AWE! Father-Daughter!

I saw these two on Ellen today and they are just the cutest!

She is the sweetest little girl!

I want songs and a prayer before bed when we have a kid!

Or kids whatever happens.

This duo makes my heart melt!

I just love it!!

Secret wish of the day: To make a child as humble as this little one!

Sanity

I know things are hard for us right now but things will pick up.

It will happen.

We will make it happen.

The things that keep sane while my head makes me absolutely mad

are my crazy husband, the occasional family or friend thing, and the dogs.

While facebook and netflix can help me drowned out the stress of my life my everyday life,

they don't help me feel better.

I like my job but that can be a stesser in itself and that's not much help.

School was a bust this semester because of financial aid.

So I go out when I can, and my lover makes me laugh everyday!

Which is good too cause I usually cough up and out some green crap!

And Yes before I did say dogs, lol it's not a typo it is a new decision.

My lover found a small dog and we just couldn't leave him.

We tried to find his home but couldn't, and we tried to give him to the rescue that we got Bella from but she changed her number.

And now he is growing on us, GREAT!

It's so awesome being dog lovers. :)

But this comes at a time when we are trying to find a different place to live so it's going to working out. We have also named him....so ya! lol we are stuck with him....heehee.

I don't know, he is cute and Bella loves him.

She loves her Buddy.

In other news I am feeling the need to start working on a creative outlet for myself. Just not sure yet which thing I want to start.

I have also been trying to figure out how to make our lives work around getting the careers we want. My lover wants to be a Firefighter and I want to be a Physical Therapist.

I've been watching the news the last few days and it is just so hard to believe what is going on in Japan. All of the damage is so hard for me to wrap my head around. I wish the best to them in fixing and rebuilding their lives and their land.

The craziest video I have seen was from a friends post on facebook. A cameraman living in Tokyo made a film from footage off of a television station in Japan. In the footage you can see the water rising up from the street. The person filming is so close to the water, I am amazed that they didn't get swept away. The current is so strong that you can see it creep up and take away cars, a railing and buildings. It is astonishing and breathtaking how insane mother nature is.

Secret with of the Day: Get my travel fix in, with all the travel snacks.

Well, whats up with you?

I'm back.....moohoohaha

It has been like almost two months! wow were dose the time go. I thought hey I will start a blog and it will be fun! yay! And mostly it has been fun but then life gets going and don't make the time to blog it...but whatever I am here now.

In the last two months my step mom had her baby boy!

That was so amazing and he is the cutes!

I got a job working at an after school program and I am really enjoying it. I work with mostly first and second graders.

My brother had a big benefit in his honor in Monterey and Phil Keaggy played!

It was so awesome and so much fun!

I only wish I did not have to come strait home.

My husband and I got a dog!!!!!!!!!!! Its a girl her name is Bella and we love her so much! She has been huge blessing to have! She makes us so very happy!! We have been saying that she fits in so well with us because she is a dork just like us! She dose this hop thing when she is getting her bone and she has a foot fetish! I think its funny but the hubby said its creepy. lol!

We also just celebrated our SEVEN year anniversary! yay!

We have no monies so we did not go out of town like I would have liked but we did have a great time with some old friends and some news ones too!

Another new thing is that my hubby is going to be a firefighter!

He has started taking classes and working towards his new goal!

I am proud of him, he has been working on school and dieting.

I am mostly proud because he has been sticking with it, and that has not always been the case with him.

I am looking forward to the next few months, because these last ones have been nice

Here are some pics.

This is the newest member of the fam!

This is my new doggie!

She is the sweetest dog!

I like this pic cause she is holding the rope!

Wooow!!

I am excited!

My little sister starts kindergarten today!

Brian is at work!

My mother in law is coming to stay this week!

Josh was in town this weekend!

Jake, my brother, is going to have a pool party soon!

Its been and going to be really nice!

I like being excited about having my mother in law stay.

I have the best mother in law.

She is planning on moving back to Stockton to be closer to her kids.

But secretly she is really coming home to encourage us to give her grand kids!

;)

I need a brake from kids before I make my own.

I have been a baby sitter for five years! I need a brake!

And most importantly my lover understands that.

Oooo!

