the married life of mr. and mrs. smith

ah yes, the married life. Sounds like something a veteran would say, not someone who has only been married a few weeks. However, things have gone so well since the wedding we feel like we can enjoy ourselves and breathe a sigh of relief after we made it through the crazy months that led up to our wedding. The apartment is officially packed with all of our things and we have even tackled our first home improvement project. Well, we will call it a home improvement project but im not really sure it turned out to be such an improvement. While we did our best to hang “floating” shelves on our dining room wall we really ended up drilling one inch holes into our crummy dry-wall. Our apartment complex decided to use the cheapest, thinnest dry wall they could find thus leaving any potential shelf hangers in the lurch. So our first attempt was to use dry wall hooks that drill into the wall and are supposed to make the shelf more secure…wrong. the hooks ended up leaving giant holes in the wall and the screws fell out of them. So we went to option two which was to go to lowes and buy the longest screws we could find so that we could hang these shelves. It worked! However, the large “floating” shelves are no longer floating because we had to add decorative brackets to them so they would not fall down. Oh well..at least we tried!  

So, despite our little shelf mishap we are doing very well. The apartment is starting to look very cute and we have little things sitting around for halloween like candle holders, pumpkins and some flashing orange lights in the sun room. lela is also doing well even though she broke two of her little front teeth off by chewing on her kennel. We never noticed that she chewed the metal crate until i opened the door a few weeks ago and realized it had rust spots on it. Then we noticed that she had a gap in her cute doggie smile and sure enough those two teeth are broken off down to the gums. She has had no problems eating and doesn’t even seem to notice that her teeth are broken so we are holding off on taking her to the vet until we notice something bad. But we did go buy doggie tooth paste so we can now brush her teeth and keep them healthy. We have also come to realize that we cannot place lela in her crate any more. We just decided that it was too much for her so we have started leaving her out when we go places. She has done well so far and only gets into the garbage if we leave it out where she can reach it so there might be a chance she won’t ever have to go into her crate unless guests come over or the maintence guy has to come over.

and that covers all the news from the home front