Row Row Row Your Boat. . .

well my dad returned home from boise from a business trip on wednesday evening. when i stopped up at the parents to get my dog he asked me if i wanted to see a "pretty shocking picture"? so i said sure what the hell, not really thinkin anything of it. . . well i was completely caught off guard when he pulled up these pictures of him rafting down a river. HE NEVER DOES ANYTHING OUT DOORS!!! lol. WAY TO GO DAD! Im so proud of you for letting your adventurous side show. His boss had secretly planned this excursion for the end of their business trip and it was a surprise to all of them as well. My dad was a bit leery at first, but decided to go along with it and he said he was glad he did.

He is the one int he Yellow shirt.

I guess they had just passed a BIG rock in this one.

faster dad faster! you need to row faster!

Hang on for your life dad!

O crap here comes the water. . .

PADDLES UP!!!

HOUSE UPDATE!!!

okay so here it is. . . or at least this is what im planning to move into the middle of september provided nothing goes wrong. i finally found a house, YAY, and im so excited about it. its 4 beds 2 baths with a possibility of a 5th bedroom too. 1728 sq feet on .22 acres. the back yard is fully fenced for my dog, but i have a lot of work to do back there because it has been vacant for a while so there are probably a million weeds. no worries tho thats not too difficult to fix. it has a 1 car attached garage and my car will actually be able to be parked into it. i say this because right now at my current apt i do have a garage but my pool table air hockey and fooze ball table are in it. with this new house i have an upstairs living room and a downstairs family room. i plan to make the downstairs family room into the game room and that way my car will finally be able to be tucked in at night all safe and sound. :-) well i'll keep you all posted but im pretty sure its a done deal. i dont plan on backing out. lol. this week i have to start scraping paint so i can paint the exterior, its one of the FHA lender requirements for the loan to be approved. we are getting a cash allowance for the cost of paint so all we have to do is put in the time and labor. wish me luck, im thinkin it might be harder than i originally thought. lol.

ITS ON ITS WAY!!!

I ordered my laptop today!!! im so excited to finally have a computer again. the preliminary ship date is 8/14/2009 so it should be here by the 20th hopefully. these next 20 days are going to be the longest days of my life it feels like, but i cant wait to finally have a working computer. then i will be able to update this blog thing more regularly. only bad thing is now i have to figure out how to get all my stuff recovered from my old laptop to transfer to the new one. i know a couple people that might be willing to, so we'll see. well i will be back to blogging in 20 days. . . the countdown has begun!!!

Why. . .

does everything have to happen at once??? So here i am in the middle of trying to find a house and working on saving every bit of money i can to put towards it, and i now have had other things come up. First off i learn that i am going to have to have new back brakes and rotors which will be about $200. Second i find out that i need new tie rod ends on my two front wheels so that the car can be properly aligned, and both of those for parts and labor will cost total about $400. Third, this past sunday my computer decides to stop working. It just wont turn on, and through a couple of different calls and contacts i learned that it was the motherboard that had gone bad. This problem is by far the most expensive to fix at a total of about $500. Hell for that price you can get a new computer, but then i run into more problems. I have always been one to believe if your gonna buy something then buy what you want, and what i want (new computer wise) is like 1200. But i think its still worth it to just buy a new computer because mine is 6 years old and runs like a dinosaur!!! Im just tired of every thing happening at once and right when you dont need it to. grrrrrrrrrrrr

Starting From Scratch. . .

