Happy Birthday to Jim!

Happy Birthday to the favorite man in our lives!

We love you!

Eli's Birthday Steak

Eli has never been one to pose for the camera. He usually makes sure that he is looking opposite the camera every time he sees me coming toward him with it. Jim keeps telling me, "You need to teach him to pose." But, as the ole saying goes, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks!" No matter how old Eli becomes (and we pray every day that he will live to be very, very old) he will always be my baby.

The pictures of Eli opening his presents do not do the task justice, it should have been a video. He LOVES opening presents.....even if the inside is empty.

This is the present he has been waiting for! His traditional birthday steak! (No, we do not let him have the whole steak at once. But, he doesn't know that!)

And, of course he had to have a Birthday cake too! (again, no we did not let him eat it, just lick it enough to get a taste!)

The sad part of it all, after he opened his presents, ate his steak and got to lick his cake.....he went back to the closet where he knew I had been keeping all of his birthday presents this week and lay in the floor in front of the door and whined?????? I guess we forgot to get something that was on his list or he thought that there should have been more! However, at the moment he is lying at my feet, stretched out and snoring away. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELI.

Thanks to Dan, Krisha and Beau for the cute personalized mat to go under Eli's bowls and to all of our friends on Myspace for leaving all the birthday wishes and comments. We love all of you so much!

Along with celebrating Eli's birthday, Happy Father's Day to Jim too!

WE LOVE YOU, DADDY!

Happy Fathers Day!!!!

Happy Birthday to Beau and Eli

Our boys will be celebrating their 5th Birthday on June 15th. It seems like only yesterday that Krisha and I were on the website waiting for the "new puppies" to be posted (and praying that the "dial-up service" we had in Oklahoma would not shut down in the process!). Then, after looking at all the puppies and having that feeling of just knowing which one belong to us..........praying that our call got answered first and we could claim our new family members! We had to wait about five weeks before we could pickup our new babies and claim them as ours forever.


It was a long, exciting ride from Oklahoma to Alabama that August weekend for Jim and I. Krisha would already have the new bundles of joy at her house when we arrived and we could not wait to see our new son!
It was a great weekend bonding with the two little ones. But, it was also sad on that Sunday when we had to separate them. Beau would be staying in Alabama with Krisha, while Eli's new home would be with us in Oklahoma.



Eli has been such a joy to us. He helped me get through one of the greatest challenges of my life (moving away from Alabama and my family) and is always by my side. However, he is also a Daddy's boy too! He loves spending time with his Daddy and riding in the truck.


It is a
family tradition
that
Jim grills ribeye
steaks for Eli's
birthday.
We are looking forward
to a great party!



Below are some pictures from past birthday celebrations.

Just not ready yet.............

I'm just not ready yet to put up a new post. Each time I come to this page and Daddy's face pops up and the song starts to play, I'm just not ready to see something else take it's place yet. June is a great month, we have Beau and Eli's 5th birthday coming up on the 15th, along with Father's Day. Jim's birthday is on the 18th. But, I'm just not ready to post about those things yet.