We're Back!!

Okay I know only one picture is a crime after being on a beautiful beach for a week, but all the pics are on Spencer's phone and I haven't taken the time to import them all onto my computer, so here you go, our happy faces in Riviera May, or actually at the ancient Mayan ruins of Tulum!  And yes we are ridiculous and both have Ray Bans.  Thank Spencer's boss.

We had a really, really relaxing time.  It was beautiful and humid and green and the rooms were nice and spacious and airconditioned and the food was delicious!  So delicious in fact that after a week of wearing bathing suits and gym clothes, trying to fit back into our normal clothes was not so fun, but totally worth it ;). 

Okay so a break down of what we did:

Day 1: sleep in, get up and go to breakfast, lay on the beach, play some killer sand volleyball (guys I blocked a shot for the winning point!!!! and yes i know, i know that means the net was too low, but go with me here!), get a drink from the bartenders walking the beach, go to lunch, lay by the pool, read some good books, go back to the room and take a nap, go to dinner, drink and eat some more, go to sleep

Day 2: got up early to go to yoga (7 am!!!) repeat of day 1

Day 3: decided 7 was way to early for vacation yoga, repeat of day 1

Day 4 and 5: repeat of day 1 and 3, I start to get a little antsy

Day 6: I start to get really antsy

Day 7: drag spencer to Tulum and Playa de Carmen, get harassed by a bunch of mexicans trying to make me buy cheap jewelry, or get a tatoo, or get braids in my hair, or a massage, or anything that would let them take my money!

Day 8: get up early, walk on the beach, say goodbye to the waves, eat and drink some more, get on plane home . . . fast forward a few hours to the Houston airport (okay I had been forewarned it took a long time but still!!).  We wait in a really long line to go through immigrations.  Twice as long as the line for non US citizens!! I thought the point was to have a shorter line ;).  Then we went to get our bags and could only find one of them!  We get more and more frantic as we try to find our bag and the time for our flight to leave gets closer and closer.  At the last minute when all the other bags had come and the conveyer was slowing down our bag finally came out.  Rush through customs.  Get stopped by a lady who says we can't go up the stairs for no reason.  Lady lets us go.  Run up the stairs only to have to wait in another line for another set of security.  Get through security with 20 minutes to go.  We thought we were in the right terminal but our gate was forever far away.  At this point we start running . . . and keep running . . . and keep running.  Finally we get to our gate and get on with just a few minutes to spare!  By this point I'm all sweaty and wheezing haha.  I know pathetic.  I don't think yoga builds up your running muscles ;).  Get home to Tulsa, everyone else's kids are there to greet them and mass chaos insues complete with little Miles running up on top of the conveyer while laughing giddly.

Overall really wonderful trip.  For me to it was perfect timing at work which made it even more amazing. I had nothing to think about work related while I was there.  Instead I could think about what I was reading and about our master plan for the backyard!

Okay book review from the trip (wow I feel like this post is getting really rambly and not really with funny stories haha).  The book The Emotionally Healthy Church is amazing.  Really, really thought provoking.  I think I'll read it again after Spencer finishes it.  The Constant Princess about Henry the VIII's first wife was a fun read plus knowing the ending of the story means it was less stressful of a read ;).  Influence, the Power of Persuasion is weird.  Still trying to figure out what I think of that.  Apparently more people die in car wrecks and airplane crashes after someone famous commits suicide.  So odd. Fast Company, the magazine makes me feel like I have ADD.  Too many things on one page.  HGTV's magazine is awesome plane perusing material. 

So there you go :).  Our trip in a nutshell.  I promise to post more pics next time . . .

Sunny Days Ahead

We leave for Mexico in less than 24 hours!!!  I can't wait!  Okay I can wait a few hours because I still need to finish packing, and Spencer still needs to start packing :).  Okay we've picked out what books we want to bring, and we have our sour patch kids and golfish and deck of cards, but as for what we'll be wearing all week we haven't really gotten that far.  Pretty much May has been crazy.

Let's see what all has happened.  Oh yes the major thing that has been going on is I changed job titles.  Within the company, don't get too freaked out!  But it's a pretty major move.  I went from really not happy to a little excited to thinking okay this will probably be a good thing for me.  Plus, I get to sit right next to friends from TU, so it's like a little mini reunion down here on the 5th floor. I'm glad to get a break though and go on vacation before I start drinking from the fire hose!  They just moved my office yesterday, so today I unpacked and hung my funny photobooth pictures and arranged my furniture and got settled in.  Hopefully when I get back I'll be all refreshed and ready to LEARN.  And by that I mean take in as much as possible as soon as possible, there is no sit around and do nothing around here that's for sure!

Other than that our garden has been going crazy!  I already have a ton of squash and a bunch of little green tomatoes.  Yeah for a watering system that is okay with me being distracted and absent minded :).

Alright well I'm out of things to say, my brain is already on the beach haha.   Bring on a week of no excel and no programming and no phone calls about work and no thinking about work PERIOD.  Okay maybe a little bit, but I'm going to work really hard to just veg and read my books and drink mai thais and take walks on the beach with Spencer and play some sand volleyball and hopefully get a massage and maybe do some yoga in the sand :).

Very Interesting . . .

I'm watching a movie on having babies at home.  It's fascinating.  Okay for the record a single friend who is not pregnant recommended it, so this is not some subliminal messaging.  It's called The Business of Being Born.  All about the benefits to not having your baby in the hospital.  Less drugs, more natural, not trying to escape the pain or the actual experience. 

This weekend we went to my brother's graduation from Truman State University. It was pretty awesome.  It was also really hot.  We ate qdoba and drank cheap mexican beer in honor of Peter and in honor of cinco de mayo.

Ok this movie is distracting.  I'm going to finish watching it :).

