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Silly dogs – Wordless Wednesday

Ahhhh! {Deep sigh of relief that our taxes are done} Now I can return to writing and making some videos. Hopefully over this next week and a half I would have some fun stuff to share since my kiddos are on Spring Break next week. What are you all doing for Spring Break- anything fun?

For today, I’ll share some cute photos of my furry kids. Guess you can call this my Wordless Wednesday post :)

I couldn’t stand the thought of saving this first one until October. Karli and her crazy outfits she puts on Tori!

Tori - Happy Halloween!!

Our Pomeranian pups…they are sisters.

Pippa & Daily

Pups Playing

Pups Playing

Pups Playing

Daisy

Pippa

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Happy First Birthday to the Pups!

Daisy and Pippa turned 1 today. Happy Birthday fuzz buckets!!

Happy 1st Birthday to the puppies, Daisy & Pippa!

The kids had asked what we got the puppies for their birthday and today we just happened to get new carpet installed, so I said that we got them new carpet to pee all over. I’m gonna be watching these two like a hawk!

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Scary moment

The scariest thing happened yesterday. I was on my hands and knees trying to find some envelopes on the bottom shelf of a cabinet. Out of nowhere I sort of threw up in my mouth, or I guess you could say it was sort of like really bad acid reflux. On instinct I had stood up real quick because I wasn’t sure if I was going to actually get sick or what. Then I couldn’t breathe! I kept gasping for air and my lungs would not fill. Finally I opened the basement door to get Ken’s attention but I couldn’t get my body to walk down the stairs, I just kept gasping for air. Ken heard me and it felt like he took his sweet time getting up to see what I was doing. I don’t know if he thought I was just standing there crying from watching a sad movie or what…but geez…when you hear someone making crazy sounds it can’t be good- move your ass! By the time he came upstairs I was able to catch short breaths, but couldn’t talk for another minute or so. That was the strangest scariest thing!

February Photo A Day. I know I said yesterday I was going to wait and share the photos weekly here on the blog, but I decided to use the photos as inspiration to blog. I am sure I can come up with something to write about along with each photo. Knowing me all I have to do is start typing about one thing and plenty of things start popping in my head.

Day One – Your View Today
My View Today #Febphotoaday

This is basically where my butt is planted from Eight to Four everyday. Yep, that’s Tori, my Yorkie sitting on my desk. Her bed is actually on top of the filing cabinet and she drives me crazy all day long whining to get up there so she can lay down and gaze out the window and take naps. Whenever I get up to do something she jumps down and follows me. Once I sit back down she wants back up. It’s a vicious cycle I wish I never would have started.

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Photo Update

I have to say I really don’t care for having Christmas decorations up in my house. The tree takes up so much space and everything just feels cluttered and unorganized. But as Ken says, we do it for the kids.
Ugh, does this mean even when the kids are grown up and moved out I have to do it for the grandkids?

Decorating Day

My pups sure are cute though…
Peepers!

Daisy dukes

Snow Dingleberries on Daisy’s belly!
Dingleberries!!!

Ken turned 38…just another year.
Happy Birthday to my old man!

I take too many photos of my puppies.
Sisters

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Puppy update

Often I take photos and share them on Facebook and Instagram. I like to share them on our family blog as well since this is the place my kids come to look back at our family memories. So some of you may have already seen these photos elsewhere. I wonder what it will be like in 20 years when we are looking back at old photos? Will the inter-webs still be the same? Will my future grandchildren be browsing through our family website? Crazy to think about really!

Some pictures of the puppies!! They have gotten so big. They just got spayed last week and they weighed 5.9 and 6.1 pounds. Daisy is a bit chunkier than Pippa and we can easily tell them apart now. Daisy is a lover and is so sweet. Pippa is full of energy at all times and is quite a pistol.

August 3rd
Just one reason why having two puppies is better than one!

August 6th
Sleepy puppies
Keep going…there are more puppy photos!! Continue Reading

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Dogs

I installed the Viddy app on my iPhone the other day. It’s an app where you post 15 second videos and share them with other users or post to other social networks. Of course I haven’t had time to record any videos since then. Here was my first Viddy! It was funny how I called the dogs girls and Shaggy barked like he was saying “I’m a boy!”

A video of me rocking Daisy to sleep. She is such a cuddlebug!

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Cutest Puppies!

In case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been doing lately…well these little stinkers pretty much say it all. My last post when I said they were like having a baby, well it’s almost worse. At least a baby wears a diaper and naps a lot more. Daisy and Pippa do nap a lot, but its not for very long and when they wake up I immediately have to take them outside. Then they eat and then have to outside again. It’s a vicious circle that never ends. At least they are finally sleeping until I get up at 7am. They potty, eat, play, and then go back to sleep…in result I go back to sleep too! I end up sleeping until like 10am every day. It’s crazy and really I can’t wait to get back on a schedule.

We have been so darn stinkin busy with football. Ken took over as area head coach for our youth football league. This is the same league that Andrew started out playing in when he was 8 years old. This year we have all 3 younger kids in the program. This will be Blake’s last year before he goes on to play for the junior high and Chase and Karli both have several more years to go. I never thought it was going to be an easy road and wasn’t exactly thrilled when Ken was asked to take over. I know my husband better than anyone and he doesn’t do anything halfway. He gives 110%, especially when it comes to sports. Unfortunately I get sucked in as well. It’s hard not to help. I don’t really have to do anything except the website and I offered to do the weekly newsletter. But somehow I was helping fit cheerleaders with uniforms the other day and next week I need to help get more parents to volunteer for games and fundraisers. There is just so much involved!

