Big time wrestling

All in a day at our house! Daisy always wins but Ahi puts up a good fight.

What could have been.

Conversation between Gracie and I:

Grace: "Mom, come here."

Me: "What?"

Grace: "You gotta see this."

I follow her and she points out what I see in these pics.

Grace: "Look at Ahi. She is livin' the dream...."

Sure enough, Ahi is living the Chiweenie dream! I leaned down and told Ahi, "I told you that you had won the doggie jackpot when you came home with us.....if it weren't for us, you'd be deader than a doorknob".

Lucky for Ahi, she doesn't understand what I am saying or it would have ruined her moment of "livin' the dream"!

Trapped!

This happened last week and I almost forgot to blog about it:

I ran out to get a newspaper at about 6:45 am. Ahi heard me grab my keys and came running to go with me. We jump in the truck and off we go. I pull up right in front of the grocery store, hop out of the truck and get a newspaper from the machine. I walk back to the truck - which is running - and try to open the door. Ahi is inside and has pressed the lock button locking herself in the running truck in the emergency lane outside the grocery store!! And my phone is in the truck with her.

Luckily the grocery store was open and I borrowed their phone. Here is the call I made:

Jim: Hello
Chris: Hi! Would you care to run up to the store with my extra set of keys and rescue a very worried chiweenie who has locked herself in my truck that is running????
Jim: ha ha ha ha ha ha.....I will be right there!

That chiweenie cracks us up!

Turkey Trot

I have always wanted to do a "turkey trot", only because the name makes me giggle! Well, I finally got my opportunity. I did the turkey trot yesterday at work and was lucky enough to come in first place. And it was a real win because most of the folks took a short cut and I did the whole route! Lots of drama about the shortcut! The best part is I won a pair of shoes from a local running store.

Girls weekend - Cabin

I went on a girls weekend with 6 girlfriends this last weekend. It was our book club meeting for this month. We covered the book in about 5 minutes while eating lunch on our way up to the cabin. Then it was just all rest and relaxation.

It had to be the best girls weekend of all time. Not because it was wild and crazy but because it was totally restful. I literally did everything I love to do to relax:

* read a whole book (The Honeymoon by James Patterson)
* played games
* hiked
* kayaked
* walked my dog
* ate yummy mexican food

I did not bring Ahi with me. I am sure she was distraught at first but she got over it. When I got home, she was pretty happy to see me. But while I was holding her, she looked down at Daisy Mae and got all fired up! She was even happier to see Daisy!!!

Presidential Dog?

This is one of the dogs that is being hailed as a possible hypo allergenic first dog for the Obama family. It is a Peruvian Hairless Dog. This is exactly what Ahi would look like without hair! She is such a trend setter!

Tug -O- War

The two dogs are getting along well. This weekend they played a rousing game of tug-o-war! Ahi was flung all over the room!

Thank You!

As most of you know, Tina and Marty were our day care providers for 12 years. They recently closed up their daycare business to start a new catering and personal chef business. A few of the families they provided care for started talking about how to thank them....we decided to do a surprise party which occured on Saturday nite. Sixty eight people came - one family came from Colorado - to honor and thank the people who helped raise our kids. This picture shows the kids who came to the party. These kids are lucky to have such wonderful adults in their lives!

Thank you Tina and Marty for helping us raise our kids! We could not have done it without you!

Play by Play

Here are the text messages I got from Jim on Saturday nite while he was watching Gracie's very 1st hockey game. Gracie played goalie on an all girls team and they played against an all boys team. I was at a party.

6:06 - 3 to 3
6:13 - 4 to 3 girls
6:14 - start of 3rd period
6:18 - woo hoo 6 to 3 girls
6:26 - grace making save after save
6:27 - 4 min left
6:27 - Doh 6 to 4
6:30 - shit 6 to 5
6:30 - aaaagh 6 to 6
6:31 - Doh 7 to 6 boys
6:32 - stupid boys

Soccer

We had 6 soccer games and 2 hockey games this weekend! Talk about being overscheduled!

These are some pics from Drew's game this weekend. They played at a local high school on a turf field which is a cool experience for them.

Drew made the only score for his team in this game....and he made it off his face -- not his head -- his face! It rebounded off the goalie and another player then hit him in the face and went in the goal. Way to be in the right spot!!!!

He is the closest one in blue in the pic with the refs, the one on the left in the pic going full speed towards the goal and the one trapping the ball in the last pic.

Soccer Jamboree

Gracie's team had their soccer Jamboree this weekend. Her team game in second place against the very big, very fast, very strong Sharks. They played great and should be very proud.

Dollhouse

Gracie donated her giant wood dollhouse to Amelia and Amelia LOVES it. Here she is putting all her princesses to bed. She particulary likes the benk bed which travels with her most of the places she goes.

She was quite alarmed with the Dad that came with the dollhouse as he only had one arm! Daisy Mae chewed the other arm off! So now the dollhouse only houses princesses.

Pilates

I have been taking Pilates at lunchtime on Wednesdays for about 6 weeks now. I really like it as an addition to my workout. I feel a lot stronger and more toned. Although there are some regulars, most people seem to come and go in the class. I assume that folks don't come back because it is hard work and if you are not in, at least, decent shape, you could be really miserable.

Today there was a lady next to me that I am pretty sure won't be coming back....ever! She moaned thru the whole class! Like she was having a baby! It was so ridiculous that I was almost giggling! She was completely out of her element!

Love...

After spending all day on Sunday with his cousins, Drew proclaimed, out of the blue: "I love Sam and Jack!". Gotta love a teenage boy who can express his emotions.

Pile of cousins....

Sam and Jack were over this weekend and there was a big wrestling match! That is all 4 cousins in that pile! Mimi was home with mommy and daddy.

Assume the position....

Ahi has gotten right into the habit of laying in the window in the sun! Great views of the action in the neighborhood.

Beauty Queen?

Drew said the funniest thing the other day. It made me laugh so hard that I had to share.

He was all in a tizzy about something ridiculous and was starting to take his frustrations out on Grace. He walked by her and pretended to elbow her while she was sitting at the counter peacefully eating her breakfast. I was sitting right across from her, saw it and told him that it was unacceptable and not necessary to do that.

He walked away and denied he had done anything and then started ranting and raving about how we treat Gracie better then him and that we treat her "like a beauty queen"! I almost spit out my breakfast laughing so hard. Gracie started giggling too! Beauty queen?????? Gracie????? Has he never looked at her before????

I looked at Gracie and said, "you could look like a beauty queen if you wanted to but most of the time, we are lucky if you hair is combed and your face is clean!" She laughed and agreed!"

That has got to be the most off base thing Drew has ever come up with.....we treat Gracie like a beauty queen? Yep....that is what we are doing when we tell her not to beat up her brother, knock down her soccer opponents, wrestle with her brothers friends or fall out of trees!

Ahi Baby

Gracie loves having a little dog to carry around. Not sure Ahi likes it so much!

Honestly, I can't believe this is the same dog that would not come out of her crate 2 1/2 weeks ago. She is a lively little bugger who is acting more and more like a puppy.

Carving

The kids carved their pumpkins last nite... They turned out cute!

Friends?

The dogs are getting along well....

The only thing is that Daisy wants to play too rough and it freaks Ahi out!