Stupid DOG!

He's not really STUPID . . . and we do love him . . . but seriously he ran away 2 Saturday's in a row and was gone until Monday afternoon both times. We didn't have a tag on him other than the vet tag so the people who found him (luckily different ones each time) had to wait until Monday to call the vet to find the owners (us). Both families that found him said they thought he was a great, well behaved dog and the kids were hoping that they wouldn't find the owners! We are sure he must have followed a jogger out of our neighborhood (he loves to run with people and we're not joggers). Then they proceeded to just ditch him in their neighborhoods. So after picking him up yesterday I went to a pet store and finally bought him a proper dog tag with our current name and information on it so if this habit continues we'll be able to get him back easier and sooner.

I'm not sure why Max even leaves (although once I was inside, the other we were gone for the afternoon). He loves our new house. You can find him here (below) or coming back dripping from swimming in the pond. He's caught different birds (no geese yet) and bunnies and who knows what else. Some might think he's skinny but really I think he's just super lean and muscular from all the running around he does around here.
So hopefully next Saturday we don't have a repeat performance of him jogging off with some stranger or we might start to think he doesn't love us. (Although at the moment I think this dog loves me best- he always comes right up to me to be pet - not so with Cameron.)

Allergic . . .

Last night Mia informed me that she was "allergic" to the DS.

I was like "what?"

She kept saying it "I'm allergic to it."

Finally, Chelsea rescued me and told me I think she means "She's ADDICTED!"

That cleared things up.

Since Chelsea has been home for 2 straight days sick from school they have been playing them a lot together - downloading and playing Super Marios and Mario kart against each other.

I knew Mia was truely addicted this morning because as soon as she got up she started to play against Chelsea who was already deemed "still sick." While they were supposed to be eating their nutritious breakfast (cinnamon pop tarts) Mia proceeded to pee her pants while trying to play Mario kart - her second accident since we moved (that one was forgivable) but other than that she hasn't had one in like a year!! I took the DS's away for the rest of the morning!

I can't find my camera charger and my battery is totally shot other wise I would have put a picture of the girls playing. Instead we get a picture of an addicted cat playing DS. :)

Deer

Hopefully you don't get sick of all my nature pictures that I'm taking outside of my house. But this was an amazing sight to see while we were getting ready for church on Sunday. Cameron was getting ready in the bathroom and somehow spotted the herd outside. Everyone who was already up went outside for a look. We've seen as many as 7 deer together but never 15!! And they were all in the lake near where the pond trickles in drinking on this beautiful, sunny morning. I snapped a few photos and then they seemed to notice me with my camera trying to get the best shot and slowly wandered back into the sagebrush toward the pond. In case you haven't noticed yet, we have loved living here! We'd love to have visitors enjoy our view with us (and get in the lake when it's warm) so come on over!