Cecil - The weenie dog

So.. to elaborate on 'the new puppy'.. I went to visit him last night. This is the 3rd time that I have gone to see him. (I can't help it..) And the owner's don't mind, cuz they are our friends. So, it works out nicely. Cecil is so stinkin' cute. I cannot wait to bring him home. Will and I were talking about it last night, and he is pretty excited too. I talked with Brooke & Dusty (the owners) and they said the puppies will probably be able to leave in about a week and a half.. or so... (hopefully a week.. I'm dyin') Anyway, here are some good pictures that I took with my camera last night when I was out there. Enjoy.

This last pic is of Cecil and 2 of the other puppies. There are 6 total. 2 Chocolate, 2 Black, & 2 Black and Tans. They are all so cute.

I have 4 dachshunds at my Mom's house. (they aren't just mine... well, one of them is.. Eddie.) I've wrote about Eddie before. He's my baby. He was born def and partially blind. Poor little guy. So, part of me feels guilty if I were to take him away from the other 3 doggies, and have him sit in the apartment all day BY HIMSELF. But the other part of me feels guilty because I am getting a new little guy. I love Eddie. He is the sweetest dog. He has the personality of a teddy bear. I see him all the time when I go out to my Mom's. And sometimes have sleepovers with him and one of the other dogs at the apartment. (Po loves it when we have the sleepovers..) So, once little Cecil is bigger and potty trained.. We'll have Eddie come up more often, and take Cecil out to see the other dogs at my Mom's too.

Anyway, that's my venting for the day...

Camping and a new puppy!

We went camping with my little brother, Kale and his wife last weekend, we left on Friday the 19th and came home Sunday the 21st. It was a lot of fun. They have a camper trailer and we were all able to stay in it. They brought their little dachshund, Charlie, with us as well.

When we got up there on Friday night, it was kind of late. But we still waited to eat dinner till we got up there and settled. Britt (Kale's wife) and I set up the cooking stuff while Kale and Will got the camper situated. Kale cooked us tacos! They were SOOOO good. I ate almost 3 of them. He cooks everything in a dutch oven while camping, and it was the best tacos I've had (except for mine, of course...) Friday night we watched a few episodes of 'The Office'. Kale and Britt have the seasons on DVD. HILARIOUS. Saturday, Kale got up and made us breakfast burritos in the dutch oven. They were delic! We tried to go fishing Saturday afternoon, and the weather was really nice... until we got to the little lake. As soon as we got closer to the lake, it started pouring. Bad! So, we just turned around and went back to camp... And watched more of 'The Office.' We had sandwiches and chips and stuff for lunch and then for dinner, Kale (our chef) cooked us this chicken & rice dinner in the dutch oven again. I don't know what spices he used in it, but it was really good. I think he put cream of mushroom soup in it too, but I'm not sure what else. All I know, is that we need to go camping with Kale more often.. just for the food!! And of course, Friday night and Saturday night, we roasted marshmallow's. My favorite!

Saturday, Will was showing Po how to carve a stick with his pocketknife. After they were done, Will went to close the knife part, and ended up cutting his thumb really bad. So.. the pocketknife was off limits the rest of the weekend.

We got up on Sunday and tried the fishing thing again. It was freezing cold! We went to Washington Lake and were only there for about an hour (if that) because it was sooo cold. Kale got a fishing pole ready for Po and cast it out in the lake.. a few minutes later... Porter got a fish!!! It was so exciting for him. He was so happy! We went back to camp and packed up, ate some lunch, and left for home. All in all, it was a good weekend. I can't wait till we can do it again. While we were sitting around the campfire, Porter discovered "fire dots". It happens when you put a new log on the fire or put something in the fire, and the flames shoot little sparks into the air. So, Porter was trying to hit them with a stick... It was pretty funny. Then when they'd disappear, he'd say, "Dad! Make more fire dots!" He had us all laughing pretty hard. He's the funniest kid. He has the best personality. Just a goof ball.

Now... as far as the new puppy goes... WE ARE GETTING ONE! A little male dachshund.. and we have named him Cecil. Cecil the weenie dog. I can't wait till we get to bring him home. Here's the story... On Friday when we were at Kale & Britt's house waiting to leave to go camping, Kale informed me that someone we went to high school with lives across the street from him and that they had weenie dog puppies. So... I took Porter with me and we went to see the puppies. We were over there for about an hour or so (we had to wait for Britt to get home from work anyway..) and we (Porter and I) decided that we needed a dog. We've been talking about getting one for a while and we have sleepovers with the weenie dogs that are at my Mom's house, so why not get one of our own?? He's a chocolate color and has blue eyes. As of Monday, (the 22nd) he's 5 weeks old. So, we need to wait a couple weeks to bring him home. I CAN'T WAIT!! IT'S KILLING ME! All day long.. all I think about is little Cecil. He turned 5 weeks old on Monday, and I went to see him. I didn't have my camera with me, but I had the camera on my phone.. So this is the best pic I have of him for now... We have to wait another week or 2 to make sure he's eating on his own, and all that fun stuff. In the meantime, that's all Porter talks about.

Learning Chores...and an update on the weekend..

So... This weekend, Porter learned some new chores. He has been taking the garbage out and cleaning his room, but that's about it. He wanted to earn a new DS (Nintendo) game, so Will came up with the idea that Po learn to clean the bathroom! It was so cute. He was trying to clean the tub while kneeling on the outside of it like Will or I would do, but Po isn't big enough. So, he climbed on in, and started scrubbing... I got some pretty good pics. (blackmail for when he's older.. hahahahaha)


This weekend was pretty uneventful other than cleaning the apartment. I went to the pool on Sunday to relax and get a little sun. Will and Porter wanted to stay home and play the games, so I went by myself. It was actually really relaxing. The weather was perfect! I was only out for about 2 hours, but guess who got fried! ME! Like a lobster.. (sorry no pics..) It didn't really show up till about 2 or 3 hours after I got home.. My face and my chest were bright red. When I got home, we had decided that MY spaghetti sounded good for dinner.. So, I threw some clothes on real quick and Po and I ran to the store to get supplies. We really only needed meat, I had everything else at the house. After dinner, that's when the burn showed up.. OUCH! I couldn't believe I got so burnt. I thought when I first got back from the pool, "Oh, it looks like I got a little sun." Little did I know.... I got a LOT of sun.


As I mentioned in my last post, Porter started 1st grade on August 26th. Tiffany (his mom) took him to school, but she didn't have her camera with her, so when I picked him up after I got off work, I took some pics of him while he was still in his '1st day outfit'. He looked really cute. I can't believe how fast he's growing. Before we know it, he'll be graduating from High School, then college... Geez....

I can't believe how fast this summer went by. I'm not ready for it to get cold yet. I think mother nature is a beast... the cold weather seasons always seem to last a lot longer than the warm ones. And I don't think that's fair. Whomever this 'mother nature' person is, I'd like to have a little talk with her...