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There hasn't been much going on with me the last few months.. seriously! I lost my job in the beginning of October.. and still have not had any luck finding a new one. So I get to hang out with my love Richie, and our new little guy, Cowboy, all day long! Pretty lucky huh?!

Cowboy

We got him the day after Thanksgiving. His mama is a black lab, and his daddy is a border collie. He has been such an awesome little guy! He has been very good at training, and listening, and we love having him around! He weighed about 10 lbs when we got him at 8 weeks old. He is now about 17 weeks, and weighs about 30 lbs! We can't believe it! He loves to snuggle between us on the bed, but knows that when we go to bed for good that he has to retreat to his kennel, such a good boy!

School

I just started the spring semester a couple weeks ago here at Folsom Lake College. I got a late registration date so the classes I wanted to take were already filled. I got stuck taking Pottery, and The History of Film. Both have been pretty fun so far. I guess this will be a pretty easy semester!

Overcome Fitness

About mid December Richie signed us up for a new gym that recently opened here called Overcome Fitness. Its a pretty cool little gym that offers many different boxing, ju jitsu, mma, and cardio classes. They also have group personal training sessions too. With our membership I got 6 free one on one personal training sessions, and those have really kicked my butt.. but also they have showed me how to kick up my workout routine to get the best results. It's been hard getting back into the gym after so many months of skipping out! But I'm really glad to be getting back into it! I gotta start now so that I can look ok in a bikini this summer!

Mama & Magoo

A few days before Thanksgiving my mom and magoo (my step dad) called and surprised us by informing us she had moved back to Cali after living in Texas for the last 5 or so years! She lives about 2 hours away from us now so I dont get to see her too often, but I really love having her just a few hours away! Its better than having her a few days away!!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was awesome! The whole family was here (except for my dads family). Shannon and Eli drove out from Salt Lake the day before and stayed the whole weekend. Our meal was amazing! Richie barbeques our turkey on our bbq grill. It was the best turkey that any of us had ever had! Yum! It was just a relaxing weekend with the people I love the most! I tried to post pics, but blogger has the worst picture uploader ever! I'm gonna do another post that just has pics from our Thanksgiving.

I hope everyone is having a great 2010 so far! I hope to be working within the next month sometime! I really hope I can find something! Wish me luck! :)

Tough Times Makes Us Stronger People!

I love this season. It is my favorite. However.. I feel like I cant enjoy it as much cause so many other things aren't going my way. I lost my job last Friday, due to the position being eliminated. I wasn't happy at the job anyways.. but it's never fun to lose a job with nothing else lined up already. I've spent the last week searching, applying, hoping for ANY job to come along. I'm not being picky right now! I just want anything that will put some money in my pocket. Hopefully I hear back from at least some of the 30 jobs I've applied for in the past week.

On another note, I dropped my laptop a few nights ago, on the hard wood floor.. three steps forward and I would have been in the carpeted bedroom.. but nope.. it hit hard wood. It hit the floor and I screamed an obscenity, picked it up, put the battery back in and it booted right up! Thank goodness.. however when the screen lit up I saw the damage. My LCD is a little messy looking in the right hard corner. It has gotten a little better over time, but it is still ugly. At least the computer still works and I can see everything on the screen. Then on Sunday morning my external hard drive decided that it doesn't want to work anymore.. it keeps telling me that I need to format it to fix the partition. WTH??.. I will not format my 800 gigs of personal photos, my whole music library, and hundreds of movies! I have the product replacement on it, so I need to find someone that can take all the info off of it, and transfer it to a new hard drive. This is all stuff that I don't really have the funds to get fixed right away. Yikes!

Mine and Richie's birthdays were last week, he is 29 now, and I am 24. I really cant believe I'm 24 already! It was also our 4 Year Anniversary. It was really hard not to be able to be with him for all of these special days. We've never been apart for them. This whole "him being away for months at a time" is such a learning experience. It has made our relationship so much stronger.. but it is the hardest thing for both of us to handle! We are each others best friend, and we would spend every waking moment together if we could. We cant wait until he gets to pack up all of his stuff from the barracks and bring it all home, to our house, so that we can get on with being a normal couple with a normal life and work schedule. November 7th is the tentative date that he will be getting to come home. So a little less than a month left until we are back in each others arms for good! I cant wait! I miss him sooo much!

