IM PRE-APPROVED!!!

Alright, so about a week ago (on monday may 11th) i put in a mortgage pre approval application at the credit union where i work. They told me it would be about a week before i would hear anything due to a couple other applicants ahead of me . . . so thats cool no problem there. well yesterday i get to work and i still hadn't heard anything so i called the loan department to figure out the status. then i hear that there are even more people ahead of me and that it will be a least another week. Plus once i were to get pre approved and then find a house i get told it would take 45-60 days to close. EEEEEEKKK!!!! i dont have that kind of time by the time i find the house because my lease ends at the end of July. So i called up a couple of my friends to get some different names and numbers of new places to go. Long story short i ended up getting ahold of Advanced mortgage at around noon. . . and BAM! by 4pm i was pre approved for $100,000-$110,000. now really people, that wasnt that hard! lol. mostly i chose to go a different rout due to the amount of time it would take to close on the house once i found it. So now for the fun part!!! HOUSE SHOPPING! i will keep you all posted and let you know when i find my first dream home he he he. :-)

The absence of little foot steps :-(

Today was a very sad day! okay we'll back up a couple of days or weeks even maybe. For the past few weeks my sister's dog Zoiee has been not her usual self. It started out with what we thought was an injury to her neck. The vet put her on some pain meds and she seemed to get a little better. well after the pain meds ran out it was back to the "non usual" Zoiee. This past weekend it only got worse, and she wouldnt really interact too much with the other two dogs. Then monday and tuesday of this week she deteriorated even more. My mom finally took her to the vet, for yet the 3rd or 4th time since all this started, on wednesday. Well they wanted to keep her over night cuz she was extremely dehydrated and they were going to get her some fluids started. they thought she might have a bowl obstructions due to a shadowed area in her lower tummy/intestines. The plan was that she would spend the night to get up some strenght and then they would possibly do surgery. . . sadly she didnt make it through the night. :-( I got the phone call this morning from my sister who could barely catch her breath since she was crying so hard. I cant even begin to put myself in her place. I would literally die if anything happened to reina. . . so i dont know how she is going to get over the pain. Hopefully time will help heal her, but it will be a long time before her smile returns to normal. I was also a wreck after she told me what had happened. i was pretty close with zoiee too, and i dont know how reina is going to handle it cuz they were the best of buds. I found the following poem that i thought i would share:

Memories are golden

They say memories are golden.
Well, maybe that is true.
We never wanted memories.
We only wanted you.
A million times we needed you,
A million times we cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we love you still.
In our hearts you hold a place
No one could ever fill.
If tears could build a stairway,
And hartache make a lane.
We'd walk the path to heaven,
And bring you home again.
Our family chain is broken,
And nothing seems the same.
But as god calls us one by one,
The chain will link again.

Zoiee, We love and miss you with all of our hearts. your memory will never be far from our thoughts every day! you were the spunkiest little thing i had ever met, and i am devistated that you are no longer hear with us. My only hope is that you are in a better place now, and that you are free to roam and jump with all of the other "Angel Dogs". We miss you a great deal down here, but we know you are no longer suffering and you are free of any pain you were in. please continue to be by mady's side and give her what comfort you can. we will always love you.

kiss the ground you walk on. . .

this was the theme for how mady got asked to prom. Tyesen had been contacting me all day saturday while mady and i were in utah. him and i were planning on how to get her home and how he would surprise her. Thats where i came into the plan. . . i had to let him know how far we were from poky so he could light the candles and hide in the closet. Then i had to get her into the house and downstairs to her room without her suspecting anything. . . i think it kinda worked. she said she thought somethin was up tho, but i dunno. lol

the lights were off in her room, and he had all the candles lit and this sign was sitting on her bed with a bowl of hershey's kisses sitting in front of it. the sign read, "i would kiss the ground you walk on if you would go to prom. . . " and then he stepped out of the closet and said "with me". it was so cute.

I absolutely adore him. he is such a sweet boy, and he is good to her. they are just good for each other. . . but i swear if he ever hurts her i will put him through a severe torture procedure!!! lol. hey what else is an older sister suppose to do. but i dont think he would ever do that.

he had the tea light candles placed everywhere in her room. it was so beautiful. the fun part was that i got to see the whole thing. when she opened her door she stopped dead in her tracks. i think it caught her by surprise a bit. who knows, she might have suspected somethin was up, but she didnt know what was up, and that was the fun part to watch. and there i stood with my camera in hand!!! im such a good sister! :-)

Her dress is really pretty too, in fact its almost exactly like mine! their prom is this saturday and once again, i will be there with my camera for when they take off to the dance! I NEED PICTURES! what can i say. and as soon as i have them i will post them. congrats tyesen and mady. you two will be the hottest couple out there!

Mady! Bust a Move would ya!?!?

okay so this past weekend i had the pleasure of taking my sister to her last dance competition for the season. Well of course i recorded all of them, but as you might know there are too many to upload here, so if you wanna check them out go to http://www.youtube.com/user/ReinaInABlueBug there you will be able to view all of her dance videos that i have uploaded. they will be in the play list titled "Mady's Dances" i know shocking huh? lol. i also took a couple of cute pictures of her and her and i together. here is one:

she is just so beautiful! she is becoming quite an amazing young woman, and i am so proud of her for that! she has no idea how much i look up to her. i love you mady and you did a wonderful job this past weekend in dance!