Out of My Hands....and btw, Life Goes On

I absolutely love the band Jars of Clay, and have probably played this song about 100 times over the past few days/weeks/months.  Thought I'd share.  

And I have to continuously remember...

 "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Life Goes On"

Goodnight ya'll

♥Nat

Daj Mahballs

Yep.  That is the name of the dodgeball team Thomas is on.  You know, as in the Taj Mahal.  

Fitting, huh?  :)  I was able to go to one of his games Wednesday night...

   

They didn't exactly win...

  But I think they had a good time!

In other news...Rosie got a new 'do!  Here are her before and after shots:

I personally prefer her hair a little shaggier...

But it was time for a trim.  She looks like a totally different dog with her new cut!

I think she likes it.  She was extra spunky when she got home from the groomer.  By the way, she celebrated her 15th birthday this month!!  :)

Well, that's all I have for now.  Keep In Touch!

♥ Nat

What a week...and weekend!

This week has been a long one, and unfortunately the weekend has already flown by.  My boss was on vacation for the week, so I was able to taste what it would be like if Thomas and I owned our own clinic.  Not quite as bad as I thought, but still a lot of work!  

Saturday, Thomas and I were able to take a mini road trip with Kelly and Jordan to find several geocaches.  On Sunday we took Sugar out to find 3 more.

As you can see, Sugar met a couple of pug-friends along the trail.  

After our day long of geocaching, Thomas and I had our St. Patty's Day Dinner:  corned-beef, mashed potatoes, and brussel sprouts (cabbage is just gross, so those were the next best!).

Now we're back to our normal Sunday night routine of dinner and cleaning...and looking forward to the next weekend!  

Keep In Touch! 

♥ Natalie

PS:  I *promise* the next post won't be about geocaching! :) 

Bright Sunshiny Day!

Today we took a walk around town to enjoy the beautiful weather.  We found this micro-geocache attached to the trash can near the river.

It just so happens that the St. Patty's parade was about to begin nearby.  So we were able to grab lunch on main street and watch all the festivities.

After the parade we started walking towards the next cache, and stumbled upon the first signs of spring!

And then we found our last geocache for the day attached under this billboard:

The rest of our day was pretty lazy.  Mostly doing laundry (which Sugar and Biffy enjoyed)...

Thomas playing video games, and I crocheting.  Biffy especially loves it when I crochet...

Doing our best to adjust to the new time change, and enjoy the last few hours before starting a new work-week!  Hope everyone has a great week!

Keep in Touch!

Cache this...

Hey everyone.  Just wanted to give a quick update on our fun-filled day with Janet & David.  We spent the majority of the day finding geocaches, and found 10 in total.  Geocaching is a "real world outdoor treasure-hunting game."  See more about geocaching.  Here's a photo-summary of our adventure.

Afterwards, we went back home and played a game of Pandemic.

Sugar wasn't so sure about her friends Baja and Dakota.  It's been a long time since she saw them last.

In fact, she was pretty rude and just slept most of the time they were here...

But we can't wait for them to come back and visit again!  

And after a long day of hiking, we are all off to bed.  Goodnight!

Keep in Touch! :)

Vetting

Show & Tell Time!  Thomas and I worked together to remove several UFO's  (Unidentified Foreign Objects) from a 2 and a half year old Labrador Retriever on Tuesday.  There were multiple small pieces of plastic along with a large amount of tangled fibrous material/string in the stomach, along with string and a larger piece of plastic that was stuck in the small intestines.  This piece was nearly breaking through the intestine at the time of surgery.  There was also a large amount of gut that was bunched together because of string that was stuck.  This part of gut, along with the part that had the plastic poking through, had to be completely removed.  Then we sutured the remaining healthy gut back together.

Now for the fun part of the post...

Here's a picture from my very first abdominal exploratory/foreign body removal from a 2 year old Labrador (about a month ago).  See a trend yet?

And just for fun, here is just one reason why you should always spay your female dogs (or cats)!  Here's an x-ray image from a Rottweiler that had a uterus full of pus.  Normally, you shouldn't even be able to see the uterus on an x-ray image.  This surgery was the first surgery Thomas and I worked together on.

Anyways, we will try to post again on Sunday.  Our friends Janet and David are coming to visit us on Saturday.  We are really looking forward to it--we certainly don't get as many visitors up here *hint HINT!* :) 

Love you guys, and keep in touch!

Nat & Tom

Movie Time!

Greetings,
Yesterday Natalie and I had to take advantage of the wonderful weather we had here. So we decided what better way then to go to the movies and sit inside a dark room for a couple of hours! Well in truth we did walk to the movie theater so it wasn't all bad ;) After watching the Oscars both Nat and I were hankering to see the winner for best picture, "The Artist". All in all it was a very enjoyable movie and definitely worth the price of admission. The plot may be a little simplistic but some of the greatest movies of all time have had simple plots. I immediately saw why "The Artist" won so many Oscars. The acting, the cinematography, the casting, the setting,  and especially the comedy made the "The Artist" into a heaping helping of good clean fun. One word of warning though. "The Artist" is a silent picture. This should be fairly obvious from the very beginning but not to some apparently. An older couple behind us remarked about 15 minutes into the show "Hey is this a silent picture?" after the quarter hour of strictly music and written words! Although it takes a few minutes to get used to the medium its well worth it. When we were watching the picture Natalie made the comment that we were the youngest couple in the theater and I must admit I think all of the other theater goers looked like they remembered the Eisenhower administration, but don't let that discourage you. It was a great film and one that I would recommend seeing in the theater.

Keeping in Touch,
Thomas

Welcome to our Home!

Hi everyone!  Here is our attempt to keep in better touch with friends and family.  We thought it would only make sense that you get a tour of our home!  So Welcome...

We live right next to the river...you can see part of the levy in the first photo...and here are a couple of views  *from* our apartment:

You can just barely see the river behind those trees...

Oh, and this was the river 2 weeks after we moved in!

Come on in!

This window is directly to the right of the front door.

Down the hall is the bathroom to the left...

And one of my favorite parts of our apartment....a washer and dryer!  Good-bye laundromat! :)

And then further down the hall is our bedroom.

Well that completes the tour.  Our place is definitely small, but we love it!  Here are few close-ups around the house. 

Don't forget, Keep In Touch!