My Doctors Appointment and Sadie Update

My doctors appointment was good.....next week will be my monthly sonogram.....I am excited to see how much Junior has grown and see how much he/she weighs now.

Little Sadie is doing better. When I took her to the doctor on Tuesday she did have a parasite....so she is now on medication and everday is seeming a little perkier! Sadie does NOT like for me to talk on the phone. When I am on the phone she will find anything that she knows she is not suppose to have and start running around with it or if it is paper she will begin to shred it to pieces. Anyway, I noticed last night and then again a little while ago when I was on the phone that she must be feeling better becuase last night she was shredding paper and today she was running around with my shoe. She will be really excited in just a little while when she sees Hubby come in the front door and so will I for that matter since he has been out of town.

Little Sadie

Well, I think sweet little Sadie is really getting me ready for not sleeping all night and staying home all day.....on Saturday I had to take her to the Emergency Vet Clinic....she had woke me up at 4:00 AM to go outside.....and then I realized at 1:00 (of course her vet closed at 12:00) that there was something still wrong.....well, my visit to the Emergency Vet Clinic was not so great....I was NOT very impressed with the doctor she had.....he even acted scared of her.....a lab for goodness sakes....a dog that thinks she needs to greet everyone. Anyway, I explained all her symptoms and even that she is just laying around and he informed me that she was hyper...what do you expect when a dog is in a new place sniffing 100 different animal smells and all new people......well, as Saturday went by I thought maybe she was a little better but then this morning she woke me up at 4:15 to go outside.....I ended up staying home from church today so that I could let her outside when she needed to go out.....and so glad I did because she had to go out several times......so the quality of this picture is not great....it is taken from my phone....it is her just laying on a blanket on our bed.....look at those sad little eyes......I have a feeling we will be going to see her regular vet Tuesday!!!!

Baby Update & Sadie Update

This has been a very busy week! The last week of tax season and Hubby has been traveling. He had a late flight in last night and got home around 1:15 this morning. I am so glad he is back from NY though! Tax Season ended for me around 6:30 Wednesday night...and it will be my only tax season this year!!! The second tax season is tougher than the April deadline and now the IRS has changed some of the filing deadlines from October to September so that will be an adjustment for everyone. My office will be a very busy place come the end of July....

Speaking of busy at the end of July, we will be busy around our house to! By then we will have a little one keeping both of us busy. I had a good doctors appointment yesterday. This week was just a tummy check and a heartbeat check. Ok, we are not finding out the gender of this little one and he/she will not even give us a hint with the heartrate. I am sure many of you know the old wives tale regarding slow heartbeats for boys and fast heartbeats for girls but Junior can change from week to week and even second to second.....

Sadie seems to be doing a little better. She has not been getting up as much during the night to go out....we have one more week of antibiotics before she goes back to the vet to see if the bladder infection has cleared up. She is actually laying next to me on the couch taking a nap right now. It is so hard to believe that she is going to be 3 years old next weekend!!! For those of you wondering if she is having a party again this year she is....so be watching for pictures in a couple of weeks!!

TWO BLACK LABS

As some of you already know we are keeping Elvis, (Sadie's pal that is another black lab). I want to get some cute pictures of Elvis and Sadie playing togehter but everytime I get the camera out they quit doing whatever they may have been doing that was so cute. Anyway, they seem to be getting along great and draining the energy out of each other. As I type this it is only 7:00 and they are laying on opposite sides of the living room sleeping.


Sadie normally "sleeps in". She does not always pop out of the bed when I get up in the mornings to start getting ready for work, but this week she and Elvis both get up and they are ready to play.


It is really funny, becuase if you are not looking at them really close or look at their collar you will so easily call them by the wrong name.

Pictures of the party "stuff"

Front of Sadie's Invitation

Inside of Invitations

Picture frame each pup got to take home

Homemade Dog treats each dog got to take home

Treat Bag the non-canine's took home

Slideshow from Sadie's Birthday Party

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I am still here!!!

I know it seems as if it has been forever since I last updated our blog. We both have had so much going on between work and our volunteer work at church and just life. Hopefully, I will get quite a few things posted this weekend. I am actually home sick today - I went to the doctor and found out that I do not have Strep Throat - that is a blessing! I have been around way too many people the past few days and would have felt horrible if I had spread the germ to them. It was just my Eustachian tubes stopped up - so I guess that explains the sore throat along with the earache....so they gave me a shot (OUCH!!) and told me that I should be feeling better by this evening - and he said even in a couple of hours.....we are approaching the "couple of hours" and I do seem to feel a little better - not ready to run a marathon but feeling better. So if you are wondering what all I am going to be posting over the weekend here is a little preview.

1) Last Friday night and Saturday morning was our Women's Retreat at church.....this year's title was "If Wall's Could Talk" - the retreat was great and the speaker was phenomenal.

2) Saturday night we celabrated Sadies 2nd birthday! Sadie had 3 of her "pals" over that you read about on the blog already and they all seemed to have a great time......I will post more about that later to with pictures of the party along with pictures of the invitations, and doggie treats, etc.....

3) Last night, we had our Early Angels Mother's Day Dessert - this is the 2nd year EA has hosted the dessert at our church and just like last year it turned out wonderful. This year, Bryan Doyle spoke on "God's Plan"....I will post more on that later as well......

