Venturing through Jared's phone

Every few months I go through Jared's pictures and send myself a bunch of photos. It is kind of funny, because it is like reliving a bunch of memories through Jared's eyes. Also when we were dating or even when we just aren't together, Jared will send me pictures of things and it is fun for me to save them if I forgot too. Here are my top 7.
Just a reminder.. both of our phones are full of pictures of our puppy dog. She kind of takes up our entire life. 

Shia on my lap as a toddler {BEFORE}

Shia on me now.. {After}

 Two of her many faces that crack me up all the time.

This was the biggest slice of pizza ever. It was the only place open in Miami after we drove down there from Ft Lauderdale. I probably ate it all.

We stopped at Disney world after the Bahamas on our honeymoon. I forgot my camera at Epcot so this is one of the only photos we have from Epcot.

Jared tried on my headband. ha ha ha ha! 

 

Octubre

I was looking through Hewy (my phone), and realized that the last few weeks have been out of control. There has been so much going on, and when that happens it seems like time just hustles on by. Also Shia tore her ACL pretty bad.  It is very common in dogs, so the vets rate the tears from 1-10, and he told us Shia's was like a 9.9 probably. She is a champ, and handled surgery like a trooper. But the recovery process has been insanely difficult. It is like having a newborn baby. We had to carry her out to the grass for potty breaks, we had to carry her over to her food & water, and she'd wake up at night just whining, because she laid on her incision wrong. It really did break my heart. Then all of the sudden she got ALL of her energy back. Then it became even more difficult, because Jared and I were trying to do anything we could to keep her off her leg, and she seriously just wanted to play. It's been rough. Yesterday she got her staples out, and is now allowed to walk to the bathroom and to eat, she can even go up and down the stairs slowly. In another 4 weeks we will get her x-rays to see  how she's healed up.

Shia also turned one on October 6th, and I know I am slightly annoying in the video, because I was trying to get Shia to get excited, but Spinelly is really cute.

A few weeks ago, Jared went to San Fran for work Friday through  Monday. After being alone with Shia the gimp for 2 days, I decided I needed a break from her and needed to get out! I went to the mall for some retail therapy, but I am pretty cheap so retail therapy is like spending $15, which is exactly what I did! For only $15 I got the cutest pants ever! They are a bright blue color, and I want to get them in every color. They had like gray, magenta, and navy blue at Charlotte Russe. These were the only ones in my size though.

After Jared got back it had finally become Pumpkin Carving time! Last year we went nuts carving. We each carved 6 pumpkin probably. This year we've only carved one. We went to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins, but they were extremely expensive.. so we just went to Wal*Mart. 

Pumpkins means HALLOWEEN! I have the best man in the world, because he helps me with everything! Sometimes I get crazy ideas or I just have an image in my mind and he helps me put it all together. So this year I found what I wanted to be, and I thought this won't be hard to make at all! Two nights of Jared sewing, 2 hours of me printing iron ons, and a full hour of painting and tracing my costume is done! But total it only cost about $12. Can't get much better than that... I can't tell you what my costume is though. It's a surprise.

Hey baby.

I like the things you do! HEY BABY! I like you!

That's the song I wrote for my boyfriend husband. Today is a day that I really love my life. Some thing are lame like the fact that this week my office moved (cool), but then my commute more than doubled each way (lame).

However then I think of things like the fact that Jared wrote on this calendar "Kiss Miki" the day after his work-cation.


That my baby girl Shia is FINALLY starting to heal up (she tore her ACL), and she's ready to get staples out and start using her back leg again. I love her too much.

Life is seriously so good.

DIY Wedding Elements

I was looking through my wedding photos, and I felt a lot of pride looking throughout them, because I did so much of the wedding myself. I had help setting up, but most everything was homemade to save money. I think they ended up looking perfect. The main themes were; big fish (vintage) blue and yellow.

These were the centerpiece stuffings. I got from hobby lobby and tore apart to fill each vase with. I also ordered blue and yellow buttons of Ebay to hold the stuffing in.

We had 8 tables, each had 3 things, chalkboard that I made {to see CLICK here}, vase with buttons and stuffing, and then a fishbowl from the DI with succulents that I planted in them to match my bouquet. 

Jared's family made the reception food. Clayton made some strawberries in Tux's.

We had assorted desserts, croissants with different filling, and a candy bar. We did all this ourself to save money and to customize. I really appreciate ALL the help from the DeMann's for this portion, and from my family too!

I made my veil, and the clip to hold it in. The Veil was from ebay, then I made a clip out of a $3 broach, and some fake pearls with a peacock feather to add some flare. I need to find a better picture.

Cake Toppers can be expensive! Well like $25 for something you'll use once. I wanted love birds so badly, but I couldn't find any I loved. So I bought 2 ceramic birds at Michaels for $2 each, and still have them for memorabilia and decoration.

