Finally an update

Yeah, I know. Anna has been remiss in her blogging duties. So, I figured that I'd throw up a few pictures to pacify the natives.

So, we've been a little busy lately. I got Anna's french doors put in!

We went camping a few times this summer. Not as often as we'd hoped, but you know how that is.

A few pictures of Rose "Tounge with legs" the Puppy; an old and a new one.

Oh yeah, and my house is trying to kill me. Here is the aftermath of its most succesful attempt. Yeah, that's the ceiling... yeah, that's my blood on the nail head. I was lucky enough to extract myself (with Anna's help) before most of the blood started to flow.

December 17th

Well, the pup has been here since the 29th of November and is adjusting well. Bailey and the puppy play together, and think that when one has a toy or food it must be better then the identical one they have. So they walk around pretending not to notice and as soon as the other is gone SWIPE.

Josh loves the attention of two dogs. Now there are more race cars on the track :) at least in his mind. Rose and Bailey just think they are playing chase. Since Rose is slower then her buddies she frequently hides under the dinning room table or the coffee table and jumps out as Josh and Bailey are just passing her and darts to the next hide out.

Bailey and Rose spend their awake hours wrestling or chasing one another around. I have been amazed yet agian at how gentle Baiely is with those smaller then her. Bailey is such a pushover, Rose decides to eat Baileys dinner and Bailey stands back and looks to Tyler or myself for help, she wont push Rose out of the way herself.

Rose has learned qutie a bit in the short time we have had her. She has learned "No" and "Leave It." She has also learned how to use the dog doors. We only had one accident this past week and it was because the dogs weren't able to get outside.

Rose's newest trick is "Sit" I have her come to me and say sit, and as long as she isn't excited and Tyler's not around she will "Sit" on command. :) It's Puppys first words LOL.

Well I'll keep this one short and sweet, and hopefully I'll post again right after Christmas.

December

The latest news in the Clements family....

For Thanksgiving Tyler's sister Susan and her family came to Boise and we had a blast with them. I always love it when Tyler's family comes to town. Their little one Paul is getting bigger and is a social butterfly. He has an attention-span similar to Josh: here one minute and gone the next.

For Thanksgiving we went over to Great Grandma's house, and we had Josh this time around. The turkey was wonderful along with all the rest of the food, lets just say afterwords I was stuffed like a bird. After lunch it was time to look at the sales ads and then it was time for pumpkin cheesecake and pies. (It was the first cheesecake I've made, it was OK but not great).

The next day Tyler and I stayed home. We decided that we weren't going to be participants of the Black Friday marathon and avoided stores as much as possible. We did run out to Petco in the afternoon though. Apparently Petco doesn't participate in Black Friday either, there weren't any sales and there weren't a whole lot of people or pets. Bailey helped pick out toys and treats for her and the new puppy.

The rest of the week was uneventful until Thursday the 29th. Thursday (well actually Friday) at 12am we picked up the puppy from the airport. We brought Bailey with us because we wanted them to meet on neutral territory. Bailey's first reaction was sniff sniff and then hide behind daddy's legs. The puppy's was hiding her head in my coat. On the car ride home the puppy was in her crate and Bailey was as far away from the puppy as she could possibly be in the back seat of the Honda. She also refused to look at me for the duration of the car ride.

When we got home we fed the dogs, gave them treats, then potty break and to bed. The next morning I had to go to work, so I got up at 7 fed the puppy did more potty breaks and got ready for work. Around noon Tyler brought the puppy by my work where she spent the rest of the afternoon. We got home Friday night and surprised Josh with the puppy, then it was play, play, play, eat, sleep, and around again.

Bailey is getting used to the puppy, they are now playing together and having fun. Bailey's still not too sure about sleeping together though. Puppy snuggles next and Bailey jumps up and heads for a new room.

When Tyler brings his computer home I will get some new pictures up...hopefully this week sometime. We lost our cable to the camera when we moved to the house in Nampa, so we have to download the photos via SD card on the laptop.

November Update

Hello everyone, it has been a while since I posted.

The first little bit of news is that I have been working full time for the last two weeks and am enjoying my job. I am working for both an accountant and a financial planner in Boise. Martha (the accountant) and Terry (the financial planner) decided to share an office and an assistant. :) So I am learning about the accounting world as well as the financial one.

Next Friday everyone in the office gets to "Rake Boise." We will be ridding two lawns of their leaves.

My birthday was on Wednesday, so I got to see Josh for that. We had a birthday party for me last Sunday at Janis and Steve's. Janis bought me a cheesecake, mmmm my favorite. Steve and Janis also got me a new faucet that I had asked for. Yeah, now I have a pretty faucet and don't have to go in to help Josh turn on the water.

Tyler has been busy with work and is enjoying it. He is working on various projects which is good for Tyler, because he gets bored otherwise.

Tyler has also been busy around the house. I am getting a puppy (Shhhh, Josh doesn't know about it yet) so he helped me stretch the chain link fencing on the kennel: we still have to finish the door. The picture above is of the new pup. We also had the light ballast in our walk-in closet go out, so he gets to replace that with a new light fixture.

For my birthday Tyler got me the shelving and a the new garbage can that I have been asking for. It has a foot thing you step on to open the lid. Now Bailey and the new puppy wont be able to go dumpster diving.

This week for my birthday he put up shelving on the other wall, and also put up a wall sconce: that took about 30min the shortest project to date. This week he also put in my new faucet, that was a bit of a headache. I figured it would take 30 min or so, it ended up taking all night and then the new P-trap that Tyler purchased was broken, so he did a quickie fix and the next day we went to Lowe's and got another one.

Tyler has been busy with other projects as well. Janis's motor home had some water damage that need to be fixed, unfortunately it turned into a bigger project then was expected. Tyler has been working on rebuilding the entire front bed. He has the floor and the sides done, but needs to finish the front and mount all of it.

For Halloween we bought Josh a football costume that he insists is BSU Broncos: he is actually a Denver Bronco because the store didn't have college teams . We didn't get him for Halloween or any trick-or-treating activities, so we let him wear his outfit all day the Saturday we had him.

On Saturday we watched the BSU game on TV. Josh doesn't quite understand the TV thing, he thought he was actually one of the football players on TV, since he was wearing his "BSU" Football Player costume and they kept announcing Joshua (one of the players' names) did this play or that.

We'll I think that is all for now.

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend we had Josh, it also happened to be a weekend that Steve and Janis were going up to Donnelly for a fly-in. So we tagged along.

Bailey and Josh had a grand time playing in the dirt (as usual), and Josh also loved camping with Mee-ma (Janis) and Bee-pa (Steve). They played baseball, soccer, golf and many other activities. Josh had a great time riding on the motorcycle with Bee-pa too (Bailey of course tagging along).

Josh had his very first airplane flight, it was on a Highlander by Just Aircraft. He was very excited and wasn't scared at all. The pilot had never had a passenger that young and asked if I would go along to comfort Josh (if he needed) and to let him know if Josh was scared.

We went to an Ice Cream Social near Donnelly. They had a lot of old farm equipment and excellent homemade ice cream.

September 21, 2007

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to say hello, and tell you a little about what is going on.

As of April 20, 2007 Tyler and I have been married, and have been busy, busy, busy ever since. Tyler found a camper for cheap on craigslist, so we have been camping. I think we have already paid for the camper with the number of times we have gone camping this year. I lost count after 10. Along with camping we have been busy with Bailey's sheep herding and Tyler's soccer.

Above is our brown truck & camper and our blue dune buggy (77 Celica)