Welcome to the world

Liam Reeve Root entered this world on Saturday the 27th. Here's Reagan next

to his big sister Jaiden. We got to see him for the first time tonight. He's a little darling. Congratulations Eric and Stephanie and Jaiden!

Stain gone wrong

So Kevin and I went to Home Depot last week and got some stain to redo our front porch. Kevin is on vacation this week so this was on his to do list. He calls me at work and says that stain is too orange. He went ahead and put it on a board at the side that wouldn't be real noticable to see what it would look like. I question him and say that maybe after it dries, it will look different. He still insists that it is too orange. So I happen to be in Mattoon when we are talking about this and I decide to go back to Home Depot and get something different. As I'm there I'm thinking that maybe we grabbed something other than stain (we also grabbed a "solid" rather than a "semi-transparent". When I get home to look at the board, I'm shocked to see this!!! I told Kevin that I think I'd of stopped after sticking the stir stick into the stain! Anyway, I guess we'll be stripping the stain of this board but hopefully we'll have better luck with the next gallon.

Puppies

Ellie had a rough labor but her puppies are finally here! It all started with premature labor on Sunday which lasted several hours. Her true labor started Monday morning. She labored all day, into the night and had some difficulties with the last two puppies which were stillborn. She was taken into the vet for an ultrasound today just to be sure she cleared everything from her uterus and everything appeared fine so we were happy about that. We have 2 males and 1 female from this litter. We're still undecided as to whether or not we may keep the female and eventually use her for breeding. If we don't keep her, we'll be in the market for another female. This of course is Ellie's final litter and she will be retired from the business.

Just a little weekend fun

We had an Easter Egg Hunt at the nursing home on Saturday. Since I had to go early to help, Reagan got to come along and help throw out all the eggs. We did a practice run the evening before so she was pretty excited about this. She also got a chance to mingle with the ol' folks while we were waiting. Reagan got 30 eggs and one of the eggs had a "prize" ticket in it. She got one of the twirly yard ornament things and carried it around with her all day. Her name was also drawn for the basket raffle and she got a cute basket with a barbie, jewelry, and fake nails! Afterwards we went out with Jessica shopping for home decorations to Grandma's place in Effingham and Arndt's in Newton. Also had lunch at the candy kitchen. I got Jessica all pumpted up on decorating and got her talked into coming to my house to hang some stuff up that I had been putting off. I had to take her picture along with her creation in my living room. Great job Jessica!!

Cat Makeover

Sonny had his first haircut today, I've posted before and after pics. This cat doesn't really enjoy hair brushing time like my previous long haired cats have. I've literally had to put on gloves to even be able to attempt to brush him because he thinks I'm playing and really starts digging his teeth into my hands. As soon as his hair started to get matted, it didn't take long for it to get out of control. We decided to just have his whole body shaved so we wouldn't have to worry about it for awhile...plus we think he may be going outside real soon. Reagan got a good kick out of his "new look" along with Kevin who was pretty much on the floor laughing.