Did I really say yes to this?

Towards the end of December I agreed to let Jesse have a dog. A in the house dog! Now, I am so not a dog person. Definitely not an in the house dog person! But Jesse gave me that look - in our family we call it 'Charming Jesse' and I caved and said sure you can keep the dog.

Now we've had the dog (Maggy is her name) for a good couple of months. She has made some very big improvements but she fell off the improvement wagon Wednesday and I was ready to ship her off to some other island far far far away from me.

This is how the day went down:

I woke up early to take Jesse to work so I could have the truck for the morning. (We go down to one vehicle in the winter because his pride and joy, aka the jeep, can not get winter road slime or salt on it. It just might not run the same or climb over stuff the same if this would ever happen. Okay I made that last part up. It has to be a guy thing because my Dad won't let his jeep get winter road slime or salt either.) I don't even get out the bedroom door and Jesse greets me with a "So Maggy took over the big over sized chair last night." I looked at him with big eyes and then at Maggy who was sitting at my feet wanting me to pet her. I asked him just how he knew this. He says, oh she was sitting in there when I got up. Did you yell at her?!!!? She looked so cute and comfy. Did you yell at her!?!?!! As I look down and give Maggy the 'ol stare down and Jesse says, "You can't yell at her now!" The heck I can't, was my thought... but I didn't yell.

While I took Jesse to work we put Maggy in her room. Which is our furnace/mud/laundry room - concrete floors, some of the walls are unfinished... very rustic and nothing for her to destroy... or so we thought! When I get back, which I was gone maybe 10 minutes, she has found the pamphlet on the furnace and started chewing on it! Apparently she was listening back in December when we were having problems with the furnace and she heard that we need to replace it this summer anyways - so she thought they really don't need this manual anymore!

I gave her a lecture and told her she was naughty. She so knows it when she is naughty too! She gets down as low as she can go and looks up at me.

Then I had to leave for a ladies breakfast that I was going to. I put Maggy back in her room and gave her a stern look and said... you better be good while I am gone or else!!

At the ladies breakfast one of the little boys was pretending to be a puppy and he was panting at me and wanted me to pet his little head. So I pet this little boys head and I said something like, I would so rather have you as our puppy then the beast we have at home.

I get home from breakfast and I am running just a tad bit late for work so I'm kind of in a hurry. I walk in the back door (which is the entrance to Maggy's room) and I find more of that furnace manual shredded! Plus! She chewed on the WALL!!! Yes! Our wall!! I could not believe my eyes! I was mad at her! I gave her another lecture and immediately went to work and emailed Jesse and told him his dog was grounded until she was 18!!! He didn't respond back.

Around 12:30 I have to go pick up Jesse from work and bring him home so he can eat lunch. While I am walking out to the living room to grab the ringing phone (I know it is Jesse telling me he is ready for me to come get him) Maggy has made herself comfortable in the chair again!! And she just looks back at me and doesn't get down! I had to physically pull her off the chair.

Later in the afternoon I had to call my Dad and he was bragging about how it was sunny out and he was done working and I was still working and stuck at home with a naughty puppy. He just laughs at my naughty puppy stories! So we're yacking away and all of sudden I notice that Maggy was just in my office with me and now she is gone. I hang up with my Dad because I need to go track down the naughty puppy and guess where she is!?!!? On that chair again!!! Oh boy!

Have you seen or read the book, Marley and Me? Yesterday I felt like we had Marley instead of Maggy. Even Jesse's parents will call her Marley instead of Maggy.

I couldn't wait for Jesse to get home! I felt kind of like the parent with the out of control children where the Mom is watching out the window for the Dad to come home from work so she can go hide for a few hours. I just wanted to hide from Maggy! I was exhausted! All I wanted to do was crawl into my blanket and watch American Idol.

