A good laugh..

My wife took our animals and put them into a elf yourself video.. Pretty funny.

it’s been awhile..

It’s been a month since I last posted and during that time my wife I took a trip to Vermont to accomplish a few goals, run a marathon and visit her family.

We set off to run the marathon on a Saturday morning, it was cold, around 30-35 degree’s and sunny. Around 8:30am the race started and we paced ourselves for a 12 minute mile, about 2 hours and 30 minutes into the race we reached the half way point (13.1 miles).

We were feeling pretty good at that point since we had ran that distance many times during the summer, however, around mile 19 or 20 I hit the “wall” so to speak its and odd feeling when you body just stops running and you unconsciously start to walk.  I am about 2-3 miles ahead of my wife at this point, we made a pact that we would go ahead of each other if we felt like we could, I did.

Around mile 21 I met up with an awesome lady named Dorthy, her spirit and positive energy got me through the last 5.2 miles of that marathon and I’ll never forget the time we ran together. She’ll probably never see this blog, but I just want to say thanks Dorothy. Dorthy and I finished 1 second apart, I was dehydrated, delusional and I was trying to comprehend how my wife was already at the finish line. Come to find out she made it 19 miles before she had to stop, I was proud of her for making it that far.

I finished the marathon, 26.2 miles in just under 5 hours and 30 minutes, all those months of hard training actually paid off.

The marathon was around Lake Champlain here is a picture of the sunset there.

we got another dog…

A family member of mine recently surrendered their dog of 7 years to the local vet. My wife and I have always talked about how we felt we could provide the dog with a better more stable home but never really knew how we could approach the situation without causing any unneeded drama.

Things got interesting when another family member I had stopped to visit was upset, I proceeded to ask what was wrong and got a heartbreaking story about how the dog had been surrendered to the local vet because they could not take care of her nor pay for the surgery she needed to have her bladder stones taken care of.

I wish they would have asked my wife and I to help them or take the dog we would of happily done so. My wife and I are big animals lovers we have 3 dogs and 2 cats already and sometimes its crazy but it’s well worth the enjoyment. When I found out I immediately went to the vet and asked if she had been adopted and offered to pay the $1000 to have her surgery taken care of if we could adopt her. The hardest part for me was knowing this poor dog had only known one family and was about to be given to someone else at the age of 7 it seemed heartbreaking to me to let this happen, since she knows us and loves our border collie.

The vet called me back this morning and OK’d the adoption, she is going to have her surgery on Monday and we’ll be able to pick her up on Tuesday. In the end I hope we’ll be able to provide her with a good home and the ability to run in a large yard and play with other dogs.

Cheyenne in her glory..

This is a picture of our youngest dog Cheyenne. She loves her rawhide bones and this frog toy, my wife and I call them her little “treasures” since she has one with her at all times.