Dont you just wanna cuddle up with him?

Well you know after the 2 last puppy fiascos we had decided that we were not going to get a dog, that we had had enough of crazy, deranged puppies lol but then we saw this little guy.....omg he is the most adorable chocolate lab pup! and well lets just say in about 6 1/2 weeks he will be coming home with us! The mama dog is such an awesome dog!

psycho dog..the Norman Bates of the dog world!!! LOL

Meet Shade...a 6 mos old husky cross......beautiful dog...that is lol until you get to know the real psycho lurking inside that mind of his.......well you know the first puppy we got did not work out at all...it was trouble from the start lol so we decided that we would try to adopt an older dog from a shelter to give one a second chance.....man were we in for a major nightmare of a surprise...........

you see this innocent looking dog was a massive freak when it came to his crate and had severe food aggression and obsessions and if you think I am kidding here is what the crate looked like by tuesday morning.......................

This was an almost new crate when we put him in it.

I ended up blocking him in with a piece of plywood and jamming an empty cat litter container behind it and I thought for sure he wouldnt be able to move it and get back out after I fixed the front of the kennel as best as I could as I had to head to work and he can not be left alone in the house even for one minute...............think I am kidding?? take a look at some of the damage he caused before I shipped his butt back to the shelter and filled them in on just how dangerous his behavior was becoming.

All of the window sills in the livingroom and kitchen and laundry room have been chewed and now all need to be replaced.

He was only able to destroy half of one of the curtain panels before my other half walked into this disaster!


This is our livingroom window..minus the curtains and as you can see the completely damaged curtain rods and if you will notice that the screen that belongs in the far left window is sitting behind the wooden shelf thing because he removed it from the window and you cant really see it in this picture but he had tried to remove the 2nd screen as there is a big tooth hole in it

Here are the curtains that should be hanging in the living room window and that angel? well lets just say she had an unplained labotamy if you will notice in the picture below..he ate the top of her head and ripped off her star and halo

This chair used to be in very good condition that is until he was in the crate for the first time and slammed the crate so hard it slid across the rug and up against this chair and he then proceeded to pull the cushion into the crate and start to shred the end of it.

Needless to say this experience has curbed my desire to have a dog for quite awhile!

Our new addition!

This is the newest addition to our family. Meet Brandy. she is a shepherd x. She is such a little love bug.

fun at the children's discovery museum

Well this past saturday we were treated to a fun filled day at the cdm by mwa! And the kids all had a blast!

Do you see what I see?

My sister got me hooked on taking fire photos to see what we can catch in the flames............

what do you see?

Let me tell you what I saw......in pic #1 I see a flying lizard

in pic #2 I see the side view of a wolf howling

in pic #3 I see the outline of a hooded figure

in pic #4 I see 2 winged creatures...like a dragon taking flight and a winged creature (top) sitting looking to the right side

in pic #5 I see the side view of a person's face and what looks like a winged creature or a fairy sitting along the cheekbone....

now I love to know what you see.

Moonlight

I love it out to the campsite we have our camper at on beautiful clear nights because this is what I get to see when there are no clouds in the sky.................

platform jumping event

And now miss mikayla will attempt her famous high jump off the camp platform





Here we see her preparing herself for this tremendous feat.....


on your mark...............


get set..................



JUMP!!!!!!!!!!!
(LOL notice how shutting the eyes seems to help!)

taaaaaaadaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! perfect landing!!!

Veggies galore!

Man it doesnt seem like it can already be July!! Incase you wondered why I havent updated my blog lately except for the pictures of the pool yesterday here is why! When I started my garden in May I thought for sure after those cold snaps that we had that I was going to lose most if not all of my plants but it seems that it cold snap didnt bother them a bit!! This is what my garden now looks like!

This is the full view of the entire garden.

These are my butternut and winter squash plants and they are loaded with squash!! mmmmmI can taste them already!!!

this is garlic to the left, cabbage and brussell sprouts and then my lettuce which is coming back nicely. Almost lost it all no thanks to a hungry little ground hog but I fenced him out lol and then my pepper plants are in the next row and they are all loaded with peppers!!

And my corn is shooting right up!

and here is an acorn squash plant that is loaded with squash!

and one of my zucchini plants that has a few on it that are almost ready to pick!

and one of my watermelon plants that I have a few little baby watermelons growing!

And I just added these to my collection of plants...3 grape plants on the right and I just found a cluster of grapes on one of them!!! and 2 blackberry bushes to the right

and these are my green/yellow beans and they are also loaded with beans!! and the orange container at the end is cucumbers and it has a bunch of cukes on it! and to the right is some spinach and a few egg plants at the end of these 3 rows.

sorry for the sideway glance lol but these are my cucumbers and I have a ton of them growing to!!!

and here are almost all of my tomato plants and I looked tonight and they are all full of tomatoes with a ton of flower buds that will all be tomatoes lol omg good thing I am going to learn to can!

and this little guy is my peter pan squash and well I havent seen any little squash yet but there is still plenty of time!

and this is a spaghetti sqash plant and it is loaded with squash to!

and here are a couple pictures of my black beauty peppers that have grown so fast!!

this is one of my summer squash plants that is loaded to!

and these are my upside down planters there is one way to the left that you cant see in this picture that has jack be little pumpkins growing in it and from left to right it is a cherry tumbler tomato plant, pumpkin pie plant, egg plant, red and orange pepper plants and the last green pot is another type of cucumber plant