Boyz II Men

Rudy and Leo recently reached that all important milestone in a dog's life - neutering. Unfortunately for male dogs, their 6 month birthday not only comes with a doggie ice cream cake, but it also comes with an all-expense paid trip to the vet! Lucky them.

Chris took the day off to drop them at the vet in the morning and pick them up after they had both been 'snipped' and, in Rudy's case, had a hernia repair. I was home from work when Chris pulled in the garage and I was greeted with 2 very distressed little doggies. Don't worry - they were fully recovered about 2 days later....despite the fact that we had to keep them 'restrained' for 7 days!

End of an Era

After 20 good years, our family cabin was sold in August. It took almost a year of sitting on the market with no offers for The One to finally come along. An NHL hockey player bought it for cash none the less! He has small children and wanted to use it right away before he headed to training camp. This meant that we had to be out in 2 weeks! This didn't really allow for any last vacations at the cabin, but we did manage to drive up for a day to take some last pictures. Things are a little messy in these photos due to the place being in various stages of packing at the time. It's surreal that we won't be going there anymore. So many happy family memories - I hope that the next family has just as many!

Where Have We Been?

It's been a long time since I've written. What have we been up to all summer? Just a few things, here and there. To start, we finally tackled our basement project. Since we moved in last May, we've accumulated quite a collection of boxes in our basement that we just didn't 'know what to do with yet'. Our decision making was accelerated when our washing machine flooded into the utility room below and soaked a lot of the cardboard boxes we had down there.

As a result, we invested in some large metal racks from Costco (gotta love that place) and many, many plastic bins to avoid this issue in the future. Of course, this meant we actually had to go through all of the boxes and possibly (gasp) get rid of some things. Over the course of about 3 weekends we actually got it all done! Of course I didn't take any pictures of the 'in process' work, but I did manage to snap this little gem of a picture of Chris cleaning out a box that contained his old glasses from high school. I'm guessing these weren't designed by Michael Kors - classic!

 The end result was a much cleaner and organized basement, and even some room to spare on the shelves!