a few more from turkey day...

sara, momma, me

sara and paul

thanksgiving weekend.

milo

beau and sunshine

sally and sunny

milo eating a bone

doggie!

we finally made it out to the humane society on saturday, and after 4 hours we adopted a great dog. he is black, a black lab mix...and he is so cute and cuddly. his previous parents were in the air force and we deployed to iraq, so they had to move suddenly, and dogs are not allowed on the base, so they had to surrender him and another dog to the humane society. he is very well-mannered, so it is evident that they did an exellent job traning and loving him in the 4 years that they had him. i will be taking so pictures of him tonight to post. with the holiday weekend and the ever-lasting un-packing, there just was no time for much this weekend. the kitties are none-too-pleased about milo. but i am sure they will be cool in a few more days. sally acted like she hated the kitten at first too, and she got over that soon enough. i am not expecting a best friendship between the species, just overall tolereance for everyone. so although my little zoo lost one...my little brown mouse sylvester (vestie) died the friday before the move, i have also gained one now. i'll be on a break from pets for a while now, but there is one more that i desire: a leopard gecko. they are so neat. anyway, i am so happy about my doggie that i can't think about wanting anyhting else right now. the house is coming along...although we are getting a bit tired of working on it, all day, every day. so even though i didn't want to come to work today, it is nice to be doing something other than hauling stuff all over the house. yes sir. the house warming party is going to be in two weeks, so i will be posting an invite soon for that!! keep your eyes open for that one. neil and i will be going through all of our stuff so that we can find out what we are missing or what needs replacing as far as household goods go. i am still going with a pink kitchen, despite everyone's dismay. i have learned in the past that all of my most genius plans start out with lots of rebellion from others, so i am confidant that this will just be another case of that. (haha) well, our thanksgiving was great, and i hope your was too. can't wait for the new year, and to see santa because i have been a really good girl this year...

doggie!

we finally made it out to the humane society on saturday, and after 4 hours we adopted a great dog. he is black, a black lab mix...and he is so cute and cuddly. his previous parents were in the air force and we deployed to iraq, so they had to move suddenly, and dogs are not allowed on the base, so they had to surrender him and another dog to the humane society. he is very well-mannered, so it is evident that they did an exellent job traning and loving him in the 4 years that they had him. i will be taking so pictures of him tonight to post. with the holiday weekend and the ever-lasting un-packing, there just was no time for much this weekend. the kitties are none-too-pleased about milo. but i am sure they will be cool in a few more days. sally acted like she hated the kitten at first too, and she got over that soon enough. i am not expecting a best friendship between the species, just overall tolereance for everyone. so although my little zoo lost one...my little brown mouse sylvester (vestie) died the friday before the move, i have also gained one now. i'll be on a break from pets for a while now, but there is one more that i desire: a leopard gecko. they are so neat. anyway, i am so happy about my doggie that i can't think about wanting anyhting else right now. the house is coming along...although we are getting a bit tired of working on it, all day, every day. so even though i didn't want to come to work today, it is nice to be doing something other than hauling stuff all over the house. yes sir. the house warming party is going to be in two weeks, so i will be posting an invite soon for that!! keep your eyes open for that one. neil and i will be going through all of our stuff so that we can find out what we are missing or what needs replacing as far as household goods go. i am still going with a pink kitchen, despite everyone's dismay. i have learned in the past that all of my most genius plans start out with lots of rebellion from others, so i am confidant that this will just be another case of that. (haha) well, our thanksgiving was great, and i hope your was too. can't wait for the new year, and to see santa because i have been a really good girl this year...

we are finished.

we moved everything in on saturday. it took about 20 hours, but we got it done. now we have lots of fun ahead as we try to un-pack...

still moving in...

moving in continued...

moving in...

update for this crazy week.

