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About a week after we got home with Trixie I wanted to get her in to see a Physical Therapist to see about getting some muscle mass and strength back into her back legs. She does well with hopping around on her back left leg, but her right leg received most of the nerve damage from her spinal injury so that leg is going to need a lot more attention than anything else during this process. The

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Here are a few pictures that we took while we were going through some rough times with Trixie, her surgery, and finally coming home. This is a picture of us on Christmas Day. Just a few days before Trixie's disk slipped on her. It was a great day. I love my little family. Trixie was running around and playing Frisbee with her Dad and Bullock when I believe her disk slipped. It was after this

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Hello Everyone! I know I am probably the last person to begin blogging again after the Holiday Break, but better late than never. :) This Holiday Season has been one of the busiest in my entire life I believe, and has been the best/worst/most terrifying/heart breaking Christmas and New Years that I have experienced, and thankfully I am here writing to you about it now. I think it has brought my

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I hope you all have a VERY Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! May all the blessings in the world shine down on you in the upcoming year, and may the time you spend with your families be a memory that you cherish for years to come! Below is a video that sums up/ the entire meaning of Christmas, let us all remember the true 'reason for the season'! Let us give our love and thanks to Him

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I have been working on my parents to finally take a plane-ride and leave small town Texas to come visit Brien and I in ABQ. With our work schedules, taking the time to drive 11 hours for Thanksgiving was really not in the cards, yet I still wanted to celebrate the holiday with my family. It has been since the 80's since either of my parents had boarded a plane, much left the state for anything.

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Well Howdy!! It has been a terribly long time since I have posted last! If I remember correctly it was for my Father's Birthday, which means that it would be best for me to pick up right where I left off, which would mean a mention of my Mother's Birthday which is six days after his. My Mom and I. Moms are the most important people in the world to us growing up, and as an adult. At times

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Happy Birthday Dad! Yesterday, November 3, was my Dad's Birthday, and boy do I wish I could have been there to celebrate with him. Since this is going to be a year of firsts, this was my first 'parent' birthday away from home, and yes, I did get a little teary eyed. :) Circa December 1997 Birthdays, when you get older or what is the case with me, are not really meant to be flamboyant or really

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I haven't blogged in a while and I always dislike going for long periods of time without blogging. Life however has been just super busy this month, and I have become really disinfranchaised with the Internet the past couple of weeks. (Shocking! I mean me become sick of looking at Facebook? Pshaw..) But really, when my laptop decided to house a virus that I just couldn't get rid of and resulted

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This past week was the 40th Annual Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, and I have to say, it was pretty awesome. I had seen balloons in New Mexico years ago when I was traveling through New Mexico to visit family, and it was only for a few minutes when we woke up very early in the morning to get on the road. But now I had the chance to get up close and personal to every balloon you could think of. 

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I have really been debating on writing a post about weight or losing weight. Out of all of the blogs that I follow or read more than half of them post about their issues with weight or their goal of losing weight, exercising, tips, etc, and so writing a post isn't such a new or novel idea, the difference is that is is my weight troubles and so of course there are worries about privacy or shame...

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My Husband turned 27 last week and I have been going over and over for almost a month in my head about what I could do for his birthday that would really be a big surprise for him, and I found the absolute PERFECT thing! I was at work and and putting information into a folder for one of our clients when I accidentally opened a map of New Mexico, and on the side of the map where all of the

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Okay, so don't hate me, but I am soo behind on my posts its just not even funny. With night school and a day job I am just exhausted, and having to stare at a computer 5-8 hours out of the day for work/school doesn't make getting back on the computer to blog very exciting.  Don't get me wrong, I love my blog and writing...I'm just a bit lazy lately. :-/ So on Labor Day Weekend, a group of friends

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Image by Kendall Stoy So far, to my knowledge, the September Spending Freeze has been going very well for Brien and I this month. We have stuck to our plans, our rules, and haven't really done anything out of the ordinary that would put us in the wrong during this project, and honestly,  it hasn't been any different from what we normally do with a budget.  Brien and I, mostly Brien, is very

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A blog that I have been reading for a few years now does this thing once a week on Fridays that is called "Show Us Your Life!". It's really interesting and I have always wanted to try it, so this will be my first post in following with the series! This week we are supposed to post about a Favorite Blog that we follow so that other people can see what other blogs they are reading and just find