My Latest Fashion

So I know you guys really want to know all about my day job.  Well here you go.  I get to wear sweet outfits like this:



Boo yah.  FRC is only for the coolest people out there.  Make that hottest.  Even at 80 degrees out I was sweating ridicuously and the field guys were laughing that I had such heavy gear.  Yep, yesterday I left the office and hit up the field and it was awesome.  No computer.  80 degrees and sunshine.  Meeting the field guys and having them say, oh your the girl we email reports to.  Yep that's me.

Our million dollar frac equipment.  Really ridiculous how much machinery is out there to make sure everything goes smoothly.

And just in case you aren't bored yet :), here's a picture of them tripping into the hole with our new gas lift equipment.  We pretty much timed it perfectly to actually get to see the equipment.  Usually it's sit around all day and wait for four minutes of looking at interesting equipment. And yes I know interesting is in the eyes of the beholder ;).

Alright there you go.  Part of my day job :).  And yes I know now you all want hard hats and jump suits.  Don't worry I will loan you mine haha.

Small Steps

It's been a long couple of weeks at work.  Lots of trying to figure out how to fill the days with useful things.

At our house though we've been busy little bees! Here's just a few of the things we've been up to.

- The back room is almost completely cleaned up!  All of Spencer's stuff is out in the garage! It's been two years in the making but I almost have the sun room back to actually use as a sun room!  Okay overkill with the exclamation points I know :).  All that's left back there is our stacks of stuff our moms have brought us from when we were little, the shop vac (which won't fit in any of the closets - I need to figure out a solution to that because if it goes in the garage I will never vacuum.  It's a pretty rare occurence already!), and Blitzy's crate.  I'm pretty pumped about figuring out how I want to decorate it.

- Our rose bush is back and in full force.  It's in between blooming extravaganzas right now, but a few weeks ago it looked like this and was smelled delicious!

- We've come up with a plan for the backyard.  Don't hold your breath.  It could be (okay probably will be) years before we get to it all, but it's a pretty sweet design.  New fence.  New patio.  New driveway complete with basketball hoop.  Outdoor furniture.  Planter boxes.  Grill.  You get the idea :).  We decided to just dream big for now and scale back as necessary.  Notice we did refrain from putting an outdoor kitchen complete with mini bar haha.

-  We made a new budget.  We spent all our food money in 13 days.  We decided to clear out our pantry and freezer to avoid going way over the budget (okay we had to go over a little, no food buying for 2 weeks is a little impossible!).  It's made for some interesting meals :).  So far nothing has been too odd, but definitely some creative side dish choices haha.

- We had mac and cheese for the first time since getting married almost four years ago (wow time flies).  Not sure if this is an accomplishment or not haha.

- We're starting to count the days till our beach vacation!  Bring on the pina colada and seven days without a computer screen anywhere near my face.  Is it weird that I hope they have yoga at the resort? Haha I'm officially addicted.  Spencer's okay with it thought, considering it reduces my stress level :).

13 Years Late

I can reach my toes.

On a regular basis.

Okay I'm 13 years too late for the presidential fitness test, but I can do it!!

Thank you yoga.

:)

Random Happenings

It's been a busy couple of weeks here in T Town. Lots of lovely house guests :). Which means lots of good conversations, laughter, food, wine, reminiscing, and wishing friends and family didn't live so far away. Not much cleaning or running errands though. There's dog hair everywhere and I found a bill we never paid. That's pretty unorganized for muah, but it was totally worth it. Good thing they didn't shut off our electric when it was 90 out . . . in March!!

So just some random funny stories from the past few weeks. Ange got married! (not the funny part btw that part was so awesome and she was so beautiful!). I knew the bridesmaids were wearing green, but it was also St. Patty's day. So I asked Alisha if my dress was too close to the bridesmaids' color and she said I was safe. Wrong. Pretty much the exact same color. A random relative definitely came up to me and gave me a side hug and asked how I was before Ange's mom noticed and said wrong person and they awkwardly moved away. I took it as a compliment :). I mean the Ramey sisters are a pretty awesome bunch! And don't worry Alisha I'll still take fashion advice from you ;).

Fast forward two weekends. My parents were in town chilling with us and my dad decided he wanted to run in the Luchador run with Spencer. And yes that is an angry birds hat (?!!). Kill that pig!! The back of dad's shirt said "beware the machinist, he'll get you with precision." They say you marry someone like your dad right? Haha. Apparently goof ball was a qualification for Jenny's future husband :). Somehow I worded that wrong. Current husband? That sounds wrong too, you know what I mean :).

Okay this isn't funny really, I just like my dog :). I tied her up outside the gate while I planted the garden beds (which by the way what I thought were tomatoes are most definitely a million grass seddlings!! but at least my lettuce looks good so far ha). She stood guard and barked at everyone who passed and tried to dig up my seeds which just made me laugh. Sidenote: she got out last week and did dig a giant hole in one of the beds before we caught her!! Sneaky little dog! The other bed had paw prints :).

Okay so the last funny story happened last week. A friend from work and I go most days to Topeca to get lattes in the morning after we read our emails. Spencer gets his coffee later in the day so we don't often go in together (yes this is an important part of the story I promise). One particular morning my friend and I were talking to our favorite barista about when we all got engaged (he was all cheery even though it was monday and when we asked him why he said he got engaged on a Monday so it was bound to be a good day haha). The other barista working looked at me and said, "you got engaged?! congratulations!" We all bust up laughing! I told him actually Spencer and I have been married almost four years and he couldn't believe it. He said he thought he had been watching a coffee shop romance unfold. It made my day. Apparently Spencer and I still look young and in love and apparently not old enough to be old married people :). Hopefully we can keep it up for years to come!