Sweet Sauer Photo Contest-2

These are the results of my first ever photo contest. By the time date on this post, I'm sure you can tell I wasn't done early!! I'm not 100% happy with all the pictures, but I gave it my best shot :). I can't wait for the next one, which I will most definitely be participating in. I hope you all enjoy the photos!!

1. A View from Above (looking down)-The paddle wheel on a steam boat.
2. A Macro Shot

3. Laughter-We're on the Magic Carpet Aladdin ride in Disney World.
4. Relaxation
5. A Celebration-What's a better celebration than fireworks at Disney World?

6. A Sunset
7. Sun/Lens Flare-Unfortunately I don't have an SLR, so I'm kinda limited with what I can get.

8. A Bridge

9. A Shadow
10. A Garden
11. A Park
12. A Street Scene-St. Armands Circle Clearwater, FL
13. Signage-They're not lying, we saw two tonight!14. A Summer Activity
15. A Summer Treat-Freshly out of the oven.
16. Earth
17. Air/ Wind
18. Fire
19. Water
20. Something Vintage (pre-1980)
21. Something Made of Glass
22. Something Made of Wood - Some stairs we saw on the Steam boat tour in Disney World. Nothing special, but I was stuck tonight.

23. Something that Floats
24. Something Railroad Related
25. Something Round-The fly was desperately waiting to go flying :)

Why oh Why Mr. Washing Machine?

Sorry for so many posts of me complaining, but this washing machine was just about my last straw.

I hate when nice, relaxing, laid back mornings turn into a disaster! I was looking at my weekly to do list (I've been trying to figure out if a daily one or weekly one works better, because if I don't do one at all nothing gets done, but the weekly isn't working so well), so I decided to run a couple of loads of laundry today, you know the hold-over for the weekend until its Laundry Mondays.

So long story short, about half an hour after I start the washer, I go to get Charlotte some food for lunch, and I see a little spot of wet carpet. Hoping the one of the dogs didn't pee and it was just a spill, I venture to find a rag. I then notice there is a big spot of water coming out of the laundry room and when I open the door, the laundry room is completely flooded with about an inch of water on the floor. Thankfully being in an apartment, all I have to do is call maintenance and someone comes to help clean it up.

I call, they say they will be here at some point today, kinda confused I say ok. An hour later, my hubby calls them back, and talks to someone else. This time she's like that sounds like an emergency, well duh... and they arrive at our door within a minute. The carpet cleaner guys came to suck up all the water and spray some anti-mold/fungal stuff too, so now at 1:30 our disaster is finally gone and the baby can finally take her nap.

Unfortunately, the maintenance guy thinks it is our washer that is leaking somewhere. Phil, being the engineer, disagreed, so of course he turned it on when they were gone, the verdict? no water leaking. I think that somehow the washer got confused, and kept putting water into it, even though it was full. Because after it had been running for half an hour it was still filling itself up with water. So in a couple of days were going to have to do some experimenting, but its looking like we're going to have to get a new washer, unless anyone knows of an easy fix. I just have the feeling that getting someone out to work on it would cost more than a new washer. Oh and of course, its just OVER a year old, so no more warranty, phooey. Shouldn't a GE washer last more than a year?

Photo Contest-update again

Hope I don't bore you too much, but here's another update... I've added a few more pictures this time and changed a few. I'm over halfway there with 14/25 now!!

1. A View from Above (looking down)
2. A Macro Shot

3. Laughter
4. Relaxation
5. A Celebration

6. A Sunset
7. Sun/Lens Flare

8. A Bridge

9. A Shadow
10. A Garden
11. A Park
12. A Street Scene
13. Signage14. A Summer Activity
15. A Summer Treat
16. Earth
17. Air/ Wind
18. Fire
19. Water
20. Something Vintage (pre-1980)
21. Something Made of Glass
22. Something Made of Wood
23. Something that Floats
24. Something Railroad Related
25. Something Round

A ceiling fan and a sick baby make for a fun (maybe not so much) day!

I'm happy to announce that we have a nice new ceiling fan in our living room!! And let me tell you what a pain it was... when we moved here, they told us if we bought a ceiling fan, maintenance would assemble it and put it up for us. So, when we got all the wedding money, we went in search of a fan... that was the easy part. So after we got it I went to the office to ask what I needed to do for them to put it up and the guy said just to bring it to the office, so maintenance can assemble it there and come and put it up. So, I go back home, finagle the fan into the stroller, and return once more to the office. Now, another lady says that it is only for "new residents" (mind you we moved in a month and a half ago), and after I told her that she replied with "oh I remember when you moved in." Seriously, what is that supposed to mean? So she says to go back, assemble it, and then let them know. So the next day Phil assembles the fan and calls the office. That lady, didn't even know that they would put a fan up for us, so she had to go check with someone and call us back. 5 hours later, she calls us back saying they'll come the next day (today). When maintenance showed today, he was VERY surprised that we had already put it together and was planning on doing that himself. But long story short, we get the fan up and it looks beautiful. We now have light in the living room! Yay! So I think the office staff needs to work on their communication skills.

Pretty ceiling fan:

Phil stayed home yesterday because he was sick, so it wasn't much of a surprise when Charlotte woke up sick today too. She was burning up!! I felt so bad for her, I couldn't get a good temperature reading but it was somewhere between 99.9 and 101.5, so she's in her third nap for the day and very very mellow, even on the tylenol. Its kinda a nice break. On top of it, I have a fever too, but I'm trying not to let it get me down.

Here's a pic of the baby today... looking not so sick (one of the few smiles we gotten out of her today, through the binkie of course, she won't give it up today):

And I know its been a while but Disney World was great!! I posted a few pictures on my last post that I took during our visit. And Phil got wished Happy Birthday more than he ever had in his life, combining all birthdays!! It was a great time though, I'm glad we went.

Photo Contest-so far

Here's what I have so far for the photo contest, which is done the end of June. As you can see, I still have a lot of work to do this week, but I've got some ideas. Enjoy!

1. A View from Above (looking down)
2. A Macro Shot

3. Laughter
4. Relaxation
5. A Celebration

6. A Sunset
7. Sun/Lens Flare

8. A Bridge

9. A Shadow
10. A Garden
11. A Park
12. A Street Scene
13. Signage

14. A Summer Activity
15. A Summer Treat
16. Earth
17. Air/ Wind
18. Fire
19. Water
20. Something Vintage (pre-1980)
21. Something Made of Glass
22. Something Made of Wood
23. Something that Floats
24. Something Railroad Related
25. Something Round