Willow goes under the knife

Another way overdue update, however to be fair, we have done much that was really exciting. We have started taking Daisy Adair to obedience training lately which has been going well. We haven't learned enough to convince her to leave our shoes alone yet, but we're working on it :)

Unfortunately, Willow is going in tomorrow for surgery on her knee. She has Patellar Luxation (her kneecap does not stay in place) and it's grade 3, so has to be repaired using surgery. We originally had it scheduled for June 15th, but found another doctor that was able to take care of it right away. This means that she's going to have to spend somewhere between 2-6 weeks in a crate without running and playing which is going to be torture for her. We'll find out how she does on Tuesday when we go to pick her up and I'll keep everyone updated.

Daisy Adair has gotten pretty big now, she's bigger than both Chewy and Willow. I have a few pics of the dogs (Willow and Daisy Adair, Chewy is being camera shy.)

First, a couple of funny ones:






WooHoo! We finally got all three in a picture without having to hold them:



Daisy Adair and Willow are still best buds:


and finally, a cute picture of Daisy Adair:

way overdue updates

Wow, it's been waaaaay too long since we've put a post up. I'm not even sure why since we've been doing a ton of things and had plenty to write about. So lets see, what have we been up to. A couple of weeks ago, we went down to Savannah with the family and hung out downtown and on RiverStreet. Then the next day we went up to Washington for the Tour of Homes that we go to every year.

Last weekend, we headed down to the Dogwood Festival which is always fun. They have tons of artists from all over the country with all kinds of things. Some are cool, a lot are waaaaaay to pretentious for our tastes, but its fun looking anyway. The thing we always enjoy the most is the canine competition. We mainly watch the frisbee catching dogs. It always amazing me. Whenever I try to get our dogs to catch a frisbee, they usually wait for it to drop, drag it off to the side and chew on it until it won't fly anymore.

This past weekend, we went down to Chastain Park to see the Black Eyed Peas concert. That was the first time we'd ever been down to Chastain, and it was a lot of fun. We stopped at Eatzi's, picked up some food and had a picnic at the concert which was very nice. I would recommend that anyone go down there, although the parking sucks. Also, the first round of playoffs for the Gwinnett Gladiators was this past weekend. We had to miss the first game (which they won), but we made it to the second game which was a real nail biter. They scored the tying goal with 22 seconds left on the clock to push it into overtime. They then won the game in overtime, so they are up two games in a best of 5 competition. WooHoo!

and what's a post without cute pictures of dogs?





vicious huh?


and some extreme closeups (Chewy wouldn't cooperate on this one):

Take me out to the ball game

This weekend, we went with some friends of ours to the Atlanta Braves baseball team's OpenHouse at Turner Field. It was pretty nice, we got to tour the dugout and even go back to the locker room (they have a putting green back there with life sized pictures of the Augusta Nationals gold course, which is funny since that is where we're from.) We even got to run the bases. The only problem was how that it was freezing

We made it onto the website of the AJC (the big newspaper in Atlanta) .... well, Tami made it, only my nose and my beer ended up in the picture :) You can find the picture here... although I think you have to register:
http://lpe.ajc.com/gallery/view/sports/2006/braveshouse/

Daisy Adair is growing at a fast rate now. As you can see, she's now as tall as Willow.



We bought Willow a dog house since she loved Jake's crate. She seems to like it since she takes a nap in it at least once a day:


Here is another picture of the newly shorn Chewy.... .She doesn't look very happy in this one.


and finally, a picture of all three of them napping. I'm still looking for a really good picture of the three of them together, but so far, it's not happening.

Not much to report this week. Daisy is growing bigger and bigger and Chewy and Willow are teaching her all of their bad habits. Many people called us on the fact that our picture of all three of the dogs together from the last post had a set of arms in the picture holding some of the dogs in place. BUSTED. We still can't get all three of them together in one spot long enought to take a picture. When we do, we'll post it here.

Chewy got shorn on Friday, which means that Daisy Adair now looks bigger than her.



and here are a couple of cute pictures of Daisy Adair and Willow.

More info on the jerseys

If anyone is interested, I found a nice article which talks about the charity auction for the Gladiators Jerseys here http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?ID=101996

Hockey Jerseys

Sunday night was the " Operation Military Thank You Post-Game Jersey Auction" night for the Gwinnett Gladiators where they auction off the Jerseys that they played the game in. This picture was supposed to be Tami holding up the Jersey that we bought:



As you can see, we didn't end up with a Jersey as we quickly determined that people were willing to spend a lot more money for a Jersey than we were. The cheapest one went for $650 for a player that had been traded earlier in the season. That was the only one that went for less than $1000. The rest averaged between $1800 - $2200. The goalie, Sean Fields, went for $6000. It was for charity and they raised over $46,000 which is good... but we really wanted one of those Jerseys......

Daisy is doing well. She's getting bigger and bigger (especially her nose.) All of them are getting along really well. Chewy is sooooo happy


Willow gets plenty of exercise and has to rest a lot....




