Time to Celebrate

Mmmm for those of you who may not know...this is the month of my Mother! wahoo!!! We are blessed to have this awesome lady as a mom who has put up with tons of grief from all of us girls at one time or another. I think one of my favorite memories was calling home from college when I had a horrible nasty flu at 4 in the morning and me saying Mom i don't feel good, her prompt reply, oh honey I am on my way....no no it was not that it was a slurred "who is this?" Mom it's me... Oh honey I'll talk to you later. I was devastated... Sure enough she did call me back later to check in on me. This memory still makes me laugh, but really she has been a very supportive, sacrificing, and most of all Loving Mother. I couldn't have asked for one better! So here is to Mom!! Happy Birthday!
Also we are still trying to sell our home in Charlotte. We had an offer but have heard nothing since our counter offer. We have had more people coming through the house this past week. So please keep us in your prayers! As well as JB she has found out her little bundle of joy should be blanketed in blue, time will tell....he he. Her and her hubby are in process of moving and the Parents are helping with the interior decorating!! Fun fun, Dad loves to paint mainly cars but still it keeps him on his toes!!
Happy November! It is almost time to celebrate all we are so grateful for.

Making himself at home....

So as you can tell from this photo Rebel has managed to tuck himself into my Husbands heart. So it looks like dog number 5 has entered the house hold for good. He loves this fuzzy green blanket almost as well as the other dogs. Although it does "belong" to Chateau, yeah right! He has settled into the grove of being a pack dog....maybe we should get in touch with Cesar...for some encouragement and lessons on how to handle all the dogs...although we know we need to walk them more....sorry sis...hopefully they won't be too overweight when you get them back.

Pretty Camaro isn't it? Can I just say the Lord has a sense of humor. He brought a pretty amazing lady into my life while I worked at the swim school in Charlotte. She started out as a Mom in the baby pool with her kids and we got to know one another and I found out she had taught lessons before so we began to recruit her, as well as developed a friendship. Needless to say we started working together and she has a heart for the Lord and loves many people around her. Her and her husband have an amazing heart for giving and loving others and wanting to serve others in the best way possible....I digress. Anyway having grown up with a Gear Head of a Father(said with lost of love Dad) I found out a couple of years into knowing her that her dad had a love for old muscle cars too. I think it is neat how God knows us so well he connects us to people that we have commonalities with, even when we don't know it. We will call her "Ray of Sunshine" (for privacy purposes) please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Her Mom passed away and there are some other things going on so it has been a tough time but she is staying focused on the Lord but being lifted up in prayer helps to.
This picture is for my sister on the other side of the pond.....a picture Husbandio took while white water rafting the Ocoee River in Tennesse with the youth! They had a blast despite the cold (the air at 50 degrees was warmer then the water.) In the picture this is where their rafts went in, (note the rafts hold 6 people and a guide) if you look real close you will see 3 people putting in kayaks...how's that for adrenline rush sis....have you been rock climbing or repelling recently? teasing. But look you can see the trees are starting to turn too!!
Oh also just so you know we recieved an offer on our house and we are waiting to see how things play out. Please keep us in your prayers. xoxox hugs & kisses xoxox

So here is the scrawny Mister Rebel. aka Trashhound

Well here he is the little trash hound we found. This is day one with us, he was really skinny you can see all of his ribs and hip bones Poor little guy! How could i resist? So as you can see below everyone is getting along well. This is dinner time on day 4 he has started to pack on some pounds. He is quick as wick too! He has caught on to sitting and waiting, potty time, in your den, come and sometimes quiet only if moo is not bugging him. Moo and Rebel have bonded really well we think it was due to Molly being at Camp Vet for a few days. Don't mind the laundry or dirty counter in the background everything is still looking for its place.

So we get to show off our green floor again wahoo!
So here is a picture of the two southern men in my life. Ha I don't consider Chateau a southern boy yet given him another year or two then maybe! Anyway I just wanted to let you all see the new one. hugs xoxo

Back to the Computer!

HA so the blogging from the phone was a bit of an adventure and a challenge...lots of mis-spelled words! So we have some praise worthy news....Our pup Molly has some parasite that has been causing some issues in her lungs and with the white blood cells. The vet we were referred to filled her with Steroids did lots of tests to tell us it is an easier fix then thought. (It was not the neumoblasto icky stuff) So she came home today after 2 days at Vet camp. Husbandio said she was super excited to see him! I can't wait to get home and love on her!
More Drama.....

More craziness on our part, (um Dad if you are reading this forgive me :-) it's that soft heart thing we were talking about the other day.) On my way to church Sunday morning, I was turning on to a road and I noticed a very scrawny puppy digging in a garbage heap. I stopped and watched for a moment, you could (and still can) see all of his little bones. I got out of my car and went over to him. I scared him,he turned to run, i said hey buddy and he came right over wiggling his stumpy little tail....and yes i did, i did the unthinkable I put him in my car and took him to breakfast at Micky D's (sausage bisquit, he's a southern boy). All i could think is my Husband is going to flip! From breakfast we went to church, and I thought Husband was going to say "take him to the pound," instead he said take him home. So home we went. (then back to church). We are looking for a home for him. We are also plumping him up and getting him a little healthier, however all the dogs love him and we are slowly getting attached...he is smarty mcfarty and we think he is a full breed Boxer...so we shall see....Dad you want a cute puppy? We are calling him Rebel, the first night with us, he rammed the pantry door until it opened and I heard a swoosh at 2:30 in the morning he had knocked over the garbage and was having a late night snack, all you could see was his stubby little tail wagging as he chowed down inside the garbage can. He was so sad when we disciplined him and put a chair in front of the pantry he knew the feasting was over....(i know i know we are crazy and we have another mouth to feed...but plus side he likes trash....husband said we should call him Oscar....as in the grouch who lived in a garbage can) I'll post a picture of the runt soon.
That has been our week thus far, little sleep due to howling and late night garbage binges! What a week!

In the new realm of hand held computer

Ha maybe I have found a way to post after all!! So i am trying to post from home for the first time so please be
patient with me. Molly is still not doing well our second opinion on her is tommorrow
so we should know soon what is going on with her. We have been busy with cleaning and still organizing our
house today. So I have mastered blogging from an I phone (maybe). I am still trying to figure out the camera aspect
on this thing. It has been fun though. I have survived my first 6 weeks of school it is good to be back to it,only
now I will be going back to school too this winter semester wahoo! Hope you enjoy my post from the phone xoxo big sis