Our New Addition

Two weeks ago, we decided to add a member to our little family, and bought another chihuahua. We had been thinking about getting another one for quite some time, and so we decided it was a good time to get one, since Devin had a couple weeks off in between his first semester ending and starting his summer job. Devin got a job as a tomography tech assistant at Del Webb hospital, and will be starting in a couple days. He's excited to get more experience working in a hospital while he's in nursing school.

Here are some pictures of our new puppy Riley:

Max was already getting really big, but now that we have a tiny puppy to compare him too, he looks like a GIANT!!! He loves having a friend to play with though. Well, most of the time, when he isn't super jealous. I forgot how much work puppies can be, and he sure has been keeping us awake, but we still love him. haha. His personality is WAY different than Max's. He's way way way way way more hyper and playful, chews on everything in sight, and is REALLY tough for a 8 week old. We were thinking about calling him boxer, because if you hold him, he bats his paws at you like hes trying to box you. But, some good things about his personality being different are: he doesn't whine during care rides AT ALL, doesnt whine all the time, and he loves his kennel. Max was pretty much opposite as a puppy. Sometimes when we cant find Riley, we look around and find he walked into his kennel by himself. He learned to do it by himself after about 1 day.


As for what else is new with us, I havent read any of the books I posted about yet, and havent been working out for the past 3 or so weeks either. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into exercising more, and reading too soon. Devin has been running alot, trying to train for the upcoming PF Changs marathon later this year.

Another thing thats happened soon is; I had to get an Electromyography(EMG) done to figure out whats wrong with my foot. First I was referred to a podiatrist, who then referred me to a neurologist to see if I had a nerve problem in my leg or lower back possibly. I had NOOOOOO idea what I was getting my self into when going in to get the EMG done. Im sure everyone has shocked them self before. Well, imagine that, only 10 thousand times stronger over and over and over. Kind of like electrocuting yourself on purpose. I seriously HATE shocking myself, so it was PURE TORTURE for me. Then, halfway through getting shocked to death the neurologist told me he was gonna stick NEEDLES into my muscles to listen to them. I thought "YOU'RE KIDDING ME RIGHT?!?!?!?!". I absolutely HATE needles. He wasn't kidding. I'm sure there are MUCH worse medical procedures that i could have had to possibly go through, but thats one i REALLY hope i don't have to do again. So, it ended up I don't have a nerve problem after all, and my foot problem is probably a neuroma. Heres a picture that explains what that is:



A neuroma is a thickening of nerve tissue that may develop in various parts of the body. The most common neuroma in the foot is a Morton's neuroma, which occurs at the base of the third and fourth toes. It is sometimes referred to as an intermetatarsal neuroma. "Intermetatarsal" describes its location - in the ball of the foot between the metatarsal bones (the bones extending from the toes to the midfoot). Neuromas may also occur in other locations in the foot.

WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE??

I looked at my blog page today, and realized how long its been since Ive posted, so i decided I should post again. I dont have anything really exciting to post about, but I thought I'd post anyway.

This year has passed by really quickly so far. I cant believe its already MAY!!!! Devin is pretty much done with his first semester of nursing school. Only three more semesters to go.

We STILL haven't decorated our apartment(meaning hung anything on the walls). Maybe we can finally fill up our blank white walls.

Lately Ive been working out more using work out videos, and I really enjoy using videos to work out, cause I dont have to leave my house(aparment) to go work out. These are the newest work out videos I've purchased:
This one I haven't used yet, but I bought it for only $25, which is a smoking deal in my opinion. Im really excited to use it though, since I've been really into watching biggest loser this last season, and think Jillian is a great trainer on the show, so her videos are probably cool. They might be a little cheesy though.
This video, I have used quite often, and LOVE. I would highly recommend it. There are about 12 or more workouts that are under 15 minutes(which are great when you dont have much time to work out, or just dont feel like spending alot of time on working out), and there are also about 12 workouts that are over 15 minutes. Its awesome that there are so many different workouts on one dvd. I payed like $6 including shipping for this one. I sure LOVE smoking deals. I got both these dvds on amazon. I love that website. haha.