That night Maggy kept coming over by me and wanting me to pet her. When she gets real needy like this I always say her love tank is empty and she needs it filled. Finally Jesse decided to take her for a walk and I got to stay home alone!!! They come back and of course Maggy comes flying upstairs to stick her wet cold nose on my belly for me to pet her. I secretly ask for Blueberry to give a good kick while Maggy's nose is resting there but she never does.

Jesse has to run to the gas station and I tell him that Maggy's love tank is just not full enough and she needs to go with and spend some quality time with him. He takes her! Whooohoo!

And you know what?! You know what Jesse tells me earlier this week?! That he has a week long training down in Oshkosh! This is not a drive that he can make each morning and night. He needs to spend a week down in Oshkosh! Which only means I am home alone for a week with Maggy! I have seriously thought about asking my brother to move in for a week so he could keep Maggy's love tank full - because I just don't like to pet her enough for her needs. (We also think that her love tank has leak because it never seems full enough for her.) That would mean that my little brother would have to be away from his girlfriend for a whole week and when you are dating that seems virtually impossible! So I think I have to tough this one out and let Jesse know that I like shiny sparkly items for watching his dog for a week. Heck even right now being pregnant... chocolate totally works on me!!!

Let me soak!

Its snowing. Its cold. I can't get out of my PJs. I just want to crawl into this new tub and soak for a couple of hours!!

They worked on the bathroom again yesterday and placed the tub in and built the deck around it. It made me very giddy to walk down here after work and see a tub in place!

Funny side story: Jesse talks in his sleep. He has been talking a lot the past couple of weeks. Lots of funny stories... I could go on all day and keep you entertained, but I'll just tell you this one...

I wake up and Jesse sits up and looks at the clock. I can't see the clock because I am as blind as a bat! I asked him, what time is it? He says in a very upset tone... 12:30. I said, okay. Then he continue to tells me that he has been trying to put this tub faucet in since 4:30 and now it is 12:30 and he still doesn't have this faucet in!! He was not a happy camper! He did lay down and go back to sleep though!

When he gets home I'll have to ask him if ever got the faucet in. *giggle* I love asking him about his dreams because he looks at me so funny as he tries to remember them himself. Some times in his dreams he thinks that I am Jerry. It cracks me up. He'll be chattering away and then look at me and say something " blah blah blah... Jerry..." I then have to tell him that I am not Jerry... I am Lynn. And that really throws him for a loop some nights!! Then he has to find Jerry... and I have to convince him that I think Jerry is probably at his own house! Some nights he doesn't believe me and he has to go walk around the house until he wakes up and realizes that he is sleeping and Jerry is really not here! And if I am giggling as I am talking to him, trying to tell him he is sleeping... it just makes him more mad and more determined to find him.

Okay, I have to tell one more because I can't stop giggling... Jesse has been having dreams where he is choking on objects. So I usually wake up to him sitting up quickly and hanging his head over the side of bed making gagging - throwing up noises! It freaks me out! I start asking him if he is okay? And start sending him to the bathroom if he is going to be sick... don't get sick in my bed!! Well the other night I wake up and he is standing up with his hand on the door knob ready to go out of the room. I asked him where is going. He can't tell me. I tell him he is sleeping and that he really needs to come back to bed. He just stands there and looks at me. I tell him again... your sleeping get back in bed. Now he is mad at me and says... Lynn this is serious! I have to go!

Me: Where do you HAVE to go?

Jesse: I just do.

Me: What do you need to do?

Jesse: I'll *insert swear word* tell when I get back.

and he walks out the door.

Now I really wonder what is up and wonder if I should go follow him or let him be. I then have to go the bathroom so I decided I'll do that and then if he isn't back in bed I'll go find him. Well Jesse is in the bathroom. I found that very odd. So I wait for him to come out and then I pass him the hallway and he says "hi!" as we pass. I just start giggling and giggling! He went from being upset with me to being all friendly!! Apparently he woke up while he was in the bathroom!!

