just a few other things.

{sorry here are just a few more random pictures that didn't quite go with my other posts}

> isn't that adorable gold tipped feather banner adorable!? lee made it and gave it to me at the shower! she has made so many cute things for the nursery and i can't wait to show them all off! lee knows the exact look that i am going for. i love it. once the nursery is finally complete, i want maddie to come and take some awesome pictures of it all. we have changed somethings around and ended up getting another dresser. it's not quite done yet, but if baby were to come now it would be just fine!

> this handsome man turned 27 on tuesday. words can never explain how much i love him. i know that is cliche to say.. but i really do love him so much. he really is my best friend. he has put up with so much from me, and i am so lucky. i still can't believe he wanted to be with me forever. he is so excited for this baby and i just know he is going to be such a great daddy. for his birthday we kept it low key. we are still trying to save up as much money as we can since we just paid off all of our student loans debt. we went to dinner at ruby river. his favorite. i gave him 2 batman shirts that he has been wanting for a while. i tried to plan to make him breakfast in the morning but he caught on the night before and decided he wanted breakfast for dinner the evening before. and he ended up making it. so much for me surprising him... haha.

> i drink 4 of these jugs of water a day. and i still have swelling in my hands, feet, and face. but oh well. it seems to help a lot, and i feel better when i do it. i am always thirsty. always. the doctor says everything is normal though and it's normal to retain water at this stage in pregnancy. i think everyone at church thinks i am pretty silly for carrying this around with me all the time but oh well! a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! also, my mom got me some awesome lounging outfits from victoria's secret to wear at the hospital and after the baby comes.. but i have already been wearing them. even out and about and to work... i love them. this sweatshirt is one of them. i love the PINK clothing line there. thanks for the lounging outfits mom! they already have been and will be put to good use! you are the best!

> my little big moses. i love him so. even when he throws up on my new bedding.. and even though i caught most of it in my hands and had to rush to the toilet to throw it all in there while he was still gagging and it all caused me to have contractions and almost go into labor because i had to chase him around the room with a towel on the floor while he continued to dry heave... i still love him. it was actually pretty comical. and that was a very long, improper sentence. and i don't care. we also found a new thing that he is scared of, aside from the vacuum, blow dryer, blender, my electric toothbrush, and drill. the diaper pail. yes, you read that correctly.

a letter from your daddy.

{more details to come later...}

so handsome.

sean modeling his new suit  { first in like 7 years }  and new tie! ow ow!!

haha okay he wasn't really modeling. he didn't even know i was taking the picture.

he sure is cute though.

if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

haha, i had that post title quote backwards and just noticed. oops! fixed now :) today was such a neat day! sean got to compete in the 2011 dodge barrage with some of our co-workers. all proceeds from the tournament go to a foundation that former jazz players kyle korver and deron williams started. they even competed in the tournament. i was so glad that i ended up going because i got to meet kyle, deron, cj miles, and wesley matthews. they are the ones in the red shirts and the green pants in the second to last picture. those were actually ninja turtle pants haha. they had face paint and bandannas. it was awesome. also.. i learned that sean must be a closet professional dodgeball player. okay not seriously, but really.. he was incredibly good at it. i missed the first 2 games. there are three rounds in each game and they had only won one of those because sean had been the last guy up and ended up staying in the game and winning it for his team! after that there were a few more games. sean had some impressive moves that i don't think i have ever seen before. haha. anyway, i was really proud of him. it was so much fun to watch and they did so good. obviously they are all in black shirts but sean had blue shorts on and you can see a white undershirt peaking out from the bottom of his black shirt. in case you were wondering which one he was..

