Memorial Weekend

Jon and I went camping to my parents property for the weekend. It was Sage's first trip. The weather was so cold and it rained once or twice on us. There are not a lot of pictures because as always, we work more than we play at the property. We ended up building a lot of fence, down and up a steep hill. Let me tell you when we are all done fixing the fences, we are going to be pros!!!











Sage liked being so close to where we ate, she just wanted to take a bite. But once she figured out she was not going to get anything, she turned to sticks






One afternoon Jon and I got a chance to play at the pond. We wanted to see how well Sage did with water.





She did not like it, so after playing with the frog...we headed down to the creek, where it was shallow and Jon could go in with her






She did not last very long. But overall we all enjoyed the weekend. It was full of hard work and a little bit of fun!

New Family Member!!

Everyone meet SAGE!! She is a purebred yellow Lab, and she is about 8 weeks old.



On the long car ride home! She was having a hard time!!





She slept a lot the first few days, the peaceful moments that will never come again.



Yes we are trying to train her early to be a bird dog!



First Video- Before the fence she just had too much energy to stay in the house. We are BOTH very grateful that the fence is done!! She has been trying to jump, but her short little legs don't let her get to far. But she stills tries!



The second Video- We are trying to kennel train for night time and times when we leave her in the house but we have to go. I read online that they need to feel like the kennel is a 'happy' place. So a couple times a day I try to play with her and the kennel. I think she is starting to like it a little more!

She loves that we now have the fence up so she can go run around all she wants. Now we just have to work on the "no digging"!







So far we are pretty lucky with her. She only had potty issues the first few days. We are pretty good at taking her outside often enough, but she has gone to the door a few times to let us know. BUT let the record show she never once has pooped in the house! We are also getting used to sleeping at night. She wakes up a few times a night to go to the bathroom. I am learning that I do not need as much sleep as I had thought. All in all she is a good puppy and hopefully will grow into a good dog!!

Getting Settled

We have been in the house for about a month. Not all the boxes are unpacked, but that is ok cause we have a garage! (That way I do not have to see the boxes everyday and tripping over them)

We have been super busy, I never would have thought that buying the house is the easy part. No one ever tells about the list that comes with the house and how it is never ending!! Thank goodness Mom helped me with the pictures and some organizing. Jon and I have been so busy in the evenings with the fence. Which is not 100% done, BUT all the boards are up and we are enclosed. It is so funny that we now have cable, but every night we are to tired we hardly ever watch it.

Mom made curtains for our new house. It was supposed to be a teaching moment, but we had a bad experience with the first set we made. So we did want to take any chances with these. Honestly I am glad the other ones did not work out, these ones are so much better!! The pictures do not do them justice!! Thanks Mom you are the BEST!!

We have also started meeting our neighbors, well as people move in. So far we do not think that we have crazy ones. I think we will be pretty lucky! Some just stay inside and in fact Jon mentioned last night about a house that is sold but no one lives in it. I had to explain that there are people there and in fact they moved in before us. We also feel really lucky that one street down we have LDS neighbors that are in our ward. They moved in the same time we did. We look forward to doing a lot of fun things with them!!

Our ward is pretty fun. Right now our building is 15 minutes away in Burbank. BUT this weekend there is an open house for the new building that is like 5 minutes away! We do not know yet, but everyone hopes that we will get reassigned to this building.

All and all things are going great and we are staying busy!!