Happy Halloween!

This is Chugs Halloween 'thing' it is a devil, you can't see the little tail behind her head, it has two eyes and black horns.

I learned today that all the neighborhood kids call our house 'Chugs house' guess we know who the queen over here is!!!

Some dog pics....

Here are some more dog pictures, they love to curl up on me, it's fun to see how they try to get comfortable on my small lap!

First Snow Day...

Well we woke up to a bunch of snow! and the dogs love it (J too!)! The first one is our favorite:



Check out the fence:

Two Emergengy Visits...

That's right, luckily only one of those was me! I had to go to the hospital early friday morning and got out today, so so grateful I could go home so quick, I really dislike being there, especially in ICU with so many wires attached to you. So who you ask had the other emergency visit??? it was Texas, poor girl has had it rough since getting her shots, and of all the days, Jeremy had to take her in Friday night while I was in the hospital! So why did Texas have to go? I'll tell you, we asked some friends (they have two dogs) to feed the dogs and take them outside while we were gone since we knew J would be gone all day with me, J got home around 7pm and just kept saying how Texas didn't seem like herself and by 8pm it was a little worse, he tried to give her a belly rub and she just kinda whined and tried nipping him, and she was not energetic or happy and if you know Texas you know that's not her (she is half beagle) so he took her in, I was asking him over the phone if it was absolutely necessary, I just hate those after hour vet prices! but she is our little baby and I hate to see her suffer, well turns out that her problem was.....she ate too much! That's right she ate too much, her belly was huge and she was in pain from too much food! In a way you are relieved because it's nothing big but in another way we paid way to much to find that out! I'm thinkin' I should really look into doggie insurance. So I'm kinda mad at the people who took care of our dogs during the day and feed them! I mean they must have feed her 3 or 4 scoops, J said that Chugs bowl (which we have to have on the coffee table out of reach of Texas) was full and that's fine because Chugs won't over eat! it makes me wonder what went on like did Texas eat hers up so fast (like she always does) and so they thought she was really hungry and feed her more? Texas always acts like a pig, doesn't mean you have to feed her like one! Should I send them the vet bill? it's a little our fault too since J said to feed them and then didn't specify only one scoop! and their dogs are overweight so we should have known! Just makes me mad because we didn't have the money.

Okay enough of that, we are all doing good here, Texas is herself again, finally!!!! Here are some random pictures:

Chugs looking over our shoulder...


Hoping to get a bite of this...

This isn't true but I titled it 'time-out'..haha

Okay so why did I have to go to the hospital? Well at 4am I starting having a major episode of hemoptysis, it was enough that we felt like we should go in because if it happened again I would need to be intubated and taken to surgery. I did not have another episode and therefore was able to get the dr.'s to let me go right from the ICU!!!!

Hair Again...

So remember when I got my haircut, I posted pictures but it didn't look like I had really gotten a cut because I had flat ironed it, so here are some pictures that look better, plus ever since I got the cut the back has been bugging me, I really hate when the back is a little longer than the sides and also it had some 'bulk' and uneven pieces that drive me nuts! Well I know I have talent and can cut really great, but my own? Oh well, whatever! I CUT MY OWN HAIR! and if I do say so myself it turned out just like I wanted, now I am pleased with my hair, and to top it off I added highlights just one hour before we went to our anniversary dinner! I'm so glad they turned out and looked good! So here are pictures of the back of my hair and the highlights.

With Chugs...

With Texas...

The Park...

I love going to the park on sunday with the dogs it's so peaceful just sitting there thinking....

watching the dogs run around...


I need to practice action shots with the camera I didn't do it right...


And here I am with my doggies:)

Anniversary Dinner...

WOW! What an amazing dinner! We went to Ruth's Chris Steak House so delicious! We have never been to a restaurant this fancy before, and the only reason we were there is because some really really nice friends paid for us to go!

I don't know if it was because of the blog or because the food was so 'presentable' but we took a picture of everything before we ate it! Actually J had to remind me a couple times to take a picture because I just wanted to dig right in!!!!

