What an Aweful Day!

Is anyone still out there reading this?? If not I am writing just to write, and that's OK cause I have not been consistent. So I had the scare of my life yesterday. Oliver was let outside by Cade without me knowing, and he was no where to be found. I looked everywhere for an hour. Of course hysterical, I had a couple of the neighbors looking as well. Ty and Cade were yelling, I was trying to yell on top of my whaling, and two neighbors were yelling and whistling. Oliver typically goes to the front yard, hangs out at the neighbors house, Pat, or stays i the back yard. He really does not wander like he used to. I couldn't understand what had happened??? As I was really loosing it, the neighbor across the street came out and mentioned that another neighbor had picked up a dog here, and placed it in the backyard of a house 5 houses down. WTF?? Why would someone do that?
I marched myself, snot and all, and rang the doorbell. Th lady that answered the door was not very friendly and was not happy that I asked her if she had my dog. Come to find out, she had a dog that looks JUST like O. Hers is a little darker right now, but same dog. As I walked away crying at the thought of never finding my dog, she came out of her house yelling that in fact she did see the dog in the back yard. She apologized, and had not idea that he was even back there. I grabbed him and brought him straight home... What a relief...I don't know what I would have done without my O. He is not going to be out of my sight again!!!! No one is allowed to let him out without my permission! NO ONE!
So after crying for an hour, I had a huge pounding headache, and my face was swollen...I was able to relax with my mutt in lap.
What an ordeal!

On top of that, Jason's hard drive crashed with his whole life on it...what a disaster...to top off a horrible afternoon! Jeez are we being tested.
Now that the craziness is over, we are going to relax this weekend. We have a bday party to go to and Jason leaves for the field on Sunday for a few days...just me and the boys...
I can't believe we leave here in two weeks...AND O IS COMING WITH US!!!

Things Are Falling Into Place!

I am not going to begin to apologize for not jotting my thoughts for awhile, there has just been no time, or to much to say don't know where to begin, or just don't want to, or did I say no time??!!


It's coming down to the wire. This week is/was very busy and hectic! This past weekend (memorial weekend) was used to separate and pack the things that are staying with us, and the stuff that is being packed for Hawaii. We did enjoy ourselves with the Wii, played outside, and ran around in the jeep. The movers came on Tuesday, and we were way over our weight limit...we will have to pay out of pocket for this. Oh well, what can one do? Wednesday, yesterday, we went down to Atlanta to ship the jeep out. That was painless, and actually really fast. The part of driving down to Atlanta to do it, etc, was the busy part. The boys are always really good on road trips. They are so used to traveling and going, that it does not face them anymore. Give them a DVD and things to play with and they are great! We are lucky since we have been traveling a lot in this last year.

Couple more weeks here then it is off on out "Farewell Tour" to TX and beyond.
Here's what it looks like:

June 11-14 DFW
June 14-16 Austin
June 16-23 Laredo
June 23-25 SA
Travel
June 28 CA

whew!!! did you get all of that! WOW..what a tour....lots of energy pills and good tunes to get us through.

More to come!
I can't wait to be back on my stomping grounds!!!