00 "uuhhhhhh thunder,..... snuggle me"
    3:00 "I dropped my pillow on the floor, uuuhhhh snuggle me"
    5:00 "you're singing in your sleep again, snuggle me"
    8:00 "how come you never snuggle me?"

4. A typical conversation with my wife...
  (G)  "Can you hand me the pickles? (silence for 5 seconds)
           Christina, can you hand me the pickles? (10 seconds)
           Hey honey can you hand me the pickles? (20 seconds)
           CHRISTINA!"
   (C) "WHAT! WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME?"
   (G) "I asked you for the pickles, THREE TIMES"
   (C) "Oh, well you could have just gotten them yourself"


   Man, we laughed so hard over this post. As many of you know we have been together a long time and love each other very much, but it is really fun to point out the silly sometimes.

I think this might be a reoccuring post you will see from time to time. Gabe already had 15 more in his head.

New obsessions

                                                  
 Go here for the fun tutorial!  Trey and Lucy

A true labor of love. Took almost a week to finish. It's not perfect, but neither am I. I'm sure if make a few more it will get better, but overall, I think it's pretty cute.


Tonight I have been using photobucket to post these photos. I may be a convert. Picnik has always been
 a favorite for photo editing, but I think photobucket may be a bit more versatile. We'll see.

Want to follow me? I have ten followers. I'm not sure how important it is to have followers. I know I shouldn't base my self worth in followers but I know there are more than ten of you. Right??  I know it. I don't care if we don't know you. You can ride along on our adventure too. :) Go ahead press the follow button on the right.

Just in case you forgot, next Tuesday night I will be counting down the hours to see Eclipse. Will you be at the midnight showing? I found a few girls to go with. Gabe is on his knees with thanks.

Love,
Twilight fan

The balloon

Indianola is known for a hot air balloon festival held every summer. Sadly we will be leaving Iowa a few days before it starts. There is even a musuem that Gabe and I plan to peruse one of these days. I was on my way back from Des Moines when I spotted this off to my left...

Because I had nothing else to do, I decided to get closer and try and find it. So I went down a couple country roads and got pretty close. It was beautiful!

If you wanted to know how to reduce stress in your life I suggest the following

1. Quit your job

2. Follow your husband to Iowa

3. Craft/Sew

4. Follow hot air balloons down country roads

You won't have a ton of money but you'll have a job again soon and you'll know you're living your life to the fullest. Happy Monday! Didn't know I could really mean it until now.