Meet Rusty!

This is Tyler's new puppy Rusty. We adopted him from the SPCA on Saturday. He is a 2 month old Jack Russell mix. We think he is the cutest thing ever.

Tyler and Rusty cuddle before bedtime.

Tyler holds his "baby" puppy while he sleeps. Jessie takes her turn to cuddle the new pup too.

Here is Rusty with his new coat chewing on sticks. He gets very cold so we try to keep him warm when we can.

So far Rusty has exceeded all of our expectations. He chases Tyler around the house and keeps him busy. Cuddles every chance he gets and hasn't even destroyed anything yet! Even the housebreaking is going rather smoothly. Rusty's only trouble is he hates being away from his humans. I must say he has a cute howl but I would rather sleep than listen to it.

I am sure I will have more pics of Rusty later on.

Over 6 month catch up

So I realize it has been a very long time since my last post. I really have no excuse so here are some pics to bring you up to date.

In September we went and saw the Circus. Tyler and Jessie loved the show and had snowcones.

We moved into our house in October and settled in quickly.

Early October Ben and Tyler carved his pumpkin. Then we took Tyler and Jessie to both John Ball and Binder park trick or treating and then to Richland park on Halloween night for games and treats.

In November Ben learned that Tyler is fierce Stratego player. With our modified rules Tyler beat Ben and then refused to play again so that daddy had a chance to win.

We also attempted to clean up the leaves in the yard. The piles were fun to play in but they never were removed before the snow hit. oh well!

After Thanksgiving we cut down this tree in my parents front yard for our Christmas tree.

Early December Ben and I took Tyler to see an animatronic show called "Walking with Dinosaurs" He loved it.


Tyler was a shepherd in the Christmas nativity at church.


Tyler and Jessie gave Santa their lists.

Christmas in our house for the first time was great! Everyone came to us so we didn't have to go anywhere.


These foam swords made for great fun in the weeks following Christmas.


For New Years we invited the Kecks over and of course Cori and Jessie were there too. We played our new fav game Catan.

Ben started a new job Jan 1 and now works for a law firm in Kzoo.

I wrecked our Honda a few weeks ago and had to buy my first car on my own. I bought a Mazda 5. Will put up picks soon.

So that is about it. Simplistic but at least I am caught up.

Busy working on the new house

So I have been posting regularly on my house blog since that is what we have been doing lately.

I did take Friday morning off and took Tyler and Jessie to the zoo to see the new snow leapord cub.

Yesterday, I spent catching up on things at Mark and Janes like mowing, cleaning and laundry. I even weeded our small garden some to keep it in control. The big garden has been abandoned as far as weeds. We will see if anything comes out of it.

Last night Ben and I discovered that the horse had been traped for a couple days in the pasture. He had went through the electric fence of one pasture into the lane between the two pastures (we think a deer took a part out but it was dark and we couldn't tell) and then couldnt figure out how to get back across. Poor guy has been stuck and I just thought he was being stubbor and didn't want to come see me. So we gave him food and water last night and I spent time feeding and brushing him this morning.

I feel I realy let the ball drop on this one. We have just been so busy with the house I would just drive by and make sure he wasn't lame and check his water.

we well have to do a better job. Oh, he also lost a shoe so I have to get the ferrier to come out as well.

So that is what has been going on.

A few stops on the way home Sunday July 6

On the way back down to the bridge we stopped at one of my childhood favorites, Castle Rock.

Here is a pick of Ben, Tyler and I with Paul and Babe.

Then we climbed up the rock (stairs).

Here are the guys resting half way up.

Tyler walked all the way up and back down by himself.

At the top Tyler and Ben enjoy the view.

Ron takes this picture of Me, mom, dad, Tyler and Ben.

Tyler picked out this head dress and drum from the shop.

South of the bridge we stopped at a shop called sea shell city and Tyler played on the pirate ship outside.

From here we kept on the road untill Alma where we stopped for dinner and checked out our old appartment (hadn't changed a bit).

It was a long weekend by the time we got home.