My Aunt Brenda's Passing

On November 29th my aunt Brenda passed away from breast cancer. She was the reason I came to Florida in the first place. It was a very bitter sweet moment when it all happened. Although my Brenda was young and still had a lot of life to live, it was time for her to go back "home." She battled cancer for about 5 years with about a year off when she was in remission. She pretty much seemed like she didn't have cancer until 6 months before she passed. She would have energy and do about a million things a day, plus be a great mom to her twin boys, Wil and Jarrod, who are 11. She was in a lot of pain for about 5 months and then was in severe pain the last week or so before her passing.

I had the chance to sit with her in the hospital for about 5 hours and just hold her hand 2 days before she passed. Before that we had a great Thanksgiving with her and her family and just enjoyed the holiday.

I have to say that Scott and I were somewhat prepared for this moment. We new that something was going to happen and that we needed to emotionally be ready for it. Her husband and boys are doing awesome. There isn't a better way to handle all this than how those three boys are handling it. We have all had great peace with all of this which is nice.

We know with out a doubt that Brenda is up in heaven preparing for eternity. She is happy and is in no more pain!! Yeah! We love her dearly and miss her greatly!

Chloe is BIG!

Just thought I would do a little fun post to show you how big Chloe has got since we bought her.

Here she is around 6 lbs

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Here she is around 55 lbs.

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Of course Scott put this soccer shirt on her....she is pretty good at kicking the ball around with her nose!! She also likes to think she is a human by getting up on the toilet to reach the sink for a little taste of water...or soap! Whatever she feels like that day!

About two weeks ago she got spayed so we had to keep her calm, which was not an easy task. She has soo much energy and if we don't take her on runs with us she gets a little crazy. She is becoming such a sweet good dog though. We think she is almost over her biting stage which is GREAT! She will still be in chew mode though for the next year or so :(

Our first house project!

So Scott and I finally decided to tackle our ugly dark green bathroom. We haven't liked it since we moved in but we just haven't been motivated to do anything about it. Finally one day I decided to take everything down and out of the bathroom and to start priming. Well we had a few surprises when I started taking down lights and cabinets and such. The paint started to come off like wall paper so I just went with it. Then behind some of the paint/wall paper I found two big holes in the wall that the previous owners tried to cover up with masking tape and spackle. Not the greatest idea!! We also found a little bit of mold and some other little things. So we decided to replace the sheet rock to repair all of our wonderful surprises! We are just now getting all the paint off the walls and are about to start ripping out the old sheet rock. This will be fun and exciting seeing that we have never done anything like this before!! Here are some "in the process" pictures. I will post some more as we continue the project.

The Dog Park.

One of our weekend activities that we have been doing lately is taking Chloe to the dog park. We love to watch her play with the other dogs. She does have her two favorite dogs, Newton and Storm. Newton is one of my friends dogs that we are currently watching at night while she is at work. he is a Doxin. Storm is my aunt's dog which is a Portuguese Water dog, although he HATES the water if it is more than about foot deep. Here are some pictures of them all in the baby pool and running around. This particular day we took my twin cousins with us, since their dog was going with us.

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The Thriller!

Last week was Mainline's (Scott's work) annual Chili Cook Off! With that they had some competitions between departments. The competition was different dances and skits. It was so fun to watch. The employees didn't have to participate but Scott is a good sport he joined in. His department had to dress up like the guys in Thriller and do the dance from the movie "Thirteen Going on Thirty" Of course Scott was sooo out of his comfort zone but he still did a great job. He said that he might even take up professional dancing for his new career!! Ha Ha! Here are some photos from the dance.

Some random pictures of our house and our dog

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Just thought I would do a quick little update. These are a few pictures that I took awhile ago but haven't had to time to do anything with them.

Scott and I just started school. He is taking one class which is 4 days a week and I am taking two which are 2 days a week. I no longer have my day time job which is nice but I picked up an extra shift at my serving job. I going to start to clean for my aunt Brenda that is here once a week to get her on top of things. She isn't up and going like she usually is right now but I am sure that won't last long. Scott is still working at Mainline everyday and fitting in that one class. He wanted to take more but it ended up that his work wouldn't allow him too. He is just happy that he is taking at least one class so that he doesn't have to reapply for the graduate program again...FEW!!!

Scott's mom, dad, brother Nate and his family, Kristen and Hattie were all out to see us 2 weeks ago. It was such a blast. I will put up some of those pictures later. We went body surfing, went on nature walks, ate great meals and got to do some great family bonding. We enjoyed getting to know Hattie a little more since we haven't been around Ut lately. She was quite the entertainment. Plus we had Chloe loving every second of the beach while we were there. She is such a water dog. She will swim with her head completly under water for about 8 secs to try and find a toy or save anyone that she thinks is drownding. It is hilarious.

Well that is it for now!!!

Complicated week.....

This week has been a tough one for my family. My aunt who has breast cancer is having complications this week. She is going in for a blood transfusion this morning which will hopefully boost her cells. It is always hard watching someone you love go through such a hard time. We can only hope and pray with much faith that she will continue strong and pull through this one. Her twin boys will be with Scott and I this weekend and into next week. We love them so much are happy that we are able to be here to help out. They are such troopers through this whole thing. No fun pictures this week! I have been waiting to take pictures of our house but it keeps raining here so the out side of our house looks like no one lives in it because the grass hasn't been cuts in 2 and a half weeks!! YIKES! Granted we NEED the rain here but hopefully tomorrow will be sunny for just a little bit. Then the boys and I can do some gardening! Ha Ha! They will love that I am sure!