Book: True Blood "Living Dead In Dallas"

I finished book 1 of True Blood this week. I went and got book #2 on Monday night!

I really enjoyed the first book it was so good and lots of details WOW! But LOVED it! I can't wait to finish this series.

I started book 2 on Monday and I'm working my way through it. I'm very pleased with this series so far. I have been reading at work on my breaks and lunchtime so that helps with getting through my books faster. 

Living Dead In Dallas 

Weekend Recap

I hope everyone had a great weekend and a good Easter Sunday!

It was such a nice weekend to enjoy being outside and great weather for the Easter bunny to leave it's eggs outside for the kidos to go find!

The weekends seem to always just fly on by and then it's back to work. I love my weekends and wish they would last longer. :)

Here's a recap of our weekend....

Friday night we has some friends over. We went out to dinner at Pepperjax Grill, I love this place they have the best philly's! Then we headed back to our place, hung out and played some cards Phase 10. It was good evening. I enjoy hanging out with our friends. :)

Saturday we tackled organizing stuff in the basement. It took a fews hours but we got rid of 3 boxes of stuff, 2 were just trash and 1 we will take to goodwill. We had to run to the store after that and get stuff for dinner that evening. When we got home I worked on some graduation stuff then got ready and our friends came over. We grilled out steaks and they were so yummy then we hung out and we played Phase 10 with them as well. That game is fun! It's long but it's fun.

Sunday we got up and went grocery shopping. This is our Sunday routine all the time. We like to get right up and get to the store so it isn't so busy and it's done and we have the rest of our day. After the store I went up North to take my brother driving. When I got home Shane headed out to go climbing at Swope with his buddy. They are getting ready for the climbing trip this week! I worked on graduation stuff while he was gone and did laundry. When he got back I ran to the laundry mat to dry our clothes. Our dryer broke on us a few months ago. We decided not to buy new ones till we got into a house. I want really brand new nice ones, I really want to the front loading one! We grilled out steak again for dinner, it was so yummy. Then the rest of the evening we watched our recorded shows to try and get caught up on some.

It was a pretty good weekend for us. Now back to work for 3 days this week then we are heading out Thursday morning to Arkansas.

Hope everyone has a good week!

Happy Easter

I hope everyone has a great Easter Sunday! Hope the Easter Bunny left lots of goodies for all kidos out there! 

Photo Shoot: Dusty Class of 2012

Back on March 24th I had the chance to do a senior photo shoot. A friend of mine had asked me awhile ago to do these but they just weren't sure when they wanted them done. So finally he will be graduating in a few months so it was time to get the pictures done. 

He is graduating from Blue Springs High School. We headed out around 5pm on that Saturday and went all around Blue Springs taking lots and lots of pictures. I had such a great time doing these and I learned about some fun new spots in Blue Springs to take pictures. :)

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One Tree Hill....

So my favorite show EVER is One Tree Hill. I have watched this show since it started back in 2003 and last night was the final episode ever. I know it's just a show but I'm very upset and sad about this. I love this show so much and to see it go makes me sad. I will miss watching this show every week and waiting for the next one in suspense. LOL 

As I was watching the last show I just couldn't believe it's was finally coming to an end after 9 years of being on the air. This show has come so far in the 9 yrs and I'm going to miss it.

I just wanted to vent a little about how upsetting this is to me that my favorite show ever is actually ending. Yes Yes again I know it's a show but it's been a part of me for 9yrs and I can't believe I it won't be on anymore. I think I might start watching it from season 1 again just to look back and see them again. I have season 1-5 at home so I need work on buying the last 4 seasons.

2012 Goal Update....

Hope everyone is having a great year so far...Since we are now into April...I thought I would give an update on my goals for this year and see how they are coming along.

• Organize the House  - This has been good process. The only thing left that really needs to be organized is the basement and we are going to tackle that this Saturday. Our place is pretty much organized as much as it can be until we move.  

• Eat Better & Work-out  - This is definitely on the right track. During the week we have been planning good meals to eat. The weekends we are a little more easy on our self with what we eat. But I'm good with how the eating better is turning out. I feel so much better and I can definitely tell a difference in some areas of my body. Working out is going good as well. I try and work out at least 3 times a week if not more. I have been doing a lot of walking lately since this weather has been great! I have been also doing cardio and an ab work out.

• Organize all photos into Photo Books - I have finished all of our photo books and got them ordered. I have a 2012 book started and have been keeping it up to date as I add pictures. The only book I haven't started is for our wedding. This will take much needed time and I'm not ready to start this yet. I would say this goal is now complete! Yay!

• Build up our savings account  - This is coming along awesome! Our savings is almost to our goal amount and we are only into April. We are for sure going to have more in our saving then we thought and we are both very excited about this!

• Buy a House - As I mentioned in my post yesterday, this process is moving right along. We are a little far out to start looking now so we will start the looking process in June. I'm so excited and can't wait!

• Continue pursuing Photography  - This is still a little slow but hopefully now with the weather is nice get more business. Since January I have only had 3 shoots. This month I have 3 to do so far. Well 4 if you count our trip to Arkansas to take pictures of my Shane and his buddy rock climbing (but of course I won't make any money off this). But it will be a good time and I can't wait!

• Reading - This is going along great. I have a read more books so far this year then I have in my entire life. LOL I'm really enjoying my reading and look forward to continuing it. I just started the True Blood Series and I'm almost done with the first book. I'm very happy about how much ready I have done so far this year and look forward to much more.

I'm very happy with my goals I set this year and very pleased to see how much I have accomplished on them! This usually never happens. I have to say I'm proud of myself. :) The way it's going I may have to set more for myself b/c I will be out of goals. LOL

House Stuff...

Can you believe that it's already April!! This year just seems to be flying by.

I just wanted to post an update on how our house buying is going.

Shane and I sit down and talked about our budget and came up with the amount we both feel comfortable spending each month on a mortgage payment. We didn't want to spend ALL our extra money on a mortgage because we still want to be able to vacation every year and put money in our savings. So the number we came up with I think will be good and we will have a nice house.

Last week we did the application for our pre-approval. We both were very nervous about this. It's such a big amount of money to have. LOL. We got the pre-approval letter and we are good to go. Shane also got approved for a VA loan so that will help out as well. :)

We have been looking a lot online to get an idea of what we like and what we can get in our price range. We both are so excited to get into a house and we can't wait to start looking in person. We have found a lot we like online but of course pictures never show the best of the house so we are looking forward to going in person. We are getting very excited to start the looking process. Our lease isn't up till August so we won't start looking for our house till prolly June.

A couple weeks ago when we were grocery shopping we decided to stop off in the paint area and look at the different colors. We actually got a few samples we both liked and brought home to see what we liked best with our furniture. So we kinda have some paint colors picked out for just the living room, dining area and master bedroom we would like. I'm actually really excited to paint so our house it will be what we love and not just plain white. :)

This is where we stand as of right now with the house hunting. I will keep you updated through the process. :)