Tuesday, May 21, 2013

End of An Era...Goodbye Worst Dog in America

 I remembered this photo, I posted on Facebook in December.  I wrapped her in a towel because she was cold and shivering.  She looked so sweet and innocent, but 20 seconds later she got a pot pie and threw it on the floor and ate it.  I think it was JoJo's.
Last photo of Wyli laying with Jill in the laundry room. She loved it in there.

The worst dog in America has passed.  That's our Wyli girl.  We had her for 12 years.  We got her from the pound 12 years ago the week before we got married, and we guessed she was around 2 years old.  She is our last doggie from before our kids.  She was always so sweet and gentle with the kids.  Always. Even if her last days were bad, she never snapped at them or tried to be mean to them.  Her kindness with the kids is something I won't forget.  These last days were sad and hard and emotional.  You see, this little girl was bad.  She is responsible for daily trash digging intos.


She's the reason our appliance garage is our canned good storage area, while our Lazy Susan houses appliances.  She used to get in there and take all of the canned goods out and chew the cans into flattie pancakes in the yard somehow eating the contents.  She is the reason I have a horrid bleach spotted blanket covering our bed.  She tore every set of sheets, bed spread, bed skirt, and general bedding items we owned.  She has destroyed all of my winter clothing. I just gave up on my closet and I have to actually crawl on the floor to get to some of my clothes because of her.  She has eaten C cell batteries, glass baby food jars, and been taken to the vet for numerous injuries (like trying to crawl through a fence).  She has cost us way more than any pure bred pup due to furniture damage, (She chewed a hole in our couch), vet visits, clothing damage, bedding damage, and animal control fees.  She used to jump out of the yard.  We did everything we could to keep her in.  Finally putting up huge mesh fence, placing bricks on the walls worked.  The animal control people threatened to take her away after her second capture.  I told them that this dog would never be taken away from us and that she has done so much damage to our property that no other person would have ever kept her.  That she would have been euthanized by now.  That she was our dog and we made our commitment to her and would keep her, and they could go ahead and try and keep her.  Trust me, I listed her offenses to the lady.  Then I told her, I dare you to take this dog from us. The lady's eyes got pretty big and wide.  She stayed with us.  She caused more damage, she ate more trash.    Wyli was afraid of everything.  Cameras, video cameras, people, lightening, rain, leaving the house.  But she was our dog.  Whatever person had her before us probably beat her.  We put up with her neurosis for many years.  And as bad as she was, I will say, I'm going to miss that brown little dog.  She was sweet.  She was bad.  She was ours.  And now, she's in heaven with Beamer.  They're probably happy together running around, or swimming together in the early morning hours.  Or Wyli is probably hiding under my bed while Beamer runs and plays.  Whatever makes her happy.  So long, Worst Dog in America.  You were a good girl, and we love you.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

2nd Grade 12x12 Layout


Supplies are from Studio Calico Monthly Kits  Letters:  American Crafts

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Top Ten Tuesday...on Saturday!




I decided to participate in the "Top Ten Tuesday" with Shabby Blogs.  I thought it would be a fun and creative challenge.  It would also make a cool scrapbook layout for yourself, if you wished to do that.  So, this week is Top Ten Favorite Musicians.  I'm changing mine to Top Ten Favorite Songs.  I'm trying to send you links to each song from Youtube so you can enjoy them too.  So here, you go:

1.  Clocks by Coldplay
Reminds me of family and home!




















2.  Santeria by Sublime
I love Sublime.  Love, love them.  One year my brother, Kriss and I drove to Vegas and listened to Sublime and Pennywise the entire way.  That was a great trip.




















3.  Don't Stop Believing by Journey
I just love this song!



















4.  Rocky Mountain Way by Godsmack
Love the metal guitar!  I'm a rocker girl at heart.




















5.  Murder in the City by The Avett Brothers
Reminds me of my boys and our family.


















6.  Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band  7.  Toes by Zac Brown Band
THE LAKE!  Can I say anymore.  It's my home.  My most peaceful place on this Earth.














8.  Dirt Road Anthem by Jason Aldean
This song is so TorC, my hometown.  I love that place.  I love my friends.  I love everything about it.  It will always be home.  Growing up in a small town was awesome.



















9.  Sailing by Christopher Cross
We used to have the 8 Track of this.  We'd listen to it in our little white Mazda.



















10. Santa Monica by Everclear
My California days.  I wanted to move there so badly.  I used to go visit my brother there often, and go shopping.  Those were the days.













10.5 :) Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
Sorry had to add it.  It reminds me of my daddy.




There you have it.  The songs are in no particular order.  I just really love them because they remind me of something special in my life.  Hope you enjoy!

Monday, May 13, 2013

Kinder 12x12 Layout


No, these pictures were not put on the page super-crooked.  Since the great "Computer Debacle" as I'm calling it, I had to get the new version of photoshop.  That means I can't figure out the new crop tool, which in turn means that it looks like the pictures were put on the layout crooked.  Yes, I am aware  that was a run-on sentence.  Also more great news, my oven doesn't work.  That's right my brand new oven failed 20 days outside of the manufacturer's warranty!   Oh, and JoJo is a bad little boy who makes giant messes:  he peed on the floor (the rug by the toilet) this morning because he was get this:  itchy!  Anyhow, I made him wash the rugs and he tells me, "I like doing laundry."  So much for punishment!  Hope your day was better than mine.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day


Hope this finds you all well!  Have a wonderful day!  I am going to spend mine doing laundry and cleaning, and getting caught up on stuff around here.  That is what I want to do.  I think I have good leverage on the boys today to help me out ;).

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Colorado Vacation 12x12 Layout


Supplies:  American Crafts for the Cardstock, and letters.  Hexagons are from a Studio Calico kit.  

I was finally able to upload a few photos of layouts.  I had to update my Photoshop and Adobe Bridge to do it.  I'm waiting for my photos to download from iPhoto.  Those are my personal ones and there are about 15,000 of them.  It's taking while.  Hope all is well in your worlds.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Who Doesn't Love Free Gas?

Hi All, I wanted to share with you that Kayla Aimee is hosting a give away on her blog for a $100 Shell Gas Card.  I'm posting this post for an entry.  If you are interested you can go here and leave a comment, and get more information on how you can get an additional chance to win!

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