Running away to the circus

Last night Eric and I saw Water for Elephants. I had read the book and was interested to see how the movie turned out. As always the book was much better than the movie and some of the casting choices seemed really off, I did however fall completely in love with one of the characters. Her name is Rosie and she is an eight feet eight inch tall, 9,000 pounds, 42 year old female Asian elephant.

I had never wanted to run away to the circus and I actually always thought that sounded like a nightmare because Carnies freak me out but after watching that movie and seeing Reese Witherspoon riding on Rosie, I totally got it. Playing with an elephant all day sounds like as dream.

After watching the movie I have put a bucket list together and currently have one thing on my list. That one item is to ride an elephant.

Hopefully I will be able to check off the one item on my bucket list before I die but I am pretty optimistic about my chances.

Keepin' it in the Family

April has been a month full of family time and considering we have not had family time for months it is really nice. First we went to California and spent time with some of Eric family, then last week Eric's mom came to town and now this week most of my family is coming down to Phx. Abbey is here now spending time with her nephew (Karl). Baby Sofie will be here in a few days and I cant wait for her to meet Karl. That all for today, I am keeping the post short because I would rather spend time with the fam then in front of the computer.

California Love

Eric and I took Karl on his first road trip ever to southern California. He was able to meet some of the extended family and Ashley and Rory were nice enough to let him stay at their apartment.

Below is a picture of Eric, Rory and myself at the Padres game on Saturday night. Karl was not able to come.


Here is Karl's first view of the Ocean ever.

Karl with aunt Ashley.


The highlight of the trip was taking Karl to dog beach in Del Mar. Here is the Olson family at the beach.


Karl checking out the sand.


Some of the dogs on the beach were a little bigger then Karl. He had a little incident at the beach were he got ran over by some of the big dogs. After that he was a little more timid as you can see in the picture below.


Ez protecting Karl from some of the big dogs.


The trip was great and Karl had a great time. We are already planning our next trip out with Karl.

The puppys new clothes

I decided Karl needed a new shirt. I decided to take one of my old UCLA tees and reconstruct it for Karl. It started as my size so obviously much to big for Karl as you can see below.

Before:

Karl kind of liked the tee because he could do the sexy off the shoulder look. I told him no because he is not a floozie and he did not want the other dogs at the park getting the wrong idea about him.


After a little reconstruction I got it fitting quite well. It is still a little big but I am leaving some room for him to grow into it.

After:

Here is the new reconstructed tee (already with a stain on it).


Karl relaxing in his new look.

Karl is very deep. Here he is meditating in his shirt.

Well there you have it. I have to say I am pretty proud of myself and this new look I have given Karl. I don't think he realizes how lucky he is to have a stylist like myself.

An ode to Amy

So I have mentioned some of my girl crushes in the past but I have decided to dedicate an entire post to my ultimate girl crush. I don't want to be like this person, I want to be this person.
Who is this amazing person you are thinking(the picture above is probably a good clue)?

It is Amy Poehler. Why is Mrs. Poehler so great you may ask. Take a look at her resume and you will see why she is so great.

First there was Saturday Night Live. If you need proof of how hilarious she was on this show, go into Google and type in Kaitlin on Saturday Night Live. You wont be disappointed.

Okay now the second reason she is awesome is because of her performance in Baby Mama. Just take a look at this quote below and you will see why.

Amy's character Angie referring to her significant other:

We met the summer after I discontinued high school, and we've been together ever since. He never officially asked me to be his wife but he never asked me to not be his wife either, so things are going pretty good.

Third reason she is awesome is her staring role on the television program Parks and Recreation. This is currently my favorite comedy on TV. The entire cast is amazing but Amy as Leslie Knope is really what seals the deal. If you have never seen the show I would highly recommend checking it out and if you are only going to watch one episode, make sure it is the episode titled 'Flu Season'.

The above reasons are why I love Amy Poehler. This lady has the key to my funny bone and this post is my salute to her.

Oh and the last reason why she is awesome, she is married to Gob Bluth (Will Arnett) for realsies. Photo below to prove it.

This does not really prove that they are married but I promise they are.

Back to the Future in Photos

I was going through some the pictures on our computer and found some pretty great old photos. I thought I would share.


Eric with lil' sis Ashley. You would never think that my slightly racially ambiguous husband was a toe head as a baby.

Eric with his older brother Steve. Love those matching outfits.

Eric with his Grandpa. I love that smile.


My uncle Randy, his dog Bear and I. Look at that, I had red hair as a baby.

Wow check out that fur. Work it girl.


I love this picture. This is me with my childhood bestie Tyler. I am the one in the red. I know its hard to tell who the girl is in this pic.

Oh look what cute kids we were.

Mad for Mail

When most people think of mail they don't usually get too excited and when they think of the post office some people get down right mad. I, on the other hand, love mail. To me, mail is like a little present delivered to your door. I love giving and receiving it.

I also love the post office, I know there are usually horrible lines but I love seeing what people are sending. I secretly would love to work at the post office just so I could see what everyone was sending and why.

It makes me a little sad that people are not sending mail like they used to. Obviously email is great and I love that it saves paper, but there is something that is so personal about a mail that I love.

So send a postcard to a friend and I bet they will be very presently surprised. It is a great way to show someone that you are thinking of them.

On one last note, I am refering to personal mail, not bills and junk mail.