neil and i closed on our house on monday at 10 am. then we went to the house and danced around for a while. next, we went to home depot where we got a dishwasher and a hot water heater. we installed the hot water heater on tuesday evening after work. i held the flashlight. and i got to do some screws on the electrical panel, too. i know what a compression fitting is now.
being a homeowner is fun already. yay!! i spent much of my free time (and a bit of work time, too) calling utility companies and getting everything set-up. so that was super fun. we are moving in this weekend, and we are so excited. i want to start moving things tonight after work, but neil and his step-dad mario are going to be working on fixing a few leaks that we discovered when they came to turn the water on yesterday. so i may just be driving car-loads back and forth tonight, i guess we'll see how that goes. i love moving. hmmm...what else?? i'm getting a new dog, too. i am waiting to get an appointment with the lady we have adopted the cats from, because she is a foster mom for kittens and puppies from the humane society. i also have a lot of laundry to do, but i am looking forward to doing it at my own house, rather than washing any more at ray and jessica's condo where we have been staying for the last 6 months. more updates after the moving is done!!! yay!! tomorrow morning i will be hanging out at the house waiting for the direct tv guy and for the dishwasher to be delivered, too. wheeeee. then i will be free to help move things!! whoooppeeee!!

my new hair.

the orange wall.

ode to tricia.

2 more wonderful cousins, although i must say that i am somewhat partial to red-heads, being that i myself am one currently.

tricia and kristy. i first fully understood my true gift of the gab after summers in ohio, talking tricia to sleep.

xoxo.

love these two.

here's a great picture of my best cousins, robyn (ra-ra) and madison (maddie). neil and i are going up to tally this weekend to see robyn, so i thought i put up a picture!!

less than a week away...

our closing is on monday, november 13.
we are getting EXCITED!!
after closing, we get to go buy a new hot water heater.
EXCITING!!

we are going to visit robyn this weekend in tally.
then we come home on sunday to get ready for the closing!! yay!!

halloween pictures

happy halloween!!

well, tomorrow is halloween, and we are getting really excited. neil and beau are going to be bill and ted...and i am going to be a devil. it should be a pretty fun time, as it always is every year. and neil and i are going trick or treating with rachel, my little lion cub, and her niece and nephew too...gotta get some candy!!!!! i will post pictures ASAP. hope everyone else has a great one too!!

my surgery...

it's done. i am doing well. overall, it was pretty fast and mostly painless. in fact, i would say it hurt less than getting my nose pierced!! so that's a plus, if you ask me. mom was worse off than i was at times, as she is quite squemish. she saw the needle for the local, and pretty much looked away after that. and i even was allowed to patisipate by holding the tube to the smoke evacutator. i did a great job as my own medical assistant!! anyway, nothing much to report, really. i am healing, and my next appointment is in 3 months. until then, i am laying low. neil and i are house-sitting for my boss this weekend, so it should be a pretty good time.

that's that for now...

monday morning. ugh.

well, we at kinda at a stopping point with the house right now...th inspector revealed that the roof is shot. that's about a $7000 repair. and with the exception of one room, all other electrical outlets are un-grounded. and the hot water heater is dead, for sure. so we basically turn in all these estimates to our relator and he goes to the seller's agent with these issue...but because the hosue is listed "as is" that means they are not going to fix anything...but hopefully will either shave some moeny off the seeling price or credit us the money at closing. so that's that...

i have my surgery this week, so i am under a lot of stress due to that coming on. plus with all this house stuff going on, too...i'm exhaused, and i went to be around 6 pm last night...woke up at 8, ate some food and went back to sleep. i had lots of weird dreams though, all night long. oh well.

we went to mom's this weekend b/c sara was in town. things went the way they usually do when we all get together--sara has fits, yells and acts like a brat...mom and i try to cal mher down and talk to her, not to tmention help her--to no avail. times like those remind me why it is better for me to live a distance from the two of them. it sucks--family can make you crazy.

rachel and leo came over on saturday morning, so that was a fun visit, at least. leo is getting so big!! he's going to be eating real foods soon!! and i got him the cutest little pair of camo sweatpants!! adorable.

that's about all really. i am bitchy b/c i am not having soda. and i need my caffine/sugar fix!!!!!!!
grrrrrrrrr. just wanna be left alone until i feel better about the world today.

house inspection day.

today we have our inspection scheduled for 4 pm. so i will be heading outta work to go do that this afternoon. i'm sure it will be tons of fun, but it will give me a chance to take lots of pictures of the inside of the house--so i will be posting those tomorrow, hopefully!! i really hope that all will go well with the inspection, and the termite inspection we have next week, too. if we can get everything ready, we may even get to close earlier than the 13th!! how great would that be? i can't wait.

the house=our house.

here are the poictures from the house, as promised. we have our inspection on thursday, so hopefully it will be all good news. termite inspection in two weeks. trying to get this all done and ready in one month is a real challenge!!