i had all the above nba players sign my cursed purse. i wasn't planning on it at first, but i really didn't have anything else for them to sign. this purse has brought me nothing but bad luck. you can read all about it here. honestly, i am not sure why i even bother wearing it. i haven't for a long time and i started to again and i just don't even care anymore if it gets dirty. i used to baby the thing since it was the most expensive bag that i have every purchased. anyway, i thought.. what the heck.. i'll have them sign the inside of it. and they did! hopefully now this purse will bring me good luck! oh and these pictures are not great at all. i shouldn't even post them but it was such a cool experience that i can't not. the lighting in there wasn't great. i don't know how to take action shots, and half of these are from my phone because it zoomed in more that the camera that my sister gave me. also, i even brought my point and shoot. man i have pictures all over the place. unfortunately my computer will not recognize that camera anymore so you will have to wait to see more pictures that sean took of d will and kyle signing my purse! anyway.. it was such a fun day! they ended up getting out in their 5th game. but it was so much fun to watch. so in the end they lost their first two, won the next two, and lost the last. i was really hoping that they would get to play deron's team. maybe next time though eh?

my three favorite things.

my three favorite things are in these pictures. sean. moses. and my baby blanket.

moses's three favorite things are in these pictures as well. sean. his red ball. and our bed.

it's so hard to tell this dog no. he wants nothing more than to snuggle up with us in the morning.
he also thinks he is human. and he also thinks he is only 5 lbs still.

i could not resist taking some pictures. i also had to include the last one. not his best look. haha.
he looks like he is seriously about to eat my face. he was just yawning though...

and in case you missed my last post about this weekend.. you can check it out here...

p.s. i am probably going to make these for dinner tonight. or these.
and maybe these too... i know, i know.

wife of the year award is calling my name.. hey. at least he will be happy.

or maybe it's just me that will be incredibly happy. except i am trying to eat healthy..so people?

come eat them so i don't eat ALL of them. it's one of those weeks.
you know girls.. where all you want is chocolate?
at least i am going to the gym today. right?

sigh. i am going to be the worst mother. or the best? haha.

an outfit. another lamp. and sean.

i am not a fashionable person.. but one day i wore this outfit to work and my sister maddie and friend lee insisted that a picture be taken of it and that i post it on the blog. they said i looked like i was going to go horseback riding or something. but that it was cute. haha. i normally wear practically the same thing everyday, so maybe they were just excited that it was something different? anyway, i gave in. here you go maddie and lee! enough about that. this will be the last time you see an outfit post from me. i love outfit posts from other people, don't get me wrong. just not my outfits. my boots are pretty cute though eh?



so here is another DI find.

this lamp was $2. i actually really liked it before painting it, but like donuts to a fat kid i just could not resist the power of spray paint.



i moved the other lamp i painted over to the side table by our couch because the lampshade that i got for it was a little bit too big for the space.





now i just need to find a taller and better side table. i honestly look EVERY SINGLE day for one. still haven't found the one. i am going to put my hunt for one on hold for a little bit because we are leaving for our cruise on saturday and i need to start getting ready for that!

i just wanted to say thank you everyone for your prayers and sweet comments for sean! he is still very sore, but doing great! should be back to his old self in no time. and for those what were wondering, we don't really know what is wrong with him. he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis 7 years ago (he was terribly, terribly sick, had to get called to a new mission), but now they believe there might be something else going on because his liver counts on his blood work for the past 7 years have always been higher than normal. that is why they decided to do a liver biopsy. it might not be anything, but the doctor said he wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't make sure. sean was feeling pretty good before all this came about so they don't seem too incredibly concerned about it. they just would rather be safe than sorry! :) we will find out the results on March 8th.

p.s. the bridal fair was a great success. i only managed to knock down 3/4 of all the frames displayed on the table while devin and katie were speaking with potential clients. way to go chloe! what can i say? it was like a domino effect, and the more i tried to stop them from falling? the more that fell. oops!

p.s.s. i am watching my girl 2 right now while sean is sleeping and moses is passed out under our bed. anyone remember that movie? kinzy? i know you do... ;) remember how she gets her ears pierced without permission and it's like she might as well have gotten knocked up or joined a gang or something? gosh i love this movie.

