An update!

Gosh, I don't even know where to begin. It's been so long since I've blogged. Hmm...

Well, the Kenny Chesney concert was last weekend. It was...a disaster... lol It rained and rained and hailed and rained with some serious lightening thrown in there. We left before the show started, but it all works out because he has rescheduled! The reschedule date is May 17th. It's a Sunday. So we'll be pretty tired at work the next day, but it'll be worth it!

This weekend I plan to do nothing on Friday night and Saturday during the day. Taylor has some stuff to do Saturday morning. I'm actually looking forward to a quiet house on Saturday! I plan to sleep in and then watch some girly movie that he'd never want to watch with me. I love spending time with my husband, but I do enjoy the occasional ME time too. Saturday night we're going to Pete's Piano Bar with some friends for a birthday shindig. That should be a good time! I've never been, but I've always heard really good things. The Dallas bar scene really isn't our thing, but I still have high hopes for a good time! Since Sunday is Mother's Day we plan to see my mom and go eat at Ojeda's downtown for lunch with my family. Yum! Then after that we'll go to Taylor's parents and spend sometime with his mom!

The home office move is coming up quick. It's just around the corner, but there is still SO much to do. Our last day at this office will be May 22nd. I'm still really REALLY looking forward to working from home. I just have a lot to do in preparation. Taylor & I need to clean our home office, and we both have a ton of packing to do up here. It's a little overwhelming at times, but it'll be worth it when we are working from home. I just wish I could snap my fingers and all the moving work would be done!

There really hasn't been too much else going on! I have lots of pictures to upload. Hopefully I'll take some more after this weekend and will put them all on here in a post on Sunday or Monday.

I promise a real post will come soon! For now I have my friend Jenn to thank for this survey. :)

For Today:

Outside my window: the sun is trying to peek through, and it's REALLY humid

I am thinking: what I might eat at dinner tonight

I am thankful for: my husband and family!

From the kitchen: I can't think about food right now. I'm really full.

I am wearing: a pink shirt, dark trouser jeans, and black peep toe heels

I am reading: nothing! I need to get a new book.

I am hoping: our move to our home offices goes smooth.

I am creating: e-mail folders at the moment.

I am hearing: a co-worker on the phone.

Around the house: is probably very quiet right now. I'm willing to bet there are four sleeping dogs.

One of my favorite things: is sleeping!

A few plans for the rest of the week: dinner with Michelle & Jenna tonight, nothing but relaxing tomorrow night, out for a friend's birthday on Saturday night, and spending time with family on Sunday!

Worst part of the weekend: Not enough sleep!

Best part of the weekend: Lots of time with my favorite, family, and friends!

Most random part of the weekend: The very odd waitress at Friday's

People I saw this weekend: Taylor, Josh, Angela, Kevin, Mom, Sarah, Aunt Rosie, Taylor's Nana, Jamel, Aris, Heather, Chelsea, Taylor's parents

Something I wished I did this weekend that I didn't get around to doing: yard work...the flower beds specificially

Things that I am looking forward to this week: Warm & sunny weather, Jennifer, Jason, Jana, and Jasper coming over on Friday (and the pool table being complete!), and Andrew & Angie coming in town on Saturday!

Things that I am not looking forward to this week: lots of work... I HAVE to get busy on getting more stuff boxed up for our office move

Blogging on Saturday night is what the cool kids do. :)

I love long weekends! Friday we only worked a half day. I napped when we got home... no surprise there! We did not do too much of anything last night. Lately we've realized we're pretty over the whole going out to eat thing and really enjoy eating at home. It's nice. Eating at home is much more relaxing and it saves the $$$! :)

This morning I dropped Taylor off in Lewisville so he could play golf. I dropped him off so I could have the Jetta to run errands. Yeah, bad idea. I got pulled over in The Colony on the way back home!!! I was SO mad. It's a long story, but it was a very bad experience. I mean, I know getting a ticket is never a good experience but this one was a little over the top. Anyway... this was only the 2nd time I've ever even been pulled over. Whatever. Live & learn. I'll pay the ticket and do deferred judification... or whatever it is called! It just wasn't a good start to my Saturday.

