Let the blogging begin...AGAIN!

No more being M.I.A!

It has been a week since I have been back in Midland and boy oh boy have I been busy! 

A week ago from today my mom, Sara and I made the 8 hour drive back to good ole West Texas with a car FULL of wedding gifts! SO exciting!! It has been so fun having new plates, utensils and appliances instead of our old nasty college stuff!

 During my moms stay here we unloaded all of the boxes that we brought up and went on a shopping spree for things to decorate our apartment with! We enjoyed having her here to see where we live and I know she just absolutely loved spending one of her vacations in Midland! :) I mean seriously who wouldn't love spending their vacation here? We were able to enjoy the sightseeing from a double decker bus where she saw cactus and tumbleweeds! JUST KIDDING...it's not like that here people and sadly we don't have double decker buses. :( Anyways what we really did do with her here was take her all around town so she got to see where we work and where we hope to buy a house one day! We also took her to a couple of our favorite restaurants and she even got to see the EXTREMELY nice part of Odessa where the millionaires live. No joke on that one...the houses we showed her are incredible and I wouldn't be surprised if most of them cost 15 million dollars!

Moms hotel style bed (minus the chocolate) 

My flowers that Patty Poo bought me!

My new cross mom bought me for my birthday! 

New decorations we bought for over the couch

Our place settings!

Our wine bar that I LOVE!

Tuesday I took her to the airport and that Patrick and I had to get to work and clean up the rest of the apartment! Having TONS and TONS of boxes to throw away we decided it would be easier to throw them over the balcony instead of walking up and down 3 flights of stairs. I must say I probably enjoyed this game more than him...as you can see below I was taking action shots of me tossing the boxes over to him! 

Wednesday Patrick and I started our 10 day Advocare cleanse. And it started out being pretty easy UNTIL Saturday came. Of course the Texans played last night and we went over to Ryan and Sara's house to watch the game and grill out. What goes best with watching football and grilling out? BEER of course!!! It took everything in us to stay away from the beer aisle while we were grocery shopping. I don't think I have ever wanted a beer so bad and then to top it off Ryan pops one open in front of both of us at his house! Now that is just freaking wrong! We are now on day five and all I do is think about food and how much I can't wait to eat mexican food and have a dos equis when this is all over! Don't get me wrong this is actually a pretty easy cleanse it is just hard not to have what I want when I want it. But I guess after all this is why we are doing the cleanse...to lose weight! So although I would love in indulge on EVERYTHING I have been craving these past couple days when this is over I won't. Hopefully we can maintain all of the weight we lose once we are done with this. 

Off to bed...gotta work tomorrow. blah.