Oh how you love to remember me....

Here is a fun little game... leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time or a long time, anything that you remember! Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It is pretty funny to read the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you are playing and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. On your mark... get set... blog those memories!

Pool Pets

Since we have moved to Tulsa we have found quite a variety of animals living in the pool. There are 2 pools in our apartment complex--the lower pool which is by the apartment complex office, and then an upper pool which is basically in the backyard of our apartment. Since the upper pool is closer we usually go to that one. Well when we moved into the apartment complex the pools weren't open yet, they didn't open for about two weeks. When we would walk Harley at night we would walk past the upper pool by our house. I'm gonna be honest, the pool was NASTY!! It was all green and swampy and gross. Come to find out there were snakes in it! Yes, snakes were living in the pool! Finally they cleaned it out and got rid of the snakes. Sure the pool was cleaner but it was still not open to the public yet. Even though it wasn't open to the public, apparently it was open to ducks. Every night we walked by the pool after it got cleaned there was a duck just chillin and floating around on it. We thought it was a fake duck so Shawn threw a rock at it and we discovered it was real! So the duck lasted about a week and then they opened the pool and the duck stopped showing up....must not like chlorine! While I thought we were rid of our wonderful pool pets I was wrong. For the past week or two every morning we find this in the pool

Yes you saw it correctly--it is a rat. They are found in various forms; dead, alive, water-logged.... You would think that one of the surviving rats would run and tell the other rats that getting in the pool is not a good idea. But we have had no rat messengers relay this message for every morning rats are still found! I have never been so glad that I just lay out and don't actually get in the pool! While my hubby might be full of diseases,I am not! Phew, dodged that bullet! I thought the pool was bad but apparently the hot tub isn't much better. One night WHILE we were sitting in the hot tub we were informed by maintenance that it was filled with 'beer and piss'. YUMMY! That was the best news ever! Not only do I love sitting in a big bath tub filled with everyone else's filth, but now it is also filled with beer and piss. YAY! With this news of liquid options for the hot tub and various pets to choose from, I have never loved Tulsa so much!

Happy Father's Day!

Okay this really has nothing to do with Father's Day other than the fact that it happened to fall on Father's Day! After I showered Shawn with his favorite foods and gave him some new shirts (I know I know, I am the best wife ever) then we headed out for our usual Sunday tradition. The group out here always BBQ's and then we head to the pool for some fun in the sun! Today we decided to take Harley so he didn't have to be stuck in the house. Harley isn't the biggest fan of water. He used to love it when he was a puppy. Whenever I was taking a shower he felt the need to join me. But then I had to start kicking him out cuz it was a pain to dry him off every day and I was sick of smelling wet dog. So eventually he stopped liking water! Well he has never been in deep enough water to try swimming. I always wondered if he even could swim considering his numerous rolls and stubby legs. So yesterday we were at the pool and it was like 95 and humid! He was getting so hot and couldn't find any relief! I was in the pool and I was trying to coax him in. With just me around him (he didn't trust any of the guys) he actually came in a few steps and hung out in the water. But once he went to step down on the third step he realized he would be in over his head and backed up! He did like the kiddie pool though and hung out there for a while...you know just drinking the nasty chlorinated water!

Finally curiousity got the best of all of us wondering if Harley could swim. While Harley was playing a viscous game of tug-o-war with a water bottle, Steve pulled him right into the water (with the help of Rhees). Harley sunk right to the bottom! Not knowing if he was going to come up or not the guys pulled him up! I can still picture in my mind his little legs flailing and him gasping for breath as he came up out of the water with this horrified expression on his face! While I probably should have been a little worried I couldn't stop laughin at the poor lil' fella! I'm laughing right now typing the story! Anyhow, Steve helped him swim to safety!

After that whole little shinanigan we still don't even know if he could swim cuz he sunk so fast and didn't come up we didn't dare see if he would come up on his own! So after Harley took the plunge of death he was a little bit shaken up to say the least. When I went and sat down on a chair to dry off he came and sat on my lap and didn't want to get off! What a GREAT Father's Day! Can't wait until next Sunday at the pool!

You know you live in the ghetto when....

