art art art!!!!

best day ever.

i love love love getting mail.

and especially mail from my little cousin ben.

especially art!!!!!

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i have been asking for it,

so when i heard schnooze barking at the mailman

i was suprised to not just get some random advertisement

BUT THIS

from ben!

i loveeeeeeeeeeee it!!!!

thanks ben!!!!
I love you!!!!!!

kids can't articulate at times

so, when we were in oklahoma,

we hung out with Lo and Brad friday.

we were eating ice cream, but ben wanted to sit in the

"pete chair" and eat the ice cream by himself.

he couldn't get over wanting to SIT.

but sometimes, kids can't really articulate very well...

and let's just say sit came out totally different for us...

random stuff

Videos of the weekend

home from the sooner state

I flew out to Oklahoma Friday at about 10:00am

Susanne met me at the airport with Sophie.

It was pretty crazy b/c I get a call from the cousin lauren, as i am waiting for sus

she is yelling into the phone that she can see me, and she in under the SW sign!

She was picing up her friend katie, and we happened to be there at the same time!

it was cool, b/c then i got to see baby ben!!!!

anyways, susanne, lo, ben, sophie, and i hung out for about 10 minutes!

friday 2.29.08

we all went to 501 cafe: susanne, sophie, sister sus, and me
sophie had pulled her pony tail thing out and had a crazy mohawk!!!!

drooling up a storm!

sus and soph, aren't they the cutest?

seriously, don't you just want to eat her?

we went to the park afterwards, and she was just having a blast.

i musta brought the warm CO air with me, b/c it was about 70 degrees!

it looks as though my dear friend is pushing her

first born daughter into the duck pond... hmmmmm

"here ya go sophie, just a little bit closer"

me, sus, and soph

(i guess sus decided it would be too much trouble to push soph in, that's why she's not wet)

i am holding my socks, b/c i had to take them off, too hot

looking for ducks

me making sure she does not touch goose poop

sus's 16-week belly

sophie's 15 month old belly!

sus & chris's house dog: ninnah

HUG-A-PUG

chris (sus's hubby) & ninnah

me and susy sitting on the porch listen to the boys

play bob dylan. we then headed to Braum's...

yum.

a classic "sus" face :)

she claims she is not a hippie, b/c hippies live in vans,

don't drive anywhere

(wait how do they live in vans, but not drive, sus... hmmm?),

and they don't eat out. Those are the only criteria that make up

a hippie, according to sus. But she lives in one room (like a van),

only drives b/c she lives in Okla, and doesn't hardly ever eat out.

she is a total hippie.

I mean c'mon, we made homemade hummus and pitas for dinner.

saturday 3.1.08

Gram reading her letter to OSU to get financial aide

after she was accepted to the

OSU PhD Clinical Pschycology Program in 1973

in honor of Cam getting into school

liz & sus after a pancake breakfast made by grammy fre-fre

(she hates that name, but deuce made it stick)

sus, liz, and dad

dad and maggs

dad, liz, gram

then we went to lauren and brad's house

sus kissing benny boop

baby yawn

note the first clothing change.... he just got a diaper

change, and changed from his jammies

katie and ben

(lo's friend from college in town for a wedding)

note the second clothing change,

he pooped out on the oregon clothes

and sus changed his clothes and diaper

sunday 3.2.08

at gram's after church, Lo and ben

ben LOVES all sports, watching with his papa brad

at 4pm sus and i headed out to the airport

but first we stopped at the froese's

to see laura (it's her bday today, she's old), andy, tucker, and yoda

see their blog for the Goodle tucker (it's really a golden doodle, but

it just makes more sense to shorten it to Goodle)

and yoda is a white mini schnauzer

tucker is the funiiest dog that you ever did see

i could stare at him for hours

and yoda hates me.

we did not take any pics, b/c we left our stuff in the car

as to not contaminate anything (laura has the flu)

then we stopped by Sauced in OKC

it is a cute pizza/coffee/alcohol/artist place

sus holding a vase

it looks like an add for odwalla, but nope,

just sitting in front of the fridge

cool atmosphere (pic without flash, which suits the coffee shop)

Then we look, and there is massive amts of lightning

and we had been talking to cameron all day

about my flight being delayed (there was about 3in of snow in denver)

and it had been delayed from 7:30 to 9:40

and then when sus dropped me off

delayed until 10:18, but they swore it was still gonna come.

then it got delayed til 11:30

then 12:00am

then 12:30am

then 1:18am

and the plane got in to okc about 12:50am and

we boarded and left about 1:30am

poor cam had to wait up for me so he oculd pick me up.

we got into bed at 3am, and he woke up for class at 7am.

but i am back and it feels good to be home.

susanne r: i sat next to a guy that went to UNC and knew Reed!

christmas is coming!!!!

