Medicated Maddie, it's a good thing.

Maddie is on meds, antianxiety medications to be specific. This is her third week.

Maddie has always been a nervous doggie. She is scared of everything and the trips have sent her trippin'. She doesn't like baby gates, baby toys, baby cries, baby screeches, baby laughter, baby bikes, baby highchairs....see a pattern here?

Her symptoms moved beyond shaking, roaming and panting to restlessness and loss of hair. :( Poor Maddie is patchy on her legs and chest.

SO off to the vets we went for some chillax pills. So far so good. It's supposed to take about a month to build up in her system and make a difference. Today we had a monsoon and her symptoms were pretty minimal....I'll call it progress, good progress.

Goodbye to a Great Grandma

This last weekend I went up to Idaho for my Grandma Cluer's funeral. Her death was unexpected and very upsetting to all. My Grandma Cluer was a unbelievably loving and caring woman.

She had a way about her that always made me feel loved and cared for. When we were little she would steal little moments with me and my sister and tell us sweet nothings that made us feel like she loved us more than anything else.

She was funny and took a ribbing with the best of us. I am going to miss her so much and I feel robbed of more time with her but am so thankful for the memories that I have.

The thing I can do to honor her best is to make sure my kids know how much she loved them and how proud she was of them. She loved the babies and everyone I talked to at the funeral told me so. All of her friends and family were kept abreast of the trips progress and development from conception on.

She was an exceptional Grandma and Great-Grandma. I love her dearly.

Thanksgiving November 2007

Carson City---Great Success!

Our trip to Carson City was a super fun success. The kids had all kinds of milestones. Quitting bottles, first time in the woods, first hike, first time swimming in a lake, so many!

Here's us doing a trial run around the neighborhood in the hiking backpacks.

We spent some time at Tahoe hanging out on the beach playing in the sand and swimming.

We went for a hike to Angora Lakes and resort (cabins) which was so quaint and beautiful that I wanted to book a vacation right then and there. A family next to us on the beach at Angora Lakes let me know that they waited for 8 years to get a cabin and that was 20 years ago!!

Ever searching for fun and cute ways to get a picture of all three together I thought this big pot on Grandma's porch would be fun... Let's just say a barrel full of monkeys sounds more fun than it actually is. "Oooout" "Ooout" "All-done" "All-done"....

We had fun the kids played and played outside every day. Mommy and Daddy went to see the new batman movie and donate to starving children in ....oh hell, we gave the casinos our money. When in Rome....