his new toy

well, little man got his first 'toy' over the fourth of july weekend. he was so excited when papa surprised him with it. we had planned on getting him one eventually, like within the next year or so. but, papa apparently had other plans ;) he also got an awesome helmet & gloves. here are a few pictures of him riding in our backyard...



if they made 4 wheelers for dogs, this one would have one! he barks at brenden when he stops for just a second, or when we don't go fast enough on ours.

now, you know they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree? well, it doesn't. a couple years ago, while we were a the lake house, daniel was riding our 4 wheeler. he went over a jump, but didn't slow down in time & couldn't turn fast enough, which landed him in a cedar tree! well, that's been a joke on him for quite some time. now, he has some company :) brenden was riding his in front of our house, coming from across the street. a little boy was riding his bike past our house, while watching brenden. he was not paying attention to what was in front of him, so his bike ran into the back of daniel's truck. brenden saw this happening & was not paying attention to where he was, either. as daniel & i were yelling "stop!" he popped the curb in front off our house & hit one of our baby maple trees with his 4 wheeler :( so, he rammed a tree, just like daddy! i had to take a few pictures of this 'first'. if you look at the front silver part, you can see fresh bark in two places...

and, here are the two places scraped off the tree...

thanks bamaw & papa-he loves it ;)

booster has a wang infection

yep, my dog has an infection in his junk. kinda gross, but at least it's gonna be fixed!

we took him to the vet this morning, because i thought he may have pink eye. i noticed it on monday evening, then, this morning i noticed that easton's eye was real red & had junk coming out of it. i didn't want to have to pay for two exams, so i figured i would use booster's medicine for easton too. i mentioned that to the vet (we go here all the time, but i have never seen this dr), & he said well, he probably has a cut in his eye. oh, really!? both of my dogs have a cut in their eye-at the same time!?! sure.

i told him i thought it was probably pink eye. he said "dogs don't get pink eye like we do." so when i called on monday night, they were lying... oh, & all the stuff i read online yesterday was wrong too???

he put the dye into booster's eye to check for the cut, but didn't see one. hmm, surprise there. he said he would bring the drops back in to us-never saw him again, the assistant helped us.

she came in with the drops, i asked her what was wrong with his eye. she said "he has conjunctivitis." i asked "pink eye?" she said, "yep, pretty much." oh!!! :)

i then mentioned something about the other infection. let's just say i had noticed the same greenish, yellowish gunk (like with his pink eye) coming from him, but didn't know from where. i had, um, seen it on the wall by his pillow (from when he shakes after he wakes up). so, we now have cream we get to put on him, down there! this is gonna be fun :0

another year older...

my birthday was monday, & i just wanted to post a few misc pictures from that. on sunday night, my mom fixed me a yummy dinner at their house. here's brenden singing happy birthday. those 4 different cheesecakes were my birthday cake-the vanilla bean one was very yummy!
on monday night they came to our side of town, because i wanted to have dinner at casa rita's. this place has the best mexican food ever, as well as raspberry tea! we go there quite often :) here's me & my lil' thug...

me & my handsome hubby :)
my parents said you can sure tell we're brother & sister. i can't see the resemblance ;)

my brother, bren, mom, & dad enjoying dessert-don't worry, daniel & i were enjoying ours too! i always have room for dessert...

i also got surprised with a cake & lots of well wishes at work! it was nice.