2 Big changes.....

First of all, Brandon and I have added to our family. We are now the proud ma and pa of an adorable Chinchilla named Chilly!! He's precious and soo much fun to watch. Totally skiddish around us kinda right now, but everyday he seems to be getting more and more used to us. He's a black velvet colored chinchilla (there are apparently several different colors that these soft guys come in) and I wish I could just hold him and cuddle him all day. Chinchilla's are not cuddlers, well atleast I don't think so.

This weekend we spent alot of time with him just letting him roam around one of our rooms while we watched him and talked to him (yes we talk to him in our silly voices, doesn't everyone??! ) I feel like he was trusting us more cause he would just come up and jump on us, sniff us out. I was laying on the floor on my stomach and he would run up leg, up my back, climb onto my head, stand there for a few second, Brandon would hold his hands out and he would jump into his hands!! Totally cute!!!

Also these guys can apparently jump REAALLLY high. He would run towards the door and like jump up the door about half way. He did this several times in a row and it was sooo funny and random. Another thing these guys do that's funny is take dust baths. They have super dense fur and with 50 hairs PER follicle, they cannot get wet with water. It could cause them to get hyporthermia. So what do they do to clean? They take dust baths. The dust is made of volcanic rock and some other stuff but they LOVE it. We got a really big round fish bowl and he can jump on top of it and go into the hole and he roles around in the dust. It's the funniest thing. They just go nuts with this stuff!!!

He likes to hop over and crawl under our table and chairs in our kitchen.

Chilly in his cage...chilllin :)

We also got him this huge ball to roll around in to get some exercise. It's taking some time for him to get used to it, but he's getting there. He's better at reverse than forwards, but he's soo cute to watch in that thing!!

Other change is that Friday I went and had and IUD (Mirena) put in. It hurt for like 1.7 minutes and then it was just cramps. We've decided to go this route because A.) I hate taking a pill every.single.day B.) this is a one time $50 and insurance covers the rest as apposed to paying for my BCP once a month for the same amount C.) we aren't planning on having kids for several years and this can stay in for 5 years. It just seemed like the best decision to do!!!

I asked my doctor about the many horror stories which I had read on the internet and she disclaimed all of them. She said most of the hormone changes (severe mood swings, stress, depression, anxiety, etc) are because there body is not getting the hormones that they were getting from the BCP. With the IUD you get a TINY percent of progesterone which is only for the Uterus, it apparently does not go into your blood system at such a high rate that BCP does. SO therefore you aren't getting all the hormones that you were. I don't think I'll have a problem like someone had with all that stuff. The first 4-6 months my body will be adjusting to it and thickening up the uterine wall and fun stuff like that, YAY! But we shall see. Hopefully this journey will be successful and no severe problems will come from it!! I'll keep my blog updated with it, cause I'm sure your just dying to know every detail :)

The past two weeks

have sucked major ass hole!!!!!! Fi's mom went into the hospital on the 13. She was throwing up blood and they found a tear in her esophagus and a blood clot in her stomach. A few days later they found a huge varicose vein in her stomach, no bueno. I feel soo sorry for her. She's supposed to get released today to go home. She had a procedure yesterday where they put a shunt in to bypass the flow of blood to the varicose vein so that it will go down in size. I hope to god it works.

I've just super stressesd about that, and worrying about FI and how he's handling all of it. He doesn't talk about it and when I ask him he doesn't want to talk about it. So I just leave him be. I just think it's better to discuss it if something is bothering you, but apparently not him on this subject. ANy other thing, he'll tlak about but not this. One thing that worries me about him is that he doesn't tell his mom he loves her. She'll say it to the both us and I'll say it back, but he doesn't. I know he does, but I guess he's just not one to say it to his family. He says it to me all the time which I love,but I dont' know why it's soo hard for him to say it to them?? And I don't know if this is something that should bother or if it's something I should confront him about. He doesn't even give them hugs or anything he never has. His grandma told me he's been like that since he was little. I don't know why.

The wedding stuff is getting to me. I'm not doing boudoir pictures anymore which I'm really sad about. I just don't have that kind of money to spend when we need it for other stuff. Like rehearsal dinner, caterer, decorations, gifts for people, favors, invites, things like that. PLUS finding a place for us to live!!! UGGH a nightmare!!! I think we are just going to get an apartment in baytown and be done with it. Rent is sky high, but what can you do?? I woudl rather have a rent house, but they are sky high as well too. It friggin sux. THis economy sux, no one can buy houses so they have to rent which in turn allows the rentee's to put whatever type of pricetag they want to on the rental property!!! It's stupid and dumb.

FI and I did drive out to Liberty this past weekend, and we totally want to move there. It's the cutest little town that actually has a main street that surrounds the court house and then it also has the most adorbale homes ever!!!!! That's exactly what we want too!! it'll make my commute longer, but I don't care, i already drive 40 miles there and back, whats an extra 20?? Maybe by the time we move out there, I'll be working somewhere else anyways, who knows.

I'm sad I haven't barely been able to read any of my book I started a while back. I'm probably gonig to have to start over from the beginning so I can remember everything that I've already read.

I want to start on my DIY projects now. I want to get them finished and just be done with them. I think the reason I keep putting them off is because I keep thinking "oh i have time" blah blah whatever, stop procrastinating DAVIS AND JUST DO IT!!!! =) I'm a horrible procastinator, but God help me, I get my stuff done, even if it is last minute. but I don't want to be like that for the wedding. I want to have everything done so that I can enjoy it and not be stressed out about having to hurry and get stuff done!!!

I've got to get my happy butt back into a workout routine. I totally blame IKE for messing it up. I was doing sooo good!! Jogging like 3-4 times a week!!! I had even gotten up to 4.2 miles!!!! And FI was noticing and thats a HUGE plus to me!!! I have got to get back on it!! and it sux!! i'm stressing about how my dress may not fit, I am considering getting a corset put in the back so it'll be like that instead of zipped up. Maybe that iwll also help with the back fat issue too!! =)

Ok, i'm done =)