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!

23 minutes...

till I can go home!!!!

this has been the week from hell & i just found out that my mom won't be backuntil march 9th!! wtf??!!?! so, as the boss I've made an executive decision that i'm closing everyday at 3pm. so there! in other news, mike is working like a madman on his last semester of school- i'm proud of him! And, I'm dealing with bridesmaid dresses and what-not. Oh yeah... we do have something to look forward to: COLDPLAY on Monday!!! Fiona Apple is opening (i luv her) & we have floor tickets!!!!! Woohooo!!

have a good weekend people

No time for blogging!!

Blogging will be pretty much non-existant this week for me. My mom is in Reno on vacation this week, which means I get to run the office all by myself!! (not fun!!) I'm not used to actually having to answer the phones, deal with customers etc etc all day long...so this basically sucks. I haven't even been to pinkisthenewblog.com today! HELP!!!!!!!!!

My Baby Brother

Connor refused to take "normal" senior pictures...but my mom kept bugging him, so he had a friend take these a few days ago. I love them!!

Stud Muffin

Here are a few pictures of our "little" Blackie wearing his Valentine's shirt... yep it says "Stud Muffin"!! Love it!!

 

 

Happy V-Day People!

I know some of you think Valentine's Day is too commercial, but in the spirit of the holiday I thought I'd share 2 beautiful love stories. If you haven't already seen these, you should watch!!

Brokeback To The Future:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4615266676615092514&q=brokeback+to+the+future

& Top Gun, Brokeback Squadron:
http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/01/barebacktopgun.html

Have a great day!

Yum!

These are sooo good:

So i said i would update...but i don't have anything interesting to say. Mike & I had a nice relaxing weekend- we rented a crappy movie last night-Dark Water (don't watch it!!). Everything else is great-- my bridesmaids & I are picking out their dresses this week- I'm excited!!

Boring Wednesday....

so, i felt the need to update, just because i haven't in a while...but i really have nothing interesting to say! Lost is on tonight (i'm excited!). Mike is glad there's a show on tv that he actually enjoys (he hates all my favorites: american idol, survivor, dancing w/ the stars etc).

i thought i'd share our cute little tree that my mom & i always decorate for all the holidays in our office-- we decided to do little red heart ornaments for V-day. Thats all I've got!!

 

Soooo Cute!

I want to go find this little boy & steal him- he's adorable!! if you're bored, watch this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7018208959130901823&q=blue+cross

Fun Times

These are pics from last weekend. We went to the hockey game (me & Mike & Connor & Jeremiah). We had a great time- the Oilers won, but sadly there were no big brawls.

here's Connor & I --he's got crazy eyes in this one!

Mike & Jeremiah

Connor making sweet love to his straw- gotta love my little brother

there aren't enough hours in the day...

i haven't been updating much lately...i've been too busy! as i said before, we're doing the south beach diet, which means we have to cook every day, no fast food or pre-packaged anything- so that takes a lot of time. we're working out 6 days a week @ 6am, which means we have to go to bed at like 10:30 every night...ugh. But, on the bright side, phase one ends on Sunday!!! thank the Lord!!

Highlight Of My Day!

if you're bored, this is AMAZING:

http://www.youtube.com/w/Kevin-Federline-jamming-to-PopoZao?v=Q7Ys46KA4xw