I'm becoming one of them

...the people who post more about their kids than they do about themselves, only I have no kids, just a dog, which I'm pretty sure is even more lame. I sort of vowed to never let that happen, but I can see how easy it is when your life is pretty much the same day in and day out, except for the accomplishments and funny doings of your baby (or dog). Well, I'm justifying it this time by saying that I now have lots of pictures to post of our puppy that I haven't had up till now. I promise to stop doing this! If you have no interest, don't read on.

This is one of my favorite pictures I've taken of Roxy. I think it sums up her life with us perfectly. A bottle of carpet cleaner, and an action blur. I laugh every time I see it.

Chewing on my phone. She can barely carry it in her mouth, but she tries.

So the other day I pulled up in front of our apartment and saw this turtle cruising across the parking lot. And he was really cruising! I jumped out of the car with Roxy right behind me and grabbed my camera. Once she saw what I was looking at she ran right up to it. Poor thing stopped in its tracks and sucked his little legs and arms inside his shell. When we walked away he took right off again. Guess he had somewhere to be.

I took some pictures of things OTHER than the puppy: as you drive towards the beach it doesn't feel like you are getting any closer, until you come up over this bridge and voila! Ocean as far as the eye can see!

We also drive past this store on our way to parking, and I keep wanting to go in. Maybe someday before we leave.

We usually walk past this hotel on the way down to the sand. I love the gingerbread look.

Back of the same hotel.

Beach.

Roxy and daddy.

Creepy brown wrinkly old drink seller guy. He rings his bell, pushes his cart and yells things about ice cold drinks. Looks like he's never done anything else a day in his life. Cool picture though.

Beach again.

Zach wished he had a yacht like this, and it reminded me of something Matthew McConaughey would be on in a movie. Doesn't it?

Baby.

She tries to play with dogs of all sizes, until she realizes they might eat her.

You can see the Florida sun has done NOTHING for us. So much for my healthy glow right? It's just too DARN HOT, and we do only have one day of leisure a week!

Bat dog.

She's listening...

Pooped on the ride home.

And here's a cute clip too.

It's time

Yes, I've been needing a new post for quite a while. As usual, I am waiting for something worth posting about that I also have pictures of, but it's become clear to me that I'll have to wait on that a little longer.



Roxy has quickly become our little baby. She's doing better on her potty training, but still doesn't know how to tell us she needs to go outside, so if we aren't watching her we still have messes to clean up. She is such a smart little girl though and VERY faithful to her mama and daddy (that could just be separation anxiety, but we like to think she just loves us a lot!) Yesterday was her first trip to the beach, I considered taking the camera but out of convenience did not. She didn't like the water but had tons of fun running on the beach and playing with the other dogs we met! Everybody that walked by commented on how adorable she is. We were quite the proud parents. :o) I still need to get a picture or video clip of her running, it's the cutest floppy-eared little thing. (I've decided I don't want her to get any bigger EVER, but we will see how much she weighs at the vet this weekend.)



Zach has been spending a lot of time in Tampa recently, working there 2 days last week and Monday thru Thursday this week. The longest we've ever been apart! It is a bummer, but he gets paid extra those days and we did have a fun weekend. We had a date at Olive Garden on Saturday and our walk on the beach Sunday evening.



I've been working on a project with Emily. She made a couple of really cute sundresses and I decided to do the same. It was finally finished for me to wear to church Sunday, but when I put it on the elastic was too big around and the halter was too long so the bust hung crooked and low. It looked ridiculous! With a little help from Zach we pinned it until it was good enough, but once I get it fixed I'll put some pictures up of my FINE handiwork. (cough) I'm faaar from a seamstress. I bought the fabric for one more so here's to hoping it will go smoother.