Meet Tyson

He's our new to us 13 month old boxer pup. Though he is nearly as tall as my waist so i'm not sure how much i can call him a pup. One of hubby's co-workers said his sister was looking to re home him free. She is divorcing her army husband who is getting a dishonorable discharge. idk why and its none of my business. Anyway she doesnt wanna move 3 kids and a puppy so we are fortunate enough to get him. He's really sweet and doesnt jump thankfully. Even my little Pomeranian likes him until Tyson gets near his peanut butter bone then Duke gets a bit nasty with him. Which in turn makes Tyson sit there and cry and cry and cry so hubby will be going back to the toy store and getting Tyson his own peanut butter bone :)

I know I have been absent

I know I have been absent but I haven't been in the mood to craft anything. Plus now I am sick thanks to my sister Heather. She visited this weekend on her way to Las Vegas NM to hand her son over to his father who gets him for 2 weeks and in two weeks she will stop here again. But this past weekend she asked if I would watch my 4 month old niece for the day while she handed her son over. Little did I realize my poor niece had a nasty head cold and so it was passed on to me to which Sunday morning i already had symptoms and by Monday morning I felt like hell on earth.

Then to add to my misery I had pain in my back left tooth. Luckily the dentist pulled it this morning and so I am much better to that too.

Oh and the best part yet is my FIL messaged me on FB saying we should get an envelope today and to use it well. SO I was like ok thanks. Then he threw himself a pity party because his son my DH is too busy to call him. SO I asked why don't you (FIL) call your son (my DH) to which he is the dad and has done his time! OMG he thinks raising his son was a prison sentence!!!! I was so pissed!!! Then he tried to say my DH was a leach because we sent him an xmas gift list that my FIL had ASKED us too!!! And I had put on there that they are only getting the list because he wanted it because we did not expect one thing from them!! 

Anyway, needless to say I am no longer speaking to him! What a fucking asshole!!! Sorry for my language.

Grass and a pumpkin update

Here is my kitty as of last night. I already know I want to finish it like the one in the picture but different fabric of course. :)

Finally our grass was delivered and DH has been busting his butt getting it put in just right! After he got about half of the yard done yesterday the girls and the boys just couldn't resist and had to go play in it!

Today he is installing more of it and then tomorrow it will be finished off. Its called Kentucky bluegrass which stays green all year long! Yes you see Zeus with his leash on as the truck that delivered the grass couldnt fit through our double gates so the 2 1/2 pallets were left in the open doorway! Zeus had to be put on a leash or he would have run for it lol. Duke is my good boy and stays by my side mainly as he is a momma's boy. Well i'm off to make dinner and then i'm going to try and finish my pumpkin piece. :-)

Is anybody out there?

I had such a long day today and it all started out good till DH came home in one of his moods. So i did what I could and took off to check on the pups. Here's Zeus chilling in the outside chair. Please ignore the beer boxes. They were put out there to go into the trash but somehow the can ended up out front and these stayed out back. I'll go clean them up tomorrow.

Even Duke got bored waiting for me to put down my camera and play with him.

But then he gave me a smile err i guess you could call it one.

Yes Duke is standing in my planters and with all of my plants in cups and containers. Why you ask? Because my DH said he wants to make hills and stuff thru the planters so it looks "decorative" and really I couldn't give a rats butt. The dogs are eating on the cups and tipping over plants and I am losing my patience with him. So if he leaves next month on his training thing and they still aren't in the ground. I'm putting them in it without the "decorative hills" 

So anyway enough of my rant. I came inside and fed my kids a bowl of Potato soup for dinner and found Zeus looking depressed as I feel.

And i have no idea why Destiny's apron is upon my floor. I told her to put it away.....

OH! Did i mention DH got pissed enough that he broke yet another laptop tonight??? Now miss Destiny must lose her desktop to him so he can have a computer. 

Stitching and a long weekend!

Alrighty here is the piece I was stitching on these last few weeks. Its a small kit that was given to me. Its slow going just because I just don't feel like stitching, period.

But I did fall in love with this adorable black and white Pomeranian at the local shelter here so he just had to come home with me. His name is Duke and he is 7 months old. He was fixed the day before so he had to have the cone on his head till Friday.He was an owner surrender because she decided she didn't have the time to potty train him. 

Even the boys are getting along here they are napping together :)

So this weekend we went to my mom's place to visit. We got stuck in Friday nights traffic through Denver so it was a VERY long drive But I found out that my Uncle Rodney was visiting, he lives in Michigan and the last time i saw him was in Oregon when Destiny was just a baby. 

We got to play with the nephews:

Visit with my sisters:

And Kiley even got my Uncle Rodney to read her a Tinkerbell story:

And we even went shopping in Fort Collins and ran into some dark clouds as there was a tornado warning in Pueblo and we were getting the strong winds. But we all made it home safely.

And here is a photo of myself, Duke, and Kiley on the way home. Duke was asleep here so cute!

Here is Duke this morning after his bath. He needed one badly and i knew he would feel better. He is still wet in this photo. He jumped into Destiny's clean laundry and just looked too cute to not take a picture.