Show us where you live Friday

It's Friday! Show us where you live Friday! This week is bathrooms. I didn't really want to show my bathrooms this week because they aren't the cutest, but I will show you what I found in my shower! Birdie! For some reason she loves it here. When we let her inside she runs straight to the shower and lays down. We aren't sure if there is something wrong with her or not but her obsession with water is a little strange. She likes for us to turn on the shower so she can get wet. Whenever she goes missing inside we know where to look. Hope you have a great weekend! See you next time!

My Chocolate Children

Well it's Friday and I have nothing of importance to blog about, I'm just ready to sleep in tomorrow especially after an hour of hell Cardio Boot Camp. (yeah! I learned how to use the strikethrough font!) I can't feel my body and I'm pretty sure I sweat enough last night to fill a small swimming pool. I've had a long week and am ready to rest. By the way, do you know how embarrassing it is to go to the eye doctor because you think your vision has changed only to have the Dr. tell you you have your contacts in the wrong eyes? I do!

Those of you who read my blog know how in love I am with my Chocolate Children. Birdie turned four months old last weekend so I thought I'd post some pictures of her and Banjo as they have aged.

This is Banjo at 12 weeks old. Sean surprised me one day and brought him home with a cute little blue bandanna tied around his neck. I fell in love instantly. Sean had already picked out the name Banjo Bojangles in case you are wondering why anyone would name a dog that cute something that ugly unusual.
Here is Birdie at 12 weeks. A bit smaller than Banjo was. This picture makes me cry. I wish they would stay that sweet and small forever! (But learn how to potty outside) Because she was probably the prettiest puppy we had ever seen, we named her Pretty Bird, which is what mom used to say to me when I was a baby when we saw birds, which is probably why my first real word was "bird."

This is Birdie at 14 weeks. Notice she's about the same size as Banjo was at 12 weeks. Check out how much Sean has changed...wow.
This is Banjo at 4 months old. Around the same age as Birdie is right now. He was so much calmer than she is.


Here's Birdie now in the same seat! They like to ride in my car. (See here & here) I finally found a seat protector at Cabela's for the back bench seat. I love it! It covers great and is the same color as my seats. It's also waterproof. Too bad they don't make one for bucket seats.
Here's Banjo now. He weighs in at about 80 pounds. Notice the toy he has. It's a duck head. I ran over his favorite stuffed duck with the lawn mower so now he just carries around the thing's head, it's a little disturbing. I'll have to buy him another duck. This is duck #2. Duck #1 got the stuffing torn out of him and was just a limp piece of fabric...nice. I'm pretty sure it's unhealthy to love your puppies this much!

One Down

A year ago today I was sitting in Aruba enjoying my honeymoon. Actually, a year ago today I wasn't enjoying my honeymoon because Sean went missing. You can read about that here. It really seems like the longest year of my life. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I've heard people say that the first year of marriage is the hardest. I've also heard the first year of marriage is the easiest. I don't have any other years of marriage to compare my first year to but let me tell you it was pretty darn hard. We went through a lot of ups and downs: From moving to a rent house infested with fleas (and then having to move out a month later), to living with his parents for six months, to finally getting our own home.
Sean moved home from Houston to Arkansas right before we got married. In Houston, he had a great job and made great money. He moved because I hated it there. We had trouble finding him a job back home. We finally found one a few months into our marriage and now at one year of marriage we're job hunting again.
We've raised and trained one dog and are working on another. We've made a beautiful home together. We've been to one million and three rodeos and spent countless hours in the practice pen. We've been apart a lot of the times due to S having to travel with his job. We've fought like crazy and we've had some of the best times of my life. The first half of our year was rough. When two stubborn, selfish, hardheaded people try to live together it doesn't work very well. We've learned a lot about our selves and a lot about each other. We've both learned what the word compromise truly means. We've both learned what it means to love someone. I don't know what tomorrow brings for Sean and me. But I know God has an amazing plan for us. I can look back at the past year and see that some of those things that I thought were so horrible at the time worked out pretty great. I can also look back at my life before Sean and see how God prepared me for marriage to Sean. It excites me to actually see Gods work in progress.
I'm very thankful to have married my best friend.. He teaches me a lot and I'd like to think I teach him a lot. One thing I've learned from Sean is to take life day by day. God can end our lives at any moment.

So, a big pat on my back to me and Sean to making it one year! I don't know what tomorrow brings, I'm just gonna get through today!

One down, many more to go!

Praise Hiim

Well It's been awhile since I last posted and a lot has happened. I could talk about a lot of things like..

• How I got so sunburned on Saturday at the Lake that I still can't wear pants. (skirts only)
• How Adam Lambert admitted he's gay. (shocker)
• How I decided to use my camera money to buy my Husband a really nice Grill for our first anniversary.
• That Birdie turned 4 months old and is growing by leaps and bounds.
• How Dad is donating a filly to Rance's Benefit Auction that I am helping halter break.
• Or how I got stuck crawling through a gate in a skirt and unknowingly gave the world a peak at my undies.

..but I guess I'll just leave those things for the rest of the week and talk about something else today.

Today I wanted to take the time and tell everyone how much God has blessed me in my life. Although I've been through a lot of tough times lately, God as seen me through all of it. If you will just open your heart and your mind to Him, he will keep you safe, humble, and happy at all times. I'd like to ask whoever is reading this to stop and praise God for all the things he's given you. I'd also like for you to keep in mind a couple prayer requests. I've been praying for Sean for awhile because he hates his job and is very miserable. Monday he was one of the many who were laid off due to lack of work. Please pray that he finds a job that he will be happy with. I'm looking at this lay off as an answer to a prayer, now if Sean can just find a job he's happy with!

Also, I have a few family members who are going though some trying times. One of my cousins just lost her husband to a long battle with colon cancer and they have two kids, and Sean's grandpa could possible have lymphoma, again. If you get down on yourself this week, just remember all the wonderful things God has blessed us with. Just being alive is a miracle in itself!

I'm especially thankful for moments as peaceful and as beautiful as this...