So as I am crawling back into bed I am still giggling and I can't stop!!! Then Jesse starts giggling because he knows he just did something really stupid, but I don't think he knows how stupid. So I asked him... what were you dreaming about. Here is what he says: He has one of those twisty bread ties wrapped around his tonsils and it is choking him. He needed to get it off and I wasn't letting him go to do it. I of course told him... you didn't sound like you were choking... and I giggle. He said he got into the bathroom and looked in the mirror and opened his mouth to untie the bread tie and that is when he woke up.

Oh my gosh! The kid cracks me up some nights!! And I wonder why I don't get a good nights sleep... I have him talking/walking around, I'm tossing and turning trying to get comfy, I'm waking up to go to the bathroom... and then soon I'll be adding... feeding a baby!!! Good thing I have this new bathtub about hooked up so I can relax in there and giggle about my crazy family!!

Belly Status - 25 Weeks

Roughly 17 weeks until Blueberry arrives!

Here is the belly shot... I'm a little tired tonight and I think you can tell by my eyes. They look a little sleepy! It was a toss and turn and can't get comfy night last night... which is only God's way of preparing me for those nightly feedings, right!?

And just because I think it is fun to see them all lined up in a row...

Ups/Downs:

I can't decided if the following are Ups or Downs... so they are going to be Ups/Downs!

~ An inch a week. I went to the Dr. on Friday and I'm to the stage where they measure my belly now which I thought was all fun and exciting until she tells me... "we measure you now because you should be measuring as many weeks as you are pregnant." So I'm 25 weeks so I would measure 25 inches. Then she tells me "you will now grow an inch a week". I'm still in shock by this! I can't even begin to imagine what I'm going to look like at 41 inches!! So it is an UP because baby girl is growing just like she should be... and it is a DOWN because what will 41 inches look like!!

~ My placenta is in the back. I got my ultrasound results back at this last appointment and they informed me that my placenta is behind the baby instead of in the front like normal. Which is perfectly fine. Except!!! I can feel every little movement that little girl makes! And I mean every movement!! Where if my placenta was in the front a lot her movements would be cushioned and I wouldn't feel them so strongly. This is an UP because I do enjoy her wiggling because then it reassures me everything is still okay. It's a DOWN because she wiggles so much and it is so distracting for me. Today she gave me a good jab in the rib!! It sent my whole body into a convulsion! I sit on one of those big exercise balls as my desk chair and I almost fell off with her lovely right jab to the rib! I even yelled "Ouch!" As I am yelling ouch, convulsing, and trying to balance on an over sized exercise ball... my coworker calls me and he hears all of that going on! I had to explain I was not crazy... just got a wake up call from baby girl... which he laughed!!

Ups:

~ I made my very first purchase for the baby's room!! I bought the bedding so that I could get color ideas for the walls. I love it and the colors are awesome! I can't wait to get started!

~ Jesse is able to feel her wiggling. At night I'll push my belly up against him so he can feel her wiggle (just like I can) while he is trying to fall asleep and he is always amazed at how much she wiggles and how strong she is. Today he was home on his lunch and he could see my belly moving and says "You are going to be so excited to have her out of you, aren't you?"

~ Prenatal Massages! We have a really cute hair place (which I need to visit after looking at all my pictures lined up in a row - the hair needs some TLC... Tender Loving Color!) here in Stanley and they have a massage therapist that does prenatal massages. I made an appointment last Saturday and it was awesome! They have this big pillow type bed that is missing the middle... so I get to lay on my belly!! Although she told me I didn't do a very good job of filling out that middle and I was kind of sunk into far and needed to propped up with towels and blankets... but have no fear if I am growing an inch a week I'll fill her bed out in no time! ; )

~ For the most part I am still feeling great. I do feel more tired the past couple of weeks and sneak a nap in every once in awhile, and my lower back does ache more then usual... but with exercise (and massages) that ache goes away.

