She apologized

Check out this post. The blogger I have discussed has apologized to the blogging world and everyone else that she has hurt in the process.

Doggie Pool!!!

We took the dogs to a doggie pool today!!! I have plenty of pictures and videos to show you (and plenty of time to post them since the dogs are SOUND asleep from their busy afternoon! Here are the pictures and videos!

These are my "brave" dogs when we first go there. They are the two clinging onto and clawing at the edge for dear life. This was after we had to throw them in because they wouldn't go in themselves. This was the 4ft pool. They could stand on their hind legs when in this pool (which is what they are doing in the picture). They eventually swam around a LITTLE bit, but it was definitely not their thing to yet. I think they would love it, but right now they weren't too thrilled. Some water dogs, huh?


Jeffery FINALLY got Maggie in the 2ft pool. He had to go in with her or else she wouldn't go in and he had to stay in to calm her down or else she would jump right back out. It was really funny. She wouldn't jump in either. He had to pull her in. But once she was in and calm she LOVED it!

This is a video of what Jeffery had to go through to get them in. And then once they did at first when they got in, haha. It is funny! The other dog in the video (the one in the pink collar) was a little lab who would run and jump into the water with no problems. Definitely showing our dogs up! And then once she was in she would look at our dogs and cry like she wanted our dogs in there, haha. (Oh and there is no sound, my digital camera doesn't record sound).

Oh my goodness! This is a dog int the pool by herself!!!

Two in the pool without daddy!

This is a video of Maggie playing by herself in the pool (see her pawing at the toy?? So cute!) and then Jeffery getting Kota to jump in. He had to put her paws over the water but she jumped in! I'm so proud of her!

This is a hilarious vido of Maggie bounding through the water to get the toy. It was so funny!

And this is both dogs in the water together!!! After they were in we had to pry them out. They LOVED being in the water! (Just not the actual getting in part, haha). It was so funny to see them try to stand ON the water and then get confused why they sink down. I don't know if this video shows that at all, but I wanted to mention it because it was hilarious.

Here they are playing again!


They had so much fun! We can't wait to take them again! They are SOUND asleep now (and I don't blame them! We even had to come home and take a nap!).

Please pray for this little girl

Please pray for this little girl. Her name is Kayla and she is 9 years old. This week she was hit by a car when she was playing outside with her dad and her little sister. She ran out in the street to get a ball and was hit and thrown 40 ft. She has MANY injuries and needs a lot of prayer. She is my friend's niece. My friend is the one who is writing the blog as she gets updates.

Follow up to my "in shock" post

Here is a link to an article if anyone is interested in reading about what happened with the "April Rose" scam. They were able to even interview the woman behind it all. This is the last time I will be blogging about it. Just pray for the woman behind it that she finds peace in her heart.

In shock

*(this is not the serious post I was talking about... I am holding off a bit. But this is another serious post)*

Wow... I have been following a blog for a few months now. It was about a single woman who went by her initial "B" on her blog. She was pregnant with a baby named April Rose who was diagnosed in the womb with Trisomy 13 and another defect. Doctors told her to terminate and she did not. She carried this baby to 42 weeks before delivering at home with a midwife. Her baby was delivered alive. And that is where the bizarre happenings begin. Apparently this blog was a fake. April Rose does not exist. B, aka Beccah does and for some reason made all of this up. The picture of the baby that was posted was a picture of one of the "Reborn" dolls. The blog is now gone. I feel duped. I feel like someone was taking advantage of me, preying on the sympathies of others and the prayers of those offering their sympathies. I can not believe someone would do this.

At first I was thinking to myself that if I wasted all of those prayers on her that I was done praying for her. Of course... that is the human response. I was hurt. But that isn't a Christian response. I am going to pray for her. I am going to pray for her heart and her mind. I am going to pray that she comes to realize what she has actually done and asks for forgiveness. I ask that you do the same.

I can't believe someone would do this.

This isn't the serious post

But it is fun! This weekend I worked really hard on relandscaping the front yard. It was A LOT of work. Saturday I dug up all of the grass and shaped the gardens. Sunday I ripped out the weeds in the front two gardens, which are now connected to the new gardens going down the walk, and then planted plants and mulched. It was A LOT of work, involving some painful sunburn, but I think it looks great.

Don't mind the empty space in the front of the gardens. They will be filled. I want to put cranberry mums in there, but I don't want to buy them now. I'm afraid if I do I will be buying ones that I think are cranberry and they turn out to be pink. I just dug up pink mums... I don't need more! That isn't the color I want to see in the fall! Haha.

Ok, here are the pictures (If you click on them you can see them bigger. You can actually see the plants if you click on the one that is the after of the yard!):

Before:

This garden was already done a few weeks ago. It was also a lot of work. I had to dig up about 2 ft of ash dumped there by previous owners. Nice. But I did have to mulch it and connect it with the garden in the front. I think it looks great finished!

After: (The plants look so small! They look bigger in person and they will definitely get bigger. All of them are mounding perrenials and all of them flower).
I had planted perrenials in these pots and nothing grew so I decided to designate them to annuals, since I hate planting annuals in a garden. It is Celosia. I love this plant. So vibrant!

Welcom to June!

I'm a little late... Oh well!

BUT! We have now owned our house for over a year! And as of today we have lived in our house for exactly a year!

OK... I need to get this off my chest. I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! is a STUPID STUPID show! The only good coming out is that a charity is getting money. These are all people who have passed their 15 minutes of fame (ironically, I wasn't paying attention to what I was typing and in place of "fame" I had written "shame"!). It is ridiculous. It is something that is not on my TV this summer.

I relandscaped our front yard today. Pictures to come. I did hurt my elbow doing it though. :(

I have a more serious post coming up in the next few days.