hello new week

Sam, Chuy, and I are starting off our new week with a relaxing morning off :) Lounged around, ate some mini sausage biscuits, and dug a hole to China. ALL IN ONE MORNING!!

And here is the culprit licking all the dirt off his nose. His next move from here was a mad dash for the bed, so he could get all the dirt and who knows what else all over my clean sheets... but alas, denied. I've become increasingly smarter about shutting all the bedroom doors!!



After that, we {well I, but they were in bed under the covers} watched Jon and Kate Plus 8 and Trading Spouses. Cleaned up a little because Monday night is poker night for Eric and they usually play here. Did some laundry. And then layed in bed some more, wishing it wasn't so cold!!

And yesterday, Chuy had his second play date with his new girlfriend Lily. I got him all spiffed up in his houndstooth jacket and we borrowed Sam's leather leash and went over to her house! He stayed for about 5 hours, while I was at work, and they said he had so much fun once he stopped sitting by the door waiting for me to come back!!


Miss Lily


and Mr. Chewbacca Michael Simpson-Graves, all dressed up :)


Wellll, it seems that I only have 2 more hours before I go to work so I better go get my work clothes in the dryer and try to squeeze in one more t.v. show!!

Sam's First Snow

When Sam woke me up to go outside this morning- we found a pretty surprise: SNOW! This is Sam's first winter, so I rushed back in to get the camera.






He loved it! Was sniffing around and making mad dashes across the yard trying to figure out what all the white stuff was! So cute :)

But then it was time for us to come back in so I could start getting ready for work. I come back in the room a few minutes later and this is what I see:


Sam getting warmed up under the covers... I love it!

just call me rachel ray

so the french toast i was talking about? mmmm...
step 1:

step 2:

step 3:
{oh yeah, we use paper plates. classy til' the end :)}

and while i was on a roll, i thought i would make the dogs some cookies!
1cup milk
1cup peanut butter
2cups flour
1tbsp baking powder
and then i drizzled honey on them before i baked {350 for 15 min}



they look like that because some are turned upside down, and the honey i put on them before baking- but, hey, my dogs weren't complaining!!


i wasn't fast enough to catch sam!

off to clean the kitchen, shower, movie, then bed. starting tomorrow i work doubles for the next two days and then fri. morning and all day sat and sun. ahhhH!!!

Summer Re-cap

It's starting to get cooler... so I thought I would post some pictures from summer!

Eric playing poker (win me some money!!)

Bath time, Sambo!

Me and my sister after Becca's purse party...


Me, Eric, and Sam in Nevada for Sadie's graduation :)



Kappy and me hanging out down at my mom's store

BBQ at our house.. Sam and Chuy act like we never feed them!!

(I know, it's so messy on the porch!!)

My mom on Mother's Day with the lap quilt that I made for her.

(BY HAND!!!)

The boys taking a nap...

they are so sweet to each other, when they think no one is looking :)

I'm so excited about the cool weather coming. Summer was fun, but I'm so over all the sweating and having to wear my hair up every day.. haha

and I went shopping today- I got Chuy and Sam matching pumpkin t-shirts at Target (only 4.99- you can't beat that!), a new welcome mat that has a skull and crossbones and says "Keep Out", some Halloween garland for the front door (I wanted to put it out there today, but Eric vetoed that idea and said it was too early!), some new flats (note to self: Do NOT leave these shoes on the floor) and a really cute dress from Penny's. It was originally $80.00 but was on sale for $3.97!! Holy crap :)

Here we go...

Halloween is fast approaching, and this year I've decided to get more in to the swing of things... so how to start..hmmm. I went to amazon.com and decided Sam and Chuy needed Halloween costumes. Forget the fact that I'll probably be working that night and have nowhere to take them to show off these costumes, I ordered them anyways. :)

Chuy, I decided, would be a cow. Now since he is a dachshund- I did put the hot dog costume (with ketchup, not mustard!) into my "cart" but decided against as it just seemed to obvious. And Sam...

Well, he was going to be Spiderman. Spider-dog, Spider-dog, does whatever a Spider-dog does. If only I had even LOOKED at sizing charts...

I got Chuy a medium.. which makes him look like a 100 pound waif in her 200 pound boyfriend's t-shirt.. the legs of the cow hit the floor and looks pretty ridiculous. Sam got a large (well, he is quite the fatty mcpatty so...) and it's so big that you can't even see his paws coming out of the sleeves.

I decided to forge ahead and take pictures anyway. It was a disaster!! I had to seperate them, pin them down, get the ill-fitted costumes on and then chase them around trying to snap one decent picture. (Which I will post later, when I find the cord to my camera :))

I'm not going to let this costume fiasco dampen my Halloween spirit- but I will be taking those costumes to my mom's consignment store and hopefully getting some money from them... so I can buy Christmas outfits (it's coming up quick!!!)