A day at State College

J.R. was asked to represent his employer at a job fair on Penn State's main campus Wednesday.  I joined him for the drive down, and spent the day exploring the school and downtown area on foot.  The campus was quite a bit larger than I had anticipated, and it took a while to find my way, even with a map. It's a beautiful place to go to school, and it was fun feeling like a college student again for a day:)

While I was waiting for J.R. to finish, I stopped by the arboretum on campus and snapped a few pictures (the picture on the top right-hand side is the Allen Street Grill, a restaurant downtown where we stopped for a quick bite).

Our Weekend...

J.R. and I held our first garage sale last Saturday, and it was an experience. The morning started with two ladies racing each other down our street to arrive 30 minutes before we were scheduled to start. These were the professionals! We met a lot of people and sold a lot of our things over the course of three hours. When it was all said and done, we counted a $209 profit. Although it was surprisingly nice standing outside talking with everyone, I am still not convinced it was worth the work that went into everything beforehand. After the sale, we took the leftovers to Goodwill. It was a nice feeling to donate, but also to come home to much more space in our basement! I told J.R. to hold up our earnings for a quick picture, and this is what he came up with:

I was thinking more along these lines, but whatever:). Haha, I love my hubby:). He makes life so much more fun!

On the way to Goodwill we passed the volunteer fire department. What a beautiful way to remember the day.

Finally, what would a weekend be without some entertainment courtesy of the other crazy boy in my life:)

Cooking and the Cutest Little Dinner Guests

If you know me, you know I will never be a cook. I learned this while in college and it has been reaffirmed quite often since. Not only do my meals turn out wrong 50 percent of the time, my signature clumsiness carries over into any of my attempts at food preparation. Case in point, we have lived in our new townhouse for 6 months now, and you wouldn't believe the amount of food/things that have spilled all over our hardwood floors. This week I decided to be brave and attempt two dinners for our friends. Spills included sour cream, broccoli, tea, flour and butter. J.R. doesn't know about all of these so if you are reading this babe, you caught me:). Despite my inadequacies as a chef, I have to admit both dinners turned out really well after the fact.

Tuesday we cooked steaks, asparagus and J.R.'s mom's recipes for monkey bread and "yummy potatoes." Jesse and Holly joined us with their adorable son, Lucas, who's pictures have graced this blog many times. It doesn't take long to fall in love with this little man's smile!

Thursday night was baby central at the Dokos house. Holly brought Lucas again, and Triena joined us with Mason. Both ladies' husbands were working out in the field (J.R. and their husbands all work for EXCO), so we had them over for some pork tenderloin, corn on the cob, baked beans and salad. It was neat seeing the two babies together. Both are such easy kids, and it's hard not to smile when these cuties yawn or even smile back at you! No, I don't have baby fever.....yet!:)

(Mason on left, Lucas on right:))

Findley Lake, NY Weekend

J.R. spent his last year of grad school in a house on Findley Lake. I visited him several times while he was there and we have lots of fun memories of this special place. Peggy, J.R.'s aunt's best friend and the owner of the house, allowed us to stay there last weekend for a few days. We treated Max to a walk around the 5 mile perimeter of the lake, met up with Peggy and J.R.'s Aunt Susan for a few meals by the water, and went to Erie to hang out with J.R.'s family, Mike and Marion. It was a great weekend!

We stopped by Presque Isle State Park on the way home.  We had brought Max here once before about a year ago on the very first day we met him. He is a little less scared of the water these days, but it was a struggle to convince him to swim out any further than where his paws could touch.  We are going to return in a few weeks when J.R.'s mom visits to see if we can spend a little more time getting him comfortable with swimming.  I sometimes question whether or not he really is a lab:).  Aren't they supposed to love this? 

Max at Findley

Thought I'd share a few pictures from our weekend at Findley Lake....more to come:)