Downs:

~ Leg cramps!!! Oh my goodness! Now, I am use to leg cramps I got them pre-pregnancy but it wasn't every night! Far too often I am woken up in the middle of the night with leg cramps and it is getting harder and harder to reach my leg to rub out the cramp. Thankfully, the cramps aren't as bad as I am use to, but still they are annoying. I did learn today to put a bar of plain ivory soap in my bed and that will help it. (I think she said ivory... I can't remember the brand now... ugh!) I Hate (with a capital H) bananas... something with the texture and the flavor... but I bought them last week. I will only choke them down if they are pre-ripe and still kind of hard. But I was only able to eat a 1/2 one before they got too mushy. Cures for leg cramps without the word banana in it anyone?? I don't have bar soap in the house... but I'll be getting me some at the next shopping trip!

~ Blueberry has been kicked out of her room and she hasn't even gotten here yet. With all the bathroom remodeling going on we had to move our offices out of the way and the only spot left was Blueberry's room! Now Jesse doesn't want to leave - he likes the office upstairs in this room! We do have another bedroom downstairs but I just can't have a baby downstairs with me upstairs... so I told him if he got me one of those drive up bank dispenser things... where I can just stick the baby in and push a button and she goes back to her crib and when she cries I push another button and she comes back up into my room... he could have this as his office. I'm thinking she'll get her room back! ; )

There you have it... see you in another 3 weeks. I'm off to eat some ice cream and see if I have any favorites on American Idol. There are a couple of guys from Milwaukee that I'm really liking!

Bathroom - Phase 2

Before I get to the remodel update... I have to show off my Ebay find!! I found this entire vanity set (mirror, sink, faucet, vanity) on Ebay last night and it is brand new!!! This is my first real Ebay purchase ever!! Usually Jesse does the Ebay thing... but not last night!

Where our sink is going is a very tiny place so I had to find a small vanity... and to find one with sass and style that wasn't insanely over priced was a little hard to find. Jesse told me to look on Ebay and I found tons of vanities on there! This one was my favorite and it is some what similar to the one I saw in the store that I really liked but did not like the price tag on it, and that didn't include a mirror or faucet.

Here is what they got done yesterday. Tore the wall down, built the new wall, added the doorway wall, and built the landing (on the floor) where our tub and shower will go. We had to have this landing/platform because it is in the basement and all the plumbing is in concrete... but there is already an existing shower drain in the far left corner (the corner you can't see in the picture) so we are just going to do some plumbing work over to that drain and wa-la functional bathroom!! All the plumbing will be hidden under the platform.

It was a hard day of running the saw for little helper that he needed a nap! I guess it is much easier to sleep on the job when you are at your cousin's house!!

Oh and that is our guest, Flat Stanley, taking a nap with Josh. See Josh's little brother, Jake, has to do a school project where they have to send Flat Stanley to some one's house to visit. You have to take him around and show him the area. Jake thought it would be so cool to have Flat Stanley come to Stanley!!! : ) I'm afraid Flat hasn't seen much of Stanley yet... but he did get to help Josh build some walls and he got to use a Stanley Hammer in Stanley, WI!!

Next up... Friday they are going to put up the ceiling and put the drywall on the backsides of the walls. I believe on Saturday Jerry is coming over to run the plumbing and electrical for us. When the plumbing and electrical are done, Mike comes back to finish his platform, walls... the appliances come in... the tile guy comes... and my new fresh bathroom is done!! Whooohoo!

Then we can start on Blueberry's room!!! Oh the never ending projects that happen when you have a little one the way! : ) Oh and I have to start my garden soon too! My Mom just told me that I need to start my seeds on St. Patricks Day... but I forgot which seeds she told me start. Ah, me and my memory can get the best of me sometimes.

Holidays!

Jesse and I had an extra long weekend. I got Monday off for President's Day and Jesse just took some comp time that he had built up! It was so nice to have an extra day off!!

