Happy work anniversary to me!

It's hard for me to believe but I hit my one year mark at the Idaho Real Estate Commission on April 15th.  Time has flown. I am so grateful for how things worked out. Here`s to many more with the State of Idaho.

It's a bird, it's a plane... No, it's your dog

So ever since we moved in, I have been really wanting to get our doggie door put in.  It was a major selling feature of the house for Pat, and due to a slight miscommunication (don't laugh Mom), the builders took it out.  Well, they finally reinstalled it yesterday, and so Hershey can come and go from the garage to the backyard as he wants.  That is, if he isn't too scared. 

When I got home, he was cowering in the back yard with just his nose through the corner of it.  His eyes were very reproachful and he seemed to be saying, what is this new torture I'm in for?  So I very kindly went over and held the flap up and tried to explain to him how he could come through.  He wasn't really interested so I went into the laundry room and shut the door behind me, but didn't lock it.  Then I decided I should go out and get the mail.  So I went through the front door, and for some unknown reason, decided to leave it slightly ajar.  I bet you know what comes next. LOL, sadly, I didn't see it coming.

I was to the corner of the house when suddenly I was passed by a brown streak.  After staring across the road at the neighbor's yard, when I realized it was a dog.  And then the horrible moment when I realized it was MY dog.  Somehow he made it from the backyard through the doggy door, was able to push open the closed laundry room door, run through the living room and straight out the front door without me noticing him!

The only way I could lure him back through the house and into the garage was with a piece of stale baloney I found in our fridge.  He loves the dog door now, he spends most of his time outside, and every day I drag his blanket and crocodile pillow back into the house so he can sleep on it at night, and every day he drags Crocky and the blanket outside again.  Silly dog...

Why did the tennis ball cross the road?

Because it is stuck to the bottom of Pat's walker and he wanted to go to Wal-Mart which is just across the fence from our new house.  Okay he isn't walking to Wal-Mart yet, but probably soon!!!

What's up with us?  New house pictures coming soon.  As soon as we get all of the way unpacked that is.  Hopefully in a week or two.  Since all you would see is mess, construction, and boxes right now.  It wouldn't be very fun. 

Pat’s working on his walking, but he has been pretty secretive about it.  He wants to surprise everyone.  :)  I will just say that he is starting to walk a little (very little) straighter and he is only falling about 5-7 times a day now.  I know that seems like a lot, but he doesn’t use the wheelchair in the house and he has some pretty bad leaning and turning habits that he is having to overcome.  I think it really helps that he is on his own for most of the day and he hasn’t earned his TV yet (25 crawls a day for 10 days) so he gets pretty bored.  He even made up his own exercise routine that he has been following this last week.  For once, he did it on his own without anyone bugging him.  This might be the time that it works...  I hope at least!  He has figured out a way to use the wall as leverage so that he can stand up from the floor with his walker and has started to do some walking without his orthotics and very occasionally without his shoes and socks.  I think it is helping his balance.  Be expecting great things, but don't tell him I told you.  He doesn't like the pressure of everyone knowing that he is working on it because he thinks it sets your expectations too high. 

I say, how can we be his cheerleaders if he keeps it all a secret?  :)

Will someone please just make a waterproof cell phone already

I bet you can tell what happened to me today...  I thought yesterday was supposed to be the unlucky day, not today.  And if the cell phone wasn't enough, well this morning my car window rolled down, but not back up...  Thankfully my very wonderful Dad was able to help me get it rolled back up again.  Now I just have to remember to never, ever roll it down again, or at least until I can have the mechanic look at it.

The Fergusons are coming to Greeley!

For anyone who hasn't heard yet, we are coming to visit!  We will be in Greeley the evening of October 10th through mid afternoon on the 14th.  We are trying to put together a schedule so that we don't miss anyone, so if you want to see us, please let us know when and where you will be available.

Also in case you haven't heard, we did put an offer in on a house that was accepted but since it is a short sale, we are waiting for their lender to agree.  Once we know more, we will let you know...

Warning! Contents highly addictive

Hello, my name is Melissa and I am an addict.  I blame my mother, for years I had resisted the pull when all of my peers told me how good it was.  I knew that if I ever succumbed, I would get sucked in for sure and it would be too late for me.  But Saturday afternoon, I happened to witness her using it and I thought that I would just try a little.  Now that I have made eye contact, I think it's too late for me...

Wondering what I am referring to?   After having tons of people tell me how great Pinterest is, I have finally experienced it for myself and I love it.  I will spare you the gory details, but simply say it is like following a million rabbit trails while loving every minute of it.  I now have a ton of amazing ideas and can't wait to get more. 

Happy Monday!

New car

Well, new to us. 

It is a 99 Honda Civic that we bought from my sister who lives in Seattle.  It is different to be driving a car again after driving the minivan so long, but I am remembering how much I like driving cars instead of vans.  The 30+ mpg is nice also!