Happy Anniversary to us!!

Ellie here is our anniversary present to eachother!

Derek took this picture with his cell phone, she was squirmy and wiggly as a 4 week old pup should be, but when we propped her up for a photo she sat pretty and we got a great picture! She feels like a kitten when holding her..

I had been contemplating whether to post on FB that we were looking for a dog, sometimes its fun to just post a pic after the fact and say "here's our new dog!" when people didnt even know we were looking, but I thought maybe someone might know of a dog and I posted that we were looking for a small female, mix breed ok. Russell has been in real need of a friend, the poor guy howls when we are outside, he doesnt run and play like he used to. So we wanted a female that will run/play with him, snuggle up with him, yet wouldnt really be much faster than him because he tries so hard to keep up and his little hips are not holding up like they used to.

Derek's sister Dawn saw my FB post and called to say that their neice Tammy has pups we might be interested in. Well they just happened to be 3/4 Papillon 1/4 Chihuahua and we had been wanting to get a Papillon, just knew we wouldnt be able to, simply because they are spendy little dogs! So this was perfect!!! And she is perfect.. she is such a cute dog, I just cant wait to get her home!! I didnt really think I wanted a brand new puppy, but we couldnt pass her up, she is exactly what we were looking for, sometimes things just fall into place...

We named her Ellie and will get to bring her home around the end of July. I think her and Russell will be perfect pals once they have time to bond. We both can hardly stand the waiting now and it's only been less than 24 hours!

So back to what's been going on.. Tomorrow we will have been married for 14 years, together exactly 19 years! Amazing!! I'm starting to feel "aged".... not old .... lol

My grandma's services were very nice, a really great celebration of her, not so much of a sad day. Of course it was very sad to loose my gramma. The day of her service was the hottest day of the year (yes I consider 75 to be hot!!) and I think the last day we had full sun all day. I dont even remember what else we did that weekend, heck that was 2 weeks ago, it's ancient history by now..

This past weekend was crazy busy! I'll just go through exactly what we did, might be funner that way..

Friday we went to work, came home packed our clothes, loaded up the horses and the dog and headed up to the Pilchuck Tree Farm for a special horse club only campout for that night, set up camp, socialized, ate dinner, realized we had enough daylight to go for an hour ride around 8pm, socialized some more around our make believe fire until we turned into pumpkins, slept like poo, woke at 3am to check on Edgar who was sneezing a lot, socialized in the morning for a while, pitched in with our part of the fantastic breakfast of sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, ham and cheese, pancakes, fresh fruit, coffee cake.. mmm it was delicious.. pulled our stuffed behinds up and out of our chairs to saddle up the horses, rode for 2.5 hours, cleaned up camp and headed home, heard a very brief minor squeeking noise from the trailer brakes as we left the tree farm, drove home, pulled in driveway and realized one of the trailer tires was probably close to catching on fire, smoke everywhere, quickly pulled horses out (thank god everything was ok with them) called Schwab and said WTF is wrong with the trailer, they just had it in there in Oct to pack the bearings, showered, briefly checked email incase something important happened in 24 hours (which I did get 2 emails about my saddle) and headed out the door to a BBQ at aunt Dena's house, arrived at BBQ had a great time with GREAT food, stuffed ourselves again, were back home and in bed at 1:30am, woke up early Sunday (could not sleep, I think I was still a bit drunk/tipsy til atleast 3 or 4am) lol, got up and ready for the day, unloaded the horse trailer of most of our tack, pulled the one tire off the bad side, hauled the trailer to Monroe to drop off at Schwab, stopped by Marcs to help unload a compressor, fed goats, headed home, took camper off the truck, grabbed camera and drove out to Arlington to see and of course buy the puppy, visited for a while, drove to grocery store to buy food for a BBQ at my brothers for Father's Day, bought food and gift card, then just as we got in the truck at the grocery store, Eric called and asked if I could pick up another gift card since he didnt have time, so I went back in and just as I was walking back out to the truck, he called again and needed brown sugar so went back in the store for a 3rd time and then finally was able to get to Eric's, ate again more food than necessary, had a great time over there, got home about 8 pm and plopped our asses in front of the TV for the next 3 hours and chilled out!!

and this week already is panning out to be quite busy as well.. Tuesday (anniversary night and thanks to Jennifer/John we got free tickets to the Aquasox game!)... Wednesday (riding with a lady who might buy our saddle)... Friday (helping Shannon take video and post video to internet of Oakley)... & Sunday (heading to Eatonville to buy yet another dog, paying the breeder for our hunting dog Cooper who has yet to be conceived)

I love this crazy life! lol