Bella

My Scout is a wonderful dog. Everyone wants to steal her. My daughter in law is one of those. In fact I'm not sure she hasn't tried to put Scout in her pocketbook at one time. Princess and Scout are the same age. Scout has chewed on Princess feet since day one. Princess and her mama have wanted a puppy just like her for a long time. I have been telling them for a long time that when they got a house ( the apartment was a HUGE walk up) that I would get them a puppy of their own. One day Drummer brought home a pit bull puppy, that didn't go over. Buster was a TINY baby and they lived in an apt. That just wasn't going to work. I reminded them when they got a house I would make it happen for them. Well you know they moved home early this year. I think the day after they got here Princess said Mana(Nana) are you going to get me a puppy? I said when you get a house I will. They got a house and got permission. They have a fenced yard and are in a position to be able to vet a pet. So I contacted my cousin who is a breeder. She had ONE tiny girl left and wanted to keep her. I said no problem we will just wait for the next liter. Not a problem. Well she decided that she would let her go for me. We made all the arrangements and I went with Rescue Rita to get the baby. I was amazed at how little she is. I got Scout at 12 weeks. This baby girl is 8 weeks. She is so TINY!

Introducing Princess Bella

She chewed on me for a while, had a snack and a drink and fell asleep. I gave her a drink out of a water bottle lid. :)

Meeting her new daddy. He loves her even if she isn't a pit bull.

Me giving Princess her new puppy.

Daddy showing Buster.

Dinner IN the bowl

Always ready to muck it up for the camera.

Just admiring her. She is totally in love!

Potty break. She didn't like the grass.
Tonight DIL and the kids came over and brought Bella. She needed to be introduced to Scout and Bolt since I'm sure we will all be spending time together. Yesterday when I got home Scout smelled me all over. Since I had Bella in my shirt Scout had her whole head down my shirt sniffing and pushing with her nose trying to find where the interloper was. It was so funny!

Bella and Scout. Scout isn't a little Chihuahua but she is a small dog, that's how tiny Bella is. Scout smelled her all over and Bella chewed on Scouts feet and was trying to play. She tried to pounce at Bolt and he flew backwards! We laughed so hard.

Trying to eat Scouts tags.

The girls.

Such a happy little girl. She almost broke my heart though. She asked me if I was going to take Bella back. I said NO! Then she relaxed. I think she thought her mama was bringing them here to bring the puppy back to me. She is totally head over heels in love with that dog. She holds her like a baby and is very gentle and soft with her.

A nap attack after playing with the other dogs.

Then mama was tired so they had to go home. Princess put Bella in her purse and carried her out. So very cute!

Today is Monkey's birthday. He is 7. I'm shocked! I can't believe it's been 7 years. He and Bugs are still at the farm. I know Grandma and Grandpa had a little party for him tonight. He asked for Pizza. PIZZA? That child has never asked for pizza in his life! He doesn't DO cheese. What a goofball. We called and sang to him today. Talking to him on the phone is like trying to nail jello to a tree. He doesn't want to miss whats going on where he is to chit chat on the phone. I miss them.

Peace

Don't be a troll

I'm having a little bit of trouble with processing all I saw and being gone. Every post I write in my head is about my trip. My life seems a tad boring after that.
My parents came this weekend for a surprise birthday. The Little's went to Drummer's house on Friday night to have a tiny sleepover with Princess. Since they were gone on Saturday for a while Mom and I decided to take a quick look for the Fremont Troll. I've thought about it but never actually gone. Note to self..... "take the TomTom cord", just saying. After much searching and question asking and finally a call to Drummer and his computer. We found it!

Mom and Troll

Mom and I.