Just a little side note... I think when I lived in Oregon and had Presidents Day off... I think I started buying flowers and making my deck spring-like! Ha! Could never do that here in Wisconsin! The snow is still flying the temps are still way too cold! Although... we did go to Mendards on Sunday (home improvement store - our new favorite place) and I busted out my spring yellow jacket (that I can no longer button over my belly) and pretended that it was spring!!!

Holiday #1 - Valentines!

Jesse's parents had signed us up for a marriage seminar at their church. (They signed the whole family up - not just us.) It was called, Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage. Our friends went a couple years ago and loved it - so I was really looking forward to it. It was Friday night and Saturday morning. It seriously was so funny!!! And we didn't even get to see it live... we were watching it off a DVD that they played on a big screen. I'm sure it is way more fun live! I was laughing so hard that everything hurt when we got home. My belly hurt, my neck hurt because for some crazy reason my head falls backwards when I laugh too hard, my cheeks hurt!! This is a traveling seminar - so watch for him in your area and GO!!

After the seminar we stopped to visit my parents before we headed back to our house. Oh my - I was giggling all over again. My parents were so doing the stuff that this guy was talking about at the seminar! My Dad was in his 'nothing box' - watching 6 different channels and my Mom was talking to me and she said something and my Dad says "You never told me that!" Oh man! Jesse and I both started laughing so hard and they just stared at us like we were off our rocker! So I had to tell them why we were laughing and I could hardly do it because I was still laughing so hard. Anyway... I'll stop because you don't have a clue what I am talking about unless you have seen this guy.

That was our highlight for Valentines day. We really don't do Valentines. In the past we usually make a fancy supper that we cook together and that is it. This year... we were driving back to our house and

Jesse says: You hungry?

Me: Starving!!

I look at the clock in the truck (we are in Jesse's Dad's truck because we have to go pick up lumber for the builder and our truck is too whimpy... I mean little...) and it says it is almost 8! Lately as soon as my eyes see that it is 8 my body starts to shut down and I am ready to sleep!

Jesse: What do we have to eat at the house?

Me: Um.... I don't know.

Jesse: You want to stop somewhere and grab something first?

Me: Not really.

All we have for options is McDonalds or A&W... not a fan of either. Another 5 minutes go by.

Jesse: So what are you going to eat at home?

Me: Um... probably cereal.

Jesse: I can't stop thinking about cheeseburgers.

Me: Okay, lets go to McDonalds and get cheeseburgers. I'll choke one down.

We got home with our McDonalds and it was really only 7. The clock was an hour fast in the truck and we didn't know it! We were so exhausted that we cheered our burgers to Valentines, ate them quickly, and climbed onto the couch to take a nap before we actually went to bed. Do y'all do that? Have to sleep on the couch first before you actually go to bed? I love that!!

Holiday #2 - Presidents Day!

The builder came and started working on our bathroom more today! Here is what it looked like last time:

Now we needed to plot and plan how we want it laid out so the builder knew what to do when he got here. Guys brains and girls brains work totally different. I took a couple pictures to show you.

Here is how Jesse plots and plans:

At first I thought - Oh this will be fun! I always wanted to do this! I tried taking a class in high school but they wouldn't let me have it because I would of been the only girl in an all guy class. Why that was a problem, I still don't know... anyway they must of knew I would of failed. Jesse and I sit down at the computer to do this and we're plotting, planning and drawing away. Then it came to the technical stuff... our tub needs to set into a 'platform' and we're trying to figure out how big of ledge we want around the tub. Then we have to figure out this and that - and Jesse busts out the geometry!! Seriously! He is trying to calculate angles and all this garbage! I looked at him and said - in high school I aced every math class - but they put me in geometry one year and I failed!! I can't do geometry for some reason. You give me a formula a mile long with x, y, z and I can tell you exactly what x, y, and z should be. But you throw shapes and angles... can't do it! Which drives me crazy that my brain can't do those. It also can't do math word problems. Anyway, when he started busting out the angles, and what shape is this, and if I have a 90 degree angle here... I stood up and said, I'm going to go eat some ice cream and watch Greys Anatomy and Private Practice!! I was out of there and never returned!!

