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since waste management decided to give us a HUGE recycling can we have had about 75% less actual garbage go out every friday. our garbage can was so empty that dan threw in some of the miscellaneous extras that we've been waiting to throw out since starting out "bathroom project". it's so nice to see all the cans/glass/paper/cardboard go into the recycling bin :) but not so great to see all the beer cans the boys tend to drink on the weekends. do you know how much of our "waste" can be recycled? much more than you'd think.

saving the world one recycling can at a time.

it's the 7th hour on a friday

it's FRIDAY and i'm up, gavin's at daycare and i have a beautiful cup of coffee sitting in front of me.

i've been sick all week long, including sunday. i think i got the flu after sipping from the same glass as a friend. i've been tired (hence my last post), sensitive, sick and well lets just say i think i very well could of lost 10 lbs on my "flu diet". i had no appetite and if i did eat i couldn't hold anything down. so with that being said, i feel great!

i only worked two days this week, which has good and bad advantages! but i have monday off as well. this weekend is so so so incredibly busy, i don't think we'll be attending everything like we usually do and i'll be ready for another day off.

i get to be reunited with two beautiful women! miss ashley noble, soon to be gaulrapp, and kathryn sutton! ahh yes :) i'm rolling up to the cities on saturday morning to get my hair done and sliding down to owatonna for ashleys shower/bachelorette party. our family is suppose to be having easter on my dad's side on saturday night but i don't think i'll be back in time. then sunday we slide down even farther to new ulm to celebrate a easter luncheon with dan's family. very busy, very expensive (gas) weekend. sadly, no church for us.

today i'm going to try to get to see kelly and her new baby brenna to get my baby fix, AND clean the entire house.

what are you doing for easter?

next weekend won't be any less busy. helping brenda with prom hair all day saturday (while sipping on mimoisas) and a book party and LONG overdue shopping trip for gavin and i on sunday. just when i think our life starts to slow down i think ahead to the next weekend and realize that it won't.... just yet. and dan, well his life is never slow. i swear he ALWAYS has something planned, fixing, helping... doing something for someone. and yet, we seem to get to have good family time, most weekends :)

oh oh oh- i forgot. i am so honored to be a part of sarah and shawns wedding in september. she has asked me to not only do some of the hair for the wedding, but also be her personal attendant... gavin will be a ring bearer and dan is a groomsman so i can't even imagine the crrrraziness of that weekend!

..so

i'm exhausted.

everyday, sometimes all day, am to pm...

i have been getting more than enough sleep but this weeks honestly been the longest yet.

is it friday?

yesterday (wednesday) i had to go through the doggy door, or try to fit through the jagged corners at 7am. it didn't work. i locked my keys in the garage and stupid me left all the extra garage door openers in my car- whoopsies...

so i had to call my mom for a ride to work. i felt like i was back in middle school. not impressed. so after work, after i drove my moms car from howard lake back to litchy, i got in through the doggy door, picked up gavin, got in the car, grabbed treats and headed back to howard lake to pick up my mom. it was a long day.

today was fairly easy, or as easy and stress free as any 'working' day can be. so why am i exhausted? clearly, no idea.

gavin on the other hand, is not. he's babbling to himself in his bed.

current favorite words: dada, mama, papa, gama, chicken, all done, kitty, cluck cluck, and more (his favorite word to say and sign). by the way have i told you that i had a crash course in sign language since starting my job. signing is amazing and i'm getting really good at it, fast. the only downfall is i sign when i go home and dan thinks i'm slightly crazy. gavin is really catching on so that's a good thing since he can't put sentences together yet, and yet is the key word. things are coming though: more milk, all done, more please (ease).

anyways, i'm tired so i'm going to bed. we have NOOO plans what so ever for the weekend, which is kind of odd so i'm hoping for some good r&r.