Dog Sitting

Is that not the cutest little boxer face you have ever seen?

This is my dog Annabelle that lives at my mom and dads house;)
She has come for an extented visit while they are gone to St. George.
J/K dad! I know she is yours! (I don't want backyard clean-up duty, besides what I am already going to have after her stay with us, that is!!)

She really is the BEST dog!!
For those of you who don't know Jeff at all, he is NOT an animal lover and for as long as we have been together it has been a 'discussion' about when we will/will not have a dog. --Sore subject, we are currently not discussing it because I KNOW that one day we will have a dog so why should we fight about it:)

I think my dad was feeling bad for Jeff and maybe alittle worried about leaving his baby here because he knows how Jeff feels about dogs. Well, I believe we have had a break through since she has been with us... All I have been hearing the whole time is "She really is SUCH a GOOD dog!", "I love that she just does what ever you tell her to do!", and my personal favorite "She is like a person, a MUTE.".
I think he also touched her for the first time EVER, since she has been staying with us.

We ARE making progress! He also said tonight about her leaving tomorrow... "We are going to miss you Annabelle" (of course it was in his cute little dog voice:))


Annabelle's thinking: 'Could you guys have more stairs in this house?'

Poor Annabelle is getting old and she is a little nervous and stays close by! She doesn't get up and down the stairs like she used to and gets winded easily!


And she like to sleep A LOT!!

If you can look past her Cataracts, Gray Beard, Gingival Hyperplasia, and Female Pattern Baldness you can't help but just love her and think that she is just the cutest BIG dog you have ever seen:)
Thanks for visiting ANNABELLE!

Life is Busy!

This is me blogging from work (on my lunch hour of course:)). It is pretty much where I live these days Mon. - Thur. I just recently picked up the other hygienist I work withs days since she had a baby. So I am up at 5:45am, at work by 6:45am, leave around 5:30pm and in bed again at as close to 9:00pm as I can possibly manage so I can start again bright and early. Needless to say there is not a lot of time for blogging (or anything else for that matter)! I come home and crash, try to get Jeff to give me a back massage and try to find something in our house to call dinner. It's the life!

No really though, I can't complain!! I have Fridays off and I sleep in and rest the whole day and it is my favorite day of the week:) I am truly grateful to have a good job and for all the thing our Heavenly Father has given us!! We really are so so blessed!!

Friends

There is almost nothing we love more than getting together with all of our dear friends! We probably drive them all crazy planning different get togethers (we have to do it or no one else will;))! This last Monday there was just such an occasion that gave us an excuse to put together a PaRTy! Some sort of football game I think it was:)

Jake, Amber, Jayma, and Hallie (1 1/2 wks old ahhhh)

Matt and Kirsten (Wedding in 3 1/2 wks ohhhh)

Danny and Darcie (our Park City friends:))

Saturday we got together with a different group of friends for my cousins 27th birthday!!! We had a delicious dinner at Tucci's and then games at their apartment.

Starting in the back with me and going clockwise: Me and Jeff, Ashley and Preston, Kip and Chantel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHANTEL! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!

We are so blessed to have so many wonderful close friends! We love them all and can't imagine how boring our lives would be with out them!

**now for some random pictures**

After only 20 years of playing basketball on a fairly regular basis, Jeff had a first... He FINALLY refereed a game. Ya Gotta Love CHuRch BaLl!!

He did a great job, was an easy going ref and said it gave him some appreciation for all the ref's out there! He probably should have had this experience along time ago, I think it might have same a lot of ref's out there a lot of grief;)

Jeff and I the night of the football game! Aren't we cute;)

Kentucky

I have been slow to update my blog since I got home from my trip to Kentucky. Life has been busy but this afternoon I was making the Amish friendship bread Kathryn sent me home with and I was thinking great toughts of my wonderful family in Kentucky and I much I love them! GOOD TIMES!

Gratitude

It is very late and I have much I need to blog about but I will get to all of that soon.
I returned Wednesday from my sister and brother-in-laws in Kentucky and I can't help but feel truly blessed to know them and have them in my family. I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't want to be just like my big sister (well maybe there were a few years there, around Jr. high age;)). Bless her heart she handled all the tagging along and missing clothes and then found clothes with stains on them and tagging along and just plain annoyances by me very well!

I guess some things never change though because I still look up to her and hope to some day be just like her! I couldn't have a more kind, loving, thoughtful, more Christ-like sister in all the world! I always leave them wanting to be and knowing I can be a better person. Kathryn and Trevor try so hard to do what is right and I think they do a good job of it, to good in fact, they make it look so completely easy! They have always been and continue to be shining examples to me of how to live righteously and how to reach my potential.

I love you guys more than you will ever know! Thank you for too many things to mention or to ever be able to pay you back for! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!