Ive also been reading more lately. These are a couple books I've read in the past few weeks:
I've always been interested in reading about kings and queens for some reason, so I really enjoyed reading these books. I cant really say if I would recommend them to anyone else to read though. I guess it depends on what type of books you like.


Here are the books Im gonna try and read next. Their pretty lengthy books, so Im not sure If Ill finish them or not.....
(this one has more than 1200 pages!!)

TONYAS WEDDING

Last weekend we drove to St George for Tonya's(devins little sister) wedding. I'm really glad I was able to go. It was really nice for Devin and I to visit family and be at Tonyas wedding. Here are some pictures from the weekend:

Here are some pictures of the cute decorations:

Some pictures with the family:

The Bride and Groom
More with Family:
The Snowy Drive Home:

I SHOULD BE ASLEEP

I cant believe I'm awake right now. Its seriously late, and i have NO GOOD REASON to be up this late, but for some reason I feel super wide awake, and cant go to sleep, so instead I'm browsing the internet for hours randomly. Ive probably only stayed up this late maybe once or twice in my life. Its a big deal for me to stay up this late. I usually am the first person to fall asleep anywhere, doing anything.

So, I thought it was a good reason to blog, even though I realize exactly how late(or i guess early) it is and realize its almost morning, and that i REALLLLLLY need to finally force myself to sleep, but of course I'm prolonging my sleep EVEN MOREEEEE by blogging instead. Not very smart. This blog probably wont make any sense tomorrow but oh well.

So, as for whats new with me, I decided to start a 30 day pilates challenge, since I'm trying to get in better shape. Also, I'm doing it because the radio show host on the station i listen to sometimes did a 60 day bikram yoga challenge. It inspired me to do my own challenge. 60 days is too many days for me to start out with, though. Well, Devin's sisters wedding is coming up in a week, and ill be gone all weekend, so that means I'll have to do Pilates twice at least a couple of the days included in my challenge. And, its NOT easy for me to work out every single day, let alone twice a day. ANDDDDDD to top that off, I started my challenge on Tuesday, and did pilates Tuesday and Wednesday, and PLANNED on doing it yesterday and today, but i didn't end up doing it. So, I have a LOT of make up double days to do now. I'm GONNA FINISH MY CHALLENGE though!


Another thing I did this week was, I saw a couple really good movies. Lately the movies Ive been seeing end up being only so-so, and i end up feeing unsatisfied at the end of watching them. And, I expected them to be really good, which made the disappointment even worse. Well, anyway, here are the two movies I saw that I LIKED.
The first movie i saw was:

"THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL"
with Scarlett Johanssen and Natalie Portman. I wasn't expecting the storyline to be that great, or the acting, but i ended up really liking it. Its always great to go into a movie not expecting anything, and then really liking it in the end. I usually HATE Scarlett Johanssen, but I think she did a pretty good acting job in this movie. I also LOVE movies based on real history, which this movie was.


The second movie i saw was:

"DEFINITELY, MAYBE"
I also didn't expect this movie to be very good, but went against my better judgment and saw it anyway. It was a really cute story, and didn't seem like the same 'ol thing that a lot of chick flicks seem to be like these days.

SOOOOO, from now on, I'm gonna only go see movies that get bad reviews, and that i think i wont like, cause that way Ill have a pretty good chance of liking the movie. If i get my hopes up or expect the movie to be good, Ill just end up hating it. It took me 30 MINUTES TO WRITE THIS POST!!!! Now its 4 in the MORNING!!! HOLY COW!!

my newest earrings indulgence

I recently made a trip to my new local CHARLOTTE RUSSE, and purchased these lovely earrings to add to my collection:

CRANK UP THE A/C, SUMMER IS HERE!!!

Every year in arizona, especially the phoenix area, there is always a day about 3 months or so into the year, where you get the first taste of summer. Its always so sad when you realize the nice weather is gone forever, without much warning. I was outside today, and experienced the first feeling of uncomfortable summer heat, and got my first heat headache. I am NOT looking forward to the next 5 or 6 months.

