Busy little spring bees

The Baird's have been busy little bees this last few weeks and I have had a hard time finding time to post. I'll get to it tonight or tomorrow, but I wanted to make sure you all didn't think we died.  

Answer

Dad was the smart one this week- The boys were triplets. 

Laundry Day

Here is Sassy working hard on those laundry skills I so desperately want her to learn. 

Brain Teaser Tuesday

This one is for Kristin- 

A woman gave birth to two boys on the same day in the same year within minutes of each other, yet they were not twins. How is this possible? 

Answer Posted on Friday

Some things change...

some things never do. Like my incredible ability to kill plants with the swiftness of Round-up. I got this pretty plant at Costco last week. There was a lady there that was buying one the same time as I was and she said she had one last year and hers lasted 2 months and she didn't re-pot it or anything. I thought I could at least keep it alive a month and it would be cheaper than buying a bouquet every week for the table. Oh yeah, sure it looks nice now, but don't be fooled. It has already lost several blooms and palms.  I figured I better take a picture now before it was totally dead. 

Answer

Although I enjoyed all the creative answers to the brain teaser, the genius Simon was the one who got it right. He juggled them. 

Picky little thing

Sassy has always been a picky eater- even with treats. We don't ever feed her human food, but she sure knows which dog food she likes. When she was a puppy, I used to feed her Beneful from Purina. It has four different colors for food pellets- red, green, orange, and brown. Sassy used to pick out the orange ones and not eat them. The reds were her favorites and she would eat those first, then the greens, and if she absolutely had to she would eat the browns, but never the oranges. I switched her to a Iams Naturals about 6 months ago. It is all one color, so I thought this might cut down on her picky-ness. Well, she never really seemed to like the Iams that much, and last week when we ran out Patrick bought her Beneful again (mostly, I think, because there wasn't Iams at the store). Anyway, I took this picture last night, and  it seems things haven't changed- orange is still gross and red is still the best. These are all her discarded orange pieces- I thinks it's really funny.

Brain Teaser Tuesday

Alexander is a great circus performer, skilled in many things. He weighs exactly 199 pounds and is about to cross a bridge with a strict weight limit of 200 pounds. The problem is he is carrying three pieces of gold, each weighting 8 ounces. The gold puts him 8 ounces over the strict weight limit. What did Alexander do to cross the bridge safely with all three pieces of gold?

Answer to be posted on Friday.

The finest spring fashions...

I finished up another fashion show this week- this one was for the same ladies social group that I worked with in the fall. Since this was the second time around with this group, I made a few changes and the show was a lot better I think. To the horror of my sister, I forgot my camera (as I always seem to do) so I did the next best thing and dressed up these ladies to create the most adequate depiction as I could. Enjoy! 

After the rain

It rained pretty hard the other night and this morning there were lots of little snails on the sidewalk. I don't remember ever seeing snails in CO, so it was interesting to watch them s..l..o...w...l...y crawl across the cement. We're planning on opening a French restaurant in our garage very soon.

Two hours later.....

still playing....ZUMA....playing.....still playing......still....... 

Well I have made it past level 3-5, but now I can't feel my hand.....

ZUMA!

I'm not really a video game person- that's Patrick's domain. The only games I really do find entertaining are the ones most everyone else thinks are totally lame, like Tetris, PacMan, Bejeweled, etc. This week Patrick downloaded me a new game to play called ZUMA. I am totally into it and have not done much else since. Really, this is the reason why I don't play video games-because I get so addicted and I stop sleeping and just stay up and play. I wake up all tired from only a few hours sleep, then all I can think about while I am at work is getting home and trying to pass stupid level 3-5.  If I don't post for a few days you'll know why. I'm playing ZUMA.... still playing..... still..... playing.......ZUMA.....still playing.......playing........

Cows Come Home

While Patrick and I were out walking tonight, we saw a funny sight in our neighbors yard- a cow! I guess he wanted to come home too. 

Employee of the Month

Patrick has only had his job as a valet for about a month, be he was the Employee of the Month for that month. To think he was afraid civilian life would be hard......

I'm so proud!

Sassy's Day Out

Patrick and I took Sassy out to play yesterday by the river. There is a large recreation area by the damn near our house that is usually pretty busy in the summer, but yesterday we had it all to ourselves. Sassy had a great time chasing the squirrels, birds, and geese, and here she is trying to catch a bee. She probably wouldn't have been happy had she actually caught him.

Irish Step Dance

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St. Patrick's Sassy

Whoa! Sassy's dressed up for a holiday. Bet you didn't see that one coming. 

Nashville ranked "manliest" city in the US

Patrick's pleased. We apparently live in the "manliest" city in the US according to a study that came out this week. Cities got "Man Points" for having pro-sport teams, BBQ joints, and hardware stores, and lost points for having too many home furnishing stores, subscriptions to beauty magazines, and for having residents like this guy.

Click on the link to read the whole article and to see how your city stacked up. Just an FYI- Denver was #5, Grand Rapids #24, Seattle #40, and LA and NYC were last with #49 and #50.  You NYC guys can keep your deep spray-on tans and creamy lotion-y hands, thank you!

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090305/NEWS01/90305025

I'm back baby!

So after some requests and a few demands, I've returned to my blog. (I know you all really have just been dying to know what Sassy has been wearing lately!) Before I being discussing the current state of the Baird's let me take a moment to catch you up... 

Since Patrick got home in November, life has been fun a blissful- yes, really! We have had such a nice time actually hanging out together that I can't believe how quickly the past 4 months have flown by. We went to Colorado for Christmas and Disney World for New Year's and had a wonderful time both trips. We went to a Titan's game, some concerts, a few day trips, and have generally been busy about town. The only complaint is that the weather has been really crappy here this winter, so we are both really ready for spring.

Patrick officially finished with the Army on March 4th and got a job working at the DoubleTree in downtown Nashville as a valet. He says it's pretty fun and it works for now. He has a few other job options for the summer so he'll find something interesting to do before he starts college in the fall. As for me, I have kept myself very busy with Belk and my business. I now work about 4 or 5 days at the store and do all their shows and speaking engagements. I fit in SavvyStyle clients on my days off, so I literally shop all day pretty much everyday with other people's money. Really? People pay me for this? Yes, I still don't get how I lucked into this line of work, but I'm not complaining!

Princess Sassy is doing very well. She has learned how to 'stay' in addition to 'sit', 'lay down' and 'roll over'. I'm currently working on trying to teach her how to fold laundry, but so far she has not added that to her bag of tricks. She is so happy that her daddy is home, so she spends most of her time following Patrick around. He spoils her more than I do (yes, its true) so it isn't any wonder. 

You're caught up now so blogging can commence! I noticed that Blogger added some fancy little bells and whistles since I was away, which is exciting. Who doesn't love a good poll? Neat. 

Thanks for not giving up on me- glad to be back. 

Hiatus

I'm sure you all noticed I am taking a bit of a break from the blog. With Patrick being home and business picking up for the holidays, I have been busy with some other things. I have also lost our camera, so that makes it tough to keep the pictures up. Not sure how long of a break I will be taking, but it probably won't be forever and I will let you all know when I am back at it again. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!