Always turn your lights off before leaving home!!

I'm a fanatic when it comes to turning lights off when you leave a room, but occasionally I'll leave a light on (usually over the kitchen sink) so it won't be so dark inside when we get back from eating out or something. Well, the other day, I noticed that one of my bulbs was burned out over my sink. I have (or should I say, had) a real pretty light that hung down from the ceiling over my kitchen sink. I tried changing the bulb that was out and the new one wouldn't work. So, I just left it alone and didn't think anymore about it. Last night, David was sitting in the living room reading to Lauren, Morgan was in her room reading, and I was washing my face getting ready to shower. All of a sudden, I hear him yell out something (couldn't make out what it was) and I ran in there to see what was going on. When I walked in the kitchen, I could smell it. He was standing over by the sink looking up at the light. He said he heard something making a crackling sound and looked over...it looked like the bulb was working alright...it was smoking and had already started to flame up. Needless to say, that light is no longer in my house. It's in the trash. We threw the breaker and he got it out of here. Now I need to buy a new light...I just have an electrical cord hanging from my ceiling. Thank God we were home!!!

By the way, today is my brother's birthday...Happy Birthday Heath!!!

Daddy's home!!

Isn't he pretty???
Tigerman LOVES his daddy!!! He just about licks him to death when he gets in from work. Here he is giving Daddy some sweet sugar.

How sweet is this? David was talking to him and it looks like Tiger is taking in everything he's saying.

My sweet family! Tiger is now the son that we didn't have...after all, we're DONE!

The New Dollhouse

The long awaited, much anticipated, Imaginarium Glitter Suite Dollhouse!!!! I know you're probably thinking...WHAT??? This was not on their list to Santa, but it was my idea to get it. While Christmas shopping, I saw this at Toys 'R' Us and loved it! I knew the girls would love it too. After Christmas was over, I called to see if they had any in stock and they said they wouldn't have any until after the first of the year. I decided to go online and see if they had any in stock and they did so I ordered it. The girls were so excited. I showed them a picture of it online. I told Morgan that I didn't know how long it would take for it to come in, but it shouldn't be long. Everyday she'd say, "Mom, I know you're tired of me talking about this, but will the dollhouse come in this month?" David spent a couple of hours locked in Lauren's room yesterday putting it together. He said it wasn't that bad. You couldn't pull them away from it after that. They've enjoyed it so much this weekend and have filled it with so much "stuff". I just love to watch and listen to them play. They both have such amazing imaginations. By the way, yes it was cold the day I took this picture, but I told Lauren if she wanted to wear that outfit, then she couldn't go outside. As for Morgan, she just stayed in her p.j.'s all day. She gets that from me!

Tiger's first full day outside

I don't have a picture to post with this. Heck, he would have probably knocked the camera smooth out of my hands if I would have tried. Anyway, I'll back up a minute. Remember when I said that after cleaning up the pee, poop, and puppy pad shreddings that he just sped up the process of us getting his pen built??? I called Drew County Farm Supply Monday to see if they had any 10x10x6 ft. high dog pens and they did. David picked it up and he and Rob put it up last night. Luckily, the people who built our house poured an 11x11 slab in the edge of the woods by our house for their dog pen so it worked out perfect. David put his dog house in it facing away from the wind...we put his bed in it that he got for Christmas and even his teddy bear and chew toy. It was really hard to leave him this morning...it was pretty cold, but it eventually warmed up in the 50's today. When I got home, I looked out the window and he had pulled his bed out of the dog house and was laying on it. He was literally like a bird out of a cage when I opened that gate. Wild is not the word for it!!! It was like somebody gave him some speed or something. I had to send the girls inside because he was really too hyper to be around them...he kept jumping on them about to knock them down. I stayed outside with him for a while and ended up putting his leash on him to walk him and calm him down some more. After he was done playing, he walked to the back door and sat down as if to say, "ok, I'm done...take me inside where it's warm and cozy!" So I did and he went straight to his bed in his kennel and chilled until David came home. That was our plan anyway...to leave him outside during the day and bring him in at night with us. We've gotten so attached to him...he's like a kid. I'm glad we have him. I'll try to take some pictures of him and post so you can see how much he's grown already. He turned 12 weeks old today and weighs 22.9 pounds. He's gonna be a big, muscular dog and he's very pretty if I may so myself :-)

Back to the grindstone

Well, today was our first day back to work (and school) after the long break. It sure was hard to get up at 5:30 this morning after sleeping to 8:30 and 9:00 everyday. Lauren was ready, but Morgan wasn't. It wasn't so bad though. It's kind of good to be back in a routine. David took Tiger to the vet this morning for his shots and check-up and we picked him up this afternoon after work. I think he's a little traumatized. He had a reaction to his shots so they had to give him a shot of Benedryl when I picked him up. He just hasn't been himself this afternoon. He's had a different reaction to Benedryl than I would have. I would have fallen sound asleep, but he's been just the opposite. He's been kind of nervous and jumpy like someone's out to get him. I've just been giving him lots of extra love and attention. Oh and I also paged the vet about 30 minutes ago because he wasn't getting any better...yes, I feel like a new mom again not knowing what to do. He said to just watch him and make sure his welps don't come back. By the way, I know you're all wondering what his "registered" name will be. After looking at the names of his "relatives", we finally decided on a name. Are you ready?????? MISTER GEAUX TIGER CASSELS. Cute huh? His Papaw's name was MISTER BEAUX JANGLES and his great grandpa's name was MISTER JAKE. That's where we got MISTER from. Bye for now...I've got to get back in the habit of getting in bed at a decent time.

A day with friends

David, Morgan, Lauren, Tiger, and I all loaded up Saturday morning at 9:30 and headed to Hope, Arkansas to Rickie and Kristi's house. Jeff (aka Woody), Allison and their boys came too. I guess Rickie and Kristi's house was kind of in the middle. Woody and Allison came from DeQueen. The guys headed for Prescott soon after we got there and played a round of golf so us girls hung around the house with the kids (and dogs) visiting and playing outside. It was a beautiful day. When the guys FINALLY returned, we left for Amigo Juan's to eat. We had a great time catching up with each other. I just wish we could all see each other more often. We use to see each other very often during the summer at softball tournaments. Our husbands have "retired" from softball and are now big into golf. We still see each other during the summer, but now it's at the lake. We all camp together at Cowhide Cove on Lake Greeson. We already have our sites reserved for our first trip in June. I'm sure I'll be posting lots of pictures from the lake. In case you're wondering how Tiger did during our 2 hour ride over...he did fine. We went in David's truck and he rode up front in between us on his blanket. He slept ALL the way home last night and was wanting to play when we got home, but we were all too exhausted to play.

Here's all the kiddos...Morgan, Lauren, Layne Woods, Gage Woods, Riley Robbins, and Lainey Robbins.

Bath time for Tiger

David decided to burn leaves (and our tree) the other day and Tiger decided he would help. They (David, Tiger, and the girls) stayed outside for nearly two hours burning leaves and playing. Tiger ran around in all of the black soot and got filthy. Of course, we had to give him a bath if he expects to stay inside. He liked it. Of course, he was shaking like a leaf, but I wrapped him up in a towel as soon as we were finished.

I took this right before David said, "Hey, are you gonna help me?" Of course, I helped bathe him too, but I had to take some pictures.

Aw...look at the little baby...all clean after his bath. I was just trying to keep him from shaking so bad. I even tried blow drying his hair...on low, of course, he tried to attack the hair dryer so I ended that pretty quick.