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puppy + baby
these photos are adorable!
ahhh…these pictures make me so excited to see sadie with jack!
(photos via a dirty blonde)
GO GATORS (and war eagle)!
around here, we are so excited that college football has started! even baby jack is geared up…
but, we have noticed that we still need to buy jack some game day outfits for his first games- we don’t have any 0-3 month florida or auburn outfits, yet. hopefully one day, jack will choose to cheer for the gators, just like his mommy and big sister ,
and then we won’t have to pacify his daddy with game day outfit switches!
here’s wishing for another gator dominated football season!
heather moore jewelry
how great are these necklaces??! i am loving them. you can build your own, adding charms as major life events happen. i know that they are insanely expensive and my rational mind tells me “no”, but can’t they be justified when you only get one charm at a time? if i were to indulge in one today- i would choose a gold dog bone, a silver disk with a gold frame that reads “s +d” and on the back 12.31.04, and a pretty stone, perhaps a large aquamarine with a gold wire. david, we will be “5″ this year…this is a great gift idea!
pet plushies
look what a really crafty aussie girl made for us…
it’s our pups (tonka, kona, sadie, and barley, clockwise in photo) as plushies! tonka and kona are lynne’s dogs, barley is my sister’s puppy, and, of course, you know that sadie is our dog-ter.
i found the artist on etsy, her shop is called whispylove. aren’t they adorable?! she has created an entire blog devoted to her pet plushies- our pups are showcased!
thanks, ashlee- we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!
happy inauguration day!
i know i’ve used a picture similar to this one before, but i couldn’t think of a better way to say that our family is very excited about the next 4 years! plus, i never tire of sadie pictures and i dig my hand-made doggie t-shirt!
cheers to what i hope will be a terrific and productive obama presidency!
anniversary collar
sweet lew bought sadie a new gator collar as one of my anniversary presents. since he bought it the day of the dog attack, she wasn’t able to model it for me on her neck until this week…still in plenty of time for gator game day!!!
GO GATORS!!!
we should never doubt her ability to help…
thought i should give one final post to update all on sadie’s recovery. sorry to those of you who have already endured my rambling about every detail of the incident.
after about 7 hours of tireless determination, we were able to remove 7 of sadie’s 8 drains and all but 7 of her stitches. we had essentially given up on the last drain and stitches assuming, frustratingly, that we would have to take her to the vet to have the last bit taken out. so, we decided, to hell with it, and took her helmet off for the first time to see what she would do. we should have know that our smart girl could help us out… within 2 minutes, she had gently pulled out her last drain and then proceeded to lick her legs for about 2 hours to clean off all the dried blood. after her careful attention and care of her own body, i am happy to report that sadie is nearly fully recovered…and we are SO thankful.
happy oh nine
hard to believe that 2008 is over. it was a pretty great year. there were, of course, the challenging times, although looking back i am grateful for the hard times too. i think it was the challenging times that made lew and i closer than ever and given how close we are, becoming closer is something i never thought possible. thank you so much for reading this year–it has been a lot of fun to launch my blog and share parts of my world with you. i am looking forward to another year in this space.
wishing you and yours many beautiful and peaceful moments in 2009. happy new year.
p.s. sadie is recovering nicely with a 6 of her 8 drains removed. we know we’re so lucky that all 3 of us are still here. thanks for your thoughts,concerns, and well wishes.
it’s been four years…
as the clock on the dashboard changed to 12:00am to signify the start of new year’s eve, i leaned over and whispered “happy anniversary” to my sweets who was sitting in the driver’s seat. we were sharing a meal of chicken mcnuggets and fries (mcdonal’ds was the only place opened and neither of us had eaten since lunch) while waiting in the emergency vet parking lot for our dog-ter.
the past 7 hours were a blur: meeting a puppy who was sweet to humans yet vicious to dogs, dropping sadie off at the er vet for surgery, taking david to the er to check on his dog bite, helping to find the runaway puppy and then having to identify him…and all i kept thinking is: if dogs could talk, sadie would probably be asking what she did to deserve this.
how selfish we were to want to disrupt our sweet family with a new fur baby. besides, why would you need more when you already have the best?
sadie is our best only dog-ter.
(more photos can be see on my flickr photostream from my blog site, in case you are reading this post via email version. i didn’t want to put them on this post since some of them are pretty gross.)
’tis the season
as usual, our christmas time in florida was most joyful! this year, in particular, we had TONS of fun!
over 5 days, we visited with family and even some dear high school friends,
ate at jerry’s drive-in (twice!), went to a christmas concert at the church where we were married, had 4 christmas celebrations (and got lots of nice new stuff),
shopped at some cute pensacola gift boutiques and at joe patti’s (of course), went out 3 times with cousins and aunts and uncles (SO fun!!!), AND attended a reheasal dinner, a wedding, and a christening.
hope your holidays have been as great as ours. here’s to a fabulous end to 2008!
