Laying in the kitchen.

It’s very rare that she lay that still when there’s food around, especially still enough for a picture! The vet ran some tests, and she has hookworms and an infection. I’m so glad that’s all it is. I had my mind set on the worst case scenario. Worms and an infection will be easy to treat. All the dogs are on meds so we can kick this out quick.

After all that, we went to Bob’s parents’ house and dyed Easter eggs. It was an awesome time. Here are my favorite shots from the evening:

Proud egg dyer

Hatching Yoshi - pre dye

Helen loved her finished Yoshi

Me & My Green Yoshi

Underwater Panda

Longneck & Yoshi

Eggs!

Eggs

Eggs!

This morning, it was dropped at my desk via Rachel, as it was brought to knitting last night, but I wasn’t there:

Vogue Knitting Spring/Summer 2010 Cover

The Kirkwood Ad!

I’m so excited to see it in print. :D I feel famous, even though my name is no where in the ad. Though, Bob says this makes me “ninja famous” – and I’m totally going to run with that.

Bob texted me this morning to see if I wanted to have lunch. I said sure, so he came up to work to visit me. And he said he brought me a special treat. And he did.

My iPod came!!!!!! Lookit!:

Meet Harrison

Of course, I couldn’t use it at work ’cause nothing was on it yet. But it was the KNOWING that it was there. Since then, I’ve named him Harrison and loaded him with all of my music, tons of podcasts, and quite a few photos. Best part? It’s not even a quarter full yet.

160GB – I love you.

Snuggles

Nose Kisses

They love each other. :) I think Scout is turning out to be quite the good doggie.

Much Needed.

Last night, Bob & I took Helen to have dinner at my parents’ house. Dad made steak, and it was really really good. Helen ate more than I did, I think she wants steak for dinner every night. :) We had a really great time hanging out and playing games. We also got the 35mm pictures back from the developer last night. A lot of the shots turned out really well (some of them are better than any of the shots I took on the trip!), though a lot of them are of me, haha.

Falls Cave

The Trail

To the cave

Pictures of Each Other

Twin Falls

Tree Shots

By the river

Like a Sasquatch sighting!

Smiling at the extremely handsome boy behind the camera.

Shooting by the river.

Here are some shots of the cabin I took before we left:

2nd Floor View

Looking Down

Fireplace

Rainy Mountains

The whole drive home was rainy, but we did okay. It sure is a lot colder in St. Louis than it was in Jasper. I’m ready for spring.

GPS an hour in

My extremely handsome driver

Rearview Roads

The Cabin

Long Exposure View

This morning, we woke up and messed around with the cameras a bit before leaving:

Pictures

One of my favorite shots from the trip

Eden Falls & Cave

The Falls

Us in front of the Falls - Looks fake, haha

Water Study

Mud on the Tires

Wind in my hair

Best Rootbeer Float Ever

Huge Smiles

We picked up a tripod at one of the shops in town, and were playing with the delayed shutter here. I was trying to run and jump so fast to get in the shot that I ended up landing in the water with one of my feet. We were both laughing so hard in this shot – I was glad I brought my snow boots of I’d have been soaked.

One Wet Foot

I took about a bajillion other pictures too, and some of them can be seen here. I’ll be steadily uploading more in the next few weeks as film gets developed and digital shots are sorted through.

Got up, got ready, and Bob and I went to the auto show. It wasn’t quite like it’s been in years past, but we had a good time. Then we had lunch and watched a movie about a flying castle. I can’t remember the name, but it was really neat.

We headed to my parents’ house about 4, and had a delicious steak dinner and played some cut throat Uno. For my birthday, everyone pooled together and got me the artisan kitchenaide mixer!!!! It’s the awesome gunmetal color. A thing of sheer beauty. I can’t wait to clean off my countertops and set it up tomorrow. It’s going to be awesome. To top the awesomeness, look at the cake my sister made me:

My perfect birthday cake!

Best cake ever.

It was just as delicious as it was beautiful. Vanilla bean cake with chocolate icing that had strawberries blended into the icing. Then, topped with really yummy chocolate fondant. I wished I had eaten less diner food and more cake.

Finally, here’s my sock progress:

Sock!

It looks like I may actually finish this one. :)

After work, I picked up pizza and headed back to Bob’s for dinner with him and his daughter. We had a blast. I discovered that I’m not very good at the new Mario Brothers for the Wii, but I’m pretty sure I’ll get better at it later on. I also got 10 rows of the vest done today. It’s the first real knitting I’ve done in about 2 weeks. :)

In other news, for those of you wondering what I meant when I said Paisley & Scout sleep like swans, I got a shot of it today:

Paisley sleeping tucked up.

Here’s another shot in case you can’t tell yet:

Tucked.

She’s so funny. And exhausted. Scout is too. It was a good day. :D

Happiness

I cannot even begin to describe how enjoyable these are.