Puppy Photos

A few pictures of the pups... :)

Stella's new favorite place to hide and sleep...the laundry basket.

My babies going for a ride in the truck to meet my co-workers on Friday.

The puppies after surgery on Thursday. Stella was so sickly and Shooter was just tired.

Big man chillin' with daddy.

Right after we got back from the honeymoon, Stella kept getting in my suitcase!

Puny Puppies and a Broken Mower

I'll attribute my lack of posts lately to too many hours at work. After 12 hours a day at my desk, I avoid the computer when I get home.

Well, we're finally getting settled into the house. We bought some ladder shelves for our living room, nightstands for our bedroom, and a new bed is on its way tomorrow. It's nice to finally be done with planning and enjoy our new house and puppies.

The puppies had a rough day today. It was finally time for fixing. They're just under five months so we went ahead and had them both taken care of. I thought they'd be knocked out when I went to pick them up, but they were suprisingly alert. I got them home and onto there pillow where they proceeded to pass out for a few hours. I could tell Stella wasn't herself - couldn't even get a tail wag out of her. Shooter hasn't been as mopey though. He was up trotting around for a little bit and just recently sat down for a good sleep. I'm off tomorrow, which works out nice so I'll monitor them and their stiches. The man came to deliver our lawn mower (which is another story in itself) this afternoon and I had just arrived home with the puppies. I had the drivers door open and they were scared of the stranger and Stella tried jumping back into the floorboard. Between Shooter's lesser pain and her trying to jump around, I'm glad I'll be home tomorrow.

As for the lawn mower...our new house came with an acre of land and a requirement for a riding lawn mower. Rather than buying a brand new one we might not need down the road, we bought a used one from Craig's List. I did quite a bit of research and found one from a guy in NRH who fixes old lawn mowers. I spoke with him and he seemed reputable so we went ahead. The bonus was he offered a 60 warranty on it to assure buyers he did good work. Well, about 4 mows into using the new mower, Bo noticed it leaking a little gas in the garage. We called Mr. Mower and he assured us he would come out to take a look. We made contact with him a few times and he always had an excuse.

Well, last week Bo was mowing the yard and had I not been watching him, I would have accused him of hitting something. As he made a turn, a black object went under the deck. Turned out the be the muffler mangled by the blades consequently causing additional damage under the deck. We called Mr. Mower several times with no luck. We followed up with a few emails - no luck. Turns out a warranty is worth nothing if your Mr. Mower won't call you back. We contemplated legal action - but he's a questionable man of hispanic orientation who knows where we live -and I really didn't want to piss him off and have him come after us.

Meanwhile, our grass wasn't getting any shorter so we called a few places in Weatherford and found a mom and pop place to work on it. $300 bucks later, our mower was returned to us today. Bo has been at work and yet to test it out so hopefully we'll be relieved of the problems and get our yard trimmed again. What a pain.

Oh Baby!

This post is for Kristina... :)

I went to get my nails filled yesterday..I hadn't been there five minutes and a woman walks in....with her baby in tote. Now, this baby couldn't have been more than 6 weeks old, maybe closer to 4 weeks. I kept thinking "Kristina would have a fit!" At a glance the woman was well dressed and didn't appear to be Weatherford white trash. So, she gets in the pedicure chair and set her baby in the carrier on the floor next to the foot of her chair, which in my opinion was too close to feet water.

Of course, he's not too happy inhaling that god awful nail smell and starts crying. So, she picks him up and tries to appease him with no luck...she whips her boob out and starts feeding him. I thought...lady, the pedicure isn't worth it. Go home.

I tried to keep my staring to a minimum, but I just can't believe that tiny baby was in the nail salon. Sheesh.

Beer Chairs

So, I was really dreading my first day back to work. And not because I dislike, fear, or hate it, but mostly because it wasn't a beach in Antigua and I would have a pile of work waiting for me. I get there and find the set up below ... from two guys I work with.

Allow me to explain....the jokesters I work with got me beer cooler chairs. The arms each hold 6 beers with ice...kinda hard to tell from the picture. If you notice if the next pictures the right one is mine and the left is Bo's. They blew up pictures of Shooter and Stella at our feet (notice the high heel Stella is after). My koozie says "Caution: Blonde Thinking" and Bo's said "Heck! I'll do anything for a beer!". Fitting.

My "Just Married" and wedding bell decorations. Notice they're wedding colors... ;)

Well, everyone I work with has heard the saga of Stella and Shooter mishaps (i.e. shoe graveyard on our mantle..). I had previously told them about finding the toliet paper roll in shreds under our bed. Well, I was in a meeting and come back to my desk to see the puppies had made a mess in my cube. =D


Not long after they made the toliet paper mess did I come back to find cardboard Stella sitting my desk pretending to each my chips. I didn't get a picture of that one, but you can imagine they ended up in various places of my cube getting into trouble! Excellent way to come back to work - I couldn't have laughed harder and been more grateful that they thought of me!