liver biopsy.

sean has to get a liver biopsy in the morning. his doctor has had some concerns about his liver and blood work for a while. it might not be anything at all, but if you could keep him in your prayers it would be greatly appreciated. he is really nervous about the procedure. he made the mistake of watching a video of it on youtube. and then he sent it to me. and i watched it. and i have get to be there to watch it in person tomorrow. and then wait with him for 5 hours after that. so maybe pray for me too.. haha jk. anyway, sean? i love you and you will be just fine, i know it!



haha, oh and because mindy reminded me, you should probably watch these videos from sean's colonoscopy. one of the worst days of his life, and one of the best days of mine.

or you can just watch them here if you don't want to read that post...

dear sean,

first off? this post is pretty much for sean. you probably won't think it's funny or get any of these inside jokes, but that is okay. this is our blog . . . and it is for these kinds of things right?

dear sean,

i am sorry that today has not been so good of a day. if i could make everyday better than the next for you? i would do it. in fact, maybe we should just move to disney land.

dear chloe,

you are the luckiest girl in the world. you married a hell of a man. and you just swore on your own blog. oops. and you are talking to yourself in third person. stop.

dear third person chloe,

K. good call.

dear sean,

back to you.. remember last night when i said "hurry and take moe out! it's frozing outside!" and then you brought up all the words in the past that i said wrong? and used them all in one sentence?

"i better get my brooch on and hurry on outside cuz it is frozing and then i better get on the computer and tope it up in a blog post." (you possibly had to be there)

okay, maybe you didn't use all of them. but you used some of them.

that made you laugh.. remember?

Dear Sean,

"YOU ARE IN A CHAIR. IN THE SKY!!!!!"

oh, remember that one time when we went to target? and you said "that kid done pooped his pants and sat on a shelf!" and i never let you live it down. i love when you talk like a hick.

remember that one day at our old apartment when i was outside with moe and he didn't have his leash on? and he started to do the potty dance? and was walking towards the neighbors lawn? and i tried to stop him before he went on their grass? and i picked him up and ran and he started to poop? and it landed on my foot? i think you laughed pretty hard at that one.

remember the day that we got moe snipped? and he just started to pee outside the vets office? for like 30 seconds straight? and he was still waking up from surgery? and he hiccuped? and it freaked him out? and then you decided you just had to go get your haircut right after that? so i had to take him home by myself while he sat in the back with a cone on his head? crying? like actually crying? and we were both mad at you? wait, maybe that wasn't so funny. by the way i forgive you for that.

anyway... if remembering all of these memories.. didn't make you laugh. or make your day better . . . then i hope you remember this.

the best part about me is you. sure we have our moments. our life isn't perfect. marriage can be hard sometimes. but it's more than good enough for me. i would take any day with you. the good and the bad. even if i cry too much, and "forget" to clean and cook and wake up on time... you still put up with me. you listen to me cry. you wake up at 7 am to vacuum. (did you know that is not normal?) you do our taxes. you pick up moes dog poop. you work full time and go to school full time. you let me make cookies for dinner. you would do anything for anyone. you enjoy math (kinda weird) but still it's cool. i love that about you. you always get the mail because it's too hard for me to walk 30 feet to go get it. you let me take the warm/new car to work. you save me the tomatoes on your salad and you eat my cucumbers and onions.

i don't say it enough to you . . . but thank you.  

i love you to africa and back. and more. times infinity. you are my favorite thing about my life.

now you can run and tell that, homeboy!

oh happy friday!

this little guy has been quite the stinker lately. in the day while we are at work he stays out in his dog run. we are working on the sprinkler system right now, so we don't have any grass yet. so pretty much he lives in the dirt and it makes our house a lovely mess when he comes inside but i guess that is the price we have to pay.

