too busy

i haven't been around in awhile. if you'll notice, my last post was when we closed on our house. we've been really busy w/that ever since then. here are some highlights to hold you over:

-i've been spending my off-track time getting wallpaper off of the walls in our house.
-we've been moving stuff little by little. we're getting a u-haul soon to move the bigger stuff.
-daisy is 4 months now and weighs over 20 lbs.
-maui was great! it was a wonderful place to celebrate our 1 year wedding anniversary!
-after we got back from maui, my parents gave us back our top layer of our wedding cake. we defrosted it and ate about 1/4 of it. it tasted great!! no lie. the rest is still in the fridge. yum!!
-while in maui, mckatie called and told me she got engaged!!! congrats to her!
-since we've been back mckatie asked me to be her matron of honor! i'm really excited about that!
-on our first night in our house both dogs got out......they slide under 2 different fences. it really freaked us out. but thankfully, we found both of them. buster was a couple of houses away but daisy got really far away. we were so freakin' worried.
-on black friday (day after thanksgiving) brian and i bought our first washer and dryer. how exciting!
-i went to elana's baby shower. she's due any day now! i can't wait for her to have baby hugo!

well, for now i have to get back to my dogs and taking off wallpaper. note to everyone: don't put up wallpaper.....what a hassle.

mi casa!!

it is official.....brian and i own a home! we finally closed escrow today and own a home. now, we just have to start paying for it.....ahhhhh!!! we're going to start moving stuff tomorrow.

and then sunday morning we leave for maui!

and today i went off-track!! yippee!!

crazy busy

i've been MIA for awhile. this is such a busy time. we're still in escrow......yes....still. we're suppose to go and sign our loan documents tomorrow. and having daisy here at the house w/buster is crazy. we need the house w/the yard for them. she's a lot bigger than the photos that are posted there.....she's 18 lbs. now. compare that to buster who's about 9 or 10 lbs. she has already outgrown him. and at work we've been testing our kids like crazy and having parent conferences and doing report cards. so, its been super busy and it still is. i go off-track next wednesday (the 26th) and i can't wait. maybe when i'm off-track i'll have more time to catch up.....

in 2 days is the day some of us ladies have been waiting for.....twilight, the movie, is coming out. i already bought my ticket pre-sale last friday for this coming friday. have to make sure i get in . and this past weekend i bought my shirt that i'm going to wear. *sigh* i can't wait. yes, yes, i'm one of those people that is crazy in love w/that series. i was able to get multiple other people hooked on it as well.....including my mom, thank you very much! so, i'm really excited about that!!

i never posted pics from our halloween party.....i'll have to do that soon!!

introducing....

the newest addition to our family......we got a boxer puppy on saturday. she's adorable. she's a little over 11 weeks old now. so adorable. i got to name her since brian named buster. i named her daisy swayze (and then our last name). buster's middle name is butters (like from south park) and then our last name. we're weird like that, i know. i'll post some pics of both of them. prepare to fall in love w/both of my angels!!


this is buster. i don't know if i've ever posted a pic of him on here. he doesn't stay still too long for photos. he's a little over 3 now.


this is daisy!! so adorable!

brian holding her like a little baby. you can only hold buster like that in the morning when he first gets up.....otherwise he will squirm around. daisy doesn't mind it though.

brian already calls her "lazy daisy".

grrrrr....

this is how she fell asleep next to the couch. yes, the couch where we live now is blue. that couch is not coming to our house. imagine how disappointed i am. sike. but, back to daisy, i thought that she looked so cute/funny sleeping there like that.

so, now brian and i have 2 children. it has been craziness since saturday. we're enjoying have the 2 of them around though. we really can't wait to get into the house so they can have a real yard to run around in. speaking of the house....our estimated closing date is a week from today. hopefully that stays accurate. we'll see.

i <3 edward cullen

yes, if you know what that subject headline means you know what i've been busy doing w/my free time.....which is one of the reasons i haven't been on here typing. and if you know what it means you probably agree w/me. sigh.

i've also been busy w/work.....which seems like a mile high pile of work to do. can't wait to go off-track.

also, we're at the "end" of escrow on our "fingers-are-crossed-should-be-our-house" in fullerton. our estimated closing date is november 4th (election day) but they do call it an estimate for a reason, right? i'm not holding my breath. we've been making progress but i've trained myself that i can't get too excited until the keys are in my hand. hopefully soon!!!

i signed up for my first ever 5K in long beach on thanksgiving morning. it's called the turkey trot. gobble, gobble.

brian and i are going to maui from november 30th-december 7th to celebrate our 1 year wedding anniversary. we traded our timeshare for maui this year (like we traded last year to go to o'ahu). so no matter what happens w/the house stuff we have a vacation for sure planned for my next off-track time. and it's finally close enough to talk about.....one month and ten days away. yes!!

what else? ummm....just been doing a lot of random stuff. watched "eagle eye" w/hanna yesterday. i've been playing a lot of poker. we're having our yearly halloween party on the 31st this year. tried out a new club in anaheim called "heat".....that was pretty fun. which reminds me....anne hasn't sent me the pics from that night! i need to e-mail her.

finished a book

cheers for me! last night i was up until after midnight finishing a book entitled The Importance of Being Married (please pretend like i underlined the title....i still don't know how to do that) by Gemma Townley. yes, it's a fiction story. i just picked it up randomly at the book store when i was off-track in august b/c of the title. i also read the back and thought that it would be good. i really enjoyed it. now i have one more book that i bought on that trip to the book store. i should start that one soon. cheerio!

ESCROW BABY!!

i've been MIA.....i know. everytime i think i'm going to sit down and type, i end up checking my e-mail, or reading gossip online, or looking for my halloween costume, etc. but i want to take a moment now to tell my online world (b/c there's a lot of you) that brian and i are in escrow on a house. finally!!! we actually went into escrow 3 weeks ago.....so when i posted my last post we were in escrow but i didn't write that b/c i wanted to talk about my vacation. so, anyways, yeah we're escrow and we're trying to get through the process. i'm really happy about it but i try not to get too enthusiastic b/c we're not actually IN the house yet. once we have the keys i'll be elated beyond belief. so keep your fingers crossed along w/ours that we get through this successfully!!! i'll try to keep udates about that coming more frequently. we're using CalVet for our loan so they made us put down a 60 day escrow.....so we're about half way through what they told us. we'll see how long it really takes. :-)