Thankful Thursday

Peace

Re-entry

Well re-entry has been accomplished.
I haven't even started on my pictures yet. However I have unpacked! The suitcase is still sitting at the end of the hall but everything is out of it.
While I was gone the guys did a great job of keeping up on everything. I did clean our bathroom on Sunday. Dh piped up with " Are you practicing?" HA HA NOT! However I did hit the ground running on Monday morning.
I now have no fingernails. One broke off the first hour so that night I filed them all off. I just won't ever have pretty hands. They are working hands. I can still have pretty toes though.
I'm everyone's favorite person this week. I was missed!
What has been the weirdest thing is driving by myself! If I see something dead it's hard to just pass it buy without trying to figure out what it is or gasping and gagging. I need my auntie as my co-pilot. I don't know if I got on her nerves but I know she didn't get on mine. We laughed so hard so much our stomach's hurt. We didn't even have a cross word. Well I guess what would we have fussed at, we had no one but each other and we came and went and ate all as we pleased. I'm still processing it all. Where I was today asked about our trip. She seemed to think we did it in a covered wagon. I just stared at her for a moment and then tried to not bust out laughing. Uh no, we were in an air conditioned car. With our ice chest and snacks. I am not sure where she got that idea. I've also been asked if it was an organized tour. Nope, just my Auntie and her handy dandy Yahoo Maps and a knowledge and a love of the books. THANK YOU Auntie for all your hard work. If anyone every wants to do what we did, ask her for our notebook, it's in there!
Peace

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all the daddy's out there. I love my dad and wish we could have been together. They will be over next weekend and that will be good.
T2 planned his dad's day today and he did a great job. Since I got in so late last night we all slept in today. I made bacon and eggs breakfast for everyone and puttered around. Dh read his paper in leisure and then napped in the chair. Drummer and his family came for pizza dinner that T2 got and cooked. It was a nice slow paced day. Dh said he had a great day. That's what counts.
Tonight I put 4 finger's behind my back. I told Monkey to pick a number between 1 - 10. He picked 5, then I asked Bug's to pick, he picked 9. Monkey won. What he won was the first trip into the shower. He was MAD! He didn't want to go first. He wanted to do rock paper scissors. I said No, you need to just go get in the shower. He went to the bathroom and shut the door. We both thought he was in the tub. NOPE! He was in there FUMING! He hollered at me through the door. I couldn't hear him so I went in and when he was still standing there dressed I said WHAT?? He said.... I don't want to do it your way. I don't like that you made me pick a number. I want to do it my way and I don't want to take a shower first. I stopped him and said GET IN THE SHOWER NOW! I left. He was crying that I hurt his feelings.
Dh went in to hurry the process along. He asked his dad if he would talk to me about not being respectful. Dh tried to tell him his job was just to obey and if he did that then he was being respectful and then I would be respectful and all would just be lovely. Well that did not go over well. Dh left to come giggle to me in the kitchen and then he went back to the bath to check on Monkey to make sure he was using soap and all that stuff. Monkey asked his dad if he had talked to me about being respectful yet. Dh came out just laughing. He said Honey it's really hard to take a kid serious that is talking to you wearing blue goggles in the bathtub! So that ends our day. :)
I hope you have a blessed week.
Peace

The party is over

Today is my last day of my trip. I have to go home tomorrow. I miss my guys madly! I can't wait to squeeze and kiss them. BUT... I don't want to necessarily leave. It's a dilemma eh? My auntie has the best window in her office. It's like a picture that is ever changing. She has 2 feeders that make it a very busy window. I could sit and watch the birds for HOURS!

This is a Cardinal.


A Blue Jay


We went to the cemetery today so I could put flowers on my grandma's grave. I miss her every day and I know she would have LOVED the trip Daisy and I were just on.

Grandma and Aidan. Fresh flowers.

Then since Auntie and I had such a good time letter boxing on our trip. She and I hid one today. I couldn't find a craft store to save our lives so I just gave up my stamp and used it in the box. I It was a lot of fun to figure it out.

It's in there!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Peace

Last day Memphis pictures

I think Auntie and I are just about caught up on our sleep. We have both been really tired.
Here is some pictures from our last day of travel.

Beale St.


Where Elvis recorded.

This hospital was amazingly large!

Lisa Marie's airplane

Graceland

The grave's from the fence line.

Auntie and Me with our names.

For Anita....

Auntie at the gates.

The deer we saw on the way home.

Peace