Good morning!

Hello! I am so happy :) Yesterday Rick and Mama came over so Jese could have some help putting in the floor in the basement! It looks very nice! Now we just need to paint it, and when I say we I mean Jese because I hate painting! I made them supper since they were here! I made citrus-marinated chicken, it was out of my mexican cookbook I got for our wedding that I have never used! It was pretty good, it would have been better if it was marinated longer but we didn't get it started soon enough. Right now Jese is going to go get his hair cut, he needs it bad!! We are going to go see New Moon today because Jese really wants to see it and today would be the only day he could, so I am going to suffer through watching it again :) Okay well I don't really know anything else. Bye,
Christa

Late Night!

Hello! Last night I didn't go to bed until 3:00 AM!!! I don't know how I made it! I went to go see New Moon, it was MUCH better than Twilight! You could tell they had much more money to make this one. The acting was much better also, which I was glad about because in Twilight that is what I liked the least! I was happy it followed the book pretty good. There were just a few changes here and there, but nothing too major. We ended up being in the monster theater, the screen was huge, I haven't been in that theater yet! It was packed, I think they had 3 different theaters showing the movie at Lakeville. The only bad part was I couldn't get comfortable during the whole movie!! I am not used to having it full in a theater, normally when I go I am one of the only ones there!! It was lots of fun though and it was worth staying up late for!
Today Amy woke me up at 8:30, but I didn't get up until 9:15! That is late for me, I normally get up by 8:30. I haven't done much yet, just some cleaning in the kitchen. I am going to go grocery shopping today and spend the last $30 on my turkey punch card so I can get my free turkey!! Kipper is just hanging outside today since it is nice out. Oreo ran outside on me just a little bit ago and now she is sitting at the door crying because she wants to go outside, baby!! Oh yes, that reminds me!! Last night Jese and I were watching TV and he asked what a noise was and I said it was just the TV. After a little while I muted the TV and we could still hear it! Turns out it was just Oreo sleeping behind the TV snoring, she is so loud!! After she woke up she went to the basement and dragged her favorite toy up and put it behind the TV with her!! I had Jese hold Kipper so I could play with her for a little bit because she was just so cute!! She wasn't so cute this morning however when she decided it was time for me to get up and kept sitting practically on my face!! Okay well I have things to do, have a nice day!
Christa

New Moon Tonight!

Hello! Tonight New Moon is coming out at midnight!! I am going with Alicia and Molly at Lakeville, Alicia bought our tickets a month ago!! I think it will be fun!

Today I got up super early!! I had to be in Waseca by 6:30 to watch the Hagre children! I was hoping to get a nap in before they woke up but they both woke up right away, jerks! They were easy to watch, Josie slept most of the day and I let Liam watch tv all day! Amy got up at 1:00 and I talked to her for awhile and then left! When I got home I took a shower and now I am going to play my new favorite Sims game!! Okay until next time,
Christa

36 days til Christmas!

Just Waiting!

Hello! I have pictures to put on here but I don't feel like getting my camera! Today I had an interview in Mankato at United Praire Bank for a receptionist job. I don't know if I will get it though. I hope I do because I think I would like it a lot. It isn't just answering phones and greeting people, there is more responsibility to it than that! They already interviewed 5 people and have lots of resumes to go through. Anyways back to what I have been doing...

On Sunday I was supposed to go to New Ulm to go to Alicia's shower but we didn't have enough gas for me to go there! So instead I had to go to Papa's and help cut up deer, it wasn't too bad though since it was warm out! Mama came and rescued me at noon though and brought me and Amy up to MOA, we also picked up Cassie along the way.

Yesterday Alicia and Brandon came over, they brought their puppy Cooper over too! We had chicken noodle soup for supper, it was yummy! After that we played Pictionary Man, pretty much I am the champion! We played three games, changing partners each time and I won every time!! The last game was close though, there was just a point between us!! After they left Kipper was super tired! He was even wore out today still!!! That is okay with me though :)

Today I just biked in the basement for a little bit and then went to my interview! It wasn't a very exciting day!

Oh yes, yesterday someone came and winterized the neighbors house that is for sale and they opened the curtains so we could look in! I made Jese come with me to look in all of the windows, he didn't want to look like a creeper, I told him to get over it!! I am glad we didn't bother looking at the house! The bedrooms are really small!! The whole place looked pretty junky. I think whoever buys it will get it pretty cheap because it needs a lot of work! All of the rooms seemed pretty small. Online it says that the upstairs is a den and downstairs has a family room, we couldn't see those though.

