A fun video of how much Dexter loves his bones (:

We get Dexter the 6ish inch bones from Walmart that are only a couple of bucks, and he absolutely LOVES those things!! He'll chew them down to the size in the video in about a week, maybe a week and a half. And he absolutely loves to play with them when they get this small! He didn't do it in this video, but sometimes he'll grab it in his mouth, throw it across the room, chase it, then throw it to the opposite side of the room. He'll do this forever! It's so cute. I love how he can entertain himself sometimes (:

Dexter and The Bug

[The title sounds like it could be a cute children's book, huh?!]

I was sitting on my couch working on Project Life, when I noticed Dexter across the room, standing on his back legs, right in front of the window. "Cute!" I thought, "He's looking at the kids across the street!"

Wrong. There was a ginormous bug in between the window and the curtain that couldn't get out, and Dexter wanted to play with it! He started pawing at it and jumping up, then going back down, and then up again. It was the cutest/funniest thing! He was over there for probably about 10 minutes, just trying to figure out some way to play with the bug.

He's swatting at the bug in this picture, haha

We have the cutest puppy! I just love him!


Also, I snapped this picture of him the other day.. I've been keeping our black curtains closed most days because if I open them, it gets really hot inside. Dex used to love sitting on top of the couch so he could look out the window, and apparently he's been missing that lately!

Haha, trying to see as much as he could through the curtains. Don't worry, I opened them for him after I took this picture, and he was MUCH happier (:

Dexter in a sink.

I gave Dexter a bath the other day because he gets into the most random things when he goes in our yard. I don't know what it is, but it stinks and is goopey in some spots, and then turns brown and hard. And it's gross. Anyways, he was in need of a bath, so I gave him one. And when I took him out, I wrapped him in his towel and was trying to dry him off, but it's hard to do with a puppy that just wants to climb right up onto your shoulder and then jump out of the bathroom. So I was wanting to put him down so I could towel dry him some more, but I didn't want him running around the house getting everything wet.

And my only solution at the time was to put him in the sink. I wasn't sure how he would react, but I did it anyways. Turns out, he kinda liked it! He just sat there, looking and sniffing around, and it was the cutest thing. But of course I didn't have my camera with me, so I picked Dexter up, walked to the front room, grabbed my camera, and headed back to the bathroom. I made sure to have the camera ready as soon as I put him in the sink to capture what I just saw, and that's how I got these:

I had to stop taking pictures though, because this started to happen:

 He was gonna jump. And although he probably would have be fine, I didn't want to risk it.

There's just something about black and white pictures of my wet pup that I love so much.

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On a totally unrelated note, "scheduling posts" on my blog has been a recent obsession of mine. I first realized I could do it about two weeks ago, and I've been finding reasons and topics to post blogs about, just so I can space them out throughout the week. Like today, I've scheduled 5 posts to be posted between now (Wednesday night) and Monday (which is most likely today for you, since that's when I've scheduled this post to air) except for one more PLT (Project Life Thursday) which won't post until next Thursday (my birthday!!). I used to always get in moods where I would write tons of blog posts about the most random things, and hit "publish" one after another. But this way, I can make it look like I am a normal blogger that blogs on a regular basis. PSYCH! You should try it out. Even if you can't think of things to post. Just make up something. It's the coolest thing.

Anyways, I should probably get to sleep now.. Cody's been out for about an hour, but I couldn't fall asleep. Probably because I knew I needed to schedule more posts! Good night, blog world!

Plant, plants, Dexter, and random. What a fun post!

So, I'm officially obsessed with plants! We currently have 8, because of the sweet bunco prize that I won tonight! Like I said on Facebook, I love it when I bring a super awesome prize, and then I win and get to pick first, and take home what I brought.. It makes me so happy!! Here's the two plants:

We bought them at Lowes and all together, both plants, pots, and pot bottoms, came to $10.11! Such a good deal! And I bought the clay pots so I could customize them to our room, and I'll probably paint them black and white like this one that I did last night:

This plant (and the other Croton that we had) just doesn't want to stay alive! So many leaves have fallen off already, but these ones that are left are goin strong! I got the idea for the painting from none other than Elise Blaha Cripe, of course. I just love her and her sense of style. It's not perfect, as I just freehanded the whole thing, but it's perfect enough for me because I LOVE IT!

So now on that shelf thing, we have all four of these plants:

Such a happy sight, right?!

Also, if you didn't see the picture on FB, Cody and I planted a few fruits and veggies. See?

 There's cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, beans, peas, squash, gray pumpkin, and two different types of tomatoes. And look what I found when I went outside tonight??!?!

One cucumber plant decided to make an appearance!! He's the first one so far, but I have high hopes for the rest of them (:

Also, it was this little dude's birthday on Monday! One year old!! He was so cute and sleepy all day (:

So, for a long time, I've been wanting a cute necklace with Cody's initial on it because he has a necklace that reminds him of me, and I had my eye on this one. It never felt right to get it, and then on Memorial Day weekend, I looked again and she had it on sale for $13.50! So I snatched it right up. I LOVE IT!

The chain it came with was actually like 2 inches shorter than this, and I hated it, so I ghettoly added a few more inches using another big chain.

A few days ago, Cody and I wanted hot dogs, but didn't want to put them in the microwave. And since we don't have a grill, we made a fire in our back yard and cooked some up!

 Yes, that's a paint roller without the foam thing. We got desperate.