Yesterday my sister, her bf Nate, my nephew Aizik, and Nate's friend Scott all went for a little hike down to the fork of the American River. It was such a beautiful day. Not to hot, but sunshine all day. It was a pretty steep hike down.. so I knew coming up was going to be much harder! :) Once we got down closer to the water, there were swarms of bugs.. it wasn't until I noticed what kind of bugs they were that I was relieved. Lady Bugs.. hundreds.. thousands of them! It was so neat! I wish I would have taken my camera.. but I always seem to forget it when I should have had it, and I have it when there aren't really any photo ops, figures. We all had lady bugs crawling all over us. In our hair, on our arms, shirts, legs. It was so crazy, kind of creepy at times.. but really neat! I had never seen that many in one place before! I hope they are still there tomorrow. I want to take Rich over there and show him. He's coming home tonight for a few days! I cant wait to see him!!

Not much else is going on around here. Just trying to stay positive and optimistic.

PS - I cant wait for Thanksgiving! My sister Shannon, and nephew Eli are coming to see us! I miss them soo much!! Plus I love Thanksgiving food! YUM!

Relocation = Check..

We made it! We are now residents of Placerville, CA. We had to get all moved on August 12th because I had an interview scheduled for the 13th. I was a little nervous cause this was the only interview that I had set up so far.. and I was so afraid that I would get here and be jobless and become delinquent on all my payments or something. Well job interview went great.. They offered me the job.. well not the job that I was originally interviewing for.. but a position on a Special Operations Team that they are building! AWESOME!! I accepted with a smile and a firm handshake and have since been "vacationing" until my start date which is tomorrow, the 25th. Hopefully all goes well and I can get settled into my new position with ease! I caught a pretty lucky break since this economy is such a mess right now! I feel so lucky and blessed!

Our house is great! So cute and colorful. We are still getting things into their places, so I'll take some pictures once we are all the way settled. Being here without Rich totally sucks! But having my sister and Aizik here is amazing! I love them to pieces!!

Now its time to get back on a schedule, routine, diet, ya know.. all that good responsible stuff! I'm feeling a little sluggish since I havent been doing the gym thing for the past 2 months.. Im ready to fix that though! All it takes is a little motivation (which is sometimes the hardest part) And determination.


ps.. I went river rafting for the first time yesterday. It was a blast! I am totally sore from all the rowing (which I know is from me being so out of shape again). I'll post more on the River Rafting trip later once I get the pics from my sis!

Miss Natalie & Jodi

Our dog Jodi is hilarious.. you blow one bubble and she goes crazy! She jumps, barks, and snaps them up, then after a few bubbles in the mouth she makes her way to her water bowl.. I can only imagine how they would make your mouth feel! Yuck!


This cute little bubble blower is Rich's little sister Natalie. She is 6 and is so cute when she wants to be ;).


I thought I'd share our fun time that we had this afternoon. Enjoy!

The Dog licked my lens.. haha

Hear Ye, Hear Ye..

Rich and I are relocating to our favorite place! Placerville, CA.





Placervile is the town that Thomas Kinkade, the famous painter grew up in, and is what alot of his paintings are based on, and his hometown gallery is located there. It really is a beautiful area.









With some of our favorite people in the whole world! April & Aizik.


I have already given my work a months notice. We already have a sweet house lined up that includes 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a landscaped yard, a garden, and a chicken coop! I am planning on making the move at the beginning of August sometime, and Rich will join us when his season of wild land fire fighting is over in October. I'm being VERY optimistic that I will be able to find a job as soon as I get there! I am so so so very excited to be able to spend this time with my great sister and my first nephew.. who is already 10 and a half!! HOLY COW.. is he really that old?!?! WOW! This summer/fall is going to be awesome! I cant wait for this great opportunity and adventure that is about to begin :)

Hume Lake

A few weekends ago I went and visited Rich where he is working for the summer in Hume Lake. It is located in Kings Canyon, which is part of the Sequoia National Forest (The biggest trees on earth!!). I'm supposed to go again this weekend for the the 4th of July, but he was called out to a fire in Yosemite today, so we dont know if he'll be back by the weekend or not.. I'm on stand by until we know for sure. Here are a few pictures of my time spent there!

Classic Kissing Picture

Being Silly

The Barracks


These are all picture from around the property of the Barracks






I got to hang out with Rich while he worked around the station, these are of him sharpening his fire tools.



I took these of Rich washing the sap off my car with the fire hose!

Workin Out

So I just started up at the gym again since my surgery. I made myself a new playlist to keep me going :) I thought I'd share my favorite tunes to run/exercise too! I hope everyone has an amazing summer! Stay Active!

Knock You Down - Keri Hilson Feat. Kanye West and Ne-Yo

Move for Me - Kaskade

Rock Me In - Britney Spears

Money Honey - Lady GaGa

Step One Two - Kaskade

Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Pump It - Black Eyed Peas

Steppin Out - Kaskade

Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas

Showdown - Pendulum

Ricochet! - Shiny Toy Guns

Back To The Start - Lily Allen

Hammerhead - The Offspring

Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna

Ready To Fall - Rise Against