Man, did July fly by or what?! I feel like it was the 1st like yesterday. Who knew it was true when everyone said "Time flies when you're older."








We've had a lot of stuff happen in our family over the past month. One being my grandpa passing away. My dad called me the beginning of July and told me my grandfather wasn't doing well in ICU, so I flew to El Paso that same day. He was really out of it, but no matter what, if someone said they loved him he always somehow answered back. It makes me smile when I think of it. He was such a great and humble man. There's not a day that has gone by that I haven't thought of him and I wish that I had more time. I'm very glad to have been given the chance to say goodbye though. He is one of the best men I know and he'll always hold a special place in my heart.












Before that, in June, I was in one of my best friend's wedding! It was so much fun getting to see her and hang out with other friends. One of the other bridesmaids in the wedding, who is a mutual friend, asked me to be in her wedding as well! I got two more weddings coming up that I'm in! I was going to post pictures, but for some reason I'm not able to right now. Annoying.








One AMAZING and EXCITING news that N and I have is that, an offer we put on a brand new house got accepted!! We actually got to design the house yesterday. I can officially say it was such a long process. I definitely walked out of there with a headache. It was crazy how many decisions we had to make! Knowing me, nothing will match because I have a horrible sense of style when I can't see everything together. Let's hope it turns out well, if not then N is going to have a frantic wife lol. N and I are so excited for this opportunity. It will be finished being built in late November. Now most of you are probably saying, "Wait, you bought a house? Aren't y'all moving in a couple of years?" To answer that, yes we will be, but we plan on renting out the house since population here is going to go way up because of more families are going to be moving here soon.








Other good news, I get to take walks now! I was banned from working out for 6 months because of how obsessed I became with it and they didn't want me having a hard time gaining weight/didn't want me losing anymore weight. Well, I'm almost the weight I need to be AND we can take a break from gaining weight for now. I'm still below what my BMI should be, but its nice to hear that I can take a break from having to see my weight go up every week. Of course its been up and down so much, but it's a good feeling having the doctor trust you enough to not relapse. This also means we're going to get into some really hard therapy work soon and that scares me, but I know I need to to move forward.






We have our little family back together as well! Barley is officially home. Y'all don't even know how excited I am to see a huge difference since we last saw him. He's not biting me anymore, he semi listens AND I'm actually able to have him out of his kennel for hours at a time. It's wonderful. I can't wait till he calms down even more and I don't have to put him in his kennel at all. I'm even more excited, because I feel like now he'll make a great therapy dog. We're going to start training soon for just basics....especially come. He doesn't like listening...so he got more stubborn that way, but we'll fix it! I also can't believe how HUGE he is! 105lbs! What in the world was I thinking when I said I wanted a big dog. Of course I was expecting like a 75lb golden. He's so huge, people think he's mixed with lab haha. Nope, he's just that big. Also, who in their right mind will get a long haired dog? Obviously I wasn't when I said I wanted a golden. I vacuum and not even 5 minutes later I see tufts of hair floating everywhere. UGH. He is pretty darn cute though, I'll have to admit that.