MERRY CHRISTMAS

2010 CHRISTMAS TREE

LOVE Lazy Saturdays

Last Satruday I went to the gym (like always) then did some odd and end shopping, picked up lunch than came home and got a nice hot shower. The dogs and I curled up in the spare room with the hot sun shinning in and we all took a long warm Nap.

THANK YOU

I would like to make a special shoot out to Aunt Mary and Janet (my mother in law) for wrapping all of my gifts this year!

This years Wrapping paper.....It looks like Bella :)

Over Worked

The dogs after they helped me clean today. They are so over worked - following me around is hard. -hehe

Sisters

We went on a dairy farm back in October. My mom took the picture of my sister and I and than Kaylee and Sabrina wanted their picture taken too.

Drama on Friday Night

Friday night after we had got home, we both sat down to relax and this is normally when the dogs grab their toys and ask us to play with them. Bella was on the floor and all sudden I heard her screaming and crying. I couldn't see her so I jumped up and she was in front of Cody and she had her head facing down so I couldn't see her. She continue to scream loudly when I lifted her head up - she had a pink ball caught in her mouth. I tried to move it but it wouldn't come out, as she screamed Bo at this point is barking and running in circles around her - freaking out.

I began to freak out (normal) and Cody took over trying to be calm. I rubbed her back has Cody looked at the ball to figured. Every time Cody tried to move it she screamed. Than I went to grab something to cut the rubber ball.
When I was walking back to them she all sudden tried to pull it out on her own as she was crying and screaming but she finally pulled it out.
THANK GOD.

That toy has been thrown away.

Races

Look what Bella got this year. Here are my first and only half Marathons that I finished this year. A year ago, I was signing up for my first half Marathon (13.1 miles) now this year I am signing up for my first marathon (26.2 miles).

Westies

A local Westie group contacted me through facebook. They saw one of my profile pictures of the kids. I was looking at their website and they had a huge page about children and Westies. I have hard many times that Westies and children are not recommended. Also, they don't recommend any other kind of animals in the house. For example, cats or small cage animals.

"Westies may also perceive a small child as a lower-level pack member and try to dominate or correct the child for what the Westie perceives as inappropriate pack behavior. Westies have a relatively low threshold for having their hair, ears and tail pulled; being stumbled over or fallen or stepped on; hugged tightly; being hit; and above all, being kissed on the face. These normal child behaviors often elicit a warning snap (not intended to make contact) from your Westie. The dog does not intend to inflict harm, he is speaking dog for “not so hard, or not in my face.” However, if the child has his or her face in the dog’s face, unintentional contact can occur. Even if there is minimal or no actual contact, when parents see a dog snap at their young child, it is frightening and unacceptable. You cannot blame the parents for their reaction, but you cannot blame the dogs for their natural and instinctual reactions either."

Source www.thedogspeaks.com

Headboard

The whole Labor Day weekend we worked on this and we liked how it turned out.

B-day Boy

I am Back!!!

I been busy - we all get busy! I been running and working and boot camp too!

Sorry for the fans that have been bored reading about running gear. :)

Running Gear

It takes more than waking up at 4:30AM and driving to the maron trail. Its quite funny to watch all of us park our cars than walk to our trunks and "get dress".
Items I prepare for a long run-

Baseball cap
Flash light- attached to the hat
Chocolate Milk - for after the run
I pod - I only put in one headphone for security reason
Flue belt -holds a few things of water plus my phone
Extra bottle of water in my car
Knee brace
Gloves

Just four Saturdays away for my 3rd half marathon this year.

I just signed up for my third round of boot-camp as well!

Birthday Dinner Pic

Let the B-day Weekend began

Hosting a Birthday dinner tomorrow night than my mother in law will be in town and we are going down town to Indy for dinner.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CODY!

Push Ups

I spoke with my Brother tonight and he was asking about working out and I was giving him some tips of free work outs he can do it at home.
For example - Push ups, he said "Oh, I tried them and could only do two". I said What?! I just did 150 of them this morning!

3 way Phone Call

Remember when 3 way phone calls was new and popular. You never hear about people using 3 way anymore. The other day on my way home I was talking to my brother and we wanted to ask my sister a question. So my brother went to the other line, called my sister and reconnected with me.

