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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.

a mini style icon

kingston rossdale

i have and always will be a huge gwen stefani fan. i think she has an incredible since of style, a little eccentric, but she rocks it. and she has the most adorable family, ever. her husband is not only sexy as hell but also one of the reasons that we (dan and i) have a gavin of our own. i've been in love with the name gavin since i have known who gavin rossdale is. his name just rolls off of your tongue so easily. then gavin and gwen got married and created, this beautiful little boy, KINGSTON. i love kingston rossdale. he is the cutest little boy ever... ever. (he just might even top gavin schroeder).. i even love his name and if i didn't know that kingston was a town near litchfield i would be tempted to name a son kingston. kingston has the most unique and adorable since of style (or maybe it's because his parents are ah-maze and dress him so cute) and i'm going to try to make (my) gavin a mini kingston. since gavin was born i've dreamed of cutting a sweet mohawk into is hair.. and since gavin was born with little to no hair i've been patiently waiting. his hair just might be long enough to make into a gnarly mohawk this summer! i would even consider bleaching it to match kingstons if that would be something he would want down the road. ;) but for now, a mohawk will be our newest style in the summer. also, i love how kingston wears whatever.. sometimes it matches, sometimes it's a costume or sometimes it's just a random assortment of mismatched items.

if you see (my) gavin dressed in mismatched items, you'll know where i got the

ideas from :) and i'm DYING to find a pair of boots like kingstons!

bless this house..

we're updating.... finally. remember my blog post a month or so ago? it was about all the "home improvements" we need to do... well, folks we've started. the bathroom is all tiled (floor and walls) with beautiful ceramic and glass tiles. i'm so in love with it, and dan did such a wonderful job. now we just need to grout (sp) it and move some things back in. our vanity/sink is on back order for the time being and we can't decide on what to do for our toilet paper and towel holder... decisions decisions. we have just decided on the paint for the bathroom, i love it. so one day it will eventually be put all back together and when that time comes i will post a new and improved picture of our newly updated bathroom. dan thought it would be a good idea to tear up our maroon carpet that was in our living room (THANK YOU!!!!!!!!) on saturday night and we discovered beautiful old hardwood floors. they need a little TLC and refinishing, but it will save us a lot of $$$ instead of laying new flooring. i am so proud of dan, he's such a hard worker. our house will be looking "newer" in no time flat! let's just hope i can keep this fire under his ass, and hope we can keep some funds in our account as well. i can't get over how expensive it is to remodel. and how fast that money can go. thankfully, under all the pink carpet in our bedroom is beautiful flooring as well... so that's next to go :) ...and that is all we did this weekend. and it was fabulous. this upcoming weekend is BUSY BUSY BUSY. and that goes along with our summer. already we have six weddings... but the highlight of the busy wedding season is that with dan and celeste's wedding up at vermilion we're having an extended weekend get-a-way, just dan and i. can't wait.

two really good reads..

march madness: the snow

there is a couple good things that come out of A LOT of snow- and no it's not the fact that the snow banks are up to my head on the end of our lawn. the phone call at 6 am saying school was closed is the best, by far!

1. a stay at home, with out your child but with your husband, kind of day. i'm honestly watching twilight as we speak because i'm lame like that... and i haven't watched a movie that wasn't rated G without a little munchkin running around in A LONG time.
2. dan's getting to go snowmobiling all day long. which this year hasn't happened all that much, even though we've been so blessed with quite a bit of snow this year.
3. gavin's at daycare. enough said.
4. a yummy roast, potatoes, carrots and celery are in the slow cooker as we speak. it's going to be delicious!!! cannot wait!
5. i get to finish my book that i forgot to send with danielle on her trip (sorry).
6. only TWO days until spring break- tomorrow will be spent without kids and just in the office and friday will fly by like it usually does.
7. i get to play with my new camera that i got from my hunny for my birthday... i haven't had a small digital camera since septemeber, two years ago, so i'm so excited to try out it's features.. it's a canon SD1400 IS and my last camera was a 630 or something so this is like NEW NEW NEW to me.. and i might take a picture or two of this snow- it is pretty, you have to admit that.
8. breakfast with dan this morning too. sipping coffee and taking our dear sweet time eating was so fabulous!
9. all the cleaning is done in my house, so there's no need for that. just some dishes and a small load of laundry is on my "to do" list.
10. a day at home. with nothing much to do... it is just so peaceful!

i hope you are enjoying a day off of work/school as well. but if you don't please be careful if you're traveling... AND i hope you have 4 wheel drive. some of the roads are nasty!