well the other day it rained like crazy and he was outside. all the dirt obviously turned to mud. i came home from work a little early so i could get him taken care of. i knew he would be a mess, but i didn't realize how bad it would be. our yellow lab turned into a chocolate lab. sean had school that night so i had to clean up this lovely creature myself. let me tell you, he was not happy. he barked at me the whole time. even when i got him in the garage. then i had to take him out front and hose him down and he barked even more. he was not happy at all. and all i could think was "Really? you are not happy? i am the one that has to clean you up!?"

well since that happened we have been keeping him in the garage. he has a kennel with a gate around it. yesterday when i got home i opened the garage and he came walking out like it was no big deal. i immediately tried to think of what he could have ruined since he got out. we have all the sprinkler parts in the garage.. boxes we haven't unpacked yet, the lawn mower, tools, and lots of shoes. he managed to eat half of sean's work boot and ruined a pair of my shoes. i guess that is not too bad considering what else could have been ruined. then he came inside later and just started peeing all over the kitchen floor and on another pair of seans shoes. keep in mind he is potty trained and has been for a while. i don't know what his deal was yesterday but it was not a good day for mosey. i feel bad for the little guy. i guess we all have our days though right?

anyway, these pictures below were taken 2 years ago. we were just starting to date and these were the first pictures that were ever taken of us. it is crazy to think of where we are 2 years later... i never thought that this night would be the begininning of an amazing adventure.  but kind of at the same time? i knew my life would never be the same.

it's been a fun 2 years seanie. i can't wait for the rest.

i just have to say that i am so glad it's friday. i love the rain, and i love october, and all that i want to do is lay on the couch in my pajamas and watch movies all day long. doing absolutely nothing is my absolute favorite thing to do.

a better evening.

how did my little puppy go from this 7 lb guy...

to this..... ??? ahhh he is getting so big. he is 3 months old now. anyway, tonight has been much better than the earlier part of the weekend. sean has been feeling a little bit better the past couple of hours. i really believe that everyone's prayers have helped. so thank you so much for all your sweet thoughts and comments. it is amazing what the power of prayer can do. i don't often get too spiritual on this blog, but i am grateful for your prayers and thoughts. you have no idea how much they have helped us today. sean was able to get up and walk outside with mosey for a bit. mind you, they only walked around our front yard, it was still a walk. we are trying to teach mosey how to heel. and that is requiring a choker chain. i hate that word. but this chain is really working for him. if he tries to run ahead or drag behind, the collar gets a little tight so he is learning he has to stay right by our feet. he is doing so good.

earlier today i caught him taking a nap like this...

at another point i walked in and he was laying in the same position. except he was awake. and he was staring straight at me. creepiest thing i have ever seen. he just sat there. he acted like he was caught doing something bad or something. it was pretty funny. i wish sean could have seen his face. he had all limbs in the air laying on his back. it was pretty funny. we have mosey in a crate, and then outside of his crate is his food and water and another little fence that we let him roam around in. well last night he figured out how to take his tin food and water bowl out of this plastic thing that they both sit in. then he figured out how to take the rubber padding and bottom off of the plastic thing.. in about 30 different pieces, in case you were wondering. then he brought the plastic thing into his kennel, and somehow managed to pull his little towel through the holes in it. i have no idea how he did it. and that probably made no sense but it was crazy.



this is what sean has been doing today. actually he has been in bed but has finally ventured out to the couch. and then went on that little walk. he still is feeling sick, but doing a lot better considering how he was this morning...



well i told you that i found my camera charger. and i got bored and decided to take a picture of my feet because everyone always has these cute feet pictures. then i realized, oh wait. they actually have cute feet. i do not. and you can try all you want to pretend and tell me that i do but the proof is in the picture. and they look worse in person. cuz i did some airbrushing. yep. after i uploaded it to picnik i almost died. my pedicure from 2 months ago was a mess. so i decided to do a virtual pedicure. not too shabby eh?



