If you love Gina....

Then you'll vote for her dog little baby Shooter. My mom, Gina, put her dog in this contest, and she needs some help. The winner of the contest gets their dogs picture posted on lottery tickets. Seeing that most of my friends are LDS, you are probably thinking you don't support the lottery, and that's ok. But, you don't have to buy any tickets or anything, so you're not really supporting any sort of gambling.

If you could, please, find it in your heart to help my dear, sweet mother. She's obsessed with this dog, really, and I know this would make her super happy.

You just have to go to this webiste:

http://contest.kob.com/engine/Votes.aspx?PageType=VOTING&contestid=24573#SubmissionDisplay

Click Register Now in the right hand corner. Then, register. Be sure to click the box at the bottom that says you don't want to receive e-mails about the lottery. You don't have to put your address or phone, just your name and make up a birthday. Heck, even make up a name, they just need a valid e-mail.

Then, you have to confirm in your e-mail that it really is you, then you can vote.

Go back to the page, and search for "Shooter". Then VOTE!!

My mom would really appreciate it. And it would probably score me some brownie points for future shopping trip sponsored by Gina.

Our fun weekend

On Friday night, Dylan and I spend a night apart. He did some guy stuff playing video games and whatnot, and I went to see WICKED with my mom and sisters. It was A-MAZ-ING! Perfect, so cute, loved it.

Then on Saturday, I made myself proud. I made some recipes from this website:
http://www.skinnytaste.com/
Holler out to all my WW peeps. This site is amazing. It has so many low point recipes that will change your life. I made a few recipes on Saturday afternoon and froze them. Yeah, I am that much of a responsible adult.

Then at night we went out with some friends to a Best Lee's (this Chinese restaurant that I thought was called Bestie's for the whole night), and went to see this movie:


Despite what other people had told me, I LOVED it. It was a little sad, but I loved all the music. I downloaded the soundtrack from iTunes as soon as we got home. Yeah, I'm a loser.

I'm still working on taking pictures more often, but look at me... I blogged 3 times in 1 week. More from me later :)

We had an Anniversay....

Oh yeah, we've been married for 2 years. On January 17. We didn't take any pictures, we didn't even do anything crazy. We celebrated early because on our actual anniversary I had already made plans to go to a friend's house for dinner, not because I didn't want to celebrate, but I just forgot. I guess that's what happens when life is busy and you've been married for 2 years. Plus, we celebrate everyday. I think I go on more dates than Jon Mayer. For real, Dylan treats me good, not just on our anniversary, but all the time.

Oh yeah, but I did get flowers. No pictures, but I did get them.

All in all, we're still happy to be married. We love being with each other, and our cute little dog Barkley. She makes us think that one day we will have kids and keep them alive:)

Happy 2 years Dyl-dog.... he doesn't read the blog, but I'm not allowed to call him that.

La Republica Dominicana

As promised, though these are a few weeks late, here are some pictures of our AMAZING vacation to the Domincan Republic. We went to Punta Cana, and no I don't know where that is geographically speaking. We had so much fun relaxing, eating, and drinking lots of pina coladas con no alcohol :) It was a well deserved vacation, and we can't wait to start planning our next trip.... which will probably be flying to various schools for med school interviews (yes, the decision has been made, and Dylan is taking the MCAT)

To see all of our pictures, stalk me on facebook, but here is a few of our faves:

Just loving our lives on the beach... and yes I wore bikinis. Don't judge me. I didn't eat carbs for a month and had to make it worth my while.
The resort had the most AMAZING restaurants. If you ate at the buffet it was so-so, actually pretty crappy. But, at night you were able to make reservations at any of the fancier restaruants (if you got there before they filled up) that had some pretty bomb food. Here we are a a Domincan style Tucanos.

Outside of the most amazing Italian food I've ever eaten. Go figure, we go to the DR for Italian food.

We went to this way funny Sea World type place, and they would only let you hold the monkeys or animals if you wanted them to take a picture with their camera. This was so they could charge you $15 for the pictures. Well, one of the shady DR guys called us behind a building and said if we tipped him he'd let us take pictures with our own cameras. So, we gave him $2 and he let us snap away.

The man put sunflower seeds on my head to make the birds come to me.. They cracked the seeds on my head and kinda hurt by scalp.

At the Denver Airport there is this art display of these way creepy statues made out of paper. apparently the lady who made it had a family member with heart disease or something. Well, she put beating hearts in all of these little creepy statues, and when I touched this old guys head, I FREAKED!!!

Just Dylan high-fiving a cracked out little girl.

All in all, we loved our lives the whole week. I almost cried on the plane ride home because it was so perfect. Best thing for our marriage, and for our sanity. ( Not that we have marital problems, but it was just sooooo fun). I highly recommend a trip to the DR, well worth every penny.

Love my life

Have you ever heard of that movie with Jonny Depp about Pirates? You know this one:

Well I'm going to a little country where they just happened to make it. We leave tomorrow, as in we're leaving the country tomorrow. We leave New Mexico at 7 PM at night and don't get in to the Dominican Republic until Saturday at 3PM. It's going to be a long day of traveling from airport to airport. If you are in Denver or Philidelphia and want to spend a 4 hour layover with us, we'd be delighted. We found Dylan's camera from his mission, so there will be pictures. We've missed out on documentation of pretty much the last 6 months of our lives due to camera malfuntions, but we're back in action. See you all in a week, with actual pictures of us, not just google images.

.25 of 100 years

This past week was the big 2-5 for me. Pretty crazy to think I am a quarter of a century old. I feel old, like in a good way. I'm a real adult now, no more "early 20's just trying to figure out life" excuses anymore. It's pretty great being 25 though, and I had a really good 9,125th day of life (not couting leap years).

