Sick Pup

Two Sundays ago we had a "situation" on our hands... poor Defense woke up at 6AM on Sunday with the "yiffs". It went on from 6AM until 9AM when we were packed up ready for church but then the "yiff" turned into blood filled puke... and we knew we had to bring our guy to the ER....

We have been there once before and hope this is our last time with this guy......

turns out after a huge ER bill and some anti-puke meds, GI meds and an IV of fluid we took him home to Nurse Miss B... where he recovered just fine and we figured out that too much rawhide makes him REALLY sick... :( Happy our boy is back to normal and we did not need to give any OTHER news to the youngest member of the family.....

too much drama for this CountryMouse though... too much drama... I like my people (AND DOGS) healthy and strong.....

Track Girls Spaghetti Feed ~ Round 1

I LOVE my living room filled with fun...

I LOVE this man and sweet Nora K...

I love stinky sneakers that all get cleaned up about 2 hours after they are dumped there

and I LOVE that this guy LOVES holding little ones....

and that I have a picture of GA holding HIM....when HE was a little one

May 2012

holding Nora K was definitely the highlight of the night...

maybe not so much for her... :) Bring on track season!!

Sweet Nora K...

'Tis track season round these parts... and because we are in Northern New England it is of course FREEZING... definitely too cold for a teenie tiny to hang out while her Mama coaches... :) So twist my arm and I'll snuggle her on MIL's nice warm sunny porch... :)

she *might* resemble her Mama's side of the family ;)

and I *might* have put her back to sleep... ah... bliss.

So we kinda traded kiddos... my big girls went to hang out with Daddy...

and I got to do this... :)

School Dayz.....

Crown making for "K"ing day....and an extra friend at the end :) Love all the pretty princesses and nice that we were ALL together for the first time in MORE THAN A MONTH!!!

Thanks for the stapler "Fletch" :)

and just to prove an "old dog" CAN learn new tricks... at Kendra's bridal shower her sister and friend taught me how to "fish tail" braid and Minnie let me do it one day before school.... LOVE IT!

PTSA Spring Fling "Beach Bash"

On Friday night we had a fund raiser and just plain FUN for the students at Minnie's school. I have NOT paid my dues to be an ACTIVE member of the PTSA, however, I have been to most meetings this year, help when I can and have most recently taken over our school's "weekend backpack program" sending food home with kiddos who might not have any on the weekend. More on that later... but here is how my Friday afternoon went down.. .you know... after 1) filling backpacks 2) leaving Minnie at school 3) teaching?/hosting preschool co-op 4) cleaning up after #3 5) picking up Minnie at school 5) bringing them to MIL's to wash up and pick up cookies she made for the "fling" 6) drop them off to Daddy at practice and 7) head back to help set-up....

Photo courtesy of "Nikki"

after pizza at home and a quick change into "summer" clothes... (Miss B picked a "spinny dress and clickers" of course...)

We had a blast!

Hula-hooping was the biggest fun....

and there may EVEN be a video of "Husband" doing it... but we'll have to see...

He and his buddy did get "coerced" into holding the limbo pole....

my poor girls that are in the line because everyone else is but they have NO IDEA what the HECK the limbo is....

I love the sweet hand holding...

 

they figured it out pretty quick and had a BLAST!

Pic courtesy PTSA

 

I love that her dress matched and she went over to stick her head through all on her own :) silly girl!

Christmas card 2016? Maybe.

FRIENDS!

 

Such a fun night and one that my girls for sure enjoyed....

 

Miss B Rides a Horse

I feel awful that my animal loving Miss B has not been up ON an horse before now... opportunities were different this go-round but we finally made it happen... when I say "we" I mean Ali :) We had to stop there on Easter so Husband could get a bucket of compost and we all busted out of the car wearing whatever we had on... you know... sweats, harness boots...

monkey pants and Easter dresses....she LOVED IT! She was a little hesitant when I picked her up but as soon as her bum hit that saddle she was in HEAVEN!

 

Little different than Minnie's first go-round :)

 

Nothing like a sunshiney afternoon at "Disney"

Minnie was happy to jump on a new friend too...

Ali was quick to remind her how much she loved it and always HATED when it was time to get off...

Such a special, spontaneous time... so thankful to friends who made it happen