The Zereps

as i’m sure you all saw from the news, we’ve had some pretty crazy weather here in colorado. thankfully we were spared the ordeal of dealing with serious property damage, etc. but like i said in the livechat, i did have to spend some time in the basement.

thursday was the really crazy weather day here. i usually don’t watch local news channels, or tv in general, before noon so i had no idea about the tornado watch that was in effect. it started to get really stormy out, then really windy, then we got pounded by hail. the hail started off the size of popcorn kernels, then got to about an inch, inch and a half in diameter. it was pounding down at an angle and i was pretty worried about our windows. so after about 30 minutes of crazy pounding and wind, it let up enough for me to go outside and take the top off the gazebo, that’s when i hard the tornado sirens. the hail was too loud to hear them from inside the house, to i went back inside, threw some bottled water down the stairs, put arthur in the baby bjorn, and got the dogs on leashes then went downstairs to monitor things on my laptop. 🙂

anyhoo…we were lucky! same for yesterday, too…there were a couple more touch downs east of us again.

moving to a different topic… 🙂 now that summer is here i’ve started to wear sunscreen every day again! bleh! but here’s a site that lists nearly every single sunscreen made and rates the health risk of each, since sunscreen can have some pretty nasty ingredients. it’s the cosmetic safety database. i recommend you go and look at your sunscreen to check it out!

bleh! i hate hot weather. 😛

so this weekend was our first trip anywhere with arthur! 🙂 and wouldn’t you know it was to target…hehe he was such a good baby! i packed him around in the baby bjorn so he just slept the whole time.

now that it’s warm out, the pups pretend to have to go potty just so they can go sunbathe.

and see that bare spot on the ‘patio’? that’s where we’re going to plant some flowers…soon….i hope.

and to round off this post…here’s a cute picture of the little fellow. there’s also a new album full of pics from this morning, here, under ‘misc may pics’ (second page i think).

now that eric got wordpress working again i can put up a few cute pics.

last week was arthur’s 2 month doctor’s appointment, which included his first round of vaccine cocktails. i felt so bad for the little guy, but he calmed down as soon as i gave him some snuggles and a bottle of milk there in the office. oh, and he weighs around 11 pounds now, too. 🙂

my mother’s day was nice. i started out the day by mowing the lawn, then making orange creamsicle vegan cuppers for eric to take to work. i ate one, too. 🙂 we didn’t go out to eat or anything for several reasons. first, i can’t eat very many things right now….should i list them? sure….broccoli, beans, garlic, onions, whole wheat stuff (flour included), tomato products, citrus products, and berries. all of those, by experience, make the little fellow very unhappy. plus he doesn’t like his carseat when it’s not moving. but i had gotten my very nice mother’s day present the day before. a little letter “a” necklace. 🙂

and thank you to those who called to wish me a happy first mother’s day, or who sent their well-wishes.

anyhoo…not much has been goin’ on since. besides finding the best salad dressing/veggie dip in the whole wide world! what is it, you ask? well..it’s annie’s naturals woodstock dressing, of course! 😀

ooh, and i think i get to go see a movie this weekend, while eric goes and sees one next weekend. i’m eagerly anticipating ‘the chronicles of narnia: prince caspian’, while eric is excited about ‘indiana jones’. but don’t think i would miss ‘sex and the city’! i’m counting down the days. honestly. so. fraking. excited. 😀 i may even drive to boulder to see it in the ‘good’ theater. 🙂

Here is a link to the pictures I posted last week.. WordPress was having some technical issues and I was just now able to sit down and fix them. I’m sure Candice will be posting some new stuff soon. ttfn

http://thezereps.com/galleries/v/Arthur/MorePicsofArthur/