My day started by going to work... blah. But it was immediately better when I got to my desk filled with baloons and flowers from my co-workers. Working in an office is like watching "The Office". I am the party planning committee though, so this was a nice suprise since I had nothing to do with the planning.

My mom and sister came to see me for lunch, and they brought me the most cherished meal ever:
If you're from Albuquerque, you get it. For me, this is like a hundred dollar steak dinner. And, a slice of cheese and green chile is only 7 points. (Holler out to all my WW people).

After work I came home to some lovely flowers and a husband who said we could do whatever I wanted for the night. I told the husband NOT to send me flowers and work, but not in a sneaky way, like "Oh, if I tell him not to, he will" I thought it was too unprofessional to have my desk crowded all day with treats and flowers, so I for real meant no. I also came home to these wonders:

This super cute lunch box for me to carry my "Big girl" lunch to work. I ahd another lunch box, but I left it in the fridge over the weekend, and the cleaning crew threw it out. My new one is like this one, but purple with red, orange, and yellow dots. And it came with some tupperware.

I got these in silver. I wore them to work on Casual Friday, and they were a hit.

And I came home to a picture of this on my laptop because I get to pick out whichever one I want. I haven't picked the one I want yet, I am waiting for the perfect moment. I don't mess around when it comes to wrist attire.

I got to pick whatever I wanted for dinner, so naturally:

Cliche? I don't care. I love this place.

Let me tell you somthing....

I don't have any reason for the title of this blog. Our nephew Brady just always says it at the beginning of very anti-climatic sentences, so I figured, why not.

Lately, life has been life. Dylan is wrapping up a sememester of summer school. Some sorts of biology classes that he loves, so I am feeling pretty good about him becoming a Dentist/Doctor. We are still up in the air on if he will take the DAT or MCAT. We are going to wait until the end of this semester to see. Not to brag, but Dylan has a pretty great GPA and he is dang smart. So, whichever decision he makes, one day we will be rich :)

I have been working like crazy, and even got to go on my first official business trip to North Carolina. It was mainly for customer visits at Duke, Wake Forest, UNC, you know just the big guys. It's weird being an adult and having a real job. It was pretty great having my company pay for all my meals, hotel, and even room service. I was living the good life. It was tiring, and I was happy to come home at the end of the week, but it was BEAUTIFUL to be back east. One day, we may live there, maybe. But work is good, and I am loving the company I work for.

Other than that, I got released from Young Women's, and called back in to be the 2nd Counselor. So, I am in charge of all the 12-13 year olds. It's pretty crazy, takes up all kinds of time, gets stressful, but is the most rewarding thing I've ever done. I love the girls, and even though most of the older ladies in the ward still confuse me for the Young Women (it's like come on, I do NOT look like I am in high school), I know this is exactly where I am supposed to be.

We don't really have any exciting news. No babies, no new dogs, no house remodeling pics. So, I will try to take more pictures in the future (camera currently broken), and will try to post them more. Just know that we look the same, have not gotten fat, and still go out a lot (we just don't take pictures).

Sunday, the day of rest, right?

I broke the Sabbath today, not bad, but I spent money. While driving home from church, I saw the same little boy selling newspapers on the corner. I felt bad because I always drive by and don't buy one. I can't help but look him in the eye. Most people just ignore him or try to look away, but not me. I look straight at him, and he stares into my poor soul. I can't say no to people, well most people. So today, I caved. I took out $2 from my wallet and gave it to him. I even let him keep the change.
I was feeling pretty good about this decision. I mean, I probably made his day, right? Then when my husband got home, he talked a little more sense into me. He asked me if I knew where that kid got those papers from. I'm thinking, yeah he has some sort of deal with the Albuquerque Journal. Husband says, no. He more than likely got them from one of the newspaper machines where you put in the $1 and then are supposed to only take 1. He probably took them all.
I basically just funded a lifetime thief. Whoops.

Happy Easter

Ok, I know this is over 2 months late, but we did celebrate Easter. We started off with a little egg hunt at my parents' house, followed by some ham. Then we had another egg hunt at Dylan's parents' house, followed by some ham. Overall, holidays=double the fun and double the pant size. With 2 families so close, it's hard to not indulge on those special days. The only problem is, there are a lot more holidays just the big ones. Now we have Mother's Day, Father's Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Black History Month, and the list goes on. Even if I gain a pant size, nothing compares to being close to family. Happy Easter everyone... in June.

Just the 3 of us...

We have an announcement to make. After much thought, prayer, and making out, we have decided to expand our family. It just seemed like the right time for us, and the timing worked out just perfect. We just moved into a little house where we have lots of room, and things couldn't be more perfect.

I know what you are thinking... WHAT??? No, we aren't pregnant! We got a dog. We aren't ready for babies, but a puppy was a good step for us. Dylan recently asked if babies don't open their eyes for the first few weeks of life (uh, no babe, that is puppies). So, naturally with those kinds of comments, we opted for a dog.

Her name is Barkley, and she is perfect. She is 1 year old (we celebrated her first birthday on March 29). She is potty trained, doesn't chew, doesn't bark, no joke, she's an angel dog. We couldn't be more lucky. I feel like these kinds of things happen to a lot of people with their first baby/dog. You have the perfect first one, so you decide to get more (or have more if it is babies). Then, you get the devil children/dogs, but since you already have 2, you better just keep going. Hence shows like "18 kids and Counting".

Here she is in all her glory and cuteness. We are currently learning tricks at Obedience School, and she is the top of the class. I will keep you updated, graduation is around the corner.