Our growing boy!

Well, it has been about two weeks since Yogurt has entered our lives and we are loving every minute of it!! I wish we would have measured him when we first got him so we could see how big he has gotten, but we didn't :( He definitely has grown. He's about two times the size he was (at least in length). When we first got him his whole body fit in my hand! Now he is almost as long as my forearm! Here are some new things he does!

He likes to play with his mommy! He loves to play hide and seek and is pretty good at playing fetch!

He bites anything he can get in his mouth! He loves to bite our fingers (and my hair). He also likes to bite our ears and noses.. He is starting to bite kinda hard too LOL.

This is a comparison pic. There is another picture of him next to the baseball and it's about half his height. I realize this is not the same position, but it's hard enough to take a pic of him without him biting the camera or running toward me, so the best shots I get of him are when he's asleep. Lol :)

You can see how big he is compared to my hand/arm.

He likes to sleep on his back with all of his legs spread out! He's just so dang cute!

He has discovered his toys! He loves to chew on his 'bone/stick' thing I got him. Also, his hormones are starting to kick in... He has found his 'humping' toy... The bone he is laying on in this pic is the one he likes to "get up on" if you know what I mean! He tried to hump my arm too, but we won't be having any of that in my house!!

After he eats his tummy gets HUGE! It looks like he swallowed a tennis ball! We call it his Buddha belly :)

Some other things he does now:

- He is pretty good about peeing on his pee pad, but his new thing is smelling the pee pad and peeing on the floor just in front of it!

- He likes to sleep with his head hanging off of whatever he is sleeping on. Sometimes he falls out of bed because of it!

- When he's tired he will crawl up into my lap and fall asleep :)

- He likes to chew computer cords, shoes, pillows...

- He is getting better at jumping onto and over things.

- When he's full he rolls out of bed because his belly is so big he can't get up to get out. You know when he gets up because all of a sudden you will hear a "thump!"

- His ears are starting to flop over instead of stand straight up.

- When he hears music he sits up straight and cocks his head to the side.

He is our joy! We love him so much! He is so sweet and full of personality. We can't wait to see what he'll do next! (Though we hope it's not having accidents in the house!)

Yosemite

I went to a family reunion in Yosemite last week. The weather was beautiful! We used to go all the time when I was little, so it was nice to go again. The last time we went was in 2001 (also a fam reunion), I was 15. Last time the waterfalls were all dry, this year was the exact opposite! There was SO MUCH water! They said that this is the most water they have had in a long time! Here are some pics from the week.

I have more, but I haven't had time to edit them. I have to do it when Yogurt is asleep because he likes to chew my computer cord, and if I sit up where he can't get to me he just sits there and whines. He's just so cute I can't help but want to sit and play with him! He is seriously my lifesaver! If I didn't have him I don't know what I would do. Eric is so busy with school that I would be so lonely. Thanks to Yogurt I have a constant buddy by my side :) Anyway, enjoy the pics!



Yosemite Valley

Happy isles trail (? I can't remember the name, but it connects to the mist trail)

Sweet spider I saw! It's butt was the size of a dime!

Mirror Lake

Vernal Falls (the Mist Trail. You get SOAKED on this trail because you get so close to the Falls!)

Top of Vernal Falls

Top of Vernal Falls

Top of Vernal Falls

Half Dome (which I did climb, the pics are on my other camera, so I'll get them on the blog soon!)

It was fun to do all the hikes and be in nature. I miss camping and being able to do stuff outside and not frying... Can't wait until fall, or at least monsoon season so I can see some sweet lightning storms! I will get the rest of the pics up soon as well as an update on Yogurt with pictures to go with it so you can see how big he's getting! He's probably doubled in size already! Don't get me wrong, he's still small! Lol!

To be continued....

I like Yogurt!...

Meet Yogurt. He is the newest member of our family!! We got him on June 9th from a breeder in Phoenix. He is a Teacup Chihuahua and is 6 weeks old. He is SO much fun! I think I'll have puppies instead of children! Lol. He is a sweetheart. He loves to cuddle and play. He also loves to pee where ever he wants, Lol, and I still love him to pieces! I know you've all been waiting to see pictures of him, so here are a few from the last few days :)

Oh, and if you know where the name comes from without being told you are definitely an 80's child!

This is Yogurt right after we got him. He was so sleepy! He slept almost the whole day!

He loves to lay on his back! Lol! He will lay on your chest and before you know it he is on his back with his paws in your chin and his head wrapped around your neck!

This picture is for size. He is sitting next to a baseball :) When he's full grown he will be about
4 lbs.
This is him wrapped in his blankie after his bath. He was shivering like crazy, poor puppy!

Yogurt playing with his daddy :)

Sleepy time!

Daddy son pic!

More sleepy time!

I couldn't resist he's just so cute!

Smile! :)

...and that is Yogurt!

After many times of re-doing this post I'm giving in. I can't seem to get the pictures all the same size. I re-sized them all the same and some would still be big and some would be TINY. If anyone can help me out and tell me how to make the pictures smaller I would REALLY appreciate it. I use photoshop CS3. Now onto the post..


Once again here are the pics from our Memorial Day hike with my bros. I added in a couple pictures. I love the one of Steve and Madison, so cute!

