On Monday we closed on our house- we are are finally home owners!!
Thanks to John, My dad, Taylor, and Orry we got all of our furniture out of storage and into the house that night! Once I get the house all cleaned up, we will finish moving the last little bit and get all cozy in our new home.
I can't wait for everyone to come see it! We'll have a shin-dig once I get it all un-boxed and painted.
I'll post pics soon.
4-30 update in red
4-17 update in purple
4-15 update in green
My poor baby was hurt again. Itty Bitty was attacked by the neighbors dog on Friday morning. Bitty and Abby were playing in the front yard when the dog came and carried her off across the street. My mom and the dog's owner couldn't get Bitty free for a few minutes. She was rushed into surgery; her intestines were punctured as was her abdominal wall. She has stiches all over the back half of her body. It is awful to see her; she is in so much pain. She came home on Saturday afternoon, but she's back at the vet today to get on an IV for the day. We are just so thankful that she's alive. If the dog had gotten her at any other part of her body she wouldn't have made it.
Well, yesterday went well at the vet. She is now eatting (horray!) and looking much better. The vet said she is thru the woods now for an infection, we are just praying that nothing tears in her intenstines now that they are starting to function.
She came to work with me today because she has to be monitored so closely. I have to feed her every few hours, and still having to force water at times. Carter picked her out a dress, and she's wearing it today because she is now aware of her injuries and wanting to lick them.
Bit Bit under my desk in her basket; what a little PrincessWell, we have hit a bump in the road. I had to rush Bitty to the vet this morning because her skin split wide open. He took out her drain tubes, and took out her stiches too (they aren't doing any good at this point).
The vet said that there was so much trauma to parts of her back that the skin is dying. So far, some areas have split open and you can see her muscles and everything. It looks terrible and makes me want to cry looking at it. She is going to have to have another surgery in 1-2 weeks to get rid of the dead skin and replace it.
She has been such a trooper. She is getting around really well, and doesn't seem to be in too much pain. We are calling her the dog with 50 lives; she has been thru so much this past year.
I've liked having her at work with me, she is really being spoiled.
This is what it looked like before the vet took the tube and stiches out
This is what it looks like now :(
Her tummy is doing ok
Bit Bit is doing so well! Her tummy scars are disappearing, and the tissue on her back is starting to grow back. We are hoping we won't have to do the last surgery on her back. She will have a scar, and we aren't sure if the hair will grow back, but the neccrotic tissue has fallen off and the new growth is looking very good, it's has shrunk in half, and hopefully in another week or so the skin will have grown back together.
She is back to being herself, hyper as always, and begging for attention.
So, the house we were planning on moving into has fallen thru. We don't know if the builder is going out of business or what, but he isn't working on our house, so we've had to get out of that contract and find a new house. Luckily, our prayers were answered; we found this house after it had been on the market 1 day! We are very excited and like the house a lot! We should be closing around May 1st. Now we are praying that our attorney is able to get the money we sunk into the first house back.
Here she is! It's in Westwood, and we get a half acre!! (now we need a riding lawn mower). It has hardwood floors and tile thru the entire house, no carpet! 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a fireplace!
I can't wait to put our front door on that mom gave us for Christmas!
John wants the TV to stay
Master bedroom
We'll use this room as an office
Guest bedroom
Back yard and and back of the house. The jungle gym stays, so Carter will have fun visiting
We had so much fun during Rodeo this year! We went to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo 3 times! We saw Alan Jackson with Megan and Orry, Brad Paisley with Matt and Stefanie, and Dierks Bently with Christine and Sheldon. We also went to the Montgomery County Rodeo with Aaron and Claire. Can you tell how much we love Rodeo?
Dierks Bently, who did an awesome job!
Me and "Tine"
Brad Paisely, the County Guitar King
Me & my hunny
John and Matt
Me and Stef outside the carnival
Barel Racing, my favorite part of rodeo (next to bull riding)
This little guy was only a couple days old!
Boys and their toys
Me and Claire (we didn't match on purpose)
Aaron & JohnFor mine and John's 1 yr anniversary, John supprised me with a weekend get-away to Chain-O-Lakes Resort. It was one of the few perfect weather weekends we get in Texas, and it was absolutely gorgeous. We had such a relaxing weekend, and it was great to reflect on our first year and to see how much closer we have become. We had our saved wedding cake, which tasted pretty aweful but we put on smiles and laughed, and watched our wedding video, which was nice to relive over again.
We've made some great memories, and can't wait to see what's in our future!
This was our little secluded cabin, it was so cute.
These were our friendly turtles that we could see from our deck.
It wasn't cold, but the fire made it romantic :)
John had even gone to the grocery store (a big WOW for him) and gotten food for us. For our first night he had gotten everything I needed to make shrimp alfredo, yum.
My favorite flowers! He hand-picked these and brought them from home. Literally, he went in my mom's garden at cut them!
We had a fun horse back ride around the facility
This was our aligator! He was about 30 feet from our balcony.
A horse carriage picked us up and took us to breakfast!
We fished and John caught two lil' guys, I on the other hand caught zero
There was a hot tub (that we weren't prepared for, funny story on its own). It was built like a cave and had a waterfall coming down.
We had a "white linen "candlelight dinner in our cabin (prepared and set up by the resort)
That's all!
