Puppy Play Date!

Last Wednesday Sally returned to the vet for her 2 week follow up x-rays after her initial pneumonia diagnosis and we got some great news: Sally has a clean bill of health. This is very exciting news for many reasons one of the biggest being that she is now free to play with her cousin Kaia! Today I had the day off so I took Sally over to my sister Kelly's house for a couple hours so she and Kaia could run off some serious energy in the snow!....It was so entertaining to watch little Sally Faye instigating play fights with Massive Kaia. I'm so happy that these two get along so great and I see many more play dates to come! Especially because since we've returned from the play date Sally has been zonked out on the couch allowing me to be productive! Here are some videos from the day.

Best Cousins!

These are a few of my favorite things...Christmas Style!!

Ornaments  

This one is from my kindergarten days but the amputated arm is a result of my sister's puppy Kaia getting curious! 

Every year when my sisters and I were young my grandma would get us together and make Christmas ornaments using school/holiday pictures...I also really enjoy Kel's bangs in this one!

I was on the gymnastics team all four years in high school and loved it...One of my teammates made these for all the girls one year

Other side of the gymnastics ornament

My roommates and I did a gift exchange one year and one of my roommates, Tara Jo, got us all ornaments...This one is mine and it makes me smile everytime I look at it!

Newest addition in honor of little Miss Sally Faye!

Christmas Village

My mom sisters and I all love these little Christmas houses and each year our mom gets us each a few houses for Christmas so when we move out we'll have enough to start our own little village!

Stockings

and the stocking stuffers!

Holiday Beverages

Almost make the cold weather worth it!

Christmas Music

I love Glee, Dave Barnes, and Christmas music so it really doesn't get much better than these two albums right here!

Christmas Movies

Classic!...I watch it any time it comes on tv

Hilarious!

My roommates watched this on ABC family's 25 days of Christmas last year and there is one song, We're too much, that will be stuck in our head for weeks on end!

Can't beat the claymation Rudolph...or any claymation Christmas movie for that matter!

Introducing...Sally Faye!

So a little over a week ago I entered into the realm of parenthood...puppy parenthood that is!!...This is my precious new puppy, Sally Faye. I adopted her last Saturday from the the Morgan County Humane Society and she is a 4 month old boxer mix. 

This past week has been quite the adventure with little miss Sally! It all started on Tuesday when my mom dropped her off at the vet to get fixed. At around 930 am I was just starting to fall asleep after working all night long when I got a call from the vet saying Sally had a cold. They didn't want to operate on her with the cold because it would increase the risk of her getting pneumonia. The vet put her on some cough drops, sulfa antibiotics, and we rescheduled her procedure. Later that night Sally was struggling with her breathing which earned her a trip to the emergency vet, yes I had her for 2 days and she's already headed to the ER! Well after several x-rays and a comprehensive exam we got our diagnosis: Pneumonia. So little Sally Faye now gets two antibiotics, an NSAID for her fever, nose drops, coupage (pounding on her lungs), and steam treatments twice a day! All provided by her own personal nurse/ mom! All this on top of trying to get her potty trained!

She's getting better and more puppy like everyday. She finally learned what her toys were for and she's been on two walks/drags (she's still a little skittish around other dogs). Hopefully soon she'll be back to full health and be able to have a play date with her cousin, Kaia!

Even though she's been a whole lot of work I'm so so happy to have her! I hate to think of what would have happened to her if I hadn't adopted her. As I write this now she's curled up next to me snoring (thank you sinus congestion!) and when I lay down to sleep tonight she'll be curled up right next to me. Love it!

Somebody...

"everybody who is somebody has a blog."... This was said by my lovely sister Kelly who is quite the avid blogger so in my quest to be somebody I decided to hop on this blogging bandwagon and see what the hype is all about!...ok not exactly but it got you interested didn't it?!

Really this blog is as much for me as it is for anybody else...this sounds selfish but let me explain. Have you ever been driving and you get to your desired destination and you have that moment where you're like "wait a minute how the heck did I get here?!" Well sometimes I feel like that is how my life is. It's like I can remember the big milestones: my 16th birthday, high school graduation, going off to college, traveling to China and so on and so for but the random thoughts I have or the awesome everyday conversations I share with family and friends are soon to be forgotten. So why not write them all down so that weeks, months, and years from now I can look back and have these written reminders of how blessed my journey has been and the lessons I've learned along the way...and if my random ramblings benefit someone or even makes you giggle along the way then so be it!

Oh and as the title implies this blog really has no theme! I'm not planning a wedding, starting my life as a married woman, or having a baby...this is pretty much just a journal in website form so enjoy!

Holy Mac! This I feel like this is a super long post but now that you know why I'm doing this whole blog thing I guess I should tell you just a little about myself.

1. I just graduated from Anderson University in May with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. There were times when I thought I'd never see the light at the end of the tunnel that is nursing school but looking back I would do it all over again. I'm truly grateful for the skills I learned and the amazing friendships I formed along the way!
2. I've been working on a high risk OB/ postpartum floor since June and so far I'm really liking it. The other nurses are really great, not to mention extremely willing to help the new grad nurse. Plus everyday I go to work I feel like I am able to my mental a spiritual gifts to use and shouldn't that be what a job is all about?!
3. Sarcasm is like breathing for me and I've been told before that I don't have a filter meaning I don't always think things through before I speak or in this case blog. So yeah just a warning.
4.  I have 2 pretty awesome sisters! Not to say that we were BFFs fresh outta the womb or that  we didn't have our fair share of hair pulling scream fests (mostly over clothes) growing up. But now they're 2 of my closest friends which is pretty great for us and a welcome change for our parents as well.
5.  Forget tall, dark, and handsome! Give me geeky, awkward, and well ok maybe don't forget handsome...I'll take a Seth Cohen over a Ryan Atwood any day haha!

Ok well I think this blog has gone on long enough and if I go on anymore I might just not have anything to write about in the next few posts-which would pretty much make this whole blog defunct so goodnight for now!