The day did get better though. I met up with my sisters-in-law, Heather & Aris for lunch at Blue Goose. After lunch I went back to get T, and came home to nap (love them). We spent the majority of tonight over at Taylor's parent's friend's, Ruth & Sam. Their daughter (our good friend) Sarah had a baby a couple of weeks ago. So it was a nice relaxing with the rest of the Musas, Sam, Ruth, Sarah, Walleed, and baby Eliyah.

Tomorrow we'll be going to my parents early in the afternoon. Yay! I feel like I haven't seen Mom, Dad, or Michelle & Sarah in so long! I can't believe tomorrow is Sunday and the weekend is almost over. Next weekend should be pretty quiet. The following (24th) Friday, hopefully, Jennifer & Jason are going to come over to hang out and the guys will FINALLY put together our pool table. The following day Andrew & Angie are coming in to town so we all can go to the A-1 Reunion. Then the weekend after that is finally the Kenny Chesney concert! Taylor & I are really excited about that, and Heather & I just don't want to get stuck in the mud again! Good times.

We hope you all have a very happy Easter!

So far the working out is going well. I was SO sore on Monday night, but I feel much better now. The running is...well, running. The push ups are much better than I anticipated! I still feel a bit of anxiety when I think about running though. I still associate it with my ridiculous over the top B of a drill team director and with being forced to run in 8th grade athletics. haha! I just have to remind myself that no one is making me do anything I do want to do. The diet is going very well too! I'm quite pleased with myself. I cannot tell you the last time I drank a soda. Oh wait, I had a sip of one on Monday(?) and it was kind of gross. I am still kicking myself for ever starting sodas and fried food again! I had lost so much weight a few years ago, and I just put it all back on. Oh well, live and learn. This time it's coming off for good! *fingers crossed*

We're getting in shape! Taylor & I are both ready to get back to our super-hot-bods (lol) that we had a just a couple of years ago! During his time in the Corps at A&M Taylor became addicted to running. I, however, have NEVER been a runner, but it looks like I'm going to become one! Wish us luck as we start this journey! We both used to be very active/athletic so we're hoping it won't take TOO long to get back in the swing of things.

Taylor found a 14 week training program to get in shape. It is actually the program to get ready for Air Force basic training. I'm not so sure about the push-ups... the running is what I am most interested in. I have copied the following 14 week plan from the Lackland Air Force Base website.

We start "week 1" on Sunday!

Week 1
Complete the follwing in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
2 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
5 minute walk
1 minute jog
5 minute walk
1 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 2
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
2 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
5 minute walk
3 minute jog
5 minute walk
3 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 3
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
2 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
5 minute jog
4 minute walk
5 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 4
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
4 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
5 minute jog
4 minute walk
5 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 5
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
4 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
6 minute jog
4 minute walk
6 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 6
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
4 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
7 minute jog
4 minute walk
7 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 7
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
6 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
8 minute jog
4 minute walk
8 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 8
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
6 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
9 minute jog
4 minute walk
9 minute jog
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 9
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
4 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
13 minute run
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 10
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
4 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
15 minute run
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 11

Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
2 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
4 minute walk
17 minute run
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 12
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
2 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
1 minute walk
17 minute run
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 13
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
2 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
2 minute walk
2 minute jog
17 minute run
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

Week 14
Complete the following in one session 3-5
times a week:
5 minute stretch/warmup
2 minute situp/
pushup
intervals
3 minute jog
17 minute run
3-5
minute walk
2 minute stretch

I'm tired of coming up with titles for these posts. So, I refuse to think of them any longer!

San Antonio was awesome as usual! I am so glad Laura e-mailed me asking us to go! We were there for our friend Thomas' birthday shindig. He had no idea any of the buddies were coming. His wife Laura did a good job arranging it all.

We rolled into town about 4:30 Saturday afternoon, dropped our stuff off at the hotel, and headed to the Bartle's. We had a good time relaxing and hanging out. The boys had their celebratory cigars... no surprise there! We didn't head back to our hotel until almost 2am. We ended up hanging out with Andrew & Angie until almost 4am at the hotel though. I was EXTREMELY tired, but it was very worth it!! I am so excited to see them at the end of April when they make their way up here.

