fish, cookies & gnomes

june fifth

another sunday at the savage household. sunday dinner is always the best.. mostly because i don't have to cook it :) and because i get to see that weird awesome brother...

june sixth

erin comes over on mondays and we watch the bachelorette (my small amount of girliness ever week!). during our show, the penrods showed up to tell me i got the job (yay!) and make me a celebratory cake! thanks garn and heidi :)

i had already made cupcakes, though, so it was a very sugar-induced evening. (by the way, LOVING the job so far! a little tough going back to a nine to five job, but i'm so glad i got it!)

june seventh

more sugar? yes please! my biggest weakness (yes, my biggest.. otherwise, i'm perfect..) is baking cookies. they always melt. so i went to my aunt and uncle's house (they're old), so andrew could teach me how to bake cookies. turns out i'm doing it all right, my oven was just fifty degrees too hot (on convect bake). ta da!

that night, erin & i went to take photos of the hulets and then headed to a boutique, while nick worked hard with the parade committee on the parade float. coming along pretty nicely, eh?

june eighth

as this was my last "free" weekday, i went with mom, nicholas & his friend carter to the aquarium. nick had never touched a manta ray (must be a nick thing.. the husband nick hates touching sea creatures, too). so we decided it was time to make him a man. (you can't see him touching it in the photo, but he claims he did!).

june ninth

started my job. i really do love it so far. it's a job at a life insurance company, so i'm learning a lot (ryan, my boss, gave me some reading to do and some training meetings to attend). but i love it! i work with really fun people, in a small environment (which i love), and i'm constantly busy, which i also love! it's a little weird getting used to working nine to five again. i forgot how nice it was to have all that free time to edit and.. have a life :) but money will be nice, and i feel so much more structured and productive now!

aaaaand.. the photo was of a gnome. kind of like work :) nick loves gnomes, so mom and dad gave him one. i came home from work to find him in the pot!

june tenth

friday is penrod night. none of us felt like cooking, so it was also a costco pizza night :) ta da! laziness = pizza = happiness.