Party at the Carr's

Last Saturday, Spencer and I went to my cousin Heather's house to celebrate her husband Jason's birthday. She invited her family and our Aunt Ginger to come up too, so we had a fun time eating treats, chatting, and playing a crazy game.

Jason and Heather, who in true Headrick fashion baked a plethora of pies for the occasion, and lots of yummy snacks that we enjoyed throughout the afternoon.

Jenna, Sarah, Ginny, and Kathy, eating and sharing laughs around the table.

Heather took this picture and said it could be our 2nd engagement photo (she was the kind soul who took our real engagement pictures for us in Utah).

Jason looks ecstatic about his new birthday gift. Thomas (on Jason's left in the purple shirt) asked Heather if I was Jason's sister. We all laughed that he had no idea that I was his cousin, but in his defense, he was born after my family moved to Medina. I guess he was too busy playing with kids at the Headrick family reunion last summer to notice that I was in that huge group of adults.

Your guess is as good as mine as to why the kids are standing so close to Jason. We were quite impressed when he blew out all 27 of his candles with just a short, quick breath. He must've started practicing the night before (is that why you couldn't find any candles Heather?).

After everyone else left, Heather, Jason, Spencer and I had a Wii tennis tournament, played other random Wii games, attempted to play Mafia with 4 people and found quickly that it didn't work super well, then watched Nacho Libre while eating authentic Mexican food (Taco Bell).

The Bloody Thumb

The mundane task of making dinner got a little more interesting tonight. I generally make the entree, and Spencer likes to make the salad (he's much better about making sure we get our veggies than I am...). He also likes to use the biggest knife in our kitchen to chop up the stuff that he puts in the salad. Shortly after he started cutting the carrots, I heard an "ow" and then looked behind me to see him holding his bloody hand over the sink. He sliced through the tip of his thumb on his right hand- thank goodness he's a lefty. Not bad enough for stitches, but a bloody wound nonetheless. I think we handled the slight trauma pretty well.

Re-enactment of the injury about 4 hours after it happened.

Thank goodness for Neosporin and Band-Aids, but I'm thinkin' we might want to upgrade our first-aid kit to something that includes gauze and medical tape.

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Dual Birthday Bash

This weekend, Spencer and I went down to Columbus for some family birthday parties. The festivities took place at my parents' house, so we spent Friday night with them. On Saturday morning, we woke up early to go do sealings at the temple. When we got there, we saw the Temple President Lee Tobler who married us just 2 short years ago!

Later that afternoon, everyone else came over to my parents' house. Here are a few highlights of the day:

Dallin is posing by the newest addition to the herd. That little alpaca, a baby boy who is currently nameless, was born last week.

Here's a better shot that shows just how tiny he is compared to the others. Dad picked him up and let Noni*, James, and I pet him. Sooooo soft.

Shauna and Dan brought their dog Lucy along. She loved running around in the big yard, chasing frisbees and tennis balls. The pacas were kind of jittery when she was in sight. One of them would make this high pitched squeal to alert the rest of the herd to stay together - it was kind of annoying after a while. I thought it was funny that they would just stay close to the front gate and watch Lucy instead of running to the back of the property.

Mom, Elayna, and Wendy, who is pregnant with baby #5. They are so excited to have another little boy after their 3 girl streak! Baby Samuel is due on December 15th.

Riding the 4-wheeler was definitely a highlight of the afternoon. Riley liked to ride with Spencer because he would go fast...

whereas Allie preferred to go kinda slow. That was just fine with me.

We are all amazed that my Dad lets Dallin ride all by himself!

Dad watched us from the porch as we all took turns riding. Other highlights include: playing frisbee in the yard, eating Mom's yummy enchiladas and some killer desserts, and getting a new rug for our living room (courtesy of Mom and Dad, who thought it was too small for their dining room and wanted to get rid of it).

Happy Birthday to Noni, who turned 26 on August 5, and Dallin, who turned 7 on August 18! We are so glad we could be part of it!

*Noni refers to my sister Shauna, and is pronounced "naw - nie." This has been her nickname for a very long time, and it is in no way related to Tahitian Noni (pronounced "know - nee"), a corporation which several of our friends work for in Provo, UT. I'm not quite sure why we spell it this way... I think my Mom came up with it.

Home Sweet Home

Here's the house we're renting. I'm glad it's a nice day since the house always looks better with a blue sky above it. We are responsible for taking care of the yard, and Spencer was really excited to mow this week. We also bought a hose and had fun washing our car in our very own driveway!

We have a deck and lots of enormous hostas all around it.

The back yard is fenced in. To me, that means we'll have a little extra privacy (or at least no random kids running around back there). To Spencer, it's an indication that we need to get a dog. Ha!

Our New Place

As per request, here are some pics of the house we're renting. I don't really have a good ones of the outside of the house, but I'll try to take some in the morning- so stay tuned!

Our bedroom. We are anti-comforter in the summer, so we just use our sheets. Looks kinda ghetto, but it works. We bought the dresser at IKEA this summer. Spencer put it together, and I love it.

The 2nd bedroom, which we're using as an office. The closets in both rooms are pretty small, so I use the one in our room and Spencer uses the closet in this one.

The bathroom on the main floor.

The living room. I had a hard time getting a good shot of the whole room, and this was the best I could do. Almost complete, just needs a rug or something in front of the couch.


Our hobbit-sized kitchen. Yes, that is all the counter space we have. It gets pretty cozy when we're trying to make dinner together, but we like it.

The dining room. Do you like how I haven't actually put any flowers in that vase?

The bonus room upstairs. We rarely go up there since it's mostly big closets for storage, and then this room and another half bathroom. We eventually plan on having it be a guest room.

Although it's in the basement, this is one of my favorite things in the house! Our landlords bought them new for us, so we were really excited about that.

Attack of the Killer Mutant Centipede

WAIVER: Please do not read the following post if you ever plan on visiting us!

Ok, this all started last Thursday evening when Spencer was working on his computer at the desk in our spare room, and he screamed for me to come in there to see a bug. It was fat, long, and had many legs. In our attempts to catch it, it ran onto the wall and then behind the vent. Ugh. Then later that night it came back out for another visit, but this time it escaped under the baseboard where it isn't quite flush with the floor. Double ugh. We set out to Walgreens to buy some bug killer, but opted to hold out until we could get it for a better price at Target. On Saturday, we were armed and ready for anymore centipede visits.

Fast forward to this morning. Spencer was asleep and felt something on his head, so he brushed it off. Then he opened his eyes, not sure if what he felt was in a dream or if it was real. So he jumps out of bed, turns on the lamp, and says "Oh my gosh!" Thinking that he was doing this because he was late for class or something, I rolled over to check the time only to find that it was just after 5 am. But, as you've probably guessed, it was our multi-legged stalker that had been crawling on his head!! At this point it was on his pillow, and he wanted to kill it with Raid. After I talked him out of spraying noxious gases in our bedroom at such an hour, we decided catching it with the vacuum would be our best bet. When Spencer was at the ready with the vacuum hose, I found my camera and snapped a shot just before its impending death.

Click on the picture to get the full effect!

It tried to escape, but we were successful. As Spencer was verifying that it was in the vacuum (which he couldn't, so we put packaging tape over the nozzle of the hose), I changed our sheets. When we finally got back into bed, we both had that nervous itch where you feel like there are bugs crawling all over your body. We cuddled up next to each other, and about 15 minutes later Spencer said, "What are you going to put as the title on our blog." That made me laugh, cause during that 15 minutes I was totally planning this post in my head. Creepy, eh?