Eric is at school today. He didn't start class today, it's more of a prep day. They are having the students come in and finish filling out paperwork and getting their computers linked up to the school's system. Thursday he has orientation (which I can go to), and class starts Monday. He got his schedule yesterday. He's going to be in class all day every day! :( Mon, Wed, Fri he's in class from 7am- 4pm ( I think he gets off early on Friday tho.) Tue, Thurs he has class from 9am-4 or 5 pm (I can't remember.) I think he is semi excited, but more just wants to get it over with.

I am going to Yosemite with my family next week! It's our family reunion. We have one every 5 years. I am excited to go, but sad that Eric can't go. I wasn't going to go at first, but Eric said it is ok if I go, so I'm going. I am getting a phone call from a possible job today, so keep your fingers crossed that I get it! Ok, enough of the updates! Here are the pics!

My brother Mike and his son James

My brother Steven

Everybody. Bianca's brother Matt came with us to.

Steve and little Madison!

What happened?..

Don't you wish people would have told you what the "real world" was like before you graduated college. It seems like no one tells you what life is really like and then one day you are just in it! Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, just hard, and sometimes harder than I expected. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I lived in a fairytale and just had to wake up someday. Part of me still believes that you can live in a fairytale, your own fairytale. You just have to train yourself to think a certain way. You can see reality, but choose to only focus on the good and not let the bad get to you. This is something I need to work on.

I have no idea why I'm writing this! Lol. I'm SOOOOOOOO bored. Eric is off playing golf and I am unemployed and have no friends. I also have no energy or desire to do anything. Weird, I know. I just want to sit. Maybe it's because I haven't been sleeping well lately. I hope it's that. Every night this week I've had a nightmare (with the exception of last night.) Because I've been having nightmares I haven't wanted to sleep. Even if I'm tired I don't want to go to sleep because I don't want to have another bad dream :( I'm such a little kid! lol.

Man I hope I get a job soon. My problem is that I have so many things I want to do, but I don't do them. Why is that? Why can't I just say "Lisa, get up and do..." It's like whatever it is can't keep my attention, even if I originally wanted to do it, or I feel like there's no use because I'm not as good at the thing as I used to be so it makes me sad. How do I get out of this funk?

Easter, Princesses, and the Open Road!

Here we are again, weeks later... I'm seriously no good at this blogging business! lol! So much has happened! Easter has come and gone, we saw princesses, and packed and moved to AZ! (among many other things that I can't remember right now because it has been so long!

Oh! First things first. DO NOT SEE 2112 (the movie). That is unless you want a good laugh or nap! It's super cheesy and not believable. Another movie that is a good laugh, but I wouldn't pay to see is Torque. Its an older movie with Ice Cube in it.. It's basically a motorcycle spin off of the fast and the furious. SUPER unrealistic, but funny because it's so out there! lol. Now onto business, or pleasure (whichever way you look at it!)

For Easter I did a little easter egg hunt for Eric. I got a little basket from target and hid about 8-9 eggs around the apartment! It was fun! He kept asking for hints and I kept telling him no and then found myself telling him hints later! Sneaky boy!

So before we got married I attempted tanning (I know, BAD idea! I was burnt and in the most tender of places too! :( The good side of the story is that I tried it about a month before the wedding. I wasn't even messing with my wedding day. I made sure I had plenty of time to fix what ever went wrong before the big day! Which brings me to the next segment of this post! Eric found my tanning goggles in my car on the way to church and was wearing them as sunglasses! lol!

Ok, you CAN'T tell Eric I put this picture on here! Right after I took it he said "this better not go on any blogs or Facebook!" So shhh!! This is Eric and his cousin Kalie. She is the happiest little girl I've ever seen! Not to mention the most fashionable (as you can see!) I think Eric kind of looks like Elton John! lol

Move day! In case you don't know how to load a moving van (which Eric and I didn't, as we have never had to move so far and so much stuff before!) U-haul provides this helpful little diagram on the side of their boxes. We did not get boxes from them, but I snapped this while we were waiting for the truck, just in case :)

This is Zizi (purple lion). He is my Betta fish. My friend Kara got him for me for my birthday almost 3 years ago! Crazy, I know! He had been sick for the previous month and a half before the move, and I was worried that he might not make it. This was his travel container. It actually worked very well, and HE MADE IT! He even almost ate yesterday! Which is HUGE because he hasn't eaten in about a month or more. I seriously do not know how he is still alive, but I'm so glad he is!

You can't move without getting a flat! The trailer that Eric's truck was on got a flat tire at Quartzsite. An hour or so later we were back on the road! "Thanks to you toe truck driver tire fixer guy."

You can't really tell from this picture, but it's the first tire...

Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for! Our NEW apartment (and by new I mean REALLY new!! not just new to us!) The apartment is brand new and no one has ever lived in it before! Here is our dining area.

Living room.

Kitchen

Different angle to the living room where you can see part of the spare room.

Throne room :)

And, last but not least.... The view

I just thought this pic looked cool. I tweaked it to make it look more like a painting.

And there you have it! We are officially residents of Arizona. Luckily, it hasn't been too hot yet! But it's supposed to get hot next week :/ Just today (or was it yesterday?) I told Eric that I was ready for it to be cool, and to have an ocean breeze :( Oh how I miss my cool ocean air! It's all good tho. It's a new adventure. Plus, I get to go to CA in September for my friend's wedding!!! I'll try to post again before then ;)