Meet Eysa

Hopefully I will begin blogging regularly and finally get to our Ireland information. But for now…

Meet Eysa the newest edition to our family.

After we put Loky down in March I kept saying lets see how Odyn does on his own. He was doing great, playful, getting to go on walks, getting lots of love. I was insistent that we stay a one dog family. Until Saturday when we took Odyn on a ride to Petsmart and it was puppy adoption day with Open Heart Animal Resuce. I wish I had thought to take pictures of all the dogs, but alas I didn’t. Initially I looked at her and thought wow she is cute, but was interested in the black dog with a a white chest in the crate next to hers.  Until it stood up and I realized it had short stubby legs and a fatter body. We are a big dog family. Then she was all about licking my fingers and chewing on them. Ed and Odyn were sitting down the aisle, since everytime they came near the crates the dogs went ape-shit. I had the lady take her out and I carried her down to meet my boys. She didn’t know how to talk on a lease poor thing. She cowered and Odyn got protective because I had another dog in my lap. 15 minutes later and a debate with my husband I filled out the paperwork, he took Odyn home and we left with Esya, a bag of dog food and a new collar.  She is estimated to be 4 1/2 months old and weights 19 pounds. She is a hungry little thing.

Our debate was not that great, Ed is an animal lover, hence when I met him there were 2 dogs and 3 cats. I am just a big softie. We have  a plan in place we hope to have her let out a few times a day since I work almost and hour each way and he is teaching summer school. We plan to rely on our amazing neighbors. One is home for the summer because she is a school lunch lady. The other is 16 and working a part time job but should be home a fair amount. I also plan to play with my schedule and do some more working from home until her bladder can handle being in the crate for longer periods of time.

Last night was hard we got home and took both dogs for a walk. Odyn had to show her he is the Alpha dog. Now you know why we got a girl and not a boy (plus I needed another girl at home it was me and all the boys). Once we got back I gave her a bath outside, because she stunk and the backs of her legs were yellow from lying in a crate and kennel at the shelter. She is from Tennessee and was just brought down this week.She loved the water, had no problems with the bath and makes me think we will be taking lots of trips to Fleet peoples to play in the lake. We walked in the house and she went to the front door, the only place we have a run and took a nice runny poop all over the carpet. We had a few more accidents last night, and spent a lot of time grabbing her and running out the door. We believe in crate training especially because we kept stopping her from chewing on our shoes last night. When we went to bed she whined and cried in her crate off and on all night. It killed me but finally this morning she was much quieter. I was up and took her out at 1, 4:45 and 6:30. I am not sure if Odyn was annoyed or protective. We have had a few snipping/barking situations and of course some humping, but a spray bottle helps. She doesn’t like when she is running and he chases. 2 herding dogs could be interesting.

I am excited to train her and get to the point where we don’t have to watch her every second in the house. But for now I guess we will enjoy the playful puppy by spending a lot of time out back.  And hope that Odyn enjoys having a puppy to play with.

Insanity day 1

I started Insanity today. I was sweating bullets, but I don’t think I did too horrible. I plan to do a review at the end with before and after measurements and stats. Hopefully I stick with it, and can drop the 10+ pounds I want to.

 

Hopefully the Husband will start it too.

Wedding Video Trailer

Oh my god I love our photo and video team. We invested a lot of money into photography and videography and knew we wouldn’t be disapointed. We are still waiting to see our photos and/or a sneak peak, but last night we got sent this amazing video!

 

 

Thank you to the team at KWU Weddings!

Ireland Review.. coming soon

Review of our Honeymoon in Ireland coming soon! Hopefully it will help anyone else navigate their way through the country, especially on a budget.

 

 

Oh and sadly I run a webpage as part of my job, but can’t figure out wordpress. What the heck!

I DID IT!

I (we) did it, I finished the Disney Princess Half!

I had a great birthday weekend, topped off by completing my first half in 2:25.07.

