Off to College

Morning friends ๐Ÿ™‚ Howโ€™s your day treating ya? Hope youโ€™re having a beautiful Sunday.

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(Sent from the Pilot! Le swoon)

After this morningโ€™s interval workout, I was *supposed* to have a lil photo shoot. The hairstylist didnโ€™t make it in time from traveling, so we re-scheduled and I resorted to plan B.

Taking out some cookbooks:

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planning eats for the week

and going food shopping ๐Ÿ™‚

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Iโ€™ve been trying to do better about food budgetingโ€ฆ I tend to just throw things willy nilly into the cart, even when I have a list. Iโ€™m hoping to do a food budgeting post in the near future, because itโ€™s definitely something I could improve at! Stoked to say the above stuff was only $57- love Trader Joeโ€™s.

Some recent eats:

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Brown rice cakes with cashew butter and blueberries

cakes

Snacky plate:

snack plate

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Soโ€ฆ today is a bitersweet day.

Viesa is going to live with her new family later this afternoon, who live in Phoenix.

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Weโ€™ve known that weโ€™d need to find a new home for her for over a year, as she and Bella donโ€™t always get along and last time they fought, Bella ended up badly injured with a trip to the pet hospital. Itโ€™s been very difficult making sure the dogs donโ€™t fight and keeping them separated, but weโ€™ve been casually looking for a new home for her because we wanted to be 100% sure she would be in the best possible situation.

Vies is the smartest, sweetest dog, but needs to be in a place where sheโ€™s the only pet.

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Today sheโ€™s going to live with her new family (my mom and I are calling it โ€œgoing off to collegeโ€ so it doesnโ€™t feel as sad), and since theyโ€™re very good family friends, weโ€™ll still get to see her often.

Iโ€™m heartbroken because Iโ€™m going to miss her so badly, but at the same time so happy that sheโ€™ll be living with an amazing couple who already love her like crazy.

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So Viessy is on to be queen of the castle in a new home, with fun new adventures and all of the love and attention she needs.

Iโ€™m sure the couple who are taking her will send me pics (and Iโ€™ll go up to Phoenix to visit her), so Iโ€™ll be sure to share them with the bloggy.

Hope you have a great day and Iโ€™ll see ya later with a baking project <3

xoxo

Gina

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110 Comments

  1. Hannah Hawley on January 10, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    *BIG HUG*

  2. Christin@purplebirdblog on January 10, 2011 at 1:18 pm

    Awwwe, best wishes on your new journey, sweet Vies! And best wishes to mama during this time of transition <3

  3. Kristin on January 10, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    Best wishes to Viesa as she goes off to college. Hang in there mama!

  4. Nicole on July 18, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    I finally found the post that talks about where Viesa went! I fell out of blog reading for several months and when I came back, you were living in a whole new state and Vies was no where in sight! I’ve been wondering what the story was…I feel much better now ๐Ÿ™‚

    • Leslie Wingate on November 28, 2011 at 7:14 am

      Ditto!

      Sounds like you did the right thing, Gina. ๐Ÿ™‚

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