Okay well that is all for today!

Christa

What Have You Done Today To Make You Feel Proud?

Hello! Today Amy came up to bring me the exercise bike she had in her basement, and guess what I did!! Jese and I worked out/biked for an hour!! Well really I biked, he worked out, and then I lifted a little bit afterwords! I made Amy lunch when she came, I made chicken and veggies, it was yummy, minus the veggies!! Jese did the dishes so I am going to make him cookies tomorrow so I have something to do!! Yesterday I didn't do much. I was super stuffy so I took an allergy pill and after a few hours I was still really stuffy so I took some more, bad idea!! I lost all of my energy and ended up falling asleep a few times!! I even drank Pepsi and that didn't keep me awake!!! Today I am not stuffy at all so that is nice! Okay I don't really know anything, I just wanted to let everyone know that I biked today!

Christa

Lets Go Hunting!

Adam's Monster Deer
My third deer, a button buck

My first deer, a doe

Putting up stands on Friday, I look like an orange Marshmallow!

Hello! You don't get a picture of my second deer because I didn't take one because it was very pretty, but I will get back to that later!

On Thursday Jese was all packed up and ready to go up north and I decided that I had to come along, I had decided not to go earlier in the week. So I had packed all my stuff in 15 minutes, thankfully I didn't forget anything! We picked up Nick on our way and dropped Kipper off for Cassie to watch. We made it up north by 5:10! It was a quick trip up there! On Friday we went out and put up some stands all day long. On Saturday we got up bright and early to go hunting! Jese and I were the last ones out because our stands were the closest! By 8:00 I was bored out of my mind so I decided to start browsing the internet so I would stay awake! Well at 8:28 I looked up and there were two deer in front of me!! There was a doe and her fawn. So I decided to shoot the bigger of the two so I couldn't get made fun of again like I did for my first deer I shot!! She fell right down and I looked around and the other deer was still there!! Well I did the first bad shot of my life, I hit her but she didn't die! She went into some brush so I couldn't get another shoot at her. Papa told me to just wait to see if she died so I didn't spook her and make her run. So I sat and waited, and waited, by 10:00 I heard a noise, another deer came in! So what do I do, I shoot that one too! This one was a button buck, he also fell right down on the spot! So I talked to Papa and he told me to go down and check on the fawn, I went over there and she jumped up and ran! I sent Jese a text message to watch for her, sure enough she went right to him! He also couldn't get a shoot because she laid in some brush again! So he couldn't leave his stand to help me gut my other two deer so I had to try it on my own. It didn't go so good. After a long while I gave up!! Jese decided to come help me then! He walked right up to my fawn, she looked at him in defeat and he shoot her in the head, hence no picture! So he helped me gut three deer! We didn't see anything else that day. By 5:00 I was ready to go in so I started to walk to Jese and he was walking towards me carrying my fawn! He carried it back to the road over his shoulder!! We went back to camp to get a truck so we could get the other deer. Well since it was dark out we discovered we couldn't find our way back to my stand since there were no flags!! We got a little lost and decided to head back out and wait for Papa or Mark to help us! Well Mark was back first so he got us right out there and we got my other deer dragged in. After looking at the fawn when we got back we all decided that I had the first killing shoot, because it would have died, Jese just made it go faster! So I got the credit for it, but I say I got 2 1/2 deer and Jese got 1/2 a deer! Adam got a very nice 17 pointer on Saturday, Papa got a spike and doe, Tom got a buck, Sam got a spike, Ryan got a buck, and Shitto got a buck! So total we got 10 deer on opener! On Sunday I decided that I killed enough so I let Jese go on my stand. He didn't see anything :( Adam was the only one to get a deer that day, he got another nice buck, it was a 10 pointer! He had lots of dishes to do by himself though since he was the only one to get a deer! On Monday we got up at 6:00 and Nick, Jese, and myself all left by 7:00 to get back home!

Now I am busy doing laundry all day!! I have so much to do!! I think I am going to hang some of it on the neighbors clotheslines because they don't live there anymore!! Okay well that is all!

Christa

Oh yes, on Monday Adam got ANOTHER deer, this time it was a doe though, no more bucks for him!

Skipping Thanksgiving!

