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This Weekend We…

Well this post is a little late since the weekend was 3 days ago, but I have a lot of things to share from this weekend that I don’t want to forget.

Our weekend started off with a date night to Red Lobster (Thanks Cassi for our giftcard – from Christmas) and a trip to Target to buy me a fitbit! I know I’ve shared my obsession with Argus, well I’m still obsessed but got frustrated with the whole having to carry my phone on my person at all times. So, we settled on this little Fitbit Zip. I love it – and it syncs up to Argus!

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On Friday, Mike had another fun date day planned since we had such a crazy hectic rest of the weekend (more on that in a bit). So we went to the zoo! I got this photo of him on Thursday afternoon…

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We had a blast – and here’s a picture of us with a giraffe to prove it.

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Now for the rest of the weekend in photos?

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Lots of puppy snuggles mixed in with a nap here or there. We had three dogs at our house for part of the weekend, wild times.
Katie loved playing with Boo dog and Alfred in the backyard.
I put Katie on the bus last week. I was sad she was leaving and then sad realizing that in a few short days she’ll be a 5th grader. Stop. Growing. Up.
We got a new rug last week. Boo boo loved it.
And we said goodbye to the little blue pig. He lasted much longer than we ever anticipated.

We also…
Saw old friends for dinner
Went on short walks with Katie and the pups
Got a tiny bit of rain – Praise God
Came home to a bag of oreos having been eaten and two dogs with no regrets
Cleaned up 10+ piles of throw up (thanks to the oreos)
Watched Pocohontas
Drove to the airport 4 times
and laughed a lot.

Here’s to great wetvacs, date days, and a little sister who loves ice cream more than any other 9 year old I know. It was a great weekend.

Love, The Jaderstons

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Five on Friday

Hey! I am linked up with darci, april, christina and natasha again today for a five on friday! Today will just be a jumble of life updates and rambles – as usual.

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1. Weekend with Katie

We are watching Katie tomorrow evening and we get to have a spendy with her! I’m excited for her to come – she’s at such a fun age (9 years old) and we always have a great time together. Last weekend she was here for an evening and I snapped these photos of her – like I said, such a fun age.

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We’re pretty lucky to be a part of this little girls life.

2. Corn Salsa

I made some corn salsa last week – in an attempt to copy chipotle. It was so yummmm! I will share the recipe next week.

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3. Smoke Detector Beep Free

We have recovered from our lonnngg battle with the smoke detectors and I’m happy to report that we are beep free. We’re back to our normal selves and Alfie also has returned to regular living.

4. Photography

If you’ve followed the blog from the beginning you’ll know that I have dipped my toes in photography a little bit. I photographed a wedding last fall (SO FUN) and have done a few portrait shoots before and after. It’s so much fun but not something I am sure I want to fully emerge myself in. That being said, when I went on a shoot last week for an old friend and her sweet one year old I got the bug back to take some more photos.

If you need some portraits taken, live in the Wichita area, and don’t want to spend much – email me! kelseyjaderston{at}gmail{dot}com

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5. Throwback

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Just two years ago when I graduated college, Mike (and I) had long hair, and we were just engaged. I’ve had two years of post graduation under my belt and I’m so excited for Mike to experience that same freedom in a few weeks. Yay for MAY! and for many graduations of those we love!

Happy Friday, friends!
Love, The Jaderstons

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What I meant to say was…

My intentions were to sit down this morning and write a post about our Save the Dates and how much I loved them. But then I woke up after a loooong night of fighting with our smoke detectors and decided against it.

Mike and I are in the middle of a smoke detector saga and everything came to a head last night…

It started about a month ago.

Our smoke detector outside our room started chirping (meaning it was time for a new 9 volt). We went to the store and bought a new battery and replaced it the next day. Then we heard another chirp… Turns out there is another smoke detector a mere 4 feet away from the first that also was low on battery. Luckily we had bought a two pack – so we popped in a new battery there too.

Then we heard another chirp.

WHAT?! Why are these silly guys still beeping? So we lived with it for three weeks. The occasional chirp was manageable because both smoke detectors were working well and tested fine.

Well two nights ago we had had enough. We had done a hard reset (killed the main breaker of our home and held the reset button on both smoke detectors for 30 seconds and then turned the power back on) and they were still beeping!

Mike got home from work yesterday determined to fix these smoke detectors and a guy knocks on our door. He’s selling a house alarm system that we don’t need, but they include new smoke detectors so we were sold! I’m not kidding, we talked to him for an hour while our food cooked and then cooled down and actually signed up for the stuff! Then the tech guys came to set it up and we got cold feet (BECAUSE WE DONT NEED IT) and we backed out and canceled everything and meanwhile still have smoke detectors that are BEEPING!

That was a tangent, but I felt that it was worth mentioning. We were in a bad place.

We found another smoke detector in the basement and thought that maybe that was the one beeping so I rush out to Dillons to buy another 9 volt battery (turns out Dillons keeps their batteries in the pharmacy department). I replace the battery and something is still beeping.

SOOO we did another hard reset – at 10 pm. Turned the power back on and there is still a chirp! But from WHERE? We couldn’t figure out which one was chirping! So we had given up and went to Walmart to just buy three new smoke detectors that connect to AC power. Walmart was sold out (except for $50 a pop fancy brand). So we bought $6 worth of candy and drowned our sorrows in sugar.

We got back home and detached all three smoke detectors – pulled our their batteries and wrapped them in a blanket to shush them. And there is still a chirp.

Now, smart me decided that since we don’t have any smoke detectors plugged in that we should at least have a form of protection set up (just in case the house burns down and because it’s illegal to not have smoke detectors plugged in). So I went to our linen closet where we have an extra smoke detector from the Sterling house…..

Turns out? It was the stinking smoke detector in the closet that was chirping all along. The battery had died! And since I didn’t remember that we even had the smoke detector until last night I didn’t think to check that!

We had our first peaceful night of sleep in a month. And all our smoke detectors are reattached with new batteries and no chirps (hopefully).

And I feel a little bit like we’ve wasted a month of our lives being attacked by a beep from nowhere.

And I’m channelling my inner Phoebe…

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I hope you’re having a better week than we’re having, but it’s all looking up from here!

Love, The Jaderstons

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