We never worked in the yard like I said we were going to. I suppose we should do that this weekend. It's starting to need it...bad. I have so much that I want to do in the flower beds. It is just the whole actually doing it thing that is the problem!

It was incredibly hard to get out of bed this morning. In case you didn't know, we have the most fabulous, comfy, wonderful, perfect bed possible. It is Vera Wang. I won it at the bridal show back in January 07. Up until then I had never won anything!! Well, it has about 12 inches of pillow top. Again, it is amazing. So basically, I just didn't want to get out of it. Ah yes, mornings like that will be great when we're working from home. Have I mentioned I'm excited about not actually having to get out of bed before 8am starting in June?! Working from home will be great. The dogs will probably love it more than we will!

Speaking of the pups, Sarge did great this weekend! He relaxed in his crate the entire drive alternating between sleeping and playing. I think he enjoyed sniffing around the various places we stopped to let him potty too. He is like Maverick & likes to explore. Maverick, Lily, and Presley were super excited to see us when we got home. I'm convinced Presley thinks we're never coming back each time we leave. It is sad, I know. She is always really excited when we get home and then jumps up on the back of the couch and curls up like all is right in her world. :) They're silly!

Well, as promised from last time...pictures!!



Taylor & all the furballs



Serious Maverick. Seriously HAIRY Maverick. (Um, T, you wanna fix that for him?)



*Disclaimer...not all of our grass looks that bad. LOL! That is in a shady spot over by the fence...for some reason the grass grows spotty in this one small area.

Andrew & Taylor & the cigars

Taylor, Andrew, and The Living Legend Thomas Bartle

Angie, Laura, and me!

A quick hello!

Just popping in to do a little updating before leaving the office for the weekend. Yay!

This weekend Taylor & I are going to be busy, busy! Tonight we're going to have dinner (on the patio hopefully) at Raphael's. Raphael's is a delish Mexican food restaurant up 380 from us. I'm really looking forward to some good food...and maybe a margarita?!

Tomorrow the work begins. It's "spring cleaning" time. Woo. As you can possibly tell, I'm not so excited about that. It needs to be done though. Of course on a daily basis we keep our house clean, but I need to do a deep clean...baseboards and all that junk. Taylor will be working in the yard. He will put down the Weed & Feed and work in our flower beds. The beds need to be re-mulched. I also want to buy a plastic border to go behind the stone border to keep the grass out. Last year the grass growing into the flower beds drove me CRAZY! It looks so trashy and it's a huge pain to pull it out.

Anywho... I'm out! I promise, pictures next post!

Lazy days

This weekend was a lazy one. Friday night we picked up some Rudy's, watched American Wedding, and went to bed at a decent time. It was very nice getting it bed knowing I had the next two days to sleep in! We slept in for sure. We didn't get up until almost 2:30 on Saturday afternoon! Um, I guess we've been working just a little hard lately...

Saturday night we went to Gilley's with Adam & Jenn to see Brandon Rhyder. It was a good time! Taylor & I had been wanting to see him in concert, and he did not dissappoint. I think we're going back on April 17th to see Mark Wills, Jeff Bates, and Trent Willmon. That'll be a good show!

We went to IHOP after the show so we didn't get home until about 3am. Because we had slept so much the night before I still got up around 10:30 this morning. We've just been taking it easy around the house. Did some laundry, cleaned up the kitchen, and played online quite a bit. Now Taylor is making dinner. I love our Sunday dinners!

I'll leave you with a few pics from Saturday night, and hopefully this week won't be too busy!

Southbound 35

I'm excited over here! We received an invitation last night to go to San Antonio the weekend of March 28th. We're going to make the trip. :) Unfortunately, we missed so much work when we had the flu and then went out of town to Atlanta right afterwards so I feel like we really shouldn't ask to take more time off right now. So, we're going to drive down early Saturday morning and come home Sunday afternoon/evening. It'll be another busy weekend, but it will be REALLY fun! I absolutely L-O-V-E San Antonio. We try to take advantage of every opportunity we can to get down that way. It'll be worth the drive!

