home sweet home

Hi!

It feels SO GOOD to be home! (:

We have been in Alabama since Friday afternoon...but I am just now feeling like I have caught up on sleep and have some down time to finally post on the blog!

Remember our original plan to leave on Wed morning and arrive in bama on Sat night?? 

Well...We stopped the first night as planned, but then got anxious the next day and didn't stop at our other two hotels...

we just drove straight through.

It wasn't that bad though.

Once the sun came back up after driving all night and we got some breakfast, we were good to go! 

I still can't believe we did that..lol

So we arrived home on Friday..around dinner.

My dad picked up dinner and had it waiting for us at the house. 

Pruett's. chicken fingers and fried okra.

it was delicious.
The past few days have been filled with eating dinners with family, making sure our furbabies are adjusting well (which they are..everyone loves them), slowly unpacking all of our stuff, joining our old gym and getting back into a routine, and just overall enjoying being home. 

We have gone to the gym since Monday..and I am extremely sore. I cannot straighten out my arms or sit on the toilet without being in pain..lol but that's a good thing! right??

Just as thought, as soon as we get home, Logan got two calls for oil rig jobs..so he is seeing what they are all about..it is a good possibility he will be taking on those jobs instead of going back to school. He would be making more at those jobs than he would with a degree somewhere else. I, on the other hand will still be going back to school as far as I know. :)

I think that pretty much covers it all for now! 

I was so excited to catch up on reading everyone's blogs! I found out that one of my favorite bloggers is pregnant with her second baby! So congrats to her! :)

Can't wait to get back into blogging more often.

Hope everyone is having a fab week!

On our way home!

aaannd we're off! This is a scheduled post because my laptop is somewhere packed away. 

We have the uhaul loaded, the dogs bathed and snuggling in the back of our 4runner, and we are making our way east! :) 

Next post will be from good ole Alabama.

We are making a few stops on the way:

Arizona, Texas, and Louisiana. 

I bet I'll have some interesting things to share. 

1 day!

We have a half packed uhaul sitting in our driveway waiting to make it's way across the country! 

our last weeekend!

It is finally our LAST weekend here in California...

So what will be doing?? 

Well...our friends are throwing us a going away party tonight..so tomorrow we will be recovering from that and trying to pack some more of our stuff. lol

Other than partying and packing the only other thing we have to do is take Dude to do his Canine Good Citizen's test on Sunday. He has gotten so big! He is right under 100lbs..and only about 7 months! He is such a good boy though. I just <3 him. :)

I hope everyone else's weekend rocks..I know our's is gonna! :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Today is my hubby's 22nd birthday! :D 

Even though we just bought him a truck and i paid for it to be shipped across the country, I still 

have a little something planned. (: 

Gonna cook up some good food and a cake and spoil him a little when he gets home from work. :)

I cannot wait to spend sooo many more of his bdays with him. <3

one weeeek!

I just got home from tanning (I'm actually getting some color back after just three sessions!)

 Gonna eat a yummy salad, take a shower, paint my nails, and get in bed early. 

I am driving a friend's mom and her doggie to docks in San Diego...cuz they are moving to HAWAII. lucky lucky people. The yucky part is we are leaving at THREE AM...lol I have nothing else to do, so I thought why not..?

and omg.. ONE week until we will be on the road ourselves! :D

ugh it is late

It is late. I should be asleep...but of course..I'm not. I have not been able to go to sleep lately. It's annoying. 

We have 10 days till we hit the road for Alabama.  I'm gonna miss the few friends I made while living here for 8 months... speaking of them...they are throwing us a big party next weekend. Pretty excited about that. (: Tonight we went out to eat with a big group to say goodbye to one of Hub's best friends. That lucky dude gets to leave in the morning.We are both so ready to get outta here. It seems to be all we talk about...well that and our new truck that is being shipped and will be waiting for us when we get home. We bought a Ford Lightning. It's Hub's dream car..and the one we got is pretty sweet. I'll post pics when we get home. I made a long post about the stuff I am looking forward to about being home, but I didn't mention that we are joining a gym and have made a plan to get into shape. Logan is excited to start lifting weights and I'm just ready to start losing some weight and toning up, so I'll be lifting too. Our plan is to go to the gym MWF for weights and high intensity cardio and then on Tu and Th we're gonna be jogging/walking through our neighborhood. It's five miles if you go through the whole thing. I also am going to start planning my meals out three days at a time I think. I see that as something I can do and stick to. I don't mind going to the grocery store several times a week..esp since it will be right by our gym. I still have been eating better than I was before..and addin in a little but of exercise, but when we get home I'm switching to high gear and am going to really push myself. I have several ideas to help keep me motivated.. the first is a inspiration board. I am going to print out pictures, words, sayings, or whatever else motivates me and I'm going to hang the board somewhere where I'll see it a lot. Second, I'm going to make little goals, bigger goals, and THE goal...and when I achieve each of them, I'll give myself a reward. I haven't picked all the rewards yet..but I have some ideas. :) I'll make the list and post on my tone it up page.  Here are some of my motivation pics. I don't want to be "skinny:. I want to be healthy and tone.

my september promise