Sisters Wedding Day!

We flew into Newport Beach late on Wednesday night with my sisters wedding being on Thursday. And Henry got this bright idea to rent an extremely expensive mercedes. Luckily because of his Delta discount it didn't cost any more than any other regular rental car, but I was sure nervous to even breath in it. It is such an expensive car in fact, that the rental car company does not even offer insurance. They call your personal insurance company to confirm you have enough insurance to rent it. Anyway Henry had a whole lot of fun driving it around California. I am happy to say I never had to drive it. 

So Thursday morning, we got up and go breakfast at Wilmas, it was a cute place, but I wouldn't say the food was over exciting. Then we walked up and down the main street on balboa island, getting some of the best taffy and beef jerky weha ve ever had. Then picked  my dad up from the hotel and went for a drive. In the car I offered him some taffy and he said he didn't eat candy. Which I thought was weird because I had seen him eat chocolate on many occasions, but didn't think more of it.  We ended up taking the ferry across to the other side of the island and drove around for a bit. When then found a pier we wanted to walk out to. There were alot of people fishing and it just felt good to have fresh ocean air in your face. Then we stopped for some pizza and returned on the fairy back over to the main land. The wedding was beautiful and perfect. And then we headed over to Tommy Bahamas for a scrumptious dinner. I got to sit next to CoCo at the table and hang out. After dinner we drove CoCo back in our fast rental car. I think she really liked it. The next day I went out to the pool in the afternoon. Somebody had let their dog poop right at the entrance of the pool where everyone was walking. Unbeknownst to me, my dad had stepped in it already in his bare feet. As I was walking, my Dad motioned for me to stop, but it didn't register in time and I stepped in the poop in my shoes as well. So gross! Then I went and sat down next to my dad at the pool. In my little pool bag I had stashed some of those yummy taffy's. As I sat at the pool talking with my Dad, every so often I would take one out, unwrap it and eat it. This went on for probably 30 min, before my dad said, Well aren't you going to offer me one of your taffy's from that magic bag??!!?? We started to laugh so hard. I said, you told me yesterday you didn't eat candy. He said that he had said the prior day that he didn't want candy right at that moment. So we had a really good laugh about it. I only had 2 left and shared one with him. But it is one of those memories I wanted to write down to remember. So this is definitely more for me than for you. For my dad's birthday a couple weeks later, I got him a whole bag of his own taffy.

Riding the Ferry to Balboa Island

The view from the pier on Balboa island

 Wedding Photos

Oh Oscar

While he may look sweet and innocent in this photo, he had just finished chewing multiple pairs of shoes...

Comfy Oscar? Not sure how you are going to get your leg out from behind the couch...

Work Day

When mom and dad are at work and Oscar can not be trusted to roam the house all day. Oh life is so hard to be a dog.

Oscar and his new Big Sister

Boys of Rock and Roll

We miss you Grampy!

This past Thursday, Henry’s sweet grandfather and the last of our grandparents went home to be with the love of his life and other family and friends on the other side of the veil. I will forever cherish the wonderful memories of time we spent together over the years. I am also so grateful we were able to fly out to Connecticut earlier this year to spend time with him. He will truly be missed! This photo was taken at our wedding back in 2008 and is one of our favorites of him and Grandma.

Grandpa's Obituary

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Never Say Never-Adoption Day

Advice of the day, never say never.. as in “I don’t think we will ever have three dogs again...”
Meet Oscar-the newest member of our family as of yesterday afternoon, a 5 yo bloodhound. Lily and Charlie have even accepted him into their pack already. Guess it was meant to be.

So the story is this. Hen and I were going to meet a dog at a shelter in west valley on friday with Lily and Charlie. And when I arrived there they told me the dog we were going to meet, didn't get along with other dogs so we high tailed it out of there, wasn't worth the chance. So then Saturday morning comes along and I was looking on KSL and saw this mug. Hen and I had talked about getting a bloodhound before, and I saw that face and I was like, I have got to meet this guy. He was living with his owner in Elmo, Utah which is east of Manti somewhere. She was coming up to some reptile expo at the fairgrounds and said she was bring him with her. Story was she had like 10 dogs she was trying to get rid of so she could move to Texas. When he came to the house he stunk to high heaven and you could every rib. He clearly needed some TLC. Mind you at this point in time, Henry had no idea I had found a dog, had him delivered and had basically adopted him. When Hen was leaving work, I texted him a picture. I said there is someone here that you need to meet. He was like, you are kidding me... Needless to say the house stunk all weekend, even after we tried to give him a house down. The first night was hard because he had slipped somewhere on the hardwood in the hallway and then was scared to walk over that spot. So he sat in the kitchen crying. I would try to help him to our room and he just fought and fought me, so I went to bed. Finally after about 20 min we hear this rabbit scrabbling in the hallway and in walks Oscar. He was scared of that hallway for a few days then finally got over it. After a few days of having him we took him to the vet to get fixed and found out he had a hernia, and needed a deep teeth cleaning. So the poor guy was torn apart and probably thought we were torturing him. And to top it off his sutures opened up and he oozed blood for 3 days all of the house, which was super fund. As the days passed him and Charlie became closer and closer. They are now best buds, like they knew each other in a prior life. Oscar has definitely been our hardest rescue to date to assimilate because of his marking in the house. And the fact that he didn't even know any basic dog commands. He is doing so much better. He has moved from chewing our shoes to chewing socks, which are alot cheaper to replace. He hardly marks in the house anymore. He has much better manners at meal time. Now he sits and waits for you to tell him it is ok to eat. And he is better about coming when called. Oh and now he actually lets me watch tv. For a while he would bark non stop at the tv when I would try to watch it. He has also graduated to free roaming the house when we are at work, which is huge! And Lily really appreciates that so that she can lay in her bed all day if she wants.

Now the crazy part is the first 3 weeks we had oscar, he never barked, never made a peep. But then he somehow found his voice when he realized he would be staying a while, and is now running out barking at any hint of a person or a dog to tell them about his life story. So we try best we can to bring him inside when it gets to be too much. But those silky ears are the greatest things in the world and his temperament is really so sweet. We are definitely going to keep him!

Picture posted of him on KSL, how could you not want him!

These pictures were taken the first day we had him.

Post surgery

Hen bought the boys a toy that they shredded in no time, don't worry it's not poop, just stuffing.

Because we didn't feel like we had given the vet enough money this week, Charlie decided to have an ear infection, this is him and hen coming back from the vet in the puptaxi.

Poor conehead days! So glad we only had to live through this once!

Oscar Versus Vacuum

Oscar and Charlie playing