Here is how I plot and plan:

Pictures baby!!! Guys love this! Not! When we first had our builder (who is actually my cousin's husband) come over and I started pulling out my pictures and he says in a totally joking way "Are you Connie's daughter?" My Mom does the same thing to him when she has him do stuff! Jesse looks at my picture and says crazy stuff like "Well, we can't do an angled ceiling like that. And we can't do windows like that either because we are in the basement and we don't have room for double sinks." DUH!! I am just looking at the colors and the inset tub and the shelving in the wall and the vanity! Sheesh! Don't these boys know anything about pictures!!

They are still pounding and working hard down there, but I snuck down and took a quick picture while they were outside cutting boards. Then I fed them some of these gotta keep the workers full of energy! Being that it is Presidents Day the builders son didn't have school today and he is here helping out. Well he got bored and started playing his video game - I took him a cookie and he ate it and has been helping the guys ever since! See... a little chocolate helps motivate anyone!!

They took out that back wall. The little helper (I believe he is a 4th grader) got to have the first swing at knocking the wall down. He thought that was pretty cool and was so excited to tear a wall down!

Jesse just came up by me and I said, I hear pounding inside and I hear a saw outside. He says, yeah 'little helper' is running the saw! What?! Really!? Oh man! Does his Mother know that he is running a saw?!!? Then I hear builder yell measurements like 9 and 7/8ths to little helper and little helper repeats the measurement... goes outside... cuts the board. Oh my! He is only a 4th grader!!

A new wall is going up and lots of progress is in the works right now! I'll post more pictures later I don't want to be the crazy lady that keeps taking pictures of every little thing... so I'll wait until they go home! : ) Plus I need to get to the grocery store before all the fun afternoon talk shows come on... because that is really how you are suppose to spend your day off!!

Bathroom - Phase 1

Saturday we started our biggest home improvement project. I shouldn't really say "we" because I just took pictures and sat upstairs with butterflies in my stomach. I grew up in a house that was forever changing and being remodeled... but for some reason it was different to have people here ripping out walls and chattering. It was a good feeling... because I am so excited to have a real bathroom!!! Our home has two bathrooms... two very tiny bathrooms. So small that it is hard for both of us to brush our teeth at night. Actually we had to stop brushing our teeth together because one morning we were and Jesse spit... and for some crazy reason I looked down and saw his spit and it sent me over the edge. I was instantly gagging and couldn't stop. I ran to the kitchen sink and well... lost it! Jesse started laughing at me and wanted to know why that grossed me out? I have no idea... I'm extra gaggy in the mornings and have a hard enough time not losing it when I am by myself brushing my teeth and then to see his spit! Ick! I think it may have a little something to do with Blueberry... but I'm not sure. Anyone else have trouble brushing their teeth while pregnant?

Sorry... I get side tracked real easy these days. Back to the bathroom!!

We eventually want to gut both bathrooms but we decided to start with the downstairs bathroom first. It was the worst out of the two. Now I will confess that I never even cleaned this bathroom when we moved in because I was too grossed out. And it wasn't really dirty gross... it was just old and felt like a campground bathroom to me. Like if I ever used the shower I would wear my flip flops because I wouldn't want my feet to touch the cement.... a campground bathroom!! I just closed the door and ignored it. Oh and there was a big spider in there!!! And Jesse would not kill it!!!!! So I was for real was not going in there and keeping the door shut! The only person who ever used this bathroom was Jesse's brother Jerry. Why? I have no idea - he is a boy and doesn't really care what a bathroom looks like!!

