mexico and new puppy

okay, i know, it has been a while. i apologize. after mexico we had so much going on between unpacking, catching up from our holiday and bringing home our new puppy i literally had zero spare time to update this little blog of ours. ironically, the only time i have been able to justify blogging has been today, when i should be doing our wedding invitations. honestly, there is something about these wedding invitations that makes me want to clean my kitchen, organize my closet, sort, fold and fluff all my laundry, plant a garden just so i can spend hours weeding it .... even pick up dog poop. i don't know why i keep procrastinating but, here i am, writing a long over due blog post instead of working on the invites.

so i will begin with mexico. our trip was amazing. if you ever get a chance to go to an all inclusive resort with 20 of your best friends do not pass it up, i do not care how much it costs you. it was really nice going with so many different people because there was always something different to do. for jesse and me this was the perfect solution for our different vacation philosophies. personally, i enjoy wasting away my vacation days laying out by the pool reading my book and sipping the delicious fruity drinks and doing an odd excursion or activity here and there. jesse, on the other hand, looses his mind if he has to sit still for more than 20 minutes and wants to do nonstop activities. so, lucky for jesse, he had tons of friends to scuba dive with, play shuffle board, volleyball, basketball, ping pong, and even chess with all the while i was relaxing with my girlfriends, a good drink and an even better book while working on my tan : win, win situation.

here the view of our resort from the beach... it was so beautiful. the dome shaped buildings are where all the buffet's and a la carte restaurants are.

the resort had a ton of amazing swimming pools including an adult only lounge pool with those built in chairs (unfortunately, brian was right and the chairs were incredibly uncomfortable)

jesse and i on the beach our first night there

the beach

the first day a group of us thought it would be a good idea to take the daily water aerobics class

those who know me well know i realllllly hate fish yet i was brave enough to swim with these ones while being pelted with bananas by my "friends"

jesse and i on our way to our Brazilian a la carte dinner

leave it to jesse to participate in the oddest activities: drop in water polo 

obviously, we lay by the pool, reading and consuming calories while they burned some.

here is the bride, maddy, and my good friend adelle at the wedding

all of us girls in black are in the wedding party.

soon it will be our wedding - yikes!

breaking it down at the reception 

we were in an air conditioned building - it is just THAT hot there

after the formal reception the youngsters changed into something far more classy and headed out to the local disco, Jaguars, to continue on in the celebrations.

the next day was cinco de mayo and it was also our friend brit's birthday

so, we went to senor frogs!

instead of bar stools they had swings made our of life preservers 

we went to this really neat underground exploration park called x-plor; here, we did a cenote swim, underground river rafting, zip lines and atving.

everyone had to wear these really attractive orange helmets with built in cameras to document your day of fun.

only ten of us went on the excursion that day.

that night we went out with some friends to the french restaurant on the resort. the food was amazing.

i loved these chairs - too bad jesse would never let them fly in our dining room.

i ate an oyster for the first time!

our last day at the resort!

so, as you can see we had a really amazing time in mexico. it was really interesting to experience a wedding there. mexicans are notorious for their "mexican time" and they were no different with regards to the wedding. the bride was incredibly stressed and no one in the wedding party knew what was going on, including the bride and groom. it made me really glad that we were going to be getting married in canada...

so, when we got home, i had a lovely email sitting in my inbox from our breeder begging us to come and pick up the puppy early. apparently, all the other pups were gone and she was very lonely.  obviously, since i am a sucker, we ended up driving up to edmonton on tuesday night at 7 pm to pick her up... this may not have been the wisest decision we ever made considering we had definitely not caught up on our sleep after mexico and brand new puppies = many sleepless nights.

emi slept the entire ride home in jesse's lap

crazy hair at 2 am

playing the first morning at home

pooped after the first trip to petland

happy puppy

up to no good, like always

playing with maddy and brian's pup, heinz

snuggled up in the blankets on her first camping trip

playing with casey

pooped puppy; before we know it she will take up this entire chair!

so far so good. she has good days and bad, like every puppy, and unfortunately, today has been a bad day since its rainy and she seems to hate being wet / going outside to pee. apparently, my carpet is the next best thing to grass. she is beginning to sleep better, only having to be let out once or twice, but she still seems to be wide awake at 6 am ready to play. since we got her she has done fairly well adjusting to our busy life style; she has come with us to two bbq's, a birthday dinner, 2 baseball games and on a camping trip and done really well. obviously, we will keep you all posted on her progress. we definitely love her and its nice to have our own little family.