Things Max & Callie are thankful for:

• Great jobs that help us pay the bills
• Our Cute Home!
• Binx and Icabod, our kitties, and Roxy, our dog
• The love of each other
• Our wonderful families
• Our fantastic friends
• The smell of Fall (our favorite season)
• Great Football Games (Go Utes!)
• Good Gym Workouts!

Thanksgiving

In this week of Thanksgiving I just wanted to send out a special thank you to all my dear friends! I love you all and I wouldn't be able to get through the tough days without you! I'm so grateful to have people that I know will be there for me anytime, people that will laugh and cry with me and be there to pick me up when I'm down. Make sure to take time this week to thank your friends.

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them." - Anonymous

Twilight!

OMG! Let's just say I've never been so blown away by a movie! I will definitely be seeing this one over and over again! And when It's in the dollar theatre, let's just say you'll know where to find me. :) Anyway, really great movie and I had a great time with all my co-workers. What a fun night! We're planning on doing it again for the next movie!

Quickly!

Hey All! I thought before I head off to church this morning that I should post some pics of the condo and the kitties. So here they are! Hope you all enjoy!
~Peace~

Lost but Found

So lately I've been disappointed in a certain area of my life. And the saddest part about it all is that I never thought I could feel this way with this. So I guess you could say I've felt lost. However, there is a silver lining to this cloud. I've been found. I'm at a point in my life that even though there are disappointments right now, there are also some great things happening. My sister is happier than she's ever been in the last year and part of that is due to her new boyfriend, Scott, who seems very nice. She seems very grounded and sure of herself and just ready to take on the world. Also, she and I have never been closer and I love that. I cannot wait for Christmas to get here so I can see and meet the man who is adding to her newfound happiness! My mom is amazing right now too. She divorced my step-dad the year I got married and it was very sad and we all miss him dearly. However, she found love in an old friend she's known for more than 20 years! He's wonderful to her and Laura and I and I'm so glad they are together. And she is the happiest I've seen her in years! She's graduating a class this month that will make her a Certified Project Manager at her work and she's worked so hard for this achievement and I'm so proud of her! She's also making all kinds of little improvments to her house. It's all turning out so cute and she's just delighted with it all. She seems to be almost shedding a skin and turning a new leaf and I couldn't be more proud of her or happier for her. And finally, my dad has finally found his soulmate! Really and truly this time! She is a wonderful that makes him laugh, but mostly she makes him happy and that's all I really care about. They got engaged a few weeks ago and I'm so happy for him! So as you can see, even though I've felt quite lost, I've actually found so much goodness that it makes life better.

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."- Charles Caleb Colton

FINALLY SETTLED!

I know to some, taking a week to get completely moved in doesn't seem like a lot of time, but to my hubby and I, it is! We moved in on the 26th of October and as of Sunday we are officially out of boxes, everything's on the walls, etc. We're in! And boy it feels sooooo good to be home!!! We brought home our new kitties, Binx and Icabod, and so now we're all setttled in and loving life! I'll post some pictures soon! (when I have a second without homework or work to worry about...) ;)

We're Home!

Hooray! Our renter moved out early so we are back home for good!!! We are so excited! We moved in on Sunday with the help of Max's wonderful sister her family and my mama and her fantastic boyfriend. We're still trying to get everything out of boxes and in it's rightful place and I think we'll be done with that just in time to relax and enjoy our favorite holiday, Halloween!!!! We're going to be bringing home our new kitties, Icabod and Binx, this Saturday and we're very much looking forward to that!!! =) I'll post some new pictures of our home and our kitties soon! All our thanks and love to everyone who's supported us these last 14 months to help us get back home.

Maybe This Weekend...

I haven't blogged for awhile, but I haven't really had much to report on. I have been very busy with photography this month. I'm doing lots of family shoots and I did my first Latino wedding last week and let me say this: They know how to PARTY!!! It was very fun! Salsa dancing, cherring, loud music, tons of people; very good time.
I talked with our renter yesterday and it looks like, if all goes well, that he may be out of the condo this weekend instead of next week!!! So keep your fingers crossed for us! We're praying that it works out so we can move in on Sunday. That's about it for now. Hopefully I'll have really great news in a couple days...

Can't sleep - I guess I'll just babble...

Well, ever since my hubby moved to night shifts, for some reason, I can't sleep at night anymore.  Like ever.  I think it's because he works two more nights a week than I do and so I stay up late so I can sleep late with him but this has turned into me being a COMPLETE night person instead of someone who works nights but switches back to days the other 4 days a week I don't work...  Hopefully this won't be the case these next couple weeks because I have 8 photography sessions coming up!  I think part of my lack of complete sleep - I've been up for over 24 hours now and I'm not sleepy at all - is that I've got too much on my mind and I can't turn my brain off even if I want to!  We're moving back into our condo in 3 weeks and 5 days and I am so excited, obviously.  It's all I can think about.  I go through everything I can do in the condo every minute that I'm not thinking about something else...  And today my renter completely threw me for a loop when he brought over his barely on-time rent check and mail that he's had for 3 weeks!!!  One of the pieces of mail was informing me that because I hadn't made a payment on my home-owners insurance policy (that I didn't know was due because it went to the wrong address and we didn't get a call >=[ )  that my policy is cancelled.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I, as of right now, do NOT have home-owners insurance and won't until at least Tuesday because my stupid renter didn't simply call me to tell me I had two pieces of mail that had been sitting there for 3 weeks!!!  Can ya tell I'm a little bent about it?  Anyway, that's stressin me, but it'll all be fine as long as my renter doesn't decide to do something crazy like burn down my condo in the next few days, right?  I went and had my gallbladder scan this week and I'm waiting for the results to see if I'm going to have to have surgery and I can't stop thinking about that either.  Ugh...  Really, I don't have too much to complain about.  Things could be worse.  I think, no, I know that what I need is some good sleep.  Thanks for reading my babble, I feel better.  :)

"Crappy Genetics" make for unhappy guts...

Well I had my follow up appointment with Dr. Doxey, my GI Doc, and I'm still having right upper quadrant pain that he's not happy about. The ultrasound showed a very normal looking gallbladder but my doctor says that a dysfunctional gallbladder can look normal on an ultrasound. So I'm going in for a Hydascan (gallbladder scan) on Thursday to see how my gallbladder is functioning. So we'll know more then. My scope came up with mild chronic gastritis, mild esophogitis, and a mild hiatal hernia (my stomach herniates up into my diaphram; it's a genetic thing). My doctor says that some people just have crappy genetics which make for sensitive guts... I will definitely post more when I know more.