Jesse called up his Dad and our neighbor, Dwayne, to come over for a little demolition Saturday morning. Here are some before pictures:

The hallway... bathroom door on the left and closet door on the right. Check out my lovely carpet!! Don't you love it!!? I know you are jealous! And I know you are jealous of my wood walls and wood doors... it is almost like one of those hidden rooms. ; )
Bathroom door and closet door... we want to merge these two rooms into one big bathroom. The white cable running through these pictures is my internet cable. Of course a house this old would only have 2 phone jacks... one on each floor. The jacks are both placed in the middle of the house! Hopefully during the remodel some one will work some magic and run this cable so I don't look like I'm living in my college apartment. You know what I am talking about. Those college apartments where cables and wires are running all over the place and taped to the floor.

The lovely bathroom. Now... all this stuff in here is original, because like I said... I never touched the room. Even the shower curtain is from the previous owners. Don't you love the walls and ceiling! They were smooth and shiny - almost like paneling... but for bathrooms! See my cement shower stall!!!!!!

Here is another view. We started using this shower to give Maggy a bath. We couldn't get her to hop into our shower/tub upstairs... so this was a walk in and we tricked her with Rachael Ray treats!!! Yes, even Maggy knows about Rachael Ray!! I can't help it!

Amazingly it did not take the 3 guys very long at all to demo this! The whole time they are ripping stuff out (I am sitting upstairs pretending to read... but actually listening in on their conversations) they are just a chattering. They were way too funny! They were saying things like "this guy just used what ever scrap piece of wood he had lying around to build these walls" and they would all chuckle. Then someone would comment "This wall over here is so crocked! Come see this - you won't believe it!" More chuckles! "Jesse you want to keep these fixtures?" More chuckles! "OH! He used a real piece of drywall over here on this wall!" Oh man! They were cracking me up!

I eventually had to leave but I took a quick picture as I was running out the door...

The two rooms became one! Jesse and I are still uncertain if this is big enough. We can still push that wall, on the right, out some more if we want it bigger.

Here is looking down the "hallway". They took out that end wall because it wasn't even with the other wall, this way when the builder comes in he can make the wall even. You can see my messy office way back there and part of our downstairs living room. The guy in this picture is our awesome neighbor, Dwayne, he loves this kind of work. And he has 3 garages full of tools!!

When I came home... I saw this!! It feels very funny having this all open and a toilet sitting there. All part of remodeling... functioning toilets randomly placed around.

Yesterday we went and picked out lighting, shower, tub, faucets... all the fun stuff. The store was having a sale where everything you could fit in a bag you would get 15% off. And we each could have our own bag! We were stuffing and stuffing. Then we went to pick out our shower and they didn't have it in stock and had to print me off a piece of paper and I put it in my bag and said "Jesse! I just got our shower in my bag!!" I got to the check out line and put my bag up on the belt and she's pulling stuff out and we were chatting and she pulls out my "shower" and says "You know I can't give you 15% off of this?" I started laughing and told her, but it is in my bag! Dang it... I tried!

Next phase is getting Jesse's brother in here to do some plumbing work for us. I'm going to bribe him with some Mexican food and beer... hopefully that puts us higher up on his to-do list and gets him out here quickly so we don't keep our builder waiting!!

Bad Dog!

Just in case any of you are thinking about adopting a puppy/dog into your family. I want to warn you that it isn't all sunshine and roses! Let's just take a peek into what our weekend was like with our little furry friend, Maggy!


Maggy was never really around people when she was with her previous owners. The only human contact she really had was with her owners. So now that we have her... and we have people stop over and see us. She gets extremely excited and can't control her bladder!!! Now, when we were in our "trial period" with Maggy, she never did this!! Yes she got extremely over excited but she never lost bladder control! She just started doing this within the last week! It is extremely embarrassing!!


