Let's take a hike!

Chris has been talking for a while about taking Oakley on a hike in the foothills. Now that Bogus is closed and he has some time off work, we decided to take that hike. It was a gorgeous day. Here is Oakley posing at the trail head. He found a stick!

Oakley just loved it. He would run ahead of us, sniffing and investigating, then he would stop and look back to make sure we were still there. Then he would run back towards us, stop when he got to us, then turn around and run right back ahead, as if to say hurry up!

This was the view of Boise from the foot hills. It was very peaceful and we were just turning around to head back when.....

Oakley found the only tiny mud puddle (surprise!) and rolled around in it. Grrr. He is ridiculous. Needless to say, he soon recieved a bath, and now smells delicious, so I guess that's a plus.

It was a fun afternoon activity, that I'm sure will be repeated many times as the weather improves (minus the mud part!).

Newfies!!!!

We are beyond excited for our newest addition to our little family. We are getting a newfoundland puppy!! Unfortunately we probably won't get him until next January, but we are hoping we'll be able to have him by Christmas. We have gone to the breeder several times to visit the Newfies and we just love them. This is Maci, she will be the mother of our future puppy.

She is still a puppy herself, which is why we've had to wait so long for our baby. She is the only Landseer (black and white) they have, and the Landseer is what I want, so we will wait. They are waiting to breed her until she turns two, which will be in September. She is just so beautiful, we are hoping to get one that looks just like her, but a boy who is as big and sweet as his dad. Speaking of the dad, this is Cooper, our future baby daddy! He is a big boy at around 180 lbs.


These are just a couple of landseer newfie puppies, just to give you an idea of how adorable they are. CAN. NOT. WAIT.

Babies

on babies.....oh babies. Thinkinng about babies pulls me in many different directions. On one hand I think about my future children, what will they look like, what kind of personalities they will have, what kind of mother I will be - and I feel like I'm ready, I want one. Then I think about the realities of motherhood, your life is never really yours again - and that's a good thing, a new chapter in life, but am I ready for that? Probably not. But to be fair, I don't think anyone is ready until it is thrust upon them, because you can't ever be ready for something which you know nothing about. And, though I don't know much about parenting, I do believe I know that you have no idea what it is like until you experience it. I don't know what has prompted this post. I guess it is just that so many people I know are having babies, and I think about it. Okay, back to reality. We are not having babies until we are done with school, have jobs, and hopefully have a house. That is final. I know, how boring. But I really do think about it, I have names picked out, I have even mapped out the preferred months to give birth, and consequently the months in which to try and get pregnant. I know, I'm crazy (and it probably won't work out exactly as planned), but I feel it is a gift I will give to my future children to give them a birthday not overlapping the holidays, etc. For now I guess I will just dream about babies and wait my turn.

Oakley Loves the Holdiays too!

I just love the holidays, it makes me so sad that they are just about over. I always think taking down the Christmas tree is the saddest day of the year. But it was a good Christmas, Oakley thought so too! Here he is showing off his present, he looooves it.

Oakley also loves the snow! Mostly rolling around in it and eating it, but he is just so cute, I don't even care how silly he is.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Belated Halloween Treats!

I know I know, I haven't posted in FOREVER!!! I have been extremely busy with schoolwork (yay for my last year of graduate school!) and have therefore been spending all of my free time being extremely lazy/baking/reading. Well deserved. Anyway, I have been feeling awful all day (I would get sick right before the two busiest weeks of the semester *angry face*) so needless to say I do not feel like doing homework. I figured that if I wasn't doing homework I should still do something to feel productive, so I am posting to my greatly deglected blog. Don't get too excited.

I'm way late, but here is a fun treat I made for Halloween. They were a great hit!

Pure Joy

I am just giddy over what I got today....

A Library Card!!!! I got this one with a cute little fish on it, along with a book I am about to settle in with for the night. Just the thought of this has brought me happiness all day. Goodnight.

AAAHHHHH!

I'm tired. Why? Because I just ran two miles. Yep. I don't care that in the grand scheme of things that isn't really a long distance, it is a big deal to me. Two miles, straight, without stopping, even though I really, really wanted to. It's the longest I've ever run before in my entire life. I pretty much hated every minute of it, but I am nonetheless very proud of myself now (hence the post) and I will definitely be doing it again.

On other news, Chris left last Wednesday for wildland firefighting duty and he was called out to a fire Thursday and Friday so I didn't get to talk to him on our anniversary. He came home last night and I've got to say, the absence thing so far is a good thing. He has been so crazy lovey since he got back. We celebrated our anniversary tonight with a date and saw Inception (good, but confounding). Tomorrow we are planning a hike and then have a birthday party in the evening, then he leaves again on Wednesday :( Missing a picture? Oh ok. Here are a couple pics of the babes doing what they do.