30 Day Challenge-Day 5

My Favorite Holiday/Vacation

I'm going to talk about my favorite vacation.

When I met Mr. A it was the summer of 2006. I lived in NY, he lived in CA. We had to travel to see each other, which was about once a month. It sucked and it was hard but it definitely made us strong!

We went on A LOT of vacations that summer so I can't pick just one. Therefore, I'm going to talk about our HONEYMOON!!!

We went to Riviera Maya, Mexico in May 2008. We stayed at Aventura Spa Palace and it was beautiful. It was an All-inclusive resort. Something that I had never experienced before so I didn't know what to expect. It was paradise...no joke. I would definitely go back in a heart beat.

We laid by the pool, enjoyed many of meals, tons of drinks and shots and a few excursions. We even met a few people that we still keep in contact with back from the East Coast. I love it! We are talking about meeting back up with them at our honeymoon destination sometime in the near future.















Here we are at the honeymooners night. They had a sit down dinner with live entertainment. It was awesome!














This was THE BEST excursion ever and if I had known how awesome it was going to be, I wouldn't have spent anymore money on anything else and we would have done this a couple times.
Swimming with the dolphins. What amazing creatures they are!!


























We also went horseback riding. This, I have been wanting to do for years and years. I talked Mr. A into doing it and well, I was actually quite scared once I got on the horse. haha Mr. A rode his horse into the water as I sat and watched.

My horses name was Freckles. She was so cute and nice but had a mouth infection so if I pulled on the reigns too hard, it hurt her. Poor Freckles!!














Here are our friends in order....Julie, Chris, Ryan, Derek, Janine, Me and our bartender. They made AWESOME shots. Each one was a different color and tasted amazing!!














This one was called the Crazy Frog or something like that. MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!! I wish I could have one right now.















Here is our resort from the pool area and my sexy Mr. A!















Here is the front sign.















Here we are in Playa Del Carmen. Look at that ocean behind us. What a beautiful site. If you look really close...I have my bikini top on wrong. HAHAHAHAHA I don't know HOW this happened but both me and Mr. A didn't know it was on wrong until later that day! Wow....I guess that goes to show what a great honeymoon we had!

I love you more than anything Mr. A and my love grows more and more each day!!

30 Day Challenge-Day 4

10 Songs Everyone Should hear

We Built This City-Jefferson Starship

Sarah-Jefferson Starship

It Won’t Be Like This for Long-Darius Rucker (If you have kids, get the tissues ready)

Love of my Life-Sammy Kershaw (our wedding song)

Baby Got Back-Sir Mix-a-lot (yes, I just put that. It always makes me sing so I love it)

What Hurts The Most-Rascal Flatts

American Boy-Estelle

Beat It-Michael Jackson (just a classic song)

Keep It Hot for Daddy-Soul Position (This song was kind of our theme song for when I met DH. We listened to it ALL the time and kind of fit us since we met and fell so quickly for each other.)

Knock You Down-Keri Hilson & Kanye West (I just LOVE it)

This was a lot harder than I had anticipated! haha

30 Day Challenge-Day 3

What I am most proud of.........

There are 2 things that I am very proud of but I’m only going to list 1.

Going to and graduating college in 4 years. To some, this may seem like an easy task but to someone that absolutely HATED school, it wasn’t.

While growing up, there was no other option than going to college. My parents beat it so hard into my head that if I didn’t, I wouldn’t amount to anything.

So, I graduated HS probably middle of my class somewhere. I hate studying, I didn’t like school, I wasn’t necessary good at it but I passed all my classes and even excelled in a few. I was definitely better at math than social studies where you just have to memorize everything.

After HS, I went to a Community College more for the fact that I had NO idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. And sadly enough, I STILL have no clue!

I played soccer, met some great people and had a blast. My grades were really good too. YAY! I graduated with my Associates in Liberal Arts. 2 years down, 2 more to go!!

Then it came time to decide what to major in when I would proceed on to my Bachelor’s Degree.

To most, this is also a very easy task. Again, not for me! Haha I knew what I loved doing but couldn’t figure out what major would best suit me.

I loved working with people, so I chose Psychology. If anyone had told me that I wouldn’t be able to find a job with just a Bachelor’s, I definitely would have picked something else.

I transferred to SUNY Oswego, which for those of you who don’t know, that’s right on Lake Ontario. HELLO cooold, snowy winters. Again…WHAT WAS I THINKING??? I hated the snow!!

Anywho, I graduated in 2 years and couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there. I had a rough time with being away from home and having a boyfriend at SUNY Geneseo. Those two things made me a little depressed which caused me to have anxiety attacks, loss of appetite, vomiting, etc. It was just horrible. Not the experience I was hoping for when going off to college.

I stuck through it and couldn’t be happier that I went to college and now have my Bachelor’s degree. It was very hard but definitely made me learn many things and brought me a few great friends. I wouldn’t change it for the world except maybe the major that I chose. :-)

Day 2 (only a few days late)

Sorry everyone, I was out of town from after work on the 2nd until late last night and I honestly didn't feel like updating last night.

So, here is my day 2 (only 5 days late). I swear I will be better with this now!!

30 Day Challenge-Day 1

About me....I hope you get to know me a little better!

30 Day Challenge

I found this on my friend Jillian's page.

So this is the deal: everyday there will be a new thing to blog about! You can make them just a regular post, or do something fun with them. Make them a scrapbook type thing, or anything!!

I'm excited about it. However, we will be leaving town on Friday night for the 4th of July weekend so I may be late on some of my blogs this weekend. OOPS!

1st post coming soon....

July is looking GOOD!!

So, as most of you know, we have been House Hunting since mid January. We've put in probably 6 offers with none of them working out.

Well, we finally found one that seems to be working out for us. We put the offer in on May 14th (I believe).

This house had 2 loans.....1 for the mortgage and 1 for the pool. Initially, the owner was going to have to pay the pool back BUT on June 19th we heard great news. Chase, who had the lean on the pool was going to forgive the loan. YAY!! This was the harder of the two to get through.

So, we signed a bunch more papers the other day and one was that we are to close no LATER than 30 days from written acceptance. OMG. I freaked a little bit. That's so fast especially for a Short Sale.

We have to give 60 days notice to our apartment complex which I HATE but it'll give us time to paint and do some other things we really want to do.

Anyway...today I get a text from my Realtor and friend that THEY EXTENDED THE TAX CREDIT!!!!!!!!! It's only for people who have current contracts and have to close by Sept. 30th. Now, we aren't 100 positive that it's the full amount of if we had to sign a contract by April 30th for the full amount. Either way, we will get something and I'm super stoked about it.

Now, we just need to hear a yes on the house. HOWEVER, we don't see any issues as to why they would say no.

Crossing our fingers and praying to the big Guy.