Supporting My Local Vet

Veterinarian That Is!!!

Poor Boomer, has to wear a t-shirt until his drains come out.
This is how much Boomer shed in the 3 seconds it took us to put on his t-shirt!!!


As most of you know from facebook, Lily just had to go to the vet and hundreds of dollars later, she is fine. Now, Boomer decided to grow some tumors on his side. Rest assured, they were just fatty tumors, but still had to be removed. Now, hundreds of more dollars later, Boomer is going to be fine. He gets his drains removed tomorrow, and his t-shirt.


To add a little humor to your day:


Here's just a little recap of picking up Boomer after his surgery.

Boomer had to be picked up by 6:00, and Colby would not be home until after that. So, I packed up the kids and headed to the vet. Both were very excited to get their dog, so I thought, "hey, no problem!" We get there, and Boomer is of course not ready. They have to get his pills ready, get the bill ready, etc. So, Raif decides to play in my cosmetic bag. No problem, until they tell me the dog is ready. So, I put the bag away, and Raif has a full on melt down in the middle of the office. I leave him, go to the counter, and fill out the paper work. Calmly, after that I pick him up, and he's over it.


Then, Boomer comes out. Ordinarily, this would be no problem, but the dog is wearing a cone. Raif does not like this. I have to put Raif down to get Boomer on the leash. Raif begins his second melt down of the event SCREAMING, "BOOM, BOOM!" Boomer, in the mean time, is trying to get the heck out of dodge, and tries to bolt to the front door, meanwhile Raif is still screaming. I pull Boomer over to Raif, scoop him up, and we safely make it to the door.


All parties involved are now safely inside of the car. Raif, now thinks Boomer's cone is funny and is all smiles! Boomer, can't get comfortable in my car (he's in the front seat) and tries to go around in circles, knocking my rear view mirror to a slanting position with each circle. We are now happily cruising home, for the 5 minute drive. Boomer, thinks it might be best to try and lay down in the car. As he does this, he knocks the car into neutral, and the car starts revving as I am still on the accelerator. More smiles from the gallery in the back. I'm calmly trying to get Boomer to sit up, as I put the car back into drive. We safely make it home. Colby brought home dinner that night, with margarita mix and all!


Sometimes, you just have to smile about things.

No Wrapping Paper=No Problem

We were heading off to our friend Kate's 5th Birthday and had no wrapping paper.

We did have a large paper sack...
And, Bailey loves to color!

Finished product!

One lovely birthday present, so carefully colored and wrapped. Perfect for any occasion. And, it matched the birthday theme, Rainbows!

Doll Party

Bailey organized her dolls in the dollhouse so they could sit down and have dinner. I love how they are all sitting around so they can chat and have a great time!

A Trip to Tanaka Farm

Beautiful landscaping
The girls on the way into the farm

Tanaka Farms sign

Raif telling us who he's sitting next to

Virtually impossible to get all 4 of them to look at the camera at the same time

Bailey and Reagan on the tractor ride

Raif actually picking the strawberries, instead of throwing them

Bailey picking her strawberries

Raif wanted to be carried, or maybe I wanted to carry him so he'd stop throwing the strawberries!

Peek-a-boo Raif!

We went to watch Regan and Paige's swim lessons and got a surprise invite to Tanaka Farms in Irvine to go strawberry picking. The kids had such a wonderful time on the tractor ride, and trying all of the fresh vegetables along the ride. The loved throwing out the uneaten vegetables onto the dirt path that would be used as mulch. Check out Shirley and Sarah's blog for more fun pictures. Thanks Shirley and Sarah for the invite and for all of the wonderful photos and memories.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was such a fun, relaxing day. We stared out with a bike ride to see Colby's mom. Then rode down to the shore and had hot dogs. Afterwards we walked over to the beach and had the kids play in the sand. Raif finally got used to the sand and then decided to eat it! Bailey started a seashell collection. We rode home, Raif had his nap, I got to go to the grocery store by myself, then we headed over to my mom's house. We dined on filet mignon, twice baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and had Polly's Pie for dessert! Such a great day. Colby and I are so blessed with such great moms.

On a side note, my mom's mom, fell two weeks ago and we just found out she broke her hip. She is having surgery as a write this. Hopefully they can mend her hip, she will recover, and all will go smoothly. As most of you know, my Grandma has Alzheimer's, and this will not be an easy recovery. She does not know what is going on, please help us pray that she will recover from this with as little confusion as possible, and come out with a hip that will let her walk again.

Mom's Night at Preschool

Bailey and Me
On the way into Mom's Night

Fun Activities!

It was Mommy night at preschool last week. Bailey started asking me at 11 am when we were going to mom's night, which started at 5 pm. Great Beginnings had lots of fun activities planned for our special night together. They even prompted the kids to inform their mom's that tonight was about them, and to not spend the whole night talking to other moms, so cute! Bailey and I had a great time making butterflies and kaleidoscopes.

This and That

I know, I know, it's been a long time. So, here is the last week or so in a nutshell:

Bailey discovered my IPod, and likes it! Raif thinks he is absolutely hysterical!

My mom bought this jeep for the kids for her house, we tested it out at our house. Raif does not like to do anything the way it is supposed to be done, so the jeep is on its side.

Raif thinks his sister's shoes are cool!

He does not want his sister to have anything, period.

I had my first trip to the dermatologist, and got a black eye. Most is covered with make-up and a band-aid. It looks even worse today :(

Hopefully, in a few days, it will be better.