So Howie as been a handfull lately, this afternoon before work I took him upstairs with me to grab a few last minutes things and he ran under the bed and peed. He has been peeing everywhere! He used to do so well to go on his puppy pad, I even bought that spray that is suppsosed to help him want to go there (maybe it's just sugar water). Ha anyways its fairly hit and miss with the potty training... but mostly miss.
Also Brock sure did enlighten me tonight, lets just leave it at: I learned something about boy puppies that I never thought I would...
On the 24th of July we went down with my Grandma Lenis and Grandpa Ted to Maddox with the Marshes. Apparently Kale, Jennifers son, asked her "is that one cool mom who plays rock back going to come"? ... aka Natalee. It made my day!
Well i'm trying to figure out a better way to leave Howie alone when Brock and I have work. He can't just stay in his little 1 foot tall crate all day. My ideas have been:
1. Puppy proof the bathroom or extrabedroom and let him roam in there
2. Get a baby port-a-crib
3. Find some fence/larger cage thing for him
4. Get suggestion from other people... :P
Well thats my quick update. XOXO
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Howie's Haircut and Batman Adventures
So I have to confess, I am not one for standing in lines, especially for movies. So I don't do it. Saturday the 19th, everyone (aka Champlin Fam) went to the Dark Knight at 3pm. We got there around 2ish and the line was out the door, around the building, and back to the side exit doors. We waiting and got our hands marked so they knew we had our tickets taken.
Well I had meant to get there early, but didn't so the back of the line just didn't cut it. I saw that the showing right before ours got out so I decided to see if I could put my "1st in line skills" to work.
Heidi came with me to get a drink of water and we just walked in the theatre while poeple were still filing out. We sat there and pretended to watch the end credits while we talked a little, then the ushers started moving people out. So we got up and walked towards the dark hallway. There is a smaller wall when you make the first turn and so I told Heidi to stand up against that quietly while we waited for the worker boy to leave. Unfortunately our Kronk like skills are not perfected and we were detected. Lol. (anybody want a peanut...) ANYWAYS he was like, "What is this?" I made up some mummble jumble and he was like "you have to go to the back of the line". By this time people were already running in for seats so I just said, "What, yeah? Ok... Whatever!?" and walked right on in and saved 3rd row seats in the back section. Yeah basically it was pretty sweet. If we hadn't there was no way all 11 or 12 of us could have sat on the same row.
Hey i'm just trying to keep the fam together.
Moral of the story is... go to movies with me.
NOW on to Howie, so he has grey hair on the top of his head. Silly old man puppy! It started parting down the middle so he had very grey roots with black ends. I thought he looked like one of the 3 stooges so I gave him a little trim on his head. I don't think it looks that bad.
Natalee 2 : Movie Theatre 0.
Well I had meant to get there early, but didn't so the back of the line just didn't cut it. I saw that the showing right before ours got out so I decided to see if I could put my "1st in line skills" to work.
Heidi came with me to get a drink of water and we just walked in the theatre while poeple were still filing out. We sat there and pretended to watch the end credits while we talked a little, then the ushers started moving people out. So we got up and walked towards the dark hallway. There is a smaller wall when you make the first turn and so I told Heidi to stand up against that quietly while we waited for the worker boy to leave. Unfortunately our Kronk like skills are not perfected and we were detected. Lol. (anybody want a peanut...) ANYWAYS he was like, "What is this?" I made up some mummble jumble and he was like "you have to go to the back of the line". By this time people were already running in for seats so I just said, "What, yeah? Ok... Whatever!?" and walked right on in and saved 3rd row seats in the back section. Yeah basically it was pretty sweet. If we hadn't there was no way all 11 or 12 of us could have sat on the same row.
Hey i'm just trying to keep the fam together.
Moral of the story is... go to movies with me.
NOW on to Howie, so he has grey hair on the top of his head. Silly old man puppy! It started parting down the middle so he had very grey roots with black ends. I thought he looked like one of the 3 stooges so I gave him a little trim on his head. I don't think it looks that bad.
Natalee 2 : Movie Theatre 0.
Hello Tegucigalpa!
Well last night Chad was set apart as a missionary. What an amazing experience that I was able to participate in. I don't remember ever being apart of that for someone I am so close to. Chad is such an amazing guy and when you heard the words of that prayer you KNEW that the Lord was speaking directly to Chad.
I am so proud that he has made this choice, if you think about it a mission is a pretty crazy committment. We pray for you always Chad and know that you will be safe, your family back home will be safe, and that the Lord has a plan in store for the next 2 years of your life!!
