Life with our little family of 3...

We recently decided to add to our little family of 3... Well at least in a four legged sense. Welcome to your retirement home Chloe!  Chloe is a 9 year old Boxer that we adopted from Northwest Boxer Rescue. She is a sweet not so little girl. She is adjusting well and loving life with her new bed. What a couple of old senior dogs! May your days be filled with fun, rest, and lots of love!

For most of the 11+ years we've lived in our house we have wanted the tree next to our house gone. It drops sap on our vehicles half the year and pine needles that end up in the house the other half! So finally after all those years we decided to take the tree down. While there was some sadness of removing a tree which is a part of God's nature, there was happiness at the thought of no more sap or pine needles!  It was quite the operation since it was such a huge tree! But the guys who took it down were amazing and made it look easy!  Above is a picture of how they brought the big limbs down.  We have our very own palm tree!  The interesting thing was the tree was 38 years old which means it began to grow after the house was built.   I thought these are great pictures of how the fibers of a tree grow.  The crew did a great job cleaning up and leaving us lots of work to do.... A least we'll have a few y...

Sammy April 15, 1998 - February 20, 2014 Sammy was quite the cat. He was the king of the house for sure. Mac the 67 lb Boxer was afraid of him. He knew how to get what he wanted. He was a butter eating crazy cat. He lived a good life with lots of changes. From a cross country move to the arrival of a new man (Robert) to the birth of a child (Emma) to the adoption of a four legged brother (Mac). Yet through it all he knew he was king. I miss him lots but am happy for the time we had together.