yes - i know that hysterically is spelled with a Y and not an I.

Girls Nights! And Dog destroy-ation!

That's right... girls nightSSSS plural! I've had TWO of them this week since Chris has been out of town and it's been FUN! However, I must say that I miss my husband SO terribly and I cannot WAIT for him to come back home and hold me... but until then, I have two MORE girls nights! Yippee! Tuesday night was Vinings Lake Church GNO and I had a blast! We went to see MAMA MIA and it was the PERFECT girls night movie! It makes you want to just GET UP out of your seat and dance! And my sweet friend, Hollie, did just that... during the movie... It was very cute :) She even did a little song solo action during one of the looooonger drawn out songs. It, of course, caused all of us to laugh histerically, and I'm sure the 100 people sitting behind us just LOVED it. After the movie, we went for a VERY late dinner at Don Pablos.


Me, Kristen, Katie, Hollie, Melanie, Jen B, Jenn W and Jill!

So, while we were DECIDING what to do for dinner - seriously, everyone there was like me and could NOT decide where to eat, so we stood there for about 10 minutes talking about places around there - anyway, while the debate was happening, I noticed my boyfriend standing over by the door, so I decided to go get a picture with him. Yeah - that's right - Zac Efron is my boyfriend... Chris knows all about it so no worries. His friends were standing around too... his other girlfriend, Vanessa wasn't too happy about me taking a picture with Zac, but I think she got over it. She's knows I'm his number one!




Last night was Bridge Pointe Church (our old church from Woodstock) GNO and it was SO much fun too! I am so blessed to have so many wonderful friends. We met for dinner and trivia at Summit Grill in Town Lake and then went to Bailey's where they had karaoke... however, the smoke was beginning to fill our lungs within 30 minutes and after one drink we were OUTTA there!


Kaci, Me and Kristen.


Diane, Chelsea and Coty!



Me, Diane, Chelsea, Kaci, Coty and Kristen! I like to put my arm on my hip in pictures where I'm on the end because it makes my arm look skinnier... little trick I learned from my awesome US Weekly magazine!



Chelsea will very well may kill me for posting this picture! :) Cute, Chels... cute!

So, for the past two nights, my POOR sweet doggies were left alone at home for basically the entire day. I am a TERRIBLE mommy. However, Monday night, I stayed in all night and was MISERABLE, so I couldn't do that again. Anyway, Tuesday night, when I came home, the office trash can was pretty much demolished as well as everything that was in it. They chewed a highlighter, some paper, and part of their dog pillow, and the blue squishy covering on one of my 5 lb weights I use when I do THE FIRM workouts... nothing too bad... but still... I had to clean it all up for about 20 minutes when I got home. I didn't send anyone to time out because I figured it was my fault for leaving them inside for such a long time. I apologized and called it even.

So, last night, I come home... and I guess the pups were a little more angry at me this time. They chewed one of Chris' $200 school books, his $200 TI calculator, they OPENED one of the drawers to the desk (how they did this, I'd LOVE to know) in the office and chewed about 30 ink pens - ink all over our floor and pillow, they chewed about 10 highlighters - ink all over the floor and pillow, some sparkle markers I had from a scrap book I made years ago - ink all over the floor and pillow and not to mention they just got paper out of our printer and just chewed it up as well. Just a little icing on the cake. I wasn't as understanding this time... however, my girls nights for tonight and tomorrow are now going to be cut MUCH shorter than the last two nights thanks for my poor, sweet pups who have been very confused and abandoned this week.

Christmas in July and Time Out!

DISCLAIMER - I DO ACTUALLY DO WORK AT MY JOB. I ACTUALLY WROTE THIS POST EARLIER THIS WEEKEND AND JUST REALIZED I HADN'T POSTED IT YET! :)



Okay, so I know all I do is blog about our dogs, but they are our LIFE. And we don't have kids to blog about yet - and our lives are VERY uneventful outside of the doggies - so this is what you get :)

Last Saturday, when I got off from work, Chris and I decided that our doggie toy box needed a makeover, so we brought ALL three dogs to PetsMart and let them each pick out some toys! It was an adventure for sure. We won't ever be doing that again, by the way. So, Buddie gets in the shopping cart because he loves it and we throw all the toys in there with him. He's in doggie heaven.

Meanwhile, Jack and Harlee bark and pee on everything in the store... sigh. Anyway, after spending an UNDISCLOSED amount of money at the pet store, we head to the dog park to try out some toys, then head home and we FILL UP the toy box. The dogs were LOVING IT and they were constantly running over to the toy box and taking everything out. I tried to make them understand that they can only have one toy out at a time, but they just didn't understand... oh well. I have to pick my battles. Here's a pic of Buddie and Harlee LOVING the full toy box!