IM ALIVE!!!!!

Hello Blogger WORLD.

It's been a very very very very long time.

I decided to venture back into the blogger world today, and see what i've been missing(which was a heck of a lot actually). It made me remember why ive been avoiding it in the first place. I sat down for what i thought was just a FEW MINUTES, and next thing i new 2 hours had passed.

That didnt use to bother me since I had some free time at work in between work loads and during my hour lunch break. I probably SHOULDNT have been blogging so often at work, I admit, but I was ADDICTED. Now that Ive been busy moving, starting a new job and such, I somehow broke the addiction. I still enjoy blogging though and reading other bloggers blogs's(is that a word?), so Im not gonna stay away forever, you just wont see as much of me probably.

Recently I've been spending more time reading and working out. I bought a scale a couple weeks ago, and finally found out EXACTLY how much weight ive put on since our wedding(july 29. 2006), almost 2 years ago. ALMOST 20 POUNDS!!!!!! It isnt easy to admit that on here, but im working on it so it makes it not as hard to admit. My weight used to fluctuate within a 5 pound range, and i ate pretty healthy foods, and exercised NOT REGULARLY, but still enough to keep my weight in the 5 pound range. If i ever did start gaining a little, i would just exercise for a couple weeks and eat a little healthier, and my weight would go back down(and my stomach too). But, in the past couple months, somehow I COMPLETELY stopped caring about what I ate, and how much I ate, and NEVER got any exercise.

SOOOOOOO I decided to work out at least twice a week, and finally change my diet. Not for just a couple weeks but more of a permanent lifestyle change. I bought this book:
to help me with my goal, and so far its REALLLLLLY GOOOOD. I recommend it to any one out there that wants to eat healthier, lose weight, be more healthy, or who just loves the color black and pink. That definitely swayed me in my book purchasing choice, when looking for a book to read at the bookstore.

This is what I use to help me with my workout, and I LOVE it. If you like pilates, or are thinking about trying it,and like to do it at home, this is a great dvd to try:
As for what ELSE ive been up to....I havent decorated my apartment much yet, and havent been up to anything TOO exciting, so I guess thats ANOTHER reason ive waited so long to blog, cause I didn't have anything exciting to post or any cool pictures, and I realized that I didnt have a good enough reason to have not blogged in so long. I have seen a lot of movies and read some pretty good books lately though.

Here are some of the books Ive read:

this one wasn't great, but a quick read.It was hard to read this one, since I've seen the movie, but I really liked the book anyway.

Here are some of the books I'm going to be reading:


It should take me awhile to finish all of them, since I'm a SLOWWWWWW reader, and if i get interrupted, it takes me forever to get back into the book again.


Another thing Ive been up to is watching the new season of lost.
I'm not that happy with how the season is going so far. I still keep watching it every week hoping that they'll FINALLY explain what the hecks been going on all this time on the stupid island, and my addiction is stronger than ever still. Hopefully the season gets better soon.

I also fell down a half flight of stairs at work when it was raining, and now im a LOT more careful walking up and down stairs. I got this NICE bruise from my fall, but luckily didnt break anything.

I ALSOOOO finally did my taxes,
and I am SOOOO glad I'm done with them cause they SERIOUSLY stress me out. There's no good reason why they should stress me out so bad, but for some reason, after doing my taxes, im stressed for like a WEEK. And it stinks whenever I think im getting a big refund and it doesnt turn out that way in the end.
Thishelped me out though, and helped me to stress a LITTLE less.



As for what Devins up to,
since this blog is SUPPOSED to be for BOTH of us.....
Hes been pretty busy adjusting to the hectic schedule of all of his classes and clinicals, but is enjoying being in nursing school.

This is what he usually looks like when hes not at school:

or like this:


or like this:



Sorry for the super long boring rant, but from now on I promise there will be more pictures and MAYBE more interesting blogs. Heres a cute picture of my dog max to make up for the lack of pictures: