Well, Tim and I are proud new parents again for the 4th time! Yes, we did it! That little puppy was all I could think about since Thursday night! So she is now ours. I was kinda a basket case making the decision. I was so worried about the cats. So far it's been ok. I was most worried about Oden, but it seems that Mugsy is having the hardest time. Hissing some, but at least she's not hiding. Loki's doing her usual thing, coming out when she feels like it. I think that the fact that the cats are all out and standing their ground is a good sign! We are taking it slow, keeping Lucy in her crate to let the cats get comfortable with the idea of her. (don't worry, she's not in the crate all the time, just around the cats) It's crazy, but she loves that thing already and is going in it on her own to relax.

All the cats would sneek up to the crate in the kitchen: Here's Loki doing it

If you look carefully Oden is peeking from behind the stove and the top of Mugsy's head is peeking over the top stair on the right side

Oden, he did make it a little farther than this

Mugsy stretching a little more to try and see what was going on, poor thing is pretty freaked

Lucy already loves her stuffed sheep, she's carrying it around plops her head down on it

She's so tired, she kept crawling into her crate and napping

Do it Heather!

We took my mom today to get a new puppy!  She wanted a golden retriever.  We soo lucked out and a friend had a friend who had a friend (don't you love the bar business) who had pure bred golden retrievers that she was giving away.  Just to clarify, pure bread in my family really means nothing.  Every dog we've ever had has looked exactly the same.  I just call them "Detroit" dogs.  If you live here, you know what I mean, they are all black and brown.  In pictures of the dogs my family has owned, we never even know which one is which.  They're great dogs, and we always would get an older dog from the humane society, cause my dad always told us that somebody else will take the puppies, we needed to save the adults.  There are two in my family right now, my mom has Rudy and my sister Heidi has Cali.

Cali, example of a "Detroit" dog

So back to the puppies!  It took all of my will power not to bring one home!  And I mean all.  Tim and I are both super softies when it comes to animals.  He is sometimes worse than me, always wanting to get another cat (his reasoning being we don't have one in every color yet, yeah, he's that cute or crazy!)  We made it out of there without a new baby, but I'll tell you, it is still on my mind.  We left the last of a litter of 9 all by herself, with no more brothers and sisters.  On the way out, I couldn't talk, for fear that the tears would start.

Crystal is the woman who has the mama, and also an older brother of these adorable little ones.  She was so great and welcoming to us!  I appreciate it so much.  It is always nice to meet people who are so kind and actually care about their animals!  Thank you Crystal!

You've always got to make out a lil before going home together! : )

This is us pouting to Tim that we should all go home together.

This one is my favorite!  How funny are they?  I think it's love.

And this is Rosie, she actually got to go to her new home tonight!

I did a post awhile back with a pic of the amazing Ryan White recording in a church. Well, on the same day some of his friends also recorded in the church and I shot some pics for them also. I am in the process of processing them and here are just a few. I am embarrassed to admit it, but I do not know the name of their band! I will post it, as soon as I know it! I promise! (So bad, that is so bad!)

This post is for one of my greatest friends, who happened to throw her back out, and as a result is spending more time on her computer than she usually would. Looking for things to keep herself occupied, she's reading my blog. Yip-ee! Readers!

I never wanted cats. But thanks to Elwood, I am officially a "cat lady"! You see, it's his fault because I went with Heather when she went to get him. The Detroit Humane Society is where I fell hard and fell fast for my dear Oden. He choose me that day, and he is definitely one of the greatest things that ever happened to me! So Heather these are for you. We will have a real shoot for him soon, I promise! I hope you feel better soon! But even when you do I hope you keep reading my blog! :)

Elwood

He of course wanted to know what was in the lens, which made him too close to focus on.
Still cute though!

It's unbelievable the job that firefighters have. Last night at the corner of our block, a house caught on fire and ended up burning to the ground. The fire was so big and the embers were flying so much, there were a few moments when we thought we were going to have to pack up the monsters and leave the house. Although it is completely devastating that the family lost their house, they all made it out safely, Thank God.

So please, everyone, I know we're freezing, but make sure you turn off and unplug things like space heaters!

I don't have many of the fire up close, the family came back and didn't want to
make a spectacle of myself.

They also used the hydrant at the opposite end of our block.

The hose went all the way down the middle of the street.

These are from my back yard.