Mexican Riviera Cruise 03/28 - 04/05

Here are our pictures and quick explanations of our trip for our One Year Anniversary Cruise... Hope you enjoy!!!

*Bay Club Hotel in San Diego*
We got upgraded to a suite the night we showed up!! Lucky us!!

...the view from our balcony...

...Bay Club Hotel's Restaurant view...

*The Oosterdam ship:
Holland America Cruise Lines*

...Practice Emergency Drill......Formal Night......I actually enjoyed playing giant chess...Pool Party...Towel Creatures......Leaving the Port in San Diego heading for new destinations, such as...

*Cabo San Lucas, Mexico*

"Lovers Beach" Aren't we the cutest little snorkeling couple?

How many times in your life can you say you've held a jaguar/leopard?

*Mazatlan, Mexico*

*Puerto Vallarta, Mexico*

...I got some cute sea shell earrings...

...Some crazy guy doing backflips, blindfolded into the waterfall...

He's all better!!

He looks like a little man with short puffy pants on - lol!

Lucky Day...

Today is my lucky day...
Wanna know how I know it is?
Well... here's the story...

1.) I woke up next to my husband -- I LOVE-A HIM SO STINKIN MUCH!!

2.) I woke up and was alert and ready for the day - doesn't happen much

3.) I woke up in TIME for work

4.) My boss bought me Cafe Rio (YUM) to show his appreciation for my hard work

5.) He stamped my last two lunches on my Cafe Rio card so I get the next one for FREE

6.) You know how at Cafe Rio they give you those delicious mints? Well, I got one and a half in the same package... lol. You're probably thinking to yourself right now, that's not very lucky... but how many of you can say that you got one and a half mints wrapped in the same package? HA!

7.) I don't have to work tomorrow

8.) It's snowing -- AND I'm going on a cruise where it'll be NICE and WARM

9.) Tonight I'm going shopping for the cruise

10.) I called my tanning place to see if I had any tans left, which I thought I was OUT, but guess what? Since it's my lucky day, they said I have 3 left!!

**TOLD YOU it was my lucky day!!**

Pookie's surgery

Poor little Pookie!! He's our cat for those who don't know. We let our cat out to play and potty and about a week ago, he came home with this blackish, blue blister bigger than a 50 cent piece!! I was freaking out cuz it smelled really bad and he seemed to be in a lot of pain. We didn't know what to do and talked about taking him into the vet. The next day rolls around and we let him out again after we got home from work. About an hour later we let him in and we notice he's popped his blister and puss and blood are leaking out! YUCK!! I have the most weak stomach so I get super light headed. So I call Rhiannon (my sister-in-law), who has worked for a vet's office for a few years and she told me to take him in to a vet soon cuz there's no other way for it to heal and she gave me some advice and insite. The doctor and Rhiannon both said that he must've gotten into a cat fight and a cat bit him on his shoulder (where the gross blister was) and cat's teeth are so small that the puncture closes up really fast, capturing the bacteria (from the other cat's mouth) inside his skin. Well, the bacteria grows and the puss forms building up under his skin, hence the blister, which would be really painful (as I'm sure you can imagine) and so my cat wanted to find a way to pop it to release the pressure. When we took him in, they said he needed surgery to clean out all the infection cuz it was so deep. They had to stick a draining tube in him after they got the rest of the infection out so he could heal. Today, 2-3 days after the surgery, Craig took him in to get the tube removed.
$230 later... my cat has stitches, a huge ace bandage wrapped around his body to keep him from scratching the stitches off, pain meds that make him loopy, and he's not a boy anymore. We got him neutered while he was under cuz it would be more cost effective and his testosterone is what got him into this stinkin cat fight in the first place!
ha ha! You should've seen him the first day he came home (it's mean to laugh, but it was just TOO funny not to share!) and he still had this tube in him poking out of him in two places and the doctor said he'd scratch and lick it so we'd have to find a way to prevent that. We cut the bottom of one of Craig's old shirts to wrap around him. He looked so funny! He had his two front arms stickin out to the sides cuz it was a little tight so it wouldn't fall and the doctor had put a cone on his head so he couldn't lick himself which was pushing his whiskers forward so his equilibrium was all messed up and he kept backing into the wall and doing the moonwalk! ha ha! I just couldn't help but laugh. Then, later that night i cried cuz he was too. Sad sad!

New life

Craig and I moved to Syracuse (west of Layton) and moved from one basement apartment to the next. We just can't see ourselves living in a normal apartment complex right now. We've been extremely blessed to first live in the basement of a wonderful landlord named Heather Archuleta. Our first place was in Sugarhouse about 19th S and 19th E. Craig lived there 3 months before we were married and then I moved in. But after a year of Craig living there and my 9 months there, we decided it was time to move cuz the walls to that place seemed to shrink! So we moved into a bigger, better lit basement in Syracuse of the coolest landlords, Matt and Jaime Merrill. They have three super cute kids and the CUTEST dog (he's a lab - my favorite!!).
About 5 weeks ago, I took a job offer to work for Big-D Construction, and started work about 3 weeks ago. Instead of being a receptionist and answers hundreds of calls a day, I'm a project assistant for a great project managment team. I decided to leave Perry Olsen Drywall due to many reasons, but mostly because I get better benefits, make more money and have all the room in the world to grow in the company. Since starting there I have really enjoyed my job and love the many, many people I work with! Everyone is SOOO nice!

Getting started

Hello! Welcome to my blog!!
My dear friend, Sara O. got me into this so if anything goes wrong I'm going after her! lol. JK Sara! You're a doll!
Anywho, I really wanted to start this cuz I hear all this stuff about everyone doing these and loving them, so I figured I'd give it a shot and see if I keep up on this.
Any ideas on what I should write about?