Weekend Review - Easter, cupcakes, busy busy!

My Easter weekend was great. Friday I had off and got some flowers planted and things done around our house. Then we had a bonfire that night with some friends... fun times!

Saturday consisted of more work outside.. but we were very productive, or should I say, Ryan was very productive (I did help!) 

He put me in a clothes line and a raised herb bed.. it looks great. I'm getting so excited now... LESS THEN 3 WEEKS!

I ended my Saturday night making these babies... Cookie Dough cupcakes with Cookie dough Icing.. SO YUMMY.. I do impress myself sometimes.

 

Cute right?

How was your Easter weekend?

Life can change in a minute...

It's crazy how in just a second, your life can change forever.

It could be good, it could be bad. No one ever knows where the day will take them, where the hour will take them. Just like that, in an instant, everything could change.

It's kind of scary right? You try and have faith that everything goes good each day.. but when the worst happens to people around you it's hard to keep thinking that tomorrow won't bring surprises.

On Tuesday night, a friend and co-worker of mine was seriously injured in a hiking accident. You can read his story here.

He is lucky to be alive.

It all gets so real when things happen like this... who would have ever thought? I'm sure not him, but in an instant things change, accidents happen, your life changes forever, and there is nothing you can do about it.

When you work with someone for 9 hours a day... you get to know them pretty well. I always say... You have your family at home, and (if your lucky enough to have great people to work with) you have your family at work. You spend more time with the people you work with, then your actual family.

I pray and hope for his speedy recovery.. and that everything goes well in his healing process. It's going to be a long road to his recovery with the extent to his injuries. He is young and strong and I have no doubt that he is going to pull through this just fine.

We all should really sit back and feel blessed for each and everyday we have... each day we are given good health...

In just a moment it could change, this is the world we live in...

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend.

Amberlee

The home stretch

We're in home stretch now... just a few short weeks, and I will be able to say...."This is my home"

My very own home!

How I have waited to say those words... how patient I have been.

I am ready for this.

There is only a few last thing I have to get set up... Tv and Internet pretty much is it. I also have to confirm delivery of our appliances, but other then that we are pretty set to go.

We have a few last projects that we will be working on in these next couple weeks. Some outside stuff, like putting up a clothes line, and repainting my bedroom set, which will be in the spare bedroom. All these things seem so small now. Like, after all we have done so far to fix the house (yard and basement) these items are tiny in comparison to the time and effort we have already put in. I know there will be a lot more to do when we get inside.. like painting, which will be the first thing we do when we get in, but I just can't wait to make this Ryan and I's home... to eventually start our family in this house, and make lots and lots of memories.

I'm smiling right now..

April 28th... is the day we get the keys... =)

I finally feel like my life it coming along exactly how I wanted it to. (Well, not 100%, there are still a few changes that need to be made, but it's getting there)

It's going to be a busy next couple of weeks, and I'm going to love every minute of it.

A broken heart

You know what sucks?

When you have to give back something you love...

When you have literally nothing left to give... and don't know what to do, and you have to give back something you love... a lot.

This is what my family and I had to do Friday night...

We had to give back the precious, cute puppy we had come to know and love in just a short week.

Not because we wanted to.... not at all.


To make a long, devastating story short, the puppy got sick. Really sick.


After 3 vet trips and a very late night emergency trip.. we had done all we could, and gave all we could emotionally and financially. There was not much else we could do for this poor little thing.

It's hard to decide if you did the right thing... was thing wrong to do?

All my mom wanted was her own puppy, her own companion.

We of course had no idea that this adorable, friendly, outgoing, playful puppy would soon fall sick, helpless, a change from the puppy that we knew.

She more then likely had serious neurological issues. This is what we were told after multiple visits, after multiple mis-diagnosis'.... we could run tests to find out for sure... but that would cost a lot of money. The kind of money we just don't have right now... unfortunately.

This was the moment I wished I was blessed with winning the lottery... just so I could help my mom, help really find out what was wrong with this poor innocent puppy. Even if we couldn't have saved her, even if she would never be right again, at least we would know.

It was so hard... you come to love something so quick, and in a blink of an eye it is gone. I just couldn't watch the poor thing anymore.

So, Friday night we brought her back to the breeder.. where according to law you can "return" a puppy within 10 days if it has a serious/deathly illness. It's sad, but it's life. Handing her over was hard... we cried... and I still miss that little cutie now.

Will my mom ever get another dog? I think so.. but not now.

Not until her broken heart heals...

If only there was more we could do. These things happen, and no matter how much you blame yourself, we could have never seen this coming, or never prepared ourselves for the pain we had to go through.

Life hands you many obstacles.. some of which we don't want, but we all have to learn from these experiences and grow with them.

A broken heart will heal.

Amberlee