Our family is growing!!!

But not that way....

Aaron bought me a puppy for my birthday! He went Sunday to pick her up and lied to me about it but I'm super sneaky and found out about it (although I'm NOT proud of how I found out) so he gave her too me Sunday night! She's an 8 week (today!) old, boxer puppy named Zoe and she is the cutest freaking thing I have ever seen. She is sooo sweet. She loves to play and cuddle! Aaron and I are quickly figuring out how much we don't know about puppy training. She hates her kennel and has no idea how to walk on a leash. She's pretty good about letting us know when she has to go outside to go to the bathroom though and she only wakes us up once in the night to go. Man, I feel like I'm talking about my child, although she pretty much is...

Anyway, here are a few pictures...

Zoe on her way home















First bath















napping, from all her hard playing

Thanksgiving

I don't know what it is, but it does NOT seem like Thanksgiving is next week. Maybe it's because the weather is still pretty warm, or maybe it's because I've been so busy with school and work. I don't know what it is, but it seems like just yesterday it was May and Aaron and I were getting married. Now we've been married 6 1/2 months! I can't believe that much time has gone by.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it includes all of my favorite thing:
family.
food.
naps. (don't tell Aaron I said that, I normally hate naps but on Thanksgiving they're allowed)
football.
and this year there's a very special added bonus, my birthday!
We have some family come in to town so it will be fun to visit with them, relax and we'll get a much needed break from school.
So, in case I don't get a chance to post before Thanksgiving, I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with food, family and fun! :-)

So I realized that in all of my stress of the semester I completely forgot to write about something I'm really looking forward to..
On Jan. 2 Aaron and me and my family are leaving to go on a CRUISE! :-) We leave from Miami and will be cruising to Semana in the Dominican Republic, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and our cruiseline's private island in the Bahamas.
When we first booked the cruise I was excited because I love cruises but now, I feel like I NEED this cruise. This semester has been insanely busy for me. I feel like I hardly have time to get my work done, let alone so it will be sooo nice to have an entire week where I don't have to even think about school and I can just relax and get my sanity back.
Ahhhhh 59 days and counting.... Can't come soon enough.