MEOW

You could say at my house I have a mini zoo.  I have hyper, pain in the bootay dog and three cats.  Before Dustin and I were dating, I had zero interest in cats.  I thought dogs were better and cats were just lame.  Dustin brought his first cat home to his parents- Jeffrey.

This is Jeffrey doing what he is best at-Sleeping.

Dustin used to work for the APL as a driver to get animals from other counties or something of that sort.  While working there he had become such an animal freak and wanted to bring lots of animals home.  One of the Doctors recommended Jeffrey because he is laid back, can't you tell.  When he brought him to his parents I was a little sketchy about him but I LOVE him.  He has been such a good cat. I mean look at that sweet face.

He also gained Riley while working there.  Instead when he was picking up animals some lady gave Dustin some sad story about how she couldn't take care of her and needed to find a good home for her and of course Dustin said ME ME ME.  He brought Riley home.

She is the biznatch of the house.  She rules the house-or at least she thinks so.  She will let you know when she wants pet and when she wants left alone.  She usually is the friendliest at 615-9 in the morning and 9-12 at night.  All the rest of the times, leave her alone.

Then we got our third cat.  Dustin was not working at the APL at the time, the third cat was all me.  We went to the APL wanting an orange cat but feel in love with this black cat.  Dustin wasn't totally into picking her but I was! So we adopted her and she is glued to my hip.  She is very sassy and very  playful.  She will just start running around the house for no reason. 

Well this post was supposed to be all about Jeffrey but thought it would be unfair to not introduce my other kitties. Well ever since we got back from vacation-2 weeks ago today- Jeffrey hasn't been himself.  It started off with a running nose and now he has goopy eyes, he sounds super congested, not eating (rare for him), and laying in one spot.  So I finally decided to take him to the vet since it hadn't cleared up and sure enough he has an Upper Respiratory Infection and was started on antibiotics and eye ointment.  Hopefully he will be him self and eating non-stop :)

House Hunting

My life lately has consisted of house hunting.  No, not for me-for my parents.  It is a very bittersweet search.  My mom doesn't want to move out of her house now but under the circumstances it is going to be the best idea.  There is no new news on my dad but we want my dad to be included on this new search of the house.  My parents have found 2 houses they really like, and guess what?! They are both less than a mile away from me! I find this great! I love to have my parents close, then I can bug them whenever I please. :)  I hope it will give me an excuse to walk with Benny to the house instead of driving.

My parents have been cleaning and getting ready to put their house on the market.  It had been hard for my mom because they houses they are looking at are smaller than their home now so she will be getting rid of a lot. So be thinking of my parents through this hectic time.

PCB 2012

You all (my one reader, my dad) have probably been wondering where I have been in blog world.  I have been on vacation.  Well like 2 weeks ago, I am really late on blogging about my vacation.  First of all this was my first trip to Florida and it wouldn't have happened without the Powells.  I want to thank Deena and Randy for taking us on this wonderful getaway.  Dustin and I would not have been able to afford a trip and they made it happen!
Warning: There will be a lot of pictures in this blog!
I'll start with the trip there.  Randy was the driver the whole trip. Poor guy.  We took a Yukon XL which seats 7 uncomfortably, and 6 comfortably.  I have terrible motion sickness so Dustin and I sat in the front back seat part and poor Jordan(daddy long legs) had to seat in the back with Meg.  Sorry Jordan, if my stomach didn't suck you would have had the front ones.  I came prepared and took Dramamine before our trip and again half way through.  I also had pepto in my purse for emergencies.  We drove for about 10 hours arriving in Birmingham, AL.  I thought it was such a cute city, and had great shopping.  The traffic sucked major and we got kind of lost getting to the hotel- that was hidden back behind restaurants with the smallest sign. We went for dinner at Chik-fil-a, which was delish for sure and then we went sight seeing.  They had a great outdoor mall area with restaurants and a great view.

This was the view from the outdoor mall.  It was super pretty.
After sight seeing, we came back to the hotel and we all got ready for bed.  We weren't leaving for PCB until 10 am the next day.  I woke up at 7:30 of course and jumped in the shower before anyone else and then woke d up to get ready and go get breakfast.  We got breakfast and it was time to hit the road. We arrived to the rental house at about 3, and boy was I happy.  

This is the cute house we stayed in.

We of course toured the house and gosh was it cute.  I loved it.  The first floor had a master bedroom and then two other bedrooms-with all their own bathrooms.  The second floor was the kitchen and living room with a half bath- with a big balcony.  The third  floor was the master bedroom with the best view of the ocean.  I told Dustin "Gosh I wish we rented this so we could get this top bedroom" and he responded with "I'll joke with my parents and say it's ours."  We both laughed and wished we had that room.  We both went running downstairs-like little kids who just went to the candy shop- and D said to this parents "We call that room"  and Deena said she was glad we liked it because it was our room. AGH I was so stinking excited and grateful.  They def gave us the best room in the house!

