Frustration with Puppies and Hospitals

Hey everybody...who reads this blog...

I hope this post is finding you all well! I really love hearing about all the exciting stuff that is going on around this country and around the world, just in our family! Technology rocks when it comes to sharing!

I have found being a new mommy to a puppy can be incredibly frustrating. She poops and pees everywhere (do they make diapers for dogs? just kidding). She keeps me up with her crying until midnight and wakes me up at 3am, 6am, and 8am. I am losing sleep! Actually, thankfully Skittles is getting so much better. She is pooping and peeing less...although I wish it would stop completely. And last night she did not cry or bark or whine or yelp and all the other noises dogs make, at night and she woke me up at a late 830am. YAY!

Skittles and I took our first trip to Washington Court House to see our friends, Tiffani, Matt, James Gabriel, and Poco. She traveled very well in the cage down there and was very good in the house, she even got along with Poco (he's a chihuahua). Unfortunately, even though Poco is fixed, he still likes to show he's dominant by humping Skittles (my poor 3month old baby puppy got violated several times). I felt bad because we chained him up at the end of the night to keep him off her. Skittles slept through the night without a peep (I wish she would do that at home, however, I think God shut her mouth so baby Gabey could sleep). Then the next day, on the ride home I let her stay in the seat next to meet, which ended up being my lap.

I am getting incredibly frustrated with my unemployment. I come close to cabin fever some weeks. I have a record long four days straight in my pajamas and I just want to get out and see the world again. I have roughly 5$ in my bank account and I still haven't gotten the courage to ask my parents for $43.66 for my bike insurance payment due in 3 days. It's sadly gotten to the point where I don't even care about nursing or helping people, I just want a job...which is the complete opposite reason I chose nursing school in the first place.

I have a poll for my 2-3 readers...should I go to Starbucks next week and beg for a job (I know the manager personally and he offered me a job provided I give him 5 months...looking really do-able at this point) or should I just keep waiting for a hospital to call me? I know that God knows what I need and that he will provide for all of them. However, my faith is starting to die a slow long and horrible death.

Please pray for my faith and my strength!

Love you and God Bless!

Skittles and Tiki

Here are some pictures of the new puppies!


This is Skittles sleeping:

This is Skittles sleeping still and Dora is the dark one next to her and Buttercup is the other one:

This is Tiki:

This is Skittles (in the back of the pic) and Tiki sleeping in the car:

So there are the two cutest puppies in the world. They are sisters from the same litter. But Skittles is cuter (I'm not biased or anything!)

I had a really fun labor day weekend. Me, Dad, Anna, and Tommy, along with Buttercup and Dora (Anna's chihuahuas) went down to Georgia to visit with the Leibbrand's and pick up dad and my new chihuahuas, Tiki and Skittles! Yup that's right we now have two chi's running around our house. They are very high maintenence and they sometimes make me wish I had a job even more than before, but they are really cute and sweet! (pics will be coming soon, my computer hates my guts right now).

We left on Thursday night at like 730pm and stopped at a hotel in Tennessee at about 1230am. Then we left the hotel at about 10 or so on Friday and got to their house about 2pm. That night we went to see James' football game! It was a home game and James is a starter on the Offensive Line he plays Right Tackle. He was awesome! It was really fun to see him play and to see proud Aunt Ana cheering him on and Uncle Jim yelling at the refs bad calls and of course giving encouragement to James!

I put some pictures up for you guys. Josh is on the Junior Varsity team so he got to dress for the Varsity game but he didn't play.

This is Josh. He is number 61

James is #67

This is the first kick off, Alexander is recieving

James is on the 40

I think this is the coolest picture ever! He is so grown up!

This was the beginning of the game, James is the guy on the far left

James is the one on the end . This is actually a video of James' false start...oops. Poor kid, he cost them a 1st down on the North Paulding territory, it could have been a touchdown. James said it was because he couldn't hear the QB in the huddle and he asked his friend the count and his friend said two but it wasn't right. Oh well, he pretty much kicked butt the rest of the time.

Well that's all for now.