....this bilboard is displayed in the city you live in! Yes, this is not a joke. Yesterday when Shawn was driving out to go out and sell he came across this bilboard. What I am most thankful for is that if we ever need a criminal defense lawyer for guns, drugs or murder while we are out here, we have someone to turn to. Thank you Zach Smith, I'm glad I have a friend out here I can depend on!

By the way, this is not in my beloved Fayetteville that I miss so much--we moved to Tulsa a week or two ago. Let me just say that it is not paradise as the bishop told me the first sunday we were here! It was quite a culture shock moving from Fayetteville to here. Not only is the city much to be desired but our apartments are probably the worst one's I've ever lived in! It brings me back to the first apartment Shawn and I lived in when we got married(for those of you who saw it you know what I'm talking about!) Anyways, I am taking pictures and will post some of this new glorious place called home!

Amazing Fayetteville!

As you may have guessed from the title of this post, WE LOVE FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS!! At first I thought that we were in the twilight zone or something...no wait, I don't even know why I said that. What's the twilight zone? I guess at first I thought we were in La La land? I don't even know what I'm thinking, but let me explain it. Everyone here is so strangely friendly that you would think it was fake...only its not! Everyone you walk past, you make eye contact with, you see across the street, or even if you think you might see someone around the corner, you say hi too. I'm not joking... I have never met people so friendly! Even in the grocery store everyone says hi to you when you walk past. It was so odd, but it was so genuine! It took some getting used to but we adapted quite quickly! It is also so green where we are! Everywhere you look it is just bright green--so pretty! And we live in the best place ever. Everything is within walking distance: the mall is in our backyard, the lake is just down the street, walmart is across the street and a sushi place is practically in our parking lot. where else would you need to go?? Although we love where we live we of course ran into some problems. When we got to our apartment we had no furniture. Shawn's company has our apartments furnished so we don't have to bring all of our couches and beds and stuff here. Well there was a mishap with the rental place and they said we wouldn't get our furniture until Monday...we got there on Thursday. So I figured, okay, whats a couple days without furniture? Well it did suck and I could hardly wait for our furniture to come on Monday, but then Monday came and went, Tuesday came and went....as did Wednesday...and then thursday came....and FINALLY we got our furniture. During that week of no furniture Harley and I had time to ponder on the wonders that is furniture, take lots of naps, and take lots of walks outside (Shawn was working all day so he wasn't home furniture-less).


When we got our furniture I was quite ecstatic and immediately fell in love with the pretty periwinkle couches that now inhabit our family room. I began to wonder why I had never thought of something so beautiful, so profound to grace our presence in our home before! Here is Harley modeling them for us...


We live right by University of Arkansas and I have never seen people so dedicated to the local college! Everywhere we look there are red UA signs or pictures of a hog (their mascot). Everyone's outside mats to go into their house are hogs, they have flags outside their house, even the ladies at church have their little church bags with the mascot on it! In Walmart they have a huge section with rows and rows of University of Arkansas stuff...I thought you might not believe me so I was vedy vedy sneaky and took a picture with my phone (I was trying to fit in and didn't them to think I was weird for taking a picture...)


One of our favorite parts about living here is living so close to the lake. They have a little track that goes around it that we can take walks on and take Harley around. They have a big park area also. And they have little benches on the bridge that you can sit on and look out at the lake. It is AMAZING and we will definitely miss it when we move!



Whenever we move anywhere Harley always has his two favorite places. The first is the balcony. He takes after me and would lay all day in the sun if he could! On our balcony out here the sun only hits it in the morning so first thing in the morning he runs over to the door to go 'lay out.' The second place is the chair. Back at home he is only allowed on the couch, not on our chair. But when we come out
for the summer we have rental furniture which means he takes reign over the chair!! Here he is, just woken up and has morning hair...aka morning ears.



Oh and here is Harley with his new friend! Cute huh??


