Best day of my life

Well besides my wedding day, I guess. My mom is the BEST. She took me and my sisters to Las Vegas in July for a super quick weekend so that I could fulfill my dream of seeing Celine Dion in concert. My sister Cristina moved at the beginning of August to Texas because she is getting her PhD in Accounting at Texas Tech (can you say nerd?), so this was our last chance to have an all girls' weekend for a loooong time. Any of my Vegas peeps, don't be offended. I was there for only 36 hours and it was kind of dedicated to only family time. My mom is a super crazy and she woke up at 3:30 AM the day we left. We were on the road by 4AM and we were in Vegas by noon since we gained an hour. We shopped, ate (obviously, look at my picture. I need to lose some weight stat), had a blast on the strip, and even gambled a little bit (my sweet 80 year old grandpa always gives us $20 to gamble with when we go to Vegas. I never win, so the moral of the story is for any of my YW that read my blog is that gambling is bad....very bad).

Celine Dion was AMAZING!! I can't even explain how much fun it was. It was just my mom and I that went to the concert, and it was kind of emotional for me. I cried, yeah I did. The lady next to me was from Quebec, and she had saved up for years to go to Vegas and see Celine. She was crying a little bit, so I did too. I was just so happy. I was totally bonding with the lady next to me, until she kept looking in her binonculars and telling me how gorgeous Celine looked up close. Hello? Let me use them! I never asked, but I'm still mad at her for not sharing.

Loved every minute of this trip with my mom and sisters. It's crazy to think that I lived away from home for 5 years while I was in school. It's so nice to be back and get to do fun stuff like this with my fam.

Guess who's back?

Per request of multiple individuals (I didn’t even think people read my blog, but I guess you do), this is my first blog post in almost 2 months. Whoops. I guess I just forget to take pictures and that sort of stuff. Which, I did. AND we only have a fancy schmancy camera now because both of our normal ones are broken, and it’s kind of weird to bust out a big camera to take a snapshot at a restaurant. My phone camera sucks, and Dylan busted his phone (which is touchscreen now and doesn’t work at all. Literally cracked every little part of the screen and now it looks like a spider web is on it permanently) when we went to Cliff’s (Amusement park in Albuquerque). So, I may be a loser when it comes to blogging, but I’ll work on it.

So, first and foremost, an update of what’s going on in our lives. Dylan is applying to Medical Schools right now (and still considering Podiatry). We were banking on UNM for the past 2 years, but some stupid advisor at UNM steered Dylan wrong, and he wouldn’t be able to graduate until after summer school this year. UNM Med school starts in July, so that won’t work because he HAS to be finished with all classes before the start date of Med School. We are torn right now between deferring another year (I do NOT want to do that) while Dylan could just work and then start UNM in Fall of 2013. It seems like too far off to me, and though I’d love to stay here, I just am not sure we are willing to wait another year. We’re still seeing what can happen on that end, plus he has to get in to UNM to even go down that road. So, more than likely we are moving in the next year. There are some pretty cool options, Tennessee, Arizona, Miami, NEW YORK CITY, and even lovely Iowa. We’ll see where this adventure takes us, but no matter what, I know we’ll be fine. I’m not happy about moving, well unless we move to NYC, then I’ll be one happy girl J

Other than that, I’m still working and Dylan is at school. The new job is fantastic. Love my life, can’t even describe it. I go home every day for lunch to eat and play with Barkley, it only takes me 5 minutes to get to and from work, and I get every other Friday off. It is the most amazing thing ever to have so many 3 day weekends. I can’t even describe how nice it is. Part of my job is event planning for the technologists that I work with (Party Planning to the max), so last week I got to go to Santa Fe to look at hotels. For work. Really? It's amazing. We’ve been doing a lot of studying for the MCAT lately, which leads to me painting rooms and buying things we don’t need. (pictures of the paint job will be up shortly).

For now, these next pictures will have to hold you over. One Sunday afternoon when Dylan and I were coming home from church, we noticed a bird was just sitting in our front yard on top of a bunch of pine needles (which we get letters from our HOA to clean up ALL the time). The bird would not move, she was just sitting there. So, I threw a rock at her. She flew away super fast, and then we saw that she was sitting on 2 little baby birds. She didn’t even make a nest. We are so lazy at yard work, that she just used the pine needles that were laying around to make her little home. So, we had a little mama bird with her babies living in our yard for a week or so. They never got big enough to fly away because our stupid neighbors called Animal Control to come pick them up. It may not have been the most sanitary thing for us to be out there playing with the birds all the time, but it was our yard, so they had no business turning us in. Either they turned us in, or they stole the birds to make soup (not to be offensive, but they are Korean).