Some People

I cut this from an article on MSN about our recent storms. Please read below and see if you can answer my question.

"Dog rescued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said 82,000 Californians were still
without electricity.
Also Friday, crews made a dramatic helicopter rescue of
a dog stranded on a flooded ledge in the Los Angeles River.
Crews first
dangled a life vest and float ring down to the dog. The animal ignored the items
and began sloshing through the current before stopping on another section of the
flooded ledge.
A helicopter then lowered a rescuer, who scooped up the
frightened animal. The chopper transported the dog to safe ground.
It was
not immediately clear how the dog got in the river."

What the heck did they expect the dog to do with the life vest ? It just made me giggle, I mean duh.

January 22nd

Today is a special day to me because two wonderful things happened that I am forever thankful for. On January 22nd 1972 a little red headed, freckled boy was born who would grow up to be the wonderful man who would win my heart and make me the luckiest girl in the world. I am glad he persisted and went after me so that we could have the next special January 22nd. Our first real date happened this day in 1998. He took me to Disneyland because that is where I wanted to go and we had a wonderful time. That night started our relationship he stayed the night (NOTHING HAPPENED!) and never went home after that and six months and 3 days latter we were married. Now it is January 22nd all over again and I am so happy because today good things happen. Happy Birthday Baby! I Love You!

Use Your Imagination

View from house
Outside of house

Kitchen

Dining

Family

Living Room

Like the title says please use your imagination because I believe there is a lot of potential here. The view is beautiful and all of the windows face South towards Writewood so it will be beautiful when it snows. We will also get some snow up there but not too much. The other side has a desert view. There are plenty of trees planted on the site which I really like. I will post more pictures latter but wanted to give y'all an idea of what we are getting ourselves into. When we start working on it I will do a before and after photo comparison.

Pinon Hills

Oops I guess some people didn't know we were moving and want more information. We will be moving to Pinon Hills which is located on the other side of Mt. Baldy off the 138 by Phelan and Writewood. It is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1600+ square feet home on 2.4 acres. It is very close to the elementary school and bus stop for the Jr. High and High School. We will officially become rednecks as directions to our home will include the phrase "turn off of the paved road" and also "make a right at the lavender manufactured home". The house is zoned for horses so hopefully someday we will be in the financial position to get one as I have wanted a horse since I was a little girl. The house itself needs some work and is more like our first house in condition that our last house but that is half of the fun. Our first house was a HUD home and we learned a lot fixing it up in the 5 years that we were there. The 2nd house was much bigger and nicer but still needed work and our last house was absolutely beautiful but after a year we kind of missed having to work on the house. We have been renting a home now for a year and a half that is in some serious need of TLC and it is frustrating because it is not ours and therefore we cannot make the improvements and updates to this house that we would like to. So the new house will be fun. The big stuff is done we will just need to paint, put in new carpet and pergo flooring and do some other minor items to make it beautiful again. the great thing is we can and have done everything else on a house before except the carpet. So it will be a project for us to do. I hope that clears it all up. We are waiting for the appraisal to get worked out and should close before 02-15-10. I will keep you posted and post some "before" pictures of what the house looks like soon.

First Post of 2010

Happy New Year! Well it is 2 weeks into 2010 and I am just getting around to posting my first post of 2010. I am soooo glad for a new year and to start fresh and in some ways start over. I have been very busy with packing and trying to get things in order for our move which should happen in the middle of February this year. New year, new home, new puppy, new school for the girls and a new outlook. Like I said I have been packing these last couple of weeks which is no easy task considering we have ALOT of crap and we have the new puppy which is just like having a new baby in the house except I can put him in his pen and leave the house for awhile without child services showing up at my door. As anyone with a new baby or toddler can tell you it is almost impossible to get anything done unless he is taking a nap. When he is awake he insists on chewing up the bubble wrap, taking off with the tape and generally just causing me to go crazy all day. I am also trying to schedule all of the necessary inspections for the house which is hard because it is up the hill and we are not, so it is not just something we can do on a moments notice. I will be glad when it is all over and we can just be done with it. I want to start over and start fresh and I want a much smaller house payment, it would take a huge load off of us. So 2010 seems like it is starting out OK, busy and hectic but OK which is cool. Gotta go, gotta do some packing before Cash wakes up.

Our New Christmas Baby

Christmas came a few days early this year. We were blessed (at least mostly blessed sometimes I am not so sure) with a new Christmas baby. His name is Cash The Dog In Black after Johnny of course. He is about 6 1 /2 weeks old and adorable but a holy terror when he is awake. We picked him out because we needed a puppy with "balls" if he was going to stand up for himself against Jazzy and Penny our other two dogs and he definitely has them. The girls are totally in love with him and he has definitely brought some laughter to the house. He is the big present that keeps on giving, pooping, peeing and whining. He also snuggles, licks and follows me around the house and the back yard and sleeps on my pillow (awe.....).

We are also waiting to hear back on a house we put an offer in on in Pinon Hills. Hopefully we will get the final answer today as we have been negotiating back and forth for the last week or so. It is a modest house, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, family, dining, small living room with fireplace and needs some help. We shouldn't have to do too much to it just flooring, paint and a GOOD cleaning. Anything that comes up we should be able to handle because after all of the houses we have owned in the past we have already done just about everything. I think the only thing we will have to have done by a professional is the carpet in the bedrooms. Everybody keep their fingers crossed we kind of need this to happen. It would be nice to start off the new year fresh and with hope.

Well here is a picture of Cash, I will try to post some more pictures soon as he keeps growing everyday but here is is a week ago on Todd's desk at work before the girls and I picked him up. If I don't get back before Happy New Year I hope 2010 is everything you need it to be.

"Hallelujah"

No I am not rejoicing, I am puzzling. I have this semi favorite song that I don't know who the singer is and it drives me crazy. Now I may have stated that wrong since it has been sung by about a million people but I want one particular version. The song is Hallelujah originally by Leonard Cohen. It has been done on American idol by Jason Castro and I liked his version but the version I want is from the movie Shreck. Does anyone know who sang that version? I really want that version of the song because it is so haunting and gives me goose bumps when I hear it. If anyone can help me out here I would appreciate it.