The Suspense is KILLING ME!!!!

It's half time of the KU-VCU game. 

I'm scared.  

Like really REALLY SCARED!  

I don't like this one bit -

NOT. ONE. BIT.

As you can see, Miss Bailey is concerned as well.

Despite being scared, I still have faith in our boys of Red & Blue!

They WILL have a better second half (or else!)

Happy Anniversary to Me!

Our actual anniversary isn't until June 2nd, but the husband has had something in the works for a while now.  Then this last week, he was acting really fishy sneaking around on his computer then randomly leaving the house at 9:00 to 'run an errand'.  Wouldn't tell me what/where he was going, so I knew something was up.  For a minute I thought I had forgotten some significant event - so I went through birthdays, anniversaries and such through my head, but the only important events in March are my Dad's B-Day and March Madness (Go KU!!) - sorry if I left anyone out!  So I was a little stumped.  He got back about 30 min later empty handed and went straight to the office - where I was NOT allowed!  10 min went by and he made a mad dash to front door - again no discussion of his destination.  I was truly clueless at this point, so I took a shower and when I got out, there was a giant box wrapped - in Christmas paper :) - by the TV.  He finally broke the silence telling me it was my anniversary present, but I couldn't open yet - I would get to open it before June 2nd, but just not yet.  HELLO?!  I can't take the suspense!!!  So I kept pleading to open it now - since I'm extremely impatient & can't handle NOT knowing!
Finally he compromised with if I wrote down what I thought it was then he MIGHT let me open it today.  I really had ABSOLUTELY no idea what it could be since the box was rather large.  So I thought about things I've said it would be nice to have over the last few months.  The only thing I could think of was a fancy camera - so I put it down despite the giant box.  He looked at it in the other room and just laughed - crushing any small glimmer of hope that I might be right.  So it was back to square one - No Clue - and to top it off, he said I couldn't open it that night - pretty raw deal if  you ask me!
I proceeded to grumpily (might have made that word up) get ready for bed and then he jumped up exclaiming "OKAY!  You can open it - I can't wait any longer!" Neither of has much patients with stuff like this!

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Happy Wife!

Baby Liam

Nathan's sister Renelle and her husband had their first baby right before Thanksgiving this year and we hadn't been able to meet the little guy in person as they live in Texas. Nathan's family is full of teachers, so everyone happened to be on spring break this week, so baby Liam got to come visit!
Chunk of Love

He is such a good baby! Perfectly content sitting on your lap watching everyone around him!

Hello little one...

 He laughed every time Uncle Nathan said 'Yeah'

 Give me back my food!

Sorry Husband but I have to document this - Nathan Robinson requested to hold a baby! Yep that's right, the same guy that goes into a nervous cold sweat when I say the word baby. On Sundays, I will sometimes help in the nursery and he always sends me off with this encouraging phrase,"go remind yourself why you don't want kids". Yep THAT guy willingly asked to hold a baby! I'd say that is some promising progress folks! In his defense i will say he does want kids, he is just freakishly terrified of having them, but he is slowly warming up to the idea - baby steps if you will - oh I'm hilarious. Don't think I'm trying to have babies right now or anything, but I will say it's on my list of things I'd like to do in the next few years!

Do you hear that? That's the husband starting to hyperventilate after reading that last statement ;)

Bad blogger...

I wish I had some great excuse for my absence lately, but I don't I've thought about blogging, but instead I've been flat out lazy. So I have a lot to update!

Last weekend, we had our first house guests (other than fam:). Our friends from high school, Tim and Kelsie came up from Wichita. They wanted the full Lawrence experience, since they've never been in Lawrence longer than a drive through - I know, I feel sorry for them too having missed out on such a great place! ;)
 So of course, we started the weekend by finishing the KU game at our house. Then we headed downtown for some margaritas and mexican food - yumm! Next we headed to the Barrel House - probably our fav bar in Lawrence. (Keep in mind we only 'go out' when we have company.) Anyways, it is a dueling piano bar, the Husband enjoys challenging their knowledge by requesting random songs from the 80's and 90's. Very entertaining!

Saturday was a day full of golf. In the morning, the Husband's played disc golf while Kelsie and I took Miss Bailey on a walk then headed downtown to find Kelsie a KU shirt :) After lunch we headed to DeSoto to what we will call an 'interesting' golf course. Basically, every time you teed off, you were hitting the ball at the group behind you - yeah, that makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, it was FREEZING and the sun refused to come out!  The best part of golfing was watching Nathan hit attempt to hit the ball along the tree line. Keep in mind he isn't a golfer, so he was using Tim's clubs which are about 2 inches too short. He hit tried to hit the ball about 7 times in a row, but by the 6th hit attempt, he was further back than where he started. He could hear us laughing so hard we were crying, so he kept yelling at us to stop which only made us laugh louder and cry more! Oh so much fun - sorry it was at your expense hubbs :)

Sorry my computer is being SUPER cool and it won't let me rotate the pictures...

