Halloween

Happy Halloween!!! The puppies are here!! Our beautiful and loving Chihuahua Lily has just had her second (and last!) litter!! Three beautiful boys!! One blonde/fawn, one chocolate brown and a jet black! Momma and the boys are doing great! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Halloween!!!

Sorry this is the best pic I could take with my blackberry- our digital camera battery is dead and we left our charger behind in Phoenix!!!

Life

Today is a sad day for Shawn and I, his grandmother passed away. She was one of the strongest and toughest women in the world. As much as we want to we are just not going to be able to make it home to Phoenix to pay our respects. Shawn was able to come home from the rig, hopefully he will be able to spend a couple of days home to assist his mom over the phone with anything she needs help with. We are also hoping that he will be home for when Lily has her puppies. I am expecting them on Friday, October 31st!! I have set up her delivery area but she isnt showing any interest in it at this time- however Choco and Pierre (our cat) find it most comfy for their siestas. I am posting a picture of the bed that Sarah and I made for Lily and her puppies!! And a picture of Shawn loving on a very pregnant Lily!!!

Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers!!

XOXO

Awww

So we just had a heartbreaking moment. Shawn left on Tuesday morning for a new rig and I was laying here in bed contemplating on if my throat tickle is the start of a cold or because I havent been taking my thyroid meds...
Anyhow I am laying here with the dogs and all of a sudden Choco gets up and darts to the door and starts whining, Lily in turn gets up and goes to sit by the door as well. I get up thinking WOW they have never alerted me like that when they have to go to the bathroom but that is awesome! I didnt bother hunting down my flip flops cause I figured with Choco whining that maybe he had to go really bad and couldnt wait!! So I open the door and they both fly out, Choco takes off down the stairs and takes off across the grass towards the end of the lot which corners to a main road. I am yelling for him to get his butt back and Lily who was waiting for me to carry her pregnant butt down the stairs to go piddle has flattened herself againist the deck cause she thinks I yelling at her. Poor girl but I am so concerned about Choco running into the road- didnt happen though because what I failed to realize is that there is a diesel work truck parked and idling at the end of the alley, poor Choco thought his dad had come home and he was eager to greet and love on him. Poor thing was up on his hind legs trying to see into the driver side to figure out why Shawn wasnt calling out to him like he always does when he gets home. Once he did a complete inspection around the truck and realized that it wasnt Shawn he darted back up the stairs with his sad little eyes and face. Poor little guy!!! It is almost ridiculous how much we love our little dogs, they are so spoiled. Shawn and I always stop and ponder how great of dogs we have- especially Choco since we have raised him together since we got him as a puppy he has grown into such a great dog and truly is a compassionate lil guy. I told Shawn the other night that Choco must have been a man who believed in chivalry in his last life because he gets himself so upset and worried about Lily especially right now when she is so close to delivering the puppies. Even though she is being nasty and growling at him when he tries to lay next to her, he has been refusing to eat! We had been really worried about him being so darn skinny that a friend of ours back in Phoenix turned us onto a dog food that he called puppy crack! We started Choco on a diet of the puppy crack mixed with some wet dog food and he has made quite an improvement in his weight- so for him to refuse to eat is a pretty big deal to us. Shawn was getting pretty annoyed with Choco for not eating, we were blocking him off from the rest of the apt and leaving him in the kitchen whining and all like he is a little kid who wont finish his vegetables! Well Tuesday night I decided to see how he would react if I gave Lily her own bowl of food- low and behold that was his problem! He was wanting her to have his food since he senses that there is something wrong with her (pregnant), the poor dog was so relieved to see her get her own food that while he was chowing down the cat walked by him to get to the water he growled at the cat!! Man do we love our chihuahuas!!

30

Well I am happy to report that Shawn made it home for my birthday just in time. Although we were still not able to attend our friends party down in SE OK, Shawn drove by what he described as a beautiful park with a lake on his way home from the rig that would be perfect for a picnic. So he planned a wonderful picnic for my birthday but when we tried to relocate this park it was nowhere to be found- not online anywhere!! So our friends Nick and Sarah saved the picnic and allowed us to barge in on their family day out to the duck ponds here in Ponca. We all had a great time- Shawn and Nick brought their r/c cars and I helped Sarah get some really cute fall pictures of her sweet kiddos! Disaster did strike when Nick's r/c car lost control and zoomed off into the pond- but he was able to recover it and is able to salvage it with minimal cost.

