A Friday Funny

My friend Bronwyn forwarded this video to me and I thought it was too cute not to share.


Happy Friday!

Dog Days

The McHusband and I are taking Morgan and Tucker downtown tomorrow for the K9 3k Dog Walk benefitting the SPCA. Morgan and I did it last year and had a great time so the whole family's going back this year.

The weather's supposed to be beautiful tomorrow so I'm looking forward to being outside without it meaning yardwork or bathing the dogs (although that may happen too).

If anyone feels so inclined, our team is still accepting donations. Let me know if you're looking for a tax deduction, and I'll get you the info.

It's raining

Wanna know how I know? I took the dogs on our long walk tonight and about halfway through, when I'm almost as far from home as I can get, it starts raining. Not a drizzle, not a downpour, but enough to get us all more than sufficiently wet. I can't photograph wet dog smell, but I think most of you can imagine it. I hope I smelled better than that, but I sure didn't look much better.

Happy Belated Easter Part II

Bri had my mom, Shannon, and Owen over for an Easter lunch this past Saturday.

Owen and Lyla got Easter baskets, of course. While Owen was distracted, Lyla decided to check out his basket.

"Hey, Owen, what's your elephant looking at?"

"Ha ha, I knew he'd fall for it!"


"Okay, you got me!"

My mom had gotten bunny ears for each of the babies. Lyla doesn't like to wear things on her head so it was no surprise that she wasn't exactly cooperative.

Owen didn't seem to mind having the ears on.

Looks like Lyla's favorite part of her Easter basket was part of the wrapping. Isn't that how it always works out?

Later, Owen borrowed Lyla's scooter. Things were cool at first - Lyla showed Owen some of her favorite things.

I don't know what happened next, but Lyla didn't take it well.

Wish I could've been there!

Happy Belated Easter Part I

Chase spent time in Charlotte last weekend so that Kevin and Jenny could celebrate their anniversary sans baby. I told Jenny that I admire how she and Kevin make "them time" such a priority, and I gave her the go-ahead to bonk me over the head when the McHusband and I have a baby and are in need of "us time" but not taking it.

Grammie pulled out some of those plastic Easter eggs, and Chase had a ball with them.


In case there was any doubt about how he was feeling, here's a close-up.


Wait until he's a little older and can appreciate that most of the time those plastic Easter eggs = candy.

Workin' on the car

The other night, the McHusband called me in the house from the garage. He wanted me to come out and take a picture of Tucker, who had decided he was tired of wandering around the garage and would just lay next to his daddy while he worked on the Cobra.


He sat up after he heard me take the first picture, but I was able to get one more.


Tucker has a long history of helping out in the garage.


"Hey, Dad, which size socket did you need?"


All that work sure makes a puppy tired.

Trip to VA

I spent Easter weekend in Virginia visiting my friend Bronwyn and her family - husband Mike, son Gavin, and mom Kathy. I wasn't the only one taking advantage of the long weekend - her brother Kristian was there as were Mike's brother and his wife. Luckily, they only had to make room for Kristian and me and, unfortunately for Kristian, I got the only spare bed in the house.

Oh, and you know what's funny? All of us visitors live within about 30 to 40 minutes of each other here in the Raleigh area. We should've just caravanned up there like a military convoy.

Gavin is 18 months old and he's all over the place now. Between him and the three dogs, there's rarely a moment of stillness to be had.

Here's Gavin with one of his favorite toys. It makes lots of noise and seems much louder at 7 in the morning than it did at 7 in the evening.

You might notice the shiner on his forehead. Gavin learned a tough lesson about gravity while I was up there when he fell down some of the stairs. It might've been his first lesson about the forces of the universe, but it definitely won't be his last. Wait until he runs into love - now THAT will leave a mark.

You know what else is funny? Gavin had his mom, Kristian who works for child services, and me, a washed-up semi-professional babysitter hanging out with him, and he STILL managed to fall down the stairs.

As you can see, he recovered quickly.

He was totally flirting with me. :)

What a happy boy.

I think Gavin was absorbing energy from the rest of us, especially Uncle Kristian, who was able to not only fall asleep in the middle of everything, but fell so deeply asleep that he was snoring.

I had a great time with everyone up there and am already looking forward to our next visit, hopefully before they move to Kentucky (fingers crossed for you, Mike!).