desi

We think our dog has ruptured her cruciate ligament in her leg. If this is the problem, she would need surgery which would probably cost $1600 plus all the other costs, such as pain medicine, etc. She would have a long recovery time and no guarantees that it is not going to happen again or happen to the other leg.
Anyway, we will likely take her to the vet in the next day or so.
Ethan would be heart broken if we have to put her down. She is his girl, he talks about her all the time. The first thing he does every morning is grab his pillow and lay it beside her crate and talk to her. He keeps praying for her that she will get better.

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Just some random pics from this weekend.
My garden:




My boys:



Ethan's squirrel house (an idea from The Creative Family):
Ethan building his squirrel house:


Desi:
Some craft time yesterday:
Ethan loves to create things, Gavin loves to play with the supplies.


The kids and I made some awesome bread this morning. It was a recipe from soulemama.com called WHO bread (wheat, honey and oats). It was sooo good, and it used ingredients that I had on hand, which was nice since I haven't been shopping too much lately.

crafty fun

Colouring the back of wrapping paper:

Watercolours and glueing (?):




Collage of things we found outside:

And Desi, not doing any crafty things :)

everyday and more sick...

Gavin was really sick again yesterday, so we went to the hospital for the 5th time about 6 weeks. They seemed fairly concerned about him when we got there, but after seeing a couple of nurses and the doctor and a urine test they decided that he probably had a virus. By the time we got out of there he actually seemed ALOT better, so that was good.
Here is a collage of pictures I took this morning of everyday things:
And some pictures of Gavin today:




focus is off on this one, but I love his eyes here:

And Desi:


Little conversation with Gavin:
Gavin: How old are you?
Me: 25
G: But, I thought you were 28?
Me: Daddy is 28.
G: Is Daddy old?
Me: Daddy is very old.
G: Grandma Allison is old. Are you old?
Me: Noooo....

pics

No, we haven't kicked the poor kid out, I was just playing around with my moms camera.