Appetizer was: Seared Ahi Tuna and Barbecue Shrimp



Salads... I liked J's more, wonder why???? (oh, mine is the first one)


I had the Fillet, Oscar-style (with asparagus, crab cake, hollandaise sauce)

J had the Cowboy-Ribeye, also Oscar-style...

Dessert: Berries and Cream, Berries and Cheesecake


I also had some Broccoli on the side, guess we missed a picture of the loaded baked potato and our alcohol-free margarita!


Also the 'take-home' came in a cute bag!

Love My Sister....

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!This one is perfect! Love the Alamo in the background!

Our Anniversary...

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!This is what we did on for our 5th wedding anniversary. Look at us go!

Update on Texas....

She came home last night and was much better, she will take benedryl every 8 hrs. today and some other pill for a week! When we went to bed I didn't want to stick her in her pen alone and so she went to bed with us but was very restless and still itching so I was worried about her and also me because I really wanted to go to sleep! But I couldn't just stick her in the other room and forget about her! Finally she setteled down and was fine the rest of the night (or at least I think so, I slept fine!) Today she is doing good, almost back to her old self.

Well today is our 5th anniversary!!!!! I need to go get ready for dinner, I'll post about it tomorrow:)

Not Texas' Day...

Today was our day of errands, my husband had off for 'fall break' and so we wanted to get in all the errands we never get done, like oil change, Sally's (beauty supply), and I needed to get an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test, anyone whose had that just groaned.

I start off with that one since lets face it you have to be fasting so it's number one, well we get started late because I want to let my husband sleep in and then slowly get ready for the day! We didn't get there until 11:30!!!! then they had to reach my Dr. to find out which one they wanted the 2hr. one or the all day one, luckily the 2hr. one, which was fine I had other errands to run...no.....you have to wait there for 2hrs.! because if you move around your metabolism goes faster and your sugars will go down faster. Bummer, fine I've been needing to do this test for, okay a year! so I want to do it, but then I check my oxygen tank and I really don't think I have 2hrs left! so I decide to just get the blood work they need and come back another day (yipee for me!).

We go to the bank, lunch (it's now 12:30 and I've had nothing) at Jason's Deli (have you ever eaten there? it's good) stopped at Sally's so I could get stuff to highlight my hair (they had a $1 off coupon and so it was only $2 can't beat that!), then home for treatments and to grab the dog because she is due for shots.

I convince J that we should only take Texas since she is the one that needs the shots and yes Chugs will be sad but it will be so much easier with just Texas, he does what I ask, we get her shots and head off to the oil change place and down the street one block is Petco so I thought that will be good we can hang out there while we get the oil changed. J wanted to drop me off and then go to the oil place but I told him I could walk, and I did!!!! it just took awhile and I was a little tired, about half-way there was a bookstore and my husband wanted to go in so I stayed outside with the dog, doing fine, doing fine, then she starts throwing up! and it was a lot! I go open the door and yell for J (nicely) she throws up more, some people come out and are disgusted by it wondering if I'm going to clean it up (okay they did volunteer to go get some paper towels) I yell for J again (the first time he thought I was just telling him to hurry up, I told him, if I yell for you it's important!) he comes out and by this time Texas had thrown up a little more!!!!

And this lady in a purple shirt keeps talking to me and since I'm hard of hearing I don't get what she keeps saying to me, I sit on the curb and I thought she was asking why I'm touching the dog with my hands when I have breathing problems! But she got closer and was telling me to put both hands on the dog and not move them around and that my energy would go to her and make her better! Oh, Okay!?!?!?! I just said okay thanks! (in my mind, go away! go away!) she finally went away and J was able to clean up the mess, but then I got worried because Texas had laid down and I got up and said 'let's go get Dad' and usually she will get up all excited, she didn't! So J carried her to Petco (at least we were indoors, it wasn't too hot out but hot) and then called the vet place back, they said to bring her in she is having a reaction, we walk back to the oil place and I am so out of breath by then but its not about me it's about getting the dog back to the vet, luckily our car is ready!