anyway, those are my feet. i woke up this morning with a bug bite on one of my toes. it is right on my scar and it hurts so bad! and one of my toe nails looks like it is missing but i promise it is there. and yes i have bunions. i have had the ones on the inside of my feet removed but not the outside. i probably won't do it. not worth the pain. i think i have enough metal in my feet for now. anyway, that is my "cute feet" picture for ya. hahahaha.... don't judge. or do.. i was born with crooked toes!

anyway, i just really want to thank everyone again for the sweet comments. i was feeling so down earlier, and immediately felt better after getting that out and receiving many sweet thoughts and prayers. i was able to take a nap and actually get some sleep. it was much needed. you guys are all amazing. i have the greatest family, friends, and blog friends. so thank you. i wanted to post these pictures because sean will be taking the camera tomorrow if he is feeling well enough to go to wyoming. i hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. i am watching the incredibles on abc family right now and will probably watch toy story 2 right after. is anyone else excited for toy story 3?

a rough weekend.

when we got married it was for better or for worse and in sickness and in health. and lately it has been for worse and in sickness and i am trying to tough it out. i can honestly say that i think this has been the hardest weekend we have had together since we have been married. not that we are fighting or arguing or anything like that. but i have learned that when someone is sick in our relationship, neither of us are happy.  not that neither of us have been sick before. we have had our moments, but this time it's different. sean has colitis, like i have mentioned before. and yesterday he had a really bad flare up. he has not had once since i have known him, and it has been so difficult to watch. i don't know how to make him feel better. i have never seen him this quiet and down. we have hardly had a conversation this weekend. i feel so disconnected to him and it breaks my heart. to make matters worse, mosey has been a pill. 3 nights ago he cried. ALL night. it was worse than the first night we brought him home. usually sean and i take turns taking him out. but he hasn't felt well and so i have been doing it. also sean usually is really good at wearing mosey out before bed time, and i just don't seem the have the same affect on him. and for the past couple weeks mosey has been able to hold it and not cry for a really long time..but not the last few nights.

this morning i took sean to the ER. he is in so much pain. he can't be away from the bathroom for more that 20 minutes. his colon is spasming and he gets super nauseated. they gave him some zofran for his nausea. i tried to make him laugh and tell him that is what they give pregnant women, and since he already had to have an ultrasound he should be able to relate better when i get pregnant someday.. but he didn't even crack a smile. he is supposed to go on a work trip tomorrow and it will require him driving to wyoming and spending the night there. he already has his hotel booked. i don't feel right about him going alone. he insists that he will be fine but he can hardly get out of bed. about a month ago sean went off of the medication he has been taking for 5 years because of his colitis. we think that if he starts taking it again, he will start to feel better. so right now we are just waiting it out. hoping that it will start to kick in.

i am trying to hold it together. i know that everything will be fine, and that things could be ten times worse. i just feel helpless. sean didn't want to go to the ER. he has been incredibly stubborn this weekend and won't try anything that i suggest. i was feeling super upset and stressed out. mosey was whining, and i have hardly slept in the past 4 days. anyway, i woke up this morning and sean was out in the front room on the couch. i made him go back and lie in bed, and i came and sat on the couch. and then i almost lost it and got down on my knees and prayed for what to do. i didn't know if we should just wait it out, or if i should take him in. i know that i can't do this on my own. i am not strong enough. i ended up praying 3 different times because i didn't feel like i was getting an answer. but then after the third time i just knew that if the situation were reversed, sean would have already taken me into the hospital. i had the feeling that i should have already known what the answer was and that we just needed to go. sean was worried about the co-pay for going to the ER but i said that you can't really put a price on your spouse's well being. i don't care if it costs $50 or $500, if it makes you feel even a little bit better it is worth it.