But all and all, we are all one big happy family.

table dance

Well, not too much to report today. We had a very hockey weekend, going to two Gwinnett Gladiators games and watching them kick the crap out of the Ice Pilots (yes, minor league hockey has some of the worst team names....) We found out that some friend of ours, Brad and Paola, are going to be moving to Philly this week. We're sad that they are leaving, but we're already planning a trip up there to visit them. Brad put up a blog of his own, so if you knew him from high school and want to keep up with him, you can find it here: bradwalton.blogspot.com.

Without any thing else exciting going on, I figured I would post some more cute pictures of Daisy Adair so everyone can see how she's growing.








Greg

Puppy Power

Well, we made it through the week with having five dogs. As you can see, by the end, we were getting pretty comfy together:


But, with Jake and LD (we could only call him little dog for so long) gone, it was time to relax, something which Daisy Adairis good at:



That's not to say that she's not full on energy at times and can play. She'll happily go over and steal Stumpy from Willow as you can see below:



Also with Jake and LD gone, Willow and Chewy have really started to warm up to Daisy Adair. Here is a pic of Willow and Daisy playing tug-o-war, which is both of their favorite game.




Daisy had her first vet visit yesterday and everything checked out fine. She goes back for more shots in three weeks. Hopefully by then she'll be able to sleep through the entire night :)

Greg

meet Daisy, Daisy Adair

Valentine's Day was another adventure this year ended up going to supper at the SunDial which was a lot of fun. Basically its on top of the Westin Hotel in Downtown Atlanta and it's on the 72nd floor. The entire restauraunt rotates 360 degrees to allow you to see a spectacular view of downtown Atlanta. It was a bit expensive, but the food was amazing and it was worth it as a rare treat. If you ever go, try to get there before sundown and watch the sunset. After sunset is when the city is really beautiful, with all of the lights.

But, to get back to the main topic of this post. As her main Valentine's Day gift, I told Tami that we could get another dog. So, we went yesterday to Atlanta Pet Rescue and got Sissy, which we have renamed Daisy Adair (yes it's a weird name....like our other dogs, Daisy Adair was named for a character on a show that we used to watch.) She is a beagle/chihuahua mix (so we like to call her a cheagle.)

Here are a few pics of her:





Here are her and Willow sleeping next to each other:




and our attempt to get all three of them into one picture.....



With a new puppy, you can imagine things are hectic. To throw more logs on the fire, we're watching Jake and the as yet unnamed "Little Dog" for Tami's Dad and Gail. Here they are, Jake is the big dalmation:



Wish us luck!

Greg

Hang Tenn

In a break from posting pictures of our big trip, we took a small trip this past weekend to visit Jenny in Nashville, Tennessee for her birthday (Happy B-Day Jenny!) While there, we tried a couple of restaurants which I think deserve some honorable mention.

The first was breakfast at Noshville ( http://noshville.com/ ). They have a wonderful breakfast (try the Potato Knishes which are great, but somehow didn't make it to the online breakfast menu.... they are kind of hidden.)

Next up was the Loveless Cafe ( http://www.lovelesscafe.com/ ). We had the special, which was BBQ beef brisket on cheddar cheese grits cakes.... very good. Plus, the biscuits are unbelievable.

Other than the places that we ate, we just spent a lot of time hanging out with Jenny, Brian, Mom and Dad and had a great time. We introduced everyone to the game of Billionaire which they all appeared to enjoy as much as we did.

Greg

Phillips Island pictures

Unfortunately, we couldn't take pictures of the penguins on Phillips Island. However, we did take some pics of the different views in the area.

Picture update for Cairns

Ok, here are some pictures from Cairns where we snorkled on the Great Barrier Reef.

First off, here is the view from the Skyrail in Kuranda:





and here are some pictures of the fish off of the reef











We haven't been able to scan the underwater pictures yet (my scanner went on the blitz and won't work anymore). When I get them digitized, I'll post 'em though.

Greg

Back from Vegas

Well, I'm back from Vegas. Like an idiot, I didn't take a camera and I regret it. There was just so much to see. The businesses in Vegas just have no taste or restraint which makes for some pretty cool and interesting sights that you just can't see anywhere else. Just walking around and looking was a lot of fun. My hotel was at one end of the strip (the MGM Grand) and the classes were at the other end (the Mirage and the Venitian), so I got plenty of exercise. I think I walked up and down the strip like 6 times in those four days. Tami and I are just going to have to go back sometime soon so that I can get some pictures to post :)

Greg

Pictures for Brisbane

Ok, This is probably going to be the only post until this weekend. I will be leaving tomorrow morning to head for Las Vegas (don't expect a lot of exciting posts from there.... I'm going for business). If anything cool happens, I'll update everyone, but I'm not really expecting it. Also, this is my first post from my new computer which I got for my birthday. The post should look exactly the same, but I'm excited about the computer, so I have to share.

Anyway, on to the pictures. These are all from the Lone Pines Koala Sanctuary.

First up is a Tawny Frogmouth


I just think that it looks cool.

Then we have us feeding the kangaroos. It was a hot day, and the kangaroos were smarter than us, so they were laying down and resting and had us bring food to them.




Pictures of a sheep dog that liked to walk on the sheep.



and pictures of the koala (of course)


and finally, the picture of Tami holding Denzel the koala.


At least we've made it to Australia! I'll keep the pictures coming until we get done.

Greg