We're Going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo...How About You, You, You?

Last Friday, Jen and I took a little trip to the Zoo with Junior! He loved the Zoo! You can definitely see how as children get older they enjoy things more and more. his favorite animals were the monkeys....and....well, the ducks... :) Here are a few pictures of the adventure!

The funny thing about this picture is he is terrified, staring at the carousel!

He did NOT like the carousel!

Petting the goats

Hey Monkey, I am over here!

Watching the ducks!

Aunt Jen showing him the fish!

Watching more ducks!

Touching the globe!

Junior and I checking out the first batch of ducks, the ones that got him hooked :)

We are looking forward to more Zoo adventures!

I Asked for the News Not the Weather...

As I have gotten older I have developed a little problem that I don’t know how to fix…I spit when I talk. (Or could it be that I have always had the problem, but never noticed 'til now?) I am blaming it on age… I mean, it’s a stretch, but could it be possible that we produce more saliva in mid twenties? I feel pretty self conscious about it, so I every time I do it, whether someone may have noticed it or not, I feel obligated to say something along the lines of “Oh, I totally spit all over when I said that!” I have tried everything from slowing down when I talk (which I have deemed near impossible) and trying not to get so excited when I have something to say (which has also proved impossible.) I try to swallow before I talk, but that have not seemed to help. I know this is a pretty crazy blog….and really, I am only half serious here…but is anyone else my age having this problem!?!!

Tee hee.

My Mosaic

This is something fun that was forwarded on to me to do! I just answered the questions and flickr.com imaged searched to create the mosaic! I know I usually do my 12 favorites this way, but this put a nice spin on things! Enjoy!

This was fun!

Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/)
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic Maker (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php)
d. Save the image and post it on this note!
e. If you're tagged, pass it on.



1. Jessica(s), 2. Chineese Buffet Throwdown 008, 3. Black Beauty!, 4. Flavored water part 1, 5. Disney Cruise Line - Disney Wonder - Bon Voyage', 6. Canon Sunset+, 7. Still Life For Teacher, 8. My Family, 9. crazy cyan candy

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Jessica
2. What is your favorite food? Chinese
3. What is your favorite color? Black
4. Favorite drink? Flavored Water
5. Dream vacation? Disney World and Disney cruise
6. Favorite Hobby? Photography
7. What you want to be/do when you grow up? A Teacher
8. What do you love most in life? Family
9. One word to describe you? Crazy

Bunny day!

Erich and I had a pretty awesome Easter. We started by going to my sister's house. We ate a lot, and I mean A LOT of finger foods. It was nice to have finger foods rather than an all out meal. We did a little egg hunt for Junior too! Here are just a few pictures because I am seriously lacking time to upload a bunch!

Erich and I... I like this picture, but he complains about his "messy" hair :)

Junior and I...he insisted on keeping his hands in his mouth!

I found one!!!

Then, we went to Erich's family...as we walked in the door we were handed a bag and told to "go go go!" Yeah, that's right...at the age of 25 I still enjoy egg hunts :) The eggs had some surprise money in them...Erich and I got some of the money, but his Grandma beat us to it :) I didn't take any pictures there because it was such a whirlwind, but all in all we had a pretty good time!

Tour of the New Place!

Here is a little virtual tour of Erich and my new apartment. I decided to do a little video since it was kinda hard to take pictures, and...well, making a video allows for me to let my inner dork out...so ENJOY!



**Blogger will not upload my video flipped the correct way... I don't know why because I have it saved upside right. So, sorry, you'll have to turn your head to the side. If you don't want to go though that struggle, I have this video uploaded on Facebook...they apparently allow me to upload it the way I want it to be.**

Heartbreaking....

I have known a lot of people, including myself who have had to attend funerals lately. A week or so ago, I attended a funeral for a good friend of mine’s great uncle. I knew him well, but not incredibly well. I have memories of him driving Moie and I to Special Olympics events. There was also this one time that Moie, her uncle and I were driving to Ames, IA to visit Moie’s now husband. Well, on our way back Mo’s car decided to take a turn for the worst, only accelerating to about 40-ish on the interstate. We made the best of the time, and had it not been for Pali’s positive attitude and reassurance, we would not have been able to have such a wonderful time given shitty circumstances. At the funeral, almost everyone had a story to tell…it was so amazing, yet incredibly heart breaking. He meant the world to a lot of people, it was heart breaking…completely heartbreaking.
Rest in peace Pali.

I also heard about another funeral recently that my sister attended…for a baby. This is beyond heartbreaking for me to hear, even though I do not know the people. I cannot even imagine, it’s not something I can wrap my mind around without tearing up. I don’t want to say it’s “easier” when it is an older person like Pali, but those older people have lived a life…where this baby, this sweet little baby, was gone before she could even live. I just cannot even imagine.

So, I pretty much do not have a point to this blog besides those thoughts of those two funerals weighing on my mind and needed to let the thoughts out.

*sigh*

Rest well Pali and sweet little one.

All moved!

Well, we got all moved! It was a very time consuming process though...moving from a first floor apartment to one on the third floor is a lot of work! We are very thankful for everyone who spaghettied their legs helping us move!! After all the work moving heavy crap up three flights of steps, I swore we'd never move again! I joke that when the people who live in the apartment next to ours move, we'll rent out that apartment and knock out the walls so when we have children, they'll have a place to sleep! :) But, now that we have all of our stuff up there I really, really love it! We have so many windows which is something I have wanted for a long time! The kitchen is small (still, something that has proved hard to get away from) but, it serves its purpose so I can live with that! It's so nice to have an "office" and actually have some room in our bedroom! It's such a roomy place comapared to what we had before. ( I still have house fever though!!)

We are still in the process of getting unpacked, but I am hoping to have it all done by the weekend. I'll post some pictures when we finish and the place actually looks like a home, not a graveyard for boxes!