8 Lives Left...

its been a rough 2 days at the russell-solano household. i went out Wednesday morning to feed one of our cats (smoke, Blackie's brother) & found him lying on the ground, not moving & with one of his eyes dialated. Mike & I rushed him to the emergency animal clinic-- --- we were freaking out!

The vet started giving him B12 injections & started an IV-- I asked if whatever he had was life threatening & they advised us to spend some time with him before we left the office. They thought he might've had a stroke or some kind of head trauma.

Wednesday night we went to visit him at the hospital & they said he was in stable condition-- still wasn't moving & his eyes were still dialated. The vet called yesterday morning & told us Smokie was up moving around & doing much better. We got to bring him home late yesterday afternoon.!! He is still a little out of it & kinda weak-- but its a miracle that he survived at all!

here's a pic of smokie from a few months ago--- i had him wrapped up in a blanket & he was pissed!!

228 days

until our wedding. which means 229 days till the honeymoon!! We've been talking about all the places we could go-- and we've found a place we're both excited about: hawaii! specifically, a hawaiian cruise. we've looked into norwegian cruise lines- swimming with dolphins, looking at volcanos(sp?), laying on the beach etc...we're still in the planning stage, but i think this is where we wanna go...

Please be my friend...

To those of you whom i haven't been formally introduced to: my name is Blackie- i have a myspace profile and i'd like to be your friend. if you do add me as a friend, please don't send mean emails (like brooke did, threatening to have her dog eat me!!).

www.myspace.com/blackiesolano

Too much time on our hands...

okay so let me introduce you to mr. rabbit-- he's sitting in our office, on the couch where customers usually sit and i love him! the bunny has been in the family since i was a baby- and my grandma had the crazy idea to bring him to our office for Easter. So we put an insurance shirt on him (notice he's holding an insurance trade journal) andi think he looks fabulous!

mr. rabbit, chillin' on the couch...

oh & one more, just for fun-- mr. rabbit wearing my veil:

Fun!!!

what a good weekend!! friday night mike & i went to see "Failure to Launch"- its a cute chick flick kinda movie-- and since I miss Sex and the City so much- it was cool to see Sarah Jessica Parker in something!

We had a blast at Jenny's housewarming/St. P Day party-- i loved getting to see everyone all at once, in one location! (and, Jenny's house is adorable!!

Finally, Panera on Sunday was fun too!

I was sneaky & took a pic when no one was looking...

and, here's a cute posed one!

Sunday evening, Mike & I went to Hideaway for some yummy pizza!!

I am endlessly amused by his little thumb trick! haha, lame, I know!

Life is good...

We've been slightly anti-social lately just due to all the crap we've been dealing with: Mike submitting a paper to the premier conference on Artificial Intelligence (I'm proud of him!), Me being sick, our house being a horrid dirty mess & wedding planning!! But it looks like things are finally calming down. Sunday Mike took me to lunch at P.F. Chang's, I had the best asian pear mojito EVER & then we took Miss Ellie with us to Woodward Park. Here are a few pics:

I had to include this one. Blackie had gotten some dead leaves caught on his whiskers & was freaking out! (hence the wide-eyed crazy look!)

Blahhhhh

i have been the worst blogger ever. my mom comes back in town tomorrow (yay, no more working by myself!!) and i'm FINALLY starting to feel better. i got to talk to one of my favorite people tonight---stacy (one of my awesome bridesmaids) so that put me in a better mood :)

Coldplay...

We went to Fiona Apple/Coldplay on Monday & it was AMAZING!!! Here are a few pics:

















Its late, I'm going to bed...I'll write more tomorrow!