"Meet the Stanleys"

Sometimes we'll be sitting around having a conversation, but then it takes a weird turn and we end up saying some of the oddest stuff.

I'm sure you have found yourself in a conversation like that every now and then, realize it, and have a good laugh at yourself. But I'd be lying if I said it only rarely happens to us. For example, Ryan is walking around and talking in a falsetto voice making fun of me saying "My name's Reanna. And I write a blog. And tell people to read it..."

These are the moments that belong on our show. If a crew of cameras followed us around at all times, they would probably record enough usable material for a prime time 30 minute reality comedy called Meet the Stanleys. Not only just Ryan and I, but the crazy antics of our families would be recorded for your viewing enjoyment.

I wish I would have been recording all the gems we've decided should be on our show, from as far back as day one of our marriage, when we got a phone call from Delta airlines saying that the flight to our honeymoon in Jamaica was canceled. (Everything turned out fine in the end on that one.) The topic that made us realize that we might be sitting on a goldmine was when he asked me how much I'd have to be paid to eat the ash off of his cigar.

Just today, we had a handful of moments that would have been on the show. Ryan woke me up by talking in his sleep (more on that some other day), saying stuff about morning sickness and food poisoning. (I don't know what it means, he says it was a bad dream.) Then this afternoon, this conversation happens:

Ry- How long do you think you would live if you never took a bath?
Re- I don't know. A few years? I might have a lot of viruses all on me.
Ry- What if you never had a bath since you were born?
Re- Ewwwwwww! No, I don't think so. I'd still go swimming, and be in the rain.
Ry- Yeah, I guess so. But that is gross.

Then this evening, after deciding that we could get a puppy, Ryan tried to reneg and put a condition on it. "We can get a puppy If I can get a boat by the time I'm 31." I said No, you had your chance and you muffed it! After already spending a few hours online looking for/researching puppies, we then spent a little while longer looking for bass boats. But my condition was that however much the boat costs, we have to make ten times that much two years in a row.

Even just now, he's reading over my shoulder, making sure I'm using correct grammar and capitalization. Maybe this stuff isn't as funny or interesting to others as it is to us, but it keeps us entertained and tuned in for each new episode.