We celebrated Halloween..a month or so ago. :) Here are some pictures for history's sake. We went to Grandma's Annual Halloween Party. It was awesome, as always. Check out this sweet cupcake that we decorated. :)
Dave actually dressed up this year! I was Rosie the Riveter and Dave was Dave with a black mustache instead of a ginger one. Baby steps here people. Baby steps. :)
Teaching is amazing and I love it. It's takes up SOOOO much of your time (even being part time), but that was expected and I couldn't be happier. Dave also has a new job. He'd been looking for a job all summer and he accepted a position with Mountain Land Rehab this past September. His official title is Assistant Systems Admin. (whatever that means... :)) He is one of three IT people for the entire company and he is loving it! It's SOOOO nice to have us BOTH be in jobs that we love. I've been incredibly lucky when it comes to jobs, but Dave, not so much. It's makes all the difference when you actually like what you're doing. Yay for Dave!
Scout is getting huge and is cuter than ever. He's a little trouble maker, but we still love him...even when it's seems to be an impossible emotion to have. For instance... Scout has been sick and has been one poop storm after the other. :) He was constipated a couple weeks ago so we gave him some pumpkin to "get things going". (I know you want all these juicy details)...Well, I think it worked because he had a poop party in his kennel in the middle of the night. We woke up to the basement smelling like death. IT WAS SO BAD!! Lo and behold, we look in his kennel and there is crap EVERYWHERE!!! The poor thing had to sleep in his own crap! :( THAT was a fun morning. Dave cleaned out the kennel and I gave Scout a bath, FUN stuff.
Fast forward one week... He seemed to be fine but he would just NOT sleep. Dave got so annoyed with him because he kept moving around in his kennel so we'd take him out, but when he'd go outside he'd just try and try but nothing would happen. Poor dog. So, in order for us to get some sleep, we took his kennel to the upstairs bathroom and had him sleep there. WELL, the next morning, the same distinct smell enveloped the house. YOU CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE how bad it was. Ugh, there is no amount of candle to get rid of that smell. His kennel was CAKED in poop. Amazingly, he wasn't covered in it this time. ANYWAY, we both had to work early in the mornings this week so we both scrambled to get the kennel out of the house, feed Scout, and get ourselves ready. It was snowing and really cold so we couldn't let Scout stay outside so I had to lock him up in the bathroom and hope for the best. I came home from work to a bathroom that had been covered in the most foul smelling dog diarrhea ever. There was NO spot on the floor that hadn't been covered in poo. In fact, he was so desperate to get out of there that he jumped up on the door and walls...leading to what I like to call "dog finger-painting" masterpieces all over the place. SUPER fun. I spent two and a half hours cleaning the bathroom, kennel and giving Scout his second bath in two weeks. I felt so bad for him. Poor thing! Can you imagine being locked in a room covered in your own poo?! So sad!
Happily, there hasn't been any other poopscapades (that's what I like to call them) since then. I don't know what he got into, but I sure hope he never gets into it again! He may make us want to pull our hair out sometimes, but we still love him. How could you not? Ok...I'm done with the sappy dog talk. :) Those with dogs understand.
Super blurry, but I just love this picture.
Congrats to you for getting through all that. Hopefully I'll be back sooner rather than later to share Thanksgiving memories and Christmas decorations. We're getting a real Christmas tree this year.
SO excited!