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(photo courtesy of Kendall Stoy) First of all, Happy September!  I am getting extremely excited that September is finally here and Fall will be creeping around the corner at any moment, and having moved from Texas to New Mexico, I am going to finally witness what most call a "Changing of the Season". Which of course to everyone but me means the fall colors, the leaves turning, cool/cold weather,

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I was 10 years old when Princess Diana passed away in that terrible car crash in France, and even though it was miles away in a country that I had never been, it did hit home for me in some small way.  I can remember my Nanny, a true British Woman who loved her Queen and Country, sad and mourning the loss of such a beautiful woman. My Nanny had stacks and stacks of magazines about the Princess,

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Today is my Great Grandmother's Birthday. She would have been 103 today if she were still with us. She passed away at the age of 99 in 2007 right before Thanksgiving. Like I mentioned at the beginning of August when my Nanny's Birthday passed, I have very deep connection with the women in my family, and of course, Great Grandma was no exception.  Great Grandma & Great Grandpa when they got

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Today is my Nanny's 83rd Birthday. Even though she is no longer with us, I feel as if she were here celebrating with me as I think of her today. I was only 12 when Nanny left us for Heaven, but I feel as if I learned so much from her and from her life that I come to know her more and more as I get older, and learn to appreciate more and more about her and the sacrifices she made in life. I

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One of my favorite meals as a kid was when Mom would put a Roast in the oven. I love the memory of running in the house from playing outside and smelling the Roast cooking in the oven! It makes my mouth water just thinking about it! So of course one of the staples of my cooking that I share with my Husband is this Roast, which I am going to share with you so you too can enjoy how amazing

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Today I got news that I have been waiting since April to hear. The "yay"or "nay" on my first adult job. I had interviewed for this job over the phone twice, and drove across the entire state of Texas and half of New Mexico to interview in person, all with assurances that the Manager would call me with an answer by the end of the week. Four months later, no phone call. I called her once every week

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This 4th of July was the first of 4th's that didn't involve Texas (to an extent). I was really hoping to visit my parents, buy a pack of sparklers, eat some fried catfish, and just enjoy the Holiday with my family. But we shall save that trip for another time.   Just a side note, there are tons of wildfires all over Arizona and New Mexico. This is what I think is the newest fire, the Los Alamos

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* I know this is a few weeks late, but better late than never. :) Father's Day. It's a wonderful time and day to celebrate the Great Men in your life. I am blessed to have three Great Men in my life, not including the Husband because he is not yet a Father. ;) Not many people have both of their Grandfathers, and these days, not many people still have their Father around.  I could go on and on

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Brien and I wanted to throw a dinner or something for all of our friends to enjoy while coming over to our new house and hanging out. Someone threw out the idea of a BBQ, I believe it was our friend Richard, and so the idea immediately grew from there to have a Home-Warming BBQ. * I believe the term immediate is completely accurate because Richard threw out the idea early that Thursday evening

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Well, the Earth took another full revolution around the sun, and I guess it's all in good faith. I intend to age gracefully, but only one year at a time! ;) I always get anxious around my Birthday. I don't like making a big deal out of it, althought I do love celebrating Birthdays, and I know Brien doesn't like it when I bug him about what he would have planned to celebrate. Afterall, we did just

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Brien and I have been in our new home now for about two weeks, and would definitely have to say that we are very pleased with the house we have chosen and the result of the move overall. I must say it is quite a story, and I am really proud of the way we were able to move in such a short time frame. I had an interview for a hopeful job on the 24th of May, which was a Tuesday. We had arrived in

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We are back from Albuquerque, but only for a short while! So many awesome, wonderful things have happened since our trip out there and while I still have an internet connection I thought it would be a great time to post some of the things that happened while we were gone and so forth.  Life starts to move fast once things start falling into place!! We reached ABQ Sunday night and got to meet up

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Here is a recipe I tried out the other night. It was really tasty and I am excited to be sharing it with you. I love Fried Chicken, but I don't like the grease and the calories that come along with Fried Chicken. Banquet Chicken is a weakness of mine, and being Southern, I feel that it is a good thing to have a recipe in your arsenal that will help ease your craving for the Chicken Fried Steak or

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Today was our first Wedding Anniversary! Great way to start off the "summer" and a new time in our lives. It was so funny to look at the time throughout the day and reflect on what we were doing a year ago. Our wedding was wonderful and beautiful but thank goodness I don't have to put that dress on again! It was so heavy by the end of the night! Brien and I had a great day, walked around the mall

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