Entry 375: Sticks

The weather has been gorgeous lately, so we have been starting a fire and sitting by it almost every night. We have quite a few logs, but not as many sticks as we would like. Julie has taken it upon herself to notice that the yards around us have quite a few sticks in them and she wants to go over and grab them. Lance has been explaining to her that we need to ask first, so Julie has been patient enough to wait for Lance to ask. It looks like Lance is going to get to know his neighbors pretty well.

Entry 374: Guess Who Likes The Weather

Yes you guessed it, Bobby loves this weather. When Lance leaves to pick up Julie, Bobby runs out the door and jumps into the car. Once we get to the bus stop Lance will roll down all the windows and Bobby is in heaven sticking his head out the window. This picture is Bobby waiting to pick up Julie.

Entry 373: Door To Door

A little over a year ago we were introduced to Door To Door organics by our friend Susan. Door To Door is awesome because every 2 weeks (we could have gotten it every week, but decided on every other week) you get fresh vegetables and fruit delivered straight to your door. It is like Christmas when you get home and see that box of vegetables and fruit waiting for you on the doorstep. Here is an example of what we got this week:

- 2 Yams
- 3 Fuji Apples
- 2 Braeburn Apples
- 2 Cara Cara Navel Oranges
- 1 Champagne Mango
- 6 Red Potatoes
- 2 Bananas
- 1 Cherry Tomato
- 7 Kiwi's

If you haven't tried Door To Door, you absolutely should.

Entry 372: Barbecue-a-thon

The weather was absolutely gorgeous today, so as we were sitting outside Julie turned to Lance and said she wanted to grill something. Lance asked her what and she didn't really know, so we decided to have a barbecue-a-thon. As you can see below we ended up grilling hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken legs. We love the spring weather and hope it stays that way.

Entry 371: A "Crappy" Day

Today we went to Pennys to do a little shopping for Cooper. We got to the newborn section when Julie tapped Lance on the shoulder and asked him if he farted. Lance said no and anyone that knows Lance will tell you that he is always brutally honest when someone asks him if he farted. Throughout our entire time in the newborn section we continued to smell something foul. When we finally made all of our purchases and walked to checkout we found what was causing the odor; a big pile of poop. That's right there was a big pile of poop in the center of the aisle and poop footprints all over the carpet. Once we vomited in our mouths, Lance went and told someone who called to have it cleaned up because the people who did this didn't tell anyone.

This leads us to the following question: if your child poops in the store and it gets on the carpet don't you tell someone? You would think it would be common courtesy to inform the store or maybe they just thought it was funny. We are here to tell those people that there is nothing funny about poop (especially in a store).

Entry 370: A New Addition

Today Julie's sister Carol had her baby. It was 21 inches long and weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces. Welcome to the family Cooper Joseph.

Entry 369: "New" Neighbors

When Lance bought our house it was in a well established neighborhood which is also part of the reason Lance fell in love with it. Unfortunately it was also an older neighborhood which meant as time went on many of the people on the street either passed on or went to a retirement facility. The problem is that most of the houses were then bought at a pretty good price and have been rented out. We have had good luck with most of the renters around us, but the house across the street is always filled with some interesting people. We had some new renters move in across the street a little over a month ago and as you can see from the picture below you could call them interesting. The trailer you see below has been there since they moved in and everything in it has been snowed and rained on (my favorite are the mattresses with the brown stains on them).



This leads us to today's story. We have only seen them once since they have moved in and they are an older couple with three other people (not including the baby) living there. This morning at 6:30 when we were getting in the car to go to the bus stop, we heard a lot of yelling. Lance turned around to see what was going on and in the front yard the older lady was yelling at a girl. They were both in their pajamas just screaming their heads off while the younger girl was holding a cat. Lance pointed this out to Julie who just shook her head while Lance laughed. Julie has officially told Lance that he cannot go over and try to make friends with them.