Puppy Overload

    I have a great love, okay it's an obsession, with all things puppies. People always talk about the crazy cate lady, well I am pretty sure that I am going to become the crazy dog lady. Seriously all I want is a puppy. I have decided that I am going to buy myself a puppy for a graduation present. I mean I worked four hard years in order to graduate, the least I deserve is a puppy!
    My obsession has come to the point where I almost brought home two King Charles Spaniels this weekend. There was a couple giving them away for free and it took every fiber in my being to not walk away with them after playing with them. I'm pretty sure my roommates would have killed me, but it would have been so worth it!
    So I had to fulfill my puppy need somehow. There is a business here in Rexburg called Pups4Play, and they have a bunch of puppies that you can rent. The point is to get them adopted, and you can rent them to give them a little test run. But you can also just rent them to play with them. So this is exactly what we did. I was talking to the owner the other day and I was telling him my plans of renting soon and he asked if I had made a reservation yet, and I hadn't and then he told me to wait a day or two because they had just gotten four husky pups. I was out of my mind excited and reserved one as soon as I could.
    Today was the day! I was distracted all day at work because I just wanted to get home and play with the puppy. We reserved Royce because he had the bluest eyes, but when they dropped him off they had his sister too and asked if we would want her too because she didn't have a place to go and they said they play better together. Of course we said yes, because no sane person would say no to a second husky puppy!

Pure Happiness

    We had Royce and Mila for and hour and a half and just played with them. So much that we wore them out and they both slept for like the last twenty minutes that we had them. Which was totally okay because they were just so darn cute! It was so hard to give them back I just wanted to adopt them right there on the spot.

How could you resist those eyes?!

"I heard somebody define heaven once, as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you."

-Robert Parker

Playing Catch Up

    It has been a crazy past month or so! I have majorly neglected the blog, but I am back to play a whole lot of catch up. I finished up another semester, and this last winter was definitely the hardest semester yet. I was taking 19 credits and working about 20 hours a week. It was insane! I do not recommend it to anyone, I don't care how dedicated you are, it was torture. But I actually ended the semester with the best grades of my college career, so that was a real treat. Having no time whatsoever for any sort of social life payed off I guess...But now that semester is over and I am just starting another one. This semester will hopefully be less stressful, and its spring so it is automatically better!
     Over the week break between semesters I was able to meet my dad in Texas. Why Texas you ask? Well I am working on becoming a Child Life Specialist and there are a lot of really great children's hospitals in Texas and it just so happened that there was a Child Life workshop being held at one of the hospitals over my break. So my Dad and I planned a parents weekend, but instead of at school we took it all the way to Texas. And let me tell you, I fell in love with that state! It was so beautiful and the weather was perfect. I also absolutely fell in love with a hospital that I went to. We were able to walk around Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth and was so impressed with it! I now have high hopes of where I want to do an internship come January.
     It was such a good weekend. Dad and I were able to go to so many places. We explored Fort Worth and Dallas, went to an American Airlines Museum and to The Sixth Floor Museum, which is all about the John F. Kennedy assassination. It was amazing!

View from The Sixth Floor Museum

    We also were able to go to a baseball game during the MLB Opening Week. I love baseball, in fact our whole family loves it. Some of my fondest memories with my Dad are at baseball games, whether they were my brothers, my own softball games, or the Dodgers and Cubs games we always went to. So it was so fun being able to go to yet another stadium with him! It was so much fun, and I am so glad that I am lucky enough to be able to do these great things with my dad. It allows for us to create so many great memories. It is great to just be able to hang out without him having to worry about work or me about school. It was just a few days for us to be together which is so nice because I don't get to make it home very often, with them being in Connecticut and me in Idaho. I love it, wish Mom could have been there too, but sometimes a girl just needs time with her Dad!

     And now like I said I am back to another semester, it is crazy to think that within the next few months I will be applying for internships and officially applying for graduation. It is so weird, it seems like I just started here at BYU-I and after this semester I will only have one more left. It is scary and exciting all at the same time. 

"Go confidently in the directions of your dreams, live the life you imagined."

-Thoreau