Loves and Snuggles make Everything better!

I wanted to post recent pictures of our little Jewel ( the one on the previous post was months old) As i'd said before Friday she was very needy- crying all the time and just wanted to be held. With the husbands birthday, i HAD to get stuff done. We had a suprise get together for him on Saturday and i needed to make him a cake. So, make a cake i did WITH her in my baby carrier.. i SWEAR i'm not a crazy dog lady... ( crazy, yes.. ) Please excuse my face- i didnt do myself all up, after being on 4 hrs of sleep, i DIDNT care!!
She looks AWFUL, doesnt she?!

This was taken last night and i thought it was SO precious!

The poodle - who you read about in another post as - has been fantastic with

the Yorkie. She's been so gentle with her. Last night, the yorkie cuddled up with the husband and i thought it was so precious that she laid her head on the yorkie... She knows she's hurt, and she just wanted to love on her. And another Sweet shot

Keep praying for her!!!!!! She's a fighter!!

Feel Better, Lil Jewel

As i said in the previous post, we had a freak accident last week-
We had a nieghbor boy and his mom over for the first time and they were literally over for 5 minutes. The little boy is terrified of dogs ( i guess our 2 4 lb dogs are TERRIFYING, just sayin') If i would have known this, precautionary measures would have been taken. Mini me let the dogs out of their crate and as usual, they greeted all of us, including neighbor boy. He was perched like a frog on the side of the loveseat. The poodle jumped up on the couch to give nieghbor boy a kiss, and it freaked him out. He literally jumped backwards off the loveseat and ONTO Jewel.

The noise and the sight i saw i will NEVER forget. She layed there CRYING, white tongue and limp. I immediately picked her up and knew something was terribly wrong.

I put everything into place as to who needed to watch the girls, got in the car, and rushed her to the ER vet.

They met me at the door and rushed her back. They gave her pain meds immediately and ran x-rays after making me sign a contract that it would cost me roughly 700-1250 dollars. YES, you read that correctly. I tried like a psycho to get ahold of the husband and couldnt, so i made a split second decision and signed the contract. As ya'll know, jewel is my life and joy. She's been thru absolute hell and back in her 5 years of life. Liver shunts, heart murmer, choking on an apple and chicken nugget.... literally, this dog has 25 lives.

She stayed the night at the ER vet- she was in BAD shape. Coudlnt walk, and although she didnt have any broken bones, they thought she may have some neurological damage, but only time would tell.

We picked her up the next day and had hours of whining and crying- i felt absolutely helpless and terrible for her .the only way she was comfortable was to be in my peanut shell baby carrier. She would only sleep for 4 hrs at a time. I was exhausted.

Now, days later, she once again has pulled almost completely through it. She's still on 3 Medications for it, including a steroid. She sleeps with us at night- she's very very needy. She's drinking and eating on her own ( that's a plus, i was syringe feeding her) and she's not walking 100%. she will walk and then drag her legs, and they give out.. i think neighbor boy landed on back legs?! We're still not sure. She probably feels like she was hit by a mac truck!!!
Poor little princess!!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Today is my sweet husbands birthday and i wanted to make this post for him- I try and make EVERY birthday special.. Mini Me has wrapped his gifts on her own- in purple boxes with manly ribbon, LOL!!
Im TRYING to make his dinner, with a yorkie in my peanut shell from when lil muffin was a baby.
Its all coming together slowly, but i WILL get it done!

Babe, i am so blessed to spend ANOTHER year with you and another birthday.. they only get better!

(In the last 24 hrs, we have had some major events- i'll expand on that later but ask for your prayers for our little yorkie. )

Babe, we are so blessed to spend ANOTHER year with you and another birthday.. they only get better!

We LOVE our Daddy!! Cheers to many more years of laughs, dirty diapers, giggles, messing up the house with toys, and lots of little hugs and kisses !

Absolute Beauty

Its on drives like these, i'm amazed i live in such a beautiful place! For those of you that dont know this about me, i've ALWAYS wanted to live in the south and raise a family here.

I would watch fried green tomatoes, and Driving miss Daisy and thought everything about the south was so beautiful. I loved the people, the scenery, everything about it, BUT....i'd never been. We took a HUGE leap of faith and moved to the south, SIGHT UNSEEN!!

People, its EVERYTHING i thought it would be! Look at this picture... as we drove through these trees, i got all giddy inside.Its sights like these that made me yearn to live here. There are small buildings on the sides of the road that once served a purpose... think of all the memories !! There are fruit and vegetable stands everywhere. I feel like there are so many stories and history to everything around here.

I'm happy that my girls are being raised here in the south and that we were given the opportunity to move here. IF you EVER get the chance to visit the south, DO it! ( IF for any reason alone, the food itself is to.die.for)

If you dont.. just pop in Driving Miss Daisy and watch the beauty of the south and the scenery it has to offer!

Something to make you smile

Lil muffin LOVES our neighbor - when he comes home, she yells his name and runs over and gives him a hug. Yesterday, she helped him take his combat boots off and put them on herself-

On top of her hair i brushed out as a joke, the ballerina outfit she wears every other day and the boots, she looks like one HOT mess ;) And that's why i love her.. she wears it all SO well-

Now if you could only see the NON- matching baby legs UNDER the boots.

Something i stumbled upon

Since we've moved here, there has been A TON of talk about the gypsies. i guess growing up i thought of the women as these beautiful jeweled women, but had NO CLUE the lifestyles.

i have talked with many people about this community and lemme tell you, i am SO intrigued by these people, i could spend HOURS reading about them. Maybe its due to the unknown that makes it so intriguing. I'd planned on driving out to their community with a friend and we still havent got around to it.

On our way to my best friends party, we drove thru 2 areas where they live. AS we were driving, we literally drove by these and i thought, "gosh, these houses are monters.." and then it clicked.. it was their houses. So, as we drove back, i made sure i took pictures for ya'll to see, because they are enormous!

I wanted to explain the windows on the one below to you. They live in mobile homes and eventually build these mansions, but DO NOT live in them for a year after they are built. The cover the windows, as seen below and believe that it takes a year for the "evil spirits" to leave the house. i have been told that after they move in, there are still people that live in the mobile home out back and that mulitple families dwell in these houses. (you can see mobile homes in the background of this picture)
Also included in EVERY front yard are statues of Mary- supposably they are a branch off the catholic church-
If you see a gypsie girl, you WILL know.They eat out on the weekends- the girls are dressed literally like pageant queens. Their hair is over the top, and literally look as though they are on their way to a pageant. They drive NICE cars, cadillacs, Mercedes, etc.
The girls start wearing makeup and have coach purses starting at a young age, around
9 or 10.


There is WAY more facts- look it up, it will intrigue you
I told you all of this is intriguing.. there is SO much more on the internet.. that's my little lesson to you for the day-
i thought you would enjoy these pictures as much as i did, and it save you a trip to the south to see them.