Our little Pooch!

A lot of our friends have cute young kids that they post about all the time with updates and pictures (which we love to see and read by the way)! But as you know James and I do not have kids...yet! The closest thing we have to a child right now is our little pooch AJ who we love very much and sometimes treat like he is our child! Anyways we have taken some fun pics of him this weekend and thought we would go with a post all about AJ! Hope you enjoy!

AJ started out this beautiful weekend by getting a "doggy sundae" from Bruster's when we went there after school! Yep I think he enjoyed this treat!
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This morning I made yet another green smoothie for James and I to have with our breakfast and we decided it was time for AJ to try some (James read on one of the green smoothie websites that they are good for dogs too!) I'm not quite sure he liked this one as much as the ice cream though! OK I've tried about 5 times to get the video to upload but it just won't work...so i'm gonna try again later!

Finally we thought we'd take a few pictures of AJ doing one of his favorite things lately which is playing fetch in the yard. James took him for a walk and played fetch with him yesterday and then I played with him this afternoon...guess he was full of energy after that green smoothie!

AJ sitting and waiting for the ball to be thrown

There he goes folks...he's got it and it bringing it back for another throw!

All tired out and ready to take a nap!

Everyone is Irish.

Today of course is St. Patrick's day.

The day started off by making an extra tasty green yummy batch of green smoothies for the 3rd grade team. Tasty Tasty!

Even Mr. Harvey jumped on the green smoothie bandwagon.

Quite the nice tie for $1.

Those rowdy Leprechauns up to no good! Little did Anna or I know that those pesky Leprechauns would come visit her room today. They looked to have a passion of destroying anything that was green. I think they escaped through the window. Darn, those pesky creatures.

They were out of control!

Before we left the house today AJ got to put on his green hat. I am not sure he liked it all that much. I don't know though what do you think?

Hope everyone has a great St. Patrick's day.

Fun Friday at the Chattanooga Aquarium

This past week James and I had to go to Tennessee for a few things. While we were there we got to spend a lot of time with his family including his great Aunt Gertrude who is going to be 95 next month so needless to say any time that we are able to spend with her is wonderful! We also got the chance to go to Chattanooga to the aquarium which I had never been to before. We really enjoyed it and ended up getting season passes in hopes to go back there again sometime. We went with Michael and Sidney and had a lot of fun spending the day with them also. Here are some pictures that we took at the aquarium while we were there!

Me petting a sting ray...they were surprisingly squishy when you touch them!

We all know James loves his penguins! I tried to get a picture of him and Michael in front of the tanks but the penguins look kind of fake in the background.

An eel and some jellyfish...both things that we hope NOT to see while we are scuba diving!

This was a pretty cool picture of a starfish that James got in one of the tanks!

The big sea turtle! He was hard to get because it was so dark in the tank.

We all took pictures in front of the tank by the river otters. Those otters were pretty fun to watch but a little too fast to get a good picture of!

Fun Friday!

Well lets just say that today was a BUSY Friday to say the least! We started off our day in Kindergarten today with our African marketplace. Our kids have been studying Africa for the past two weeks and they made goods to be sold in the market today. They got to come in and barter with us to buy some things for themselves! It is always one of my favorite things that we do each year and this year was no exception...the word "Jambo" means hello is Swahili which I why I chose the song for this post just in case you were wondering! Anyways here are a few pictures from the market!



After school we had a baby shower for one of our first grade teachers, Andrea, who is going to have a little boy in just a few weeks! We got to see some 4-D ultrasounds of him and they were really quite amazing!

The mommy to be with her new hand made blanket from Diane

A cool little "diaper cake"

Melissa & Andrea


After the shower we went back to Melissa's room and I got to cut James's hair! Our neighbor usually does both of our hair but she had surgery a few weeks ago and is unable to cut hair yet so James was stuck with me doing it instead! I was a little nervous at first (and I think he was too) but it turned out pretty good if you ask me!

Here we go!

The "before" shot...doesn't he look happy?

Melissa putting on the finishing touches and trimming up around his ears.

