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March 26, 2009

Well I'm sure almost everyone has heard now that we got another puppy :). It's pretty amazing really. Since we are so close to getting our new house, we have been starting to look for a new dog (Lee wants a big dog so he doesn't have to walk the "sissy" dogs when we go out, lol). He wanted something huge and awesome. For a while we considered getting a great dane, but the cost of getting/having one was looking a little excessive, so Lee has been set on a Doberman ever since. Just these past few weeks, since the house is moving along nicely, we have been looking online at Doberman breeders in the area. Everything online seemed to be around 800 - 1000 dollars...not exactly in our budget. So we have been looking on the shelter websites hoping one will pop up at the pound that we could rescue sometime soon.

So, yesterday at work, one of our long time clients - who is a doberman breeder - called in really upset and spoke to a few of the girls I work with saying that he came home to find his female doberman had just killed 5 of the 8 puppies in the litter. Luckily he had come home to stop her from getting to the other 3. The female had rejected the litter and was refusing to feed the remaining 3 puppies so he was having to keep them separated. Feeling overwhelmed he said he just can't do it. He had to travel to work and was gone 10 hours at a time throughout the day, so there would be no way the puppies would survive going that long without being fed by bottle. So he found 2 other people to take 2 puppies, and Lee and I volunteered to take the last little girl! It is so sad what happened, but it actually turned out to be a blessing for us! Honestly, what are the chances?

So little puppy, who doesn't yet have a name, is 9 days old today. She was born on March 15th. She doesn't quite have her eyes open yet, she is a tiny little thing. She had a small cut on her head, which thankfully, was only skin deep. We are so glad that mommy dobie didn't get her too, she is a lucky little girl.


Lee absolutely loves her. He is such a good daddy. Last night, she woke up a few times crying to be fed and Lee wouldn't let me do it! He insists to do almost all the feeding, so she will bond really well with him (since the doxie's cling to me so much, haha). He even had his alarm set for every couple hours so he could bottle feed her. So cute. She slept pretty well through the night though. She really likes her heating pad :).

Here is a picture of her first bottle feeding. Some puppies have a hard time accepting the bottle...which can be dangerous if they don't eat, but she did really well. She ate like a pig this morning!
We're trying to not get overly excited, because there still is a chance she may not make it. But we're going to do everything we can for her, and hopefully...a few months from now, she will be healthy, happy, and a great dog for us :)

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March 19, 2009
11:36am

Sorry it took me so long to post these, I've been done with them for a while now.




This one was done for Lee, I gave it to him on Valentines Day :). He has it hanging in his office and tells me all the time how much he loves it. It took me about 5 settings, guessing around 10 hours in total. Which is a lot considering it's only an 8 x 10, haha.




This one I did just for fun, it's completely original (no references used - aside from the flower heads). I have this one on www.Etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21714339
trying to sell it for $60.00. It was finished in February and is a 12 x 24.

I'm working on a really neat one right now, it's an ocean scene looking out of a window, it's about halfway done, hopefully I'll get it finished soon...but there has been so much excitement lately, I've been neglecting it.

The house business is coming alone slow but great. We made an offer on a new house (I haven't yet posted the pictures, but I will soon - promise!) which we absolutely LOVE!! I'll tell more about it once I post pictures though. Anyway, we made an offer, the bank countered our offer and we accepted the bank's counter. So now we are just waiting to hear from the escrow company. We've signed all the papers already and are getting impatient! haha, but soon enough...it will be ours! They've estimated our closing day to be May 5, so in a little over a month we will be home owners!!

On Tuesday night (St. Patty's day) around 10pm, Lee and I decided to go for a motorcycle ride. So we geared up, hopped on the bike, and started cruising around town. We drove to the new house just for fun. We went around to the backyard and just laid there, taking in the feeling that soon this piece of property would be ours :). It was fun to start thinking about what changes we want to make to it, and where we would put our things etc. Just taking in the moment of first time home buying. It was an awesome feeling.

Then before we left, we played a quick game of kickball with a soccerball we found in the court, haha. We both are trying really hard not to get TOO excited about it, just because - well it's not official yet, and things can happen. But...it is SO EXCITING!