pictures

I finally took the pictures off of my camera and put some of them online. Look for new pictures in our web albums on Picasa. You can find new pictures in "The Office & Door," "Kitchen Cabinets," and "Heidi."

Somehow the office project (which had already turned into the door project) also turned into the "paint the kitchen cabinets and install new hardware project." It's going to look great when it's done.

Update

Last week Heidi was 16.5 inches each way. This week she is 17.5 inches tall and 18.5 inches long. We also finished up the exterior door trim. This week I started to put up some drywall around the door too, primarily so that we can leave Heidi in that room when we leave for the day. When we leave her in her crate she freaks out and cries and pees.
Pictures on the way.

another week

Heidi is now 15.5 inches tall and 15 inches long. She didn't grow that much this week. We took her to a puppy playschool on Saturday morning and she had a good time running through tunnels and smelling other dogs.

The door now has trim around 2/3 of the outside. Somehow it's taking much longer than it should, but that's probably because we're still trying to keep our lives somewhat normal while this project is going on. The 2/3 look very good though.

Sarah and I got to watch a world record land speed track shot on Thursday from the space museum. It was really cool for about 5 seconds, and really cold for about 3 hours. We also went out to eat at Memories on Friday night and had a great time being out by ourselves. The entire meal was memorable(!), but their sweet potato fries are the best french fries I've ever had in my life.

Gross Mexican Food

And the growth continues! Heidi grew a lot this week! She's now 15" long from her shoulders to the base of her tail and 15" tall from the ground to her shoulder! I can't believe how fast she grows... it's pretty crazy.

This is a picture from last night. One of our friends has a daughter named Josie and we babysat while she went to the movies. Heidi loved Josie because for some reason, a 6 year old has more energy than the two of us combined... go figure. They had fun playing together as evidenced by this movie:

Today we went to church and then to lunch with Shawn and Mia at this Mexican Restaurant we had not been to before. It was called El Camino and I didn't like it very much. Jordan enjoyed it and I think Shawn and Mia may have as well, but it just wasn't my thing. I think what really bugged me was that when we walked into the restaurant it smelled oddly similar to Heidi's puppy breath.... yeah....

After lunch we came back to our house and watched The Truman Show. The 4 of us enjoyed it very much. It was nice to hang out with Shawn and Mia this afternoon.

Heidi !

Heidi is now a lot bigger, and while her mistakes are still cute, they're not quite as cute as they used to be.

But, she's still very cute. Look at her!

the door

As I mentioned before, Sarah and I decided to put in a new door. We got the new door in a flurry of excitement on Saturday evening, but when Monday morning came around and the flurry was gone, we weren't quite sure where to start.


Anyways, 13 hours later, it looked like this.

If it looks like there are still holes in the side of our house, that's because there are. Oh well. They're not that big.

Heidi !

Heidi is now 13.5 inches tall, and 12.5 inches long (from the shoulder to the base of the tail). She got her first bath today, and she hated it. I like it though, because she no longer smells like a dirty dog, now she just smells like a dog.


I have tomorrow off and we're going to work on the office, formerly known as the front room or the sunroom. We started this project intending only to make the walls smooth because three of them were painted wood paneling. That turned into a bigger project than expected and on top of that we then decided to replace the sliding door with french doors. Our goal tomorrow will be just to take the old door out and put the new door in. We'll let you know how it goes.