Sophie Sarsaparilla

Here is our new girl! Half Husky half Lab. She is a sweetie! !

I can finally upload pictures! We had a school board meeting last night and we went over the calendar for next year, and Parker graduates on Patricks 17th birthday! I got instantly sad,my baby boy graduating is going to kill me!! I am finally over my strep/double ear infection :( man the older we get the harder to bounce back. I had 5 men taking such good care of me. Don wouldn't let me do a thing,i totally loved it ha! So this picture is me the day of my surgery and today. 89 pounds gone! I cannot believe the difference! ! This weekend i am taking off to olympia to smooze with the senators i am pretty important ;)

Happy 2015!

Who would of thought after the HUGE Y2K scare that we would even make it to 2015!I would say it feels weird typing 2015 but I have been writing it at work for a couple weeks now! Our night was super laid back and nice! Tina came over to pick up her puppy so she stayed the night with us. She got a sister puppy to our Sophie, such sweet babies! We toasted, ate lots of food and of course kicked her but in Sorry ha! We talked and talked and I finally went to bed at 10:15 HA! I worked almost all day yesterday so I was so tired, so my Bubba went to bed with me :)We always get invited to parties and stuff, but honestly, I would rather be home with my men, they will not be here forever and I would rather bring in every new year with them then go out and drink and party. I guess that's part of growing up?! Today, we have our snack foods and were getting ready for the Rose Bowl, Go Ducks! I have always set resolutions for the New Year, and never ever kept 1 ha! So this year I am just going to love more, understand more, be patient more, spend every minute I can with my all my men, more date nights with Don and more trips to the West Side is a must. I do need to reach my goal weight wise and I am always changing it lol, it was 160 but I may go down to 150 or even 145, just depends on how I feel when I get to each one. Mainly I want to be healthy and I think I really am! I have had some highs and lows about this last year, let me state them:


Lows:
Hated myself, low self esteem, tired all the time, grouchy, used by people, hated by family (ok, 1 family member ha)bad choices.


Highs:
My family, weight loss, starting to love myself, actually thinking I am worth something (even though Don tells me every single day) more energy, not as grouchy, helping friends who need it.

When I see this the good far out weights the bad! This is the first day of a blank book with 365 days worth of pages, start the book out great! Love, be kind, honest, compassionate and always remember, someone has it far worse then you, stop complaining!!

Happy 2015!!!

Christmas!

I cannot believe it is already Christmas Eve! Where in the heck did this year go? What a great year it was, the years only get better and better! Last week we were on the west side doing our Christmas there. Always a good time, miss my family already! Tomorrow after John gets off work my mom and him are coming for Christmas dinner. I had to work until 2 today BOOO but when I got home I made my cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, well they are still rising but look amazing! Tonight we watch Rudolph and have hot cocoa, then I will tell all the boys the story of The night before Christmas, and off to bed for them and wrapping starts for us LOL! Why oh why do we wait until Christmas Eve to wrap? I think we ask ourselves that every single year! Since they don't read my blog I can tell you that they are getting a Husky/Lab puppy for Christmas. I am not ready for a dog, I miss my Mona girl so much, so so much, but it isn't about me, its about them and they want a dog so badly! We go this weekend and pick her out, she isn't ready for her new home for another week or so but we'll go dibs her :)

I work Friday in the lab booo again, Don doesn't work and the boys are home and I have to work, it makes me sad but at least I get off at 2, whatever lol. This Christmas will NOT be a white one, first one in so many years, but I am ok with it! We have not really had any snow which I am also ok with. The weather has been amazing and I have enjoyed winter for once. The temps are suppose to drop this weekend but I still don't see snow in the forecast, we have had lots of rain, which is better than snow ha!

Well I'm off to make the frosting for my cinnamon rolls and make dinner! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

18 Days til Christmas

I cannot believe we are already half way though December! I tried to post last month about my anniversary but it wouldn't post ugh! So last month we celebrated 12 years, seems like 30 some times lol We have been so busy! Patrick had Mono and thrush super bad, so the month of November he was down. The month of December is make up work time for Patrick. Poor kid! The littles started basketball, so that is Mon, Tue, Wed and Thur each week! Plus school board meetings, work and everything else in between! We got a sciff of snow, but it melted that same day amen! We had a super long week of very cold temps, with very windy temps that took it to the -'s, it was gross! But it has been an amazing winter so far, 40 all week for a high and mid 30's for a low, that's unheard of! We had a good Thanksgiving, went to Spokane to have lunch with Don's Mom and Harold, came home and my family was here, mom, john, sister, husband and kids! We watched the Seahawks and ate. Friday we got up and went shopping, got a few stocking stuffers and a gift for my Bear, ate lunch and just had fun! Yesterday was my 2nd annual cookie/ornament exchange! It was a lot of fun! There were so many cookies, the boys were happy! Josh spent the weekend at a friends house, so its been super quiet around here :) I took Santa pictures for Christmas fest last Wednesday! Never again! I always stress they wont turn out, well they did but some times what you do free goes unappreciated and this is my last year. I have done it for 5 years I think and I'm done. We got our family pictures done on the water in Moses Lake oh I love them! Got my Christmas cards ordered and ready to go, just have to get stamps tomorrow! Next weekend I am going to pick up my Aunt and cousin in Ellensburg and head to the west side for a cookie/ornament exchange! I am SO excited! I have not been home since October and I need to go home for a couple days! I miss everyone so much! Don is always saying he will look for a job over there and we can move over, but I would hate to leave our small town and my friends and my Mom :) As long as I can go visit every month, im ok! THis week I have to work 4 days instead of 3 boo! Well I best get my laundry finished and watch some football!!

Mona

So with everything that has gone on, I completely forgot to post about our sweet puppy Mona! We have had Mona girl for 11 years and the hardest thing we ever had to decide was to put her down. I did not want her to suffer anymore, its actually selfish when pets are suffering but the owners don't put them down because they aren't ready. My girl deserved to not be in any pain. We loved her SO much and she loved us. Whenever Don would wrestle with the boys she would always bite his feet ha! All the boys would have to say is ouch, Mona help and she would jump up and start biting him, I loved it! She always let the boys lay on her and put hats or glasses on her lol! She was so wonderful! We got her when she was 4 weeks old, her litter got dumped on the side of the road we got her from the pound. I miss my girl every day! When I get home I expect her to meet me at the door, but alas nothing. Here are a few pics of my sweet girl!

This man!

So, my husband has always supported me and made sure I knew how beautiful and amazing I feel. Every morning I get a text that says how beautiful and sexy I am and how lucky he is to have me as his wife. Even when we first got married and I was SO insecure and asked him every day if he was going to leave me, for about 4 years I did this! He never got frustrated with me just hugged me and told me he loved me. So when I decided to get this surgery he was very supportive and although he was scared out of his mind he let me go, and now that I actually am liking myself and the way I look I cant even tell you what that has done for our marriage. I never really realized that my insecurity and self hating was such a big part of our marriage. We have always had such a great marriage but this was always looming over my head. So now, its a whole new level for me, for us I guess! He is such an amazing man and I am SO lucky to call him MY husband!!!!