Millies Birthday

So today is Millie's 5th Birthday. I know everyone who keeps up with the blog does it to see pictures of Jetton, but today I have to do a post about my "first baby". Matthew and I started dating on May 5th, 2007 and SOMEHOW I convinced him that we "needed" a puppy together. :) I'm pretty good at convincing him of things so this really wasn't that hard. It was the beginning of June on a Friday and we started looking  and happened to find a lady who would meet us in Searcy with her last female golden retriever puppy. I was SO excited.. I have to add that we started looking and bought a dog in the same day. It's not like it was a long drawn thought out process. We went to meet her to see if we would click. My mom  went with us and we meet her in the Wal-Mart paring lot. Yes.. we broke ALL of the rules people tell you to follow when buying a dog. We didn't meet the parent dogs, we didn't see the whole liter, we didn't go to the place where she lived. We just met her in the wal-mart parking lot. One dog, one lady. Millie immediately took off running and I chased after her, when I picked her up she PEED ALL OVER ME. Matthew says this is when he knew she was ours. We didn't tell Diana, or my dad or anyone really. We just bought her and decided hey! we have a dog! We named her Millie after a character in one of the first movies we ever watched together. From that day on she was our baby. She got really sick and almost died right after we got her and she has horrible allergies and has to be on a special food. She has super weird quirks. She's very vocal..and you could stuff a teddy bear daily with the hair she sheds, but she is our baby. We wouldn't change anything about her.. 

Right after we got her! Look how LITTLE she was!

Our first "Family Picture"

One of the times we gave her a bath when she was younger.. :)

Playing in the mud!

Haha. She has always been a weird one. She use to love laying on the back of the couch like a cat.

Playing in the snow a few years ago!

And today, Helping me blog!! :)

Here we go!

So.. I've decided it's time to start blogging! HA- I have never done anything like this before so it will be an adventure all in itself. I'm not really sure what I will blog about, I love to craft and decorate. I also love to travel and do new things. So surely I will find things that will be interesting :) I'll post some pictures just to introduce myself and family!

This is me and my husband. We dated for 3 years and then got married on May 15th, 2010. Our wedding was everything I had always dreamed about! It was and still is the most special day of my life! I may do a post all about it.. just as a recap!

This is Millie. She is our "baby". Matthew and I got her the June after we started dating. She has seriously been like a kid to us. She is defiantly spoiled rotten. She is now 4 years old! Her birthday is April 20th. (Yes I threw her a 1st birthday party with a homemade cake and all.) We randomly decided to get a dog and loaded up in the car and drove to Searcy to meet her, she peed ALL. OVER. ME. Matthew said that was the deciding factor and he knew she was the dog for us at the point. HA.... After we got married, we decided she needed a friend and had our hearts set on a Caviler King Charles Spaniel.. Well... along came Charlie.

This is Charlie. Bailey (Matthew's little sister) called us one day and said she was at the pound and found the cutest little "chocolate lab puppy". I kept telling her no I could NOT come down there or I would end up taking home a dog but finally gave in. When I walked in, Matthew was already there filling out the paper work to adopt this "lab" puppy. She was so cute, but as you can tell she doesn't really look like a lab. She ended up being a lot older than the pound had guessed and the vet told us that she probably didn't have any lab in her and they weren't really sure what she was. She is around a year old now, and the best guess we can come up with is that she has whippet in her. It's all good.. We still love her.


So- This is my "immediate" family. I'm sure the more I blog the more you'll learn about all my extended family. There is a lot of them! They defiantly keep me and Matthew grounded and support and love us no matter what! Family is SO important to both of us and we do lots of stuff with them.