Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Spacey

I have noticed that the spacing on my blog is weird. When I write a post it seems fine...and it's okay in the preview but when I publish it things go funky. Any suggestions?

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Millers!

We had a great spring break. The first part was spent just trimming down our 'to-do' list. THEN we got to spend a few days with the Miller family. We love them. They recently moved from Boise, ID to Lubbock, TX and that put us within road trip range, woohoo! We got to do a whole lot of just playing which we really, really needed to do.




They arrived late on 3/16 so our dear Tyler decided to make us yummy green pancakes the morning of 3/17. (I love that he's manly enough to wear an apron).





Our St. Pat's breakfast was followed by a day at the beach. We could have used a bit more sunscreen (a LOT of really white people in the sun at the beginning of the season, yow!) but other than that it was fabulous.
The next day we tried to go bowling...but since so did about a bazillion other people we decided to bail on the 2 hour wait for a lane and pick strawberries instead. I love me some Froberg's strawberries.

The last day we decided to visit the Houston zoo, because we really needed to crisp up their sunburns one last time before we put them in a car for their all day journey back to the tumbleweeds.


We also did a lot of what some might call 'larding'. We watched movies, played games, and ate copious quantities of whatever was around.


Thanks Dave and Kellie for a great week!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Darn that integrity...

Wednesday afternoon I went to the bank to cash a check. I was in a big hurry and, rather than count the money in the envelope, just tossed it in my purse and drove off. I got caught up in the activities of the day and didn't open the envelope until the next morning.

The amount written on the check in question was $173.23. In the envelope I found:

15 $100 bills
11 $20 bills
1 $10 bill
1 $1 bill
2 dimes
3 pennies

Did you do the math?

It equals $1731.23...just one little tiny number away from the correct amount...

One little tiny number that created a $1558 error...

IN MY FAVOR!!!

That bank manager's jaw may still be on the floor this morning and some poor teller might still lose his job but at least he won't go to jail...

Sorry for the generic photo, I was in such shock over the situation that I didn't think about the blog possibilities until I talked to my sister yesterday--AFTER I took the money back to the bank. It was a weird thing, but it makes for a fun story ;-)