Suprise for Paul

Tuesday I finally got my first quarterly bonus, hooray! Paul and I had big plans of using my bonuses to chip away at our debt, the store that I trained at got $2000 bonuses, so we figured it could make a pretty decent dent in our debt every few months. Upon receiving my check though, I realized that not all stores are created equal... nor do they bonus equally. My bonus was pitifully less than $2000... don't fret... I seized the opportunity to score major brownie points with my hubby. Paul had finally realized that after months of hinting and outright begging, that I was not going to buy him Guitar Hero World Tour (I told him we didn't have room... and we don't). But since we now had some extra money, but not enough to dent the debt... happy Tuesday to Paul... I got him Guitar Hero World Tour. I was sooooo excited all day, I had it all planned out: cashed the check at lunch, quickly went to WallyMart on my way home and then had him come help me with the "groceries". He was pretty shocked and happy, and I was giddy with excitement! For those of you who know Paul, he doesn't show a wide range of emotions, so basically what I got was... a huge grin and a "WHAT?!" and a big kiss.

So party at our house... feel free to come play. Paul's REALLY good, I stink, but we have fun.

P.S. for those of you who don't know Guitar Hero World Tour is a video game were you play music in a band, comes with a guitar, a drum set, and a microphone so you can sing along. Pretty fun stuff!

More My Christmas Decorations...

I've been meaning to take pictures of inside our house and figured now is a perfect time since it's cute for Christmas and no one is really gonna see it but us!

This is what you see when you walk in the front door


Living Room


Dining Room


Kitchen


I love my star above the kitchen sink so had to add it


And my gifts for neighbors and some people still here for the holidays (has buckeyes - pb and chocolate, pretzel kisses, and Andes mint cookies dipped in chocolate)


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!!

So... I play guitar...

Hi everyone, this is Paul again... posting my second blog ever; you should all be so proud. Anyway, a few months ago I had this goal of recording some Christmas music on the guitar in the hopes that it would be done before December and I could send a CD to people. Well... it didn't work out, but a few days ago I did finish song number 4, and I decided to do some research to see if there was a way to post my own music on a blog. Well it is possible, but it takes about... three years. I did finish though so here you are. Let me explain a couple of things though. To listen, click on the player below, where it says posts... scroll down and pick a song. For some reason, it says christmas goodness 3 times, don't click those. Also, the song Jingle Bells is on there twice... I can't explain it, it just so happens that its the one song I would almost prefer nobody heard, but I convinced myself to add it anyway, and there it is... twice. You should listen to that song last because I sing in it, and you don't want to ruin your appetite for the other songs. :) Jenne, do you remember when I told you that I don't have a "church voice," and you asked what that meant? This is what it means... listen to jingle bells... basically... I suck! hahaha But that song was a lot of fun to do so I threw it on there so people could see what kind of weird things I do for fun. Also I added a recording I did of I am a child of god just for fun because a lot of people haven't heard it. Enjoy!

Don't ask me what it means where it says subscribe to podcast or whatever... I don't have a clue. But, should anyone feel the desire to download any of the songs... I don't really know how to do that, but email me and I'll email you the songs... for free, because I'd say they're pretty much worth... free. paulramos84@gmail.com



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My Christmas Decorations

My Tree:



If you can't tell from the picture (click on it to make it bigger if ya want) it has lots of oragami cranes, some of my Hallmark ornaments, plain ole balls, and garlands. I think it's super cute... but you don't have to take my word for it. ;)

More to come...

Life Lessons

How to open a garage door frozen shut from ice storm with both of your cars parked inside 20 minutes before you have to be at work:
Step 1: Attempt to open garage door twice.
Step 2: Utter a few choice words under your breath (current favorite: FLETCH!)
Step 3: Hit garage door seams with sharp end of snow shovel.
Step 4: Attempt to open garage dor 2 more times.
Step 5: Go wake up sleeping husband.
Step 6: Fill Windex spray bottle with warm water.
Step 7: Spray seams of garage door with warm water (beware: hurts the trigger finger)
Step 8: Attempt to open again.
Step 9: Husband kicks bottom of garage door.
Step 10: Garage door opens.

Jesse Elfed

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Greatest Weekend EVER!

Paul and I have been looking forward to this weekend for like... at least 6 weeks. That's a LONG time. It's an all stars line up with two of our favorites:
FRIDAY: Our favorite comedian BRIAN REGAN

It was amazing... this was the second time we have seen him live and once again we were both almost (or actually) in tears and had stomach aches from laughing so hard. Seriously, he's funny on TV and his DVD's but in real life just watching him play off the audience is incredible... if you get a chance to see him, GO!!!!

SATURDAY: Trans-Siberian Orchestra (this is my favorite song)

This time last year....

