We have a new member of the family!

His name is Jack. He is a Jack Russell Terrier. He is 7 months old. He was given to us by someone who was moving out of state and were unable to take him with them. We got him on Friday and so far he has been the sweetest dog. He has had a few accidents but we are working on that. He was petrified of us at first. You could not move or else he would take off and he would not come near us. He is really loving Ellie and had not barked at all until today. Ellie and I went to the store and when we got back he was so excited and that started jumping and barking and scratched Ellie's arm pretty good. Good thing we bought some nail clippers when we went to the store. I hope he stays as calm as he is because he will just lay with you rather than jumping all over you. We need to start on some training because I don't think that he had any training. He loves the cage thing that they sent with him. If he gets overwhelmed he will just go in there. He has slept in there at night and absolutely no problems.

First painting project done

So we finally finished the painting in the kitchen and family room. He have some touch-ups but it is for the most part done. I have no idea how to decorate. I think in the entire house I have 4 things hung on the walls. I need some ideas of what to put on the plant shelf. Yes, the chairs do not match the table. I painted it black and it did not turn out so well. I will have to sand it and repaint it. I also want to get black chairs and 2 black barstools.

Pictures from Forrest Lakes

I could not figure out how to get the slideshow to work right on my post 2 posts down so I redid a slideshow. It was really bugging me so I posted a new one. I could not figure out how to post it and still be able to type a post. I kept getting error messages so I must be doing something wrong.

She lost her first tooth!

A few weeks ago Ellie was complaining that it hurt to brush her teeth. I looked and one of her teeth was leaning forward. I thought, "Oh no, she is going to have bad teeth" but the I realized that it was loose. I was shocked. I was not expecting for her to lose teeth yet! Isn't she too young? So she has been really freaking out about it and has had a hard time brushing her teeth ever since. Well tonight she was eating a mushroom and she goes over to Mikey and says "Daddy, what is in my mushroom?" He thought it was cheese! Haha. So she brings it to me and it is a bloody little tooth. I seriously almost started crying. I don't know why I get so sad over stuff like this. I seem to be having a hard time letting go of the baby part of them. So tonight she will be getting a visit from the tooth fairy. She told me that we needed to clean her room because she didn't want the tooth fairy to see how messy it was. Haha. I told her that the tooth fairy did not care, she had seen a ton of dirty rooms.

On a side note, I am sitting here watching The Notebook and I could just bawl! Is that how you spell it?