                          

                       Our awesome view- even if it was rainy.                   Our cute room.

After deciding rooms and unpacking the car, we needed to plan meals for the week.  Then D and I went to the grocery store with Randy and Deena, while Jordan and Megan went to the beach.  We came back and ate dinner and then Deena insisted D and I go to the beach while they cleaned up.  I was so excited. My first beach experience. 

The ocean the first night was so beautiful.  I had to touch the water and play with the sand while Dustin made fun of me for being such a little kid.  I loved it.  I determined through out the week that I could be a beach bum.

I had to be a child and write in the sand, duh! This of course was the first thing I wrote.  The heart kept washing away. Oh well. 

D and I on the beach.

Then after being out there for a while we started walking back to the house.
The next day was spent on the beach of course.  I wanted to go out at like 830 but Dustin said we needed to wait a little bit longer.  We got coffee and sat on our balcony. D pointed out a dead owl of the edge.

I didn't even know owls would want to live in Florida with the hot weather.  He giggled at me and I thought this wasn't funny that an owl died.  After we drank our coffee, we went downstairs to see if anyone was awake.  Randy and Deena were and Dustin told them about the dead owl and after Randy looked over the edge- he started laughing.  It was a joke and it was actually a fake owl, you better believe I heard about it the whole week.

We got in our suits and head to the beach. I had to take a picture everyday with D and I in our suits except we only did 3 days. 

There was a lot of seaweed from the storm and LOTS of jelly fish.  I was afraid to get in the water because of all of them.

I had to get a classis beach photo.  I had never taken this type of picture, so i felt totally awkward.  Oh well.  We spent most of the day on the beach and can't really recall anything from the day, except jellyfish.  That night we decided to stop at this go kart place after yanking Randy and Deena's arms off to try and convince them to go as well.  They agreed and we waited in line.  We got in our go karts and god it was so fun.  It was a three story wrap around "race track" and the go karts were actually fast.  Randy won and he wouldn't let it go.  But they had an awesome time.

The next day happened to be our one year anniversary of being married.  It was so cute that it happen to be while we were on vacation.  Dustin woke me up to this-

SAY WHAT? Breakfast in bed.  Dang I am one lucky gal.  I have a pretty good hubby.....sometimes. JK!  I was very shocked by how cute he was being.  We ended up eating this meal outside on the balcony, I didn't want to be the clutz that I am and spill syrup on the bed. Then it was out to the beach we went.  I had to of course get another suit picture.

Dustin wore the same trunks even though they weren't the only pair he brought.  Today we matched because we were both wearing Fox suits.

Deena and I were jumping waves, I was more concerned with my bottoms falling off-I had to hold on to them with each wave. (Deena told us no pictures of her in her swimsuit on facebook, this isn't facebook :))

 We went in early at like 3 to get ready for dinner.  We went to Margaritaville.  I had never been to one and it was cute.  We got to our table after waiting for an hour. 

D and I waiting.  This turned out to be super cute, I thought.

Meg and I got a picture together before dinner.

  We finally got seated. We all ordered and then Megan got up to go talk to the waitress about "putting onions on hamburger" sneaky little thing.  Then in like 2 minutes the balloon maker came by to make us a lovely balloon hat because Megan told the waitress it was our one year.

Here is our awkward picture. I look like a weigh 500 lbs, excuse that.

We walked around the shopping area after dinner.

This is my attempt of surfing, I look totally awk!

D being silly.

We then decided to go back to the go kart place with everyone this time.  We got the slowest go kart this time so d wanted to hit everyone going by us.  There was a "no bump rule" and I didn't want to get kicked out, of course he thought it was hilarious.

Next day was rainy off and on but we of course spent the morning drinking coffee on our balcony.  There was two flags up most of yesterday and today but that didn't stop us from getting the water. :)

Today was spent looking for cool seashells and anything else we could find.  Dustin found a starfish(alive) and a FULL sand dollar.  He has awesome eyes.

Meg and I with both the water treasures he found.  LOVE it!

The next couple days are a blur so I'll just put pictures up.  I had a great time! 

Dustin and I on the scooter.  We loved riding on the scooter.  D of course stated he wanted one when we got home.

Driving around town on the scooter.

D was obsessed with this saying while on the trip.

Deena trying to text, so she hid under the towel.

Showing of my cute FOX fanny pack :)  It was locked on this hanger thing but i managed to get it on still locked up.

D and Jordan had to return the scooters and it was raining bad so they decided to cover up with trash bags. What silly boys!

boys being boys!

Megan bought me this hat!  D was throwing a fit saying I didn't need it so her and Jordy went back and got it for me! Thanks Meg, I love it!

The trip was awesome but I was happy to come back to my baby, Benny!  He was so happy to see me(and dustin, I guess).  He spent the week with my family. Thanks for putting up with him, I know he is a handful!!! I was glad to see my kitties when I got home to.  They meowed alot.  I missed my parents too, I know I am lame! 

