Busy around here…

I’m not sure where this month went! We’ve been busy but it’s just flown by! Nicholas has been working a lot and went to FL for a week of training so I’ve been in GA visiting everyone. It seems like it’s been forever since I was home but it was around the middle of June so not that long. This is the first big trip for Kady and she’s done really good the whole time. I was worried about the ride so I put her in her crate and she hollered at me for the first 10 mins then slept the whole rest of the trip. I took her to the shop with me 2 full days and she did great up there and slept most of the time. Since Sunday she’s lost 7 of her front teeth and the adult teeth are growing in SO fast! I can’t believe how quickly they’ve come in. I think that’s one reason she was so tired on Mon and Tues, growing teeth is hard work!

We are trying to update mama’s website for her shop so I’ve been busy doing research for the best way to change everything around and add a shopping cart. I finally have things going in the right direction so I’ll be updating everything more often.

For now I’ll leave you with a picture of the last dog bed I made and our long legged baby.

 

SOLD!!

I went up to Clarksville on Thurs afternoon for closing bright and early on Friday. All the papers are signed and we are no longer home owners. It’s very nice! For the first time in almost 7 years we don’t have to worry about being solely responsible for a house! It’s really nice to be able to call the landlord when things need to be fixed around the house and know that if it’s something we can’t take care of he’ll have a repair person out to look at it within a very short amount of time. I think we’ll stick to renting for a while. In this economy buying a house isn’t the “investment” it was years ago and I don’t need the stress of waiting for a house to sell again anytime soon.

While I was gone Nicholas sent me this picture of Kady.

She apparently decided that the deck was feeling a little hard and she wanted a bed out there to lay on. N walked in there because he heard the “sssss   ssssss  ssssss” of it sliding across the floor in the kitchen. lol She is a smart girl. Since we know she’s going to get big I’ve been working to teach her to sit before I feed her and I won’t let her eat until I say she can and she’s been very good at that the last few feedings. I don’t want her to keep rushing to the bowl and knocking the food all over the place when we try to put it down. Ki and Pooh say they are glad they aren’t puppies anymore and don’t have to learn all these crazy manners we are teaching Kady like Sit! haha Spoiled mutts. They are all keeping us very entertained that’s for sure. Pooh is finally running around and playing a lot more with Kady now. I really think it’s because she realized how big Kady is getting and she wants to put her in her place now! However that’s causing fights between Ki and Pooh because as much as Ki doesn’t really like Kady either she doesn’t want Pooh to be dominate.

We have had sooooooo much rain in the last 2 days. Mainly today but it rained on and off all day Sun. The airport a few miles from us is reporting around 7 inches of rain today. There’s a lot of flooding in all of Birmingham and a lot of people without power. We’ve been lucky so far and it’s flickered a number of times but keeps coming back on. N is working tonight and I told him that if it goes off and stays off we’re packing it up and going to stay with him at the base. He didn’t even bother wearing his flight suit to work when he left the house. He took it with him so he could change when the rain moves out but he figured he might as well be comfy for most of the night. Kady doesn’t know what to think about all the rain, she has probably poked her head out the dog door 100 times today she wants to go out so bad. I’m not sure if Pooh as even peed all day. They can’t stand to be wet and I can’t blame them, we’ve had a steady medium to heavy rain the majority of the day.  We really needed it though so I’m not complaining, I just wish there had been a few breaks for the girls to all go out and potty. Now I wish we could send this rain over to TX to help with all the horrible fires they are dealing with right now. So many homes have been lost and it breaks my heart.

We bought a new bed yesterday. We’ve been waiting until the papers were signed on the house to go buy one. We have hated that old bed for a while now. We bought it right before N deployed the second time but it was obviously horrible quality and had a big sag in the middle in no time. I have a number of friends with temperpedic beds and I’ve always liked the feel of memory foam. Mari has one and I’ve slept on it a few times at her house and loved it. We went in there at 1 and the bed was delivered by 4 yesterday! Pretty fast service. And since it is Labor Day weekend we got 2 free pillows since they can’t lower the prices on the Temperpedic brand mattresses. I slept with the new pillow last night and really liked it a lot. It will be so nice to sleep comfortably and not wake up with my lower back and hips aching in the morning. The bed is a few inches shorter than our old one so now the dogs (and I mean Ki because she’s the only one that won’t walk back down the steps but Kady will be to long and big to do that soon! lol) won’t have as far to jump down off the bed. We were worried about them jumping onto the slick hardwood but Ki almost always makes sure to jump down on my side where the rug is with the grippy pad under it so she doesn’t slide.

