Murder mysteries, sock puppets and more!

Have you ever started posting to your blog late and night, because you're waiting for your husband to finish his homework so he can warm up the bed before you get in? And you get mostly done with a very eloquently written post (with a plethora of pictures) when your narcoleptic tendencies set in and you're lucky to find the "Save Now" button before passing out? Only to wake up the next morning to find that your efforts were in vain because somehow your draft didn't save?

I know how you feel.

Believe it or not, that exact thing happened to me the last time I tried to post to this blog. So, here's the condensed version of my previous attempt to update all 5 of you readers. (Hi Mom!)

Here's what happens when we're not both at school, work or doing homework.

We solve murder mysteries over dinner. I played a hippie, Brad played the rich father of the "groom". I think we fit our parts pretty well.



We get crafty with construction paper and send it to our friends & family with love.



Brad surprises me with beautiful flowers.


Which I promptly put in a fancy vase.


We explore LA and Orange County.


We bake chocolate chip stuffed chocolate chip cookies.


We entertain visitors. (We've had around 6 sets of visitors come since we've lived here and I have taken pictures once. Once! We still love those we didn't take pictures of.) Here is my friend Marissa and her man Christopher, visiting from Olympia, WA.


We have puppet shows with old socks that look like they have faces in them. (Maybe a little gross, but hilarious!)



And occasionally we get to go home to visit! We just went up for Easter/Conference weekend, since it happened to be our Spring Break. Again, I think I only got my camera out twice, and only got 3 pictures!




Oh, and just before we left to come home, our tire blew out.


We're counting our blessings...and the days left 'til summer.