Lessons in Dog Sitting

We are dog sitting Jason's sister's dog, while they are in California. We have a black lab mix, Tigger. The dogs were doing great for the first two days that Kimchi, a 12 week old white Maltese, were here. Tigger and Kimchi seemed to be getting along great. Although Kimchi is quite annoying with his jumping and yapping, Tigger seemed to tolerate him. I really think Tigger enjoyed having a friend to play with in his new backyard. He seemed so happy!

Well, Friday, I get a frantic phone call from Colby, telling me that Kimchi is bleeding from his eye and that Tigger bit him. I figured Colby was exaggerating, as most 10 year olds do. So much for me assuming Colby was exaggerating. My nanny got on the phone and told me, 'Uh, no, he is bleeding bad and probably needs to go to the vet.' We use a'mobile vet' for Tigger, so I didn't really know where to take Kimchi. I frantically call around to a couple different Vet Hospitals that are close by. I finally found one that could get him in w/in 15 minutes of me calling. Let me just say that my nanny is awesome. She told me not to worry about things and that she would handle getting Kimchi to the vet. Mind you, it would've taken me 30 minutes to get from work in Richardson to home in Lewisville. I called the vet and handled everything over the phone so all she would have to do is take him and get him fixed up. My nanny handled everything so well, and the vet even complimented her on how sweet and caring she was. Well, $288 later, Kimchi has a cone around his head, antibiotics, pain pills and ointment for his eye. They only found one puncture wound right about his left eye. I'm not sure how he only got ONE puncture wound.

What actually happened? Well, I'm not 100% sure. Colby told me that he was putting out food for both dogs (in 2 separate bowls) and apparently Tigger thought both bowls were for him and told Kimchi to get the heck away! I'm not really sure what got into Tigger b/c they had been fed from 2 separate bowls at the same time the previous 2 days and Tigger did nothing. I really don't think Tigger was trying to harm Kimchi, and I think he is sad now that he no longer has a friend to play with. Much to our dismay, Kimchi has had to stay inside b/c of his open wound. Tigger isn't allowed inside, but we had no other choice.

Kimchi has made me realize I'm not ready for another kid yet b/c:

• He follows me non-stop.
• He yaps/cries when he wants something, or doesn't want to be in his crate.
• I'm saying NO every other word out of my mouth.
• I didn't get to sleep in today b/c after I took him outside and then put him back in his crate, he continued to yap and cry.
  
• I tried putting him in the bed with me so I could sleep and he just wanted to play.
  

Kimchi is fine now. He still has a cone around his head, but still just as annoying and cute.
He is such a cute and sweet puppy, I'm just not ready for another puppy!!! Don't get me wrong, I love the little white fur ball to pieces, but he isn't housebroken and so I really can't just let him roam the house. I either have to carry the 4 1/2 pound fur ball or I have to keep an eye on him constantly, which is hard to do since he scrambles away so fast.

Not sure how much more dog sitting we will do. I think we learned our lesson!!!

Kimchi Before:

(This is the picture I was sent on my cell phone.....I quickly realized he need to see a vet.)
Kimchi after:

Kimchi now:
will post picture sometime later...

Colby's Team Party

Colby's regular season baseball team had their end of season party at Sun Valley Water Park on Saturday. He received his trophy and game ball. His coach commended his excellent performance playing catcher and being at the top of his team in stealing bases, runs scored and his batting average.

Colby, Conner, Dylan, Matt & Tristen (at the bottom)

Colby & Coach Joe

Summer is finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colby brought home his awards from 4th grade today. He received the A/B Honor Roll, Best Sense of Humor Award, QuickThinker Award, Excellent Attendance and a few others. He will be changing schools next year due to our move, so his last day of school was bittersweet. He has several friends that I'm sure he will keep in touch with and continue to hang out.

Although the school year is quite tough and at often times stressful, both boys did great this year and made the A/B Honor Roll. We are so proud of them. They celebrated the beginning of summer by going to the waterpark yesterday with their cousins.

