We might not be around on the blog so much, but when we do make our appearance - we do it in style. Halloween 2011 style, as pictured below with our western themed family members.

"I am not your mom. Wrigley ate your mom."

I am hoping I can find a picture to upload to enhance this wrigley/mackenzie interaction. Mackenzie has recently fallen in love with Barbies and plays with them frequently. Alas, this means that there are often Barbie's laying around our house. And this leaves plenty of opportunity for a certain orally fixated dog to engage in some munching on Barbie. Therefore, we have an overly abundant population of "special need" Barbie's in our car. Barbie's that are missing one or both arms and/or legs. And every time another Barbie suffers a major catastrophe, they are mourned by a certain little girl. Loss of the one and only Ken doll - aka her boyfriend, "Justin Beaver" warranted crying ourselves to sleep one night. However, all Barbies are still loved and played with around here and therefore lead to overhearing the sound byte conversation of one Barbie to another: "hi mom!" "I am not your mom - Wrigley ate your mom. I am your aunt."

sweet feet

a sneak peak at the cute little toes of newest member of our family, set to arrive this winter.

This is specially for Val....

So rewind with me a few monthes back, to spring time preparations.....Grandma Jane decided to try her hand at an Easter egg color schemed tutu. In attempting to perfect the final product, she needed a model.....see photo. The opportunity to march around in a tutu is reminiscent of the classic movie Ace Ventura, as in the touring the mental hospital facility when he plays foot ball with himself, then yells "halftime!" and goes to take a nap on a bench. Parts of that may have been reacted during the tutu finalization......
Fast forward to this past week, when Ace Ventura quotes have been flying around rampatently. Many of the world's problems could be solved simply by quoting good ol' Ace - "if I am not back in 5 minutes.....just wait longer!"

change in domain name??

Introducing Wrigley,
aka Wrigs, Wriggles, Mrs. Wrigglesworth, Wrigley Rue, Damnit NO Wrigley.

We will not be changing the domain name, but it is important to note we have welcomed Wrigley into our family with open arms. Wrigley is a 10 month old pure bred German Shephard and came to us with a unique story.

Solider returns from Middle East in summer of 2010, decides to adopt dog with brother, who he lives with - gets female German Shepherd puppy. Names her Wrigley, due to their allegiance to Cubs baseball. Fast forward a few monthes and brother gets deployed, leaving one brother in college and living college life to tend to well loved and adored Wrigley. However, enough hours in the day do not allow for adequate focus on puppy Wrigley and school studies, so new home was sought. Enter Jamey. We had given some distant thought to getting another dog "someday". Jamey has always loved German Shepherds. We are quite content with Foster and our busy lives, but when email reached me about German Shepherd puppy needing a home - I forwarded it. Jamey and Mac were the first people to call about WRigley and first to go and meet her. And they were smitten with her immediately. Including Mackenzie praying that night for Wrigley to come live at our house. :) Foster and I went to make introductions and Wrigely joined the family. Adjusting to life with a puppy, albeit a large one, is a bit of a challenge, especially because we have become so spoiled by what a mellow, laid back, low maintenance and EASY dog Foster has grown into. Wrigley has most certainly "puppy-ed up" the Fos-man!! We joked about the alpha battle raging upon her entry into the family and too bad she is trying to battle Foster, who is Zeta, the farthest thing from the alpha. Jamey and I are learnign how to deal with the nature of the German Shepherd breed, which is a learning experience. Especially for the cats. And when we introduce Wriggles to the new electric fence (and shock collar) later this week. :) I would be amiss to not point out that the animals in our family now outnumber the people by one. Proof positive we are animal lovers, but we are done for now!!

I do NOT need a reminder about just how long it is has been since I posted anything. Blogger took care of that for all of you when they wouldn't let me in my account due to long period of inactivity. But have no fear, we are back!!! And if you are a facebook friend, you know we are doing just fine around here, simply busy. But the blog, aka digital scrapbook for busy mom, needs to be updated to reflect the current happenings in our family. See above. The other good news is that I am doing really well and enjoying my graduate classes (knock on wood), which are the main interuption to blog service. :)

Happy Halloween 2010

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