Chicago, here we come!

Have I said how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE Chicago??? It's such a fun, fast paced, neat city. Friday morning I am dropping the three stooges off for a weekend at Auntie Mary's house (thank God for Auntie Mary, since no one else in their right mind is willing to take care of these three crazy dogs for a weekend!) and we are hitting the road. We being me, Josh and Josh's dad, Jeff. We're taking a few days to escape life, do some sightseeing, a little shopping and just relax and enjoy the Windy City. And although I know Josh isn't looking forward to the 3 hour drive, I know he's stoked to be driving in downtown Chicago once again - that city is made for a crazy ass driver like Josh, so he feels right at home there!! We'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post when we get back.

Another reason pugs are better than kids!

Yet another reason pugs are better than kids - because they like to sleep as much as I do!!!! We slept in super late today, got up and ate some breakfast and decided to lay back in bed and watch TV for a little while. And where are the pugs? Happily laying in bed and on the floor, snoring like freight trains! And Diesel is even under the covers as he feels it's simply too bright to sleep on top of the covers - he just can't get a good enough sleep!! See, kids don't do this stuff - they need to be up and moving around - too busy for me!!!

Random Saturday Thoughts

First, I have to thank my favorite cousin, Sara, for the picture she sent me last week - I have yet to get it framed and hung on my art wall, but I promise to do that soon and I will post a pic of it once I do.

It was a fun day of scrapping - working on two pages to submit for the Milwaukee Pugfest scrapbook contest to benefit pug rescue. Wow - it's hard to be given a theme and requirements to scrap. I've never done it before and it really makes you stop and think about what you're doing. I do believe, however, that I have finally gotten off to a good start and will get them finished yet this week. Which is good because they're due by Labor Day. And thank you to Mary for helping inspire me!!

Ah, yes, the reasons I don't have kids - Karaleigh (Mary's granddaughter) is one sweet little girl, but man that kid can wear a person out!! Just watching her run back and forth through the living room in her cowboy boots made me tired!! Oh, and she's very picky about the quality of stickers she uses - I tried giving her some of my stickers to play with and she never hesitated to give me back the ones she didn't like!!

And cannot forget my usual fireworks rant. Here's the deal, people. Fireworks are for the 4th of July. It's currently August 21 - long past the 4th of July, so if all the idiots can stop shooting off fireworks, I'd be forever grateful!!

Trip to Chicago next weekend with Josh and my FIL. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Chicago so am really looking forward to a fun weekend. Maybe we can manage a stop at the outlet mall in Kenosha on our way there or back - not that I have any money to spend, but hey that's what keeps Discover, Mastercard and Visa in business, isn't it?! Well, that and my vet expenses!

Have a great weekend, lord knows the warm summer weekends will be over before we know it.

Grace, the squirrel hunter

Yesterday morning I fed the kids and put them out after breakfast for potties. The twins did their business and came in, but Grace was nowhere to be seen. I called her a couple times but no Grace. I figured she was out in my flower bed happily eating flowers. So I put on my shoes and grabbed a flashlight (it's dark, you know, since they eat breakfast at 4:30 a.m. - thank you, Sis!) and headed outside. As I walked around the corner of the garage, Grace came running from where the fence meets the front corner of the garage. I went to investigate what she was doing over there.

And I discovered that Grace was happily gnawing on the remains of the ground squirrel that had been caught in the trap just outside the fence. She happily dragged the back part of the squirrel through the fence and chewed away!! Icky little girl!!!!!!!!

So, now I am happy to see her eat poop again instead of rodents!!