dogs and such

So you clearly are already aware I am obsessed with wieners (hehe). Here is more proof.

 I think he's saying "whattuuupppppp???"

 Here is is saying "I am so cute you can't handle it."

Here he is proving just how many socks he can hold in his mouth!

And here is one more video of our new "pets", the bunnies. The boys get after them in this one...

Things going on outside...

Not much going on this week because it is the week before FINALS at school for Mike and I! Ughhh when will this self-inflicted torture be over??? Anyway, lots of papers, group projects and shiz due. So I haven't been doing much besides work and school stuff, but I have been able to capture a few pictures of things going on outside. This past weekend I picked up a few flowers to plant out front because my silly cherry tree provided flowers for like a day. A little disappointed there. So here they are:

Spring really is a pretty time of year and I saw this gorg blue bird outside the kitchen window when cooking dinner one night. I was so excited to get a pic before he took off!

The same day that I planted a few flowers, I also cleaned the patio furniture. I scrubbed it with 409 and finally got the umbrella out. I love this umbrella because it has lights built into the arms. It's solar powered, so no worries about cords for power, etc. It all looked great all cleaned up and put together.

And then literally the next day I put the umbrella up for the first time and turned the lights on (it had a day to charge) and within an hour (!) we apparently had a frickin wind storm and this is what it looked like when I went to enjoy the lights. WTFFFF!!!???! Are you serious??? And one of the arms BROKE! :( Ughhh I am soooo sad. Really. I just don't even know what to say. I try to make all aspects of our house look nice and then after a weekend of literally cleaning the outside furniture, some freakish wind comes along and breaks it (and my excitement). Blahhhhhhhhhhhh. (ps. the table was in the middle of the patio!)

Then that night Mike went to let the dogs out at like 11pm before bed and saw these! He woke me to snap  some pix:)

And this doesn't really have anything to do with outside stuff but I am obsessed. Found it on Pinterest. Only $10 for a wiener dog ring bowl!

Dachshund Vs. Penguin - sooo cute!

My two favorite things!!!

More updates from outside our home...

So I have literally been kicked straight in the face by allergies in the last week. I wake up each morning and immediately sneeze until my nose bleeds. This morning, for example, I counted 17 sneezes in a 5-10 minute window before I finally gave up and got in the shower to try and wash whatever was on me off. And then it stormed and the rain helped wash some of it away too- how cool is this pic of the rainbow DIRECTLY behind our house?

Anyways, there have been a few updates in and around our house that I thought I'd share. Everything is so pretty and blooming outside (even though it's killing me). Below are some pix of these weird hangy-vine-grape-looking flowers.

Of course here are some more updates of my first blooming tree (cherry tree) that got gorgeous flowers all over it. They have since fallen off and only lasted like 5-7 days which sort of disappointed me. I was hoping they'd stick around for at least 2 weeks...

Here is a pick of our FINALLY bloomed tulips. These have been budding out of the ground for over 2 weeks. I thought they'd never bloom! And apparently only half of them bloomed... My mom said that is something tulips do- even though they come back every year, they don't always bloom. Well then why come back??!!!

And here is what I did today. Almost suicidal by staying outside long enough to do it. But our yard was starting to look ROUGH. It's rained every day it feels like for two weeks now, so everything has grown two feet in that same span of time. We filled three bags of pulled out weeds! I just wish I had taken pix of the "before" so you could appresh how bad it was! PS. Look at how good my hydrangeas are coming back! FINALLY!

Oh and apparently spring time makes the boys a little rambunctious and excited to be outside!