Our life is always an adventure! We move into our house on a Friday night, buy a puppy the next morning, that following Monday I finally start seriously unpacking, and then Tuesday morning I get a call from my dear husband that basically said I needed to start packing everything I could because he was on his way home and as soon as he got there we were leaving for Washington for two weeks. Umm…what?!?! Needless to say, because we JUST moved, I ended up having to pack a lot of dirty clothes, and seriously felt like I was just throwing random clothes in a bag praying that I got all the necessities. Then it hits me, we got a puppy like 3 days ago! What are we supposed to do with her?! I called a couple people to see if they could watch her, but nothing was panning out, which started a slight panic attack on my part. Could I really leave a 10 week old puppy locked in a bathroom all day with my mom dropping by 2 times a day to let her out for a little bit? That just seemed SO CRUEL…but I didn’t want to stay JUST because of the dog! Rob came home, and even though we were packed, I was still a wreck. We loaded all of our stuff up, and then all of a sudden he puts Athena in the back of the truck and I was going ‘…umm, what?’ he responded with ‘oh I didn’t tell you? My amazing sister Lanae is going to watch her.’ YAY!!! SO excited! So we hit the road after getting Nate to promise to watch over Bors while he house sits. The trip actually went REALLY well. Between me and Athena we had to stop like every two hours for potty breaks, but Rob was very patient with us, and we still managed to make the trip in around 10 hours. However, surprise to me, we ended up keeping Athena in the hotel with us for the rest of the week. With Rob’s work schedule he was just way too tired to make a 4 hour trip just to drop her off, so Athena and I got a LOT of bonding time VERY quickly. Although a puppy is definitely not meant to live in a hotel room, for the most part we had a lot of fun. The first night she slept in the Bathroom, but after that she ended up on our bed...every single night...right next to my head...cuddling with my hair. Needless to say, it got kind of really interesting a few times.
By Saturday we were MORE than ready to take her to Lanae’s : ). Rob managed to get off work on Saturday fairly early, and we were able to make the trip down to Enumclaw, drop the dog off, and then spend the weekend with Rob’s family, which was SO much fun. We got to go to church on Sunday (thanks to Twyla since she let me borrow church clothes :P) and then had a really nice dinner with the family, grandparents, and an aunt and uncle : ). For Easter Rob got a remote controlled helicopter from the Easter Bunny, and he LOVES IT. His dad has one, and a few others in the family, so he really enjoyed getting to mess around with it while he was at his parents.
On Monday Rob left Enumclaw at the early hour of 3:30 to make it back in time for work at 6:30. I got to hang out with my dear mother-in-law for a few hours, and then Twyla swept me away to go shopping at the Super Mall. I’ve been procrastinating going maternity shopping, but Twyla made it such a fun experience. I got a lot of stuff, and the best part is they really don’t look like maternity clothes. They can definitely be worn anytime, which I REALLY loved. And I FINALLY bought my first baby item!!! Twyla was talking about this amazing diaper bag she had when Ben was little, and how convenient it was…and then we found the exact same bag basically! It was a great deal, so I got it! The whole day was SO much fun, and I really enjoyed all the time I got to spend with everyone and hopefully we’ll be able to go back down this next weekend for a day or two as well, which would be SO perfect. The break has been a really nice distraction from all the craziness going on at home, needless to say I am not ecstatic about going back to a house still in boxes.
Oh, one more fun note, we find out what baby is in only a week and 3 days!!! Fingers crossed we get to find out the first time!
Here’s some pics of silly Athena, and the ride up to Washington :P
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| For the most part she just sprawled out and slept the whole way |
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| But when she was awake, she didn't like feeling left out... |
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| ...so she kept licking dad hoping he'd let her in the front |
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| haha she kind of loves him :P |
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| Athenas silly sleeping position |
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| She thought she was a parrot? |
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| another cute Athena sleeping position on the ride |
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| we bought her this dress thinking it would drive her nuts and it would be funny...she didn't mind it being on at all though |
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| haha we know it's ridiculous...but she IS really kinda cute :P |
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| Diaper Bag :) |
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