spring green

Today is a little bit colder out than it has been, but our yard has green "stuff" coming up all over the place!!! 

Spring is by far my favorite time of the year... I love the newness, freshness, flowers, birds, rainbows, and anticipation of summer!

Here's the hyacinths coming up in the front flower bed. 

And the daffodils on the side of the house

Callie wanted to check out all the green with me :)

Happy happy allllmoooost spring!!

toy love

Mia and Callie love playing with destroying stuffed animals.

I find ones w/o any beads at garage sales and stock up to last all year.

They go crazy when I pull out a new one!!!

Mia holds hers in her mouth for a while before she starts chewing. She often falls asleep with the new toy just sitting in her mouth... so cute!

Callie loves playing fetch with her toys and will run back and forth as long as you are paying attention!

hello there, fall

I love how pretty the tree in our front yard gets this time of year.

The sad part is, once it starts turning colors all the leave will be gone in 1 or 2 weeks tops. The good side is, that's only 1 or 2 times of raking!

I want to paint or carve an R in our pumpkin (hopefully I'll get to that before the seasons over!)

Kevin's cousin Ashlyn (and Stephanie) stopped by for lunch and Callie made friends fast :)

Mostly because Callie was pretty interested in playing with the baby doll :)

I love the look of fall... and the smell, having all the windows open is the best!

camping & climbing in the wild

This past weekend we went camping & climbing with our good friends, Sam & Rich.

Here are a few of my favorite pics of the weekend:

Sam was wonderful and made all the food for us the whole weekend!

Mia loves being outside and especially wanted to play with all the horses she saw

This was Kevin's first time climing outside - I think he wants to go again!

Mia & Callie didn't want to be left behind so they tried to climb too!!!

I didn't do any climbing. I just sat and knitted (more on that later), napped, read, and played with the doggies. It was so relaxing!!!

Hobbes (Sam & Rich's second child doggie) didn't like not being able to climb either

The weather was absolutely perfect - I'm so glad we got in one more camping weekend before we're shut indoors for the winter.

bath time for the puppers

Just a few pictues we took while giving the puppers baths.

Mia in progress

Callie in progress

Beautiful Mia all done

Cute Callie all done

fun pillow randoms

A week or two ago I shared about this pom pillow I made. I said that I loved it and I still do... it turns out Callie really loves it too!!! She never used to sleep in the chair this pillow now calls home, but you can find her there all the time now! It's sooo cute!!!

I also shared last week about the pillows I made for my rocking chair redo (see here) and then I found a pillow on onekingslane made of the same material for $79!!! My pillow cost a total of $16 - $10 for the material and $6 for the foam insert (which I used a super clearanced Pier1 cusshion for). Go me!

update: I just found this chair redo with the same fabric!

callie gets a haircut

Callie's hair was getting a little shaggy - as you can tell from these two pics...

Cute, but definately shaggy

So I got the clippers out on Saturday morning and went to work. I am very fortunate that Callie loves attention and doesn't mind sitting for a haircut too awful much (not that she looks that comfortable in this pic, though).

This is only the 4th doggie haircut I've done so it still takes me about 5x as long as it should, but my mom says I'll be able to hang my shingle out soon enough! haha!

Next we had to wash off all the extra hair. Even though Callie is so patient for the haircut part she never likes the bath part!

please get me out of here!

she becomes a crazy dog after a bath! apparently smelling clean just isn't the doggie thing to do!

This short video is the post-bath obsessed Callie :)

She'll be this crazy for a good 10 minutes!!!

Once she calmed down and smelled a little more to her liking she sat in the window to finish drying in the sun.

For being such a patient doggie, she was rewarded with a new piece of jewelry (and one for Mia to!)

Here she is showing off the new bling!

and Mia showing off hers

I love my doggies!!!

Doggie Bath Time!

If you can remember all the way back to Memorial Day weekend you'll remember that it was not the perfectly clear and sunny weekend the weathermen told us it would be. You might also remember that we went camping Sunday evening... with the doggies.

Let me share an interesting fact with you:    muddy ground = muddy dogs = muddy everything!


Given this re-discovered fact, we decided to stop by the Super Pantry Gas Station & Car Wash on Towanda Barnes Rd. to check out their dog wash.

It was a really nice set-up with 2 dog washing stations in a contained, but well ventilated area. And it was so nice not have to worry about cleaning up a messy bathroom at home, BUT it cost us $11 to get Mia cleaned and mostly dry and that's a bit steep for me. Admittedly, she was a lot muddier than usual and she is a rather large dog (115lbs), but she is so well behaved it would be almost just as easy to wash her down with the garden hose. Also, the dogs still have to climb 3 larger steps to get into the dog wash which makes it nice that you don't have to bend over when washing, but it's just as hard as trying to get a big dog into the bathtub (at least with Mia it was).


This is a picture I found online, but it's pretty much what the dog wash looked like...






To summarize:  My review is mixed. If you don't want the mess at home it's a great option, but considering the price it won't be an option we use very often.



Callie got her bath in the tub when we got home and I had a video clip of how crazy she goes after a bath, but my clip won't work so here's just a random pic of how cute she is!