June 22, 2008

New Addition to the Floyd Household

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Don’t get too excited… it isn’t that kind of addition. 

When I was younger and living on my own I had two awesome cats named Malcolm and Chester Thomas.  When I moved back to Michigan a few years ago they set up temporary quarters at my childhood home.  Well, temporary should say permanent. 

Malcolm passed away from old age awhile ago, but Chester has been living and ruling the roost at my sister’s house ever since.  In his old age he was getting a little cranky and not following the rules so I told her that he could come home with me when I went back to visit last week.  I failed to mention that very small fact to Zach. 

A few discussions later he agreed to give it a try.  I’d say they’re getting along all right, would you agree?

 

June 7, 2008

Sweet

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I just found out Quinn has Guitar Hero and Wii Sports.  This is going to be the best vacation ever.  We’ll more than likely be on a blogging hiatus while here, but taking tons of pictures to post next week.  Hope everybody (all 3 of you reading) has a great week!!

 

June 3, 2008

Minnesota Weather

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So in between coming home from Flutter on Saturday afternoon and leaving for my friend Emily’s bachelorette party Saturday evening I heard an odd noise.  Keep in mind it was BEAUTIFUL outside.  Sun, barely any clouds, warm temps (finally)…  Really a great Minnesota early summer afternoon.  Back to the noise…   tornado sirens.  I was in the bathroom curling my hair when they started to go off.  Looked out the window and it was still sunny out so I figured they were testing or something.  My friend Sarah comes over and as I let her in I notice the sky has clouded over.  5 minutes later this starts…

Ok, so we’re getting a little hail and a storm.  We turn on the tv and the warnings are flying all over the place.  Then the tink, tink, tink noise the hail had been making turns into a sound I have never heard before…

The sound of the wind, thunder and hail was so loud we were having to raise our voices to hear each other.  Sarah, Zach and I just stood there kind of amazed at what we were watching.  After a minute I started to get a little scared that maybe we should head down to the garage to hide out from the hail stones that seemed intent on busting through our windows.  Sarah tried to open our sliding door to take a picture and she literally got blown back from the wind.  Everything came to a stop 5 or 10 minutes later.   This is what it looked like…

 

The next day there was still hail in the streets that had yet to melt.  By far one of the craziest storms I have ever seen.

 

May 27, 2008

Beers, Babies and BBQs

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We headed down to lovely Kasson, MN for Memorial Day weekend to hang out with our good friends Broc, Laura and their little girl Ava.  Friday night we hung at the house and then Saturday afternoon went to watch Broc coach the Kasson-Mantorville Komets in the baseball playoffs.  Unfortunately the Komets got knocked off by Stewartville but we managed to keep our spirits up. 

**Quick sidenote-in Stewartville there’s a shop called “Pure Pleasure” that had a specially made sign stating “Sexy Internet Access Now Available Here”.  I’m curious as to what the difference is between regular internet access and “sexy” internet access. 

Sexy Internet

 

 

 

Went back to Broc and Laura’s for a BBQ with their friends Ben, new mother Kim, and new parents Ryan and Holly.  We brought Coors Light and Kim, Ryan and Holly brought some babies.  Broc manned the grill and we had a nice assortment of delicious dead animals to choose from.  After dinner Melissa managed to convince me to hold Ryan and Holly’s 4 week old daughter Maryan.  Normally I wouldn’t come close to a baby that young but I gave it a shot.  She’s a cutie.  There’s some pics in our flickr account of me looking monumentally uncomfortable while holding her.  The night ended in the garage with Broc, Laura and I sharing River Falls stories about stealing pink flamingos and nunchuck-wielding freshman named Walter. 

 Uh, what now?

Sunday night we headed over to Laura’s parents’ house in Mantorville.  It was basically a Huntoon family reunion with us tagging along.  The 4 Huntoon girls, husbands, daughters, mom and dad, and grandpa and grandma.  The menu consisted of ribs, smoked chicken, cheesy potatoes, Jim Beam, and smores.  We closed out the evening with a bonfire.  Thanks a ton to the Huntoons for having us over.  Really good time.

Whole lotta Huntoons

Some random highlights from the weekend, in no particular order:

-Ava laughing at mom doing her 80s dance

-Laura pantsing her brother-in-law Nick (twice-revealing each “side”)

-Ryan Radke drinking a can of Coke in 4.8 seconds

-Monday morning mini-marathon of the Sopranos final 3 episodes

-Eliza swinging and hitting Laura with a bag of dogshit

-Just Ava in general

So all in all a really great weekend.  We love hanging out with Broc and Laura (and especially Ava).  We were kind of bummed to head home on Monday.  For some reason hanging out with friends, eating cheddarwursts and drinking beers is more fun than going to work. 

 

May 19, 2008

Oh Trader Joe’s… How I love thee.

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So we’re trying to eat healthier (never mind that I just had a piece of chocolate eclair dessert).  Even my husband, or Captain Chip Face as I like to call him, is getting into veggies, fruit, etc.  Lately we’ve been on a big fish kick.  It’s easy, fast and usually tastes pretty good. 