I am sure I am forgetting a few things that I do plan on posting but as you can tell, I have a lot of pictures on my camera I need to go download so I can post them to the blog....... It is a beautiful day here.....no rain although I think we had tornado warnings last night.....since I have been sick today I really have not watched the weather but as we all know it can change at any given second......

SNOW, SNOW AND MORE SNOW....

Ok, I told ya'll we were getting snow last Monday night so the pictures I am posting are from Monday night and Tuesday morning. We did not get an actual "snow day" but I did not get to work until around 10:00.....lots of accidents on the highway so I stayed home until it started warming up. You would not begin to imagine how much snow I had to shovel off my car on Tuesday morning just to drive to work....there was so much on there that I drove from our house almost to downtown and there was still enough on my car that a lady who saw me get out of my car ask how far north I lived to have that much still on my car....I had driven 35 - 40 miles at that point....and then we got more snow on Thursday....I left work early because the sleet had started sticking up here and the snow was falling and covering the ice....my neighbor told me the snowflakes that were falling earlier that day were as big as a half dollar!!! When I drove into my neighborhood, I could not believe it! There was even someone out "shoveling snow"....I am assuming they are not originally from the South since they had the actual tools to shovel snow! I am assuming it was a snow shovel....it did look like what I think one looks like. The only pictures I have from Thursday are on my phone....I will get those downloaded also and let you all see them....so here are the pictures from Monday night and Tuesday morning!

JUST CATCHING UP AND GUESS WHAT - WE FINALLY HAVE SNOW!!!!

Seems like it has been forever since I have posted. I have been so busy the past week or so. So much is going on right now not to mention busy season is here for both of us. Little Sadie is not too crazy about busy season as it means not as much play time for her...poor little pup. Luckily, she had a playdate with Elvis this past Saturday night and as always, they had a blast. Alexia (Elvis' mommy) took a picture of them playing together, as soon as she sends that to me I will post the picture of 2 way too cute little labs!

Believe it or not, it is FINALLY snowing here...only thing is they do not expect it to really accumulate on the roads....so I don't think we will be getting a snow day tomorrow but you never know...I guess I will have to wait till morning to know for sure!!!!

SADIE'S IS NOT FEELING WELL

Sadie kept her daddy up until somewhere between 2:30 & 3:00 Sunday night and kept me up until between 1:00 - 2:00. We took her to the vet yesterday and poor little puppy has an ear infection. Hopefully it will go away quickly with the medicine we are using on it!

PICTURES FROM SADIE'S ALL DAY PLAY DATE THIS PAST SATURDAY

Here are a few pictures of Sadie and her little furry friends when they were over on Saturday playing.



This is little Holly....she actually semi-posed for this picture!!



You can tell Noel is always ready for the camera! Say cheez....



Sadie and Noel....just chillin' and playing with their rawhide bones.

SADIE HAS AN ALL DAY PLAY DATE

Today, Holly & Noel stayed with Sadie.....they got here around 10:00 this morning and they will be here for a while longer tonight. It has been a very interesting day because they could not go outside. It rained last night and today. Actually we woke up around 6 something this morning to golf ball size hail falling outside. I wanted to take a picture of the hail coming down and then Keith reminded me that it was lightning outside...maybe not such a great idea. Anyway, I did take some pictures aroudn 9:30 this morning, so 3 hours or so after the hail storm.....Sadie went outside and was in "Ice Heaven"....she absolutley loves ice!! Anyway, Sadie, Holly and Noel have had fun playing in the house today. Each time one of them needed to go outside we would put the collar and leash on them and take them out front. Earlier this morning, I had let Sadie and Holly out and looked outside and they were having fun in a mud puddle....anyway, both of them were covered in mud, (Keith was not too happy) so both Sadie and Holly ended up getting a bath!

Sadie and Holly are playing together right now as I am typing this. It looks like they are playing tug of war with a rawhide bone.

1st Digital Scrapbook Page

Tonight, I did my very first digital scrapbook page. It is definitley different than the way I normally do it....but I don't think I will ever be able to give up paper scrapbooking completly! This was fun but I love all the paper and adhesive and embellishments.....anyway, my digi page is Sadie's Valentine's Page.

(That's Amore Kit - by Cinzia Loosemore)
http://www.digitalfreebies.com/freebies.php

WINTER IS FINALLY HERE....AT LEAST FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS!

I think winter is finally coming here! It is getting cold outside and I think the temp is going to drop to around 39 degrees tonight in the city...so it will probably be a little cooler out here. Tomorrow should be an exciting day at our house. We are keeping Noel and Holly, 2 of Sadie's playmates. I am sure they are going to all have a great time....it is supposed to rain here all day tomorrow so hopefully they will have fun playing in the house. Tomorrow is also my mother-in-laws birthday! Happy Birthday from all three of us! Hopefully I will have some pictures to post tomorrow of the 3 pups playing.

Valentines Day

Well, yesterday was Valentines Day so I thought I would share the cute picures of Sadie with her Valentines Scarf and the bone she got for Valentines. We actually went out to dinner on Valentine's night...something we do not normally do because of the crowds....so, by the time we checked out the 5th restaurant we were able to get right in....so our Valentine's dinner was mexican food and then I also recieved a beautiful dozen roses at work on Wednesday. Hope you all had a great Valentines Day! Would love to hear from you all.

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