Seashell Frames

When I was at my parents' house over Christmas I found a bunch of seashells I had saved in one of my [many] boxes. Our bathrooms are beachey themed (thanks to the borders that I can't convince Eric to take down) so I did not mind bringing that box home to add to my collection.  There were several decent sized and still intact shells in the box that I did not want to just put in a bowl, so I decided I would do a little DIY project with them and some frames I had leftover from another project.....and ended up with these!

I took silver 4" x 6" frames and painted them sage green.  Then I cut 3 pieces of scrapbook paper to fit in the frames. Then I hot glued my sand dollar, starfish, and seashell to the scrapbook paper and VIOLA! instant wall art! I ended up putting the glass behind the scrapbook paper because the frame backs were too loose without it.  I love love love it!

Dog Pee in my Shoe

We are almost a week into transitioning Hallow into an inside dog, and it certainly has not been with out its challenges. However, it's gotten a little better every day, and the accidents are getting fewer.  Bless his heart he's had to learn to be potty trained during a week when Eric's been out of town and I have been coaching, so that means holding his baby bladder for nearly 11 hours during the day.  I don't think he quite understood the concept the first couple of days....which is explains why he peed twice and pooped in the office on Friday night after I had taken him out and walked him around the yard for a good 10 minutes.  Awesome I know.  He's only had a couple since then, and most of the time it's obvious that he is just "marking" things like the table decoration that he tore up yesterday (way to give your self away Hollow....rip it up and then mark it so I know you did it).

He snatched this from a side table. 

But this morning took the cake.  I was getting ready for work and went to put my shoes on.  When I slid my foot into my shoe I felt wetness.......that *#&@ dog PEED IN MY SHOE.  I pulled it off my foot and turned it over while a trickle of puppy pee ran out of it.  Don't worry, he got popped for that one.  All I could think of was the movie Beethoven when Beethoven pees the the dad's shoe.  That was me this morning. I guess I never thought a dog would actually do that......I was wrong.  On the bright side he did not chew it up which really would have gotten him in trouble.

As mad as I have been with him for the little things he doesn't stay in trouble all of the time.  He spent the first  year or so of his life as an outside dog so it's somewhat expected.  He does have his hilarious and sweet moments, too.

A couple of days ago I came home to find all of the "favorite" dog toys in a pile on Hallow's blanket (AKA the blanket I made Eric for his birthday).

When I picked up the toys to put them in the dog toy basket I found the bone he had "buried" using the rest of the toys.  Hilarious!

He is also quite the snuggler.  He loves to fall asleep up against someone/some dog. He and his sister used to do this all the time which explains it.

Curled up against Peanut, and sound asleep with his paw on my face.

I think another week or so and we should be good to go!  (I hope!)

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It took Alabama roughly 3 minutes to let the Irish know they were in waaaaay over their heads last night.  And it only got worse for the shiny-topped leprechauns as the night went on.  In case you did not stay up to see the end (there was really no point), the game was an Alabama route with Bama winning 42-14.  Even Hawk said he had enough in the second half......

I think the facebook status updates I saw during the game were more entertaining than the actual game itself. Among my favorites:

"Elephants are legends, Leprechauns are myths."

"Why is everyone is being so hard on the Irish? Notre Dame HS is playing a great game."

Coach Kelly's comments at halftime when asked what they can do in the second half to win the game, "Maybe Alabama doesn't come back out."

Love it!

RTR!

Weekend Recap

Once again I find myself wondering where my weekend went. I could have sworn it was just Friday afternoon and BAM...it's Monday. But it's not just any Monday.....it's BCS National Championship Monday! Tonight at 7:30pm the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will square off against the Alabama Crimson Tide in Miami for a classic battle of football powerhouses. I CAN"T WAIT! I am rocking my red skinny jeans today in honor of it!

My weekend was a bit of whirlwind of basketball.  We had a week and a half off over Christmas and apparently in that short amount of time I forgot how busy back-to-back game days can be.  We played Friday and Saturday night this weekend and our Saturday night game was an hour and a half away.  All 3 teams had tough games and then the trip got worse.  While we were gone, the middle school principal who is also the father of one of the kids on the boys varsity was killed in a car accident.  Someone drove up to get him and got there right before the boys game ended which is how we found out about it.  My heart breaks for the kid and his brother as well as the faculty and staff at the middle school who are due to report back to school this morning.  It won't be easy.  Please keep them in your prayers.

Little Hallow has been doing well in his transition to being an inside dog.  We've gone through some potty training growing pains, but I expected that. It hasn't been too bad.  Aside from him "marking" my garbage can in the bedroom it was not too bad.  He'll either learn not to do it or end up with a raw backside.

1. Our giant dog bed that doubles as a couch for humans when they are not on it.
2. Hallow and Peanut checking out the neighborhood.
3. Peanut the enforcer scaring Hawk away from his (Hawk's) food bowl.  

On Sunday I finished de-Christmasing the house....at least the outside.  I still have a few things to put up from the inside, but I just don't want to take my Christmas cards down just yet.  I think I am going to do one of those books to keep all my cards to display each year (like the one I did with our wedding cards).

Since it was a chilly (by Alabama standards) weekend so I made a big bowl of crockpot potato soup which hit the spot and was perfect to eat in front of the fire during the season premier of The Biggest Loser!!!! I missed it so much this fall and I am beyond pumped that Jillian Michaels is back on the show this season!  She's my fitness hero and would probably not approve of my potato soup dinner, but that's ok because it was sooooo good!

Oh....and 

ROLL TIDE!