In Colombia

Top 10 reasons why Lindsee is my favorite travel buddy:

10. She thinks I know where I'm going so she trusts me to lead...even if I have NO idea!

9. She packs light so we aren't carrying around a ton of bags.

8. She doesn't mind sharing drinks, food, toothpaste, etc. (no toothbrushes though).

7. She makes me try new things...like skinny jeans!

6. She loves the people I love that we stay with!

5. She makes equestrian wear look hot!

4. She is willing to try all sorts of new foods!

3. She KNOWS good coffee and not so good coffee.

2. She isn't picky about sleeping arrangements, even it's the top of a triple bunk with me!

1. She doesn't mind getting lost : )

We are having a wonderful time in Colombia! Although I know my parents made the right decision in moving to Canada, there are parts of here that are so beautiful, especially the mountains! We are going to be staying with my cousin in Cota, just outside of Bogota, until Wednesday and then we're heading to the warmer area in the South until Saturday! It'll be great to relax before heading back home!

Just lovin' it here!

Life in the green!

So, I wonder how many days have to pass with not posting on this thing before people assume you've gone back to the "not posting anymore" on their blog! I have thought about the pictures I wanted to post the last two days for wordless Wednesday. This is my wordless Wednesday picture for this week!

Since it's not Wednesday, I'll let you know what this is! It's the view from the balcony at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando which is where I was this past Wednesday for work! I flew in on Tuesday and left on Wednesday so needless to say, it was a fast trip but I fun on nonetheless! I got to know the team a lot better that I directly work with. Hopefully this Wednesday I'll have an even cooler picture since I'll be Colombia! I'm going with my good friend Lindsee B. The last time I saw her was in October when we went to New York. She's my favorite travel buddy because she's very chill, doesn't mind getting lost and is quite daring to try new things! It's an added bonus that I get a discount on Starbucks coffees when I'm with her (although I've come a newly converted tea drinker).

Other that travelling to Florida twice this week (once for work, once to catch my flight to Miami), life is great (with it's share of daily "thoughtful" moments). I'm beginning to prepare myself mentally for being in Canada for a month in May. I'll still be working but it'll be great to be with my family at night. I also can't wait to see my dear niece Keira! She's due for some kisses and spoiling!

Right now I'm sitting in my sunroom working and on one couch Naiyah is curled up sleeping (what's new) and on the other couch Emma is curled up sleeping. They look like the absolute picture of peaceful. The window is open so there's a slight warm breeze coming through, the sun is high in the ssky without a single cloud and Emma has some really beautiful peaceful music on. When I'm in places of such peace as this, I almost hesistate to breath for fear of dismissing the peace. Outside the trees are starting to bloom, bud and life is turning green! I'm convinced green is God's favorite color, followed closely by blue!

Anyways, don't give up on me blogging world in my lack of daily posts! I'm still thinking about you when I'm not writing on here! Much love!

P90X - Be eXtreme!!!

So Emma and I have gotten up the last few mornings to do the hour long P90X videos. It's been fun to get my body moving in the morning and I always love spending time with Emma, however I never suspected I could be in this much pain! I survived ESOAL twice, ran a half marathon, finished a TM triathalon and yet I'm not sure I've been in this much pain! Yesterday I didn't really feel it all day until I tried to erase the board at BSF. All of sudden, I realized I couldn't put my hands over my head. The entire concept of P90X in that you spend 6 days a week, for a two week period working out a different part of your body every day. After those 2 weeks, you repeat all the videos again for a total of 90 days. So the way I understand it is that withing a 2 week period, EVERY SINGLE part of my body that could potentially hurt, will. Today the guy on the video with one leg was doing better than us but hopefully as we stick with it, we won't be in as much pain and don't be embarrassed to watch ourselves try to do the different moves.

Chuck Norris

Happy 70th Birthday Chuck!

Yesterday was Chuck Norris' 70th birthday and as a tribute to him, I decided to put some Chuck Norris jokes on my Facebook. Little did I know that around 11:15 PM last night, I would sitting in my living room with all my roommates trying to read the jokes through my tears and jolts of laughter. I could barely contain myself!

You know when you laugh that hard or see someone else laughing that hard, you either join in their laughter without know what they're laughing about just because you think it's so funny that they think it's so funny or...you stare blank-like at them wondering what they had in their cereal that morning, if they've taken Benedryl in the last hour or somehow lost all brain power to control themselves?!? Well, the reactions were mixed from my roommates.

Here were my favorite jokes:

Chuck is so tough, he can make a fish drown.

At night the boogeyman checks under his bed for Chuck Norris.

Chuck is so tough, he only needs to knock down one bowling pin because the others faint.

Chuck knows were Carmen Sandiego is.

Chuck Norris is Luke Skywalker's real father.

Chuck Norris does not sleep, he waits.

Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.

Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups, he pushes the world down.

When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms with only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris has never had to pay taxes, ever.

For some reason, this last one is my favorite....

If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.

I think the reason I like these jokes so much is because they have much an air of dry humor. I think the funniest things are when you have to be witty to understand the joke. I hope my future husband and his family have good sense of humors! If they don't, they might have a hard time understanding my family!

Lunch break over, back to work....

Wordless Wednesday

My friend said that all "bloggers" put a picture up on their blogs on Wednesday for "Wordless Wednesdays". I guess since I'm blogging regularily now (for the past few days anyways) and I want to be in the cool bloggers club, I'm going to post my wordless Wednesday pic! The concept is that the picture speaks louder than words so here's my pic of the day...

