New Camera!!

A little over a year ago I talked about saving for a new camera, well the time has come and I finally upgraded! I didn't get the one I wanted a year ago I got the newer version of it. I got the Sony DSLR A77. I just got it in the mail Monday night so I haven't been able to fully get out and take pictures yet with it, I have just been playing with it around the house. I'm super excited to get it out for a shoot and sport pictures to see what it's all about. So, far with just taking a few pictures around the house I LOVE this camera! The pictures on this are just amazing so I can only image what they will be like during a photo shoot or action pictures. I'm hoping this weekend I can get out and use it some and share some of the pictures with you. I will have to take both my cameras and compare the old one to the new one. Don't get me wrong I love my old camera but it was time for an upgrade, I have had that camera since 2008. It still works great and I will keep it around to use again for sure.



Stay tuned for pictures soon from this camera of a shoot or just some random stuff I take. Haha! :)

Book: The Vampire Dairies: The Return: Midnight

After finally finishing the book Shadow Souls, I have moved onto the last book in this series. I feel like it took me forever to read this last book. Let's hope it doesn't take me as long to read this last one.
After I finish this book it's time to start a new series and I'm still up in the air on which series I want to start next. I should prolly make sure I have that figured out before vacation so I can try and have a book ready to read for the plane ride and layovers. Haha!

Crawl for Cancer 2013

Going back a couple months to the beginning of June....We did Crawl for Cancer with a group of friends this year. The Crawl is usually held in Westport, but since this pub crawl was for the World Record they had to do it down at the Power & Light . I have been there once and Shane has never been so it was exciting that we got to go to 10 different bars down there. We had such a fun time doing the crawl and it was for a good cause!! We did the crawl once before a few years back and it was in Westport and we only had to do 5 bars, but since they wanted to try and break the World Record for Pub crawl we had to go to 10 different bars. But, I'm happy to say we broke the record!!! Go Kansas City, did we ever have any doubt that KC could break a record for the largest PUB crawl, LOL. 

Our gang during the crawl. Had such a fun time! Can't wait to do this again! 

 My Birthday was the day before the crawl so a friend got me a birthday shot. It was very yummy. :)

 Lots of people supporting a good cause and breaking a record.

Book: The Vampire Dairies: The Return: Shadow Souls

As I'm getting back into my routine of blogging, I thought I would start off with current book I'm reading. I have been reading this book since May. Gosh I have been trying to read this book FOREVER it seems. I have mentioned in my last book post that these book aren't holding my attention like I would like, so it's taking me a little while to get through them. I think after I finish this book I might try and move onto a new series and see if I can find a more interesting book. I would still like to finish this series but at this rate I'm never going to finish or it's going to take me a lot longer then I would like.

Figures crossed that I finish this book soon so I can start something else! I'm doing my best to keep on track and read more so I can finish, but it's so hard when you just want to nap while reading, Ugh!

Sprained Ankle = NO FUN!

I have been MIA for awhile now with blog posting.  I can't say I didn't have time or anything to post about b/c that just isn't true. But what I can say is that I haven't done much of anything these past couple weeks due to spraining my ankle. So, I have been doing very little as possible as it was hard for me to get around.

Now for the story of my sprained ankle.....

Back on April 12th we had a kickball game. This was towards the end of the game that I hurt myself and couldn't play anymore. I was trying to make a play at 2nd when someone threw the ball and it was going over my head, I thought I could get it so I jumped and when I did I came down on the base and my ankle rolled off it and I hit the ground and was done for. My ankle hurt so bad and I couldn't walk so I had to be helped off the field. No fun at all. It has been prolly since High School when I sprained my ankle last and that wasn't even that bad. This time though was horrible and I'm still trying to recover from it. Friday night when I did it I went home and iced my foot and soaked in Epsom salt then just relaxed. The next day I started slowing walking on it to make sure I could, I could but it hurt really bad. As the weekend went on my foot just kept swelling and swelling it was bad. I was taking a nap one afternoon and I woke up b/c I could just feel my foot growing that's how bad it was. I stayed off it the rest of the weekend b/c I thought maybe I over did it by walking on it and stuff. So, when Monday came and I had to go to work I couldn't even put on a flip flop so I had to wear just a sock, lucky I was on crutches so I didn't have to put my foot on the ground.  Monday afternoon we decided I should go to the Dr just to make sure nothing was broken . I went to Urgent care and when the Dr seen my foot he said he would beat something is broken in there. They did the xrays and come to find out nothing broke I just had a really BAD sprain. For the next couple weeks I kinda just hobble around and was very slow walking places. This week I finally am able to walk almost normal and it not hurt that bad. This recovery has been rough and I wish it was over and my ankle was all better. My kickball season is over but I'm hoping by Fall I will be ready to kick some butt!