Here are some of the better shots of the day...

The sun finally peeped through around dinner, so we grilled at home and watched the KU game for dinner. Then we played more golf - SkipBo Golf that is.

 While the boys enjoyed some whiskey drinks, I concocted a delightful rum drink. Tasted just like wedding punch! Unfortunately a little too much like punch as I don't remember much else about the night other than making a McD's run at some point and getting our pic taken while there, so I'd say we had fun!

Sunday we headed to Free State Brewery for lunch before they headed back to Wichita. We had a GREAT weekend and can't wait to head to Wichita to see their new house! Too bad we don't live closer!

She Thinks She's Human...

She Gives Hugs...

 She wears a coat...

She prefers to sleep on a pillow... 

She likes to exercise...

She likes to warm up by the fire...

She likes to play hide'n'seek... found you dad!

She smiles... 

Yeah she's pretty much our child :)

Skate Party

At 26 years of age, the one birthday request my husband had was... SKATE WORLD!  So skate we did!

On Saturday, we went to Skate World in KC to celebrate the 26th birthday of the husband.  Thankfully we all came out with bones intact and few if any bruises - although there were some close calls!  Here are some action shots!

Look at those skills!

Work it Randine!

 Unfortunately there wasn't a couples skate, but we made up for that during the birthday party skate.

Sunday we got to try out the new Star Wars Pancake molds!

 

I opted for the chocolate chip version

Husband wanted plain - boring...

Storm Trooper, Yoda (with a growth on his cheek) & Darth Vader (w/o a mouth)

You guessed it - B for Bailey

Even Miss Bailey got in on the pancake action

Mysterious Bites

I went to make a sandwich at lunch and found this...

I'm going to assume the culprit is this guy...

He LOVES bread, he will literally just sit down and eat half a loaf of bread with no butter, PB, jelly, etc - just plain dry bread.  Weird-O.  Anyways, I should just be thankful he left some behind for me!

The Dexter

First Off, Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband!  He is now officially closer to 30 than he is to 20 (his words!)  His parents were so nice and went to Grandview, MO to pick up his present since A) We don't have a vehicle that carries large objects or a trailer for that matter & B) I can't drive stick shift (their vehicle that can pull a trailer!)

Since we got our house, he has been very enthusiastic about finishing the basement and putting a ping pong table down there.  I just so happened to find a KILLER deal on a brand new table, so TA-DA...

 

Notice how alert Miss Bailey is - her new favorite game is to try to catch the ball as it flies by her face.  Or she will crawl under the table and stand there until you look for her - what a spaz!

He also got some Star Wars items...

Star Wars Mad Libs

Star Wars Pancake molds!  Saturday morning activity!

 Unfortunately we were both pretty busy today, so we didn't really get to see each other or celebrate the Bday today.  Monday he took off work and went on the first 'Disc Golf Tour' of Season 4.  (For those of you who don't know, he is a HUGE Disc Golf fan, in fact, they make shirts hence the 'Season 4' comment).  Then today after school it was nice out, so he got to go play again. 
I didn't get home until late tonight, so we compromised and had his B-Day Dinner last night.  Every year I make whatever he requests for his b-day dinner.  This year it was The Dexter.  In the last year, we have really gotten into the show Dexter on Showtime.  It is about a Forensic Crime Scene guy who is also a serial killer - but he only kills the bad guys who are true criminals and he always does his research first to make sure he has the right guy.  (That sounds SO weird when you say it out loud - but I promise it is a REALLY good show!)  Anyways, the intro of the show goes through Dexter's morning routine of cooking/eating breakfast and getting ready: 

We added blueberry waffles because they are our fav - definitely think they should add waffles to the Dexter breakfast!

To end the B-day week, we are heading to Skate World in KC on Saturday.  Then we'll head to Randine's (SIL) to watch the KU game in the theater at her apartment complex!  Can't wait!

MMmmmmmm Good!

It is hard to believe it is ONLY Wednesday!  I've been super busy at work and I am just physically exhausted!  Welcome to the real world!
So Nathan took me on a winery tour for my B-Day this year.  Neither of us thought we liked red wine before this tour, but we learned a few tricks and are slowly becoming wino's :).  A few weeks ago, we went to a friends house and we were introduced to this...

BEST INVENTION EVER!!!!