On the way home we all three talked together about this and that.

Enjoyed my drive home that day.

Personal Best

Today I ran 8:18 minutes a mile (with one shoe untried). This has shred off 1 minute and 3 seconds from 6 weeks ago.
When I started running back in January I was running 12+ a minute a mile.

I never thought I would get to 8 minute a mile. Hard work pays off.

Birthday Cake that went bad

I baked a diet cake like normal but I tried to double stack it however it didn't turn out well.

Graceful

Well I fell while running this past week. I know... I know...I am so graceful at times.

Learn from the Best

My Grandparents came up for the weekend and we enjoy their company like always. However when the guys was hanging crown molding in our bedroom....Grandma and I hit 3 goodwills. Who else did I learn to bargain shop???
Check out our cart after 3 and half hours in the first goodwill.

Hello There

We are here to help....

Like most of you know we have been redoing our master bedroom. when we moved everything out of our bedroom the dogs thought this was for them to play and chase each other. They loved having nothing in the room.This is Bo trying to tell me he is ready to help....

King Size

We went went shopping today and we saw this King size chair.....check it out!

My Name is........

I knew what I was getting myself into when I took on the new last name but come on...give a girl a break.

I went from a common last name "Carpenter" to "Brugh" (Brew).

Monday morning in Boot Camp, they was calling our first and last name out to put us into teams. As the sgt David yelled my name out he said "Meg Bragh (bra)" -
I corrected him and yelled back "Brugh" (Brew).
He said back to me "Excuses me, what do you say?!"
My first thought that came to me was "OH S*!# I have already did enough push ups
I said "My last name is Brugh"
He said "#1 rule at boot-camp is that I am always right"

Well S*!# - I guess my last name is "Bra" at Boot Camp.

Remember When......

Remember 6 months ago when we was freezing and complaining about it being 30 degrees.....Now people are complaining about 95 degrees.

Day 1

Day 1 of fresh air.

Tomorrow is my first day with my new job.
I feel relieved.
I feel confident
I feel like I might belong
I feel that the company is strong
I feel that I can grow
I feel I can breath
I feel I can reach goals (professional and personal)
I feel self-assured
I feel thankful
I feel I can see myself there for a long time
I feel blissful

I don't feel anxious, nervous or scared - I just clam and ready to go.

Bluetooth

No....I don't have a BLUE tooth..... I am talking about my ear piece that is connected to my cell phone.

I use mine everyday....driving in the car, cleaning my closet, scrubbing the toilet and shopping.

Last weekend I was shopping at Walmart and talking to my mother in law on my blue-tooth hands free and not thinking anything of it. As I was standing in line to check out, as we was ending our conversation and saying good bye. I was noticing a older lady (maybe mid 80s) sitting on a bench staring at me. I just didn't pay attention to her and continue to wait to check out.

Before I knew it she approached me asking "Who are you talking to?" A little puzzled I just replied that I was on the phone and I turn my head so she could see my blue tooth in my ear. She said to me "Honey, I thought you was talking to yourself and I was worried about you."

Just a little bit of a generation difference. I might think twice when using my blue-tooth when I am shopping.

Emma's B-day

We went to the zoo than to dinner that night. We had fun but it was real hot!!!

Welcome to BootCamp

Look at my left knee!!

Cody's New Toy

He has been building this for 3 years.

Boot Camp

I started a boot camp last Monday and its been real interesting. Its military style boot camp.

When I say military its - Yelling, drop give me 50 and if one person is late...everyone is screwed.

One of the girls that had took the class a few times before kept saying "Oh shit" a few times, and I turn to her and asked why do you keep saying this as we are standing in line. All sudden, we all had to drop and do 60 push ups because SOMEONE forgot their equipment.

Oh and a push up is 2 = 1. (i.e. down, up, down, up =1)

I have said "Oh Shit" many times this past week.

We carry 2 gallons of water on our back all of the time -as we run around or how many push ups we are doing or how many lunges we are doing threw a car lot. Eveywhere we run we have to repeat after them....Left Left Left Right Left.

Both knees are skin up but I enjoy getting my butt kicked at 5am three days a week. I am also still running two days a week as well.

I will let you know if I kill over after my 7 week course.

New Offer

New Job offer that is.