This was the night I did it. Doesn't look so bad now but just wait....

 These are my toes 4 days after the sprain. My poor toes were so swollen they looked like little sausages. LOL

 This is my foot/ankle 4 days after I sprain it. I think my foot here looks like a beached whale it's so big and gross looking.

My foot/ankle are still a little swollen as of today, but I'm def doing better at walking and being able to move it and get it worked out.



Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfaill

I started this book just a few weeks ago. It's longer then the other books I have read in this series and I'm about half way done so far. This book is keeping my interest a little more but not too much. It has been pretty good so far, just not my favorite series so far. But I have been sticking with it so I can find out what happens. LOL

Nightfall



Book: The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion

I haven't been very good lately about posting when I'm reading a book. I have had a lot going on and it just keeps slipping my mind. 

When I first started reading this series I was very unsure about it....I'm still unsure about it but I keep reading on because I need to know how all this ends in the books. I guess you could say I'm hooked but I'm not as hooked as I have been in other books. I can do days without reading and be fine, but I like the books that I can't stand not to be reading b/c I need to know what happens next. LOL, if that makes any sense. :) 

I just finished Dark Reunion last week and yes I have kept going in the series. 

Round 2 of the Snow

I just posted not even a week ago about our snowstorm. We got hit with about 10 inches of snow the first round on Thurs Feb 21st and then they started calling for another storm starting Monday night the 25th. They said this storm could be worse then the first one! Really worse we didn't need more snow, we hadn't even got rid of the snow from the prior week. They kept changing the time of when the storm was going to start, when I went to bed Monday night it still wasn't snowing. I kept an opened mind with this storm b/c with the first one I thought they were making a bigger deal then what was coming but I was wrong on that front.

I woke up Tuesday morning to more SNOW! I woke Shane up and told him it was his call if he wanted to chance going to work or just working from home that day. We walked downstairs and opened the front door and he said "Ummm No we aren't going to work today". So, we both worked from home Tuesday and decided to stay in which was good b/c we couldn't even get on our road b/c of all the snow on it. We couldn't even see our street when we looked out the front door. It was just a white mess out there. So, we got about another 10 inches of snow with the 2nd storm as well. It just crazy looking outside or driving and just seeing so much snow. I don't even remember when the last time we had this much snow was. 

This is how much snow was on the arm of rocking chair outside. 

 The snow is very pretty don't get me wrong and I love taking pictures of it. But, when I have to dig my way out of the driveway and go out in it then I would prefer for it to go away. LOL 

This is our tree in the backyard.

Up close of the snow on the branches.

 The tree in the front yard. Right behind the tree is a half cul-de-sac but obviously you can't see it! 

 See told you no seeing a road or driveway. Crazy!

 This was our mountain of snow after shoveling half the driveway. This was from the first storm and this one. It's never going to melt! LOL 

They didn't come clear our road till about 8:00 pm that night, it's a good thing they did our we could have got stuck again on the road going to work the next day. 

We got our snow this winter now I'm ready for it to melt and bring on Spring!! 

Book: The Vampire Diaries: The Fury

I just realized that I'm almost done with book 3 and I never posted that I was reading it. Oops..Well here is the post now. I started reading this book in the middle of February and I just have a few pages left to go.

I'm slowing starting to enjoy these books but it's still hard for since I watch the show and these don't follow it, that makes it's hard but I'm getting there. Hopefully by today or tomorrow I will start on book 4.

The Fury





Who Called For Snow????

How did everyone like ALL that snow we got last week??!! I can't believe we really got 10 inches of snow, that's just crazy!! I really thought everyone was making a big deal over nothing and we would just get a little snow, but they showed me now. 