they gave us some prescriptions at the hospital to help ease his pain and hopefully get his spasms to stop. after leaving the hospital we stopped at walgreens. we tried to get his prescriptions filled but it was a 40 minute wait. so i brought sean home and then headed back out there. it was so crowded. now we are both home and sean and mosey are asleep. i have had 1 meal in the past 48 hours and i want to make something or shower but it will wake one of them up. mosey sleeps in the kitchen and if i shower i will have to go into our bedroom and sean is sound asleep. so right now i am just sitting. trying to be patient. i know god is testing me right now. i am trying to do the right thing. i don't mean for this to be a pity post. i just needed to get my feelings out. i know everything will be just fine. i know it will. i know my patience is being tested. and that is just fine. i can handle it. i know i can. sean has to stay on a liquid/soft food diet, and so his sweet sister amanda is bringing over some homemade chicken noodle soup tonight. i am so grateful for that. he will love it. if anyone has any yummy, relatively easy soup recipes that they would recommend that would really help me out a lot!

so yeah.. this weekend has been somewhat of a downer, but i am grateful that all of this happened on a weekend that we had nothing going on. i am grateful for sean. he is the best husband that i ever could have asked for. if i were the one struggling with what he is going through? it would be ten times worse because i would be a mess. he is so much tougher than me. i just want my best friend/ happy husband back. i miss him. :(



oh and guess what? i did find my camera charger. plugged right into the wall where i left it. hmmm.. pretty sure someone took it and then just brought it back because i looked everywhere for it! i mean i have been looking for weeks. i swear i am losing my mind...

a great weekend.

sean had to have an ultrasound this week. he has suffered from ulcerative colitis since he was 18. he was really sick when he was first diagnosed. he has been able to keep in under control, and last year they even thought it had amazingly gone away. but lately he has not been feeling too well. so they did tons of blood work and he ended up having a ultrasound because his liver isn't lookin too good. i hope they will get to the bottom of this! i am not trying to sound dramatic or anything, but with sean's disease he has a really high risk of colon cancer. it increases each decade after diagnosis. so i guess i do worry about him.

pretty much it means that he has uclers on the inside of his colon that swell up really bad. your colon can't swell outward so it only swells inward and causes blockage and lots of pain and bleeding. i can't even imagine what this would feel like. just looking at sean, and how happy he is, you would probably never know that he suffers from this. he is a trooper. i complain for hours when i get a paper cut. i like to pretend that he can maybe relate to having cramps.. but then i don't want him to relate because i want him to think they are way worse so that i can still use them as an excuse to get out of church..(wait did i just say that?) even though i am sure he would take those any day over colitis.

Not too much has been going on around here besides that. well actually we have just been really busy with work and all that fun stuff. mosey is getting really big. we are guessing he is around 22-23lbs. this week he has been incredibly whiney in the mornings. it has been frustrating. well a couple of days ago sean grabbed him and let him chill in bed with us for a bit. mosey was so funny. he caught his reflection in the mirror while sitting. and was entranced. i mean, we think he is a good looking dog. but i guess he does as well. he would just stare at himself for minutes. then he would twitch his ear. or move his head slightly. and keep looking. it was so funny. oh and i guess he doesn't like photo booth pictures very much. probably because he had a hard time seeing his face so he wasn't interested. dogs.

photos taken at this website. which i found out about from my blog friend justine. we have just kept it pretty low-key this weekend. we haven't had any definite plans which has been nice. we haven't had a weekend like that in a long time. we have been going on a lot of walks with mosey to some new parks and places and it has been nice. i think having a dog has been good for me. i wouldn't say that i am active by any means, but i have been a little bit more active since getting a dog. i guess it was a dog or a gym pass. and the dog won. they are much cuter than gym passes eh? although yesterday he took a dump right in the middle of the road. and i guess i should say it wasn't a full dump. because he didn't appear to have gotten all of it out of him and a piece was floppin around on the outside and it just wasn't that pretty but was pretty darn hilarious. he walked like that for about ten minutes. guess you probably had to be there... 

