Picky Shannon

Here is another random post...

My husband, hands down, is the pickiest eater in the world. Those who know and love him would say an amen to that. He hates everything. Really.

Besides the normal dislikes, such as fish, onions, etc, he doesn't like a huge majority of foods you and I love dearly. Also, if you make him meat, it might as well be burnt, as he can't stand anything with a twinge of pink. And to make him even more crazier, he doesn't like sweets. Yep, you heard me right. I will say however, out of all the delicious, tasty, amazing desserts, he would prefer to have a chocolate pie, you know, the kind of filling you buy as pudding in the box. Sheesh...

I must admit I was a nervous when I married my hubs, as I had a huge challenge ahead of me. People would jokingly give advice. However, I must say the wife has done good. For the exeception of one or two meals (HAHA) it gives me great joy to see my husband happily digging into his food and even loading up his plate for seconds. Today I made a healthy turkey meatloaf and I was nervous for his reaction. He loved it and loaded up his plate for more. I must say as I wife, I make myself proud =). Random post, I know, but it is the life of the Potter's wife =)

The wife has been a bit lazy....

So the Potter's wife has sucked with blogging, not sure why. I have lots of thoughts, but have been feeling a pinch lazy to blog it all.

This week means a new beginning, as I will be teaching kinder. I have realized I am so over with worrying over the school drama. Every year oodles of us teachers get "pink slipped" and yet every year, God has been so faithful and has ALWAYS provided. I am grateful that myself and so many other Lodi teachers got rehired. God is good. We will see how it turns out....

Hubs and I are now embarking on our second year of marriage. Again, God is good. So far, we have weathered many storms and we still come out on top. I love how he still makes me laugh whenI don't want to, is patient, understanding and overall, amazing. He is definitely easy on the eyes too ;0)

It has been a good year of marriage and I have learned so much, like don't hog the sheets, its okay if dishes are left in the sink by the end of the night, that its okay to call mom whenI need advice on a recipe, that there is perfectly acceptable to have oodles of decorations for each and every holiday (my house is "halloweened" out) and its perfectly fine to consider homegoods a second home, that my husband probably won't understand my love for things like sky high heels, Sex and the City and Sephora, and accept that Chipotle is my husband's second wife (LOL).

I am looking forward to this upcoming year, and seeing where it takes us....

a year

Well kiddos...

Its finally been one year. I meant to post yesterday but with all the anniversary fun I haven't gotten around to it.

Its amazing I have been married to this guy for a whole whopping year. Its been one fun ride to say the least!!

I have enjoyed this journey this past year and hope to enjoy a million more. I have learned so much about trying to be a good wife to my Shan. I love love love being a wife.

This year we have had huge highs and some lowish lows (thanks to budget cuts and losing jobbies) but if anything else, we have gotten even more closer and in love. Its been one fabulous year.

We watched our wedding video last night. Needless to say I bawled watching it, lol. It was such a wonderful and beautiful time in our lives. I loved everything about our beautiful day, but the journey this year as husband and wife has proven to be even more wonderful and amazing.

The Potter wife reflects

SOOOO...I am apologizing already....

I am feeling overly sentimental because in 3ish days, its our one year anniversary of being a Potter's wife!! So, my blogs might be wedding/anniversary related, so I hope you can deal =)

I am laughing at myself as I write this...I have my hair wrapped in those hair towels, got my jammies on, bachelor pad is playing the background and hubbies went to bed.

Last year at this exact time, I was with some of my favorite girls, getting ready to have night out on the town for my bachelorette...my how time changes things! =)

Last year on this day was our rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. We did it two days before the wedding, so we could have all day Friday to do our stuff. HIGHLY reccommended as I felt so less crazy (well, kinda) the night before =)

I remember this day last year, I worked a half day. I hugged my then firsties good bye and headed to the church to drop off some stuff. I later went to walmart for I can't even remember and genius me locked my keys in my trunk. I pretty much had a meltdown. Thank god for my dear pals, Jessica and Jared, who immediately came to my rescue, got an extra set from mom and saved the day.

We decorated the church which went well, and our rehearsal began. I remember that excitement that my big day was just days away. We rehearsed a good number of times and then had a good ol' fun pizza, soda and beer rehearsal dinner. Nothing fancy, just laid back and fun, just how we like it!

I remember that whole part week/weekend of our wedding feeling so very loved. So many friends came from near and far to celebrate us, and it was such an amazing time.

I must admit, I am AMAZED how fast this time has gone.

Whatever happened to the fly drama?

So....



Some may be wondering, what happened to the fly drama? Its been awhile...