I am happy to hear from my step mom about obgyn's that have had cystic patients in town.

I my not want kids now , but I will some time soon and I want to be prepared before the time comes.

I really need to get healthy before any babies.

My biggest problem, other than exercise, is weight.

I am so tiny, I hate being so small.

Its weird talking to people sometimes because I have the opposite problem,

I need to gain 15 pounds not loose it!

I think since I am not going to babysit full time any more I really need to focus on eating and exercise while I look for new work.

Wish me luck!

Time sure dose fly!

It has been like two months since my last post, and a lot has happened. My husband got laid off, I stopped babysitting one little one and by the end of next week I will be out of work. Want to through the never ending 'you need to do' list out the damb window. My little sister had her fifth birthday party today!! That was a lot of fun. But my dumb ass forgot the camera. Went to Ikea. My step mom is prego and is due in September. Very exciting stuff!! Crossed some 'you need to do's' off the list. YAY! Then added more. My hubby and I feel in love with a dog, a lab/pit bull mix, but we can't get a pet until we get a new job :( ...we even picked a name, pearl.... My brother in law came up for a visit and is going to move back up soon. I decided that I need to go finish my three classes so that I can get my AA degree (The thing that really sucks for me is by the time I had gotten serious about going back to school it was too late for me this semester. But Fall semester here I come baby!! I so need to go back to school, I am bored and I need a challenge.) I also decided that I want to study so that I can be a Physical Therapist. Josh road an 18 mile, on a totally awesome vintage bike, for Bike For Breath!!!! Some of the people that met my brother were amazed and wowed that he is for months out of a double lung transplant and was there participating in the event. But for us family members whom had the opportunity to go were not surprised by my brothers ability to be outstanding! I think that's about it, it as been fun and stressful but that's life! o ya, finally made that Dr appointment and I got new pills for the first time! I'd been on ultrase since forever but they discontinued so now they gave me creon. yay for pills.

Happy Birthday to ME!!

This year my birthday plans are not so exciting.

But I have already started planning next years birthday!! heehee

Next year my birthday will be so much fun for me because it will be Friday the 13th!

I was born on Friday the 13th!

For now this years b-day has been nice and very low key.
Went out with my mom, soon to be sister inlaw and her mom to go get toes done.

It was fun! Pretty toes!

The nail lady thought I was 14, which I might add is a step up...for me at least! lol

I am now 24.

So I think for my 26th birthday party I will though a sweet 16 party! ;)

Everyone always tells me it such a great thing the look so young....

But I kinda don't care, I find it funny cause I have gotten some pretty good stories because of looking to young.

Like, once I went to Denny's and was handed a kids menu by a guy who was younger than I was.

Story of my life!

Any way, my husband took me out to outback! yummy yummy!

I also have another outing planed with my papa, my stepmom, and my sister.

I'm happy about that.

I'm excited too cause my little brother is having his engagement party this weekend!

Clean up

My husband and I moved into a little studio apartment in early April.

It has been almost a month later and we are still finishing all the unpacking.

We don't wave a lot of stuff, but going though everything and figuring out where to put it all is kind of a pain in the ass.

I wont to be done!

But there is so much to do, because not only did we move but it is our first place so trying to find the right place for all of OUR crap is a pain.

...and yes by 'our crap' it is mostly mine! yay for me I'm sentimental! but that's what happens when ya get a wife so haha ninner ninner booboo...

The place is starting to look nice though.

Man I tell you what it would take me even longer to clean up if I didn't have my husband.

Because I tend to slowly, I mill about when I clean my house, but when that guy starts to clean up he really gets down and dirty! And on top of that he is fast too.

Yay for me again!!

...hahahahahaha...

playing

Having fun with my sister.

Man of the Hour

I am intrigued by people.

In my life there have been many people I have found inspiring.

One of the people I find so dazzling is my very own Joshie.

Joshua Mompean is one of my brothers,

(I have two more plus a sister whom are also just as awesome!)

He is Mr. Hawk the superhero!

He is also in the middle of the biggest fight of his life.

We have Cystic Fibrosis.

His is way worse...dad says I always skated through it...

He has been through more then I can ever put onto a page.

Joshua Mompean, my Joshie, is a fighter!