So, the entire evening was just a HUGE toy-fest and Buddie, especially, was having so much fun, that he forgot to go sit by the door to let us know he needed to go outside. And as he realizes he needs to GO he walks towards the door and doesn't quite make it and lovely, wonderful pee begins to fill our kitchen floor. Lovely.

So, whenever our dogs do something really terrible - this normally only includes tearing something up, or going to the bathroom in our house - both of which happen MAYBE once a year - we put them in time out. Now - I have to note that this only applies to our older 2 dogs - Jack and Buddie. Our big puppy, Harlee, has no clue what doing something bad means, thinks she is always good and therefore always thinks you are loving on her, even if you are punishing her. So, anyway, Jack and Buddie TOTALLY know what time out is and they KNOW when we mean business.

So, I go to clean up the 5 gallons of nasty dog pee and scream at Buddie the entire time... while he is hiding underneath the coffee table, of course. He KNEW when he started to pee that it was wrong... so he went ahead and hid when he was done. Smart dog. So, after I clean it up, I walk over and pop his nose and tell him how bad he is and that he's in time out and he cannot go back into the kitchen to get his ball he left in there while he was leaving a nice mess for me to clean up. Now, understand, that this was the BRAND NEW ball we had JUST bought at the store... AND.... wait for it.... IT SQUEAKS!!!! It's is favorite ball and he hadn't put it down all day since we bought it. He was SO upset. He laid down in the den and just looked at his ball in the kitchen for about 45 minutes until I told him time out was up and he could go get it.

Just LOOOOKING at his ball... it's the green thing at the top of the picture.

After 5 or 10 minutes, he laid down and stared at it. How pathetic!

When we finally told him time out was up, he got his ball and RAN to the toy box to see what else was in there. Too funny!

And after about 20 minutes playing, he was emotionally exhausted from the experience he had just gone through and PASSED OUT (not kidding) halfway inside the toy box.

Seriously - our dogs think they are children and therefore act like it. I have no idea how we trained them to understand "time out" and understand when we mean business, but we did and they are AWESOME at understanding us. Maybe it's cause we totally treat them like children... who knows. Am I the only person in the world who would treat their dog this way? Please tell me I'm not crazy.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

So, whenever Chris leaves the house with either Jack or Buddie, the other dog goes into this TOTAL depression mode and just pouts by the window for hours until Chris and the dog come back.

Well, in this case, Chris left on Sunday with Buddie... and Jack has been sitting on the couch looking out the window that he saw Chris and Buddie leave from. It's really sad. When Jack goes outside, he sits by the fence and lays down and waits for Chris and Buddie to come back. And when he comes back inside he goes STRAIGHT back to the window and looks outside. It's really pathetic. Harlee - on the other hand - is totally oblivious to the fact that Chris and Buddie are gone... hilarious! After I closed the blinds last night, I thought Jack would get up from the couch and stop looking - but no... he just sat there and STARED straight at our blinds. Here is a pic of him on our couch last night STARING into the blinds. He's black and the couch and curtains are dark - so it's hard to see him. But he's there! :) In the closer up picture - I actually got him to look at me when I called his name, but he didn't even open his eyes. As if he was saying, "I am so miserable mom, that I cannot even bare to look at you."

Body guards!

Meet my three personal body guards! Buddie, Jack and Harlee! This is what they look like pretty much ALL day long... that is when they are not taking long nap breaks on the couch or on their pillow. Harlee is actually normally found laying ON TOP of our air conditioning vent on her breaks. Anyway, they look out our front window ALL day long and bark at ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that moves in front of our house.... which I LOVE. They all have pretty loud and very mean-sounding barks and although I know they would never do anything to someone they know... when strangeers come near our house(the UPS man, garbage men, random people on walks) - they have an absolute FIASCO. I am pretty sure that if anyone were to ever break in our house, they would very much so regret it about 2 seconds after entering our home.

If you ever need to borrow a body guard, just let me know. I rent them out for about $15 an hour. :)

Serious obsession!

Okay... I have an obsession and I know one of the first steps to helping with it is to admit it.

I AM ADDICTED TO CHIPOTLE.

There, I said it. Seriously... I have had 6 tacos this week - total - 3 days this week I went to Chipotle and had 2 tacos each time. I LOVE CHIPOTLE. It's amazing. Actually, I really love ANY place like it. My husband and I eat a Moe's at least once, if not twice, a week. Willy's is good too... but there isn't one super close by like Moes it to my house and Chipotle is to my work.

Last month, when Chris and I were looking at houses, I would SERIOUSLY find myself looking around the neighborhood to where the closest Moes, Willys or Chipotle was.

