The Many Faces of Oakley

I decided it's time to give an update solely dedicated to Oakley. We got Oakley a year ago this month; I believe it was Oct 24. He's provided us with a lot of laughs, annoyances, and plenty of entertainment in the last year so I want to share some with everyone :)

Oakley does this whenever we take him anywhere. He "yawns" while we're moving and the wind makes his jowls flap. Love it!

We call these Oakley's "spit-cicles"

Now, I've never been very good at taking videos when funny or cute things happen, but I have caught a few things that made us laugh. So here those are.

Del put a lifejacket on Oakley and it was too funny. Oak would run & jump around while chewing on it.

Every now and then we give Oak a new bone. He gets SO excited and shows off by running around playing with it before he chills to chew on it.

Make sure your sound is on, but not too loud, for this one...Del is "singing" in the background and Oak is obviously very confused & does his head tilt. And don't blink! It's short!

Punkin' Carvin'

In the spirit of Halloween (a little early), Del and I decided to carve our first pumpkin together. We went to Albertson's, picked out the perfect one, and brought him home. I had planned on printing out a stencil/template to help us get the design first since neither of us are the best artists; however, I forgot that our printer ink was out so I brought the pumpkin into the office and, with my stencil on the screen, I used my best drawing skills to copy the design. After admiring my impressive skills, we got to work!

Here's Del scraping out all the punkin guts. Yes, I helped too!

Del and I took turns carving

Of course, you can't carve a pumpkin without roasting the seeds!

The finished product (it says "Welcome," kinda hard to tell in the pics)-- may not last till Halloween, but oh well

All lit up

I have to say that I found an awesome recipe for the seeds too! The few times we roasted them growing up we would just basically salt them so I wanted to try something different. This recipe has you melt butter, add garlic salt and Worcestershire sauce and spread over the seeds. It was very tasty!

ZUMBA!

Alright, I just have to share my newest "obsession." I recently started working out again and decided to try the Zumba class at our gym. Zumba is a dance fitness class that is based mostly on latin dance. I've heard great things about it but was always too afraid because I've never been a dancer! But, my co-worker, Alicia, and I decided to go together for moral support.
I figured I would be the most uncoordinated and funny-looking person in the room since I have absolutely no experience in following choreography! But to my incredible surprise, I had a blast and didn't do too bad! I've only done 2 classes so far but I'm already not having to stare at my instructor's feet the ENTIRE time. Surprisingly, I'm getting the feet down just fine and today I was able to tap into my inner "dancer" and allow myself to dance and not just do the steps.
This video is one of the exact routines we do in my class...and one of the more difficult ones for me since there's a lot of different movements and belly-dance type moves that I've never done.



I showed Del this video too and he shook his head and goes "wow...I'll just stick to lifting weights." haha. I highly recommend Zumba to anyone looking for a fun and GREAT workout. It was nice to know I can look like an idiot, laugh at myself and still have fun.

Important Lesson for Everyone!

Alright, gotta make this quick cuz I have to head to work. But this morning on Facebook I saw a video that was posted by my sister and thought it was too cute. So, for anyone who is from Boise, been to Boise, know of Boise, or even have ever said the word "Boise" PLEASE WATCH THIS! haha.