April 16, 2011--Shadow and Joy's spa party

I guess I should update my blog. It actually went to the second page!

We did get a dog. He's a border terrier, beagle mix and his name is Shadow. He's about two years old and we bought him from the shelter. He's hyper and loves to play, and he's housebroken (although he will have an accident if someone doesn't take him out.) He's a sweet little dog and a lot of fun. He loves to go hiking with us. Here is the picture we took of him on the way home from the shelter. It was on the cell phone camera and he was moving a lot, so it's kind of blurry.

I think part of the reason I haven't blogged much is because I lost my camera. We've looked everywhere for it. I finally did break down and get a new one a couple of days ago.

Erick's surgery went well and he's pretty much recovered from it already. He hasn't been released to go back from work, as he has to do strengthening exercises and everything with it still, but he's out of his sling and braces and all that stuff. Yesterday he had a wisdom tooth pulled, so now he's got to recover from that.

In other news, I got promoted at work to CSM. That's short for Customer Service Manager. I'll be one of the people at front with the clipboards making sure the cashiers are all getting their breaks on time, giving them their change orders, helping them with overrides and things like that. I got a .90 cent raise and I'll be starting training in about a week, I think. It was official yesterday. I was surprised to get the job, actually, because the other two who interviewed both had experience and I didn't.

Three days ago, Joy had her thirteenth birthday. It doesn't seem possible that I am the mother of two teenagers now. She had a spa party and invited a bunch of girls over. We made a foot scrub from a recipe I found online with coconut milk, corn meal, olive oil, honey, espom salts, and rosemary. We bought a tube of cucumber clay mask and gave everyone facials. We also let everyone give themselves manicures, pedicures, and facials. We decorated the livingroom to look like a spa by draping everything with sheets, decorating with flowers and candles, and playing soothing music with lots of ocean sounds in the background. Everyone had a lot of fun. Here are some of the pictures we took (with my new camera!)