So that is Fayetteville in a nutshell. The guys have now become licensed in Oklahoma so we will be leaving here =(

The trek to Fayetteville, Arkansas

So I have gotten lazy...Whoops! My bad! A LOT has been going on this past month so be prepared for a long post! For all of you that don't know, The Mr. does summer sales--he sales security systems. So every summer we get to move somewhere new! While some may think its a pain to move every summer, I LOVE it!! I love to live all different places and I find myself getting antsy when I live in the same place for more than a few months. This is our third year with this company. Our first summer we went to Chicago, then last summer we went to Albuquerque, New Mexico and then to Vegas for a month for extended season, and then this year we are going to Fayetteville Arkansas and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The originally plan was just to go to Oklahoma bu it is really hard to get licensing there and we didn't quite have all the tests taken and paperwork done to go there when we needed to so we headed off to Fayetteville, Arkansas first. The night before we left to come to Fayetteville, I got this stabbing pain in my side. I tried to just ignore it because we had big plans for our last night (dinner at the parents and then a going away party with all our friends where we were gonna eat lots of treats and play rockband). Well I made it to dinner with my parents but then we were headed to our friends house and I couldn't bare the pain any longer!! Actually, my hubby couldn't bare watching me in pain any longer! I was just gonna deal with it but he made me go to the instacare. They took my blood and said I was on the verge of needing to have my apendix out. I guess my white blood cell count was 0.2 away from the danger zone! They sent me home but told me to go to the emergency room if it got worse. Our plan was to leave at midnight or 1am that morning for Arkansas but obviously that wasn't going to happen. I made it through the night and then the next morning I was feeling better but we went and got my blood tested just in case. The tests came back and my white blood cell count had drastically dropped which meant we were good to go. PHEW! We went and finished loading up the car (apendix still in the belly), put Harley in the back and started to pull out of the driveway. Harley was had been so excited and so nervous that we were going to leave him that it made his tummy start rumbling and he puked in the back seat. We cleaned that up and then he puked not one more time but two more times--3 times total! After we got that cleaned up we were FINALLY on our way!

It was a long 20 hour drive. We stopped in Amarillo, Texas and stayed in a beautiful motel...and by beautiful I mean gross. But what can you do right? On our long car rides we always take lots of pictures cuz we get bored. Here are a few....notice my puffy swollen eyes from crying the night before cuz I thought my guts were gonna explode out of my tummy!






Some highlights of our drive (besides the motel of course)...
Harley constantly wanting to sit on my lap. He doesn't realize he weighs 65 pounds and practically crushes me...


Harley not being a fan of Led Zepplin and when we listened to it he would turn his head back and forth and back and forth to try and figure out what in the heck that noise was. I thought he was gonna twist his head right off!



And of course, Harley and I anxiousy awaiting for Shawn to come out of the gas station and bring us some treats!

The rest of our Cali trip

We just got back from Cali a few days ago. We love to go there and stay with his grandparents! They live up up up in the hills above Temucula on a farm. Its a good half hour away from any store. But its nice to be up there and be away from things! Everytime we go there shawn says, "shoulda been a cowboy!" They have 8-10 horses, a chicken coop, 5 dogs and a bunch of cars (shawn's grandpa loves to work on and restore old cars). Anyways, I LOVE animals so I love going there and being around all the animals. Shawn's gram has recently gotten three new horses from Brazil. She goes on trips over to Brazil and rides the different horses to pick out the one that she wants. These are two of her newest horses (the third one just got guilded aka neutered so it was recovering)

This is Ziahmorra (I hope that's how you spell it). She is one of my favorite horses. She is so pretty and is so calm and nice.


This is one of their other new horses. I can't remember his name but it starts with a Z too. Anyways, he is pretty new so they haven't trained him completely yet and he likes to nibble!! He kept nibbling me in all the wrong places!

Ahhhh....there you go! That's a good boy...

Shawn loved him. He was amazing!

All of their dogs are so nice although you wouldn't know that when you pulled up to the house! They are really protective over the place and bark when you first get there but once they know you they are the sweetest dogs ever! They take care of the farm and chase away the coyotes and stuff. This is Max the German Shephard...

And this is TJ their biggest dog. He is massive! I'm not kidding! When he stands up he seriously looks like a bear! We love him so much but he is starting to get old and is getting arthiritis, poor pup. But that doesn't stop him from running all over the farm.



Shawn also spends quite a bit of time riding their tractors and quads all over the farm and driving all of Chuck's (his grandpa's) amazing cars! And me and his gram like to spend our time shopping!