Second Chance....

We got a puppy!! Well Adam got a puppy (but I like to claim he's half mine, I'm working on that, if you ask Adam it's his dog). He's a 7 year old yellow lab mix (we're not sure what he's mixed with because he's smaller). He weighs about 45 lbs. We went home to my mom and dad's last weekend for Easter and as we were running errands I suggested we stop by the Woodbury Humaine Society. Sometimes I just like to look at the pups. And we walked in and Chance was the first dog we saw and we fell in love. He's so good. He was a stray they found in River Falls. Not sure how no one would claim this little guy, but he was someone's at one time because he was neutered when they found him. And he knows sit and stay and for the most part is potty trained. We just have to get him used to our houses. We love him! Adam was all smiles (actually said he had more butterflies about going to pick him up than meeting me! haha).

The real question was how he and Tucker were going to be with each other (since they're basically brothers). Well, no worry there, they love each other. They have endless energy where they just run around and play. They are both attention hogs though. If I'm petting Tucker, Chance jumps on me and tries to get pet and vice versa. It's funny. I do think Tuck is a little jealous, I took today off to wait for my new stove to be delivered and he hasn't left my side! Needs some mommy time!

Attached to my hip today!

Chance and Adam on the First day we got him

Tuck and Chance's first meeting, such good boys!

Just missing Tuck in this pictures


So yes, we are dog people now, but I love it!

Appreciate

Well today started out, different I guess. My friend at work sent us an e-mail this morning about a girl she knew in high school. It was this story about how he boyfriend had just died, suddenly at their house. She's my age, her boyfriend right around the same. He had a brain anurysm and stroke. She watched it, recalled everything that had happened from the morning they woke up until Friday night when he got a head ache, paramedics came and then he was just gone. It's just heartbreaking and makes you really take a look at your own life. Things like this can happen at the drop of a hat. I never want to be that person recalling the last moments like that, but you really just never know. So many times I am looking into the future, what am I doing tomorrow, this weekend, in 2 months in 2 years. When will I get married, have kids, etc. But what if that never came? You have to live in every minute of every day and never wish away days even if they seem crappy or bad, and wish for another new one to come. It's life and we're lucky to have the day to wish for other things. So I'm going to try really hard to not get caught up in all of that and try to live as best I can in very minute, and not ever leave anything unsaid. Tell everyone I love them as much as I can, see and do the things I hope to do, and never wish away another day. Because what if it just was your last. So that's my challange, not to sweat the small stuff. Kind of depressing, but it always takes something like that to throw your life into perspective, and I hope that we all can do that.

Afternoon Walk

Look at the little peanut I spent the afternoon with enjoying a great walk in this nice weather!

I'm on a roll

Well if you visited the blog yesterday it looked totally different. Today I decided I wanted to change it again. Google is my best friend....I would never know how to change any of this stuff if I hadn't googled how to do it. Now I keep finding new things I like to give my blog a face lift! Maybe by doing this it will actually make me blog more???? We'll see :) This week at work has been pretty easy. All my co-workers are gone..3 are in the Windy City for a trade show and one just left yesterday for Mexico with her boyfriend...hence the time to fix up my blog! I've been taking off a little early to run to LA fitness and get in a work out. Yesterday was a great day, I met my friend Jessie for dinner, a cute little new restaurant called Pizzaria Lola (Jessie and I interned together back about 4 years ago). Pizzaria Lola is owned by the sister of one of our bosses at our internship. She moved here from New York about a year ago with a dream to start up this pizza restaurant. It was really cute and the pizza was yummy. I think I was just in such a good mood because, I was having pizza, beer, and great conversation with a friend on a BEAUTIFUL day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and I didn't see any SNOW! It's really unbelieveable how much warm weather and the sun shining can be such a mood changer. It just makes me so happy to know Summer is coming. Even though the Summer this year will be jam packed with stuff (mostly fun stuff though), I'm ready for it to be here!

And an even better sign Summer is just around the corner....BASEBALL IS HERE!!! The Twins home opener is tomorrow, and it even looks to be a nice day around 60 degrees....oh how I wish I was joining the crowd at Target Field tomorrow!

I definitely have a case of Spring/Summer Fever! :)

Revamp

Well I thought after 2 years of this blog it needed a little revamp. And you wouldn't believe this took me almost all day...ahh I got a little frustrated because it wasn't doing what I wanted it to, so for now, this is as good as it's gonna get! I decided to give it a new name, since it's not all about just Tuck and I anymore, it's about everything in my life. So I took to using my best friend "Google" to come up with a new blog name. Yes, I literally typed in "how to name your blog". haha. And some ideas did pop up. One I liked was to take the street you live on and put it with a song you like. So this is how Emerald Road was created....Emerald Street is the road I love on, and God bless the broken road is one of my favorite songs....And putting them together not so sure Emeral broken or Emerald Bless worked out so well...so the obvious choice was Emerald Road. Who knows, tomorrow I may change my mind...but for today it stays.

And so the business begins...

Yikes....Summer hasn't even hit yet and I can't believe how fast it's filling up! I was going through weekends the other day to see what I had open to help throw a bridal shower/bachlorette party for my friend Natalie and I came up with a list of like 3...yikes! Between weddings, vacations, and work there's not a whole lot of time open. I'm hoping to have a few weekends where there are no plans and I can just be lazy and soak up the summer sun! Here's to hoping busy summer weekends doesn't make for it going by too fast!!