May 28, 2012

Life with a Puppy


Wondering how the impulse buy we made a couple weeks ago is doing?



He's fit in quite nicely for the most part. I think Nenya does actually like him.



She's still top dog around here.


This is my first puppy, so it's been an interesting experience with a roller coaster of emotions.



It's easy to be happy with your dog when he's being adorable sleeping on the love seat.



But when he's tearing up the love seat?




Sigh...that's a little more difficult to deal with. But I still love him.





We've had him eight weeks, and I've been doing training with him daily for the past six weeks. He's doing great at sit, lay down, stay, roll over, and has even mastered shaking. He's smart but super stubborn, so it's been a lesson in patience. He seems to be learning what's his and leaving our stuff alone, but we won't be leaving him in the house unsupervised for a few hours again any time soon. Although Adyn doesn't seem to have had any obedience training with his previous owners, one bonus is that he's completely house broken. We haven't had any accidents yet!

It was a little crazy in the beginning, but having two dogs has been good for all of us. I do think two dogs is my limit though!

May 6, 2012

An $8 date


We've made it a priority in our marriage to have a date every week. This may sound expensive, but our dates are rarely the traditional dinner and a movie type dates. In fact, the one time we did eat out and see a movie the same day, it was lunch and a matinĂ©e. 


 For our most recent date, we took a long walk downtown.



 We walked along the canal...



 watched the local animals...



had fun taking photos...
 


 watched part of a free concert that happened to be going on...



and saw parts of the city we'd never seen before, like the central library.


(It's pretty epic.)


And we just had fun.



We bought some sorbet at the mall, which was our only expense other than the unavoidable parking costs. 
 


It was one of the best dates we've had in a while!