RIP Roxy

 On January 18, 2013, Roxanne passed peacefully into doggy heaven to join our other dogs, Herbie and Casey. 

 Roxy was 13 years old.  She had been sick for about 3 months, had lost a lot of weight over the last 6 months.  She was about 35 pounds when she got sick and on the day she passed, she was down to 5 pounds, skin and bones.  The vet felt that since she had lost so much weight, was vomiting occasionally and not really eating much that more then likely it was a form of stomach cancer.  She had stopped eating completely, and we were carrying her up and down the steps because of her arthritis in her hips.  I took her to the vet on Friday morning and the vet agreed that it was her time to go to doggy heaven.

Roxy joined our family in the year 2000.  She was a little itty bitty black Cocker Spaniel with white on her paws, chin and chest.  The kids loved her as she was the first puppy for them. They loved to hold her, but as Kaila will tell you, we didn't want them constantly picking her up, we wanted her to be able to explore her new surroundings.

 Roxy loved to lay on top of things, mostly clothes or anything as long as it was not the floor.  Even on the couch, she had to lay on a blanket.  You would most often find her in one of the kids bedrooms on the clothes they left on the floor!

 Roxy always loved to be outside.  We would often find her sitting in the back yard looking out over everything and making sure things were okay!  We used to call her the Mayor.

 Roxanne loved to go camping with us because she loved being outside.  She used to love to chase the horses outside one of our homes.  

Ethel and Roxy got along well, but Ethel was always the dominate one.  Ethel has been lost the last few days without Roxy.  She seems to be looking for Roxy and follows me around every where.  

Roxy will be missed by all of us, she was a good dog, and I know in doggy heaven she is getting all the treats she wants and has lots of cloths to lay on!

Rest in Peace, Roxanne
12/8/99-1/18/13

Happy 16th Birthday Eddie!!

 Eddie turned 16 on January 6th.  We celebrated early because I had to work that day.

He got an airsoft pistol for Christmas, so this is the target for his brithday.

 For his birthday dinner we went to Red Robin.  Of course we told our waiter that it was his birthday, so they brought him an ice cream sundae and sang to him!

 After dinner, we came home and had chocolate cake with peanut butter icing.

Hard to believe that he is 16!

Happy New Year!

 My goal this year is to keep up my blog a little better then in years past.  Since I have not taken many pictures in 2013 yet, I will post some pictures of Christmas 2012.

We had a great Christmas, even if I had to work on Christmas day.  I have been a nurse for 26 years and this is the first Christmas day I have had to work.  We moved our celebration up one day and had a great one!

This is my Wendall August ornament tree in the living room.  The girls helped me to decorate it.

 Each year, the kids get a new ornament.  I try to get an ornament that relates to something the kids did that year.  Kailas ornament was from her sorority that she joined this year, Kamma, Sigma, Sigma.









Roxy always likes to sit on things, paper, clothes, etc.  I guess she is just to pretty to sit on the floor!

Kellis ornament had her name on it spelled the right way!  It is hard to find any of the kids names spelled correctly!

 Since Eddie did the Jr. ROTC Marine program at school this year, his ornament was the Marine symbol, Semper Fi!

 The finished tree!  The kids did a great job decorating it!

 Ethel is always in the Christmas spirit...NOT!  She hates this hat, but the kids always put it on her!

 Eddie cooked the Christmas Eve steaks and did a great job!

 My three kids, Kelli, Kaila and Eddie!

 Kaila and her new penguin blanket.  The penguin is the mascot of her sorority.

 Kelli and Christmas morning with her IPOD speaker.

 Eddie and his Marines sweatshirt.