That’s about all that’s going on around here. I don’t update as often because I really don’t have too much to say. This will be a very busy month for N because he has a week of training in FL for the new company on top of working a few extra days for another pilot ( just looked at the calendar and I think he’ll only have 4 days off this month!) . We keep trying to plan a few days home but it never fails that something comes up that keeps us from being able to do it. I’m hoping after everything calms down and we get into Oct we’ll be able to come home during his week off. All these aircraft shuttles back and forth to TX  really kept our schedule messed up in Aug because things were always so last minute. I’ll probably come home for a few days while he’s either working or in FL. I have to make the drive for the first time with Kady sooner or later and I haven’t been home since June and didn’t have much time to visit at all on that short trip.

Dog Beds and Sewing

Kady needed a bed for her crate and they are so expensive to buy from the store and I wanted particular colors and I wanted it to fit into her crate perfectly. I looked around on Etsy.com to see what kind of beds I could find on there and decided it would be really easy to make a couple so I headed to Fabric.com after looking around at the Joanns and Hobby Lobby here in town. I loved these 3 sets of fabric and I could make a bed for each dog. I started sewing Sun afternoon and got 2 of them made. I had already made 1 bed last week with some fabric I had in the house from the curtains I had made in the old house. The fabric is really thin though so I made sure to buy upholstery grade fabric for the new beds.

I used the zig zag fabric for Kady’s crate and she love her new fluffy bed. I used a water proof mattress pad sewn into the top of the bed incase she has an accident it won’t mess up the padding.

 

She’s getting so long and gangly. lol We’ll still be able to use this crate for a while but we might have to upgrade when she’s grown so she still has plenty of room. She loves to go in there and sleep during the day so we leave the door open all the time. And when this dog sleeps, she sleeps HARD!

I made the pink bed with dogs on it for Pooh. N had laughed at me and said that Pooh was never going to sleep on a bed when she could sleep on the sofa but she’s actually slept on it a good bit already so N had to eat his works! LOL She even went in Kady’s crate and slept for 2 hours the other night, that shocked us! Ki goes in there and sleeps a lot and that’s one reason I decided to make the beds for the other girls.

The top and bottom piece all cut out. How adorable is that fabric!

Ki had to break it in too.

While Pooh went and got on Ki’s bed.

Kady’s favorite place to sleep is still in the big bed though! Usually around 8 or 9 if we don’t see her in her crate we can find her in the bed on a pillow. She loves having the stairs so she can walk on up!

Today our neighbor brought their puppy over for a little play date and they had so much fun together. They have played before but Kady has grown a good bit since then so now she knows she’s bigger than Inu, she will throw herself on the grown and let him climb all over here. It was so funny. By 7:30 she had gone and got in the bed and left her little friend all alone! lol

 

We’ve had a boring week off. N was suppose to go to TX again to pick up an aircraft so we didn’t make any weekend plans and then he got a text at 10:30 the night before a 6:30am flight saying not to get on a plane because the aircraft wasn’t ready. Thank God he got that text otherwise he would have just been sitting in TX doing nothing and then they would have sent him back home and nothing would have been accomplished. Now they are planning to send him back out there sometime this week which messes up my plans for going to TN for closing. I was planning to leave the dogs at home and now I have to take them. I’m praying Kady does ok on the 4 hour drive. Yikes. The good new though is we are closing on the house either Wed or Fri, the bank wanted to move the closing up but they were waiting on a piece of paperwork. I don’t care as long as we get the papers signed this week! The buyers have already moved into the house, at least the wife has. Sharon told me that they have a St. Bernard puppy and the puppy is terrified of Hailey because she keeps barking at her and trying to dig under the fence. My first thought was “hm that dog door isn’t going to be big enough for long!”.

Lazy week

Since N got home from TX on Tues we’ve been pretty lazy. N has played a lot of video games and working out and I’ve been reading and going to the gym. Kady is keeping us entertained with all her silliness and Ki and Pooh still act like they hate her most of the time. One day they will be friends, I hope. LOL She’s still doing GREAT with house training. She hasn’t gone in the house in over a week now, hopefully that will continue when we are in a house without a dog door for her to go out of whenever the urge hits. She figured out the steps in the night stand last night! We were getting ready for bed and we didn’t see her, I though N had locked her outside so I went to check while he walked to the bedroom. He said “um come here, I found her” and when I walked into the room she was curled up one the pillow looking at us like “it’s late and I’m tired!” She went up the steps again this morning so Ki’s days of hiding from her on the bed are over! lol Poor baby. We had our neighbors Brian and Jamie over Fri night, they have a puppy that is a Pomeranian something mix, he’s the color of a cattle dog but the size of Barky with the long hair. He and Kady played SO hard for a solid 3 hours. When they left she laid down and passed out. LOL She got me up at 3 to go potty and before I even had the door closed and locked she was back in the bedroom whining to get back in bed (this was before she figured out the steps) then she got up at 7 when she heard N up and wanted to go eat, then she got back in bed and slept til 10! That is super late for her! Usually 8 is about the latest you can keep her in bed before she is just walking all over my head and chewing my hair.