I had a job interview at a really nice dental office in the next town over. The doctor was extremely nice and I think would be great to work for her- she asked me to come back on Monday for a working interview. So hopefully that will work out and I will soon be employed even if only on a part time basis.

Tonight we went to go and pick up a mattress that was so kindly donated to us as we did not bring any furniture with us when we moved- just the bare necessities that we could fit into our trucks. It is going to be SO wonderful to sleep on a bed after sleeping on an air mattress for the past 2 1/2 months!! We are so grateful to the great people we have come across that have been so kind to take us under their protective wings and treated us like family here in OK.

Shawn leaves in the morning to go out to his next rig and is supposed to be gone for 2 weeks- so I will be back soon to post new updates. Maybe Lily will have her puppies this week!! Although I am not expecting them until 10/31!

GRRRR!!!

I should have known it was too good to be true!! Shawn just called me with good news and bad news.
Good news...he is on his way home from the shop!
Bad news...he is leaving tomorrow morning for a rig in Coalgate for 2 weeks so now he is going to miss my birthday and we arent going to the Diesels in the Heartland party for sure. Frickin figures!!! I better go gimp it down the stairs so I can go to the laundry mat.

Way to set a pissy mood for the weekend :(

Oooompfh

This week has gone by in an odd blur for some reason.
Saturday (10/4) was the day of Diesels in the Desert an event that Shawn helped to plan before we up and moved to OK. We are lucky to have made the friends that we have here in Oklahoma as Jory is in a band with his friend Shane (Possum Pecker Band) they are hiliarious!! They were playing at a restuarant in Mulhall which is about 40 miles away. Sarah and her kiddos rode with us for a night of comfort food (fried pickles anyone?!)and great tunes. Half way there Shawn gets a call from work that they need him to run a hotshot to Houston the next day (Sunday). Luckily I am still unemployed and able to make the roadtrip with him which we just expected to be a quick there and back sort of thing, but of course the tools in Houston that he was supposed to bring back were not ready so we were gone until Tuesday morning. Thank you to the wonderful Smiths for watching Choco n Lily for us!!!
All this week I have been fretting that Shawn is not going to be home next Saturday for my 30th birthday, thankfully the rig that he was supposed to be sent to has been cancelled and he will just be in OKC this next week working in the shop. Normally I do not make a big deal out of my birthday, but for some reason something is just brewing inside me (FEAR!!!!) of turning 30 and I dont have my family or Arizona friends to console me (I can only imagine what Jess would come up with to add to the horror since she made me cry when I turned 25 and she pointed out that I was a quarter of a century OLD!). Poor Shawn is desperately trying to figure out what to get me for the big 3-0, he has offered a new Coach bag??? A Wii?? We are supposed to go to a party on Saturday down in SE Oklahoma, Diesels in the Heartland so that ought to be interesting to meet a few people from the truck group that we are members of. I will have to try and remember to get some pictures!
Most everyone I know is aware of the fact that I am a HUGE clutz, so knowing this about me I have decided to share what I think is the highlight of the week!! I got home from walking and hopped in the shower to wash off the sweat before going out to dinner. Ya know when you prop your foot up on the edge of the tub to shave your legs or wash your feet??? Yeah well I seem to have underestimated how slippery my foot was cause next thing I know my head has smacked the shower wall, my knee has bashed the edge where my foot was and my hip is throbbing and I am laying in the tub like I just slide into 1st base. I was SAFE!!! Poor Choco heard the commotion and was barking up a storm, after laying there for a second realizing what the heck just happened I cant help but crack up cause I wasnt concerned about cracking my head open, I was concerned about my hair getting wet!! This morning I wake up and my foot is bruised around my ankle, my knee is bruised...and I am stiff as hell! Guess I should just count my blessings that I havent fallen on the stairs...yet!