Adventures of Spunkette

Sunday night Rick and I went out to my parents house to visit with them and my grandparents (whom I haven't seen since my sisters wedding in June) I took Spunkette out there with us so that I could clean her cage and show her off. When Rick and I got back to our house, I just left SPunkette out in the care so that it would be one less thing to carry out in the morning.This week both Rick and I wanted to leave the house on time, so that Rick wouldn't be late for work. We were doing really well on packing up and getting ready to leave, when I went to check on Spunkette and noticed that she was not in her cage!! We started searching in the car, in the trunk, under the hood, up under the dash - EVERYWHERE!!! And she was no where to be found. We let Ally come out to see if she could sniff Spunkette out, we started looking around in the yard. Nowhere. Finally I told Rick we had to quit looking and pack up - I would be fine. We packed the car (I left her cage and food at the house)and we headed out. I was really trying to hold it together and Rick tells me he is really sorry and pulls me over to his side and puts his arm around me. I lost it and started to cry about losing my friend. She was just now getting to9 be fun - I could hold her and play with her. And she was gone. She could be dead or just free and then will die cause she is not a wild animal. But she succeed in her life goal of escaping her cage. Then something fell onto my feet and I screamed! It was my long lost Hammy!!!! I scared her half to death and she ran back up into the dash board. Rick pulls over as soon as he can, and we grab the flashlights and start searching. Rick is trying to figure out out to take the dash off and I am worried that she ran up into the vent! But then Rick sees her on his side and pushes her over to my side and coaxed her out and then grabbed her!!! I was so happy! I was shaking (not sure if it was from the scare of her dropping onto my feet or just from being to happy!)I am holding her in my shirt and Rick has to call his parents and ask them to bring the cage and food to us. rick and I were so happy that we found her and that she seemed to be ok. For the rest of the day, she didn't really act like herself. I think that she was just really tired and it got hot in the car. We ended up being about 45 minutes late. But it was ok, cause my Spunkette was safe and back in my care!


I took her outside a couple of days ago and let her play in the grass.:0) She seemed to really like. I was afraid that she would eat to much grass, so I didn't leave her out there to long.

Giving Kisses


Trying to dig her way out




Hasn't she gotten bigger?

Random Pictures

I am just going to post a bunch of random pictures that I have taken so far this week.

Rick actually took these of a random squirrel at the capitol.



I think he has rabies or something!



A Laundry Mat in Morgantown. I thought the little washer and dryer have cute faces.



The neighbor dog. Smitty aka Killer



Me with my Hammy



Ally dog checking out Spunkette



My new hip looking shoes

Travels

Rick and I had a great time in D.C. We parked the car and walked the whole city! We saw lots of cool, old looking buildings, lots of cherry trees and even had dinner with Rick's aunt and uncle who live in CA. I took a total of 180 pictures that day.

I love flowers


The Washington Memorial


The White House


The Lincoln Memorial


Cherry Blossoms


Rick and I with Lincoln


We stayed in Ashland VA that night and slept in really late and then packed up and headed to the VCU Medical Hospital in Richmond. I had my ct scan and then left town.
Tuesday was my appointment to go over my results of the scan. Good news is: I don't need surgery. Bad news is: I have really bad allergies and have to take meds for a very long time. Possible even having to take shots later down the road.
Rick has been working out of Charleston this week and next. I decided not to work at the daycare. Mainly for 2 reasons. 1) I have no car to get to work and 2) I need to do school work and if I work I won't get much done. We have been staying at Rick's house. His dad has been on 'vacation' this week, so Charlie and I have been hanging out all day.
Charlie and Kerri left for a couple of days. So Rick and I have the whole house to ourselves - not even the dogs are here! I cleaned the house really well yesterday. I mopped and did laundry and picked up. My parents and sister were coming over for dinner, so I cooked dinner - a WW friendly dinner I might add. I made a homemade Key Lime pie for dessert that turned out really tart. After we ate, we played Scrabble. It was a really fun and relaxing evening with my family. Which doesn't happen often. I have really enjoyed 'playing house'. It is much more different from living in a hotel suite all week. I can't wait until Rick and I own our own house and can use all of our wedding gifts and have people over.

