I'm 33 !!

So as most of you know I recently celebrated by 33rd birthday...33 wow! Still hard for me to believe!

One of the girls I work with made me this cake and I had to share the pictures with you all...






It is a litter box!! It is made of pudding, cake mix, oreo crumbles, and the "poop" is tootsie rolls... and not only is the "poop" on top, but there is "poop" inside too!! She bought a litter scoop to serve the cake. ( I told her I wanted to see the receipt for the scoop to make sure it hadn't been used! LOL)

It was very delicious and memorable...Very appropriate for a veterinary clinic employee!!

Christmas in Florida

I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas celebrations. Joe and I missed seeing you all very much. Here are some pictures we wanted to share with you.

This is the village we put up on the landing next to the staircase

These are the decorations outside on the front of the house

This is the our tree... it is between 10 and 11 feet tall and smells soooo good. We had to use a ladder to decorate the top ( I rotated the pic before attaching... it didn't work :) )
This is the small artifical tree that we put in the dining room. We decorated it with all of Joe's mom's precious moments ornaments. (Again... sorry about the sideways pic)

The week before Christmas we went to see the Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights at Disney's Holllywood Studios Theme Park... They decorate the pretend houses with lights that cover every inch of them, there is fake snow falling and then every few minutes the lights will start to "dance" to the music. It is very cool to watch.


Here is a video of the dancing lights... Now this is my first video attachment... we'll see if it works...

I'm still here....

I know everyone is wondering where i've been but ... I am still here. Finally made it out of St. Augustine! Lol :~)

Love reading everyone else's posts, I just need to do better in posting myself!!

To catch everyone up...

I am working for Val-U-Vet, a small corporation of veterinary clinics in Florida. There are 5 locations in central Florida...and i was just promoted to MANAGER of one of them. YAY!! My clinic is the location in Deltona, FL. I'm still getting settled in my new position, but I love it. Anyone who wants to check out the website it is www.valuvet.com.

Joe has gone back to school and is going to become a massage therapist!! He loves his classes at Everest University and will graduate next spring/summer. The best is I get to benefit from his needing to practice!! He has learned so much already. I'm so proud of him!!

He has a good job in one of the retail shops at the Gaylord Palms Resort. It is a bit of a drive but they are very flexible with scheduling around his school so it is worth it. It is a beautiful hotel, though I have only seen pictures on the internet. I'm hoping to make it down to see it in person soon.

So I survived the humidity. The weather now is great! Cool (high 50's - low 60's) in the morning and evening, and then it only warms up to about the high 80's. We are entering the 'dry' season I guess... but not dry like AZ :)

Pics will be on the next post... so stay tuned...

Love and miss all of you!

St. Augustine

Last weekend Joe and I got to visit the oldest city in the United States... St. Augustine. It is only a little over an hour away. We had a great time seeing all of the old buildings and all the history that the city has.

We spent alot of time in the historical district going in all the little shops there.
Joe and I bought these new hats at the Panama Hat Company... what do you think?




Aren't you glad I didn't choose this one (pic below)!!! It just wasn't me! :~)

There are so many restaurants and little bakeries and ice cream shops and chocolate shops... Yum!

We went to the national monument 'Castillo de San Marcos' which was built over 300 years ago by the Spanish.

We went on a self guided tour... it was WARM so we didn't stay too long but here are some pics we took.






It is a very beautiful city... Joe and I can't wait to go again. You can easily spend a few days there. We will be going back at night next time to do a ghost tour of the famous St. Augustine Lighthouse... The same one that the Ghost Hunters did an episode about on TV...

Tacos, Burritos, Enchiladas... OH MY!

Joe and I found this fun Mexican food restaurant called Carlos n' Charlie's.

Not only is the food good but you get entertained while you wait for your food to arrive and while you eat. The wait staff have choreographed dances to certain songs and completely stop what they are doing to perform. Any customer that wants to join in can to. It's pretty noisy inside, a live DJ plays alot of popular songs that everyone knows so you can join in a sing a long too!!

We weren't prepared with our camera as we didn't realize dinner was going to be sooooo entertaining) so these pics were taken with Joe's phone... excuse the blurriness.

Here are two of the waiters dancing on the chairs.


Our waitress made guacamole table side for our appetizer.

Joe and I ordered tacos and they make you wear these silly bibs... I now know NOT to order the tacos. (just kidding they were very tasty)
The bibs say "I'M EATING TACOS"


This waiter delivered a beer to the table next to us using his head...


I checked them out online when we got home and there is only one other location in the US and it is in TX all other 5 locations are in Mexico...

It was a really cool place that we will definitely be visiting again... I'll have to remember to wear my dancing shoes! LOL :~)

ADIOS AMIGOS (English translation = GOODBYE FRIENDS )

"Visitors"

We had surprise "visitors" the other morning... 3 Sandhill cranes were in our backyard. We usually see them on the golf course near the house or by the little lake across the street... But this was really cool to see them so close. They are not afraid of people and have a very unique sound.




I think they look similar to the blue herons in AZ but bigger and taller. They didn't stay too long once the dogs started to bark at them...Oh well! Thanks to Joe with his camera phone at least we got the pics before they flew away.

Got Ink?

So Joe and I went to do something exciting together... We both got tattoos. It has been something I have been wanting to do for awhile now and Joe wanted to get another one. We both got tattoos that represent our astrological signs.

We went to a place in Winter Springs called Steel Quill Tattoo. It was extremely clean inside and they have all necessary sterilizing equipment. They open all of the needles and sterilized pieces in front of us so we know it is safe and clean... No need to worry Mom :)

Here is Joe's finished tattoo... A bull on his shoulder (Taurus).


I got 2 butterfly koi fish and the Pisces sign on my lower back! The colors are amazing. Joe took a few pics of the process...

This is the tattoo on paper... it then becomes the stencil.

After putting the stencil on Mike makes sure it is centered...

Now assuming the position... I was surprised that it did not hurt at all. It is hard to describe what it feels like... kind of an annoying burning feeling but with NO pain.


This is Mike, our tattoo artist. He drew both of them... very talented. All the guys at the shop were very cool...and hilarious.

And the finished result...

The colors are very vibrant... I told him blue and purple and he chose the shades. The Pisces sign in the middle he left as a shaded outline since the main focus is the fish. I may need to name them since they will be with me FOREVER... any suggestions?

I absolutely love it!! I understand why people get more than one... it's addicting. What will be next... a dragonfly maybe :)