Flowers are EXPENSIVE! Since we did an outdoor wedding the only flowers I ordered were my bouquet, which is Succulents, Cacti and billy balls, because I don't like flowers very much. I made all the bouquets for my bridesmaids. I bought some twigs, vase filling and feathers and twine from hobby lobby, and they turned out darling. I love they way look! They matched perfect.

 The picture is a bit blurry, but you can see the ribbon and tiny key.

 Each bouquet had a twine "stem" to hold, with a ribbon wrapped around, and a key attached to it. I love keys, and they added a little something extra.

Boutonnieres 

The boys all had boutonnieres made from a peacock feather, some vase filling, wire, twine and a key on theirs as well. See how I made them by clicking {HERE}.

Lights added a huge element to the wedding. We had assorted lighting everywhere. 

The signs were very vintage. I cute out the sayings with my silhouette and then placed them on the wood, and mode podged them down! I had a few around. There was one that said "Jared and Miki", "Gifts" "happily ever after begins here", and "seating arrangements". They really help bring out the rustic and vintage feel.

Turning ONE!

My little munchie turned one today! I love this puppy so much. It seems like we have had her for years, but it's really only been a 10 months.. click here for the story of how Shia L Spinelly came to be part of our family. 

This pup seriously has been incredible, but also a challenge. Jared and I never had a real fight in the first two years of our relationship, then came Shia. We didn't know the correct way to discipline or if she should be allowed to sleep in the bed. Which by the way YES she does sleep in our bed every night, and she cuddles me to death. She seriously spoons. Wraps her paws around my tummy and spoons. Jared is the best puppy dad ever. He loves Shia a lot. He even came home on valentine with a present for Shia and I then we all the 3 watched a movie together. Also when she doesn't feel good he  puts warmed up towels around her and cuddles her to pieces. It is so cute. She loves it.

Guilt has overwhelmed me today, because for Shia's first birthday she is spending the day in the hospital. She tore her ACL and is getting surgery to repair it today. No worries my little girl is a champ, she never slows down and hasn't even though the pain is suppose to prevent her from walking. She still was trying to play fetch and run laps yesterday. Picture this, Shia running like she does... which is like a high speed frog since her legs are always together (front then back), then Jared and I trying to sneakily catch her to make her stop using her gimp leg. It was a mess.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIA!

 This is my pip squeak as a baby head.

Shia Jared and I on Valentines

Shia and I dancing at my wedding.

Shia in her Birthday outfit

At 12:15am on her birthday, she couldn't stay awake.

 Good luck in Surgery Angel Puff Munchie! Love you!

Naming my babe

I remember so clearly the day that Vern and I met. He was this handsome little Corolla, just ready for me to get him and drive my late teen and early adulthood away. I got Vern the week before I turned 16. I just barely sold him last Wednesday. I didn't really mean to sell him, but Jared told me he bet that tops I would get $800, but long behold. I wrote the funniest KSL ad, I had ever seen. (I frequent KSL a lot). Within 30 minutes we had 3 very interested buyers, and the first man to call was named Art. He came over after work and took Vern for a test drive, and it was love at first drive. The funny thing is he pulled up in an older Corolla, and then bought Vern for his sons knocked up girlfriend. Vern was in way better condition than his Corolla, because seriously Vern was my only baby before Shia.

Later that night, we decided to go to a dealership, and test drive a bunch of cars. We thought it would be easier to at least see a bunch of different cars in one spot, before we looked online and had to drive to 10 different locations. After being at the dealership for over 3 hours, we decided that I definitely wanted to stick with Toyota, they drove better than any of the other cars in our price range, and I already trust them a lot. I haven't ever had a major problem on my car, and the parts for him like new brakes or tires are cheaper because they are all standard. However, I was a lotting myself to spend some money, and so I didn't want a bland Corolla or Camry. I looked at Yaris, Prius and most sedans toyota makes. Then we went home did some research, and started to look at Toyota's other brands, scion and lexus. Lexus was out of my price range, so we did some serious research on scions. I fell in love with the Scion TC, we got online found a seller selling theirs for 3K under Blue Book. I was stoked. We checked out the title, car faxed the mofo, and had it looked over by a trusted mechanic. The car was perfect!

The seller's claimed they had already bought a new car, and were expecting a baby really soon so they needed to get rid of it fast. That was that! The car is done and bought! I love every second of it. It has a manual transmission and I have driven manuals before, but never owned one. So it is fun and exciting to have a completely different car! I just love him.

I still haven't found a name for him though. I need to immediately though. I know he is a boy (obviously), but I need help! Any suggestions? I like Wilbur and Boden so far, but they just haven't stuck yet!