A picture is worth a thousand words...

I think I've been avoiding posting because so so so so so much has happened in the last month or so that whenever I start thinking about updating it just feels like it's not a good time. The irony of this is that it's nearly midnight right now and I took something to help me sleep about two and a half hours ago. So, long story short, if I'm not entirely coherent, bear with me. Anyway, it's been a full month.

We have a new addition to the family - albeit a temporary one. We're dog sitting while my brother gets his family situated before he deploys for Afghanistan in September. I'm glad that we can pitch in. The part I was unprepared for, however, was this.

I haven't had a dog since I was about 10 and even then, he was outside all of the time. I try to vacuum daily but I've never seen anything like the way that dog sheds. Jacks a good dog, though.

We've been making progress on our house too.

Our landlord has been kind enough to allow us to do whatever we want to the place and just take it out of our rent. So we paint. And paint. I've been working mostly on ceilings so that I can start doing walls. Walls are way more fun.

But then we had a less fun incident.

That's my car, and that's water. We got 10" of rain over the course of about two hours after having major thunderstorms all day. This picture was taken at 3:30 in the morning when we realized that our street had become a river. We were not thrilled. The car was totalled. It'll all work out though.

At any rate, that's us for the moment. Happy Mother's Day everyone!