Hello! Amy told me I had to change my background. Well I couldn't find any Thanksgiving ones I liked so I decided to skip straight to my favorite holiday, Christmas!!! I wonder if Jese will mind if I put up the tree tonight :) I am watching a Christmas movie right now! I LOVE Christmas!
Yesterday Jese and I took Kipper for a long walk across town into the newer section. Then we made chocolate spritz cookies, I like normal ones much better. Then we made Baked Potato Soup, yum! Today we decided to head over to Papa's to get the rest of my junk out of his garage and to get our guns. Jese shot his once and said it was a good shot so he didn't have to do any more! Papa feed us brats so now I don't have to make supper. On Thursday we are going up north deer hunting so Jese has to work tonight so he could get Thursday off. It is going to be a long day for him tomorrow, he gets done with work at 10:00, has a work meeting at 3:00, and class at 6:00!! Okay well I have to watch my Christmas movie now!
Christa

What are you doing to me!!!

Kipper isn't to happy with me right now! I am making him wear his Lobster Halloween costume!! It got a little small on him, I guess he has grown since we bought it! I just wanted to put up pictures of my puppy ready for halloween!

Christa

No Thank You!

Hello! Yesterday I spent the entire day at an interview. Basically they were testing me out to see if I would be good. The job sucked balls though. It was basically a door to door saleman, only for businesses. The guy I went around with was really nice though, however, he smoked an entire pack of cigarettes in the car and now today my eyes feel like they were punched!! We ended up getting back to the office 40 minutes late, and then I had to meet with the boss guy. I ended up turning down the job before they even offered it to me. The day before they interviewed a whole bunch of people and they narrowed it down to me and one other guy, they only talked to me for 15 minutes so I must have had a good 1st impression! Anyways, I left to go up there at 7:15 am and I got back home at 7:00 pm!! It was a long day. Driving home sucked because I can't see driving at night as it is, but with the rain I could hardly see anything!! I felt like I was going to go off the road half of the drive home! Today I am supposed to go help Amy make apple pies but I am being mean and not going down to help her. Okay that is all for today.
Christa

Sucessful Job Search Day!

Hello! Today Jese helped me look for a job and I got sick of it so I just clicked about 60 jobs at once and applied to all of them! Well now I have two interviews tomorrow, one at 11:00 and one at 3:00!! The second one I don't know what it is for because I didn't hear who she said she was, so now I am waiting for the email she is sending me to find out!! The first job is with a temp agency, it would get me experience that I need but not a job for the long hall. Oh, I just got the email, it is an accounting job. That is good! Okay well Kipper needs me now so I must go!
Christa

Pumpkin Carving!

Well this year Jese's pumpkin turned out better than mine! I did do four of them though and he only did one! He was nice and cleaned the inside of my big one out since his arms are longer than mine. Kipper kept trying to sneak away with seeds, he loved them! Today the neighbors gave me a huge hello kitty balloon for my birthday! Brr, I am cold!! Okay well that is all for today!

Christa

Happy Birthday Grandpa B!

Hello! Today is Grandpa B's and my birthday! I plan on spending most of the day by myself! Jese has to leave in a little more than an hour for his work meeting and school. Tonight Papa is going to come up to take me out to eat. I would have gone to his house but we are short a car because Adam isn't done fixing Jese's junker!
Pizza has discovered that Mama fish is protective so when she sticks her paw in the water Mama fish comes to attack her. So now they have been playing who can bite who first! So far Pizza has been way to slow to catch Mama fish, Mama fish has got Pizza a few times though! The babies are looking more and more like cichlads every day! Last night Kipper decided that he NEEDED to bury all of his bones in the house! So he kept taking them and burying them in blankets and then Jese and I would take them out because it was funny because then he would go around looking for another place to put the bones! He is being a good dog again, his naughty week is over!! Now that we are done painting and unpacking we can give him more attention so he is much happier and is not punishing us anymore but tearing apart pillows and pooping in the study :) I am glad he is behaving now otherwise I would not like him very much anymore! The little kitty on craigslist that I wanted, Uuper, must have gotten adopted because he is not on there anymore. He was the cutest little kitten ever! Okay well that is all I know today!
Christa

PJ Day!!

