Spring.

Yay!  Not that winter was so bad.

Here's an update on life lately. 

-First of all, I suck at taking pictures.  I don't think I've taken one all year!  I will put up pictures of the puppies SOON, I swear.
-Speaking of the puppies, we sold one :(  We sold Lucky, because there is just a lot going on right now, and we didn't feel like we could take care of both of them as well as we would have liked to.  Sage seems to be happy as an "only puppy" though.
-We took Spring Break in Moab.  Moab is pretty, but not as pretty as St. George/Zions if you ask me.  Highlight of the trip?  Me trying to mountain bike on slick rock.  Hilarious.
-I think I am going to nursing school!  How exciting is that? 
-Cord got a job for the summer as a "sprinkler repair man".  Thank goodness he got a job!

Now I just need to start taking pictures of all these events!  That's my life goal.

Working and Blogging.

Working is all I do.  That and sleeping.  Hmmmmmm.... Update.  We went over Christmas yeah?  Well then like a week later, it was Cord's 24th birthday!  Happy 24th birthday Cord.  I got him a grill.  A genuine charcoal one.  I think he secretly loves it.
Birthday surprise number two:  It's a good story.
I stopped at PetCo to pick up some fish food.  As I make my way up to the check-out counter with my $3 purchase, I see a Cat Lady.  You know the kind I'm speaking of.  The old lady who has no family, so fills the void by purchasing/adopting about 20 cats.  She had about fourty cans (no I'm not exaggerating) of cat food, and took about ten seconds to set each can on the counter to be scanned.  Seriously?
Then I heard puppies barking.  Pretty sure that's a sign, right?  So I went and saw the puppies, and they were adorable, and I called my husband named Cord and made him come see the puppies too, and long story short, we adopted them and took them home that very night.  They are adorable.  One is a chihuahua mix, and we named her Sage.  She is crazy.  She likes to bury bones in imaginary dirt, she is constantly happy, and she has never-ending energy.  Then there is Lucky.  He is a chihuahua mixed with a mini-pinscher, and he kind of reminds me of Eeyore.  He looks down all the time, and hides a lot because he's pretty much scared of everything. But he loves sitting on peoples' laps.  It's his favorite. 
Let's see what else... Um... Valentine's Day prank.  Good times.
Remember that one time Cord played a joke on me and called it a proposal?  Me too. 
I can play this game too.  I faked a pregnancy test to say "positive" and gave it to Cord as a present for V-Day.  Then I let him believe it for about two hours.  Ha ha.  Funny me.

Now the sad part.  We love the above-mentioned puppies.  But for a couple different reasons, we can't take care of them right now... so we are selling them :(.  Makes me sad.

I Am Probably Really Excited About This.

Watch this video.  Seriously.

In case you don't, I'll summarize.

First off, some history.  Joseph Kony leads a rebel group called the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) that kidnaps children from their home, forces them to kill their own parents, join the army, become sex slaves, and lots of other bad news stuff.  He's done this to over 30,000 children.  He has no cause, other than being a power-hungry jerk-face. 

Independent American film-maker goes to Africa.  Meets a boy that has escaped from Joseph Kony's LRA.  The boy, named Jacob, watched his brother get murdered by this LRA group.  They are bad guys.  Kind of like the bad guys on Star Wars. 
Anyways, Independent film-maker promises Jacob he will end the LRA.  Big promise.  Film maker comes home, talks to the government about it (they say there's nothing they can do), so he starts telling anyone and everyone that will listen all about it. 
Now that the people are demanding it, Obama sends 100 troops to Africa to help the Uganda military find Kony. 
Bottom line:  Invisible Children (that's the name of Independent film-maker's organization) has a goal to catch Kony by the end of 2012.  To do this, they are making everyone AWARE of who he is and what he's done.  That way, the world's governments can't ignore it. 

This is a new concept to me.  Now that communication has gone global, we are no longer separated by the boundaries of a state, country, or even continent.  Joseph Kony is not only a criminal in Uganda, or even Africa.  He is a criminal that, like Hitler, is a menace to the human race. 

So let's do something about it!  Seriously.  I am so in.