FIREFLIES!!!

I saw my first fireflies of the season! I went outside to let the dogs play for a bit, and I saw some lights across the street. I started to look closer and I realized what they were and got a really happy smile on my face! I watched for about a half hour. The dogs seemed more confused by them than anything. The first one I tried to catch Sandwich ate. But she immediately spit it back out. Eddie seemed to try to chase them but wasn't trying to actually catch them. I'm officially happy I'm here for the summer. :)

My first weekend in New York!

That's right everyone! I made it back! No dead in a gutter for me! I didn't take many pictures and they were all taken with a cell phone camera but here they are.



This is the view from the top of the Emipire States building! This was our first stop on Saturday morning. I wasn't extremely impressed but it was fun because it was with Darren. :)

This is Darren with the very tip top of the Emipire States building behind him. This is a sneaky trick they pull to make their building taller than it really is. Add a perfectly useless tower on top of it. And ta-da! After that we headed to St. Patrick's Cathedral. It's the largest Cathedral in the United States. I personally hadn't been to a cathedral before but I know this one was pretty big indeed. It was also very pretty.

While we were there we saw a wedding (which I believe is what this picture is of) and two baby christenings/blessings/baptisms (they were twins) and a lot of really pretty architecture. After that we headed to Darren's office:

He has a candy jar on his desk if you can't tell and we stole lots of it. Is it stealing if it's his? After that we headed home by going through Grand Central Station. I took a picture because this is where the lion from Madagascar comes out of the tunnel. I asked Darren to act like a lion for me for the picture but he declined.

On Sunday we went to a Flea Market and Central park and Central park zoo. I was disappointed with the zoo seeing as there wasn't a Lion, a Giraffe, a hippopotomus or a Zebra. Dumb Madagascar getting my hopes up. :( But the monkeys were funny and the see lion was entertaining. Next weekend it's the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and WICKED!!! :)

New York New York!

I'm going to New York city tomorrow night for the first time ever. I'm scared I'll be dead in a gutter somewhere come Monday or hopelessly lost and have to walk back. Darren's in New York for the summer with his 2nd year associate job and we'll see how my first visit goes. We're not planning on doing anything too exciting, maybe a small bit of sight seeing and that's about it. We're going to see Wicked later this month which is what I'm really excited for! So the purpose of this trip is to make it to New York, not die, and make it back in time for work Monday. Good luck to me!

EASTER finally....

Sorry this took so long but here's Easter pictures!

This is everyone getting ready for the great Easter egg hunt of '09. Otherwise known as "get the loot"

She's not old enough to hunt yet but she chilled with us anyway.

Mallory found the only golden egg with only a little bit of help. Okay it may have been more than little help because this hole in the wall was covered by a calendar and she's also being held up so she can reach it. But it was minimal help.

Carson showing off his prize. He found this one himself!

Jordyn stole this purse from me. She noticed me carrying it around rather possessively and figured there must be an egg in there, and there was! Little thief.

This egg that grandpa hid got her hands dirty!

Who hid one in the garbage can?

She had help with this one too. :)

More hunting

These next pictures our us counting our eggs!!! I think there were 185 eggs???

I'm sure I won. :) Happy Easter!

The most amazing thing I've ever done. Or at least really close

Today at work, my boss locked his keys in his office. This isn't a problem for most people because we have spare keys somewhere. We have a box of random keys in our vault so we opened the vault, got out this box, and opened about 5 packets of keys and none of them were his. He was starting to panic about now. His car keys and house keys were in there along with all his work and he had no way to get home. He started to get ready to climb up through the ceiling tiles in the room next to his office and try to climb over to his office and drop through the ceiling. I told him no, that was the stupidest thing I'd heard all day. He asked me why I thought this was such a bad idea. I told him it was because the ceiling tiles were really thin and not made to be walked upon and he would fall through and die, and he already had a bad back and shouldn't even think about trying something like that. He said he HAD to get those keys. I told him to get me a broom and a wire hanger and I'd get them for him. He didn't believe me. HA! We didn't find a broom, but we found two sticks that were screwed together. This is the contraption I made:

Keep in mind this is after I was done.

I work in the IRS building in downtown DC. The building is quite old as you can imagine. We have radiators throughout our office and in the case of Doug's office, he shares his radiator with the office next to his. This is a picture of the radiator in the office next to his:

I took my contraption and managed to get it through this very small hole in the wall and into Boss's office. This is the Radiator from my Boss's office:

I managed to snag his bag and drag it over to the radiator where we managed to wriggle it underneath the radiator, however it was backwards so getting anything out of it was difficult. I pushed the bag back into the room and got it flipped around so I could pull things out of it. I finally managed to find his keys and he got into his office. This is where the bag was:

My fellow coworkers think I was a theif in my previous profession now. I'm just amazing. :)

I'm such a slacker

I've been way behind with this blog thing with Darren having finals and me trying to find activities to do to keep me out of his hair. But he will be out of town from now until the end of the summer almost entirely so I'll have more time. Right now I'm just really excited Darren is done with school and that it's the weekend! Hooray!

The best friends in the world

I just got back from my trip to Utah which was awesome! First i got to see my family a lot which is amazing in and of itself. I got to go to lunch with Jamie which was really fun, then she gave me a tutu for my birthday. A tutu! I love it! I danced around her apartment with her daughter looking at me like I was a crazy person which is hard to get a one and a half year old to do. After which I made tutus for my 6 nieces and we all danced around my parents house like crazy people while my nephews looked at us like we were crazy people. I got to go to lunch with an old friend and then the girls I used to work with threw me an early birthday party. A SPONGEBOB birthday party. How cool are my friends?!? I got spongebob legos, a spongebob cake, not to mention spongebob tablecloth and dishes. And we made rubber bracelets for each other. Sunday night after playing with my family all day long, I got to hang out with two of my swing friends until early in the morning. All this after they had just completed an 8-11 hour trip from Denver. Aren't my friends amazing? They were even willing to dance with me a little. Then I got to come home to my boyfriend in DC. Life is good.