Aunt Kris and Molly's Visit!

Sorry I'm just getting around to posting... this was from last weekend!

Aunt Kris and Molly came to visit for an extended weekend and we had so much fun! On Friday we went and visited Destin and ate at The Back Porch, a seafood place right on the water.

Saturday morning we braved the INTENSE heat to do a 5K on Pensacola Beach! Dad and Kevin finished first among us, with Molly and me, and then David following behind. Aunt Kris and Mom participated in the walking division and somehow came in at the same time as David!! Hmm? LOL. They are speedy walkers!!! ;)

Other than that we basically spent our time lounging in the pool and doing lots of EATING!! What we do best! ;)

Princess especially enjoyed the visit and fell in love with her new girlfriends!

What WONT Princess eat?

So I know I said I would probably be talking about the antics of Princess a lot, so this blog will be devoted to her. haha.

I started thinking about all the things she's gotten into and eaten/chewed up, and I think the list would be shorter of what she HASN'T eaten! haha. No, but in all seriousness, we are grateful as she USUALLY goes for trash or fairly cheap things that are pretty meaningless. It's not like she knaws on our couch or coffee table or anything. lol.

The one exception would be when she chewed up David's XBox 360 headset but she did that with purpose... haha, everytime he put those on he would ignore her! So now he knows better and puts the controllers away. ;)

So for the latest destructions....

-I had tried TWICE to try out the Cliff Shot Bloks (they are eaten for energy in long distance runs) and both times Princess got to the package and devoured them before I got a chance to try them.

- Last week Princess discovered a bag of mix to make biscuits and carried it over to our couch (her favorite demolition location) and ripped it apart all over the couch so we had a nice powder colored couch. The mixture of her spit and the powder made it all harden to our couch-lovely! I'm really kicking myself for not getting a picture of this. lol.

- and the winner for this post... yesterday I came home and David says "I have some bad news." Well yesterday Princess decided to eat an entire bag of fishing bait (the sylacone material kind) that had about 6 pretty large bait in it. The vet said she should be okay and then she probably chewed it up into small enough pieces that it would "pass" okay. Lucky us! Now David knows to put his fishing stuff away in his box.

Around 5:30am I woke up to the sound of Princess puking and got up to clean it and guess what I see? 6 completely whole fish baits! She had swallowed them completely whole.

So needless to say, I've built up a pretty strong stomach having Princess around! haha.

I know some people couldn't handle having her, but despite all of her crazyness, I love that dog silly!!! :-) Plus, as much as I write about her crazy ways, she really is pretty well behaved and relaxed most of the time... but that's no fun to write about! ;)

Oh and if you're wondering "How well do Princess and Starla get along?" Here's a picture to show you:

haha. That was actually a rare occassion for them, but a hilarious picture nonetheless! For the most part, they have a pretty neutral relationship.

In other news... Aunt Kris and cousin Molly are coming in tonight and I am picking them up from the airport. I am SO excited to have a fun weekend! We are running a 5K race this Saturday, which I am actually pretty nervous about because I haven't ran in like a week. The heat has been SO terrible lately it's hard to want to even move from the apartment.

I will definitely post pictures from our weekend visit, stay tuned for that! I hope everyone has a great weekend! :)

New Orleans!

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted an update. I really wanted to keep this going...

This past weekend I went to New Orleans to meet up with some girlfriends. I've been to New Orleans a lot so that wasn't new to me, but I was excited to meet up with my friends because believe it or not, we had never met in real life before! When I was planning my wedding at Disney I

stumbled upon an online forum for people getting married or honeymooning at Disney and ultimately made some GREAT friends who I've been talking to for years. This weekend a few of us met up and had a blast!

As you can probably tell from the pictures, we had such a great time! We of course had beignets and frozen cafe au lait at the Cafe du Monde, and just walked around for a while... it was HOT! Afterwards we headed to one of the girls parents house and had a fun girls night of games and lots of yummy junk food- woohoo!

On the way back home, however, I had a pretty scary near-death experience!! I was driving on I-10 in Alabama, and I was in the left lane and in the right lane a little bit ahead of me was this big truck that was towing a car. It was just tied with some rope it looked like, not very secure. So then the back left tire of the car being towed blew out and the pieces of tire were hitting my car so I hurried and sped up real fast and got around it and in front of it.

Well right after I did that I look in my rearview mirror and the truck tried to pull over without slowing down and because the towed car wasn't attached well, it totally lost control and was flailing around all over the road and almost hit like 5 cars... I thought for sure it was going to be a pile up. It was SO scary to see, I was literally screaming in the car!! This car was just like a rag doll!! It didn't hit me until a few minutes later that had I not sped up around it when I did I would have been RIGHT in the impact zone!!! It was so scary!!!!!

So needless to say, I was happy when I made it home!!! :) I was missing my family... Princess and Starla... oh and David too. Haha! ;)

Now we have even MORE fun to look forward to this coming weekend... Aunt Kris and Molly are coming into town! We cannot wait to lay in the sun with drinks in hand! ;) We are all doing the Sandshaker 5K on Saturday together as well, so that will make for a fun time! I will definitely post an update with pictures afterwards. David is excited to make a good time, he has been improving in his speed considerably every week! I'm just a little jealous! :)