Friends and Fugitives

I'm playing a little catch-up since I started this blog a little bit ago so I'm jumping back to the beginning of the month.

One of our very close friends just got her GREEN CARD!  Whoa.  Big deal, I know.  She and her husband are very dear friends and we know how important this must be to them.  So of course, any excuse to throw a party and we're all over it....I was set on having a "Green card party".

We started out with some super cheesy invites on brown paper wrapped in twine to make it seem super sketchy and secret.  On it were specific instructions about each invitee's (mutual friends and her family in the area) rendezvous point for crossing the border.

Once there we played Fugitive (er, crossed the border).  In this game, the main part of the group has to get across town from point A (for us, a park) to point B (our house, about 2 miles away) without being seen by the people that drive around looking for them (Border Patrol).  The goal was to get to our house (America) without being seen and quite a few did!  Not me, though, I was caught crossing an intersection.  Guess it's a good thing I'm already an American!

We came to our house to enjoy lots of treats and played Mafia, except of course we had to stick to the theme so we changed all of the roles to have to do with immigration.  Overall it was a blast and everyone had a good time.  I'd been wanting to play Fugitive for awhile and Sebasthian never had so it was the perfect reason to get a game together and celebrate. :)  Obviously there were more white people than Hispanics there, though, 'cuz everyone arrived on time and left at a reasonable hour.  Maybe some day I'll learn how to thrown a REAL Latin party, but for now this was good enough for me!

Papi for President

Ya know, lots of people were pretty upset about the turn-out of the election, but not many could've been as unhappy as Sebasthian.  About a week before election day we decided that he would be a good candidate so we put a full-front effort into our campaign by making a sign for our yard.  Yes, just one sign. However, our trailer is directly across from a popular voting spot, so we thought he had a pretty good chance!

Well, turns out he didn't.  Not even one vote!  Then again, I didn't vote for him either...oops.  Maybe next time we'll put the sign out TWO weeks beforehand, that'll do the trick!

Work and Yardwork

Hello!  Sebasthian and I keep having the best, funniest memories and I keep getting overwhelmed with trying to get myself to journal them so let's try out this "blog" idea.  I've never really been a big fan of blogging but it' might be a good way to share all of our fun with family and friends :)

I have the best jobs.  One, I work for the hospital as a Physical Therapy technician, and the second is Sales Manager for a local lawn care company, the Weed Man.  A random combination, yes, but it pays the bills and thus I am grateful for them both.  

A few weeks ago I found some granuals laying around in one of the bays at Weed Man and for some reason I was sure it had to be grass seed.  Sebasthian and I LOVE working in our yard and had been wanting seed for awhile for a few, rather large, areas of the lawn that need some TLC. Immediately I had the bright idea to scoop some up in a bucket (it would've been thrown out 'cuz it was on the ground) and bring it home as a surprise for Sebasthian!  He was indeed super happy!

I usually work both jobs every day so I don't always get to tell him things right away...such as in this case.  I went to WM and in talking to the techs discovered it wasn't seed - it was PRE-EMERGENT!  Before I could remember to tell Sebasthian, I went to work at PT.  During the shift I kept thinking "Oh, I should tell him how funny my mistake was.  That would've been so bad!"  I was getting off in an hour though and figured we could laugh about it in person. 

Pulling in the driveway after work, I see Sebasthian in the yard and start yelling "DON'T PUT IT ON THERE!!" hahaha Too late!!  He had been so excited to surprise me right after his classes that he didn't even change, he just went to work in the yard.  I got there just in time to see him finishing touch - the big patch in the very front of the yard :)  He was so proud :)  When I finally told him what he put down all we could do is laugh...guess we won't see anything growing there for awhile!  Such are the joys of being inexperienced newly-weds :)