Fun Saturday

Yesterday a group from our church made the three-hour trek to Denver to go to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to see an exhibit and IMAX film about the Titanic. It was really neat. The exhibit was set up with all kinds of artifiacts that have been recoverd from the wreckage, and also had "scenes" set up to show us what some areas of the ship looked like. There was a section that looked like the deck, right down to the squeaky wooden floor, and a First-class hallway and suite and a third class hall and room. It was neat to hear about the costs for the different classes, and what that would compare to in today's market. Some of the first class suites cost as much as $2500 then, which would be equal to almost $80,000 now! The only thing I was disappointed about was I couldn't take pictures in the exhibit :-( (this was the only picture I got of anything Titanic- it was outside the main exhibit in the main hallway)but here are some of the rest of the Museum. Mostly fossil skeletons hanging in the main hallways. We had a good time though. And the IMAX film was a documentary about James Cameron( made the movie Titanic) and Bill Paxton (starred in Titanic) going on an expidition to the Titanic wreckage. It was really interesting to see.

And then we went to dinner with our friends E & M, who rode up with us for the day. We saw a restaurant on Unwrapped a couple of weeks ago, and decided to try it. It was soooo neat! It's called White Fence Farm, and had down-home country food, and atmosphere, it was a very enjoyable day!

Here are E & M sitting in a buckboard seat- M & I are taking pictures of each other! :-)

And here is one of G's favorite things- a John Deere Tractor!

And they call my dogs vicious...???

Check it out- a dog broke into our yard this morning. It was chaos!!!

The dog is a labradoodle (a cross between a Lab and a standard poodle). It forced its way into the yard, and all mayhem broke loose!!! And my poor Jonah was the one who ended up bloody and hurt.
:-(
We called the police, and Jonah recognized the vehicle that showed up- he ran and hid- he thought they were there for him!!! Poor baby- he was just minding his own business in his own yard, and he thought he was in trouble again.

Anyway the officer said they will hold the dog on viciousness and if anyone comes to claim it they will also be told if we end up needing to take Jonah to the vet they will have to make restitution. Unfortunately the dog was very unkempt, and had no collar or tags, so we figure he was probably abandoned... I feel bad for it, but also for my dogs. They get the bad rap for their breed, and yet it's another dog who attacks them!!!

And Jonah is doing okay, he and Oreo were playing just minutes later, but what a way to get woke up!!!
Here's where he forced his way in the fence.

"Parents" Again!!!

Check out our new puppy, and Jonah's new sister!! :-) We adopted her from the local rescue yesterday! We named her Oreo. She's only eight months old and is soooo cute and has a lot of puppy energy!!!

She bounces all over the place(except at the doggie-wash, she didn't like that very much, but she desperately needed the bath after spending two weeks at the rescue shelter). Jonah is very happy to have a playmate, and hopefully he won't try to escape anymore (though we hope the modifications we made to the fence will make that impossible.)

Our yard looks like a prison yard now (minus the barbs on the wire).

The worth of a human being???

I am worth $1,888,044 on HumanForSale.com
How much are you worth?

No rest for the weary...

This past week was VBS at our church. Our church is small, and because a lot of the parents work all day, we have our VBS at night. Monday through Friday from 6:30 - 8:15p for a week. G & I decided to get involved and chose to teach the 1st & 2nd grade class. It was fun, but tiring, especially since had to work our day jobs too. We had nine kids the first night, and I thought- I can handle this... then Tuesday night we almost doubled to fifteen!! Wednesday we jumped to seventeen, and back down to fifteen on Thursday. Our class was busting at the seams!!! (Literally- we had to take the table and chairs out and just sit on the floor so that we could have any room at all!) On Friday night we have our "program" which consists of each class getting up and sharing a song or Bible verses from the week, so parents can see what we did with their kids all week. It doesn't last a long time, and then we have refreshments- I think we were done by 7:30, and then had to clean up and tear down. But I have been growing increasingly tired over the week, and increasingly moody. And now here it is 4:25 am on Saturday morning, and I am WIDE awake- can't go back to sleep!!! I hate it when that happens- I am so tired I can barely think straight, but am thinking too much to sleep. Sigh... it's going to be along day... and my taterbug's third birthday party is this evening... I hope I get some sleep before then... I can't wait to give her her camera!!! (More on that later)
For now it's back to my laundry, and maybe I'll turn the T.V. on ( I hate to though, afraid I'll disturb my husband-who can sleep through anything...)

Actually we have found out G can't sleep through everything, he woke up to find me not in bed, and couldn't get back to sleep himself... so now we are both watching T.V. at 5:10am... Sorry G

Jonah the Cowardly Pit-Bull

I have to send my dog away... to Pueblo. He keeps running away (he did again today- the Police had him this time because he tried to get in some lady's car at the bank down the street.) So until we can get the fence secure (and we can't get that done until the weekend at least) we are taking him to my parents house so he can't get out and possible hurt or cost us a huge fine. And we also found out today that we can't use the electric fence in the city limits, we have to figure out something else.

Cowardly Dog

My pure-blood pit-bull, Jonah, is such a COWARD!!! He ran away again last night because of a thunderstorm. We had gone to Pueblo, and got home to find him missing. Spent about two hours driving around looking for him, calling & whistling for him. Checking in at the police station to see if he'd been reported out. NOTHING. So after crying myself to sleep, sure my dog was gone forever (and completely freaking out my husband- being so emotional about a dog :-) the police station called at 3 minutes to midnight to tell us someone had found our dog, four blocks from our house!!! We jumped out of bed, went and picked him up, came home- couldn't get back to sleep for alomst an hour. Needless to say- we had a bad morning trying to get up and ready for church, we mde it for worship, but not Bible study.

And boy does Jonah know he's skating on thin ice :-) He's been slinking around giving us those big "I'm sorry" puppy-dog eyes, and obeying our every command perfectly (which has NEVER happened before) I feel a liitle bad about what we are about to do, but not enough to stop me from doing it. We are going to hot wire the fence, so he won't try to get out again. Thankfully his cowardice should aide us in this- once he feels that zap, he will never get close to that fence again...