Our first Easter as Mr. & Mrs.

Big News

I am now a real Aunt!! Cooper Lukas Taylor was born in the country of Slovakia on April 8, 2009 at 10:45 am weighing at 8.5 pounds and 20 inches long to the proud parents of Mikey and Cindy Taylor. I will get to see him in June, but will hopefully get lots of pictures before then.
Taylor Family




Team Impact was pretty cool last weekend. We had lots of church people help out and we had about 90 people come forward. Rick and I hung out with the guys and the wife and daughters that came.





Big Rich


Chip, one of the Team Impact guys loved Spunkette. He got her out and was playing with her. She looked so tiny in his big hands!! I think it helped with her becoming tamer. Cause since then she has been less skitterish and easier to hold and play with.

My Little Piggy





My mom broke her little finger about 2 weeks ago. The bone didn’t break the skin but it was splintered and sticking out of its normal place. She had surgery on it this morning. The doctor put a screw in her finger that is the size of the head on an ink pen. She has to be REALLY careful for the next 6 weeks and not use her hand at all. Just the slightest movement will make the pin pop out and they probably can’t put it back in. The total recovery time is at least 3 months of not using her hand very much.

I have my CT scan on Friday at the VCU Medical hospital. I think this is about the only time that I will ever pray ‘Lord, PLEASE let them find lots of junk in there so that I can have surgery.” :0)

This has been a really short week in Richmond. Rick has Good Friday off, so we decide to have a little bit of fun/alone time before we head back to Charleston. Going to DC to check out the cherry blossoms. Pictures will be coming.

Wants

I want so much in life right now. And most of it is unreachable-for the time being.

I want my internet to work again so that I can be in contact with the outside world and all my friends.

I want to live in one place, all the time. I want all my junk to be in one place and not scattered over 4 different houses.

I want to see my turtle and fish every day, not just once a month.

I want my husbands job to be stable and to know where we should be.

I want to be able to cook dinner for my husband every night and not just when we happen to go to camp.

I want to be able to take amazing pictures that people would pay me for.

I want to know how to 'play' with my pictures and make them look better on the computer.

I want to be done with JBC and all the school work.

I want to be able to say what I want to my parents and not be scared.

I want to never have another migraine in my whole entire life.

I want to be a skinny blond. (Ok, the blond part I can do without!)

I want to be a Mommy. (One day done the road.)

I want to be in search of God with my whole being all the time. Not just part of the time when I find it convenient.

I want . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to much right now .

Alone Time in the Mountians

Rick and I had a great weekend up at camp. We go there Friday evening and just hung around and I cooked dinner for my husband for the first time! I cooked pork chops in the skillet, green beans and canned yams. It wasn’t a lot but it still made me very nervous!
Saturday we got up, I cooked breakfast (still nervous) and we got ready to head up to the slopes. We made it up there, got our lift tickets, rented my board and Rick realized that he left his snowboard boots back at camp. We went back and got them and were on the slopes by 12:30. I went snowboarding last year and even though I fell – alot – it was still fun. This year was a different story. I got very frustrated with myself. I was having a difficult time with re-getting the hang of it. I fell a ton – falls that hurt, sprained my ankle couple times, twisted my knee, hit in the back with a tree, cracked my head . . .and that is just all of the big stuff. I made it down once, went to Starbucks and stayed there the rest of the day. I was so upset. I wasted our money and I wasn’t getting the hang of the sport that my husband enjoyed. After Rick was done snowboarding we meet up with some friends of Rick’s that live/work at Snowshoe. We went to a chocolate tasting and had Mikey work on Rick’s boots and bindings. Tracey and Mikey gave us free lift tickets and Mikey gave me a free rental on Ski’s, so we decided to come back on Sunday and I would try skiing to see if I liked that better. We didn’t get back to camp until 10pm. I was sore, my cold was getting worse and I was not looking forward to the next day.
Sunday we slept in, I made pancakes while Rick worked outside. Around noon we loaded up and headed back to the slopes. I clipped into the skies and away I went. It was so much easier than snowboarding. I understood how it all worked and I was able to control my movements better. I fell only a handful of times (I never go the hang of standing back up) and I was really liking it! My body was sore and my muscles were screaming at me to stop, but I stayed out there for about 1 ½ hours – 10 times down the bunny slope! :0 ) I can’t wait to go again – next time my muscles will be fresh and I will attempt going on a ‘big kid’ slopes. :0)
We spent the rest of the evening at camp. I took a much needed nap while Rick worked outside. We made a fire and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. The perfect ending to a great weekend . . . . . or so we thought. I had to go inside to blow my nose and I looked over at Spunkette’s cage and the door was hanging wide open and no Spunkette in the cage!!! I ran outside yelling for Rick to come it. We started hunting for her – but after we unset the mouse trap and looked around the burning hot furnace. We finally found her behind the couch and we trapped her and Rick scooped her up in to his safe arms. :0) I was feeling so upset that I had left the door open and it was my entire fault. But later on we were just sitting around and watching her go crazy with her chewing and saw her open the door with her body!! We both jumped up and ran for the door before she could get out again. Rick got a couple of zip ties and we had to close her door permanently. We have a very clever little girl on our hands! :0)
We packed up and cleaned camp and left early Monday morning. We were both sad that we had to leave so soon. It was such a relaxing time with just the two of us.