Kipper all dressed up for people to come!
Liam and Jese getting ready to sleep in the tent in the living room!
Hello! Yesterday I was super busy! I got up at 8:30 and didn't sit down all day!! I cleaned and cooked lots! At 4:00 people started to come for our housewarming party! We had 22 people total show up! Adam left Josie and Liam here for us to babysit because Amy needs to sleep today. Josie slept very good, she woke up at 10:00 but I just gave her a pacifire and she went back to sleep. Liam woke up at 1:00 scared, he forgot where he was, after some talking he went back to sleep. Right now we are watching cars. I am not going to do anything today! Jese is going to make me shrimp and steak for my birthday! He is doing it today because on Tuesday and Wednesday he won't be here! I am excited to eat it, yummy! Okay well I don't know anything else!
Christa

Can I start today over!!

Hello! Well today I am getting nowhere fast! I started out by hanging the picture up upstairs, I bent about 15 nails in the process!! It took me way longer than I thought it would. While I was doing that Kipper was chewing on a bone on my bed so then I had to wash the comforter. Well it is a little bigger than our other ones so when I washed it the washer overflowed!! Then I went to sew a pillow out of the left over curtain material and found out that when we first got Kipper he chewed through the sewing machine cord. I caught him doing it and thought I got to him soon enough, apparently not! So now I am sewing the pillow by hand!! It is going to take FOREVER!! I still need to make the sloppy joes and brownies, and vacuum and dust!! It is either going to be a late night or early morning!! Okay well I have to get back to this pillow!
Christa
oh yes, and as of today we have put more money into Jese's car in the last year than it is worth!

Thanks Jese!

Yesterday I went to Mama's to make apple sauce! I was lots of help!! I was pretty much just a superviser!! Jese came at 3:00 because he was dropping his car off for Adam to fix the brakes. So then we went to Faribault to go to papa's house to get all of the stuff I forgot to get last time I was there! I got my bird feeder that Grandpa B. made and I took a post from papa (with prior approval) for it! So when we got back I sent Jese out to the backyard to put it up. So he used the shovel we also took from papa's house and dug a three foot deep hole! He finally got the bird feeder up just in time for supper. We had tacos, yummy! This morning there were a ton of birds at the feeder!! I am glad because everywhere we live I always put up some sort of bird feeder and we never get birds :( I am almost ready for our housewarming party on Sunday. Pretty much everything left to do I can't do today. Jese is sleeping so that eliminates hanging up pitcures and with Kippers dirty feet everytime he comes in the house eliminates cleaning the floors! So all of that will wait until tomorrow and Sunday morning. Tomorrow Jese will be sleeping at Cassie's house because he is dog sitting Jada, plus that way I can be as loud as I want to be when hanging up pictures because I won't wake him up! Okay I have to go find what Kipper is getting into now, he is being a trouble maker lately and he is now upstairs!!

Christa

Post Number 700!!!

Yum, mashed potatoes!!
Making cookies!

All of our cookies!

Josie with her naughty aunt!!

Hello! Yesterday was a fun day! At 8:45 I got woke up by Amy telling me (not asking!) that she was coming to make halloween cookies, but she didn't know what time! So I got up and got myself ready and then I forced Jese to get up at 9:30, bad idea, he was crabby about it all day :) Then I dried the dishes from the night before and then we went grocery shopping! We saved $13.00 with coupons! We also started a turkey card, if I spen $450 by thanksgiving I get a FREE turkey!! If I spend more than that I get a bigger turkey!! I love free stuff! Before we even checked out Amy sent me another message telling me she was only 20 minutes away!! So we rushed home, I started to put away the laundry and Jese started to wash all of the dishes! Well we didn't get everything done in time and they showed up!! I was suposed to have lunch ready so instead of cooking we took them out to eat at el tequila, yum! When we got back we finally started making cookies! I added a little to much salt but you can't even tell :) By the time they were done baking it was time to make Jese supper since he had class. So Amy cut up the super cheap steak I bought and Jese peeled potatoes and we made meat chunks and mashed potatoes, yummy! While that was cooking we frosted the cookies while Liam dumped sprinkles on them!! Then we ate supper, once we were done Cassie and Nick showed up with Jese's car. Cassie decided to give Josie a whole pot of mashed potatoes and a cookie, needless to say she got sick!! Everyone left around 6:00 so I had an hour to clean all the cookie crumbs up that were scattered across the house, I even found some on the bed!! Liam was up there watcing a movie that is how they got up there!!

Today I am going to get as much orgainzing and cleaning done as possible for our housewarming party on Sunday. Okay I have to go check on our trouble maker dog I can hear him playing upstairs and he hasn't came down to go potty yet!

C

Lesson Learned!

