Stu Update 3

Now I'm mildly obsessed, but I figure that's ok!

STEWIE'S COMING HOME!!!!

The doctor called this morning and said that Stewie was going to the bathroom all by himself so he was free to come home.

Since I drove the carpool today (yes I do that) I couldn't leave work, before the required 4 o'clock pick-up time. We could pick him up after, but the surgery staff would not be there to answer all our questions. So Barry drove from Norman to go and get him!! He was planning on coming anyways, but he shouldered the burden alone!

Stewie will be on strict cage rest for the next 4 weeks. He is allowed out to go the bathroom, but that is it. He needs time to heal, but I can still sit outside with him or carry him around for 15 minutes at a time.

He still can't walk, but he is putting pressure on his back legs. So if he starts to drag them, we are supposed to correct him. He is like a baby, we need to teach him the right way to walk, and dragging is not the right way. I will also have to hold his back up while he goes to the bathroom, until he can fully stand on his own!!

I'm just really glad he will be home, and hopefully by the time Barry graduates, Stu will be almost back to normal!!! Then we are going to have a graduation/yey for walking party, if anyone is interested.

I will upload some picks when I get home!!!

Stu update 2

We only called the vet twice today, which I was very happy with, I would have called every hour if not for my very smart and reasonable future husband, who insisted that nothing would be served by calling and harassing the doctors :)

Anyways, the surgeon spoke with us this morning and told us that Stu did great over night, he still can't use his legs or urinate by himself, but that was normal with the inflammation from the hernia and the surgery. He did say that Stewie had been taken off his IV and they were switching to oral pain medication which is a good sign.

When I called the vet tech this afternoon she informed me that she had been carrying stu around all day, he was in good spirits and he went outside to try and walk today. He still has no use of his right leg, but his left is starting track, another good sign.

We were very lucky to find the doctor that we did, someone with a ton of expertise in small animal neurosurgery, but Barry has been doing research on the topic and a lot of puppies are not as lucky.

http://dodgerslist.com/ is A website that is dedicated to informing puppy parents about what their options are and where to take a dog if this happens to them. So just in case!!

We will talk to the doctor again tomorrow morning and get a better idea of when we can bring the big guy home!

Stewie Update

On Saturday, my wonderful chihuhua Stewie, slipped a disk in his back. We have no idea how it happened, but over the course of Saturday and Sunday, Stu lost all use of his back legs and the ability to pee. I have never seen anything so scary and desperately sad. We went to three different vets (one saturday, two Sunday) and finally found one that actually knew what they were talking about. They sent him home Sunday night, but Monday morning he was much worse. So we took him back and they immediately put him into surgery.

He is now out of surgery and so far all the signs are good that he will make a full recovery.

But I have to say this has been so hard, I had no idea how hard the idea of loosing your dog is, especially after only a year and a half.

So if you have time say a little pray for Stu!!!

I will keep you updated!

BLOG AWARD :)

I knew I was good at this whole blog thing, and it is about time that someone recognized all the hard work I have put in on my 6 posts so far in my blogs existence. Just Kidding.... But Megan over at The Greens gave me this wonderful award.

So here is it my friends.

This award means that I have to tell you all 7 random facts about myself.

1. I have two precious puppies that have been with Barry for the past 3 days, and I miss them terribly. I will attach a baby picture of Stu that I found this week while he was gone and I wanted to cry.

And here are both my babies. They like to snuggle at night.....how freaking cute is that.

2. I love breakfast, all of it. Oatmeal, omelets, french toast, fruit, yogurt. I love it at all times of the day, and as much as I don't want to admit this, I made pancakes for dinner last night. I will tell you that pancakes are way way way better with peanut butter on them.

Now I'm starving :(

3. Every year after winter, I get nervous to start running outside. How weird is that. I will run on the treadmill, but the idea of running outside makes me tired. Once I make myself I'm fine, but the first time takes me a couple months to work up to. Not there yet!

4. I have a phobia that all headaches = brain tumors! I found an article about it yesterday at CNN.com

Article Here:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/04/07/ep.headache.brain.tumor/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Anyways.. I sent this link to Barry with the title "I told you so"  He responded and told me that he had already seen it, and was hoping I wouldn't. Haha.

5. I love love love Microsoft Excel My favorite thing at work is figuring out how to automate reports, and getting others excited to automate with me. I love it, and my group hates me for it :) I'm sorry if you are reading this.

6. I have spent the past 3 days of my life trying to get our new lawn watered. 2 days for the backyard and 1 day for the front. At this point I don't care how much a sprinkler system cost. Its worth it. Its opportunity cost, and my time is expensive!!!

7. We have a new car in the family!!!! Barry got a new truck and I'm super excited for him. Please see below. PS Barry also got me a huge surprise with his purchase.

His new toy:

My new toy

Yes its a keychain...WOOP

Megan this was all for you! 

Furniture Shopping

So it has been a crazy couple weeks, but I'm thrilled with the progress that we've made both on the wedding planning and house furnishing fronts.

First of all, we have set a date!!! July 30, 2011 at the PhilBrook in Tulsa. We are going to keep the wedding small but I'm totally excited and only a little stressed out. I'm going to be posting more about the PhilBrook soon, but here is a picture that I absolutely love......

I think my colors are going to be light grey, green and yellow....we should blend right in!

Moving on, two weeks ago today, Barry and I closed on our wonderful new beauty of a house. And we had nothing to put in it. I have been living in a 700 sq foot apartment for the past 4 years. So we didn't have much. So....this weekend we went shopping and while we still have a lot of little decoration stuff to get, we got the big stuff.

