Livin' on Tulsa Time

Well, I am super behind on posts so I will attempt to do some pre-posting this weekend and catch everyone up-to-date with the Meredith fam. Anyway, two weeks ago we went to T-town to hang out with Shay and my mom. This time we stayed at Shay's apt. She lives in the corner of a second story duplex and Lucy really enjoys hanging out in the corner and talking to all the people, dogs, cats, squirrels and anything that walks by. (I really like this picture of Lucy)

...and so does Sampson (Shay's dog)

Also, another favorite of both dogs is looking out the window above the couch.

I also finished up my newest sccarf creation. My friend at work had an Old Navy scarf from a few years ago on the other day and I thought it was super cute so I decided to try and make it. It looks exactly like this one below that I made. I thought I would be cool and trendy and take some pics of it in the outside settings as you can see.

I am really pleased with the way it turned out and actually kept it for myself. In a whole year of knitting and all the things I have made, this is the first one I made for myself!

And lastly, Shay got her first lesson in knitting and made a whole scarf in a few hours. She says she is "not crafty" but picked it up in like 5 minutes. I think she is just foolin me. It was a really enjoyable weekend filled with lots of lounging, a little shopping and good food. You can't beat that!

She's my best friend....

Lucy and Charlie had a sleep over weekend at our house this weekend. As always, the combo is full of shenanigans but too cute to stay mad at for long. I think Jack was glad she came over too. He thinks that Charlie is scared of him so he acts like tough stuff when she is here. We tried to get some good videos but they didnt turn out really well so I will just share some pics.

A mid morning hug :)

Jack is hanging out in Lucy's new bed for her crate which looks kind of like a raft.

Lucy's leg is on Charlie's back, looks weird.

Pooped doggies.

Jack is stalking the little birds in the bush outside the window.


And then there is Charlie looking smart! This one survived all the playing for now. Other toys were not as lucky.

Cuddly buddies

Here is a pic of Lucy and Jack cuddling. I didnt even force this one. Totally on their own doing.

How much do I love my mom...

Well this ought to prove it :)

So after the race, we rushed home, took showers super fast, packed our clothes, packed lucy's things, loaded the car with a whole bunch of stuff and bolted for T-town because we had to make it to a wedding in 3 hours. For a while now, we had been planning on doing the race, going to Janoah's sisters' wedding and hanging out with the fam this weekend. My mom's friend had a dresser that we thought we would transport to her since we were coming as well. Well, I didnt think about all the logistics before we headed out so I had an interesting trip to Tulsa.

For one, I forgot that Lucy is a large dog with a large crate that had to come, along with a dresser, a whole bunch of other stuff and two people. After we packed the car, I decided to sit in the back so as to not make our dog get freaked out and let her sit in the front seat. So basically, Lucy sat in first class and I sat in coach.

At first, I thought I could just sit in the 16 inch sliver the whole way and it would be alright. Well my hips are not that small so that didnt last long. Eventually, I went to this position:


laying like a sardine in a can. And thus we began our trek to Tulsa. Thankfully, we made it without too many more issues. There isn't much I wouldn't do for my mom, and Lucy apparently :)

On a side note, the wedding was fun and so was hanging out at mom's. We got to watch football and sleep in. Doesnt get much better than that.

Janoah and the bride, Jordan!

randomness of sorts

Since i am still behind on all the updating, here is a compilation of our lives the last couple of weeks that would make for very short blog posts individually:

On our way home from Waltonia, we stopped at a great outlet mall in Roundrock, TX. We spent a couple of hours there and didnt even see half the mall. Matt really hit the goldmine at the Adidas store though. He bought a plethora of normally very expensive Houston Rockets and other brightly orange colored gear at a steal of a price.

As you know, orange is Matt's second favorite color...only to yellow:

The best part of the whole outfit is that Matt got this awesome jacket that says Space City (one of Houston's nicknames) on the front, with a Rockets logo on the back and besides that it is yellow, the inside lining is "the space". Its pretty cheesy but awesome too!

Then, 2 weeks ago, I surprise Matt with a secret date when he got back from DC to go see Earth Wind and Fire and Chicago. We had talked about going before I got laid off then decided not to spend extra money until I got another job. And to my surprise, they still had tickets a few days before. It was a funktastic concert, as Matt called it but also interesting because it was at the Zoo Ampitheatre which we have never been to before. It is like the fair, it brings out a lot of crazies wearing lots of crazy clothes with lots of crazy haircuts!!

Unfortunately, we couldnt take our camera in so these are the only 2 pics we got. I made Matt wear a blindfold and everything but I think he kind of knew.

And then, last weekend was our 7th Annual Fantasy Football draft into the Leaugue of Ultimate Destruction! Shay got the good end of the deal but our team is not too shabby. It was a good time had by all and I finally got to try and make this guacomole football field. I thought I was going to have all this room to make every yard line, hash marks, logos, etc. But as it turns out, there wasnt even enough room to use the correct amout of football players (tomatoes) on the field. But it turned out pretty well anyway...and yes the white piping is sour cream. It kind of grossed me out to pipe sour cream instead of icing!

The destruction has already begun!!


And then this last weekend, Matt's parents came down to visit us and we had a grand ol' time just hanging out and relaxing. We didnt do a whole lot but play with the animals, go for walks, cook, and eat at Sophabella's.

Lucy being really weird. She never lays like this long than about 15 seconds.

And Oreo and Lucy never get this close but never say never I guess.

