Never Ever Ever #16 (and a random gun rant)

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Never Ever Ever...

• Will I watch a game of football on TV
• Will I pay more than $50 for a purse
• Can I keep up with celebrities lives...I can barely keep up with my own family and friends! But that's why reading some of your blogs is handy.
• Do I not get excited when someone orders Scentsy from me and tells me how much they love it!
• Will I wish Emily is older. Every stage has the good with the bad and I just try to enjoy it.
• Did I think I'd be able to accomplish so many things on my To Do list in such a short amount of time. Seriously. Car repairs and tons of house repairs are done finally. Feels good! Now we just need to sell one of our cars...
• Will I understand people who hate guns. I really didn't have much of an opinion on gun control until my husband started working with them and now I'm all for having them for protection. If the bad guys have them, we need to too. What's a knife or a bat going to do when a bullet comes flying at you? Nothing. All it takes is awareness, education, and practice and you won't be so afraid of guns anymore. Those shootings that happen in public places could have been a lot less chaotic if even one person had a gun on their person and shot the shooter. End rant :)

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Shooting Guns and Exploding Things

On Saturday we went out to the dessert with our good friend Patrick, his coworker..and his coworkers girlfriend. We stopped at a Chipotle for lunch (I wasn't hungry yet but I guess we were preparing for a long day!).  I took it easy on the water because I didn't want to end up squatting behind a bush or a rock, trying to tinkle in the wind. IT WAS SO WINDY!!

This is the first thing we saw once we got to our spot. Can you see all the bullet holes? It's an old car people have trashed over time. Fun!

Gettin' ready to shoot me some targets! (Don't I look great while trying to stay warm?!Ha!)

This is our 9mm Glock that we keep around the apartment. I know how to use it. Don't break in or I will shoot you!

Patrick and Michael shooting it up.

Sweet picture. Lovin' that hood head. This is Patricks rifle. It was fun and easy to shoot with.

Both of us shooting our guns. That's his on duty gun. I'm still gettin' familiarized with our stay at home gun. Just sayin'!

This is what happens when boys play with explosives. I was hiding in the car. But it actually put a big smile on my face. It reminded me of 24 or something where they blow things up. All in all, even though it was cold and windy, I had a lot of fun!

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March Madness

Shoot! I can not believe it has already been 3 months since my last post. I recently read a blog titled something along the lines of "I know, non picture posts are so boring!" *cough* wendy *cough* And I realized that I hardly ever put pictures on here. Mostly because the only way I can is through my camera phone. But here are some things we have been up to..with some pictures added for fun. :-)

The picture above is a bouquet of flowers that michael got me for valentines day. He had to work the day of so he got this for me a little early along with a season of 24 (we love 24!). It was our 2nd valentines day together married. Weird!



This picture was taken on the drive home from Arizona. My parents, my sister, and I went out to a memorial service for my grandpa who passed away a couple of months ago.


This picture is the only one I have on my phone of the production my family and I are in called Savior of the World. Please come! You will not regret it. You can purchase tickets at http://www.anaheimproductions.com/.

Our friend Todd (who we know from Michaels academy) got free tickets to Disneyland and California Adventures and invited us to come. Michael had work so I brought my friend Kelli. We had a lot of fun on our favorite rides and I showed them the exact spot where Michael proposed to me.


I just wanted to post this ADORABLE picture of my niece, Aubrey. So cute! We love having her and her parents, Tiffany and Jarom, live so close now. We love you guys!

The story behind this picture is this: I was trying to save money on getting my hair touched up and bought the box hair dye. And then I asked my friend who has never done hair before, to do it for me. I thought it would be simple because it was about the same color as my highlights and it was all over color. I have done darker before on other people so I knew how to do the actual process. However, it turned out BAD. She had accidentally missed spots so I had dark spots on the sides of my head. AND my roots were orange. For the record, I was trying to save money and I don't blame Kelli. The next morning I made an emergency appointment with the lady who usually does my hair and she fixed it for me. Yay!

Now for the more serious things going on in our life! Sorry no pictures are included in this part but hopefully I lured you in and you keep reading!

We placed an offer on a short sale house in Corona a couple of weeks ago. They said we should hear back about it in about a month. That is actually really fast for a short sale but it is dated to go into foreclosure on May 8 and they don't want that so they are trying to rush it, which is good for us. However, we do know that three other people placed offers and we don't get to know how much they offered. It's a waiting game as well as a blind bid. It's kind of driving us crazy.

If our offer is not accepted, we are going to move out into a one bedroom apartment until we find the right home for us. In a way it kind of stinks to do that instead of getting a huge home of our own, but on the other hand I don't even know if this home is what I want. Michael loves it but I'm not sure what I want right now. We already have our chunk of money to go towards the down payment and closing costs and all that so we are ready financially to get a home. However, with the housing markey the way it is, we don't know how much longer it will take for us to move out. We can live in an apartment and not touch our savings, slowly save a little more, but look for the right home while living on our own.

We are still waiting to hear back if Michael is going to be in the next academy which starts in May.

We are trying not to stress about all of the "maybe's" hanging over us, but it's a lot to handle!

Anyways, that's what we have been up to. We love you all and hope everything is going well with you!

Love,

Michael and Shelley