The Final Countdown......

Well, I am so very happy to say that we are now in the final countdown of several great things; My hubby coming home, Tim's Ship Commissioning and our trip to New York City.....WooHooo. We have ten more weeks until Commissioning weekend and our fun time in New York City.....WE can not wait. My best friend Dawn is going with me to New York since Tim will have to work part of the time, so it will be fun girl time too. It all seems so much more official since we now have our plane tickets booked as of today and hotel reservations made. WooHoo... we are so excited...I know I already said that.

The girls are staying in Michigan while I am gone so it will also be a kid free trip. On one part I look forward to that but I am also a worrier and don't like to be that far from my Chicky's so we will see how I do on that one....lots of prayer.

Tim will be home for Labor Day weekend thank goodness we miss him so very much. Especially the girls, they just want to hold him and play with Daddy as they tell me each night at bed time. So we can't wait for next Thursday when he arrives for the weekend. So the COUNTDOWN's have started!!!!

Another Baby........

.......I know what y'all are thinking.......Your having another baby? No, not a baby of the human kind. As you can see below this is our newest addition to our family and her name is Sadie. Back on memorial day up in Michigan we went to my sister Tara's house for the day and ended up coming home with Sadie, she was 8 weeks old at that time. She is a yellow lab as you can see. Tara's neighbor was selling a full litter of AKC labs and I got suckered into one between Tim, the girls and my sister of coarse. Tara has a small farm of oh .....lets see......horses, goats, rabbits, roosters, chicken's, ducks, cats, dogs, I am not sure if I am leaving anything out or not, there are so many animals up there I can't keep track. Any way, I told the girls that day to say goodbye to Aunt Tara's house because it was to expensive to visit her any more.....kidding of coarse.

So, me the NON-Dog lover has a dog. I must say that this has been and is a major adjustment for me because other than one cat.....that takes great care if herself....... I do not like having other animals. I like other peoples dogs but did not want one of my own. I have crate trained her and she is doing well, we just need to work on some of the other training issues of no jumping etc. I must also say she does not get to run around the house other than the entry way area to her crate or when we are right there with her. I am a neat freak and don't like the dog smell so she gets a bath once a week to prevent that, etc. etc. I know I am picky but we spend A LOT of time out side with Sadie and this works great for all of us. The one mistake about getting Sadie when I did, is that Tim has not been here to help with her, one more live and learn for Tiffany.

As for the girls, Paiyton loves Sadie and plays with her a lot and sits and rubs her belly. Emmah can take her or leave her at this point, though she is getting more involved with here just this week. It is very cute how the girls call her "Sadie Girl". So, we now have 1 cat, 1 dog, and 2 goldfish and that is plenty for Mama!

Memorial Day when we brought her home.....Sadie is 8 weeks old here.

Memorial Day....Emmah giving kiss's

It looks like Emmah is holding Sadie down but she's not...they were just sitting and lovin one another.

Sadie July 4th 2009

I often catch Paiyton just sitting with Sadie rubbing her back or belly in the grass. Paiyton has become a bit attached.

Sadie.....this was taken two weeks ago.

The 80's.....

......what a great time of music.....or least I think so anyway. I get reminded time and again of the great music of the 80's and how much I loved it. Now, mind you I was only between the ages of 6 and 15 years old at that time and my parents didn't care what kind of music we listened to, that could have been bad. I remember having christian friends that were not allowed to listen to secular music and would sneak around to listen to it....not mentioning any names here.

I remember I was in third grade when the "Thriller" album was released. I won't say anything other than it is sad how the world got a hold of this artist, and many other artists over time secular and Christian. It makes me that much more thankful for the presence of God all through my life and how wonderful his Grace is for each of us. Back to the music, I was a big fan of many different kinds of music and I still am though it is usually Christian.

When I was in 6Th grade three other friends and I did a gymnastic / dance for a gym class project at our Christian School. We chose Whitney Houston's "Wanna Dance With Somebody". We had to get special permission to use this song of coarse being a private school but they allowed it and we received an A+.....great memories.... Anyway, I know you are wondering where this post is going....I have just been enjoying some of the old 80's music this week and decided to reminisce a bit, so turn up your volume and enjoy the flash back.