I won’t lie parts were tough, but in the end I was glad to have Alexis by my side, and so much entertainment throughout the course. I never had to pull out my ipod. Overall I can’t wait to run another, but next time I’ll stop for pictures along the course. I was too worried about a good time, then having fun, though I did have fun singing, dancing and running. We only ended up walking one hill, mile 11.75. And for about 15 seconds at the top of another hill so I could gel up. According to my Garmin we stopped for a total of 3 minutes, 1 min was porta potty, the rest was stretching. Splits were awesome and Ed said according to the text alerts I was getting progressively faster! I can’t wait til the next half. Unfortunately I battled some rough stomach issues the rest of the day, I made the mistake of drinking powerade as we went into the Magic Kingdom. Bad choice, but it held out for the rest of the race.

Thanks to a great cheering squad! My Mom (+ her “friend”) & Ed got up at the crack of dawn to come cheer and battle the crazy crowds. Sadly due to the crowds they missed us at the finish. But Ed and Matt (Alexis husband) saw us at the start, mile 4 and mile 8. It was great to know they were there cheering, because they really are our biggest fans.

I rocked my pink recovery socks last night, and slept in them and my legs felt great today. Hip flexors are sore, but I have been battling those and my it band this whole time. Today I went for a massage, and it felt good! Deep tissue sports, and she commented that my shoulders were tenser then my legs. And then I gave in and took a sick day.

 

Oh and I decided to postpone the tri this year, and focus on dropping 10 pounds and getting lean all over. I’ve really slacked on my lifting, and want to make it my goal so that I can be stronger the next race. Whats next, I have no idea,  but I do plan on running the Wine & Dine in Nov!

First Run with the pups

Last night I took my first run with our pups. I was getting ready to head out after work, and as soon as I put on my spi belt they went crazy, I guess they thought I had a leash. I am not really sure why since my spibelt is pink. I managed to get Loky crated, but Odyn wanted nothing to do with his. Instead he jumped back and forth between me and the door. Whats a girl to do, take the fat boy on a run. Odyn and I managed 1.75 fast miles. He actually did a great job, but I could tell he was pooped at the end. We circled back to the house and I switched dogs. Loky and I headed out for 1.25. He is not as great a running partner. I fell over him once, and he kept trying to chase cats. The interesting thing is he is the one I have trouble walking and have started using a gentle leader on (I did not use it for our run). In all I was wiped, but followed up with yoga to work on my tight hips.

 

As for the pups, they were wiped and slept the rest of the night. Don’t get me started on this bad habit that I created. Ed could kill me, I’m such a sucker for those pups.

 

Loky

 

Odyn

And yes they still have their Christmas collars on. Most likely they will until it is time for St. Patrick’s day, we don’t have Valentines day collars.

Work fail

Today was a work fail.

This month has been a work fail.

The 2nd Friday of the month is supposed to be family movie night, outside. The 3rd Friday is supposed to be date night movie, outside. This month the 2nd Tueday the temperature started in the 40′s. I cancelled due to the cold. The 3rd Friday it was raining, I cancelled. So tonight I rescheduled the family movie. I head over, start setting up the movie screen and before I can stand it up it suddenly deflates. I try 3 different outlets, call our maitenance guy, and then realize maybe I blew the fuse in the plug. I try changing it. Finally I call my boss at 6 for help. The movie was supposed to start at 6:30.

After he trys to save the day by going to Radio Shack I cancelled the movie. I am fortunate the families who showed are all families I know well. But still a big work fail for the month of January. I think a short happened and fried the blowers in our BRAND NEW ONLY USED ONCE screen. Thank god it wasn’t the $1,000 sound system.

On the bright side I got to go to the Church shrimp dinner late. There I got to spend time with the inlaws and nieces and nephews. They make my day better. Until I got my niece in trouble, but that’s not my fault, her mom heard me telling Paw Paw what she was doing. I try to protect her too much, shes just like I was. A little s**t.Shes not looking in this picture, that one is my shadow. I <3 her shes an old soul.