We did brave going to work Thurs and Fri. Thursday they decided to let us leave at 11:15 AM, but I had to wait till Shane got off before leaving since we ride together to work, but we still left at 1:00 PM so it was done snowing when we left. It still took us an hour to get home since the highways were a mess and pretty much closed. We did fine getting home until we turned on our street and we ended up getting stuck twice. Then we had to shovel our way up the driveway to park in the garage, now that was fun. NOT! I did help Shane out and it was a workout for me. Saturday afternoon I finished shoveling the other half of the driveway since we were having my family over Sunday they needed somewhere to park. :)

When we got home Thursday I opened the back door and this was the snow by it. 

 It's pretty out there but way too much, LOL

 This is how much snow was standing on our deck. It's just crazy. 

 View from the front door down our street. All you see is white!

 Poor Kira didn't know what to think she couldn't run in the back yard b/c she would get lost as she fell through the snow. :(

 I thought this was pretty cool how the snow piled up on our deck stairs. 

Now that we survived round 1 of the snow...Who's ready to begin round 2. I'm not sure I like all this snow. Maybe I would like it more if I didn't have to get our in it and shovel and drive in this mess. Haha! 

I hope everyone was safe during this snowstorm! 

Let's see what this second time around brings us.....

Time To Workout....

I have been telling myself for months now that I need to get back to working out. I have just been so lazy and haven't motivated myself to do it. That all changed over the weekend...Last week I was so upset with myself and not comfortable with my stomach area my pants were tight and my shirts just didn't feel right, so I knew it was time to get my butt in gear and do something about it. Saturday I decided it was time to get back to it and make myself feel better. Kira and I went for a walk and it was wonderful. I forget that after I workout I feel great and as time goes on I feel much better about myself, but it's that darn motivation that gets me. Monday after work Kira and I went on another walk and tonight I did my ab workout and I feel great! I just hope I can get myself back into a routine of working out and sticking with it. I would really like to lose at least 10 Ibs or so and get my stomach flatter before we head down to Mexico in October. I know I can do just a few years ago I lost 10 or more Ibs and it felt great, then I just fell off the workout routine and went back to where I started. :( 

It's time for a change and I'm ready to do it!! 

Wish my luck and hopefully I can get to my goal in no time and start feeling better about myself. 

Book: The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle

I started reading The Vampire Diaries book series. I decided to read these books b/c I just love the show. I started reading the first book and I was so confused and wasn't following the story....Why you ask? The book and the show are very different some characters I didn't know, some had didn't names and the story line didn't follow the show. I was not happy about this b/c most books usually follow the show or the movie not right on but pretty close, but this book not at all! I was so unhappy about this I was going to just give up on the books. I didn't want to be confused while watching the show and reading but I decided to give the books a try and see how this story goes. 

So, last weekend I started book 2. I'm starting to slowly get into these books so we shall see what they hold for me. :) 

The Struggle

Snow Snow Snow

How did everyone like the snow to bring in the new year?! I actually wanted a big snow this year just so I could see our new home all white and in the snow. The first time that it snowed I didn't get to capture any pictures sadly but I wasn't very happy about the snow that time. I woke up and it was everywhere and I had to go to work. I don't like snow very much if I have to get out and the roads are messy. As we left for work that morning it took us 2 hrs to get to work and mind you we only live about 15 mins or so from work. So yeah that wasn't a fun way to start off the day. Then to make that day even better I started coming down with a cold and felt like crap so I had to leave work and go home early. But the way home but a much better drive then to work (think goodness I would have had a melt down or killed someone, LOL). 

So, now we have had our 2nd snow of the winter and I was good with that snow. I was a little worried when I woke up and seen all the snow b/c I had plans to go see a handsome little baby. But once I got out on the roads they weren't bad at all. I was also good with this snow too b/c if needed I could have stayed home and not got out if it was super bad. 

Isn't our house cute in the snow with the Christmas lights on! 

 This was taken out back. 

That's all the pictures so far I have gotten of our house in the snow. Who knows if we will have more but if we do let's hope I can stay home and not drive to work for 2 hrs or I should say sit on the on ramp exit for 2 hrs. Blah! 

Book: The Vampire Diaries (The Awakening)

I'm starting off 2013 with a new book series The Vampire Diaries. I love the show so I thought it was time to read the books. Hopefully I enjoy the books as much as I do the show, guess we shall see once I start reading! Lol.

I hope to read lot as of good books this year. Last year I read a ton of books that's I really enjoyed!

The first book I'm this series is called The Awakening.