Spunkette

I haven’t blogged in awhile. It mainly has to do with, when I am at my parents – they have no internet. And then this week, I have no internet in my room because my computer has decided to reject it. So, I am sitting at Panera Bread.
Last week was a very long week. By Tuesday I was missing Rick so badly!!! I thought that I could do it – be away form him for just 5 days. I mean, we dating long-distance for 2 years!! It wasn’t supposed to be that hard. Wrong!!! I don’t ever want to do that again! (at least in the near future :0) )
My Dr. visit didn’t go as well as I had hoped. He needs to do a CT Scan but insurance has to pre-certify it and that can take up to two weeks!! And the Doc wouldn’t say anything that he thought until he sees the scan. So, I left there with no answers or hope for surgery. I was very bummed.
The rest of the week, I worked a little bit at the daycare. Because I have been ‘trained’ in every class room, I get to move around a lot and see all of ‘my’ kids. I love all of them SO much!!
Staying with my parents and siblings wasn’t that great. I hate there house and how cluttered and dirty it is. I am still not used to my mom working full-time. I want her to stay at home and take care of the house and cook real dinners. Just like it used to be. I feel like my brother is missing out on what our family used to be like and then way it should be. But at the same time, I know my mom enjoys her job and they need to extra money. So I guess I need to just grow up and get over it. :0)
Rebecca cut my hair last week. I was her first girl haircut! She took off at least 4 inches on the front and about 2-3 inches on the back. (I will post a pic soon) She did a really good job. But it wasn’t supposed to be this short. She still needs to work on her length judging! :0) I think that I am going to have her even up the back with the front next time I see her. It is going to be pretty handy having her around! Free haircuts from now on!!
Last week, I got all of my supplies that I needed for my new pet. And on Monday of this week, I went on a hamster hunt. I wanted to find the perfect hamster. So, I drove 60 miles around Richmond to 5 different stores! But I found her. She is a young hamster but not a baby. That means it will be easier to train her to like us and play with us. She is white and gray and her name is Spunkette Rover the third. Right now she is extremely skittish around us. But I am hoping it is just because she is in a new environment with new people. Rick seems to like her. He talk to her and is trying to let her get used to his scent. And the other morning as he was leaving for work, he walked over to her and told her bye. How sweet! :0) I am just slightly disappointed though. All she does during the daytime (the hours that Rick is at work) is sleep. And as soon as Rick gets home, she is awake and playing around. The whole point of me getting a hamster was because I was lonely during the day and needed a friend. Some friend! :0) I know that hamster are nocturnal, but all the other hamsters we had didn’t stick to that role as much as Spunkette.

Her new house

Checking out her jeep

Sleeping . . .always sleeping