okay so, about this house thing. . . yeah. . . um. . . NO DEAL! i have withdrawn my offer on my house and am now going to be starting this whole looking-offering-accepting-buying process all over again. :-( First off i ran into issues with my down payment and other funding that i needed to come up with. My dad was getting a home equity line of credit and was going to gift me the money for what i needed and i would just pay him back. All was going as planned until last thursday he got told he had been Dis Approved after being approved only due to the fact that his house sits on 2 lots. . . WHAT THE HELL?!?! that doesnt make any sense at all because the increased lot size should only increase the value of the home. I immediately called my realtor and told her and the mortgage loan officer that i was working with about what had happened, and i said i couldnt go through with it cuz i now had no down payment and didnt know how long it ws going to take for the city to come out and remeasure their lot as 1 big lot for the line of credit to be able to go through. At that point i thought that the contract had been terminated based on my inability to meet my financial requirements. . . i guess i thought wrong (even though i told her i was not able to follow through with the purchase and the inspection and everything else had been cancelled at that time.) So yesterday when my dad got good news that he had been approved through a different financial institution for his home equity line of credit i called my realtor and asked what we had to do now and if i needed to put in another offer on the house. She said no and that i was still set to close on the 26th. . . (again) WHAT THE HELL??? i havent even given notice at my appartment and cant afford a mortgage payment AND a rent payment in the same month. Then i also found out that since rates had gone up and i had not been locked in at a lower rate that my house payment was now up to almost $850/mo. NO!!! I REFUSE!!! Also it was past the deadline to have the home inspection done and count towards the purchase of the house, and so if i still chose to have one done then no matter the outcome i would still be obligated to buy the house. this made me mad as i didnt know what the outcome would be and i didnt wanna get locked into a house if it had a lot of problems. so i withdrew my offer and im now starting from scratch :-(

New Little Sophie!!!

Here she is!!! this is Sophie, mady's new little pug. she is the cutest, most playful, spunkiest thing you will ever meet. in the top photo she was about 4 weeks old, and in the bottom photo about 3 weeks. i guess pug moms arent very good at taking care of their babies so mady got to take her home early. she is now off of the baby rice cereal and milk and eating soft puppy food. she is so funny just to watch when she plays cuz she will head butt things. she also likes to pounce when she is playing. i miss the puppy days, and seeing sophie only makes me want another puppy, but i have to wait til i get my house before i can get another dog. i would really like a lab or another german shepherd. o well we'll see what happens down the road. welcome to our family Sophie, you are helping to heal a broken spot in mady's heart, but zoiee will never be forgotten.

Mady and Tyesen headin to the prom!

i know im late gettn these pics up, but here they are. Tyesen and Mady went to highland's prom together, and at first they had a good time but the didnt end too well. :-( but everything is okay, it was just the group that they went with that caused stress for everyone. I also think that mady was still struggling with loosing her dog that week so she was a bit on edge.
it was really cute tho what mady told me what tyesen had said. "im sorry mady, i told you this was a rough draft and that i wasnt very good at these things. Next year will be better i promise!" he is really a great guy and i hope they are together forever. i already treat him like family and so does my mom and dad. I think he even considers himself as part of our family.

Mady's dress was almost exactly like mine from when i went to prom. she was so beautiful and i got to help her POOF her hair. lol. im sorry that you didnt have the night of your life mady, but dont worry there will be more proms for you to go to. :-) love you tons.

So much to catch ya'll up on. . .

Okay. . . Where to start. . . first off, mady had an okay time at prom. her night didnt go as planned but her and tyesen are still doing great. he's such a great guy and he treats her well, and im glad that they are there for one another. I took some pics and i will post them later tonight or hopefully by this weekend at the latest. Second off, Mady got a new little pug!!! She is so adorable, and her name is Sophie. Right now she is only 4 weeks old, but we had to take her because the momma pug wouldnt feed the pups anymore. The lady that was selling them had started feeding the puppies just baby formula and baby rice cereal, so we took the little thing and started feeding her the same stuff. She's doing really good, and again i have pics of her that i will get posted by this weekend at the latest. Lastly, I PUT AN OFFER IN ON A HOUSE!!!! :-) i am waiting to hear back on my offer, but as soon as i know if i have a house or not i will post it!!! well i think thats the short "sum up" of what has happened in the last 2 weeks, but if i've left something out i'll fill ya'll in on it later. :-)

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.