If anyone has any cures to this serious addiction, please call me as soon as possible and we can go talk about over a few tacos and margaritas at Chipotle or Moes.

Peace out!

I'm at work on a Saturday.....

So, one of our managers has been out of town this whole week - and me being the super nice person I am, offered to come into work for him this morning so that he wouldn't have to drive back from the beach until this morning. Now I'm regretting it a little bit. But - no worries - I brought my latest US Weekly and plan to read it thoroughly and of course, I can't start my day without a little bloggity blog!

Last night we went to Pete (our church pastor) and Hollie's house for a cookout and it was FUN! I met SO many of my blogger world friends that I know so much about, but have never met!

Well, after a little cry from Pete and Hollie's youngest daughter, Addie, a trip to the ER was made! Yikes! Poor Addie broke her shoulder when she fell off the swing set and a group effort was needed to take Addie to the ER. Hollie, Katie and Jenn took her.... I'm so sure it was a fun trip as these girls are all hilarious! I stayed back and watched Jenn and Joe's son, Josh, TEAR IT UP on guitar hero. Seriously. He was amazing. Guitar hero makes me feel INCREDIBLY old, by the way. Here is a precious photo of Addie that Katie took at the ER... bless her sweet little heart!

On our way home, we decided to make a detour to Wal-Mart to see if they just happened to have a Wii and THEY DID! Just kidding. They didn't. And it's probably a good thing. Because that thing is addicting. I'm sure I'd never leave the house again if we got a Wii.... especially a Wii with guitar hero!

Pete rockin out Guitar Hero

Anyway - thanks to Pete and Hollie for the wonderful cook out - we had such a fabulous time meeting everyone. We hope to come back soon so we can meet lots more people!

Lost doggie....

These are pictures of a sweet little puppy my sister found at her house today. What a sweet baby! Bless his poor heart. My sister lives in Savannah... anyone need a doggie and want to drive to Savannah to get it?

Fun with my hubby!

Chris and I laugh ALL the time. We are complete dorks around each other.

Here's some cute pictures of us last night.

We were bored.

Chris and Harlee wrestling...

Not sure :)

The Hulls!No idea. He's a dork.
Harlee is a photo hog... she just HAD to get on the couch and get in some pictures! And I don't think Chris is smiling... I think he's in pain cause Harlee just bit his ear.

She knocked my glasses off so that she could have a good face shot!

Fun with our Children!

Now, I know a lot of you know how we feel about our dogs, but if you don't, well, then know this.

WE LOVE THEM!

Our dogs are our children and we totally treat them as if they are. We tuck them in at night, wake up to let them out in the middle of the night if they ask us to (a.k.a. nudge our heads til we wake up), we let them in the bed with us if they have scary dreams and are scared, we wake up early so they can eat, pee and poop before we have to leave for work, we RACE home from work because we just missed them SO much while we were gone, we play with them as soon as we get home, we feed them dinner and take them on a walk or take them to one of Smyrna's awesome doggie parks, then come home and play with them more until it's time for bed.

We Love Our Dogs.

I don't know what I'd do without them. I think about them all day long when I'm not with them and I LOVE coming home to see them. In fact - this is a funny story - or disturbing - either way.... On our honeymoon, we were in Mexico for 7 days, and we began to miss our pups SOOOOOOO terribly, that we began to role play them. Chris would lay on the floor and I'd scratch behind his ear and he'd shake his leg like Jack does. Or I'd push on his chest and he'd growl like Jack does when he's super annoyed. And we have this voice for Buddie, our little one. He talks with a REALLY bad lisp so we would walk around our condo for an entire week talking in a lisp and saying things that Buddie would say about the condo. For example, "Wow, Thaddy! Wook at dat big, giant, oooooooothen. It'th thoooo pretty! Can we go pway in da thand, thaddy? Pweease, pwetty pweeathe?" (I'm sure we will have a kid with a lisp one day because of our constant Buddie voice we do. Oh well.) Anyway... so now that you all think we're total lunatics... it may be time for me to stop. Here are a few pictures of us with the dogs tonight after work. We have such a fun time with them. :)

Kissing my beautiful Harlee Jane Hull. Yum!

This didn't turn out exactly how I was planning it to... Her tongue was disgusting. Chris and his favorite dog, Buddie.
Jack LOVES when you hand him sticks. He goes CRAZY!
My sweet Harlee Jane.
Sweet Buddie.
Catching the ball!
Me and my sweet girl!
Almost caught it!
She caught it!
Harlee... look at mama!
No baby.... look at mama! Good girl! Good Harlee Jane! The girl's got air... gotta give it to her!

Check out her monstrous tongue!
Trying to take a group picture....
Not working out so well...
Harlee... get... over.... here!