Hello! Well when Jese is sleeping all day and I leave I let Kipper stay out by himself. So today I thought well he behaves just fine then so I am sure he would be fine by himself all day, boy was I wrong!! We left at 11:00 and didn't get back until 6:00, which is later than I planned and this is what we came home to!! There was also a torn apart book in the study!!

Today when Jese got home from work he decided that he didn't want to go to sleep and wanted to come with me to get pumpkins! So I drove us to Faribault and we went with Papa to get some pumpkins! We got two HUGE ones and three little ones! After that we went up to Grandpa & ma's to pick some apples with the Hagre family! We got lots of them!! Then I had to play photographer and try to take pictures the the Hagre family for their Christmas card, it didn't go very good! Either Liam or Amy would mess up the picture!! Sometimes I guess Josie and Adam did too! Then Jese and I went to Lowes because online they say they have Martha Stewart paint and I picked out a color for the living room. Well it turns out that the one Lowes we go to they don't have it!! We ended up finding a color similar to the one I wanted though!! When we finally got home we cleaned up Kippers mess and then I decided to repaint the hallway! Jese got suckered into helping me and he ended up finishing it, haha!! I did actually help this time though! I really like the color, it isn't spirement green anymore!! Okay I am watching Desp. Housewives now!

C.

P.S. my next update will be number 700!!

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!!!!

Me on Ladies Night Out!

Hello! This morning I woke up to snow!! I like snow right now because it isn't super cold and windy, but as soon as it gets super cold and windy I won't like it any more!! Kipper didn't like the snow so much this morning but now he just wants to be outside!! Yesterday Amy and Liam begged me to come to Waseca to play games so I gave in and went there! We ended up not playing any games though!! I colored with Liam after we ate lunch then he went to bed and Amy and I watched tv ALL afternoon!! We were also getting the stuff ready for her to make her scrubbies at work! Remi decided that it would be fun to lay on top of me instead on my feet like I told her! I let her lay on me for a little bit but after being hit in the head by her long legs I made her get down! When I got back home Jese and I went over to the neighbors for a little bit then he went to work and I watched tv! Today I am going to make chicken noodle soup and maybe halloween sugar cookies if I feel like it! Right now I am watching Untraceable, it is a good movie! Okay until next time,

C.

Welcome to small town life!

Well tonight I had my first small town experience! After I took my shower and was all comfy of the couch in my p.j's I heard a knock on the door! Then the person turned the knob to get in but I had it locked, of course I thought it was just mama or Amy stopping by unannounced! It turned out to be the neighbors! They were coming over to invite me out on Thursday for Ladies Night Out. Of course they tricked me into going by asking what I was doing on Thursday first and then when I said nothing, Erica (that is the ladies name) invited me! So I guess I will be social and meet all the ladies of New Prague!! Maybe I will meet someone my age that I can be friends with! The also invited Jese and I over on Friday because they have a fire every friday night! Then we will be able to meet our other neighbors! Maybe we can get them to mow our lawn before they move :) They have two sons, one is 18 and the other one is in 2nd grade!! The younger one walked over while they were here. They all LOVE Kipper!! I think Erica wants to steal him!!! They liked our fish, they had to look at all of them, they were impressed by all the babies! Okay well since I already updated today I am not going to write anything else, I just thought it was funny the neighbors tried to come into my house already!!!
Christa

Kitchen: DONE!

Well we finished the kitchen, well minus the curtains that need to be hung back up! Last night Jese ran out of paint so he couldn't finish the yellow! So this morning I woke him up at 10:00 so he could go to the store to get more. While he was doing that I drove to Waseca to get the best brown paint ever from my mama! I really like the color that she had, I am glad she couldn't use it so I could have it!! When I got back I found Jese still painting the yellow!! He was having troubles getting it to cover since we didn't prime the walls first! He ended up having to do three coats in some spots!! While he did that I got the walls ready for the brown and he still was working on the yellow!! So instead of waiting for him I just started the brown...I ended up finishing about 15 minutes after he did!! We really like the colors! The yellow is a little brighter than I planed but it still looks good and it brightens up the kitchen a ton. I just have to hang up the curtains and then that room will be completely finished! I have to wait a little longer before I hang them though because the brown paint is still a little sticky! We aren't going to get to the living room/halls untill tomorrow because Jese is now on his way to school. We won't have enough time to finish them tomorrow either, but we will finish them on Thursday. My hands are full of paint so I have to take a shower!! Okay check back in a few days for more pictures of completed rooms!!

Christa