our newest family member

want to meet Hiro, hes our 8 week old chow chow puppy. we drove up to New Castle in northern England last weekend. it was about a 5 almost 6 hour drive each way (due to my slow driving because i thought my car was going to fall to pieces). we've had him for one week now and he can be a cute cuddly meatball and then he can be a monster. hes teething, so he keeps nipping at us. hes mostly potty trained, i think he pees on the floor so that hell get taken outside so he can run around. hes been playing in the yard and running around the house and we gave him a bath yesterday. we both love our little fur ball.

Whats your song? heres mine !!

I am obsessed with this song. i love it. enough said ... i need to listen to it again... and ....again.... enjoy

Skyscraper by Demi Levato

Link up and share you song of the week

Well it's Monday ...my husbands birthday is tomorrow ... I want to make him a cake but I have no sticks of butter to make frosting, sure I can run a few mins down the road to get butter but I just can't leave my little Hiro in his kennel it makes him cry and it breaks my heart, we are trying to train him. Soo is there a way to make frosting with out butter? I don't think so... What am I to do... I have everything to make a cake ... I cant have cake without frosting.

I am still in shock that we made it to New Castle and back Saturday. I have never driven a car that far before in my life. it was so wierd to think that I was all the way up in north north England. We drove the entire way on the A1(M) THE NORTH. It was fun taking a big road trip. We went to a small rural town,Durham, to pick up our new puppy. We brought him home and he's starting to fit in very well.



Since I no longer have a computer i find myself to be very bored. But I dug out one of my logic problems and have been obsessing over them. Ive almost done half the magazine. What do you do to keep your self entertained when technology fails??

I am so excited to share my video and pictures from our trip and of Hiro. I think I will post something over this weekend. The plan is to get a desktop computer... Maybe ... Doing it on this iPod will take a century. I keep dropping this thing it's just to small.

Happy Monday... !

Adventuring out to New Castle to pick up our new puppy!!!

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We are officially heading out to pick up our new puppy! We are driving from Brandon to just outside New Castle, it'll be about a 4 and a half hour drive one way but we will take two hour long breaks to let my car rest, making it six and a half hours. Our goal is to make it by 9 or 10 am Saturday. So that means we have to leave around 3am tonight to get there. i will be driving while my husband snoozes, were leaving right when he gets off work. i went to the library and checked out 2 audio books, the da Vinci Code (i have read this one years ago and i thought my husband wouldnt mind listening to that) and Stephenie Meyer's The Host, (i own this book but i just cant seem to get into it so maybe this will get me going, its about 23 hours long on CD so i wont be finishing this on our 13 hour long trip.

My car is getting really old now. its a 2000 ford focus so its starting to struggle a bit, so thats why i will be stopping every to hours for an hour or so to give him (henry aka my car) a rest. and when we get the puppy wed like to try and get him to use the bathroom.

I like to think that we are prepared. We got a cooler filled with ice, three 4 packs of monster energy drinks, sandwiches and 100 cal snack packs, tones of water bottles. We also have a carrier for hiro and some puppy pads in case of an accident. his coller and leash. a portable water bowl, water and a few chewy dog bones (although it may not be a great idea i wouldn't want him to get car sick). we also are bringing his little stuffed elephant. i have my camera for videos and pictures. i do want to try and record tid bits of our trip.

Were going up to the breeders home to pick up Hiro, he will be 7 weeks old. Hes a Purebred Chow Chow. We are so excited to finally meet and bring out our little guy. We have been getting updated photos of him since he was 3 weeks old.


well the library is closing in a few minutes (since i dint have a lap top anymore) so i must end this... enjoy the pictures of our new puppy and i look forward to sharing more :]

wish us luck on our adventure :]

Whats your song?

i have recently discovered that listening to my ipod on shuffle helps me get my cleaning done around the house. last night the song Signs by Bloc Party came on and an instant flood of excitement and sadness rushed over me. i came across this song two years ago when i was living in Wichita Falls Texas. It was always on repeat. so when i heard this song i all of a sudden was put into flash back mode. i remember the warm nights driving on the highway taking my husband back to his tech school dorms, and laying out by the pool. i miss my little 550 square foot apartment. it was my first time living out on my own so when people hear me say AHH I LOVE WICHITA FALLS they say are you crazy, but i just loved everything about it, it was sooo different from good ol Massachusetts. i find myself thinking to the past of all the good times and the times i miss. recently i have just been missing home like crazy. well, here's the song, i hope you all enjoy this one.

Bloc Party - Signs

Whats your song?? Link up with Goodnight Moon and your play list just may grow, mine has :]

What I ate Wednesday !!

This morning I had a bowl of honey nut cheerios with lactaid milk,which is my new favorite thing because the real milk has always made me sick and hard to breath and this has n o effect on me... I don't know why I havent tried it sooner. So I have been having cereal for breakfast every morning.

I forgot about lunch.

I have left over yeast rolls from the weekend. So I will have yeast rolls with dinner.

I didn't want to do too much cooking so I did chicken (frozen I admit) fried green beans and my ryan waned sweet potatoes so I cooked him two and I did a twice baked potato... My fave! I don't like sweet potatoes because the look and feel gross ... They kinda creep me out.

I made raspberry iced tea too ... Mainly because I like using my pitcher and it's yummy :)



So that's what I ate ... What about you?? Click the what I ate Wednesday picture above and link up with peas and crayons !!!!!!

Milspouse Friday Fill in

Wife of a Sailor

1. Have you (spouse) ever considered joining the military and what do you think of dual military couples? 

i don't know if i have ever considered joing the military. my husband thinks it'd be a good idea that if i cant succeed in the real world when i finish my college degree then it be a good idea to go in as an officer. sometimes i think yeah why not, but i feel like its the easy way out for me, and i know my husband would love to be a spouse because he only plans to stay in for the last year and a half of his 4 year contract. i personally know i am a wimp. i am very weak and can barley manage five push ups, so i would struggle with that. who knows what will happen. i don't know any dual military couples. but i personally don't see a problem with it. i may be a little difficult with having a family but its just like each parent having a full time job.  

   2. What is your idea of a perfect Sunday afternoon?

a perfect Sunday afternoon would defiantly be a day spent with my husband watching movies, and i love to cook a fancy meal that takes lots of preparation and time to put together, i don't know why i love to cook like that on Sundays  maybe the left overs for the week, or that's how we did it when i was growing up. Sunday dinners :]

   3. What do you usually do for the 4th of July holiday? 

i must go see fireworks. there's something about fireworks that makes me happy. i love the loud explosions, the beautiful colors, the fancy shapes (when i was a kid i would always name them, like the weeping willow because it would leave a trail of glittery-ness falling down from the sky like a weeping willow tree). back home i loved going to the parade and all our traditions. Ryan and i haven't established any kind of tradition, last year we didn't even celebrate. this year i want to check out the fireworks, but Ryan heard that there's always fights and they end up shutting it down, so i haven't decided if i wanted to go, Ryan will only be going because for me. well see.

   4. If they could make an Olympic event JUST for you that you know you’d medal in, what would it be?

id say flexibility? i used to be a cheerleader, so i can do splits and all sorts of things. i can still do a chin chin, where i pull my right foot behind/from the side and place my toes under my chin. im more flexible now, i stretch every day while i watch TV, its relaxing :]

  5. What have you been doing to get yourself bathing suit ready for the summer?

ive been trying to get to the gym. and do as much cardio as i can. im not doing as much as id like but im slowly actually getting back in shape, hopefully a beach trip and my ity bity bikini soon?