And boy do I love Brock... what a babe! I am so glad I married him, if not for his good looks and loving personality, but his awesome family! I could NOT have asked for better, you guys are more than I desereve!
Sunday, July 20th, was not only Chad's farewell but Brock and I's 2 Year Anniversary!! GO US!! We are probably going to celebrate it officially in a few weeks because we wanted to be with family as much as possible. And I got to play Abide With Me on my cello for Chad in sacrament meeting. That was awesome. The thing I was worried about most is that I would look at Linda and start to cry and not be able to read the music because I didn't have it memorized. Luckily I was able to focus and hopefully it sounded good.
Speaking of family, ahem, Zach-Trisha/Talia-Wes, I miss you and never get to see you! It's so much fun to spend time with you guys so visit when you can. We love it.
Well back to Chad, for all who want to know his address is:
Elder Chad Paul Champlin
Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission
Provo Mission Training Center
2005 North 900 East
Provo, UT 84604
Brock will most likely be taking care of Chads facebook while gone so Chad wanted us to make sure that no one thought he was on breaking the rules or anything. I'm thinking of making a blog or something dedicated to him... but there's always Jeweza Broma Chaluk.
Thanks always for reading. I LOVE YOU CHAMPLINS! Thank you for being such a wonderful, strong, loving family!
I am so proud that he has made this choice, if you think about it a mission is a pretty crazy committment. We pray for you always Chad and know that you will be safe, your family back home will be safe, and that the Lord has a plan in store for the next 2 years of your life!!
And boy do I love Brock... what a babe! I am so glad I married him, if not for his good looks and loving personality, but his awesome family! I could NOT have asked for better, you guys are more than I desereve!
Sunday, July 20th, was not only Chad's farewell but Brock and I's 2 Year Anniversary!! GO US!! We are probably going to celebrate it officially in a few weeks because we wanted to be with family as much as possible. And I got to play Abide With Me on my cello for Chad in sacrament meeting. That was awesome. The thing I was worried about most is that I would look at Linda and start to cry and not be able to read the music because I didn't have it memorized. Luckily I was able to focus and hopefully it sounded good.
Speaking of family, ahem, Zach-Trisha/Talia-Wes, I miss you and never get to see you! It's so much fun to spend time with you guys so visit when you can. We love it.
Well back to Chad, for all who want to know his address is:
Elder Chad Paul Champlin
Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission
Provo Mission Training Center
2005 North 900 East
Provo, UT 84604
Brock will most likely be taking care of Chads facebook while gone so Chad wanted us to make sure that no one thought he was on breaking the rules or anything. I'm thinking of making a blog or something dedicated to him... but there's always Jeweza Broma Chaluk.
Thanks always for reading. I LOVE YOU CHAMPLINS! Thank you for being such a wonderful, strong, loving family!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Birthday Fun
Well there have been quite a few Birthdays in the last week. My best girl friend Stacey Arrington Leybas turned 21, my sister-in-law Trisha Champlin, and my sister Nichelle Allen. We celebrated both Trisha's and Nichelle's birthday on the same night (saturday). I had some friends from Oregon come down, Elise (other best girl friend) and Austin Dungan, Brent Cazinha, and Patrick Williams.
Pat and Brent mostly came to hang out with Brock I think. It's funny how well Brock gets along with the Oregon friends that he's met. He's quite the people person. *Perharps he is a paper person's paper people* So we watched stuff on Patricks iPod and then I forgot that I still needed to get Nichelle a present. Which I still haven't given her because I forgot.... oops.
I had dinner with the Champlins at Hamiltons. I got the Halibut California- SO GOOD, I really liked it. Naomi was wearing onions as bracelets and making sunglasses with her fingers. She starting putting her thumbs in her nose and her other fingers up by her ears saying look! look! It was totally cute. Luke was quoting Brian Regan as I was holding back tears of laughter. Fortunately we had a table in back where the other guests couldn't really hear us. We also got an appetizer that Zach guessed was $39.99- I wonder how much it really was. I might never know...
So as dinner wrapped up Jeff and Linda were fawning over cute baby James. Some great face-pulling action. Naomi was combing Heidi and I's hair with a loud mooing flashlight, and we all were laughing at Chad and Luke's good quote-abilities.
