Pet parents

Whenever I would see people with their pets, especially with their dogs, treating them like their children, it always made me laugh and I would think to myself that I will never be like that when I have an animal. I always thought animals were animals and needed to be treated that way, even Jake thought that too. Well, welcome to Pet Parents Anonymous, our names our Jake and Whitney Zachry and we are pet parents! I never thought the day would come. For those who don't know, we have a boxer named Clara Belle and we love her. Jake has done an amazing job training her and for the most part she obeys her commands. She is a spazz sometimes, but she makes us smile and laugh everyday and we love cuddling with her and playing with her; she really is a part of the family. I will be sad when she is not here anymore...luckily that won't be for a long time. However, I have stuck to my guns and she is not allowed on any furniture, after all she is a dog!

Temp Agencies...uhhh

Yesterday I was contacted by a temp agency because of my resume on monster.com. This lady was a ditz on the phone and in person. For the life of me I could NOT get any information out of this lady on the phone yesterday other than the job she was contacting me about was for a non-profit organization...that's it. It was like pulling teeth. So I set up a time to meet with her today and when I got there she didn't seem that prepared. She told me a little bit more about the job only after I told her "I have no idea about the job, you didn't tell me ANYTHING about it over the phone yesterday!" Her reply, "oh (haha) sorry." Errr. That was fine but she still didn't tell me much about it and it left me feeling very dissatisfied and not really wanting to pursue this accounting job. She just didn't make it sound like something I would want. I told her I would interview so we will see what happens. Also, I had to drive 80 miles round trip just to find out nothing! All in all after all of this ranting...I am not impressed with temp agencies, well at least this particular women at this particular one!

It's the great pumpkin

If you don't know already my house (my area in general) is surrounded by agricultural fields - everything from strawberry fields, mushroom fields, flower fields, citrus groves, to my favorite right now, pumpkin fields. When Mom was here during the beginning of August we noticed this pumpkin field with pumpkins that were already 5-10 lbs. So for the last month I have been keeping my eye on this field and just within the last week they cut all of the pumpkins off of their vines. What is so important and great about this particular pumpkin field?...well, as you can see in the pictures I don't think any pumpkin is less than 40-50 lbs. I am so excited because I learned that they do hay rides in that field every fall and you can go and pick your own pumpkin. I CAN'T WAIT, even Jake is excited! We are going to have the best carved pumpkins ever! I can only imagine that Ross is jealous.

Cora's Dancing Skills!

So I just uploaded all of my pictures and videos from my camera onto our computer the other night and came across this video of Cora dancing on Mom's coffee table when they came to Reno for a visit last September. Jake and I watched it about 6 times the other night because it was incredibly cute and hilarious. I thought that all of the family would get a kick out of it as much as we did. Here it is...

Backyard Fun

Last week Jake and I went to Potterybarn to finally spend our gift cards from the wedding. We ended up getting these totally fun colorful hanging lanterns that you put candles in, and bonus they were on sale (they can also be table decor). We bought hooks and candles the next day so we could enjoy them in our backyard as soon as possible, put them up and tried them out. They were so fun but dissapointingly they did not light up the patio like we thought they would. So Friday I went and bought two more with remaining gift card money and went to Target and bought two strings of frosted bulb lights. This is the end result...

We have tons of light now and it is like our own Tea Cup ride in our backyard. Jake even rigged up a light switch back there so we don't have to plug and unplug every night. Now all we need is patio furniture and we can start having some backyard fun.

The last one...

Well- it is official the last one has done it. Obviously we have a blog and now everyone in the family is a blogified...hooray. Bare with me because I am learning as I go so hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have all of the posts that I want up. Holy cow, I am a blogger!