Trader Joe’s is 2 blocks from our house (again never mind that we usually drive there) and is quickly becoming my go to for dinner.  We bought a bunch of frozen mahi mahi and I tell you it is dee-lish-us.  I bought a few pieces that were marinated in the package so all it needed was a few minutes on each side in a hot pan.  It looked like this…

Delishy

Shortly there after Zach and I both joined the clean plate club.  The veggies were from TJ’s too as was the lovely lemon I used to make the rice and garnish.  About $5 a plate total.

Yes mom, I eat fish now.

 

 

May 8, 2008

Big Fat Party Animal

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There’s an episode of the Simpsons where Homer is afraid that Bart is “turning” gay because he’s wearing a Hawaiian shirt.  Homer observes, “There’s only 2 kinds of guys that wear Hawaiian shirts-gay guys and big fat party animals.  And Bart’s not a big fat party animal.” 

This guy isn’t wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but I don’t think there’s any doubt he’s a big fat party animal.  Melissa captured this picture during our jaunt to Brainerd a couple weeks ago.  We were at a bar called Zorbaz in Brainerd ($3 PBR tall boys with a FREE PBR tall boy can coozy-I challenge anyone to find a better deal) and this guy was really going for it. 

 

4 key elements-

1.  Beer in hand, almost ready for another

2.  Tongue hanging out, partying

3.  Shirt almost completely unbuttoned, ready to be wrapped around the head at any moment

4.  Shades on, at night, inside a bar

Good luck partying harder than this guy.  It’s never been done. 

                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 5, 2008

Ah love…

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Happy Anniversary to my husband.  One year ago today you made my life complete. 

I may give you a hard time, but the truth is I have never had it so good.  I am blessed to have found someone who compliments my craziness and moodiness with stability and support.  You are the funniest person I have ever met and have never failed to put a smile on my face every single day I have known you.  You do the dishes and pick up after me, which is no small feat.  You give great gifts at really unexpected times letting me know that you are thinking of me.  You do a mean jig on demand.  You suck at sharing the covers but always apologize about it the next morning.  You have never gotten mad at a midnight phone call asking for a ride home after happy hour lasted one too many.  You always dance with my friends at the bar.  I love that you have turned “couch beers” into an art form.  

I am excited to see where our lives go from here because I know no matter what path we choose it will be great with you by my side. 

Thank you for making me a better person.  I love you.

   Just Married!

-your wife

 

May 2, 2008

Go to hell HGTV

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They make it look sooo easy. New floor?? No problem!  You can do it in a weekend…

So this flooring project has been ongoing for almost 4 months.  All of the flooring is down finally, but the finish work is dragging on.  We’re both to blame, but seriously I’m ready to lose my mind with the mess.  That is saying a lot considering I’ll let a dirty dish sit on the counter for a week with no problem.  Our place is too small to have tools laying around and the dining room table in the living room.  We’re ready to kill each other… Hopefully the murdering stays on hold long enough to celebrate our one year anniversary next week.

Pray for us…

 

April 30, 2008

Run For the Lakes

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So last Saturday was the half marathon that I’ve been training about 2 1/2 months for.  The inaugural Run for the Lakes in Brainerd, MN.  I hadn’t done any distance running since high school and other than some rec league basketball I was woefully out of shape.  For some reason eating crap and never exercising didn’t keep me sharp.  I completed my training and was a little nervous but overall felt ready to go. 

All week leading up to the race I was checking the weather and the forecast got worse every day.  We drove up to Brainerd Friday night with our friends Matt and Michelle, and it was a rain/snow combo platter most of the way.  Not a good start.  Woke up the next morning to find that it snowed all night and was still snowing with about 20 mph winds.  Still not good.  I have to admit I thought about not going through with it for about 4 seconds but realized I didn’t want my work to go to waste. 

Get to the starting line with Matt’s sister Erika, who was also running, and it was actually kind of scenic.  The race started and for the first 8 or 9 miles the elements were pretty manageable.  We were back in the woods and the tree cover cut down on the wind considerably.  I had some ice in my beard and visibility was limited, but I was hanging in there.  Until somewhere around mile 11 when we started to get into town.  The tree cover disappeared and the wind was right in our face.  I thought once I got to mile 11 or 12 I’d sense the finish and pick up the pace, but it was the exact opposite.  My face and legs were both basically numb and my pace really slowed down.  I recall seeing Melissa cheering me on at mile 12 and I managed to utter “I’m hurtin’” as I lumbered by. 

I crossed the finish line 2 hrs and 17 minutes after the start.  I was hoping for 2 hours, but I’ll go ahead and blame it on the conditions.  Overall, I was pretty happy.  It’s kind of hard to run 13 miles.  The first night I ran on the treadmill I did 6 MINUTES and I almost passed out. 

Huge thanks to Erika, Ty (and the kids) for putting us up for the weekend.  Really good time with everyone.  Now it’s back to the couch for me. 

P.S.-We’re still figuring out how to add pictures/links to pictures on a post, so if you’re interested, go to our flickr pictures and look under “Weekend in Brainerd”. 

 

April 30, 2008

And so it begins…

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Well, here we go.  After much thought and debate we’ve started a blog.  Those close to us know we’re not very good at picking up our phones.  We thought this would be a way to keep the 4 people who care up to date with our goings on.  Can’t promise to be funny or entertaining, but we’ll try.

 

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