The Children

I thought I would introduce and share mine and Nick's two beautiful children...Mouse and Delilah!

Meet Mouse:  This dog is the sweetest and most caring animal you could ever imagine!  He is a blue heeler/red heeler mix.  His story starts out kind of sad...  He was found by a friend of my brothers outside the hospital he works at.  He would come in every time the automatic door would open, and eventually the friend brought him home.  My brother had him for a while, and finally he found his forever home with Nick and I in December 2008.  He was abandoned and abused; however, you would never know it with how loyal and loving he is.  He seriously acts like he never gets any attention.  He is never satisfied with being next to you, he has to be in your lap!  He is my puppy boy, and we adore this dog so much.  We call him our circus dog because he is so incredibly smart, can do nearly any trick, and learns things ridiculously fast.  So, here is Mouse!

Meet Delilah:  We call her the "Wee One".  She is full blue heeler and will be a year old on Friday! We got her in the Summer of 2009.  She is pretty small for the breed, but it works out perfect for us, we love how petite she is.  Her story is very different...  We were looking for another dog and playmate for Mouse.  Mouse wasn't going anywhere so the dog we got had to be 100% compatible with him.  We looked at shelters and adoption programs, and almost came home with a few.  Then there was Delilah!  My sister-in-law's sister-in-law (confusing I know, read it again and should make sense) was trying to find homes for some puppies for her dad.  The puppies were not in the best shape, and when they brought Delilah to us we just knew we had to keep her. Plus, her and Mouse instantly bonded!  She hadn't liked any of the other dogs she had been around until Mouse.  She is so full of energy and love.  My dad says she should have a collar that plays "I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it" all the time because she really does just run around like crazy.  Mouse is pretty much Nick's dog and Delilah is definitely mine!

Eventually we will have real babies, but for now these two are a handful and give us plenty of love!  They totally have their own personalities and each day is more exciting, fun, and complicated because of them.

Here is our little family so far...

Organization...

It pretty much rained at our house all day on Saturday.  Nick and I decided to take that time to organize all of our paperwork.  We still had everything separated into our two expandable folders from when we were not married, and decided that after being married a year it was time to condense and combine.  We took all of this madness...

and turned it into this fabulous, organized drawer...

While we were doing this our children (the dogs of course!) were playing with their new presents.  I got some teddy bears from students for Valentine's Day, and decided that the puppies would have more fun with them then I would.  They also played in the box that the new filing cabinet came in!

By the way, we are pretty sure that Mouse is double jointed or something.  He is the one on the right in the first picture...I have never seen a dog lay with their hips out like that and completely flat on the floor.  He looks so funny, but that is how he has always laid!