Here is another video for you. Its not very clear, but still funny enough. Andrew made up this dance a few weeks ago and his buddy was taping them with Blake’s iPod. I couldn’t help but snag it from him. Andrew was complaining because he said the dance isn’t complete! LOL!! Andrew’s talking reminds me of an aerobic instructor…so encouraging! Haha!

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8 is enough

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

I thought I would share the story of how we became parents to our new Pomeranian puppies. First off, I know you are all thinking, what is wrong with these people!! They already have 2 dogs and 4 kids who keep them extremely busy…what are they thinking? Well, for one, we love dogs. That’s pretty obvious. We had a Pomeranian for almost 14 years and had to have her put to sleep several months ago. Secondly, we are blessed with being able to work from home so in reality we are the best type of people to have puppies/dogs. We are home with our pets more than most people who have dogs and have to leave for work all the time. Yet that doesn’t mean that we went out and bought 2 dogs on purpose. Here is what happened…

Over the past month I became pretty obsessed with trying to find an all white Pomeranian. Ken kept saying that he didn’t want to get another Pom because no one could replace Pooh. The more and more I kept looking at pictures of these stinkin cute puppies, the more I wanted one.

Karli begging for a new puppy!
Karli begging for a new puppy!

About a week ago I found an ad for a really cute white puppy from a local shelter. It was a mix of a Yorkie and a Shih tzu. Not exactly the type of dog I was looking for, but mutts make such great pets and I thought it would be nice to adopt a homeless puppy rather than buy from a breeder. Unfortunately we waited to long to make up our minds and someone else adopted her. Then Ken and I had a conversation about how busy we are going to be soon with all 3 boys playing football and Karli cheering and her dance classes, etc. I started to feel overwhelmed and I agreed it probably wasn’t the best idea.

That didn’t stop me from still checking the several websites that I was stalking every night while laying in bed with my iPad. I just couldn’t stop looking because what if I found the exact puppy I was looking for…then it was meant to be, right? Last Thursday night I found the ad for our puppies. They were located in Battle Creek, just under a couple of hours from us. Well less if driving the Camaro, LOL. When Ken came to bed I showed him the photo of all 4 puppies that the breeder had posted. Of course he thought they were super cute and I took that as a sign that I should probably contact the breeder and see if they had any puppies left.

Karli and I out shopping
Mommy Daughter shopping day!

The next day when Karli and I were out shopping for her birthday party supplies the breeder called me. He told me they had all 4 puppies left; 3 females and 1 male and that they were 6 weeks old and would be ready to find homes on August 10th. When I got home I filled Ken in and he actually went along with it and was ready to pick out a puppy. Although he said we should drive to Battle Creek and pick out our puppy, rather than my idea of trying to reserve one based off of photos and the breeders description of the puppies.

Several hours later we were at their home, sitting on their floor, playing with the puppies. There was 1 female, the runt, that I originally thought I would want because she was the smallest. But she was so shy and timid and wouldn’t look at you in the face. My Yorkie already has a similar personality and we didn’t think she would be the best fit considering we have other dogs. The other 2 females were so playful and adorably cute. We finally picked which one we wanted, paid a deposit, signed an agreement, made arrangements to get our puppy in 2 weeks and were on our way. We had planned to stop at FireKeepers Casino since we were right there and had never been there before.

Our puppies parents
Daisy & Pippa's parents

The entire way there I kept asking Ken if we picked out the best puppy. The two females that we liked were so hard to tell apart. One of them gave lots of kisses and the other one was just as playful, but a bit more ornery than the other. She kept tackling the other puppies and you could just tell she was real spunky. Ken wanted the more loving puppy, but I wasn’t 100% confident that we picked the right one. Finally Ken said something how we should have just gotten them both. Next thing you know we are pulling in the casino and I suggested that we take the cash that we were going to waste at the casino and buy the second puppy instead. I also thought that we might be able to take the puppies home that night if we bought two of them since the most important part of the puppies growth during the 6 – 8 week mark has to do with socialization with its siblings. The puppies had already been weaned from their mother and she was already at the point where she wanted nothing to do with them. We called up the breeders and told them we would take the two females if we could take them home that night.

They are getting tons and tons and tons of attention!
Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

It took some convincing, but the breeders finally accepted our offer and we came back and paid for both puppies! Ken had stopped at a gas station to buy a blanket for the puppies to lay on in my lap for the ride home. I was cracking up because he came out with two fleece blankets that we large enough to cover an adult. LOL! I told him I am so lucky to have married a guy that crazy enough to go along with my insane ideas…like driving out of town to buy a puppy and end up coming home with two!

They absolutely love to play in the grass.
Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

Pippa and Daisy are the sweetest things ever. They are actually both very playful and we realized that the puppy that we originally bought was the instigator! Good thing we ended up with two of them or she would have been tormenting the crap out of our dogs. Today I watched Pippa drag Daisy across the floor by her tail. We took them to the Vet today and Pippa is 2.4 pounds and Daisy is 1.6 pounds. Funny thing is Daisy looks bigger because her fur is a bit more fluffy than Pippa. The only way we can really tell them apart is Daisy is a shade more white than Pippa and the paw pads on the bottom of their back paws are different. Pippa’s are a mixture of pink and black, where as Daisy’s are all pink with only one black pad.

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

I love them dearly, but boy oh boy…it’s like having a baby all over again. We always said we wanted twins! They are waking me up at 3am-ish and then again at 7am. This summer I have been enjoying sleeping in a bit, but not anymore. Today Tori finally started playing with them a bit. So far Shaggy just barks at them whenever they start playing. We keep saying it’s like he is the grumpy old grandpa dog now. Now that we have 4 kids and 4 dogs…I think our family is officially complete.

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks

Daisy & Pippa - 6 weeks