Sunday Citar: New Car!

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"Close your eyes and turn your face into the find. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly you know you are alive."


I have a new car! Not just any kind of car but a convertible! I'm so excited! I cannot wait to feel the wind on my face and in my hair. There's always been something comforting about the wind for me. My guess is it reminds me of Hawaii and it's constant breeze that I would feel growing up.

Sunday Citar: Celebrating One Year

"I have found the one whom my soul loves." Song of Solomon 3:4

   Our first year anniversary happened to fall on a Monday this year. So we decided to celebrate the Friday before. But before I talk about our night let me give you a little bit of back story of events that took place. Tim's parents were nice enough to keep our cake topper in their freezer and then ship it down to us. We thought it would be ok, apparently Fed Ex ships items like that all the time. They put dry ice in there to keep it cold. The wed. before our celebration our cake arrived. We opened it to find the cake almost completely destroyed. All of the icing had fallen off, and some of the actual cake had come apart as well. As you can imagine I was quite upset, and many tears fell.
So, what did my knight in shining armor do? He printed out a picture of the cake from our wedding and ran around trying to find someone to make a replica, with success! Of course I still wished our actual cake wasn't ruined but I appreciated it and I was happy to have something nice for our celebration. We decided to use our new cake for the night we went out, and still enjoy some of our old cake for our actual anniversary.
 We decided to spend a night in downtown Atlanta, and just go to a nice dinner. We didn't want to spend a lot of money but wanted to do something nice. Tim had enough points that we could get a nice room for FREE at the Hyatt so that's what we did. I loved our view! For dinner we went to a place called Peasant Bistro. We were both able to have our favorite dishes, mine was lamb and his was duck. Sadly, I forgot to have a picture taken of us at dinner but that's ok, I will always remember it.

  After dinner we went back to our hotel room to enjoy our cake (as you can see the ladies did an amazing job!) and some wine & cheese that the hotel sent up as a congratulations. It was so nice to have a night out. We felt as though we went on a trip somewhere far even though it was only a twenty minute drive.
One of the best parts? The king size bed! I don't get very much room in our own, especially with Jet always being cuddled up next to me. It was SO nice being able to spread out as much as I wanted.
And of course we shared a kiss or two, and cuddled up together to talk about the past year. It was a great night that I will always remember.

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Sunday Citar: A Dog Tail

 "Saving just one dog won't change the world, but it surely will change the world for that one dog." - Richard C. Call

Meet the newest member of our family, Jet! A couple found this cutie wandering around outside. They posted an ad on Craigslist saying they needed to find a home for him. They were in the middle of a move and already had a dog so they decided not to keep him. So I called to ask them some questions about him, one of them being how much do they want for him? The answer? NOTHING. He was absolutely free. 

So I waited patiently until Tim got home and then showed him pictures of him online. Told him all the info the couple told me about the cute pup. So after patiently but, very anxiously waiting for Tim's answer he finally said YES! We could get him!

After I got the okay, I called the couple and arranged to meet the little stranger. We would drive to their house the following day after Tim got out of work.

So finally the time came to pick Tim up from work and go to their house. I was practically bouncing up and down in my seat the whole way there, trying not to ask Tim too if we were almost there, or about how close we were. 

Finally we arrive, each second that past from Tim coming around to open my passenger door, to walking up the steps to the house felt like minutes. After a short second of waiting we walk in and meet the timid little guy. The poor thing was obviously underweight. You could see his ribs very clearly, as well as his hip bones. You could also tell that as nice as the couple was, they hadn't given him a bath since taking him in. He was filthy to say the least. 

I bend down to greet him, giving him some love. As we got to talking to the foster mom I stood back up and Bosley (as he was currently named) stood up on his hind legs and put his two front paws on me wanting some more attention. Which of course I loved, and in my excitement stated "He already loves me!" 

After a few more minutes of chatting we were on our way out the door with the new member of our family in my arms. After a quick stop at Petsmart to pick up some flea shampoo, toys, a leash, food, etc we brought him into his new home.

 I immediately gave him a bath to wash off all of the dirt, and get rid of the fleas. The poor thing was covered in them. He took it all with a great amount of patience, even though you could tell he was not thrilled to be taking a bath. But after we rinsed him, and then dried him off he was running around with excitement. He was obviously very happy to be clean for the first time in who knows how long, and itch free. 

After much deliberation Tim decided to name him Jet. After all the excitement wore us down we all climbed into bed, with Jet cuddling in next to me and went to sleep. A couple days later we took him to the Vet to have all of his shots, and to see if they could estimate how old he was. The couple we took him from guessed he was about five which was older than what we previously wanted but we settled. The Vet however has estimated that he is only about two! 

So that is the story of Jets homecoming. I am going to post more about him and his personality in a day or two (I figure this post is long enough). 

A New Year!

"Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold."

~Unknown

 My friends Crystal and Jeremy Barancik had a New Years Eve party this year and it was a blast! It was a great way to end the year 2010 and to begin 2011!!

2010 Was a great year for me. It came and went with a lot of great changes including a new job, my own apartment, making some new great friends, and getting engaged!

Although 2010 was a great year with great changes I know that 2011 is going be an even better year with even better changes! The biggest/best change that will happen is getting married to Timothy McAra! I can't wait to see what other great changes happen!

I hope you have a great year!