Most of you know how hard its been working for my current company due to my boss, the status of the company and some unethical events that I don't agree with.

I had an interview with ITT Tech at their corporate office with two HR managers for an human resource assistant opening open last week. This past Tuesday I received a call with a job offer!!!

I accepted and submitted my notice to my current company yesterday.........and what a day it was.....

It started with the CEO yelling from his office - "Oh Meg, what are you doing!?!?" After a hour and half of meetings with the CEO, CFO, both supervisors, I kept my foot down.

My last day is July 29th.

FIREWORKS

Its July 17th and we still have idiots setting off fireworks all this week and all times of the night. Bo does not like fireworks and he will bark and run through the house scared.

The person that is setting them off is two houses down and they are doing them towards the damn pond.

I am so close of walking over there and tell them where to shove it. Its not easy living with a dog that is scared of fireworks. Its been a long 17 days.

Jogging Drama

Thursday morning, like most mornings I went out for my 5am run with a friend. As we run around Fishers my knee started to bug me so I told her I wanted to stop for a mintine. I went to grab my ear phone out of my ear however when I went to grab for it my nail got caught and ripped out my diamond stud earing.

So here is my friend and I with a flash light at 5:30am looking for a earing in the middle of the road.

We never found it however we did find the back of the earing.

Maybe its not who you think it is....

Cody's family all have MSN IM and we talk to each other often with small messages here or there.

Today I was upstairs on Cody's computer so I was under his IM talking to his mom when his aunt Hazel had sent a message. She was asking if we was ready to come over for lunch and how we had alot to eat and ect. I asked her if Wally (Cody's Uncle) was excited about the big fest and the next message I got back was .....

This is wally - I respond back and said oh, well this isn't Cody this is Meg.

There goes to show that there was two people using two other people's screen names and we both thought we was talking to someone else. Go figure.

HAZEL THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL LUNCH!!!!!

Before and Now

My aunt that I seen a few months ago recommend that I should put a before and half pictures of myself after my weight lost.

October 2008

June 2010

This past week -

This past week was the first week since sometime in April my boss didnt snap, be short or was rude with me. However, I was completely bored and had to look for work all week.

Kind of a good week.

Got Bug Bits?

We have them and alot of them. Even Bella has a few. I have bought more cream but I still feel the itch. We still enjoyed our trip to Brown County but I will remember the bug spray.

Before and Now

Before

Now

City Dogs

City Dogs went country ......well maybe.
Both dogs after the weekend at Brown County are tried and ready to get home.

Bella found out what a electric fence felt like today, when she tried to walk into my grandparents garden. Poor girl

Bo and Bella found where the rotten vegetables are located. Both of them rolled in rotten zucchini . Grandma came in yelling saying "You Wont believe what you dogs did!" Bella had it all down her side and smelled so horrible. Grandma continue to say "Bo was eating it and had to rip it out of his month." The got hosed in the backyard with some soap.

THAT'S MY CITY PUPS

Sign Here

When I was a little girl, I would sign my name over and over again. I would fill pages of Megan Carpenter. I practice different styles and layouts. I couldn't wait to sign my name when I became an adult.

As we are refinancing our mortgage I found myself thinking tonight....."All of the years I practice was a waste- My name is Megan Brugh now" However, I did sign my name about 50 times tonight though.

Drivers License

What is one thing that most everyone lies about on their Drivers license?

THERE WEIGHT!!!

I had to grab Cody and my drivers license today for some paperwork and I looked at the horrible picture than realized I had this taken right after I got married. I was about 210+ in weight and I said I was 170lbs. :) Now, I am way below that weight and my license still has the wrong weight on it.

My husband got his drivers license renewed over a year and he put his weight less than 55lbs that he really was at the time.

Its not just females that lie about their weight - men do it too!!!

What does your drivers license say?

Vacation

Did I mention we went to Florida last month? I realized I didn't post any pictures.

On our way to the sunny Shine State!Sitting in the bar area relaxing.

Cody hates this picture but who else would take our picture on the beach?

On the pier. - it was very windy

Toes in the sand

Bo's Thoughts.....

Bo Thoughts - "Seriously! Is my sister sitting next to Robby?! She never sits/lay next to me. How rude of her to leave me and go lay next to him. I feel betrayed"