Fly Eagles Fly

This is Cole's reaction to the Eagles Fight Song. Can you see a pattern? Ok, I promise I'll stop posting these.

soooo blue!

This is Cole's reaction to my singing Bruises by Chairlift.

This is the longest Christmas ever

Shawn, Cole, and I have been very busy. Cole is a well-travelled dog by now. We all went to my mom's for Christmas Eve dinner. I don't have too many pictures from that night because Shawn and I spent most of the night following Cole around the house to make sure he's not biting furniture or decorations.

Here's Mae with her new toy:

At the end of the night Cole was pooped!

Our Christmas Celebration continued after I got home from work on Christmas Day. We all went to Shawn's parent's home for dinner. Cole had a few accidents in the house, but was pretty good the whole day. He and Sadie (his parent's dog) played a little bit, which was nice to help Cole become more socialized. Cole found Sadie's bed and "fell" into it, have a look.

After work on Friday, Shawn, Cole and I drove to my dad's house for a visit. Cole did very well. He and Murphy (their dog) chased each other around the house. Murph did well to put Cole in his place. Most of their cats avoided Cole except Oreo (Lori's mom's cat). Oreo just stood their while Cole barked at him. Oreo also put Cole in his place. We had a really nice time. Lori made a great egg casserole and baked french toast, it was awesome. This is Cole on the way home from our travel adventures:

We have one more day of Christmas. Adam flies in from Hawaii tomorrow, so we'll probably go over to my mom's to see him and open presents with him. I told you, longest Christmas everrrr.

Let sleeping dogs lie

Here's a very new picture of Cole sleeping half inside his crate and half outside.

Cole barking at a toy

Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear

Cole at 8 weeks old

Sleeping by his dish, he does that a lot
He's so big already! His head is almost as big as mine!

Sleeping pup again

So we picked Cole up on Sunday, December 21. Cole got a little carsick on the way to my mom's house, poor lil guy. He felt a little better by the time we stopped the car and was ready to play.

He's definitely becoming more familiar with his surroundings and with Shawn and I. He'll play for a half hour or so, then nap, then maybe eat and drink before he starts the cycle all over again. We're both working hard on house training him. We think he's getting the idea, at least he only peed on paper in the house twice today as compared to several times yesterday.

He went to the vet today to get his first series of shots. Shawn said he did very well and didn't even yelp when he got the shots.

All in all, so far so good. He's so funny to watch. His paws are way too big for his body so he's always losing his balance and flopping all over the place. It's also cute to see him watch Shawn around the kitchen because he'll cock his head curiously at every move.

I'm taking tons of pictures, so for most of my future posts will just be updated pictures of Cole. It'll be interesting to watch him grow. Shawn researched his growth rate and according to a site online Cole will grow about 10 pounds per month! He's already at 16.8!

Enjoy the pics! More to come.

Here he is...

Here's Cole at 5 weeks old. We had first pick of the 4 males. It was hard to decide because they're all just so darn cute. I narrowed it down to two puppies, the teal collar and the green collar, both puppies were so calm and they just layed in my arms, but the reason I picked the teal collar is because the other one looked cross-eyed. Cole's dad is HUGE at 110 pounds, so Cole has a good chance of being a large dog!

Sorry for the blurry picture (I blame my mom), but here's Cole! It was hard to take pictures because the breeder didn't want us to use flash right in their eyes, so I turned my flash off and the puppies just move too fast. More pictures to follow in three weeks. We pick him up on December 21st.

Holiday Lights

This is somewhat of a bad picture, I haven't mastered taking photos at night yet. Anyway, I wanted to show everyone the lights I put up BY MYSELF. It was quite a project. I had to figure out which extension cord to use where and how to hang a lit wreath on the door. What you see here took me about one week to finish, no lie. I just took my time, one strand at a time. Also, I didn't have a ladder so I had to lasso the tree on the left, it turned out alright. Once the bushes in the front get bigger it'll look better, but for now, it's fine.

Happy Turkey Day!

I spent the holiday at my mom's house. Shawn and his parent's were out of town since I had to work on Friday and Saturday, I wanted to be close to home. Here's Mark, my mom, and Kris making dinner:
Dinner was great although it took only about 10 minutes to eat and about 5-6 hours to cook. oh well.

Hannah took a picture of me so I could at least make an appearance on my blog:

Dinner was ended with Joel and Hannah wrasslin' which is not uncommon. I think Hannah won this round.

That's all. I didn't take a whole bunch of pictures on Thanksgiving, too busy eating.

