General Updating.

Starting this week, I'm working 4 days a week instead of my usual 3. I'm only 2 days in and I'm already exhausted.

Not much has been going on around the Dickerson so that's why I haven't felt the need to update the blog. I'm pretty sure no one wants to hear stories about my dogs all the time.

This past weekend was Easter. I was pleasantly surprised by Derek when he said he would rather spend Easter with my family instead of his this year. I love his family, but the only reason they celebrate Easter is for the candy. And it's not much fun to watch his cousins kids hunt eggs. So, we spent the day with my family. At first I had forgotten that Rachel's new boyfriend, Garrett, was coming home with her for Easter, so when I remembered I was really glad Derek had said we could spend the day with my family.  

We set the camera on the mantle and turned the timer on. How Blanton wasn't ready for the photo, I'll never know. And for some reason, we only took one. We should have taken several. But we were hungry.

Since Mary's EX ruined several holiday photos, my mom always has us take one with just the family. Last year Chris wouldn't even get in any of the pictures we took (even though at that point they both knew they were going to get married. Weirdos).

This is what happens when I leave other people with my camera to go get the dog.

Somehow, we haven't added any more girls to the family since we got Krissy in 1999 so we like to always take a picture with just the girls. If we include the boy dogs, we're outnumbered 6:8. If we don't include dogs, we're still outnumbered 5:6.

My alarm didn't go off on Easter Sunday morning. I overslept by 30 minutes so my hair...I'm just not happy with it. I was going to curl it, but didn't have time. THEN it started raining while we were in church. But Derek's outfit is awesome, yes?

We thought we might take an awesome family photo to give to Derek's mom. NOT. HAPPENING. 

 

I had to get down on the floor to keep Pippin still. Even then, I'm not printing this photo out for anyone. No thank you.

Easter was good. We all went to my dad's church and then back to their house for lunch. We didn't think it was supposed to storm until later in the day, so we were going to just leave the dogs at home all day. But when we got into the car to leave the church it was thundering really bad and my mom couldn't stand the thought of Pippin home alone, scared to death, so she made us go home to get them. I was really glad that we did later when it didn't storm in Gainesville, but was apparently really bad in Denton and farther south. Normally, I would have left him with his Thunder Shirt on and box fans going, and a blanket in the bathtub for him to lay on if he gets in there, but like I said, we didn't think it was supposed to storm until way later after we got home so I hadn't done any of that. He was very happy to see us. They both shed so badly, so I try not to bring them as much as possible, so most of my family hadn't seen them in awhile. Oliver was actually polite and didn't growl at or bite Garrett. That's a first.

I got an iPod about a week ago. I had decided I wanted one for my birthday and didn't want to wait so I got it 2 months early. I'm totally okay with this. My sister has an iPod, too, so we can iMessage. I've been getting pictures and videos of the boys that the rest of my family has been getting for months since they all have iPhones. I felt left out, so that's why I got an iPod. I don't really want an iPhone and now I don't need one.

Well, I think that about sums up the last couple of weeks. Prayer this week would be great. I'm ovulating, so fingers crossed.