Along with being a brother, he's also a husband, a son, a grandson, a talker (its the Mompean curse lol), caring, a family, loving, a pain in the ass, what!...yes sometimes all there is...is what!, giving, a man of the lord, sarcastic, a teacher, a forever student, LOUD, a friend, a hero and many others.

As a side note, I really wanted to put awesome, amazing and super good in front of some of those but..I thought that is would be a little much!

He is a fellow I have looked up to.

I love my brother.

I love my siblings.

They are wonderful, we love each othere very much and life wouldn't

have been so wonderful without them.

My brother and I are very much a like and very different.
We have a special bond and he will always have a speacial place in my heart.
No matter where he might be.

My only sadness is that I cannot be with him at this time,

as much as my heart desires, when in his life he needs suport from his famliy and friends.

Check out his story from age 3 here, to 26 here

Brilliant Sky

This holiday was a new one for me.

For the first time I spent it with a new family.

This year my husband and I spent our, first married, Christmas and New Years

with his side of the family.

(also the first Christmas I did send with mine.)

It was..I would say everything ha ha.

Crazy,very new, fun, crappy, exciting, frustrating, funny as hell, worried, and filled with music!

Brian (my wonderful husband), his brother and the cousins watched the Hangover...

They learned all the words to the Dug song and would not stop singing it all week!!!

And I mean the HOLE week and half we were there!

Hell I could not get the song out of my head the fist two days we were home.

The trip was good one.

Visiting with family who are awesome and now I! get to call my own!

So exciting!!

One of my favorite moments was when Brain and I were on the plane.

We had to book one of the super, balls early fights and as much and that sucked (for me) we were able to see the sunrise.

And for a girl who can be sentimental it was amazing.

Every time I see who wonderful the sky can be, I always think of my grandparents.

My grandpa dead when my papa was a kid so I have never met him.

But I have heard all about him my hole life.

And one thing I have heard for my grandma countless times is that he told her that the clouds and the sky are gods paintings.

Seeing sunsets and sunrises are extra special for me because of my family.

So the morning my new husband and I were on our way spend our first holiday away for my side of family was hard for me, but seeing the sky that morning made...my worry and sadness disappear.

Looking out the tiny window to see the bright pink sky made me happy.

It almost looking like the sky was burning pink it was so brilliant.

Thinking of grandparents and my new family made me excited for the coming holidays.

And tiered as hell because Brian and I hadn't slept.

After watching the sunrise we fell asleep on each other,

it was one of those rear romantic moments.

Only to be awoken by someone on the speak whom had set the volume to the loudest possible!

And my rear romantic moment was ruined!

Scared the crap out of us.

yummy goodness

My super awesome husband has been making dinner lately. The other night he called up his step mom and to get the recipe for Beer Chicken.
It is so good!

He rubbed seasonings on the chicken and then put a beer can, filled half way inside the chicken.

It had to cook in the oven for like two hours. It was so good when it came out!

By the time it was pulled out of the oven and cool down we were so very, very hungry. My husband was able to put a chicken on a plate before i came into the kitchen. We...well I... started eating the chicken in the kitchen right off the stove. He had tried to make instant potatoes to go with the chicken. Key word there is tried! hahaha! but not luck when the potatoes were done only the carcase was left.....

It was really good chicken.

The chicken itself was very juicy and I even dipped it into the juice that had dripped to the bottom of the dish making the chicken that much better!

It was gone so fast it reminded me of Thanksgiving. When everyone is yapping before the yummy goodness is in your mouth. When the dinner table is almost silent...for once. For just a moment you can only hear the taps of dinner forks tapping the plates. this lasts for only a minute before the food is gone.

Luckily he made two chickens! Can you say Leftovers!!!

I like to call them the Dancing Chickens!

SF

I love to travel and going to San Francisco is such a fun trip, there are so many things to do in the city. The last trip I took to SF my brother proposed to his girlfriend.

It was a blast, she had know idea what he had planed for her. He did a good job.

Every time I go to SF I get lost. Making for an exciting adventure.

Once my husband and I got turned around and ended up going across the Bay Bridge twice.

I laugh every time I think of it!

....this is me playing with the sand...

...the Golden Gate looks so cool from underneath...

...i just think this is cool looking...