Various News

Hiya! I feel like I haven't had anything substaintial to write about lately. And probably won't post anything for a bit after this one because we're getting our house in less than a week!!!! We should be closing on Friday :) We don't really plan on 'moving' next weekend though. I think we're gonna clean the place up nice because the people there now are questionable to say the least. And we're gonna paint the rooms! And I do mean WE. 'Cause Mr. Painter said I can help.... though now that he's a professional and all now I think he's going to regret saying that. Oh well, he can't take it back now!

But aside from hopefully painting next weekend THE BEARGREASE DOGSLED MARATHON STARTS NEXT SUNDAY!!!!!! Ohhhh I can't wait! For those of you in Marquette it's like the UP 200 only bigger and better. And more important. Oh, and there's more dogs :) Plus, next Saturday they have a cutest puppy contest. I've thought about having Smiler be in it, but I think that would be a bit overwhelming for her first big social event and she might get scared and that'd be sad.

In other baby news (besides Charlie), Lily had two cubs yesterday! And I saw one of them today! Sooooo cute! Too bad she had to give birth to them on the coldest day of winter. -40 can't be good for new lil cubs. But they seem to be doing well! If you go to http://bear.org/livecams/lily-hope-cam.html you can see them. Well, you'll probably have to watch for awhile to see one of the newborns, but in just a few minutes of watching you'll for sure see Lily and probably Hope too. They were worried about Hope and the newborns because they haven't seen this situation before since black bears usually only have cubs every two years.... but they say they have seen Hope licking the new cubs! She likes them :) hopefully.

I think that's all I've got at the moment. Maybe next time I'll have dogsled pictures. And I'd like to get some pictures of ships that are docked for the winter here too to share :)

Tim Tim Tim :)

I get to see my (original) husband on May 14th :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay. I love Tim McGraw.

We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear

This post is not exactly about the book We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear by Alston Chase, though it certainly can relate. Last night I was up late because I couldn't sleep because Matt was in the Cities and I missed him (sappy, I know). So I stayed up reading my current book, I Thought You Were Dead by Pete Nelson. Though some things in the book are questionable and bother me, it's still a pretty good book. I'll only talk about the dog part on here though. In the book the main character (who is from MN, so for all my fellow Minnesotans it's kind of fun to read about his references in the book) has a dog named Stella and as you can probably guess and I'll I'm really going to say about it is Stella was put down last night. And I bawled it was so sad. I don't know why I let myself read these books when I have two dogs! It just made me want to stay up all night and cuddle them and tell them even more often than I do that they should never die. I'm not sure how many times I've made them promise not to die, but something tells me they probably won't keep that promise and it makes me sad :( So I'm excited to get home tonight and play with them lots because this morning was just not enough time!

I'll leave y'all with part of a poem by Rudyard Kipling that's in my We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear book:

The Power of the Dog

There is sorrow enough in the natural way

From men and women to fill our day;

And when we are certain of sorrow in store,

Why do we always arrange for more?

Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware

Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

When the body that lived at your single will,

With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!)

When the spirit that answered your every mood

Is gone --wherever it goes-- for good,

You will discover how much you care,

And will give your heart to a dog to tear.

Break

This was a busy week! And I loooved it! :) I got to be with Charlie Tuesday-Friday and it was great. He was such a good boy all week. He's been taking lots of good naps and sleeping well in the night for his mom and dad. And he's learning how to roll over! I love being able to have known him long enough and see him on a regular basis to see how far he's come. Babies are amazing!

Tim has still not announced all his tour dates. He should probably get on it because tickets go on sale on the 15th! And I'm crossing my fingers that I still get to go to see Brandon Heath at the MOA on the 17th. I've already crossed one hurdle of my car breaking down and getting it fixed so now I just gotta hope they don't need me that Monday to watch Charlie. Though if they do that's really the only reason I would find acceptable to not go down to the Cities.

In other news.... My husband is going to be old on Wednesday!! Hehe I love him. He has apprenticeship class on Monday and Tuesday this week so he'll be home for his birthday :) We thought his class was going to be Wednesday and Thursday like the last three have but luckily they aren't! Which is a good thing because I cried when I thought that he'd have to be alone in the boring cities on his birthday.

A few other notes: If you haven't seen Dispicable Me yet, you must. It's sooo cute and funny. And if you haven't seen this video yet you must.

Brandon Heath, Matthew West, and TIM McGRAW!!!!

Well hello there world. I'm happy. I'm happy because in two weeks I'm probably going to go see Brandon Heath fo free at the Mall of America. And last week I found out that Matthew West is gonna be at Higher Ground Music Festival and it would be AMAZING to see him again because it was this time last year that he made me love Christian music so much :). AND yesterday I saw that Tim is announcing tour dates for is "Emotional Traffic" tour this summer soon!!!! Of course I have to see him :) :) Not to mention hopefully, hopefully, hopefully we'll be able to go to Sonshine on that Friday to see Mr. Toby Mac. But that's a lot of concerts and gets a lil pricey. Especially when the one I HAVE to go to is the most expensive. Oh well, I love Tim McGraw.

So that is all. Besides having to say that I get to see Charlie this week :D