Big House Brunchski

Tyler and I are basically gourmet chefs

What up post workout deliciousness

Big House Resourcefulness

Tonight, Tyler went to cook his popcorn shrimp only to discover that the pilot light on our stove was out...TRAGEDY.

This is not surprising as our stove is the ABSOLUTE WORST.

We then discover that we do not have any matches or lighters....tragedy strikes a SECOND TIME.

So what does the Big House do?

Lights the pilot light with a 4th of July sparkler, of course! (...don't ask why we have sparklers but no matches or lighters). Success.

#bighouseresoucefulness

GSMDs

I believe we have had this blog long enough that I can now devote an entire post to one of my favorite obsessions - Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs. I LOVE these guys.

Here are a few pictures...need I say more?

If these adorable photos are not enough for you (and they shouldn't be!!) may I direct you to http://www.greaterswissdotcom.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=36905#Post36905 where you can peruse through a 1037 PAGES of GSMD photos. I have only made it through 603 pages so far but I'm sure I'll get through all 1037 soon...that's what my Friday nights are for, right?

We're Practically Famous

I thought you would all be interested to know that The Big House is basically famous. I was, no joke, asked about it in my recent dental school interview. How did they know there was such a thing as The Big House? We can thank Dr. Shaw for writing about it in his letter of recommendation. Since that letter went out to every dental school I applied to it means that The Big House has been heard of 10 different states!!! Pretty impressive.

Yoga Tuesdays

Now the moment I'm sure you have all been anxiously awaiting... my first post! I obviously held off posting for dramatic effect but some people seem to think it is because I'm lazy. Okay, I'm kind of lazy. Thankfully we do not award house points for blogging. I hope I didn't give overly enthusiastic blogger Jared any ideas. Shelby and Jared will literally (http://www.vulture.com/2012/09/rob-lowe-literally-parks-and-recreation.html?mid=twitter_vulture - for your reading pleasure) kill me if this isn't finished by the time they arrive home from work so here goes.

I have been actively trying to convince Jared to do "Call Me Maybe" squats with me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpB8pWEjhk - do it if you want nice thighs) for the past few weeks but for some weird reason he has absolutely no interest in said awesomeness. I finally decided to put the subject to rest and try my luck with yoga. Success! Last Tuesday we created a fantastic yoga studio in our living room and did P90X Yoga X. Shelby ended up joining us in the middle of our workout. It was awesome sauce to say the least. In fact It was so awesome sauce that we have have decided to have Yoga Tuesdays.

And we took pictures of ourselves in yoga poses because that's what you're supposed to do, right?  Enjoy!

Yoga studio (note Shelby's "mat")

Just plain awkward

Upward facing dog, plank, and downward facing dog - we did these at least 20x each

Crane (what it should look like:  http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/468/ )

Tree = the best after Child's Pose i.m.o.

Warrior One, Warrior Two, and Reverse Warrior

Saved the best for last. Gotta love Shelby's face in this one. 

Sunday Crepes

Our new Sunday tradition.  Crepes at Crepes Parisiennes, delicious! With 100's (~20) of different crepes to choose from for under $10 we will be coming back for weeks to come.

A Quick Update

First off - an apology - we realize we haven't done the best job with keeping the blog "up to date" recently.  We'll make sure to make it more of a priority here soon because obviously hilarious things are happening to us everyday and you want to know about them.

So just to catch you up on a few things:
-Emily, Shelby, and I are currently watching Evens Stevens - the classic american comedy television series that aired on Disney channel - because, yes, we are all 5 years old.
-Emily & Tyler are redoing Emily's dresser and it's looking awesome.  I'm sure she'll be providing you with more updates on its coolness soon enough.
-I've seen "fat neighbor" 4 whole times today!
-The Irish festival was pretty sweet (pictures...all 2 of them...are coming soon)
-I've successfully rewatched the first 4 seasons of the office
-The house points currently stand at:
Ravenclaw 6
Slytherin 4
Gryffindor 1
Hufflepuff...is currently, and most likely will forever be, in the negatives
If this confuses you it means you haven't read the "House Points" tab.  If this is the case you need to read it ASAP.