We're Outta Here!

In just a few hours we'll be on our way to watch Lyse & Todd tie the knot and hopefully share hyphenated last names!

I pulled out the perfect movie for the occasion last night and made Melissa sit through it - Poseidon!

We'll take lots of pictures ... see you soon!

Happy 30th Birthday Lyse & Happy 40th Todd!

Lyse's Bachelorette

The pictures speak for themselves!

UPDATE SOON

Coming soon...

The Animated Faces of Lyse Gionet

In the meantime have a staring contest with BMac:

My New Socks

Happy New Year!

We've been pretty busy and a tad bit lazy, so finally an update. I just read Kay's 'time for an update' comment, so I guess it's time!

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. They're over now so suck it up.

REMINDER: We're off on a cruise in 2 weeks!

In the meantime we've come to accept the fact that someone needed to look after Beckham. After doing a lot of research and listening to friends, we think we found a 'puppy hotel' that fit. Our first choice was HOLLY'S PRIDE, Rio's favorite escape, but due to location we found an alternative.

PETOPIA

Located nowhere near us, Petopia sounded like a good fit. Melissa checked it out after reading some reviews online.

In order to leave your fur baby or fur kid, as they call them, you have to do an over night trial. Today was that day.

We arrived at Petopia this morning at 9am and Beckham was immediately (and I mean IMMEDIATELY!) ushered in. I'm assuming this was to get him settled and to avoid any ridiculous long good-bye's. We handed over all his gear and that was it.

The drop off process happened so quickly, before we knew it we were in the car and driving home. I wasn't even at the first stop sign when I noticed Melissa trying to keep her act together while she dabbed what LA called separation anxiety tears. As ridiculous as it may sound, it's our first night away from Beckham since we got him.

Melissa was fine a few minutes later but admittedly it's different at home without him here. We miss him.

In the meantime we're suppose to be able to have access to webcams located around the Petopia facility but apparently they're down right now ... so that sucks.

Hopefully my next post will be raving about what a good time he had there and how he can't wait to go back!

Happy Holidays!

We're finally back from our Christmas trip north. I'm adding some pictures without any explanations because there's no time right now.

Merry Christmas!

Some of Melissa's 300+ cookies ... we were up until almost 5am the Friday before we left. Needless to say we were late getting on the road Saturday.

JMac's new 'rappin' cookie jar. Don't ask!

Uncle Kent personalizing Beckhams crate ... looks fantastic! Thanks very much buddy!

Uncle Greg trying one of Beckhams treats ... not the 'Turkey & Cranberry' taste he was expecting:

My father-in-law's new puppies!

Deep fried Turkey with Melissa's Dad ... this was heading out the door with them, so we only got a sniff.

JMac & BMac comparing mohawks.

Christmas at Gramma's ... Aside from a really ugly shirt - not a bad picture!

Shooting some bottle caps:

B's first Christmas was a BIG ONE! ...care of Uncle Greg:

Happy 30th Birthday MMac!

Welcome to the beginning of the end. Glad I'm not alone anymore.

Just remember, 40 is just around the corner!


(Cake looks pretty gross eh? Care of GOOGLE IMAGES, so you don't really have to have any of it.)

Mmmm ... COOKIES!

"Take the parchment paper..."

"Wait, the WHAT?"

"The PARCHMENT PAPER."

"Why don't you just say WAX paper?!"

"Well, because it's NOT."

"It looks like wax paper ... how am I suppose to know this stuff?!?!"

Anyway, Melissa was up to no good yesterday afternoon baking well over 100 cookies. I didn't realize this, but in some cultures the term CHRISTMAS is synonymous with FAT CITY.

You can't eat just one ... they're awesome babe! Can I have the key for the rest?

Leash Free

Sunday was such a nice day, we brought Beckham to the LEASH FREE for the first time. Unfortunately we're still working on the TRUST factor, so he was the only dog actually on a leash. As far as I could tell, no other dog was making fun of him. My DOGLISH knowledge is still quite limited though.

The amount of dogs roaming free was almost overwhelming but there was absolutely no aggression whatsoever. The majority of the dogs were much larger than B, but were very friendly and gentle with him.

He almost got eaten, playfully of course, by 5 month old Cinder - a Great Dane. Age wise, they're the same. Size, well, there's a slight difference there.

It was a blast for all of us. I can't wait until he can actually go SANS LEASH!

MMac & Jacqui's Christmas Party

Always cleverly disguised as a Christmas party, MMac's BIRTHDAY PARTY is always something to look forward to at this time of year.


Saturday night Melissa and I called my Old Man for some doggie sitting duties while we headed down town for a night of finger food, cocktails, and lots of laughs.

I'll let the pictures do the talking.