furbabies

Everyone's adjusting to the new move pretty well.
Here's a small clip of my happy furbabies. Austynn was so excited the cat, Rusty, finally let her pet him that she demanded I take a picture of it.

Confessions

This week I am linking up today with Heather from Blonde... Undercover Blonde for Friday's Book Club.

It's been a while since I was able to join book club Friday.  This week, I read a free kindle book:

A priest, who’s sister was murdered five years ago, gets a startling confession by an unsuspecting criminal.  This causes Michael Jerome to dig up any old news he can find that relates to his sister’s death and the investigation in search of answers.  The plot thickens as more people get involved in the cover-up of his sister’s death.  It twists and turns and will leave you hanging to the very last page- who hired the hitman to kill Katherine? 

Summer 2012

Summer 2012 has definitely been one for the books. I graduated college. And I moved out of my town, back to my home town that I haven't lived in for nearly 11 years. It's different for sure. I quit my job I've had for 6 years and am starting a new one next week. I had a miscarriage. But- I'm back. With school out of the way I have time to read for fun, and blog again. And read all your blogs. Expect a pictures blog to be up shortly.

I'm here, sorta.

So they decided to block blogger at work, and that is when I'm usually playing on here- until today, for some reason I was able to access it again, YAY! so time to play a lot of 'ketchup'. 

I've been MIA for over a month now, so busy with school that I haven't had time in the evenings to blog too.  but the good news is that I am finally graduating college- 10 years later. 

ok, so what did you miss in the month of June? I will sum up the big events that occurred in my life since the start of 2012, most of which happened in June. 

*I dated this really great guy who took me skiing in February and it was amazing.- that ended in February, but still pretty amazing
*April- I convinced SHSU to grant me approval for loan money- that have been denied for years- so that I can take more classes
*April- I registered for my final four classes and will graduate in August
*april- I re-connected with an old friend and things have been fun
*June 3- My computer crashed the week my summer school started and I was a week behind and out $300 for the repairs
*June 29- made a B in both my classes at school and brought my GPA up some
*June 18- I decided to apply for a job at the credit union back where I'm from, and that Friday, the 22, they called me to set up an interview
*June 25, the doctor confirmed what my tests showed the previous weekend, I'm pregnant, 6 weeks today
*June 28, I had the interview with the bank and it lasted more than 2 hours and went really well.  This is also the day I announced I'm pregnant to my mom to which her first words were "I love grandbabies!"
*On July 2- the credit union called me, and offered me the job!! I start Aug. 13

Wedding Weekend

This weekend, my sister-in-law-in-law (my sister-in-law's sister) got married. It was an eventful time for sure. The wedding- I have no words to describe it, honestly... but all in all, it was a good weekend. Saw some friends, and of course spent most of the time with my favorite two little girls. Carissa- the bride- made the girls all matching dresses. It was a cute idea, although it was made of toule and when they moved, it didn't really cover their whole bodies. But it was still cute on them! It matched the bottom half of her dress. Here are a few pictures I was able to capture from the wedding.

 

Party time

Bachelorette Party time!! Last week, a bunch of us spent the night in Mid-town Houston bar-hopping, wearing wigs. I have to say, wigs is the way to go. We me so many people who would just buy us all drinks as an excuse to talk to us about why we all had wigs on. hey- I'm not about to complain when I'm handed a free drink.

I will refrain from talking bad about the event, but I have to ask one question- Why do most bachelorette parties end in DRAMA??  Can't a group of girls just drink, party and have a good time, without someone(s) ending in tears and someone else's feelings getting hurt? 

SISTERS (me, my sister-in-law's sister, my sister-in-law)

The girls

Something was funny. Me with a dr. (so he claimed)

Dude wanted to party like a rock star

Honoring a Hero

If you know me, you know that I have a huge heart for the military. I've always backed them and supported in any way that I know how. I have a lot of friends that have, or are currently, deployed right now fighting, so that I don't have to. and for that, I am always thankful for their sacrifices.

On May 11, 2012, a Marine, Sgt. Wade Wilson of Leona, Tx was Killed in Action in Afghanistan. Leona is not too far from here.  I never met him, but it doesn't mean this is any less heartbreaking to me.  He was 24 years old. this past Friday, May 18, his body was flown into a nearby city, and then transported to Centerville, Tx for his funeral, that would be on May 19th. Many people gathered at the airport he was flown into, and caravanned up to Centerville. My city, along with a few others en route to his destination, gathered in honor of him. Our police, along with the fire department, blocked off one of the overpasses above the major highway that Sgt. Wilson would be transported through, and there, people gathered with American flags to cheer, or mourn, his homecoming. In all honesty, I wish we did this for EVERY military, EVERY time they came home, not just when they lay down their life. The caravan definitely brought tears to my eyes, to see the number of police, motorcyclists, and just cars in general driving the road with Sgt. Wilson. Paying their respects the best we know how. I was driving the opposite direction they were, so I had a descent view of what was going on.

 Sgt. Wilson's friends made a few youtube videos of him as well: very touching.