what to do on a rainy day

we have had A LOT Of rain lately. Last week rained straight from Sunday to Sunday. This week has been a bit overcast and now its around 60 degrees outside HELLO FALL.

When we have a little time off... our latest form of entertainment is to drive around the neighborhoods  and check out the homes and prices, and freak ourselves out that we are never going to own anything but this condo because it is sooooooo expensive out here!!

This home has become our favorite as of late. We may have driven by it, camped out front and stalked the tax website on it multiple times. Isn't it soooooo cute?!! Its around 2,000 sq feet - how much do you think this home costs?...take a guess... (I'll post in the comments section in a few days)

Then here we were last week on our rainy Labor Day stalking the home once again. Thank goodness for Krispe Kreme drive through for providing the snacks.

On Labor Day we took a rainy drive back out to the outlets across the ferry in Leesburg, Virginia. I love that drive and seeing all the beautiful sprawling property and HUGE homes...."on cheap land...because no one wants to live this far out".. Colton always adds.

Labor day weekend also brought my friend Mandy out from Newport Beach to visit Colton's friend Joe. She stayed with us at night and played by day with Joe (!!!) ( side note they met at our wedding...:))  On Sunday we had dinner with Mandy and Joe, Bonny and John and Allison (notice the new furniture!! minus the card table of course aka my "old" dining table).

After dinner was over, everyone left and we were left thinking... "we want to be the people leaving! now we are the "old" married people at home going to bed early... and we did. At 9 am lights were out and we were asleep.

This is a home I would LOVE to buy one day but really out of our price range. Its actually the home of one of my potential clients out here.. beautiful isn't it?

Work is slowly starting to pick-up. We have been advertising like crazy which is starting to show signs of progress.

This article also came out about me in Bethesda Mag... I really don't care for this image of me looking like I am about ready to pounce the camera... but it wasn't my choice so there you go.

Anyway...summer is over and we can't wait for fall!! Kayla and Beav are coming out to visit in a few weeks, then my Grandma comes for a week after that. Let the season of visitors begin!!

lesson learned; dont fix your man something our of a can for dinner.

Last night was one of those moments where in a split second you think.... "can i please go back to 30 seconds ago and re-think that move??!"

So Colton is known for going to the hospital for things like being electrocuted and shocked off a ladder, breaking his arm while riding a mechanical bull and having too much pride to let go... when it was time to LET GO. Breaking his arm while trying to get off a ski lift, losing his balance and being crushed by a rather large lady who was trying to get off the same chair...

Then there is me. I have never been admitted to the hospital in my life until I met him. Last year around this same week (days before he was coming out to visit me in Cali) i was so so so sick I ran out of clients home mid sentence with the fear of throwing up all over..just to make it home in time to have my Grandma drive me to an urgent care for my first time ever to get one of those shots in the bum to make the nausea stop.

So where is all of this going? Last night after a long week of early mornings / late nights for both of us i was rushing to make us some quick dinner before we ran out the door to see "Contagion". I opened one of those soup can with the metal tab tops and before i could stop myself... my right hand flung that lid off and sliced my left hand open between my thumb and index finger. I screamed in pain / shock and quickly ran to the sink. Colton quickly ran in the room ... took one look and diagnosed the situation "yup that needs stitches!! If that was me this would not be a situation where I would use electrical tape as i usually do"

UGH. so annoying. So off we ran to urgent care. The whole way there I am thinking can i please just go back in time to 20 min ago?? so dumb of me. Luckily Urgent Care was empty and we went right in, Dr. stitched me up with 4 stitches, gave us a $300 bill and we were on our way home in less then 45 min.

We had lost our appetites for soup so ended up going out to dinner and still caught the movie too.

Not too impressed with the movie. If you wanna be super paranoid go see it. We were both kinda disappointed.... plus as paranoid as i am in life i don't need to be watching that stuff!!

Anyways... so it's official. I am Palmer and continuing the hospital Urgent Care tradition. All is well now. Stitches come out in 10 days!