A visit and some nice pictures!

First of all: All credit for these lovely shots of my pets and children go to my good friend LA. She has a fast hand and a great eye :)

To also give credit where credit is due - This is Pugsley Pwning S :)

A doing his 'smell the flower' trick, hehe.

M showing off how dirty little girls can be.

The Cato being - catish :)

S loves her pool and lays down in it now to keep cool - this is the most adorable picture of her to date. Thanks L for the wonderful shot!

She even snuck in one of me. Its good so I will share.

Cass :)

It's so sad!!

For a short while there I was entertaining the idea of us getting a second dog, J has kept the brakes on that idea long enough for me to realize(once again) that we can only really responsibly care for one cat and one dog at a time. I have regular play dates for S so she gets a chance to play with other dogs so she's not that lonely.

Unfortunately I have gotten in the habit of checking Kijiji for "free to good home" ads as well as looking at local shelters and it kills me that all these poor dogs are being dumped. "We're moving into a no pets place." is too common - if you had kids would you move into a "no kids" place?!? I mean really. I ~think~ we could give a second dog a good home but it would be hard if there were any unforeseen issues with health ... also there is the whole issue with space. We have 5 people, a dog and a cat in our just under 1000 square foot home. Sure we have a giant yard(I'd say about 5000 square feet) but that doesn't help when we're all sitting in the 100 square foot living room on a winter night watching TV.

It just makes me so sad - all those poor dogs. I'm not even going to think too deeply about the thousands of cats and kittens I have seen "free to good home" as well as in shelters. Why is society still not spaying an neutering? Bob Barker always said that at the end of his show, you remember? Poor Bob, all those years and it seems like people are still being dumb and just not doing it.

Cass :(

I like to say 'Argle Bargle'

It's what I say when I have nothing to say. Summer vacation has started for the kids but my routine has stayed the same. Which reminds me I have to go plan our menu for this week right now! Be right back ...

... There all done. Anyway like I said I don't have much to say I have some cute shots of the dog though so I'll just put them up :)

Our puppy is now 7 months old, everyone always tells me how pretty she is whenever we are out with her.

Just so you don't think I've forgotten about them, here's a shot of two of my three children:

And my two furkids:

So that's it, long lazy summer ahead. I'm trying to keep everyone from getting too bored and in the process I'm wearing myself out as well. We have play dates for the dog a few times a week, her daily walks, I took the kids to see a children's music presentation last night and there is big band music playing next week that I think I'll take them to as well(can't beat free). Different types of music are good for the brain right? Also we have early swims, when we walk to the Y nice and early and go swimming for an hour and then walk home. Too bad it takes us an hour home to in the water.

Yeah, summer, yippee. /sigh/

Cass :)