It's been a long week!

On Tuesday I noticed that Okie wasn't eating or drinking anything and was just laying around. I took her to the Vet on Wednesday morning and it turns out that she has parvo. What's parvo? A virus that attacks the small intestine. How do you treat it? Lots of time and waking up in the middle of the night. I had to give her antibiotics and fluids through a catheter in her leg. After 3 visits to the vet they finally removed the catheter today and now Okie is on a pedialyte and chicken baby food diet until she starts eating regular food. I was a little iffy when I left the vet this morning we saw a different Vet and tech and they weren't as thorough as the others so I'm still keeping a very close eye on her. And she isn't back to her normal self yet.
Doesn't she just look sad and miserable?

Good thing she's better because I really like my sleep and it was like having a newborn again.
Did you notice the new blog header? Kristy did us a great favor and took some great family pictures for us.
Dave has said that he has found Cali sleeping like this a few times but this was the first time I've seen it. How can she sleep like that?

Duck Season...BOOOOO

Well duck season started and Dave went hunting on opening day. We went shooting a few days before.





We had family pictures taken on Sunday and as soon as I get the CD I'll post some of the pictures

Birthday Present

Every time we visit someone with dogs Cali wants to see the dogs, she won't touch them but she loves looking at them so we decided to get her a puppy for her birthday.
Meet Okie, she's a Lab Mix we rescued from the animal shelter.

Busy Busy

We've been busy shopping and working on the house.
So far:
The garage is clean (it was the first thing daddy did)
The backyard is getting green
The downstairs is painted
We have a new King size bed
Our guest have a real bed to sleep on.
We still have a lot more to do but no more money, if some of you would like to send us some money we won't say no.
We also celebrated daddy's birthday, it was the big TWO-FIVE so I decided to have a small surprise party.


Grandpa Roy and Grandma Christina came down to help celebrate and paint.
The colors are Valspar Ghost Ship and Autumn Fog.


It's been so nice having daddy back. I can't believe Cali will be 2 in less than three weeks, where has the time gone? Birthday Party invitations will go out this week.

More From our trip

She looks like such a big girl... where did my baby go

Getting rocks to throw at the dogs, she was trying to play fetch with them.




Drinking "juice"

She also went swimming in the hot-tub, don't worry it wasn't hot.

We had a good time in Smartsville. The week was over before we knew it so that was good. We needed the distraction.

Oh so tired

Well since Daddy's homecoming was postponed a week we packed our bags and headed north for the week. Cali loves GP & GM Simon's house.
She's loves running up and down the hill, trowing rocks at the dogs and watering the garden with Pop-Pop. I think her favorite part is eating the strawberries from the garden.

They have an awesome garden with some awesome pumpkins.
We took the small one on the left.

Look at Cali's butt crack. It's so funny. Now that she's potty trained her pants are too big around the waist.

One last cute picture more from our trip tomorrow when I'm awake.