Stepping up to the plate

Last night I was at girls night with some of my friends watching Biggest Loser and eating bon bons. Okay, we weren't actually eating bon bons but we do normally have dessert while we watch these people work their butts off. Originally girls night started with Carla and I going to the gym and working out while we watched the people work out. For the second hour we would go to her house and eat dinner. That was almost 3 years ago! Now we go to Austie's house and only work out by moving from the living room to the kitchen during the half way update to get ice cream!

Last night as we were leaving the house all talking about getting married, Austie made the statement "ladies, we just need to step up to the plate" in which I responded "I'm playing in the dirt at the plate and I seem to be in a field all myself!!!" Now soccer is definitely my favorite sport and you can play it all by yourself but you definitely can't play baseball with yourself. Doesn't quite work like that!

So here I am, waiting at the plate of life to see who will come and make my baseball career a success : )

Two guesses what Naiyah is doing right now...

You probably don't need two guesses. She's curled up in a little ball, snoring and fast asleep. A funny thing I've noticed about Naiyah is that she really likes to rest her head on a pillow like a human being. She also prefers sleeping on or with a blanket. It's a current reality that I spend more time with Naiyah than any other living creature since I work from home and then she sleeps in my room. Someday I hope that changes : )

My biggest highlight is that this weekend I learned how to Rug Hook. This now makes me a "hooker". I'm really enjoying it because I love blending the colors and making a linen cloth with an outlined drawing come to life! I am currently working on a pillow with bees, sunflowers and a beehive! I'll figure out how to post it on here when I'm done! My second biggest highlight is that the daffodiles in my yard are in full bloom and look absolutely beautiful! I love the yellow with white. I think my wedding might be in those colors. It's be great if we could have daffodiles too but not sure how long they're in bloom and the timing would need to be just right in meeting my husband.

Off to continue working...

Feeding the bees

Recently someone asked a close friend of mine if I was an "old soul". They had heard that I was a knitter and thought that was an odd thing for a 26 year old! My friend replied "definitely not". At first I was satisfied with her answer because anything describing me with the word "old" in front of it doesn't sound very attractive but recently I've had to re-examine myself to decide if I really am an old soul for the following reason...I feed the bees. Basically, since I was a kid, we ALWAYS fed the birds. It was something my parents took great pleasure in doing and often times while we were sitting at the kitchen table and a beautiful bird flew into our feeder, we would all stop talking or eating to enjoy the bird. Through that I got to know the names of most common birds. In buying my house in Texas, one of the "must haves" was to have trees in my yard. Little did I know that I would end up with over 1.5 acres of trees and several birds. Last year I put up a finch feeder, hummingbird feeder and small bird feeder. I don't think word got out to the birds about the free food last year but they definitely made it headline news this year because the birds are eating like crazy! They are eating between half to 3/4 tube of food per day! I knew it wasn't hummingbird season yet but simply to keep them ready, I decided to fill the hummingbird feeders too. I noticed after a year days that the liquid was definitely going down but I knew it wasn't the hummingbirds. Yesterday I went out the feeder and noticed about 20 bees on the feeder having a hay day! The best part is that since the liquid is red, their stomachs actually glow red! So now I'm not only someone who feeds the birds but I also feed the bees.

So maybe there's a part of me that is an "old soul" but don't tell my future husband until after we're married! Don't want him to think I'm old : )

Naiyah's Birthday

This morning was Naiyah's 2nd birthday. I woke up before her and put treats from the bedroom door leading to a big, juicy, ham bone. She didn't quite know what to make of all the treats but she soon figured out she should eat them quickly before the cat got to them. For the remainder of the day, her plans are to sleep, have dog training and then sleep some more. She' quite gifted in the area of sleeping in several different positions and locations throughout the day.

Today also happens to be my dad's 66th birthday. I was going to wait to call him at midnight his time so I could be the first kid to call him on his birthday but I was getting sleepy and since he is old (and getting older), I knew he wouldn't stay up until midnight so I called at 11 and we made a deal to "pretend" it was midnight. I love him so much and I wish with all my heart that I could be up there celebrating with him. All the family is going to my sister's tonight for dinner and I'm sure dad's highlight will be holding Keira!

Tonight I'm going to the Wednesday Night Service at Green Acres. They are working through the book of Revelation and it's facinating to learn so much in depth about the churches of the New Testament. It's additionally interesting to me how human's haven't changed much in our 6,000 years on earth. We are still guilty of the same sins they are guilty of.

I'm still not confident that I'll be an avid blogger but this does finish post for day #2.

Well as you can see, the blogging world wasn't something I was ready to commit to yet and thus, it has been over a year since I posted my initial post! At this point, I'm not making any commitments to posting on here regularily but it has been on my heart more to write about the interesting things that happen in my life.

For the past few weeks I've been looked forward to the daffodiles in my yard to bloom and this week, the first one bloomed. Due to the large amount of rain we had yesterday, I found the flower face down on the ground today so I cut it and put in a vase beside my computer. I've only taken about 30 pictures of it in my office because it's so beautiful! It make life so much more pleasant! Fairly soon the daffodile farm should be opening up and I'm so excited to go and see the fields of them!

Besides the flowers blooming, Spring is definitely in the air. The birds in my yard are eating through about half a tub of seeds every day! For such little bodies, those birds eat a TON! The squirrels are doing their share to help and I'm thinking about putting grease on the pole for my own amusement of watching the squirrel try to climb it and continually slide down.

Naiyah is in dog training and today she was watching the birds when she should have been paying attention. Such a funny dog. Tomorrow is her 2nd birthday and I'm thinking about hiding treats around the house for her to find in the morning. We'll see if I have the energy to do it when I get up!

Now back to work...