We get to the vet and Texas just lays in our arms not responsive really, they give her a steroid shot and we have to wait for twenty mins. after ten mins. we see an improvement she's moving her head to sounds again and then she was looking around and looking at me when I talked, then she got down and started sniffing and walking around, jumping up on us again, yep, back to herself, oh the funniest thing on the way home.....we get behind this small gas truck and she starts to growl! a very low growl but long and a little loud! When we had to stop and got closer her growl became louder and longer! Weird!?!

Got home, blah, blah, blah, after half an hour or so we are on the sofa and Texas starts to get jumpy and darts off down the hallway, I follow because it looks like trouble! she then sits in front of our bedroom door! What do you want in there I ask her because Dad is in the living room, I open the door and she jumps on the bed and lays down, how cute:) and then she trys to go under the covers, even cuter!:) and then she rolls around, oh you're just itchy!!! so I get her out of the bedroom, we go back to the living room and she jumps back on the sofa, I'm telling J and he's looking at her head and then I say 'her eyes don't look right' and there are bumps on her head! she had the hives and her eyes and lips are getting puffy, so sad, J starts freaking out, he's worried about her airways (he's a medical guy remember this is what hits him) so we are running for the car, filling up my oxygen, calling the vet, on the way they tell him just to give Texas baby benedryl and see how she is in 20 mins. good thing we hadn't passed Wal-mart yet! So we got that came home and waited, the big bumps looked like they went down some but the swelling looked a little worse and she started to shake and do a little jerking thing, so off J went to take her in. I had to stay home because I am so worn out from all the errands (I mean usually my day is sitting on the sofa!) and I had treatments again, I just couldn't go, you don't know how long you will be there and I have oxygen and IV's. The only thing I'm worried about is of course Texas and how are we going to pay? last time we had an emergency thing it was a couple hundred! since we were just in there and paid in full you think they will start a tab for us?

Please pray for Texas....am I a bad Mom for taking pictures or a good blogger for taking pictures?

My baby all swollen...



Update 10pm: Texas has been at the vets (emergency since it is after hours) for almost 4 hrs. now they gave her two shots of benedryl and have been watching her, J just left to go pick her up, yep it will be a couple hundred. You know they do sell doggie insurance!

Chugs

I've done a post on my dog Texas and now it is time for Chugs, she is a Chihuahua/Pug mix, here is her story: my husband's brother bought her because his then girlfriend thought she was really cute (and she was, she was soooo little!) then he moved in with his parents (and we lived in the basement at the time) so then Chugs became the family dog, then he went away for the summer to sell alarm systems and my husbands parents moved out of state so Chugs was all ours for the summer and I grew even more attached to her but most importantly this is her home and her neighborhood! she also loves her little sister Texas and doesn't play with any other dogs but her sister! she jumps the fence in the backyard and roams the neighboorhood whenever she wants, we wanted to try the electric shock collar to try and stop her from jumping the fence, but she doesn't weigh enough!!!! It's okay she always comes back! Anyways, she is such a loving dog and is always right there with you as you will see in the pictures, she loves my husband soooo much, I think he is the one she loves most, when he is gone she is so sad, and if its overnight she actually sleeps facing the door! We just love her!
Loves to help J study!

Loves her 'sister' Texas

I call this picture 'Chugs Praying'

In her cute sweater! (just for the record I did not buy her this sweater!)

Chugs hates the water but loves J so she followed him out there but it was getting deeper and colder and so she decided to come back to me!

Loving me because J is gone!

Helping J study

I just love this one, her expression is so cute!!

This is where she is at (if she's not on our lap) when we are on the computer

She knows how to hold the spoon still to lick the PB off it!

Always holds her treats and bones with both paws!

Has the art of begging down!!!!

Is always snuggled on you or next to you on the sofa:



To end with a video, we think she's half cat too, she loves to play with toys and bones upside down like this, too cute.