Happy 8th Birthday Charlie!

 Happy 8th Birthday Charlie! 

Thanks for keeping us sane!

We adopted Charlie when he was 1 1/2 years old and are so grateful to have had him so long. He is currently on alot of medication for arthritis and his thyroid disease but is otherwise doing really well. He is always smiling and loves to snuggle and get scratched.

#perfect puppaw

#charles

When you leave your slippers on the floor...

 #waytogohen

#cantleaveslippersonthefloor

#naughtyprincess

#tugofwar

#igiveup

Long Week

 Sometimes you fit curled up in a ball… and sometimes it’s Friday and its been a long week…

#oscarboscar

#booboo

Conversations with Lucy

 This is Lucy every day!!! Total Princess! High maintenance! Super Bossy! But that just makes her, her and we wouldn’t trade her for the world!

This is what happens every bath day. 

The boys go first and Lucy is not happy about her brothers being gone without her and so she tells me all about it. 

#packseparationanxiety

#conversationswithlucy

More Lucy temper tantrum’s while I’m trying to work. She keeps using her head to throw my hands off the keyboard. 

#waitingforherturn 

#conversationswithlucy

#stillupsetbrothersaregone

#helicoptertail

Happy Valentines Day!

 Happy Valentines Day! So grateful for my valentine of 14 years!  Thank you for my chocolate covered strawberries from Mrs. Cavanaughs! Wherever you and the pups are will forever be home to me! For Valentines for Hen I had brought back a bunch of shirts from Florida for him.

Winter Sunshine

Everyone enjoying some sunshine today. I look over and see two furry bottoms on patrol to make sure they don’t miss any passers by…

Saturday Night Snuggles

 #sleepingiant

#princesslooseygoosey

#puppysnores

#lapdog

After my shift at the temple and after being gone for a week, Lucy was very happy to get me all to herself.

Last morning Melbourne, Florida Sunrise

 Last morning gorgeous sunrise! In real time.❤️☀️❤️🌊❤️ Don't want to leave!

More Yummy Food

 My mom and I went to breakfast one morning at a place called The Blueberry Muffin! It was so good! This is my french toast covered in a cinnamon glaze! I could only eat half since it was so rich! But so yummy!

We also ventured out to the restaurant Chart House on our last night with this beautiful view of pelicans and dolphins in the bay! So Yummy!

One of our favorite places ended up being El Sid Taqueria in Vero Beach

https://www.elsid.com/

If you are ever in the area I highly recommend it! Farm to table fresh mexican food and the best orange juice slushies' I have ever had! Their fresh tortillas, guac, and queso are second to none! So fun that you pick up your order from the truck inside the restaurant. They call your name over the loud speaker and say "your order is ready in the truck"

Sunrise

 Gorgeous sunrise over the Atlantic this morning! 

❤️☀️❤️

Bobcats, Portuguese Man O'War, and Manatees

 One morning Berry was out for a walk and came upon this Bobcat that was up to her waist. Once she realized it was not a dog, she slowly backed away only to discover it was following her. Luckily she was eventually able to get away from it. But it definitely made her heart skip a few beats. Then the next morning she went on a walk on the beach to avoid running into the bobcat again, only to be greeted with Man O'Wars all over the beach that she almost stepped on in bare feet. (she originally just thought it was a jelly fish until a friend of ours informed us that, it was not) Thought it ended up being a really cool picture though!

On our drive to the airport to drop Berry off on Tuesday my mom took us to this spot where the manatees were congregating to stay warm since it is so unseasonably cool in Florida this year.

More Fun in the Sun and Sunsets

 More fun in the sun! #sunsets #Funkyrestaurants #petethepelican #pupsatdaycare

Ocean Grill in Vero Beach. We had an interesting dinner to say the least, that probably made sense given the off the wall decor. We ordered a crab dip appetizer that had to be sent back because is my mom's words it was "too pungent". Then Berry had the lonely grouper, I the flounder, and my mom had good lobster tails. Then the dessert tray was brought and the whole reason we had picked this restaurant was for the key lime pie and there was no key lime pie on the tray of of 20 desserts. But they did have it, none the less. We did a competition taste test later between El Sid's Key Lime Pie and City Grille, and El Sid's won. Later we had the key lime pie at Charthouse and it beat the other two.

Even though Hen didn't come on this trip, the dogs were still boarded because between work and school, Hen was not home enough to take care of the pups. 

Shopping, Airboats, Gators, Pizza and Rummikub

Having a blast in Florida on our all girls trip! Two great beach days with lots of sunshine, and then today we ventured out on an airboat ride at Camp Holly and some shopping in Cocoa Beach! Not missing the 20 degrees in Salt Lake! So many fun memories! It was actually rainy and cold on Saturday by the time we got to the airboat rides. Because of this, we did not see a single alligator! So we were laughing pretty much the whole ride because we had wanted to see alligators! Also you will notice Luce was wearing shorts so I gave her one of the long sleeved shirts I had just purchased at Alvins to try and stay warm on the boat. We all froze but still had a lot of fun! My mom wanted us to be able to see an alligator so she took us to the local bass pro shop to see one! Too funny! 

We ended the day with dinner at Bizarro's as we shivered! The best New York Pizza I have ever had outside of New York! So grateful for this precious time spent with my mom and sisters!

On Monday we went to the beach because there was sunshine, but it was pretty chilly as you can see by these two homeless looking people on the beach...lol.

Gators at Bass Pro Shop

Funny Story- So on my flight over from Atlanta to Melbourne I sat next to a Real Estate Agent who lived locally in Melbourne and he gave me a long list of recommendations for restaurants. I am pretty sure we passed each of them atleast once. As we passed them I kept saying oh there's another one of the seven. It became a running joke the whole trip. What's even funnier, is now I realize the list was actually 9 restaurants, but we were saying 7 the whole time.

Cafe coconut cove- German

Villa Palmer-Italian

Ember and oak- steakhouse

Island fish grill-sea food

New England eatery- good seafood local

Meg O’Malley music locals Irish pub

Pizza- Bizzaros on Fifth Ave

Skewers- Mediterranean

Long Doggers -local

Our nightly Rummikub games! Somehow Berry beat us all 3 games in a row! Way to go Berry! I did gain redemption for all of us by winning the last game before Berry left. I did also proceed to beat her 3 games of sequence, but they shouldn't really count since she was just learning and I have played it for years.