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!

Im a "Fender-Bender"

Alright so today was not fun at all. well it started out okay. . . and by lunch time it was doomed to be a horrible day. I was stopped at a stop light behind a green GMC Sierra Pick up truck. i had just got done having one of my sneezing fits from my allergies when the light turned green. So i did what everyone usually does. . . start to roll with the slow flow of traffic as we pick up some speed. i dont even think i was going over 5-10 mph. well right after the light turned green, i looked down to get my inhaler because i couldnt breathe from all the sneezing i had been doing. i literally looked down for MAYBE two seconds, and when i looked back up the GMC was stopped dead in his tracks right in front of me. i slammed on my breaks but it was too late. He had a hitch and that is what cause these dinky dents in my front bumper. but apparently fiberglass is now stronger than metal because i bent his metal bumper down and all i got were these two little marks. the hitch didnt even go all the way through my bumper. Now i ask you, if i hit him hard enough to bend his bumper down, wouldnt you think that i would at least have a hole to show for it??? lol. well im greatful i dont, but it makes you kinda wonder if his bumper was already previously bent down. i also thought about this because the bugs ride low, and hitches (you would think) would hit my hood not my bumper, but it didnt in this case. well who knows, all i know is it was a sucky day. but at leas both of us were okay i guess. my sister texted me shortly after it happend and said, "hey jordyn be happy, at least you didnt total your car like i did a few weeks ago." LOL. she does have a point.

Curly hair with the new color

okay so i told you all i would put up a pic of the new hair with highlights after i brought the curls back. :-) here it is. i like it better curly anyways. dont get me wrong it is pretty when its straight, but it takes forever to straighten with the flat iron so i dont like to do that too much. but here it is. i really like it still. THANKS AGAIN SONIA for doing such a great job! :-)

"COOL" shot glasses!!!

these are "COOL" shot glasses. . . LITERALLY! i got these shot glass molds last night at Bed Bath and Beyond. You simply fill the blue bottoms with water, put on the green lids which poke down in the middle of the blue bottoms (cups) and disperse some of the water out to form the glass shape, stick in the freezer, and let freeze. when they are frozen you take them out and you have ICE SHOT GLASSES! they are the coolest things! im so excited to use them, now who wants to party???? :-) im serious, im gonna have a party and use these things. i think i have made like 2 batches of 24 so far. . . LOL i know im goin over board, but i just cant get over how neat they are. he he he. so as soon as school is out i will think of a weekend and let everyone know for a PARTY AT JORDYN'S!!! we can drink and play the wii :-) kinda dangerous, but you know me, i live on the edge!

NEW HAIR COLOR!

So last night i decided i needed to get my highlights put back in my hair. . . So i called up my friend sonia who is going to school at the School of Hairstyling and asked her when i could make an appointment. She told me to just stop in today at 10am and she would do them. . . SO I DID! Then after it was done i came home and straightened it with my flat iron so that you could see the color really well. Now dont anyone worry, the curls will come back when i wet it down. I only straighten my hair once every 3 months just for kicks. Well let me know what you think, I LOVE IT! Thanks Sonia! You did an AWESOME job!

Totalled Toyota

Okay so here are the pictures of mady's totalled toyota! It wasnt as bad as i had pictured it in my head, but it is still REALLY bad! Luckily both girls were wearing their seat belts and that is probably why they are both still alive.

both air bags deployed wich was good, but the windshield was shattered. thank goodness that the front windshield stayed roughly (in pieces) together tho, but the rest of the windows were shattered out pretty much.

This is where we think that mady hit her head to make that huge gash that she had. you can see the blood on the silver plastic right above the vent. man her head must be fragile for it not to be strong enough to withstand plastic. lol. j/k.
After seeing these photos i was deffinately shocked! this just makes this situation that much more of a miracle that we have my sister still with us today. im so greatful to have her in my life still, and forever. I LOVE YOU MADY!

Me . . . Irritated . . . Again!

Okay. . . So. . . im angry again!!! Or i guess angry is a pretty strong word, you could say i was irritated again. . . ya that sounds better. So my parents got in a big blow up about Mady's new car. Ya, i know, shocker huh??? My dad feels like my mother rushed into things and he was upset that she didnt even wait for the totaled car to be paid off by the insurance before she went out and bought a new one. . . THATS UNDERSTANDABLE FOR HIM TO BE MAD ABOUT THAT, its crazy to do something like that. But yet she still doesnt see what she did wrong. WOW, THATS UNBELIEVABLE! So my mom had called me to tell me all this, and i decided to ask her if Mady had a job yet? . . . No Mady doesnt have a job yet. hmmmm. . . there's something wrong with this picture. But my mother's supporting argument to that answer is that "Mady is tired with dance and school". And then she told me that i didnt have too much room to talk because she helps me A LITTLE bit with my rent each month. Okay so i can see her point with that. Yes, im guilty of her helping me, but she's the one that wouldnt let me move so that i wouldnt have to have her help. She also told me that she would never hold that over my head. . . well i guess she lied. I am just irritated because my mom has always told us (mady and i) that she didnt want to favor one over the other. . . well guess what. . . SHE IS! I had my car paid off 1 month before my mother ever started helping me with my rent, and I get exhausted with work and school. But i was never allowed, nor would i have wanted to or felt right being allowed to, let my parents pay for stuff and me sit back with no job and rest because i was too tired to work to pay for my own car. Like i said in a previous post i wasnt even allowed to think about purchasing a car until i had a full time job, and i've kept one for 7 years straight now. It just irritates me (1) that my mother still doesnt know how her approach to solving this problem was wrong, and (2) that mady is now probably gonna be allowed to have this new car and not be responsible for the payments. All i know is im gonna either get a second job, put my stuff in storage and live in my car, or build me a cardboard box to live in, but im not gonna let my mother pay anymore of my rent cuz i wont have that held over my head!