It's Almost Time!!!!

This is my super duper cute puppy and I get to pick her up Monday or Tuesday! Waiting to hear back on which day for sure but I'm waaaaaayyy excited :)

Doesn't look like we'll be able to go to Tenth Avenue North and Matt Maher on Sunday night because it's sold out :( So I guess just randoms days in the Cities. Blah. I wish my husband wasn't going to be taking classes all those days! If anyone wants to come chill in somewhere in Maple Grove with me and the dogs that would be okay with me :) or chill anywhere else, I suppose.

Matt and I are pre-pre-approved to get a mortgage loan!!! Wahoo! He just needs to talk to people about the percentages he needs to pay back on student loans so we have a number to give the underwriter and we need to somehow print off our transcripts and then once the underwriter goes through it all we're good! We have our eye on this awesome place in Cloquet that would be perfect. Only we would need to put a fence up. Or, wouldn't need to but I would want to so that the dogs can run free. I want that for Penny soooo badly. She would love it. But the place has a nice yard that would be big enough for dog and eventual kid play AND for Tracie play (i.e.- gardening). So yeah, excited.

Last but not least exciting thing- Amy is coming in the beginning of November and I can't wait to see her and baby because it's been like 14 months since I've seen her and I have yet to see the lil munchkin.

Later dudes!

13 Days Left?

Smi at 6.5 weeks. She's gigantic! I guess I had in my head a lil runt of the litter Casey. But she's sooo cute and I can't wait to pick her up and smell her puppy breath. It's gonna be delightful! Then I get a couple days off with her and Penny so that they can (hopefully) bond. Then back to work but I'm gonna take her with me :)

Tenth Avenue North

With Matt Maher. Nuff said.

Northwestern College Oct. 3rd. Probably Smiler on the 4th. Best Sunday/Monday ever? Yes please.

Smiler is Six Weeks Old

This is Smiler's beauty shot. She just got her hair and nails did today. She's now six weeks old and is perfectly healthy and cute and perfect. Tomorrow she starts kindergarten and the breeder reckons she'll catch on quick. Of course my new lil baby is a smarty-pants!

My Heroes

For those of you who are clueless in MN or those of you who are reading that aren't from or living in MN, there's this amazing website called overheardinminneapolis.com and this is the best conversation that has ever been overheard. Period.


Coworker #1: My kids watch a lot of Tom and Jerry. I don’t like them watching that Dora the Explorer.
Coworker #2: Dora’s too violent for your tastes?
Coworker #1: No, too… Spanish.
Coworker #2: Oh.
Coworker #1: Yeah, when I have to read my kids those Dora books I read all the Spanish words in English.

Update 3

This is Smiler at about four and a half weeks! She's so cute. It sounds like she's on track to be able to come home right at eight weeks but I'm going to be busy at work that weekend so hopefully I will be able to get her on October 4th. We had Randali convinced to get Smiler's brother but we were all unsuccessful at convincing Ryan that it would be a good idea. Husband's....

We went out looking at houses last night. We found this amaaazing barn-style house with about five acres and I want it soooo bad but it cost a fortune, at least for our budget, so in my dreams. We're gonna sit down and talk with someone soon about a mortgage so hopefully that'll go well and then we can start for real looking at houses! We're hoping by spring.