Plan B

So it's snowing pretty hard right now. And you know how I mentioned that we don't have a snow shovel yet and that I was glad our driveway was clear yesterday??? haha, not anymore. It's covered with snow. Granted it's pretty fluffy snow and I'll probably be able to just sweep it away, it's still kinda hilarious. I was going to hang Christmas lights outside, but I'll probably clean inside.

Here are a couple of pictures of the garland I placed around the house. I started decorating for Christmas as soon as Shawn left!

It's snowing!!! (or at least it was)

We had a little bit of snow on Tuesday evening, but it didn't amount to much. The rest of the snow arrived overnight on Thursday. I woke up to find the whole neighborhood covered in white. The first thing I checked though was to make sure our driveway wasn't covered because we don't have a snow shovel yet, haha. Thank goodness I didn't have to shovel. Here are a few pics I took Thursday evening and Friday morning.

I took this picture and sent it to Shawn, aaawwwww.

Still no luck

I haven't tried very hard to get the pictures of the actual installation of the cabinetry, but I took a few pictures today.
We have so much more room now to store food, in fact all of our food is stored in the large pantry. I'm still getting used to where I moved things, but it's working out well. I also like having a desk in the kitchen too. We wanted a spot in the house where we could put our bills and keep a calendar so we could be more organized.

Hellloooo!

I know, I know, I haven't posted in a while. I have a really good reason though, I swear. Shawn took my camera with him to Las Vegas so for five weeks I couldn't take any pictures. I did buy a new camera battery charger for Shawn's camera, but when I tried to transfer the pictures from his camera to my computer it didn't work. It didn't even work on Shawn's computer. So when I figure how to the pics from his camera, I'll post them. I took a lot of pictures of when Mark and John installed our new pantry and desk. The cabinetry is complete now and Shawn was very surprised that I actually worked on it when he was gone.

In exactly two weeks I'll be choosing our puppy! There are four males to choose from, so we're not sure which one will be ours, but here is a picture of one of the puppies at one-and-a-half weeks old: How cute! btw, it's a German Shepherd.

Ok, I'll be working on the pictures of the cabinetry.

It's been awhile

I haven't blogged in a while and I feel bad about it. Sorry to the hundreds of fans I have out there. haha. I'll try to keep it more updated as best as I can.

Anyway, about 2 weeks ago Shawn and I dog sat for a woman I work with. She has a pit bull mix named Maddie. Maddie was such a good dog and it took her only about 5 minutes to tear that toy apart.

The friday of that same weekend my mom and I went shopping at the Hershey outlets. We got some great deals and I started Christmas shopping already! I also bought Shawn's birthday gift, see for yourself:

I gave him an Eagles jersey!! And that weekend they actually won!

Next to come...update on the new kitchen cabinetry!

There's a first for everything

Shawn has drill this weekend so I'm just chilling today. I thought since the rained has cleared for a little while, I would cut the lawn. This was the first time ever I was going to cut our lawn with our riding mower. I actually had a pretty good time. It was nice to see the lawn freshly cut, it made the house look nice. Anyway, here's a picture of my handywork.

Looks nice, huh? Well look a little closer.

A little closer yet...

Do you see it?

Here it is! I know it's gross. Well, while I was cutting the lawn, occasionally the mower would make a different sound then spew out a huge hunk of cut grass. That's what I though happened when I was cutting the front lawn, but instead I chopped a mommy rabbit in half. I started to tear up especially when I saw her baby run away. I can't believe I didn't see them sitting there, I feel horrible! I had to leave it on the front yard because I didn't want to touch it.

There were some pieces of fur in the grass.

The Fluffy Kittens!

Haha, Megan "stretching"

Amanda in the outfield looking a little nervous.

Goody hosts a wiffleball tourney every year, so this year the girls wanted in! A whole day of eating and drinking, you just can't go wrong. Plus all of the proceeds went to Relay for Life. Newbie, Jess, Amanda, Meg, and I formed a wiffleball team and we named our team the Fluffy Kittens. I love the name because it's so girly and we were the only girl team in the tournament. We were the most "losingest" team, but we felt we were improving towards the end. I think next year we'll having a good chance to win a game.

After the game, we decided to have a wife race. Even though Hainley and Goody aren't married, Goody carried Hainley on his back for the race. Everything started pretty well, Shawn and I were in first. then everything went completely wrong. Not far into the race, my legs gave out and were just left dangling there and then my arms got tired and we went down! Megan and Neal weren't far behind us.

All in all, we had a fun day spent with our friends. Looking forward to next year's tourney.