Our summer weekends are already jam packed through the first part of July. This weekend Colby has his end of season baseball team party at the water park. Before he heads off to his team party, one of his good friends (who moved to a different school district) is having a birthday party and they are taking a ride in a Hummer limo. (I didn't tell Colby about that part, so he is going to be EXTREMELY excited.) Colby continues to play baseball although the season has ended. He is playing a tournament team and will be playing in 5 tournaments this summer. We've played in one already, and we have another one next weekend. We signed Tristen up for a day camp through LISD. It is an introduction to Middle School. It isn't until August, but it should be beneficial since it is right before school starts. I hope that he finds it fun and useful. He will also be starting band in the fall and will be playing the Trumpet. Should make for some interesting times around our house!

We hope to make a trip to San Antonio to take the boys to Sea World, but looks like that trip will have to be in the first part of August some time to accomdate our busy schedules and Colby's baseball tournaments.

We offically have a middle schooler!!

Tristen graduated from 5th grade today! Yikes! We now have a middle schooler on our hands. Tristen received several awards - A/B Honor Roll, Excellent Attendance, Safety Patrol, and a few other awards.

5 Things

I stole this from someone else's blog. I'm bored waiting on Jason to finish watering the yard so we can go to bed. Well, actually the Rangers game needs to end, too.

5 THINGS I WAS DOING 10 YEARS AGO:

1. I was working at WCCU.
2. I just graduated from WHS!
3. I was preparing to head off to Texas Tech!
4. I still didn't have my OWN car!
5. I was dying to get out of Wink.

5 THINGS ON MY TO-DO LIST:

1. Paint boys bathroom
2. Find me a summer hobby
3. Organize office desk
4. Go shopping
5. Plant some flowers

5 BAD HABITS:

1. Twirling my hair
2. Overreacting
3. OCD
4. Talking too fast
5. Bad posture

5 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:

1. Shreveport, LA
2. Midlothian, TX
3. Wink, TX
4. Lubbock, TX
5. Lewisville, TX

5 THINGS I'M LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW:

1. Myself typing
2. Rangers game on tv
3. Wind blowing the trees
4. Washer in the spin cycle
5. Dishwasher running

5 JOBS I'VE HAD:

1. Lifeguard @ Wink pool
2. Teller @ WCCU
3. At Your Service Catering
4. Front Desk/Operations Manager w/Tharaldson Lodging
5. Member Relations Manager/Private Client Service Advocate @ TCU

House Pictures

Here are some pictures of the house w/our furniture in it! We obviously still have blank walls, still lacking some furniture in the boys' rooms and living room, and all of the decorative touches. There obviously isn't a picture of our extra bedroom, master bedroom and master bathroom, but those are the last to be done! LOL It will all come together eventually. :) Once we finally have it together, we'll have a house party!

Excuse the crappy picture quality.

Colby's Room

Tristen's Room

Boys bathroom (walls will be painted a deep red)

Dining Room Table

Office

Living Room

Other angle of Living Room

We've Moved!!!!

Well, we have officially moved and have a new address! I'm so glad that we progressively moved over the past 2 weeks. We moved all of our big furniture on Monday. We actually started staying at our new house last Friday, due to some leak outside our master bedroom window at our apartments. The water was coming in to our master bedroom and it was 5:30 on a Friday afternoon. We said forget it, and moved our bedroom over to the house so we could just start staying over here, instead of smelling mildew at the apartment.

Jason and I both took off this whole week and it has been nice. Most of the boxes are unpacked and we are slowly organizing everything. I did a lot of purging when packing and doing more purging while unpacking.

We've purchased a new dining room table and office desk. Once I find my camera and camera cord, I will upload some new pics of the house w/our stuff in it. No one ever lies when they say home owning is expensive. Everytime I think we are done with purchasing big ($$$) items, something else always comes up. For the most part, I think we are done for awhile.

To be continued....