And by Matt's special request, I made him a chocolate cheesecake. It was supposed to be the Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory but it wasnt quite that. It was more like a Ghiradelli Chocolate Stumpy cheesecake that was really confusing and slightly difficult to make. But he liked it a lot so that is all that matters. And in the end, it looked pretty!

Finally, here is a shot of Matt, Derek, and I dressed up as bible characters from the book of Genesis as a celebration to the last day of our 1.5 year long study in Genesis. Can you guess who we are:

H-Town 4th of July trip

Matt and I went to Houston this weekend. We always try to take advantage of paid holidays that make for a long weekend to go to Houston since it takes so long to drive there and back. It makes the trip more worth while and seem longer. Anyway, this time, unlike most times, we didnt have anything special planned but good ole' relaxing and hanging out. We took Lucy to our friends house to go swimming. I think I was more excited than she was but we all had fun, including Lucy. She was just a little aprehensive when she had to swim where she couldnt touch.

Doesn't she look like she loves it (not).

We also made homemade Milky Way ice cream, cooked steaks, enjoyed the fireworks from our prime time seats on I-45 highway with friends, did a little shopping, went to church, watched a few movies (including Judge Dredd and Comando - which arent very good and Valkyrie - which was good), ate at Dairy Queen, Jack-In-The-Box, Chuy's and tried some jalapeno cheetos (which were delicious by the way) and I caught up on some knitting. It was a good weekend!

Here are some silly pics of Lucy with Matt:

Lucy vs. Her Vaccintions....

and the winner is.........the vaccinations :( Poor Lucy had to go and get her annual vaccinations along with a check up on her heart condition and she ended up having a very rough day. This is her 4th time to have annual vaccinations and the last two times have been very eventful. The first time, she lived with other owners, the second time was normal, but the third time she looked like this but worse when I got home:

I picked her up and as soon as we got home she started panting like crazy, licking her paws furiously and rubbing her body on anything she could. And then she started to break out in hives all over her body and her face swelled much like the picture above but worse. I immediately panicked and drove 30 minutes back to the vet in which the whole time I was balling and thinking Lucy's throat was going to swell and she would stop breathing before I made it back to the vet. Once I got there, they gave her a benedryl shot and assured me she would be fine and she was. On the way home, I took these pics in the car at the gas station. The swelling has already gone down immensely at this point because before she had the shot, she couldnt even open her eyes at all!!

We got her home and all was well until today. We had to take her again for her shots and this time they gave her a prophylactic benedryl shot before the vaccinations AND we left her there all day so they could make sure it wouldnt happen again but wouldnt you know, as soon as Matt got home, she had the same exact reaction as last year!! He rushed her back for steriod shots this time and again she looked much like the pictures above (I lost or had my camera stolen this week so I dont have pics of her from tonight).

It is so weird that this would happen again and that she never had ANY problems the first two years of her life w/ her vaccinations. Whats the deal?? Well I felt really bad that she had such a rough day and that I was busy entertaining all night. Last year that happened when we had people over as well. Luckily tonight, Matt was able to stay with her and make sure she was okay while us ladies played Bunco. Nothing like a little drama to make the day exciting! On another note, we had a super fun night of Bunco and now that everyones gone, I can take care of my fur kid for the rest of the night. Its events like this that make me paranoid to have kids. Imagine how much more worried I would be about a baby than just my dog!! They would have had to give me a steriod shot for sympathy hives :)

Lessons learned: Lucy hates vaccinations, never plan anything else the whole day that Lucy has to get shots next year becuase you never know what will happen and make sure to take lots of pictues becuase she looks super cute with her chubby face :)

Caught Being Onry

Here are a few pics of our "fur" kids being onry this week:

I have been super busy this week and didnt keep up with the laundry very well so it got piled up on our bed and we slept in the spare room last week. But apparently, Lucy decided a pile of clothes and pillows wasnt going to stop her and she slept on Matt's clean clothes all night long one night. This is how I found her when I woke up :) - At least she didnt sleep on my clothes!

Then on Friday, Grant and Rob came over to watch the Rockets. All the boys were super loud so the animals retreated to our room and I found them this way, semi-cuddling. I guess they do love each other deep inside.

And lastly, today (which is Sunday since I am pre-posting), when we came home from the marathon, we fed Lucy and the cat was starving apparently because he started eating the dog food. He has attempted this before when Lucy has been disinterested in eating but she usually puts a stop to that quickly by eating as fast as possible after she notices Jack's interest in her food. Today however, she let him eat her food with her. It was sweet and funny at the same time. It took a whole year for the cat to become tolerant of the dog and a year more for them to become buddies. And as always, they are very entertaining for us!

Silly Pics...

Well as I have been out of the blogging world for about a month, I have been pre-posting this weekend in hopes to catch up to more current events. Here are some fun pictures that didnt quite fit in to any blog I wanted to write so I am merging them all in this one:

Matt took this one of Lucy one night cuddling with her Christmas Monkey that makes monkey sounds. As of last weekend it has been laid to rest because she and Charlie played tug too hard with it and it died. However, the voice box wasnt harmed so I will make a new toy with it...

And here is Matt modeling some yoga pants that Shay gave me. I told him they were waaayy to long but he needed his own proof I suppose :) They are too long for me but too tight for him (and too girly).

This one is of Charlie and Lucy cuddling after a long day of playing last week.

Matt atempts the sun salutation yoga pose on the Wii Fit! I didnt put any of the pics of me that he took because they arent as funny as his :)

And finally, here is one of Matt and Lucy from the weekend the Meredith's were visiting.