Lazy Thursday, sort of.....

Today was rainy and cold in the ol MN. Ellie and I didn't do much except take a ride down to get the mail. We have watched many the cartoon, and now I am watching "Into the Wild" while she is taking a nap. I will let you all know how it was or if I would recommend it for you to see.

I have been a little productive today. I have washed all the dishes we have used today, and I have done 4 loads of laundry. Now I am making dinner so that it is ready for when the wife gets home. It is a turkey breast tenderloin that is flavored with garlic and lemon sauce. Not sure how it is going to turn out, but we will see!!

That is about all for now. I am going to watch this movie and see how it is.

Greg

Diego......animal rescuer????

So we are watching Diego today, which I am not a big fan of. But because the child likes him (and frickin Dora) we watch it. Well during this episode of Diego he is "rescuing" an octopus. Mmmm, ok.

Anyways, Ellie is watching this heroic "rescue" and started yelling opplepoos!!! Now even though I hate these 2 shows, apparently Ellie does learn something from them. She frickin said opplepoos (or octopus as we would call it)!!

I almost spit out my peanut butter sandwich (just for you Daddy-O) from laughing so hard at the way Ellie was carrying on. Then in the middle of all of this, she starts yelling "PICHANGA"!!! What in the hell is pichanga I ask myself? I soon find out, when I ask Ellie to point to "pichanga" what she is saying. Any guesses? Baby Jaguar. Yes you heard it right. Baby Jaguar is what pichanga is. I guess.

2 year olds crack me up!!

G

And now its Wednesday

So I see I have been a bad blog friend again, and have not posted in a while. Things have been busy, busy around our house lately and I am just trying to keep up.

I have been working a lot the last few days, and it is going to be nice to be gone from our building for the next couple days. I wish I could tell you guys all the scandalous details about what is going on, but there has been a gag order put on us. But oh, when and if it is lifted, I have a juicy story for you all!!

Home has been busy too. We have been digging up flower beds, planting, mowing, watering, and just general clean up. I am hoping to get out and do some more work tonight when Kris gets home. It is time to do some tree trimming, and I think I can get some of it done myself. I am going to try and tackle some of the smaller stuff, and then a friend from work is going to come over and he and I are going to take down a couple trees and trim a few others. His dad used to own a tree trimming business, so my friend has the experience. Plus he is going to do it for steaks on the grill and beer!!

Normally, a tree service that you hire would charge about $400 a tree. We have 3 trees that are coming down. So steaks and beer is really a pretty good deal!!

Well I hear Ellie is walking around upstairs. Time to go and get her up and get some breakfast.

More soon,

Greg

Field of Honor

Today is the start of the Memorial Day weekend. It was also the day that our town put together what is called a Field of Honor. You may be asking what the hell is a field of honor? Well it is a field of flags that are bought by people to honor the people in there lives that served in the armed forces. Well in RW tonight there were over 300 flags dedicated. It was a very cool ceremony and it was just a cool thing in general.


Here are some photos from tonight.







Tomorrow we start re-doing our flower beds. We are getting all our flowers and hostas from BOO BOO and Daddy-O. We were looking at buying all our flowers and such from a nursery and we were dreading the bill on what this was going to cost us. Fortunately for us, the in laws are getting a new driveway and need to tear up a flower bed that is in the way. This equals lots of flowers and hostas for us.

I hope to take some before pics and then some during and after pics as well. Maybe, if I work hard, we will have a transformed front yard!!

Till Tomorrow.

Greg

1 weekend down, many to go

Last weekend was my first weekend on days. The weekend went good, and for the most part work was slow. The only excitement was a guy that came to jail overnight, and did not want to change into our jail clothes. We later found out he didn't want to change because he was wearing orange lace women's thong underwear. AHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA. Needless to say, this made our weekend.

After work last night we went and got some groceries. While in the checkout line, a large man wanted to give me a high five because I was wearing a tshirt he liked. Then he noticed my hat, which had the sheriff's star on it. He then proceeded to tell me how he was going to sue the police and sheriff's department for not responding to his call for help. I was also told that he was going to get a couple of my co-workers badges. This kind of rambling went on for about 3 minutes. He wen on and on and finally I had to tell him "I don't mean to be rude, but I am trying to shop with my family." I guess he got the point, because he said he was sorry and walked away. I am guessing that he was not right in the head, and may cause the local dispatchers some headaches. We were not in RW, and so I was trying to be as polite as possible.

Ellie and I are home today and it is suppose to rain. Yippee. I am going to try and play inside and make it fun for her.

Well I have to go and try and make Ellie's 24 month doc appointment. Wish me luck, and hopefully I can post later again today.

Greg

Birthday Party #2

Tonight we had a nice time with my family for Ellie's birthday. We met at Liberty's, which is a local restaurant. The food was good and it was nice to see everyone. Then we headed down to Levee Park and opened the gifts that we for Ellie. Here is some pictures of the opening.

And there you have it. We had a good time and wish we could see them more often. It is not often that my sister gets to see Ellie, so it was nice to have her down here to!

I work my first day of days tomorrow morning and I couldn't be more excited. It will be nice to be with my family at night again and not have such a screwed up schedule.

Greg

BIrthday Party #1

Tonight was the first party of the week for Ellie. Tomorrow we are having dinner with my family, but tonight was all about Ellie and her friends and family that could make it.


Ellie received many nice gifts and I think she had a lot of fun too!!
Here are some pics from the evening.







I am finally headed back to days starting on Friday. I am not real sure how long this is going to last though. A guy from a different crew is going to road patrol and this would open up a full time intake position. This position is a coveted one that I am the next in line to get. This does mean that I would have to go back to nights for a little while, but it would mean that I would have to position that I really want to be in. So right now we are just waiting for the official word to come out that the other guy is going to the road. It should be no later than July when I switch.

Not much else going on, so hopefully I can remember to blog and also FIND the time to post.

That is all for now.

Greg