I was inspired by my cute sister-in-law Kristen's blog of what she was doing this time last year... This time last year I was GIDDY and brand newly engaged as of last night... late, late last night. Sigh... it was so awesome. He wrote me a song and hid the ring in my guitar... so cute. This year I told him that in honor of our engagement anniversary he should write me a song... and a song every year after :) but that didn't happen. Better luck next year. To celebrate we bought our first Christmas tree today. Now I get to decorate HOORAY! I'm sure it won't be anything grand, but I'll post some pictures of what I do... maybe. ;)

Thanksgiving Trip

So sorry I've been absent from the blogging world for so long. Don't worry... I'm all better now. I was sick for about 2 weeks total, it sucked and I missed the prettiest, warmest days of fall so that was sad for me too!

For Thanksgiving we went to Knoxville, Tennessee to spend a couple days with Paul's family. His aunt Leilani and uncle CJ live there with there 2 remaining kids at home Maraea and Eric. And his uncle Tino and aunt Kim and their 3 kids, Maddy, Molly and Morgan, came down from Michigan. We're happy to be in the East coast Ramos family club!
Wednesday
We drove down Wednesday after work (they let me go early but still didn't leave till 2:30) and drove straight there (10.5 hours... ugh!) and got there at about 2 Eastern time. Our journey took us through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and into Tennessee. Highlight of the trip... MOUNTAINS!!! Couldn't really see them.. saw the outline and the windy road. But hooray for MOUNTAINS... didn't realize how much I missed them. Second highlight: gas for $1.47/gallon
Thursday
Paul woke up bright and early to go play in the Turkey Bowl (he was kinda scared that he was going to be playing with a bunch of big black guys like Uncle CJ, but he was ok don't worry although he is still hobbling around like an old man cuz he's "sooooo sore"). I slept in. Then we just ate a lot, played a lot of Rock Band. We started a band called The Mad Turtles (named in part by 6 year olds cousin Maddy) Paul amazed them all with his Expert guitar playing AND being amazing on the drums too. I apparently have no rhythm, still suck on the guitar, but I can sing along with the words like a champion! Therefore I was the designated singer.

-me, my angry hubby Paul, Eric and Maraea-
Friday
More Rock Band. Shopping at Target: got lots of DVD's: Office Season 1 and 2, Cars, Finding Nemo, Kung Foo Panda, 101 Dalmations... think thats all. Then we spent several hours introducing/converting Uncle Tino to the Office (LOVE IT).
Saturday
Drove back home... this time we actually saw some scenery! The mountains in Kentucky were really pretty, although it was strange for me to see mountains covered with deciduous trees instead of evergreens. So they were all smokey gray looking with a few orangey trees here and there. Kentucky was cool with all the horse ranches(?)/farms(?)... just huge pastures with horses and HUGE houses with them. Indiana... flat, made Iowa look hilly. And Illinois was just dark.

Sick!

Hey Everybody, This is actually Paul; I know you've all been just craving a blog from me, so here I am. Just Kidding. Actually, Natalie has been really sick the past few days and while I've tried my best to take care of her, I've really only learned that I'm exceptionally good at getting her to fall asleep on the couch. This of course has left me a lot of time to both discover, and do, everything there is to discover and do in our humble little house... twice. Until now, I am pioneering new territory by trying something I never considered... BLOGGING!

So, I've decided to share with you our joy and excitement this halloween season. It all began when we got our dates mixed up early this week and we thought halloween was coming on Saturday. And so, you could imagine my concern when on thursday I heard what distinctly sounded like trick-or-treaters over at the neighbors house. I took a little peak through the blinds and saw kids in costumes with their parents... and sacks of candy, and I thought to myself, "what kind of two days before halloween activity is going on here?" So as they approached my door I did what came naturally, "I made sure the tv wasn't making any noise and I ran and hid in the bedroom. After all, I remember being a kid; I wasn't about to be that mean old pickle-juice drinker who opened the door and said, "Sorry kids, I don't have any candy..." or as they would interpret it, "I hate halloween, and I hate candy, and I hate sunlight and happiness." So I waited and waited and it turned out that they skipped our house... probably because the light wasn't on... dodged that bullet!

That of course doesn't solve the mystery of what were they doing out two days early? I didn't find out until the next morning that halloween was actually friday, and also that the city of Davenport, Iowa decided to change the laws of nature and make everyone trick or treat a day early so that everyone could attend a city parade on the real halloween. Weird huh? Either way, we missed it all, and so halloween didn't come this year for us... hopefully we'll be a little more attentive of these types of things come Thanksgiving and Christmas. Nobody warned us when we got married that we needed to make sure not to skip any major holidays... good thing we don't have kids yet or we'd be in some big trouble!