Still thinking that looks uncomfortable. – even though now that image is a bit more accurate.
After all, why would one so full of surprises stop at just the positive test. Why not continue those surprises through things like this and then there’s the waking up one morning and the pants you wore yesterday don’t fit anymore. Oh and then there’s the that that comes along with the whole surprise element too. Never a dull moment for the two of us here… sharing much of me. =)
Some Numbers
Countdown til:
- Vacation – 3.5 days (we’re leaving Friday early afternoon)
- Baby Dr. appointment since ultrasound – 3 days (Thursday afternoon)
- Matt’s surprise – 3 days (Thursday night)
- Evenings left to pack and chill out before vacation – 1 (youth group Wednesday)
- Get dog – 8-10 days
- Matt’s seminary schooling officially begins – 0 days
- I check out and stop wanting to go to work cause I just want to go on vacation – 0 days
- People ready to go on vacation – 3!!!
Mindless
Yes, dear ones, Matt and I have officially lost our minds. We went and met puppy yesterday night. The drive to the boonies was nice. And as can be read in this title, we have made a decision.
She jumped on us, had etchy potty-training reports, tore through the house like a Tasha at night-time… and yet she captured our hearts and we couldn’t help it. Her beautiful colors, “big dog” standing, redirectable behaviors, cage training (entering the cage on the command of “go to bed”), shot records, and other perks overcame the amount of training that Matt and I may need to reinforce with the 11 month old. Behaviors? Correctable. Now we just hope she doesn’t cause Cheddar to get into too much of a tizzy.
We’re due to pick her up in about a week and 1/2 after our anniversary trip. Matt and I are ECSTATIC about our upcoming road trip. Both of us are more than thrilled about this highly welcomed mission to Niagara Falls.
In other news, yesterday I managed to get some more yard work done on the house, this time in the back yard. All the while Matt enjoyed setting up his fantasy football league, which he appeared to have much delight in doing. And we saw one of Sarah’s first high school soccer games. Talk about a proud brother and sister-in-law as we sat under the bleachers in the shade of the 400 degree day, right at eye-level of the game. Yeah… we definitely found the spot everyone else that was melting in the bleachers was wanting.
Oh, and also… I’m now at 19 weeks for those of you who would like to know. Matt preached a good, hard one today reminding the Body of Christ what we stand upon. I am proud, what can I say. I think I’ll keep him. =) Cheddar just ran off with an old guitar string in his mouth. I think he secretly desires to be a cyclops. Oh and Robin directed me to pandora.com which is a free website where you can set up an individualized radio station based upon enjoying particular genres and styles of music. So I have been enjoying a themed blog entry with Over the Rhine and Sara Groves in the background.
Anyway… enough fun for today. Baby’s hungry and I better get to walking next door (church)here soon.
Because Robin Agreed
Irresistible Beauty.
Baking Children
I’ve gotten the opportunity to hear some interesting commentary as I have begun to stick out a bit. But today I heard the most unique one yet. “Someone’s got a bun in the oven,” a lady commented as we left the eye doctor.
Odd.
The one?
So this is the one we’re looking at and will get to meet sometime this week. If she is as good as the owner has spoken to us regarding being house trained, cage trained, kid and cat friendly, we’re highly interested. In fact, at this point her character would have to be a real downer to change our minds. But we figured with Matt 100 feet away she could play in the yard for 1/2 the day, be put in her crate for the second 1/2 of the day (3-4 hours) and then the rest of the time she’d be with us. We’ve even already had an offer for someone to watch her one our 4 day anniversary if we needed to get her sooner. But after talking with her current family, they said they’d keep her until after our anniversary if we can stand being away from her for so long. =) So yeah… we’ll see soon… oh and FYI, she’s 10 months old which is not exactly what we were going for in looking for a grown-up, but regarding the fact that she’ll be 1 soon and the average lifespan is 10-15yrs with very few owners giving away them prior to 8yrs, we thought we could bend the rules just a bit. Besides, having a young and moldable one right before baby comes is not necessarily a bad idea. My primary concern is that she doesn’t eat Cheddar. And Matt’s primary concern is that she doesn’t repetitively pee on the mansion’s carpet. Both viable concerns. So again… we’ll see after we go meet her, watch her interact with the family’s 4 yr old and walk with her. More to come soon regarding the outcome…..