Boat Drinks

I woke up (very early) this morning and attempted to roll myself out of bed. Much to my dismay, however, I felt like a stiff board, completely sore. Why, you ask? Apart from the fact I haven't made it to the gym in about a month, I spent all day yesterday frolicking in the water with some fellow gal-pals!

A girl from work is headed to "hang with the Germans" (as one of the Jessica's puts it) so before we ship her off, we decided to have one last Maryland hoo-rah for her with us girls. Thanks to Kelly and Carl (K?) for taking us on your boat and serving us some...coca-cola...all day! It was so much fun, but my body is not so happy right now.

Kelly's Dog, Zoe joined us for the first part of the trip... she has her own life preserver!
Kelly and Jess F.
Floating!
Hey Carl!
Jess F. and me in the tube...screaming for our lives...
Killer moves, Jess M!
This one was a show-off... Jess F (just kidding, you were totally awesome)
...and the lame one. And no, I'm not doing the butterfly in the last one. It was more like a face-plant in the water.
Cheers! How do you say that in German?
The one picture where I'm not being launched into the water at top speed!
The Jessica's.
All of the girls... such a fun day!!

Playing with Potatoes

Martha Stewart got the best of me tonight...

Back in January, my sister-in-law and I got tickets to go see Martha in New York City. Trying to get myself excited (like I needed any help), I fervently watched any and all episodes of Martha I could. One of the episodes had these stay-at-home-Mom's as guests who had their own business. The business was called "Sweet Potato Prints" and they made baby and children clothes using potato cut-outs and fabric paint to make the CUTEST little prints.

I quickly went online to see if I could order some of their items for the plethora of nieces and nephews I have only to find out how much they were charging... $20 for a stinkin' onsie!!!! I'm no mother or anything, but I'm pretty sure plain white onsies are some of the cheapest baby items you can buy (hey, isn't there a band called Plain White Onsies? Tees? Oh, ok... The Plain White Tees)! Anyway, in an effort to create my own crafty concoctions for less, I decided to do it myself.

$20 TOTAL in supplies later (yes, that includes the 10 Plain White Onsies), I have, well only 6 (I got tired and Bobby started yelling at me to come to bed) some very cute baby products to show for it. Now if only I could get my hands on some babies... Just kidding.

But seriously. They are totally fun to make!


...and you better not call my "Fish" design a Pac-man.

Back to School

This evening, Bobby asked me why I was mumbling the Billy Madison song "Back to School." Tomorrow officially starts the beginning of the LAST semester of my college career. Can I get an AMEN?!

Here's the line-up for the semester:

Marketing 412 - Market Research Applications: writing-intensive and research-heavy. Several "critical thinking" assignments are on the agenda.

Marketing 495 - Strategic Marketing: Focus on case studies to present current issues that other companies face in terms of marketing strategy.

Statistics 230 - Business Statistics: I have been putting this one off for my entire college career. Actually, I took it once and failed (I'm just being honest, ok?!). I swore it off for 2 years and I'm now faced with it again. It is the bane of my existence and I refuse to acknowledge its usefulness for these next 14 weeks. Thankfully, Hubby happens to do statistics all day at work (poor fool), so he should prove to be a great tutor...and a cute one at that!

So there we have it. I'm sure I will be writing a post every time I need to do homework. If there was a class called "Procrastination," I could teach the darn thing. That is one thing that I have mastered... However, it's only the beginning of the semester. Come December 7th, it's party time. But for now, let the academic woes begin. To commemorate, here's a picture from my UMD days about 2 years ago:

Sightings from the Jeep

Last weekend, Joey (Bobby's kid brother) came to visit us in Cali! J-Bug is about 17, so it was so fun to have him down here! He's in the midst of college-shopping, so in an effort to get him to come down here, we took him for a drive to see Saint Mary's College of Maryland. The drive from Cali to SMCM is only about 20 minutes, but it's a beautiful drive, nonetheless.

Lucky me, the one with the longest hair, I got to sit in the back seat - the windiest seat Grace has to offer. However, I was able to capture some of the sights on the drive to the college. More of what SOMD has to offer (what the locals refer to as "Southern Maryland," kind of like LOL, or JK, or other net-speak)... I swear, no matter how much exploring we do, there's always much, much more to this county!

Hey J-Dawg. That's a great face you're making there. Just kidding. Be nice to Grace.


J-Money was wishing he was here... The Green Door. Ask any graduate of SMCM and I promise they've heard of this place. Please note that this bar is in the middle of a corn field and the only business between the college and Cali - in about 20 minutes (not really, but pretty much). Oh, and they also JUST put in a wood floor.


The buildings of SMCM overlook the river. I would never be able to pay attention in class.


This is the view from the building above...


Cool barn. We have lots of these outside Cali.


Old church in St. Mary's City (which consists of about 4 or 5 other old barns and buildings).


Pretty flower!

Discoveries

Since I've gotten my camera, Bobby has steered clear of the new equipment except when I need an emergency photographer. When that time comes, he has yet to venture out into the "Manual Settings" of the camera, in which I predominately shoot. However, lately I've been catching him branching out into new territory. My camera has a "continuous shot" mode on it where you can capture fast moving things like sports, the cat, small children, my dance moves, etc, you get the picture.

More recently, though, he's been trying to pretend like a pro by constantly taking pictures of me for no good reason... which causes me to yell (correction: smile, but not really). This, in turn, has produced several series of pictures with me yelling "STOP!" at him, thus documenting my not-so-nice moments of wife-hood. Let me give you an example:

See? I'm a nice wife... I smile, I laugh, I humor my husband when he tries to learn more about my camera. I was totally egged on.

Ok Bobby, seriously? After the 2934th picture, I really just want you to stop. Maybe this ol' trick will get you to go away. No? Ok, desperate times call for desperate measures.

Fine... you only penalize yourself. The yelling begins... "Sttt..."

..."ooopppp it!!!"

See? I was totally egged on.