After dinner I raced over to my parents with Luke, most of my Dad's family was there. I had a good talk with my Grandpa Ed about life, and saw that Howie was being passed around as to spread his cuteness to all the family. Brock could not make it to either party so at my parents I grabbed the video camera and had everyone say a little tribute to him. The best was my Grandpa Allen made up a rhyme. Actually is was more like a rap.. :D
My Uncle Randall came up from Nevada to hang with my Dad. They saw the stix concert and the cruise in, in Cache Valley on Friday night while Mom and the rest of us girls went and played Bingo with the Marshes. (Jennifer's son, Kale, does mutton bustin and its the cutest ever) SIDETRACK--- back to the party. What an awesome barbeque Mom! THANKS!
That night Brock, Elise, Brent, Pat, and Austin and I went to the Champlins with Luke to watch Iron Man. It was way fun. In the morning we played Simpsons Monopoly (I was the banker because I declined to play a game that had to do with filthy simpsons-ha).
Sunday night we had more birthday festivities for Nichelle- which I forgot her present for the 2nd time. Then my Mom and Nichelle and I went to the Champlins to chat. It was hilarious- what a riot we all can be. That night Brock and I watched Vantage Point, which I enjoyed.
LAST THING!! AJ Anderson and his wife had a baby on sunday night and named her Zoee.. and they spelled her name after me. 2 EE!!!
WHEW what a post. If you read that all Thanks, I owe you a brownie.
Pat and Brent mostly came to hang out with Brock I think. It's funny how well Brock gets along with the Oregon friends that he's met. He's quite the people person. *Perharps he is a paper person's paper people* So we watched stuff on Patricks iPod and then I forgot that I still needed to get Nichelle a present. Which I still haven't given her because I forgot.... oops.
I had dinner with the Champlins at Hamiltons. I got the Halibut California- SO GOOD, I really liked it. Naomi was wearing onions as bracelets and making sunglasses with her fingers. She starting putting her thumbs in her nose and her other fingers up by her ears saying look! look! It was totally cute. Luke was quoting Brian Regan as I was holding back tears of laughter. Fortunately we had a table in back where the other guests couldn't really hear us. We also got an appetizer that Zach guessed was $39.99- I wonder how much it really was. I might never know...
So as dinner wrapped up Jeff and Linda were fawning over cute baby James. Some great face-pulling action. Naomi was combing Heidi and I's hair with a loud mooing flashlight, and we all were laughing at Chad and Luke's good quote-abilities.
After dinner I raced over to my parents with Luke, most of my Dad's family was there. I had a good talk with my Grandpa Ed about life, and saw that Howie was being passed around as to spread his cuteness to all the family. Brock could not make it to either party so at my parents I grabbed the video camera and had everyone say a little tribute to him. The best was my Grandpa Allen made up a rhyme. Actually is was more like a rap.. :D
My Uncle Randall came up from Nevada to hang with my Dad. They saw the stix concert and the cruise in, in Cache Valley on Friday night while Mom and the rest of us girls went and played Bingo with the Marshes. (Jennifer's son, Kale, does mutton bustin and its the cutest ever) SIDETRACK--- back to the party. What an awesome barbeque Mom! THANKS!
That night Brock, Elise, Brent, Pat, and Austin and I went to the Champlins with Luke to watch Iron Man. It was way fun. In the morning we played Simpsons Monopoly (I was the banker because I declined to play a game that had to do with filthy simpsons-ha).
Sunday night we had more birthday festivities for Nichelle- which I forgot her present for the 2nd time. Then my Mom and Nichelle and I went to the Champlins to chat. It was hilarious- what a riot we all can be. That night Brock and I watched Vantage Point, which I enjoyed.
LAST THING!! AJ Anderson and his wife had a baby on sunday night and named her Zoee.. and they spelled her name after me. 2 EE!!!
WHEW what a post. If you read that all Thanks, I owe you a brownie.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Stuff Howie has eaten...besides dog food.
Well yesterday we were invited over to the Davis' for a 4th of July barbeque. It was really good food and lots of fun. Everyone thought Howie was adorable... because he is... however he was eating all this crazy stuff. He had watermelon, Santa Fe Chicken, even part of a wasps nest! The wasps nest was like the sized of a squished golf ball- I couldn't believe that little stinker- I had already taken it away from him a few times before he finally swallowed it. He also jumped into the slimy part of the pond in the Davis's backyard.
Then we were playing soccer and Howie would run so fast after the ball, and when he caught up he'd head butt it. Alot of exercise for that pup. Brock and Luke were being Howie's commentators- funny brothers! Good summer times.
Then we were playing soccer and Howie would run so fast after the ball, and when he caught up he'd head butt it. Alot of exercise for that pup. Brock and Luke were being Howie's commentators- funny brothers! Good summer times.
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