Just some kid stuff

I realized the pictures I had up of Brodie and Carmen were really old, so I wanted to post some newer ones. Brodie started 2nd grade this year, and here is a picture of him on the first day of school.

Carmen wants to go to school too. She would love to be with Bro all day!

Coldhearted, softhearted or just plain crazy??

Am I coldhearted b/c I didn't wait longer? Am I softhearted to have brought them home, or am I just crazy??

Call me crazy I guess. David and I went to Woofstock over the weekend.
This is an event that brings together different animal rescue organizations from Tulsa and surrounding areas to raise awareness for animal shelters, and to promote adoption. We decided to just go and see...yeah, right. We are now the proud "parents" of Jackson and Molly. Jackson is a 16 week old boxer/lab mix. Molly is a 17 week old kitten, short hair.

I was just feeling so lonely w/o Alice and Cooper, and thought that rescuing these animals would help with that. I have to say the cat is awesome. She is so sweet, loving, cuddly. She follows us around and sleeps with us. She is great. Now Jackson on the other hand... It's like having a toddler that has just learned to walk. You have to watch him at all times! But he is so smart, and funny, and EXTREMELY energetic. It's wearing me out, but once he adjusts to us I think he's going to be great. He is still in that puppy stage, but he learns so fast. We have already enrolled in Puppy Kindergarten, which starts at the end of the month. I'm hoping to learn a few tricks, to help him and us! Anyway, I'll post pictures at the bottom of this post.

I miss my Alice though. She was just such a sweet little thing. Then Cooper was the rebel. I guess with this new pair I got a switch in personalities between species. :)

Slideshow for Mexico vacation Aug-08

We took a vacation to Playa Del Carmen in Mexico this month (Aug-08). We went with two other couples. Tracey and West, who live in Tulsa as we do, and Rhonda and Lance, from MN. Tracey and I met Rhonda our freshman year of college at OBU. Rhonda met Lance at our wedding; Lance had been friends with David since high school.

Tragedies in our household...

at least it feels like a tragedy to me right now. I'm sure other people in the world will think I'm being petty, or overly sensitive, but I can't help but feel very sad, and lonely and depressed. My beautiful King of the Backyard jungle cat, Cooper, died last week (Aug 20, 2008). We got home from vacation Wednesday night and found him dead under our bed. My MIL had been house sitting that week, and said he was alive when she left the house Wednesday morning. He has had bladder issues for a couple years, so my guess is he was having difficulty and developed an infection that killed him, or it was kidney failure. Either way, it was more devastating to me than I thought it would be. I loved that stupid cat. He would sit on my lap and purr, would sleep at my feet at night, and follow me around the house in the mornings while I got ready for work. It just sucks, and I want to cry right now while I write about it.


And that's not all...Oh no, it wasn't enough that I lost my baby boy. My precious weiner dog Alice, is at the vet right now and we may have to put her down this weekend. She ruptured a disk in her back and it has caused paralysis in her back end. She has been on complete confinement at the vet, on medication, but the prognosis is not good. She is such a young, active dog that paralysis would just not be any quality of life for her. So when I check on her this weekend, which will be a week of crate rest, we may have to make a decision about her depending on what the doctor says. I just can't stand it. I never realized how much this would affect me...the house is so quiet and lonely.
FOLLOW UP - I am so tired of crying. I have cried for 3 days now. They couldn't help Alice. She was permanently paralyzed due to disk rupture. The vet tried several things, but basically it came down to the only option for her was a doggie wheelchair. And to me that just isn't an option, esp for an active dog like her. So we had to make the completely devastating decision to put her down. Its just horrible how bad I feel, and how hollow. It's not fair and right now I'm pissed at the world over it.

Here are some pictures I took of Cooper the night before we left for vacation.

And some more pix of Alice:

Just pictures...

Ryann, last fall, having some trouble...

Gaige, having no trouble at all... :)

Sam at Halloween, doing her best Avril impression.

This and that...

Hmmm, I was just browsing today and realized it's been almost a year since I posted anything here! Not that I have anything earth-shattering to share, but it's my blog and I can fill it with fluff if I want to.

I am coming up on my 2nd year working with AvisBudgetGroup. I like it, the atmosphere is very laid back, casual. It's much closer to home, which is great esp now with gas prices!

David switched jobs in October last year. He is a controller for Wellman Products Groups at the Port of Catoosa. He is also closer to home now.

We are on the countdown to vacation. In 6 weeks and 3 days we are going to Playa Del Carmen. Looking forward to it. Going with Tracey and her bf, plus Rhonda and Lance, friends from MN that we went to HI with last year.

4th of July is this week. I'll check back in and post pictures of the outrageous-ness that my husband calls fireworks. I swear he spends a whole paycheck on them, "for the kids". Yeah, right....