Famous, embarrassed, pumpkins, and mis-use of dental equipment

David and I have been REALLY into The Voice this season.  I have a couple favorites, Avery is the first who is on CeeLo's team and also Collin McLouglin (He WAS on Adam's team and then Blake Stole him).We think Adam Levine is as cool as it gets SO we were thrilled to hear that Maroon 5 will be touring in March and they will be playing about an hour away.

On Friday we heard that our local radio station was giving away tickets to the show, so I told Dave that I was going to listen ALL day long and I was GOING to WIN. I was determined I was going to win. So I waited until I heard the Maroon 5 song and I then I started dialing. Here's how it went... busy, busy, busy, #8, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, #61, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy NUMBER 98. I had to be caller 100 to win. I was SO upset when he said caller 98! Called again. Busy. Called again... IT WAS RINGING!!! Then I heard someone on the other line say "Hello, who am I talking to?" It was right here that I realized I was CALLER 100!!!!!!!! I was freaking out. I SCREAMED into the phone. First of all, I have to say, I am SO GLAD that I was NOT on the air at this time. Because the DJ LITERALLY had to silence me to tell me that I had not WON anything. Yet. AND IT WASN'T EVEN FOR MAROON 5 TICKETS! It was for this thing called "Whole house room redo" and I won a key. Which means that I had to drive about an hour away to see if my key fits into the lock and if it did, I would win a buttload of furniture. Which would be cool. But, seriously, how did I listen to the radio all day long and miss that they were NOT giving tickets away?? I was so embarrassed. soooo embarrassed. But hey, on the bright side, I was on the radio! (thankfully after they edited it). YES. I am THAT Kami from Coralville. Don't be afraid to ask for an autograph. Ultimate fist pump.

In other news, David and I decided that we needed to carve some pumpkins. I always give David a hard time because whenever we decide to do something creative he always manages to take over and take complete creative control and ends up doing about 80% of it. I don't know if I can really blame him. He is much more of an artist than I. But I told him that we were getting TWO pumpkins this year so I can do my own! We were looking up some designs online and I decided that I wanted to do Jack the Pumpkin king. David pretty much told me "good luck" because he has tried multiple times and hasn't been successful. I think I can blame the Allen gene in me... when I hear I can't do something... I want to prove people wrong! So I decided I was going to do Jack. We started out with knives and quickly found that these "instruments" were NOT going to work. Luckily David brought home his dental waxing kit because he has a huge practical exam on Monday. Who knew that dental waxing tools were perfect for pumpkin carving?

To many of you, you know that David LOVES to pop zits. Probably his one and only vice. I have heard him say that to be a dermatologist would have been another field he would have liked to go into... JUST because he loves popping zits and pinching pimples so much. The problem is that he doesn't have too many of them. So what does he do? He comes after me. I always have one on my chin and on my forehead and he just loves to give me that I-am-staring-so-deeply-in-your-eyes-because-I-adore-you look that leads into him leaning in to pinch my pimple. and you know what? I am a baby. and it hurts. So I REALY don't like when he does it. The other day he came home with a SWAG bag from dental school. Little did I know that this bag came with a nice bottle of topical anesthetic. You know, the crap they put on your gums to numb them before they stick you with a needle? He told me that he had some gel that would make pinching my pimple not hurt so bad. I trusted him. And you know what? It worked! I didn't feel a thing!!! It does make me worry, though. To what point does this end??!?

Livin Life in the Midwest

It still is a bit surreal to me to think that we are living in the middle of the country.

Whenever someone asks where Iowa is I tell them that we live on MIMAL's face. And it surprises me EVERY SINGLE TIME when someone tells me they don't know what or who MIMAL is.

MIMAL!! Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana.

Or if you ask my niece, Ryann, we live in Oh-I-Ah. So when we first pulled our truck in on Saturday morning we found that there wasn't a convenient place to put our truck so that we can properly unload. So, David and I decided the best way to do it (perhaps not the most efficient) was to pull our truck right by the garage and unload it as quickly as we can because we would be blocking traffic. We worked so fast it was insane!

And that my friends is when I was introduced to the glorious FEELING of living in a humid environment. Sure, I've felt humid before when we traveled to Mexico and Guyana, but it's a whole 'nother experience when you know that you are going to live in and NEVER escape the humid air. That's really my only complaint. Well, that and the really eerie feeling of not having any mountains around you. There is literally nothing higher than us. That's a bit freaky.

We live in a town home complex that is HIGHLY populated with dogs. Which I first thought was going to be awesome, especially since we were having to separate Little Miss Lucy from her favorite playmate Maggie. Well, within the first month of us living here she got sick. She was throwing up at least twice a day and wasn't eating anything. One night she threw up 4 times - so we made a trip to the vet........ at 4 in the morning.... She picked up something from some dog around here. AND THEN!!! Five days ago David found a flea on lucy. A FLEA!!!!! She has never had fleas!!! Well, this is what happened...

yes. we buzzed her. David found a total of 8 fleas on Lucy. We got her on flea medication and we haven't seen one since. We caught it just in time! Crisis averted. 

Fall is in full swing now and the trees are turning all sorts of beautiful colors. It is such a sight to see and one of my favorite parts of living here in the Midwest. There are many roads that come straight out of Father of the Bride. You know what I'm talking about... the road's that are lined with breathtaking deciduous trees?

**And for the record, I actually picked up the term deciduous from dental anatomy! That's right! Baby teeth are actually called deciduous teeth! I'm gettin' to know my stuff! Mesial, distal, lingual, buccal, occlusal... those are the names of all the SIDES of one tooth!!

More later!