we went and saw shrek forever after yesterday and we both really enjoyed it. and we had sushi for lunch before that. it has been a really good weekend. glad i got to spend it with my best friend. i know i am crazy and tease sean a ton, but really? i think the world of him. i still can't believe he married me. i don't know what he was thinking. and i know i can be so much better of a wife than i have been. sean is so good with moses. he is so good with all kids. he is so good at being my husband and best friend. i hope someday i will be able to return the favor.... hmmm.. don't know why i am being sappy tonight. maybe it's because i am watching sweet home alabama..anyway... hope you all had a great weekend! yay for no work tomorrow!

oh i almost forgot! i may or may not have accidentally smudged some butter that didn't properly get wiped off of my thumb from a napkin at dinner, on my brand new purse. i blame it on the napkin. i pretty much wanted to cry all night. i kind of got it out..but does anyone know of any good leather purse protectant stuff? i have never had to worry about crazy stuff like this... the life of a nice purse owner..yeesh. i don't know if i am cut out for this lifestyle. i feel like i can't even take it out of the house. i can't lay it on the ground at a movie. i feel like i take better care of it than my own body. any tips?

a week of firsts.

last week was a big week for mosey. he had his first bath. he went to his first softball game. he gained 3 lbs in 3 days. he had his first date. he humped his first stuffed duck. he went on his first major car ride. he went on his first little vacation to my grandparents in Torrey, Utah. he rode on a four-wheeler. he slept by a fire. and he took lots of naps with sean. not only was it a week of firsts for mosey, it was a week of firsts for sean. moses is the first dog that sean has ever owned. it has been kind of a big deal for him :)

mosey just loves sean so much. he always falls asleep on him. i love it. we had a good weekend. so good, that sean is passed out right now in bed. no joke, he went to bed at 8:30. i don't blame him. it's kind of hard packing up a dog and taking it on vacation. sean is very concerned about all of mosey's behaviors. i think it is adorable. seeing him take care of this little puppy confirms to me that he is going to be a great daddy someday. i mean i have always known that. but this just sets it in stone. 

as much as i love moses, i wish i had something more to blog about. he has consumed our lives this past week. we have hardly slept. we are exhausted. we can't believe that it has only been a week. when we aren't both with moses we are exhausted, passed out in our bed. it has been completely life changing. i am sure many people will think that i am being dramatic saying that. but it is the truth. and we are okay with that. on friday, sean said to me, "chloe, you can never take mosey from me. if you ever try to get rid of him? i will never let you. i will fight for him. he is my little buddy."

he is our little buddy. it is weird to think that we will be about 40 when he leaves our lives. i don't know if i want to think that far ahead. not sure if it is because i don't want to think about being 40, or if i don't want to think about life without him. well no matter what happens, we love him. even when sean gets upset because he won't come to him when he hears his voice. even when we are laughing so hard because he ran into a cement ledge in our driveway, and barks at it and growls at it because it caused him to tumble. even when he is crying at 3 in the morning because he wants us to take him out. even though we just did. even though we can barely keep our eyes open at work. we will still love him. even though he bites our feet, and loves mud, and eating flowers. we will still love him. even when he won't poop when we take him out, and then decides he wants to right after we bring him back in? we will still love him. this little puppy is teaching us patience. and sean and i both needed a little bit more of that. 

i think in the next few weeks, things will calm down a little. i will be able to actually find some time to comment on other peoples blogs and get some other things done. i feel kinda out of the loop lately and i am sorry. but this little guy really does require a lot of attention right now. and maybe in a few weeks, something else cool will have happened in our lives. dog-related or not, we blog about our life. and this is our life right now. we are both incredibly happy. and incredibly blessed. 

p.s. this is a picture of sean when he was just a little guy. his mom thought i would love this picture. she was absolutely right. wasn't he the cutest little kid in the world?? look at those cheeks!!

oh by the way, we had a lovely time on our vacation, and my only complaint? it was too short! thank you grandma dallyne and grandpa dave! we had a wonderful time. you guys are the best. we love you!