Our new puppy Tyson!

Keith and I both decided that Tobey needed a friend so we decided to adopt a yellow lab. In our case he is white right now, but none the less will more than likely be yellow as an adult! Here are some pics:)

Elizabeth Smart

I remember I was on vacation with my family the summer that Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her home in Utah. I remember how much of my heart went out to that family when I heard the news and how happy I was to see that their daughter was finally found 9 months later. You may ask why am I bringing this up? Well today at work I was on people.com and was reading an article on her. It was heartbreaking to hear the horrible things that happend to her during the nine months she was kidnapped and away from her family. She was only 14 years old. She is now 21 and is planning on serving a mission next month in France. She is so lucky to have a loving and wonderful LDS family that cares so much about her spiritual,physical,and emotional well being.When I read that article it made me look up to her in a way. She went through all of that heartache,pain, and I'm sure psychological damage at such a young age and still drew nearer to her Heavenly Father. She is giving up her life and free time for 18 months to serve the Lord. I felt that even though we all go through hard times in our lives (not saying they are as bad as hers) we should look at her example and realize that we will get through it, especially if we draw nearer to the Lord. We shouldnt turn our backs on the Lord when times get tough.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20309630,00.html

Some pics of the new home:)

Okay, I know they are long overdue, but here a few pics of our new home. I didn't take a ton of pictures, but I did take a few:).




















Not every room in the house because we still need to do work to some...meaning add furniture hahahaha

Tobey's debut!

Okay so i'm finally posting a couple of pictures of Keith and my new puppy Tobey. He is a golden retriever pup around 10 weeks old and we absolutely love him:)!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE

They're such a good snack and only 100 calories per cup. I have only tried the rasberry chocolate, but Keith has tried the lemon torte and said its really good!

Birthday Present:)

So, last Friday (Sept.4) I turned 21. Keith had been asking me what I wanted for my birthday and about a couple of weeks before I told him that I wanted the Windsor Pilates complete set. Now that we have more space I can have room to do pilates. The testimonials seems legit and I was so excited when I found that Keith did in fact get me the pilates set and equipment (circle, streth band, and ball)! He got me 21 different dvd's to go along with the equipment off of Ebay! I started yesterday and am already sore. I hope I can stay consistent and reap the results possible!

Changes in the life of the Collins'

Hey Everyone! It has been once again forever since I have blogged. So much has happend. I went full-time at the Credit Union, Keith and I bought our first home, we got a new puppy named Tobey,& we are all moved in now! It all happend so fast we didn't know what to do with ourselves! We absolutely love our new home and our new addition to our family, Tobey! He is so cute and sweet! He's a golden retriever which makes me happy because I love big dogs and they are very good family dogs as well. We currently don't have internet at home yet so I won't be able to upload pictures until the end of the week when we get it installed. I will as soon as I can though!