Happy Birthday Dan!

Yesterday marked 29 years ago that the most wonderful man was born. This weekend we had a fun family filled celebration with lots of good food and conversation. 

I hope that your birthday was as special as you are Daniel! Thank you to everyone who made his birthday so special, we love you all!

The Perils of a Digging Dog

How can we get mad at such a cute little face like this?  Our new dog Buddy is such a sweet and loving dog, but he has one problem.  He's a digger.  Now the good thing is he's not trying to dig out of the yard, but we come home to holes around the side of the house every day.  

So I Googled what to do about a digging dog and we are going to try a couple of solutions.  We don't mind him digging a small hole to lay in since it's much cooler, but the hole is starting to get deeper and that's just not cool.  So we bought some chicken wire to put down so that he can't dig too deep.  We are also going to try to put some small balloons in other places and see if the pop scares him from digging.  If only we had a hidden camera to see his reaction!

We decided to treat the babies to a special treat, so we picked up a couple of beef rib bones at the grocery store today. Spoiled mutts! :)

Buddy Boy

Happy Mother's Day weekend! I not only have a spectacular mother and grandmother, but now a wonderful mother in law as well!  All of these ladies are an important part of our lives and we love them dearly. :)

Today also marks 9 months that Daniel and I have been married. What a great time it has been so far.

Yesterday we adopted a new dog!  A couple of weeks ago we went to the animal shelter to look at a dog we saw online.  We saw him and his cage mate and we really liked them both.  Since Daniel had to be out for work all the next week, we knew we couldn't take a dog home that day.  So we decided that we would check back in a couple of weeks and if one of them was still there then they were meant to be.  

So off we go to the shelter again and one of the dogs was gone, but the other one was still there. And to make it even better he was only $12 to adopt!  So we brought him home!  His name is Buddy and he is a mutt, and a sweet one at that!

Love!

I had to add a picture of the pretty roses!

Buddy!

They love to play with each other.

Alice: "I'll show you my teeth!"

Buddy: "I'll show you MY teeth!"

Sweet boy!

Cotton Gin Museum

Last Saturday Daniel and I had a date.  We went to the Burton Cotton Gin Museum.  That's right, a cotton gin museum.  Now it's not the most romantic of date locations, but I did have a good time!  Last Christmas I made Daniel a whole year's worth of dates in envelopes.  So each month has something fun we can do together that he opens up at the beginning of each month.  For April I decided to do something more geared to something he would like and found this museum.  

http://mymixofsix.blogspot.com/2009/12/husband-gift-idea.html This is where I got the idea for the date night envelopes, although mine are not as fancy as hers! 

I gotta say, I learned more about cotton than I ever knew!  If you're up for visiting a teeny tiny town with a very scenic drive, then Burton is the place to be.  

This part separated the fiber from the seeds

A finished bale of cotton