Here are some pictures of the new stuff (Which will hopefully be delivered in the next couple of weeks, hopefully before sneak!!!!)

Most important, was a new washer and dryer and refrigerator. We got these beauties at Lowe's. Plus they were 10% off and we got 10% cash back, so we were able to buy quite a few garden hoses!!

I have already ruined our new bath mats with this baby...but I'm sure our relationship will improve over time!

She's pretty!

Then this weekend we picked up an entry way table, and a runner, but we have decided against the runner, so this is what you will see waking in the front door.

I'm so in love with this entry way table for some reason, but I just can't help it.


Barry's/Our office will get a new desk, book shelf and file cabinet.

Sorry these pictures kinda suck, you will get to see the real thing when everything gets delivered.

We have a very open floor plan so we had to get a couple tables, the loved both of them, which I think in a couple months of furniture shopping these tables were one of the first things we both loved at first site. Which is huge, refining our styles has been fun but challenging at times!!

This guy will have 4 pub chairs that swivel and have nice cushy leather seats! He will be in our kitchen nook.

Mr. Wanderlust will have six all wood chairs. But we really loved the feet of this table. I think we like the craftsman style.


Moving on to the living room, we needed a sectional to take up some of the room that my current couch can't fill. Also I have a dark leather couch that is just too heavy for the room. So we wanted to lighten it up, so we bought a new sectional with this fabric.

It has some goldish hue's to it, so it should really help lighten the place up!

Then we got a new TV stand and ottoman, so my old crap can go up stairs to "Stu's Room/Man Cave"

Overall, it has been a really fun process, now I just am excited to get all the new stuff in and start to decorate around it. I'm even more excited for the wedding so Barry can move in and we can enjoy it together, cause right now, I'm taking all the fun!

Engaged!!!

Well I know it has been a really long time since I last blogged, that is because there wasn't a whole lot going on, except eating, so maybe I will post those adventures in Bricktown, a bit later.

But way way more exciting is that this weekend Barry and I got engaged!!!!!!!!

It was totally unexpected and perfect, so I guess I should tell you all the story.

Saturday morning my two best friends, Brittany and Lauren came to Bartlesville to play. Barry and his roommate, Greg, were planning to meet us in Tulsa for dinner. So the girls and I went antique shopping (which I realize is not my strong suit, I don't have the "vision") Then we went to Utica Square in Tulsa. Brittany who has ESP or something said "maybe he will propose tonight?" Lauren whispered back, "Don't get her hopes up" - ha ha, I was thinking, "Well he is for sure not going to do anything tonight, cause he would have told the girls and they would have never said anything like that if they knew something".

Anyways while shopping I pick up a Dachshund notepad for Barry, which is a really dumb gift, but it was really cute. I immediately text Barry to tell him I have a surprise for him.

Me: I have an awesome surprise for you!!
Barry: What is it?
Me: I can't tell you
Barry: Does this mean I have to stop and get you something cause I always have better surprises
Me: You do not!! and no you don't have to get me anything

So the girls and I get to Red Rock, the worlds best restaurant. Lauren and I order our first of two bottles of wine! It was awesome.

During dinner, we delight Greg and Barry with stories of all the stupid crap that the three of us did in high school and college, including sneaking out of house, drinking, etc.

Barry decided he wanted his surprise, so I noticed him getting my keys from my purse and I knew he was going to try and sneak out there to see it. I told him that it really wasn't anything cool, and that we could get it after dinner, so he went to the "bathroom" instead. He still stole my keys but claimed he didn't go to the car!

After dinner and lot of wine, the boys were going to head back to Norman, so I went to my trunk to show Barry his notepad, which seems really stupid now, but I thought it was cute!

Barry: Wow...... a notepad that goes under my wrists, so the more I use it, the less useful it becomes
Me: haha, you hate all my surprises
Barry: Now do you want yours?
Me: You got me something?
Barry: Yep its in your car!
Me: (As I'm walking to his car) What did you get me?
Barry: YOUR CAR
Me: (I open my car door and see a lovely little box sitting on the dash) BARRY what did you do??

Then I start crying, and Barry proposes!! Meanwhile Brittany and Lauren are screaming and taking lots of pictures:

While he was talking to me

After I didn't know what hand the ring went on!

I had to take off my glasses cause they kept fogging up with all the crying and cold!

All in all, it was an amazing night, that I got to share with the love of my life and my best friends!!!

SNOW DAY!

Those are words that I haven't said recently, but nonetheless! We have a late start today (noon), although I'm confident that we won't have to go in at all. I'm currently sitting on the couch watching the news drinking coffee, and no until I just typed this did I realize that I'm old, really old.

One thing that is less fun, is that I have to take my two tiny dogs outside, and they hate hate hate cold/now/anything below 60 degrees. So this morning I wake up to find 10 inches of snow in my back yard and two dog that are 6 inches high.

I attempt to throw them out and yell at them to "potty" but that doesn't work, and so I go and find my trusty shovel.....

I should have really invested in a real snow shovel as opposed to a dust pan, but it still worked...kinda.

I was out throwing snow in order to make a path for the dogs to get to the grass. And I think I did a pretty good job!

Long gone are the days of snow ball fights and Monopoly all day, we thought the luxury tax was $750.00 as opposed to $75.00. haha, Lauren we were really smart.
But as long as the puppies are pottied and happy so am I!

Happy Snow Day to all!