Happy Birthday Zoe!

Yes, that's right, you heard it, Zoe it one today! So as you know, we treat this little thing as our child. It's sad, I'll admit that. Ben was so excited about her birthday, it was kinda cute. He wouldn't stop telling her happy birthday all day. I'm excited to see how he is when our kids have birthdays. It'll be fun. Anyway, we forgot that today was her birthday until this morning. Since it's Sunday and we couldn't go buy her a new toy or anything, Ben had another bright idea. He convinced me to let her have a birthday cake...made out of people food! It was a stretch for me. Ben cut two pieces of bread into circles, then layered them like a real cake. We couldn't use normal frosting, that we clog Zoe's arteries even worse, so he used peanut butter to "frost" the cake. I left the kitchen for a minute and returned to find that Ben had found a candle and decorating frosting to write on the "cake". It actually turned out really cute. I was proud of him. So, like proud parents we took a ton of pictures, this is just one before she got a good taste of the peanut butter. We only let Zoe eat half of the "cake" because she was eating it so fast that she was choking. She had a little bit of a problem with the peanut butter sticking to the roof of her mouth, but that was half of the fun!Happy birthday Zoe!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This thanksgiving was great! We had a lot of fun. A lot of my dad's extended relatives live in Arizona so every three years we have a huge family reunion during thanksgiving. Now, I don't really know any of those extended extended relatives of mine but it is still a great vacation to get away from cold Utah and go to warm Arizona, the thanksgiving dinner is just a bonus. So, we dropped our dog off with the grandparents and took off on our 12 hour drive to Arizona with my parents. We stayed in an amazing million dollar pool house and sat in the hot tub in the middle of the night, played some ping pong, had a picnic, went shopping, and ate good food. Sometimes I wish we could live in Arizona so we could have picnics in November. It was so relaxing to be able to forget about school and work for a little bit and just hang out with Ben. It was also really neat for Ben to meet some of my cousins and an uncle of mine that he's never met. I think it's probably pretty safe to say that we both enjoyed the vacation! Sorry, there's no photos of this little trip. I'm terrible at taking pictures! Anyway, I hope that all of you had an amazing thanksgiving!

Oh my, Zoe

So, you know how everyone else posts about their kids and stuff? Today is the day to post about my baby. We had quite the scare yesterday! Here's the story. I woke up nice and early to go to work, that is at 5:00 in the morning. AM! Anyway, on my way to the wonderful hospital of Ogden Regional I got a phone call from my panicked husband. This is odd because he does not wake up early! Without even saying hi he immediately says, "Do you want to know what your naughty dog did?" I'm like, oh crap, did she pee? (We're still working on the potty training a little). He says no, she ate a whole bunch of chocolate! At this point he was driving around Plain City to each of our parent's houses to wake them up looking for hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide induces major vomiting and that's totally necessary to get the chocolate up and out of the system since it's extremely deadly for little dogs. So, needless to say, I'm freaking out that my little baby is at home sick and I'm helpless on my way to work. However, I was glad I didn't have to see her throwing up. Anyway, she threw up and all was good. Later that day, my sweet husband put some rib bones in our garbage can, which has to sit out in our kitchen, as gross as it is. Now, Zoe is a very nosey dog and she went digging in the garbage can during Ben's Sunday nap. He woke up to find that she had eaten 3 rib bones! Holy crap! She began throwing up again! This time it was sharp pieces of the bones, which could easily rip up her esophagus. This began around 3:00 and at midnight she was still throwing up. When it was all said and done she should have lost everything left in her stomach and there should be no more bones. She threw up more than 15 times. I was a little worried about her. She went for a vet visit today and all is well. The vet told us she may not be pregnant, but he's not sure, and she's not too terribly dehydrated from throwing up so much. That was a relief! After all, it's confirmed, I'm going to be one of those paranoid mothers who won't sleep at night when their kids are sick. I'm just going to have to live with that.

Girls Night!

All the husbands went hunting, so what else do you expect? The husband-less girls went out to have some fun! We attempted to eat a HUGE pizza, but sadly we didn't even come close to finishing it. It was still delicious. Hopefully the boys like leftover pizza. After we were stuffed we went and bought some Halloween socks and watched a movie at home. I know, it's totally a girl thing to do. It was so fun to hang out with Elizabeth and mom. They are the best! We had a lot of good laughs.
The boys had a really good time hunting. They have been waiting for this trip to the Bookcliffs for seven years! Ben had already shot his buck this year so he just went along for the ride. They camped like girls up there. They were in a nice, warm trailer with gourmet meals and bikes and 4-wheelers to get around, so it was nothing difficult. Jordan shot his very first buck on Saturday morning. That's right, it was his very first one ever! I guess that it was pretty fun to watch him clean it out. Personally, I wanted to be there to see the guts. I bet there's a lot of them! Brady shot a couple bucks, but didn't kill them. They went looking for them but they were never found. I feel bad. That would have been fun to have three nice bucks. Dad is still hunting, so we'll see how it turns out! There may, or may not be, more pictures to come!