This is Duchess, an English Mastiff. She is the newest addition to our family. We got her from a breeder in Tennessee and she has been absolutely wonderful to have. She is very lovable as you can tell from the picture. She is 3.5 months old and weighs 35 lbs. Our other dog Pepper, a husky mix is 4 yrs old and weighs 50 lbs. So pretty soon she will weigh more than him. They get along great and the kitty cats are warming up to her especially Chewy.

well, the magellan name for one of my new kitty cats didn't stick. We finally came up with Chewy and Fuzzy and they suit them very well.

We took the kids to the Newport Aquarium today. It was fun. I got some good pictures of some of the underwater dwelling creatures. I will post them to flickr later if I can figure out how to get them off of the camera to the computer. Usually my hubby does it but he is asleep because he has to make the long trip back to Tennessee to take his nieces back home. They start school on the 7th. It was fun having 5 teenagers in the house. I think we spent more on food the last week and a half than Rob and I have in the last 6 months. OMG they can eat and I don't know where they put it.

I'm going to finally get to see my baby sister Julie on the 6th. We haven't seen each other in I know its been at least 4 years. The crazy thing about it is that we don't live that far apart. Maybe 2 hours. Its just been hard to keep in touch. With our lives having been really crazy the last couple of years with having to move every 6 months and just trying to keep our heads above water. Things are definitely alot better now. Having lived with some kind of family the last year and a half when you finally get the privacy that you need it just feels strange just being "us" again. Oh don't worry I'm not complaining just have to get used to it.

My vacation from work started yesterday and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it. I'm going to try to keep myself busy so I don't get bored though. Because last year when I went on my vacation after the 2nd day I was so bored I could barely stand it. Rob says I get like that because I'm a workaholic which I think is true. Even when I'm not at work I will call to make sure everything went okay especially if I closed the night before. I work for one of my local Krogers in customer service and I just love it. But at the end of this vacation they are moving me to another store. I don't know yet if it is temporary or permanent and I'm not sure which one I want it to be. I will need some time working at the new one to decide. It will be a slightly weird transition but I do make friends quite easily though and I definitely think that helps. I will certainly miss all my friends at my "old" store but I will see them from time to time. Especially My Summer, she is a great girl and we are really good friends. She does start college in about a month so we are going to have a party at the house before she goes. I will miss seeing her almost everyday but I know she will have fun and make some new friends at school.

Tomorrow is Rob and I's 8th wedding anniversary and He is going to be traveling. We were really looking forward to it this year because the last 2 anniversaries have sucked. Two years ago Rob had the accident and last year we had no means of celebrating.

We've been married for 8 years, together for 9 and in love for 10. It still feels like the it was just yesterday we told each other how we felt. He is the part of me that I was always missing. I was thinking the other night that with all the bad things thats has happened in my life that I just wasn't lucky but then I realized that I'm married to the love of my life, my kids are just the most awesome kids ever, and I'm finally back in touch with all my sisters. How much more luck does one person need?. I guess I needed to go through all that I did to make me see that the being lucky depends on whether you appreciate having what you need in your life and not just want you want. To me that is....