For just under $20 you can get 4 bottles of wine in a box, that's right 4 boxes and it actually tastes good too!  So my plans for the evening:  Another glass of wine, a little TV and off to bed!

First Week = SUCCESS!!

I have officially completed my first week as a fully official chiro!  Thursday afternoon the main doc had to take his wife to the ER for severe stomach cramps, so myself and Dr. Dustin (the other new guy) got to cover his patient load for the afternoon.  Thankfully, she was just fine, so I don't feel bad about enjoying the afternoon!  It was a great practice run as they will be going on vacay in March and Dr. Dustin and I will again be covering his patient load.  All in all, I ended up seeing 10 patients last week - which is WAY more than I could have imagined my first week considering Monday morning I didn't have anyone lined up for the week!  It is definitely taking off and I feel so incredibly blessed!

Nathan also had a very exciting week - he found out he is being honored as the Teacher of the Month for February (which is also his b-day month!)  This week his is presenting at his Alma mater, Emporia, for a teaching seminar!  Then on Friday he is teaching 3 sessions on video stuff to his peers at Eudora High School during in-service.  In other words, we won't have a lot of face to face time this week - boo - but that's life!

Miss Bailey however had some serious attitude issues this week.  I think it is because she missed me so much - but realistically it was probably because she wasn't able to outside or have someone to play with her at any given moment!

Monday Night

No Picture b/c I was too busy yelling...

Tuesday Night - I love you mom & missed you so much :)

Wednesday Night - see what I did all day!

Thursday Night... Yep I did that - no big deal

Friday Afternoon

So as you can see, she got better as the week went on, but we had some serious heart to hearts last week!

Miss Sweetheart turned One on V-Day.  She got some new toys and another candy-cane shaped raw-hide (yes I bought two after Christmas - don't judge they were 1/2 price).  I was planning on being super cool and making a special treat from chicken liver - apparently dogs like that kind of thing - but that seemed like a lot of work for a Monday night, so maybe this weekend!

Can't wait to see what this week will bring!  I hope everyone had a great V-Day despite the hawks TERRIBLE performance last night!  Congrats to the Cats, they totally deserved that W.

Snow Day #5

Today we woke up to a Winter Wonderland... too bad I'm SO over snow!  We bundled up first thing and headed out to shovel our drive. 

This task quickly became 'Clear the Neighborhood!'  We got half way through ours and a neighbor got stuck, so we dug her out and sent her on her way.  Then we proceeded to finish our drive and 4 more driveways!  So today we were very productive AND we burned (according to my app on my phone) around 1000 calories!  Once we got back inside, the doorbell rang and it was our neighbor Loma with made-from-scratch Chicken Noodle Soup!  So I'm currently making mashed taters to go along with our noodle soup!  Yumm-O!

(This is proof that is was WAY yummy since I forgot devoured it before I could take a pic!)

REALLY!?!?  Husband just got another phone call... NO SCHOOL TOMORROW, that would be #6 if you're counting!  Not really sure why there's no school, as we were out and about today and got around fairly well.  We'll take it though!

Snow Day #4

Snow day #4 was called last night for the husband. I don't remember getting snow days so easily as a kid! We always got the delayed starting time, but getting an actual snow day was harder to come by and when we did get one it was rarely called e night before! Please don't think I'm complaining about the snow days b/c I'm TOTALLY enjoying the extra days with the husband before I start working on MONDAY!!!! (eeekkkkk!) That's right folks, starting Monday the 7th of February, Robinson Chiropractic will officially be open for business! Some of the progress from the last few weeks...
Diploma officially up on the wall...

(It's been sitting on the table still wrapped up for the last 2 weeks, oops!)

Name is on the building

Name is on the front door

I also ordered a walk-ins welcome sign to put out front!  I've worked really hard the last 4 years can't believe the big day is finally here!


In other Snow Day #4 news, this picture gives you an idea of what's going on outside...

There should be 2 steps down but all you see is snow!

And this is what happens every time Miss Bailey comes back in from her potty breaks

Unfortunately this pic DOES NOT EVEN do it justice! 
 Scenario: I open the door, Bailey sprints in the house trailing the snow from the back door to the front door.  She stops to look back at me as I yell scream politely tell her to slow down and then she sprints around the house taking out anything/anyone in her way.

 Did you catch the special effects... yeah those come standard with  my awesome camera 

(Please note there is A LOT of sarcasm with that statement!)

Once this spurt of energy wears off, she collapses in the middle of the living room only to wake again in an hour to do it all again... She makes our life interesting :)

This just in... Snow Day #5 called for tomorrow! I hope everyone that has to get out tomorrow is safe, I'm going to enjoy probably my last snow day ever... Sad :(