These are the stockings I made 3 years ago when Cam and I were just dating :)
The tree with the lights going!

The tree, it's the perfect size, and aparently it doesn't shed?!?!?!

Cam looking like a burgler in his hat

PS do you see the yellow cupcake paper angel thing? well I

made that in pre-school, yes folks it's still around!

I would tie it to the top of the tree, but I don't want it to get hurt...

it is already bandaged with tape on the back, from

a couple years ago

The full sha-bang!

We get a new ornament every year. We decided it was going to be a tradition, b/c not only do we not have any ornaments, but we wanted something special.

Year 1: wedding couple (even though we were just engaged), I thought it was appropriate
Year 2: Mini Schnauzer
Year 3: A snowshoeing outfit: snowshoes (old wooden style) jacket and hat (maybe gloves
too but i can't remember) but it's super cute!!!!!!

I write the year on the bottom of the ornament..... hopefully we'll have 75 to pass down to our kids someday :)



PSS: i used my pedicure gift cert. today at the Aveda Salon and Spa in Hotel Monaco off 17th and Champa in downtown Denver.... super fancy, super nice, super relaxing!!!! BUT i had to park like 4 blocks away, and i wore my uggs there b/c the wind chill is in the teens.... so on the way back i had to wear those stupid throw away flip flops... and not only were my feet cold, the dang things wouldn't stay on, and my feet were losing all their pretty cleanliness/softness/ relaxation...... anyway, once i was in the car, i was okay. but geesh.


My work has a gym downstairs, but you have to pay for it, but they have students of a massage school there all the time to get their hours in. Anyway, a 60 min massage is $23!!!!!!!! So instead of a $125 massage from Aveda, I am gonna kick it with a $23 massage... I've had one, and they're not too shabby!

Ben is 10 days old, but Lo has only put up to Day 4 of life.... it's crazy b/c I feel a need to see him :)
See http://laurenandbrad.blogspot.com/ for their baby pics!

baby ben!!!

My Cousins Are So Awesome!

Monday morning they had their first baby: Benjamin Bradley!

He is amazing!

Lo and Brad and new baby Ben!
Ben just coming into the new world!

Ben again!

Sleeping baby ben

cousin lane and ben

lo and ben waiting to leave the hospital!

how can she look so good after hardly sleeping for days?

daddy brad and SON ben :)

They are so awesome!!!!

On another note, I have been out of service for several days. Here is a list!

1. baby ben was born monday

2. finished christmas shopping -1 stocking stuffer monday

3. started wrapping presents monday

4. moved the bike rack and bikes from the bedroom into the office

5. tuesday ate lunch with friend Erin saw her pics from a medical mission trip to peru

6. watched a movie Glory Days about bball and got excited for college bball

7. wed worked from 3a-3p, crazy hectic day, went to bathroom once, barely ate lunch, intubated my patient early in the morning

8. came home to chinese food and a foot rub from my wonderufl hubby

9. thursday worked all day, much better day, only had 1 patient, ate lots of food at work

10. thursday came home from work and went straight to brian and odette's house for thanksgiving with about 20 other people, it was great food and company (all other people who had nowhere else to go b/c they couldn't make it home)

11. forgot to say, wed morning it snowed! and was super cold!

12. friday worked all day while it snowed, had an easy day again

13. friday nigth rented evan almighty, fell asleep at 7pm, slept wil 8:30am next morning

14. saturday ran errands with cameron and cleaned house from top to bottom

15. saturday sorry to say, but ben/axle watched his first game of beloved OSU football suck it up to the Sooners! sorry lo and brad, you jsut always give the sooners a hard time :)

16. saturday night we went to dinner at matt & emily's house for Goose and all the regular thanksgiving sides, but all fancy-like! good company and great food

17. today i had to watch the last 8 min of gray's b/c friday afternoon the website was messing up, updated the blog, and then we are headed to church in the cold cold weather. then i will come home and re-arrange the office, b/c now there is a couple bikes and no chair, and a bookshelf of games.... where does it all go? then i will wrap some more and watch some movies from netflix!

18. congrats to lauren and brad, they are awesome troopers that i am envious of! I can't believe ben is really here and REAL :)

19. P.S. i am off mon-wed!!!! Hooray!!!!!

happy birthday ben!

My cousins Lauren and Brad had their new baby boy this morning at 0515am!

Benjamin Bradley Schatzel

8lb 6 oz, 20.5in!!!

he has dark curly hair, and lauren's nose!!!!

that's all i know for now!

sus is going to see her today!!!

more info later!

Axle's Gift

3 months and a lot of movies later.....

axle better like it... or else