I'm not crazy

I guess I left out the most important part of the puppy story.... we did NOT get another puppy! C'mon, don't you people know who wears the pants in this family? I'm not as big a sucker for tears as he is.

Crazy fool

While we were on our camo shopping trip, we came across a little black lab puppy for sale. After what we've been through with Charlie it wasn't much of a temptation for me. But Brett wanted it so bad he might have even shed a tear. He wanted Charlie to have a sister. And crazy me, I was thinking Charlie was going to get a brother or sister of another species. Heck, getting a puppy would have been a heck of a lot easier!

Shopping

I was really hurting for a shopping partner this weekend so I asked Brett to go shopping with me. To my surprise he said yes. I should have known better...

Camo clothes was NOT the shopping I had in mind!!!

Can anyone spy the Brett?

In other news... we have been officially accepted by LDS Family Services as adoptive parents! Spread the word.

The Joy of Being Homeowners

Our deck before

Our deck after.

Brett replaced the bad wood, and painted the whole thing. Just don't mind the benches, those are next.

And this is the deck after Charlie walked across the wet paint.

Backpacking Jefferson Park

For Labor Day weekend we had the brilliant idea to go backpacking. We left Saturday morning and decided to try this new trail that goes into this park area at the bottom of Mt Jefferson. About 1/4 of the way into the hike Brett looks up at this big mountain looming in front of us and says "I have a feeling we're going over that." And sure enough... we did. Up to 7010 ft elevation that looked over practically the whole of Oregon. And you're just going to have to take my word for it because we didn't get a picture! ugh! Sunday we got snowed in. It snowed alllll day. So the three of us had to spend allllll day in the tent bundled up against the cold. Luckily we brought some cards, a book, and we watched a movie on Brett's phone, and snacked on trail mix, pringles, cookies, and hot cool-aid. By Monday the storm had passed and it was a beautiful clear day, so we got the heck out of there. It was 15 miles round trip. We were pretty proud of ourselves for being so adventurous and surviving:) Just kidding moms, we were perfectly safe.

Charlie and I at our campsite at the base of Mt Jefferson
Brett on the trail with Mt Jefferson again.
Me after 3 days in a bini. Brett wanted to document my crazy hair.
This is Brett on the trail almost to the summit. His sweat was freezing right on his face. He was covered in crystals.