Cosmo is 4!

4 years ago today the cutest dog in the world was born (yes I am extremely biased!).

4 years ago my sister Michelle told me that she was going to buy a puppy for her kids. When she told me this, the puppy were only a few weeks old but they had already gone and picked theirs out. His temporary name was George. She told me that I should come with them to see the puppies when they went. They would go once a week, so that George could get to know them and seriously, who doesn't like to play with a bunch of stinkin cute puppies? So I went with her and her kids one day. There were 6 puppies, 2 girls and 4 boys. The girls and Michelle's boy puppy were the only ones that had been sold so far. There were 3 boy puppies left, Fred the mostly white puppy, Ferdinand the brown puppy, and Flint the black puppy. They were all so much fun and so lively. I remember Fred was different than the others. When everyone cuddled up for a nap, he was over in his own corner of the gated area snoozin alone. He liked to do his own thing. I played with each of the puppies but there was something about Fred that I couldn't get over. I don't know if it's because he reminded me of my dog Bandit from my childhood or if it was his silly looking conehead, but he pulled the strings on my heart. I remember kissing Fred goodbye and whispering that I would be back for him. I went home and told my parents about the cute puppies and they just told me not to think about it, they didn't want another dog. So I thought about it more but realized it wasn't an option. The breeder had told me that they would be putting an add in the paper over Labor Day weekend and that the puppies usually sold within the first day. Michelle got her puppy that next Tuesday and so I wanted to go and see him. They had named him Murphy. I took my mom with me (so that she could see how irresitiably cute they were). My mom is an animal lover and she thought Murphy was so cute. At this point, why she was in puppy heaven, I asked again if I could get the dog. She said I would have to call and ask my dad. So I called and he didn't answer, so I left him a message asking if I could get the puppy. When I got off the phone my mom said "Well if he isn't available to make the decision I guess that we will." So I called the breeder and asked if she still had the puppies or if they had been sold. She told me that surprisingly none of the puppies had been sold, and the 3 were still available. I told her to not sell Fred, that I would be coming to get him. She told me that I could pick him up that evening, she needed to put his things together and give him a bath. So that evening I had a canning assignment at the cannery to can corn. I went and sat there doing that for 4 hours, anticipating going to get him. I had my friend Brittnie with me, so we went over to the breeder's home and when we walked in, the breeder said that he was in the big rubbermaid container, so I walked over and looked in and he had his paws up on the side like he was trying to get out, he saw me and his tail went crazy. I picked him up and he gave me kisses and loved me. We left and drove home and the whole way he had the hiccups. He was the hiccup king when he was a puppy.

This is our "going home" picture at the breeder's house.

My mom loved him instantly, my dad tried not to and Lady flat out hated him. In time my dad came around (how can you not when the dog is excited like it's Christmas everytime you come home from work and wants to be by your side all the time?). He evens calls Cosmo up onto his bed at night. Hehehe, I love it! A couple months ago, he was laying in the front room and Cosmo went a cuddled beside him and he nuzzled him and said "You don't want to go and live with your momma huh?"

Cosmo is 4 now and for almost 2 of those years I haven't lived there. It's been hard, he was my little companion but we are looking forward to more visitation once we are in our new place. For the first few months after I moved out, he would wait up in the hallway for me. After I got him, I made it clear to the guys that I dated that we were a packaged deal, 2 for 1, they couldn't have one without the other. Good thing Scott loves him so much. He truly is such a great dog with so much love. It's a good thing that he has a grandma and grandpa that love him so much or it would be even hard to be apart from him.

Scott and I have discussed lately how we really think that he's a human. Really he is exactly like me. But he just does things that aren't typical of dogs. Those traits have really gotten more prominent since Lady passed on.

From the time Cosmo was a puppy he has loved to be cradled. He still likes it. He will paw at my mom to pick him up when she is sitting at the computer in the winter when he gets cold and he will fall asleep like that. Sure do love him!

So glad my dad didn't answer his phone that day at work! ;)

Missing you...

It's been a year and you are still missed. I hope doggy heaven is fabulous!

We are moving

Scott and I have been thinking about moving for a while. We have felt pretty cramped (which is funny because our last apartment was half this size) and we have wanted to move to a place where we could have Cosmo come and visit and eventually live. So our friends (the ones that gave us a garden plot) have a rental home next to theirs and they offered it to us. So the day before we go to Missouri, we will be making a mad rush to move into the house. We have realized that since we have been married we have been moving up in size and moving down on the era the places were built. This house is pretty old but our friends said that we could spice it up if we want so it will be a fun project. Plus we will have 3 full bedrooms and none of them will be a storage room like now. We will have a basement to store stuff! Woohoo!

My dad informed us that he only helps one child move a year. My sister bought a new house and is moving in a week and my brother just moved a couple weeks ago so we are hoping that he loves us enough to still help us. Hahaha...poor guy!

Another Garden Update

Okay I'm sure that you are all tired of hearing about my garden, but this is really one of my passions lately. I get giddy when I see it, and seeing how fast it grows... and the fact that I haven't killed it yet has been nice. I don't have a great track record with plants so this has been a blast. Thanks to our great friends who have given us the space and have taught us what to do. They should get most of the credit.

Our onions are finally peaking out. I just planted them a couple weeks ago.
Our sugarsnap peas are finally growing up.
We were able to pick one pepper, it was small and had stopped growing and was turning a weird color so we haven't attempted to eat it yet. I think it stopped growing because these two started growing pretty close to it.

Our tomato bush is growing out of control and is growing quite a few tomatoes. Here is one of them. Can't wait for it to turn red!

We thought that our cucumber plant was dead. The stems were splitting and they weren't growing at all while the others were thriving. Well here it is. SO glad we didn't pull it out! It's growing like crazy!

Our strawberry bush is attempting to make more strawberries, hopefully we get some more soon. And our green beans have just grown so much!
We can't wait to eat our fresh veggies! I'm sure there will be more updates later.

I have arrived...

Scott has been gone for a week and a half and I didn't want to post it in such a public place, because really, who knows who reads this. But it was extremely lonely and it's been SO great to have him home. So when we were driving back to Price he told me he wanted to give me my birthday present. But my birthday isn't until the 30th so I was kinda intrigued by that. I said no that night but the next day I came home from work and said I wanted it. So up above is what I got. I know, I know, I'm so behind the times, but I have never had an iPod. So he bought me this, and an armband, and the Nike Package. If you haven't heard of Nike iPod adapter, it's comes with a sensor thingy that you put in your shoe and depending on the tempo that you go, it picks a song on your iPod to match your tempo. He knows I get so bored while I exercise, so this was super thoughtful of him! I have finally arrived!