Well, time to bring all of my (2) avid readers up to speed!     A LOT has been going on lately, so we have been keeping busy.  Shortly after we moved into our house, we got our new doggie!  We love her so much!  She is seriously the best dog EVER!  She rarely barks or whines.  She likes to play, but if you want to relax she will lay down beside you instead.  She loves EVERYONE...and everyone seems to love her as well.  My mother-in-law is trying to get us to switch dogs with her!    Mimi and the cats are now out in the house together.  The situation is getting better day-by-day.  Mimi just wants to play with them SO BADLY, but I think she is learning that they don't want to play with her.  There is still the occasional hissing, but overall I have been really pleased with all of their behavior.  They even all slept in the same room with Joe and I while we watched TV the other day!!!!  (I was excited!)

I have stumbled along probably the 5th best deal EVER recently.  I organized a massage discount program for my work through a local massage place I go to.  For $212 each, all of the participants are getting 1 YEAR of UNLIMITED 1 hour MASSAGES!!!!  That's right!  I am going every Tuesday night now, and it is heaven.  Lisa, my massage therapist, is the best thing that has happened to me since Joe!   

Speaking of being spoiled, I am getting a maid too!!!  It is HARD work keeping an almost 2700 sq. ft. house clean.  I worked out a cost analysis for Joe (my cost accountant husband).  It showed that even if I ONLY spent 2 hours a week cleaning (though it is more like 7 hours!), it is MUCH more cost effective to hire a maid every other week.  So, he relented (after much persuading) and I get a maid every other week now!!!  I am hoping to have my house cleaned for the first time next week.  It will be nice to only have to do "maintenance cleaning" myself.  No bathtubs, showers, toilets, mopping or dusting for me!!!  (Well, unless we are having company over.)  WOOHOOO!!!

Joe, me, my sister and my brother-in-law just got back from a WONDERFUL 5 night cruise to the Caribbean last week.  It was nice to be able to relax after a tough 2 weeks of moving in and unpacking!  We went to Cozumel and Progresso, Yucatan.  We all got a little sunburnt but it relieved so much stress.  It was Joe & I's Happy Early Anniversary Cruise!  Yes, that's right, we will have been married for a YEAR in 1 month and 2 days!  I can hardly believe it has already been a year.  What a whirlwind of a year it has been too!  From new jobs to a new apartment and then a new house.  A new dog, new maid....!  WOW!  We are really blessed!

My Uncle Clay is coming into town with my mom in about a month to help with our landscaping.  He is a landscaper in Houston and can get wholesale prices on everything.  Look out "Yard of the Month"...here I come!!!  Haha

Well, back to work I go...