Well, thank goodness, they disapeared the next day after I posted (see previous post if you need a recapper:http://thewonderfulworldofthepotters.blogspot.com/2010/08/potters-vs-flies.html). THANK GOD. I t was crazy nasty. What we discovered was that they were coming from our kitchen baseboards. I know you are thinking, "whhaaatttt???" Well, keep in mind, our house (originally Shannon's grandparents' home) was built in the early 1950's by Shannon's Grandpa Huff. Since then we haven't done any major remodeling, so weird stuff happens, hence the crazy devil flies. How, you ask, did you get rid of such a horrendous problem? Welll, my handy man hubby put silicone caulk along the edges of the baseboards, and voilà, problem solved. Almost two weeks later, we have seen just one fly in the house =)

you better take them off!!

Besides my pups, my carpet is my other baby. I lovingly take care of it by powdering, cleaning and vacumming (is that a word?) a few days a week. I know I know, you think I am weird. But prior to some other posts, we probably already established that, haha. Last summer, we installed a beautiful new carpet in the house, replacing the 70's shag that was once there. Once my beautiful carpet was installed, we came up with a house rule. At the Potter household, our rule is we take off our shoes upon entering the house. I am part of an elite group of households that uphold this, as most houses don't require this rule, as it is hard to keep up with. Somehow, we managed. As we know, I have cleaning OCD. The thought of yucky shoes that have touched God knows what from outside touching my precious carpet makes me skeve. Most people have been respectful of the rules, while others whine about it, but I could care less. Its my rule, dangit!
ANyway, one of my all time fave sites is etsy.com. I found a "take off your shoes" sign, and ordered it. I hung it up on the doorknob and I was a proud wifey. Then, one night we leave and my mischevious pups decide to knock it over and chew it up. Needless to say, mama ain't happy. Instead of re ordering, I decided to make my own. I buy a $4 piece of wood and $3 in paint (in my wedding colors, no less) and I made my own sign. My darling hubbs drilled and hung it up for me, high enough where my dennis the meanace pups can't reach it. Potter wife is now very happy. As the saying goes (which I love love love) "Happy wife, happy life" LOL. So, next time you come to visit my domain, take heed of my sign. =)

Hubby starting to drill...he ends up aiming higher because of our mischevious pups could still get it!

Tightening it up =)

hanging up my sign

Happy Potter wife, happy life =)

Potters vs. the flies

So I wasn't kidding that I feel like my marriage is a comedy show.

Yesterday would have a wonderful prime episode.
Before I go on, I need to preface this by talking about my cleaning skills. This will make perfect sense in one minute, because if I don't preface this, you will think we are disgusting. I think I have OCD about cleanliness. I kid you not. I don't let people walk on our carpet with shoes on, I make my husband change the minute he gets home from work( I do this too) because I can't bear him putting "school germs" on our furniture (I am not kidding school germs are NASTY). After I pet my pups I wash myhands. The carpet and kitchen floor are cleaned multiple times a week. My counters get wiped a million times a day. Things are constantly disinfected everywhere in our house. Dishes are constantly washed, put away, I think you get the point. I just can't handle germs and mess. I am psycho? Absolutely. I hate germs. I know I know, the mommies reading this, laughing evily and are thinking I am going to have the RUDEST awakening someday when we have our Potter babies. I know I know.



So back to the comedy show. Yesterday as we were getting ready to begin our day, a fly was flying around. No biggie this happens. I sing "shoo fly don't bother me" and life goes on. Then, I wander into my freshly cleaned kitchen and I see, I KID YOU NOT like 12-15 (seriously, not kidding. Ask Shannon) flies flying around like its Disneyland, having a field day. The cleaniness girl in me starts to hyperventalate. The OCD wife is not having this. I can't HANDLE it (I know, drama, I know)What the f&*&!!!! I scream for my husband, who of course thinks I chopped myself in half or something like that. He rolls his eyes and proceeds to laugh at my ridiculousness, but sure enough, a battle between the POtters and the flies ensues. It was an intense battle but it ended sooner than we would have liked because we had to leave as we had a commitment to be at. You should have seen us. Both of us with fly swatters, attacking the air like looney people. It was hysterical.

Who the HECK knows how they got there. We don't leave doors or windows open and if we do, its a screen door that technically isn't open. It just makes me skeve thinking how nasty that is. We do live in the country(ish) and we have an acre of land. You are just bound to get something interesting. We scoured the house and didn't find a hole or anything suspicious that would warrant a fly convention. It was so frustrating. Anywho, today, more friends showed up and an intense battle was set. Again another hysterical sight, but we were ready. I felt so frustrated, grossed out and angry till I realized this was waaay too funny. I also realized its okay if things are a little dirty, if things aren't perfect, and you have nasty devil bugs are flying in the air. There are much worse things in life. Some people that I love and cherish are going through so much and here I am, having a conniption over flies. I am grateful for a great hubby whom I can laugh about this with and that these silly experiences make our marriage fun.. And yes, we won the battle today and yes, my house has been scoured clean. Again. Sorry its in me.