Thanks for being my daddy

Some days you forget how thankful you are of your family, but lately it is all I can think about.  I am so thankful how close I am to my mom and dad.  They are like my best friends who will never leave me.  I didn't always have the greatest bond with my parents but as I have gotten older the bond has gotten tighter.  I can talk to them about anything and they are there for everything.  They know the best for me and they are so supportive through my life.  They have welcomed Dustin as he is their own child.
Today is father's day(If you didn't already know that, shame on you)!  I am very grateful to be able to spend another father's day with my dad. Never take any day for granted people!  My dad(and mom) have put up with a lot of shit from me.  Thanks for that, by the way!  I am my dad's twin-we act a lot a like but I am the girl version of him.  We have the same sense of humor and sarcasm is our middle name.  It is weird when we do the same thing or say the same thing.  We have the same habits.

Me, Dad, and Step today :)

I could go on and on about my dad and how great he is but I need to work on my English homework so i'll wrap it up. I love you dad and I wouldn't trade for anything. Thanks for being you!

People these days

Today was an interesting day to say the least.  It started off with me waking up at 7:13 and trying to wake up Dustin next to me.  He usually leaves the house by 7:10 for work but today he called in sick.  He hasn't been feeling good for about a week.  He has had a terrible cough, sore throat, and runny nose.  He even went to prompt care and told him he had a sinus infection, duh! I told him that 3 days ago but he was too stubborn to get medicine for it.  He changed his mind today and got prescribed azithromycin.  Hopefully this silly sinus infection gets cleared up for when we leave for PCB. :)

He lounged around, took a nap, and pretty much acted pathetic like all day.  Poor dude!  While he was snoozing, I left the house to meet my dad at work so we could go to the mall together.  I want to get him a good father's day gift and he has been talking about getting a pair of Oakleys. I told him I wouldn't get him any without him trying them on.  He said "okay mom."  But guess who was right.:)  While looking for a pair of sunglasses I set my phone down on the counter of the Sunglasses Hut.  We went around to the other side to look at more Oakleys.  In that time that we were looking I noticed two people come up to the counter and I thought looked at some Oakleys.  When my dad had finally picked out a pair he liked, I went to grab my phone which happened to be gone!! I asked the lady if she knocked it towards her side of counter.  She replied no.  I was so mad, my phone was stolen and I hadn't even left it but 5 feet away.  The two people who I thought were looking at Oakleys actually stole my phone.  What is wrong with people?  How could they just do that?  My dad started calling my phone and we walked around looking if someone was answering it.  No luck with that.  Then we talked to security/customer service and they were pretty worthless.

My dad said wait let me use this app to try to find your phone-but it didn't work because the people had turned my phone off.  I have a pass code on it but they probably are going to wipe it clean.

I was so pissed that I felt sick to my stomach.  I was so mad that someone would do that.  The people in our society are seriously redonkulous!!!  My dad and I drove to AT&T across from the mall and they pretty much said that same thing.  I probably wasn't going to be able to find my phone.  The guy said I could file a police report but that probably wouldn't go anywhere.  So thank god we had an upgrade available and my dad just bought me a new iPhone 4.  He felt as if he was responsible but he wasn't.  Stefani probably won't be very pleased that I used her upgrade but I leave for PCB in 3 days and need a phone.  Sorry Step! 

So that was my eventful day.  And my phone wouldn't backup to my old phone grrrrr!!

Rambling about healthy habits.

I leave for vacation in 4 days and lets just say my body isn't ready to be in a swimsuit.  I wish I had more time to get in shape to be in a swimsuit.  I have been seeing everybody on Facebook in their swimsuits and I don't feel as if I will be posting any pictures of myself on the beach.  I have always been self conscious about my body.  It sucks to be married to someone who can eat anything he wants and not gain a pound.  I just look at what he is eating and I instantly gain a pound.  I have definitely lost some weight since last year.  I had an appointment last week and I had lost 9 pounds since my last appointment.  It makes you feel so much better to see you have lost weight and being able to wear smaller clothes.  
I have started up running again and I just love to run.  I hate trying to get myself to run but I love the feeling during and after.  I am not the fastest runner but that doesn't matter.  I want to run for distance not speed.  I love seeing people run races and accomplish new goals.  I just need to stay accountable and keep running.  I wish D would start running with me.  It would be a fun activity to do together.
I have been counting my calories too.  I have cute soda out completely.  I cut it out like 6 months ago and it was super hard to do.  I drank like 3 diet mt dews a day.  It was getting a little out of control but I am glad I don't drink it anymore.  I will occasionally have one but I can never finish it.
Okay, I am not sure where this blog is going or even where I intended for it to go because I am just rambling.  So keep motivating me to run and workout because I want a nice bod like everyone else in this world.