bypass

Right now, as I type, my Dad is having quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery.

Basically he was a walking heart attack with four of his arteries almost 90% blocked. After an angiogram yesterday afternoon they scheduled surgery for 8:30 am this morning. Can I say - Holy Shit?!

My Dad is healthy and plays racquetball or golfs almost everyday - so the doctors tell us everything will go smoothly. His father died of a heart attack. So this is pretty scary. My gut tells me everything is going to be fine though.

His 63rd birthday is on Monday - what a crappy way to celebrate.

dirty paws

Our life now involves and sorta revolves around a puppy.
Jake and I have turned into "those" people that we ALWAYS said we would not be...

You know - talking about bathroom routines, eating habits, annoying habits, and the oh so HILARIOUS little things that a puppy does.

But you know what? I don't care. For quite awhile I have been too "into" me, my problems, my perfectionism, my "issues" that I had a really hard time relaxing.

Now I don't care about dirty paws on my clothes and I invite puppy kisses on my cheek in the morning.

Judy has a beating heart and is full of energy and love - and THAT is a good thing!

pinky

Jake bought a knife sharpener on Sunday and sharpened all our knifes that night.

I bought potatoes on Monday and Jake started slicing them that night.

Five minutes later Jake did not have the tip of his left pinky.

We were sad to see it go...but we had no choice.

judydog

Judy has a twitter account! Now we all can keep up with how the day is going for her and Jake :)

come here!

Even though she is so cute...puppy training is hard. Consistency, patience, and reinforcement - oh my! Anyone have tips?

lucky seven

Judy was born 7/7/07 and we picked her up at 7 o'clock on August 17th, 2007 - which means she just started her 7th week of life.

Maybe we should have named her Seven?

She has lived with us for a full three days days. In the last three days she has met twenty four new people.

She is a what you would call a total cutiepatootie.
Jake and I feel very happy and hope she doesn't ruin our lives.

this is judy

Okay, I might have spoken too soon - maybe this IS the most exciting thing ever!!!



This is Judy, she is a cutie.

oh yeah!

I don't know if it gets any more exciting than that!

garage doors

Okay, so maybe they are not so glamorous - but I haven't been this excited about garage doors in...wait, ever!

This morning we got two new beautiful steel garage doors with openers! OH MY GOSH. (Photo of new doors coming soon - this is our goodbye photo with the old doors).

Even before the punk kids punched through our crappy rotten wood panel the first week we moved in, we knew we were going to replace the doors...so, three months later we now will start parking in our garage. OUR GARAGE - our very very very own garage. It might seem silly but it feels awesome!

More photos and videos of the inside of the house coming...! But for now, here is a video of Jake at dinner last night. Yup, that is right, we ate at DQ. Hot eats cool treats.

a preview

Okay, here is the deal - this post is a preview of my next post - which will be about our house - because I don't think I have updated the world with photos or video of the new house. In order to do this my computer needs to be fixed by Jake. I feel naked without my computer. Wait, is that normal?