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That's right, 3 more days until we leave for vacation. Saturday can't come soon enough. I am so ready for this vacation, well I guess we both are. Ben has been working his butt off this last week and a half so he can take this vacation. It will be nice to just lay around for a week, I don't know if I am going to be able to do that though! It will be a nice change :)

Plus we will get to visit with Ben's family out there. They are so wonderful and we can't wait to show them the wedding pictures since they didn't make it to the wedding. We aren't sure yet if we will make it down to Overgaard to see Ben's mom because it is a 2 hour drive and neither of us are sure we are up to that. She originally was supposed to come to Phoenix and stay, then we were supposed to meet half way and now she wants us to come all the way down there - not sure if we are making that trip. I know we are planning on going to the Phoenix Zoo and Rawhide Western Town but so far that's all for the planned events. I kind of want to be lazy and not do much anyways so this should work out perfect!

Today I should be recieving my wedding book that I made for Ben's mom from Blurb.com. We will see how it turns out, the girls on my message board gave Blurb pretty good reviews except for 1 so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Well I think that is all for now...there will be pictures and many tales I'm sure when we return from Arizona!

Sick as a dog

Now normally I don't like that expression but it's all I can use to describe how I have felt that last week. I have been sick since last Thursay and over the counter stuff that I bought is not really helping. It has helped some but not completely. I have scheduled an appt for tomorrow at the doctors but knowing my luck it will clear itself up today! Not a big suprise to me but whatever.

Getting very excited....10 days until we board our plane bound for Arizona for our honeymoon! I just can't wait. It will be so nice to get away and relax for a little bit. Plus it will be me and Ben's first real vacation EVER together. I have been a few places but we have never been anywhere together...can't wait. But now will start the craziness of getting a list together of what needs to be packed and all that.

A little of this, A little of that

So this weekend was pretty great. On Friday, we always cookout with our friends Melanie and Brian and Kyle and Liz. We take turns cooking at our houses so we can see each other each week and we don't have to cook for 2 Fridays in a row :)

So this Friday was no different except for me and Ben brought along some alcohol to make the night more interesting and everyone was grateful for it! Ronnie had been staying with us all week and after a nasty wreck on Friday with a van who stopped really quickly he was not feelin so happy. So he came along with us and had a few too. Well all had a really good time and stayed out pretty late. Saturday I worked out in the yard while Ben was at work and did some laundry. It was nice out but a little hot. Saturday night we went Tim and Christina's house for a bonfire at about 9:30. It wasn't too bad but it was kind of cold for a bonfire so we left and went where anyone would go at midnight...the bar! So we stayed there until about 1:30 am and then finally wnet home and crashed since me and Ben didn't have to work Sunday. Sunday we were pretty lazy but then we finally got motivated (after some breakfast at Bob Evans!) and did some more yard work. I pulled a bunch of weeds and cleaned up and Ben mowed the whole yard and used his grandpa's hedge trimmers to cut down our out of control bushes! Then we went over to Melanie and Brian's so Ben could help Brian in his yard since they don't have a lawn mower. Me and Melanie took off in search of white skates with pink wheels for her neice's brithday and then spent some time at Brian's mom's house. The boys called when they were done and we headed back to Mel and Bri's and then got mcDonald's together. Then we got a call from Kyle and Liz saying they wanted to have a bonfire so we went over there. Half way through the night we decided smores would be a good idea and made a late night trip to giant eagle...but all were happy to have them, no one more so then me :) We didn't leave until about 1 am again...another late night for us.

We were both off for Memorial Day so it was another day of sleeping in for us! At the last minute we decided to cook out with Kyle and Liz. We met them at Acme and picked up the food and then headed back to cook out. Of course, during Kyle cooking on the grill the heavens decided to open up for about 30 minutes. We still had our delicious food though and had a relaxing afternoon. After leaving at about 6:30 we just went home and relaxed for the rest of the night!

Just an Introduction

So I decided to try this blogging thing now.



Introduction:

Me and Ben meet in High School. In the beginning I really liked Ben but he didn't like me back - he thought I was annoying :) So we did go on 1 date to give it a try in the summer of 2000 but then it kind of fell apart after that and we went separate ways but still hung out in the same circle of friends. Well then Ben decided he liked me while I was dating someone else and decided to team up with my sister to get me to break up with him. So eventually it worked...and we started dating April 14, 2001. We have been through MANY ups and downs in our lives together and I think it has only made us stronger.



We were married on April 5, 2008 after almost 7 years of dating. It was a beautiful day! We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day or to be surrounded by our loving friends and family. It was a perfect way to start our lives together.



We currently live in Ellet, Ohio with our two dogs Harley Hog and Duke Davidson and our kitty Heaven. I work at GOJO Industries in Downtown Akron (makers of PURELL) and Ben works in sales.