My Last Day at Work Phone Prank

My co-worker, and master prankster, Michelle, got her husband involved in this prank. He works in video at Jobbing.com and had his co-worker make the call, and they recorded our whole conversation. Fun times.

Saved by the Bell Reunion?

Fiesta Island on Memorial Day

Chris and I took Oslo to Fiesta Island on Memorial Day. It was a beautiful day with dozens of jetskis and boats out in the bay. It made me want to wakeboard again soon!

We don't often let Oslo go in the water because he gets all sandy and dirty and he's not the easiest dog to give a bath. But we let him play in the water on Memorial day. He ran back and forth from the water to the shore for an hour straight. He was SO wiped...but could have kept going all day! That dog loves playing fetch more than any dog I've ever met.

Here are some pictures of our boy having a ball (literally)...

Easter week with the Nelsons

Chris's cousin, Bill, came out to visit from Minnesota (or Minne-so-cold as the Malmes call it) the week before Easter. (I know I'm behind on posting.) He brought his lovely wife, Barb, and two adorable kids, Elise (5-1/2) and Cyrus (4). Elise was the flower girl in our wedding...she had just turned 3 years old...time sure does fly!

Chris and I went on a double date while Great Aunt Jan and Great Uncle David watched the kiddos. We took them to the Fish Market downtown.

The Nelsons left to go back home on Easter Sunday, so we celebrated Easter with them on Saturday. We walked with Oslo and Cassie over to the park near the Malmes' house and took some pictures of the kids (little and big).

Cyrus is concentrating on climbing that chain ladder...


Elise looking pretty...

Oslo and Daddy posing for the camera...

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Holly and the Box

I just love my little Holly baby. She loves crawling into boxes, and she especially loves that this box has paper packaging inside. Isn't she a cutie?!

Watch out for these over-the-counter flea products

Watch this video and watch out for over-the-counter flea products!

My cat was sick last year and I couldn't figure out why he was throwing up every week or two, losing a lot of fur, and getting really skinny. I thought it was an allergic reaction to his food. When I switched his food he slowly got better. But that also coincided w/ the flea season being over and I stopped giving him flea baths. This video shows a shampoo I used on him last year (Biospot) when he had fleas...now I'm convinced it was this flea shampoo that made him sick.

Awesome Dance Moves, Little Guy!

Happy Birthday Baby!

Happy birthday to my sweet husband, who turns 28 today :) I usually don't give a whole lot of thought to St. Patrick's day because I celebrate my hubby's birthday instead of the holiday. But I am making him a traditional Irish dinner tonight, so I thought I'd look up what St. Patrick's day actually is. This is from Wikipedia:

Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

St. Patrick's feast day was placed on the universal liturgical calendar in the Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding in the early part of the 17th century, although the feast day was celebrated in the local Irish church from a much earlier date. St. Patrick's Day is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The feast day usually falls during Lent; if it falls on a Friday of Lent (unless it is Good Friday), the obligation to abstain from eating meat can be lifted by the local bishop. The church calendar avoids the observance of saints' feasts during certain solemnities, moving the saint's day to a time outside those periods. St. Patricks Day is very occasionally affected by this requirement. Thus when March 17 falls during Holy Week, as in 1940 when St. Patrick's Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March.

More than you ever thought you wanted to know about St. Paddy's day!!!

Craziness!