Sleepy Bell

Cute little story from this morning....

The usual battle with the puppies is keeping them in the playpen at night to sleep. Especially since they're getting big and can easily jump out. Well, this morning I let them sleep a bit longer instead of waking them up to go potty then putting them back in the pen for a 20 minute nap. So, I take them out and immediately they both run back and sit in front of the pen. I didn't put them in right away and Shooter realizes it's play time and runs off. Well, Stella wasn't having any of that and wanted to go back to sleep. She just kept sitting there, eyes glancing between me and then pen. Finally she started trying to jump INTO the pen! Who'd have thought. She wouldn't stop so finally I put her back in and she curled up and went to sleep.

I had to leave for work so I woke her up to eat breakfast and go outside. I put their food down while I made my lunch only to turn around and find Stella back in our room sitting by the pen. I call her out and shut the door only to have her go back to sit outside our bedroom door wanting back in to sleep. Poor baby. She was so tired. I picked her up and took her outside. She immediately crawled into her doghouse and I assume slept the rest of the morning. =)

Good To Be Home

A few things I missed while in Antigua (And made time to enjoy today):

• Food Network
• Taco Bell
• Coke Zero
• Southern Blackberry Cobbler Blue Bell Ice Cream
• Stella and Shooter

P.S. Still no luggage...

First Post as a Married

Well, the wedding festivities are over as well as my blogging hiatus. There's too much to blog each detail...but I commend Kristina for her detailed posts of the weekend....:)....so I'll try. Everyone always has little imaginative dreams about how their wedding will be, but I didn't realize it would go by so fast I wouldn't have time to breathe. I never made it to the foyer bar, had a full piece or cake, saw the buffet or a complete spin of the photo slide show!

For the most part, all went as planned. Our biggest hiccup was my bouquet...we had requested our florist use the bottom pieces of fabric that were left over when I had my dress shortened to cover the stems of my bouquet as well as a broach from my grandma as my something borrowed. Well, wedding day, a substitute fabric was used and the broach was missing. Seems there was not enough fabric so they scratched the whole idea and misplaced the broach so it was missing as well. Not cool. Pretty irritating, but the wedding went on and turned out beautiful.

The weather threatened to interrupt the weekend as well...it rained everyday for about 5 days up to Saturday. A terrible storm came through Friday just as we were finishing the rehearsal so by time I made it to the rehearsal dinner I was soaked along with all the guests. No big deal though we had an awesome time despite the weather. It rained the morning of the wedding while we were getting ready but cleared off by evening and the wedding went smoothly.

We stayed at the Omni Hotel downtown the night of the wedding and it was awesome. The rooms were really nice and we had a top floor room with a view of downtown at night. Awesome. Sunday night Kristina was gracious enough to hook us up at the DFW Grand Hyatt since we had to be up so early for our flight to Miami. Well, in between hotels, we went home briefly to pick up the pups and meet Kristina and Nate at our house. The aforementioned storms that went though had apparently done more damage to our house than the wedding. A few sections of our fence had blown down and our garage door was inoperable. Seems the storm had bowed out of garage door and it wouldn't open more than a few inches. Not 24 hours into marriage did reality hit. Fun. Luckily, everything was taken care of when we got back, but not cool.

So, on to the honeymoon. =D We stayed at the Sandals Resort in Grande Antigua and it was AWESOME! The food was to die for (and luckily all inclusive)! We ate and ate and ate. We had a nice honeymoon room with a fully stocked mini bar that was replenished daily. ;) They actually had full bottles of rum, gin, vodka, whisky, red wine, white wine, and champagne! Between that and the swim up bar, we were buzzed to drunk almost everyday! We met the most wonderful couple from England and hung out with them for about half of the trip. So, if you come over to our house, it is likely Bo will be speaking in a British accent or repeating phrases they said. We decided our 1 year anniversary trip will be a tour of Europe based on recommendations from them.

Sadly, we're back in Texas and even sadder is that we arrived last night about 11:30PM....and our checked luggage was still in Miami. Along with about 30 other people's. Cool. Apparently, it never made it on the flight so they assured us it would be delivered to our house sometime today....we shall see. I didn't like AA as an employee or a customer now. We were exhausted and just wanted to finally get home. Now I have no makeup, hair dryer, straightened, medicine, toothbrush....I had to brush my teeth last night with my finger. Not cool. So, I have nothing to get ready for work with tomorrow - AA better come through.

Well, my puppies are getting antsy in my lap now so I guess I'll cut this one short and pick up with some more later. Plenty of pictures to post so stayed tuned to Facebook!