Oh yeah!

How could I forget?!?! We added another member to our family since I last posted! We have another dog! No, we're not crazy. His name is Sarge. He's a miniature Schnauzer and is about 3 months old. He is Maverick's little shadow. He's super smart and lots of fun!

Baby Sarge (8 weeks when we first got him):

Getting bigger! (a couple of weeks ago):

I'll take some even newer ones soon!

Well, hello, there!

Ok. It's been since October since I've updated. Sheesh!! That's too long. Not real sure why I stopped. Life got busy I guess. Well, now I'm back & I'm going to make more of an effort to update often.

So much has happened in the months since I last updated. We had Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, my 24th birthday (woohoo), and lots and lots of work! Christmas was really fun this year. Taylor & I hosted Christmas Eve at our house with his family. It was really cool to be at our house, but it really was a lot of work. This coming Christmas we'll be with my family on Christmas Eve so we'll have a break in the hosting duties!

It's hard to believe that we're already 3 months into 2009. Time flies! Speaking of flying... I took my first plane trip to Atlanta a couple of weeks ago! It was an adventure to say the least. Let's see - we left Friday afternoon and flew down to Houston. We had a couple hours in Houston and we landed in Atlanta about 10:20 their time. Well, when we landed I got to experience flying through a storm. That was not exactly my idea of fun, but it wasn't terrible either. You know what was terrible? The fact that Continental Airlines left my luggage in Houston!!!!! Yes, my very first time on a plane and my luggage gets left. Fantastic. Luckily Taylor handled talking with the people in the baggage office. They wouldn't have liked me very much and probably would have left it in Houston even longer... :) They did tell Taylor that my luggage would be delivered to our hotel the next morning. I was doubtful that would actually happen, but I was proven wrong. When I woke up Saturday morning I could breathe a sigh of relief because my luggage was downstairs at the front desk.

But, wait. Why is it wrapped in a plastic bag? Normal procedure? Not so much. It was wrapped in a plastic bag because they destroyed the suitcase!! My bag was completely ruined. It was busted open at the seam leaving my favorite coat hanging out. The wheels were busted off, and it had black marks all over the front. Um, did it fall out of the plane?! You know I sure did pick up the phone right away to call the Continental claim service number. So after they got an earful they told me I would get a new bag when I went to the airport to leave.

The rest of our trip was really fun. Then it came time to go home. We were supposed to leave on Sunday afternoon, but it was snowing. Yes, snowing in Atlanta and I'm talking LOTS of snow. The entire airport pretty much shut down. Our flight was canceled. It was back to the hotel for another night and then to fly out Monday afternoon. Everything went according to plan on Monday afternoon. It was bright & sunny! We had to fly back through Houston, and we were supposed to have a 2 hour layover. You guessed it though. We were delayed from Houston!!! The plane we were flying from Houston to DFW was coming from Chicago. The weather in Chicago wasn't so good so the plane was an hour late getting to Houston. SHEESH!!

So... after all that madness we finally landed at DFW at about 10:15 Monday night. My parents were there to pick us up and take us home. Thank you again, Mom & Dad!! Even though everything happened the way it did and it was pretty stressful I definitely want to fly again. I've already got the itch to go somewhere soon!

I'm aware this is turning into a novel, but just to touch on one more thing. Work. Work has been insane. Taylor & I feel VERY blessed to have our jobs in this economy. However, not everyone has been so lucky. A couple of our co-workers were laid off a few weeks ago. It has made things very busy for T & me. On average we work through lunch and until about 6 or 6:30 each night. There are even some times when Taylor brings stuff home to do after that. Like I said, we do feel really blessed to still have our jobs. The real good news is that in late May or at the very beginning of June we will be working from home permanently! There are only 5 of us in the office now so it seemed silly to keep paying the office rent. (It's not exactly cheap!) I'm really excited about this new opportunity. I think it will be really good. We have a lot to do to get ready for two offices out of our house. I think it'll be worth the preparation though!

Anywho... that pretty much brings you all up to speed on the events of our lives lately. Now its up to me to keep current!