 We brought the rest of our food outside, along with Dexter's food, and watched Raising Hope on the computer. Beautiful weather, great food, awesome show.. I'd say it was a wonderful night!

 Oh.. and then one of the metal pokeys from the paint roller just came off. Whoops!

 I love my cute boys!

 Isn't this peony BEAUTIFUL?! Dexter liked the smell apparently.

 So it sat in our kitchen for a few days until it died.

Also, last Friday we went camping with Cody's family for their annual family campout, and Dexter found a dead snake right before we left!

Yummy, right?! I was trying to get a video of it, because he was so happy and proud of himself for finding it! He was practically leaping everywhere he went!

And then Cody and I were shooting Austin's bow and arrows, and Cody got a bullseye...

 And I got all four of my arrows on the box! Let it be known that this was my first time shooting a bow and arrow since I was like 7, and the arrows weren't the best. I'M AWESOME, RIGHT?!

 This post is almost long enough to be called a book, so I'll end with my skills. See ya on the flip side, or whenever I do something that's worthy of a post.

Oh, weekends (:

FRIDAY

Friday was the start of our weekend, as usual, and it started off by getting happy news that Kaylee had her baby boy!! Paxon Jeffrey Richardson, 7lb 9oz. He's so cute!! I am flying out to Arizona on Wednesday and get to stay until Monday! My mom is there right now, so I'm excited to see her too!

After hearing that news, we went out to eat with a couple of Cody's high school buddies and their wives. Brett and Alissa and Spencer and Mirisha (just married last week!). We went out to eat at DP Cheesesteaks, and if you haven't been there before, YOU ARE SERIOUSLY MISSING OUT! It was honestly one of the best things I've ever eaten. It's about $7 a person if you get a meal, but only like $5ish without the meal and just the sandwich. But we had a blast talking, getting to know Mirisha, and eating delicious food. Afterwards, we headed over to Trafalga for some mini-golf and batting cages. Since we bought the pass of all passes, it was free for us! Let me just say, I was doing so well for the first 10 holes or so! My score was +2!! I wanted to get a picture of all of us, but forgot. But I did get a picture of Cody in the batting cages!

I'm pretty sure Cody would live here if I'd let him. He was telling me that before I knew him, he would stop by the batting cages everyday after school and just hit all night long until they closed. HE LOVES BASEBALL!

SATURDAY

Yesterday was so wonderful! I love being able to be with Cody every second of the day. We decided to hike up Stewart Falls. We had both been there before, but it had been a long time for both of us (Cody- since 5th grade, me-since 2010). So we brought our little puppy with us and had such a wonderful time on the trail, and it was so peaceful and beautiful! We didn't encounter people until the last tiny bit of the stretch before the actual falls, so the whole time was spent enjoying the beautiful world and talking our little hearts out. We absolutely love being outside and have missed it so much!!

Can you find me? *Hint- I'm the one "in" the water!

 There was a little bit of snow close to the falls, but the weather was so warm and sunny that I didn't even care! It was such a dream to be able to be up there!

Dex was our fearless leader on the way back down the hike.. He loved exploring and sniffing everything. 

We ended the night by going to Spencer and Mirisha's open house in Highland, and it was good to see them again before they head back to Idaho for school. 

SUNDAY

Today was so peaceful! Cody and I slept in, like we do every weekend, then ate some yummy blueberry waffles and bacon. Then we got ready for church and had a lovely walk over there. I love living so close to our meeting house!!! I was feeling the spirit so strongly today, and loved the talks on The Family: A Proclamation to the World. For the closing song we sang, "Families Can Be Together Forever" and I was tearing up because I'm so blessed to have found my eternal companion, be living such a wonderful life, and to be know the truthfulness of the gospel. Then onto Primary, where I started teaching one of our Mother's Day songs! It was called, "My Mother Dear" and I had them do simple body movement/signs to get them to remember the lyrics.

"Like sunshine in the morning that wakens day from night,

Like flowers in the springtime so colorful and bright,

Like happy songs of bluebirds that fill the air with cheer,

A person bright and lovely is my mother dear."

This song also made me tear up because I miss my Mom. Good thing I get to see her in 3 days! Once the kids were more familiar with the song, we played this game, and it was really fun! They were all very engaged, and loved it!

Once we got home, I made some lasagna, and then we headed over to the park to enjoy the beautiful weather. We played Yahtzee, layed around, and even colored a little bit!

If I had to rate this weekend, I'd give it two thumbs up (: Excited for this next week, and send a few prayers our way that Cody's 2 interviews go well tomorrow!!

My boys

  These next two were seconds apart..

This was yesterday after church.. so sleepy!

Dex is such a cuddle bug (:

Also, not related to my adorable boys, (but I don't want to write another post just for this) we finally got real curtains for our front room so we can have some privacy from the world!!

My house was messy.. I didn't want you to be distracted from the reason of this picture.. the curtains!! Aren't they just beautiful?!?

Dexter

You already know how much I love our little puppy. Because he is just so cute and kind and forgiving and lovable. Well, I'm here to let you laugh a little bit (: These are some pictures from his first bath a while ago.

He kept trying to get out.. poor thing.

Look at those little chicken legs!!

To say he hated it is a complete understatement. And of course I was laughing my head off the whole time while simultaneously feeling bad and saying "Aw.. we're so mean!" And that's what I say every time we've given him a bath since. It's just so funny sometimes! He hates any water now, of course. Although we haven't taken him to a lake and let him swim around, but I don't think he'd go for it anyways.