Maggie and Gabby

Here are some pics of our basset hounds Maggie and Gabby. I've decided that dogs are just like more kids, they just have fur. When you first bring them home, you're up with them at night. You have to buy "puppy" food for them when they're babies, buy them toys to chew when they are "teething", potty train them, brush their teeth, take them to get their shots and yearly checkups, and teach them not to put things in their mouth ( mostly your shoes, your furniture and anything else of value that belongs to you). They cry when you leave them, and get hyper ( well not in our dogs case) when you come home. They follow you around all day and scratch at the bathroom door because you're in there, and they're not. Does all this sound familiar people? Didn't we just go through all this with the "other" kids we raised? I'm thinkin' YES! Bassets are great dogs, rarely aggressive ( it takes WAY to much energy), love almost everyone they see , play in little spurts, and give you the basset hound looks that translate like, " do you HAVE to vacuum so close?" or "you mean I'm NOT suppose to have this? or "hey, YOU threw the ball, YOU go get it!" We love 'em tho and couldn't imagine not having our furry kids around.! We've got some awesome " granddogs" too------but that's another blog!

EBAY

I've spent the last couple of days navigating my way around Ebay!! Boyd kids! Pick yourselves up off the floor and finish reading this! I know the shock of hearing that not only are we dealing with a whole new computer system, ( not too shabbily either I might add Dagen) got on facebook, set up our own blog and are picking up iphones tomorrow, now we're getting in bidding wars on Ebay! I know, crazy huh! The Ebay thing is FUN! I had an idea for Christmas, (relax Boyd kids, I'm not getting your Christmas gifts on Ebay), so I checked out Ebay---one thing lead to another and before I knew it I was bidding! I was bidding, and confirming, and bidding again, and then, wonder of wonders, I WAS WINNING!!! I was so stoked!! I beat you -a**0 (8)! Too bad, so sad----- uh huh,---uh huh-- that's right--- I won! I ran , well sorta, in to tell Dave, ( after waking him up from his " before I go to bed nap" on the couch) and he mumbled something like- "what, huh---great", which would have to do for the enthusiasm I was looking for at that time of night, but the dogs were excited so I celebrated with them! I'd be back on today if I didn't have to do a bunch of stupid housework! Ebay----it could get addictive!

Are We There Yet?

This has been the craziest summer. Birthings and weddings and movings---oh my! Just about the time you think your kids are all settled and just happily living their lives, they change stuff up on you. Kylee and Rick announced they were being transfered from Hawaii to San Antonio, and Kylee decides she will come ahead of Rick with the four kids to find a house, get Connor in school and find Camden a preschool! If you read her blog, she questions whether she is brave or stupid. As her mother, I would just like to interject here that although she has always been a very brave person, the "stupid" choice seems the obvious one! Four kids---- 4months to 6 yrs---all night flight----by yourself----yep, I vote for stupid! But, because I'm her mom and I did birth her and all,and there's not much I wouldn't do to see one of my grandkids, I catch her on the other end so to speak and pick her up in Dallas as she gets off the plane with her troops. We load more luggage than I can count into and on top of our SUV with the help of a very nice baggage attendant and proceed to San Antonio, looking something like the Beverly Hillbillies, minus the rocking chair! The kids were great but we weren't in the car 30 minutes before they wanted to know if we were "there" yet.( I hated telling them that we were still trying to get through Dallas!) We organized our maps and navigation system to try and arrive just in time to meet with someone to start showing Kylee houses.  We stopped at Mc D's for breakfast and added pulling Connors first tooth to our itinerary just to break the monotony of the trip, (somtimes my old dental assisting training comes in handy!) Dave drove their Honda down 2 days later with as much stuff as he could cram in the car, then flew back. We found a very nice house the second day, great neighborhood, a block from the new school Connor would go to (Go Gators!) and we began our "camp out". Completely empty house, except for 2 camp chairs,a little lamp and table, some little chairs for the kids, aero beds, tv, dvd player, a few toys,movies and books, and minimal bedding. Bought a dorm fridge, a wonderful ottoman that was used for EVERYTHING, food and necessities and started livin' the good life! After the kids went to bed, Kylee and I watched episodes from the first 2 seasons of Sex in the City for the next two weeks! Ahhh, mother/daughter bonding-----it doesn't get better than this! IF we weren't waiting for cable to be hooked up we might have known a little more about the hurricane bearing down on Texas but we remained blissfully ignorant of all the commotion around us til we saw warnings on the interstate info strips to gas up your cars and prepare for outages, but that's another story. I left our SUV since theirs hasn't arrived from Hawaii yet and flew home Sunday. We'll fly back in a few weeks to drive our car home after their stuff arrives. Finally, I think they're all settled again. I hope they are------- I pray they are------at least til after the holidays!

Mahalo Y'all

Campin' Out