My Mom stopped over last week really quick on a lunch break. Now... she is not an animal person at all! I had all intentions of putting Maggy in her room before she got here, but my Mom just showed up - so Maggy didn't get in her room in time. Of course Maggy was so excited and Jesse and I are trying to get her to settle down and she lost bladder control!! Ugh!! Not a very good impression - especially to someone who doesn't like animals!!


Yesterday, we had a super bowl party here, at our house. We realize Maggy is having this issue so we are going to keep her in her room. My sister and her kids were the first to show up and Shannon was going to do some laundry here... well Maggy stays in the laundry room. Shannon doesn't mind dogs... she's use to them, as she had one. So I show her to the laundry room and I am teaching her the tricks of my washer/dryer and we are getting ready to leave and I tell her the command is to point your finger and say "Maggy Stay!" and she usually listens. We get to the door we both say "Maggy Stay" and Maggy weasels her way out the door and up the stairs towards the living room. Now in the living room we have left baby Garrett laying on a blanket on the floor. Elly is up there reading books to Jesse to keep him from falling asleep in the warm sunshine that is shining in on the couch. I yell... Maggy's out!!! Hoping that Jesse will wake up and grab Garrett off the floor by the time Maggy reaches them!


Shannon and I get upstairs and Maggy is still checking things out and is kind of hyper and running around smelling every thing. Garrett is still on the floor and Elly is on the couch hopping from one couch cushion to the other. Jesse is trying to simmer Maggy. I go sit down by Garrett and he is looking back at me and one second he is smiling and the next he gets this horrible pouty look on his face and is on the verge of tears. Maggy comes over and starts licking his head... I do not licking!!! I don't allow licking... now if I could only get Jesse to follow that rule! I grab Garrett because Maggy won't stop licking his poor little head. Like I said Shannon and her kids are use to dogs as they had one, and their dog was much, much bigger then Maggy. So as I am freaking out about the licking Shannon is saying... he is fine, Louie licked him all the time. But the pouty look on his face did not tell me he was fine!! Plus I am the Auntie... so I get to spoil and comfort, right!

Thankfully Maggy has full bladder control this whole time! We were very impressed!!! So we thought we would leave her be, but we wanted her to stay on her own blanket. She wouldn't have anything to do with it. So Jesse would say "okay Maggy downstairs." Maggy would instantly (and I mean instantly) go lay down her blanket!! We both started laughing and thought okay maybe now she wants to listen. We let her be. She doesn't last 30 seconds and she is up again... downstairs Maggy.... she goes back to her blanket and lays down. Not falling for her tricks this time! We eventually get her downstairs and put her in her room.


More guests starts arriving and then my cousin comes and they come in threw the back door, where Maggy's room is! Oh no! Maggy gets out again!! This time there are far more people here and she can't remember how to control that bladder anymore! By the 5th or 6th time of someone saying "Oh! She peed over here now!" I was on my hands and knees cleaning up one spot yelling "Maggy! I'm going to beat you in front of God and everyone!!!" As Jesse is chasing her around the house trying to catch her! She was uncatchable! Jesse seriously had to pick her up and carry her out!!! Then, he had to go change his shirt... because the bladder loss was still at a loss!! Thank goodness everyone there was family and I promised them that our children would have much better behavior and they would not pee on the floor!!! Of course everyone thought this Maggy episode was super funny and they were all laughing... I think they were laughing because um... they get to go home to house that doesn't have a dog with bladder issues!


We did let Maggy out when there were only a few people left and she did totally fine!! Why she is fine one minute and not the next I will never know!


Oh and my cousin who came in the back door... called me later that night and said that their dog just had 3 puppies!!!! Then I got a call this morning that said she had 10 puppies!!!! And if I wanted 5 to call her! Believe me I didn't call her!!! : ) But I did give a good hearty giggle as I listened to the message!! So if my story doesn't scare you enough and you want a little fur ball of your own... she has lots of puppies! They are little black labs and I think she said there is a yellow one. You could have you very own Maggy!!! Wouldn't that be fun!!!?