Look at that face!

This one makes me giggle, just imagine Ki screaming “MOOOMMMM she’s BITING ME”.

No idea why Ki decided to go in the crate but Kady was barking at her.

This picture is so weird to me!

Pooh likes to guard her favorite toys so Kady can’t play with them. She flip flops between Hotdog and Hedge hog as her babies.

Maybe one day we’ll be able to get a picture of all 3 of them together!

Prayers answered!

We have an offer on the house!!! I can hardly believe that barely 48 hours after I asked for prayers we have an offer! We countered a few things but it shouldn’t be a big deal and hopefully tomorrow we’ll have everything signed and ready to go! They want to close on Sept 2nd and move in early and I’m ok with that!

Thank you for the prayers and keep them coming that everything goes smoothly!

Some house prayers please.

Our house in Clarksville has been on the market since April 15th. We’ve had very few looks and no offers. We’ve decided that if it doesn’t sell this month we are going it pull it off the market and try to rent it out. That was our last option but the market in Clarksville is really slow right now. If you drive through our old neighborhood it looks like half the houses are for sale. People are trying to get away from the 101st right now and I can’t blame them, we left too. Also it’s been 3 years since most people bought and generally people PCS every 3-5 years unless they request to stay longer or move sooner so it’s time for a turn over. We would LOVE nothing more than to have someone put in an offer this month but if that doesn’t happen we are praying we can find some great renters that will take good care of the house. We knew this was a possibility so we have plenty in savings so that isn’t an issue but I’d much rather keep that money in savings or use it for a nice vacation! As it is we could have taken a very nice vacation with the mortgage and utilities from the past June until now. That’s the risk you take these days I guess but some extra prayers would be really appreciated.

We are doing pretty good. Still adjusting to being together so much. In the army you get lots of practice on living apart but that living together thing is pretty tough too! This has been the longest we’ve lived together since Nicholas was in flight school. Kady is growing like a little weed and more of her personality comes out each day. She’s doing really good with house training and so far we’ve been a few days without any accidents in the house. The dog door is the best thing in the world! She does good walking on a leash but she’s not a huge fan of taking rides yet. I can’t blame the girl, as far as we know her first ride was in the middle of the night and she ended up in a dark alley all alone and her second ride was to the vet. We’re trying to take her on short rides to get her used to being in the car and feeling safe. We had briefly discussed coming home at the end of the month when he’s off again but it depends on how she’s doing in the car. One way or the other she has to get used to them eventually.

Mama and Daddy came to visit last weekend and we had a good time! It was nice to show off the house and area to them. We went to a few cool places shopping and I took them to the farmers market downtown. We also took them out to the hangar so they could see the helicopter that Nicholas flies. Ki and Pooh were very excited to see them and Kady was excited because they were! They did not want her to get any of their attention from the grandparents though! So jealous!!

It’s hard to get everyone looking at the camera! lol

My daylillies have seen better days now. The monster has chewed them to pieces. I’m pretty sure in this picture Pooh is telling her “go ahead, mama lets us in there ALL the time!!”

“Uh oh, oh Hi Mama! Don’t mind us!”

They like to lay under the little table in the corner of the room. Ki lays under there all the time and sometimes Kady will join her.

They are SO funny when they play together. Pooh still doesn’t get in on the fun but Ki will every now and then. She starts breathing hard pretty fast, Red dog needs more cardio. lol

Making this house a little more home.

We went finally went and dug out all the pictures we had hanging in the old house and found places for them in this house. We also added a few new pictures and I just ordered some of the girls from walgreens to frame and I’ll be done.

The den.

I’m going to  put the pictures of the girls in this corner.

The rug by the door says “Hair of the Dog. Help yourself it’s everywhere” so so true.

The door has been painted white now. I should have taken another pictures but didn’t realize this one still had the old door.

The dinning  room.

The kitchen.

We bought a crate for Kady and N set it up this morning and she loves it! We threw some toys in there and left the door open and she’s gone in there to sleep a number of times and we’ve closed the door a few times and it doesn’t seem to bother her a bit. I’m really glad because we were a little worried how how it would be to get her used to the thing. Ki and Pooh have no idea what is going on with it though or why she would WANT to be in there. LOL

N got a great pic of Ki and Kady the other night, no one was growling or barking, very unusual!!

This is how Ki feels about everything these days.

Kady is sitting on the sofa right now barking at Ki and she is so loud. I think Ki hates her a little more every day. Poor Ki.