Rock Bridge Park

Today we went to check out Rock Bridge State Park which is only about 15 minutes from our house. We hiked about 3 miles. Here are a few pics.

This is Connor's Cave. There is also the Devil's Icebox here but you have to do a guided tour into that cave because it's 30 miles of underground cave system.

Caylea in the cave Looking down into the cave we were in

The Rock Bridge

Took Jazz to the vet on Saturday, she is a whopping 4 lbs. Magnus is 92.



Jazzie loves to sleep on laps or on your neck.

Jazz and her pink elephant
Crashing after playing with the pink elephant Magnus trying to make Jazz's pillow his own
They've started to finally play together and Magnus finally is a little more gentle than he was at first
It didn't take Jazz long to learn how to sit and where to sit to get treats after going out.

Back from OK and passed with flying colors! The test was nothing compared to what we all prepared for. I went over it three times trying to figure out what I was missing because it was too easy. So I'm officially licensed for Oklahoma. Now I'm just a little carsick from the ride home and Joe's shaky driving. There was a big sports conference at our hotel last night, the Henry Iba conference to honor basketball coaches. We came back from dinner and saw a parking lot full of Aston Martin's and Lamborginis. The guys said they saw Eddie Sutton and one of the guys went and introduced himself to Bill Self. I had no idea who these people are but Bill Self was not too friendly apparently. Everyone in the bar was wearing black dresses or a tux, except for us, in our shorts and t-shirts. And we all felt VERY short next to these crazy tall guys.

Jazzie decided she liked Mag's pillow instead of her blanket. So Mags went and layed on her blanket. She is pretty energetic but when she crashes she is out. Except for at night when she doesn't like sleeping by herself. Jason said she whined a lot last night. She looks pretty funny next to Magnus. He ignored her for awhile at first but now he is paying a little more attention to her. She tries to play with him and is ok until he starts jumping around and then she gets scared.

Introducing Jazzmin

Meet the newest member of our family, Jazzmin. We call her Jazz, Caylea calls her Jazzie. We thought she was a he until we went to officially do the paperwork this morning. We went to the humane society on Saturday and these 4 puppies were brought in as we were about to leave. They are Jack-a-Bees which is part Beagle and part Jack Russell Terrier. We're hoping more Beagle. This little one was the runt and she was the sweetest. The other three puppies were quite rowdy and this little one just wanted to lay on your shoulder. We slept on it last night and did some research on the mix and decided to go for it. She'll be brought home Monday night after she gets spayed. Not real sure what Magnus will think yet, he will probably be jealous. I'm back off to Oklahoma this afternoon to take my test tomorrow. I've spent most of my free time studying so I owe a lot of you an email or phone call response. I've never taken a test before where the questions are so tricky. They said flat out that this test is meant to trip you up. And the practice tests have definitely been tricky. So I'll be studying for the next 5 hours on this road trip!

A weekend visit

We had our first visitor this weekend. Cliff came down to see us. We had a good time showing him around Columbia and catching up. We also got all our blinds hung. Of course we put Cliff to work a little bit! : ) Happy Dad's day to all the father's we know! I'm off to Oklahoma in a few hours. I'm in for a very LONG drive and not just because it's a 5 hour drive. But that's another story...

LuLu

I've pretty much decided to name the deer since they love to hang out with us so much. I'm calling this one LuLu. She (I guess it's a she) decided to just go ahead and plop down and hang out for the long haul tonight. She was enjoying a little snack of the flowers and weeds. She also hung out by the bedroom window last night around midnight. Magnus woke me and probably half the neighbors because of her.



The entryway
Our new barstools

Who knew finding barstools is so tough? We had to end up custom ordering ours. Every store we looked at only had the kind with backs on them.

Jason is in Oklahoma and St. Louis until tomorrow night. I head for Oklahoma on Sunday, but the good news is I'll be back in time for Jason's birthday after all. The bad part of that is then I have to drive back to Oklahoma the following Sunday for taking the actual test because we couldn't get them scheduled next week. We broke down and bought a Wii, so we've been staying in a lot. We checked out the twilight festival downtown last week. Jason called it the hippie hoedown. That about sums that experience up.

The deer

This has been a nightly occurence for us. The deer come out around 7ish and Magnus just sits by the back door and watches for them. Magnus just stands there and watches them. They keep an eye on him but they don't let him get in the way of eating in the backyard! They apparently like to come out on garbage night too, as I learned Friday morning. So no morning putting out the garbage until the morning of versus the night before.

More new pictures

Hello! Here are some more new pics for everyone. I am 2 days into my job as a Fire claim rep. So far so good. I'm in training with 5 other people who are all pretty cool. I go to Oklahoma in 2 weeks to get my Oklahoma adjuster's license. Then in October I'm back in Blm for 2 weeks for claims school. Today I started learning how to build a house from the ground up. Pretty interesting but I'm on information overload already! Getting to the office from our house is pretty easy, mostly highway so it doesn't take too long, about the same as it took us in Blm. First interesting experience of Missouri life was getting the cars registered. I had to make 3 stops. First stop was to an office to get a form saying property taxes weren't owed on the cars. You have to pay property taxes on cars here every year. 2nd step was to go get a mandatory state inspection to say the car is not falling apart. That was $12. Then finally to the DMV. And the most exciting part for me was the fact that the plates only costs $25 a year versus the $85 I was used to in Blm. And we can register for 2 years at a time. So that was a fun little savings. Although I'm sure it all equals out after we start paying tax in 2009.


Mags has come to expect daily walks around our neighboorhood and ignores us all night if he doesn't get it.

Jason enjoying an energy drink on the patio, the energy drink doesn't appear to be working huh?
Looking into the kitchen/entryway from the dining table/patio door area.

Jason's favorite part of the bedroom.
Woohoo, haven't killed the flowers yet!

Master bedroom, hopefully blinds to be added soon!
Got my bookcase put together in the scrapbook room. Now just need to get a desk!
Caylea's room
Caylea's room
My first project last week was organizing the closet!