Well Melissa and I are off now to go see The Wizard of Oz which is being put on near us and it includes a lot of students from our school as munchkins so it should be fun! Never a dull moment around here...hopefully we will get some rest and relaxation in at some point this weekend though!

Will it blend?

Say it ain't green?

The idea of a green smoothie has been an interesting one to me. Most people I know would love to try a smoothie made out of banannas and pineapples etc, but not many have jumped at the idea of trying one made with Kale or romaine lettuce. We were in Costco a month or so ago and this amazing piece of creation caught out eye.

We stalked it for a few weeks and were able to get a good deal on it. Anna has even been heard calling it her "NEW LOVE". Who would have thought that I would have been replaced by a blender. It is pretty useful and I am starting to see where she is coming from. We have a short video that follows that shows you one of our green smoothie creations.

We are still working on the recipe daily to get it just right for a good ole St. Patrick's day celebration. A.J. thinks we are crazy but little does he know that he will soon get to experience the yummy green treats for himself. Yes...... thats right green smoothies for dogs. Oh Boy!

You can watch other videos of the blender in action at

http://www.willitblend.com/

Other than the blender we have started watching season one of Prison Break. It is a show that we have wanted to watch for a long time but quit because we missed most of the episodes. We are almost through seaon one. Sorry this is short but gotta get focused on more Prison Break and progress reports for school. Oh Boy!

Hope everyone is well and that everyone actually not just reads the blog but starts leaving us comments. It is easy to do!

Here are some pictures of flowers that I got Anna for Valentines day. She is such a great wife and deserves everything in the world. The flowers just help radiate her beauty! Enjoy.

This is really the size of her heart. I thought it fit.

Here is the video. Click on it to start it. Hopefully you like it. It may even inspire you to start your own green smoothie revolution. Good luck! Sorry the video is sideways. It just adds to the experience.

A Beautiful Day!

Well with the absolutely amazing weather that we got today we were able to get outside and get some fresh air by taking AJ to the park which was a great time. I just finished up some grad school work and wanted to update the blog since I haven't done that in a little while...but realized that I really don't have much new to update with...so I decided to add a few more pics from our trip that we didn't have in the previous posts...who knows maybe it's the warm weather that makes me think of it, I don't know!

Looking at each one of these pictures definitely makes me smile though and makes me so thankful that I have such a wonderful husband who took the time to plan each detail of our trip just for me...as I was adding pictures to this post James was sitting in the living room and working on some papers for school and one of the songs from our wedding, "I Will Be Here" by Steven Curtis Chapman came on the radio...for those of you who were at the wedding that is the song that played while we screwed up the unity sand (haha!). Anyways it only took a few notes of the song before we both knew what it was and James called me into the other room so that we could dance together for a minute...it's times like that one that make me remember how lucky I am to have such a wonderful man who cares so much about me! Ok enough lovey dovey stuff...here are a few pictures!

James and I on our big date night on the boat...we went to the "fancy" restaurant that night which was fun but I don't think that either of us REALLY know what we ate that night!

This was in Ft. Lauderdale before we left on the cruise at the Hard Rock hotel...can anyone guess why we took this pic?

Our cruise ship, the Miracle!

This was our first sunset picture that we took on the boat, that is the city line in Miami.

A few other sunset and sunrise pics from our trip!

Each night when we came back to our room our bed was turned down and we had a little buddy waiting for us...we had to take a few pictures of them!

This is probably one of my favorite pictures that James took...it is a horse in Cozumel wearing a sombrero...I thought that was awesome!

We saw a lot of iguana's in both Cozumel and Hondurras

Here we are on New Year's eve, our first night on the ship wearing our matching shirts!

Me with our awesome waiters, Rosanna and Martin...they definitely made each night at dinner a fun experience!

And of course you all know I couldn't post pictures of the cruise without including a tiki hut!

Alright well I hope I didn't bore you with more pictures from the trip...hopefully I will find something else to update about soon when I find our camera too that is "temporarily misplaced"...whoops!