Trixie

We have had our dog for almost 2 years now. We got her when she was a puppy so she would learn how to treat the boys. She is the best dog. We got her from a breeder in Wa. he sold us a boy and the runt. We loved it so that's all that mattered. We named it beans and called it Beaners all the time. Beaners is a English Springer Spaniel. She truely lives up to her breed she springs over everything even the 6 foot high kennel I got for her, just to be out with the family. She has a record at my parents house. The neighbors called the police on her because she barked so much wanting to be in the house with us. She sets by the back door just waiting for us to come out and play with her.

We took him in to get him neutered and got a call from the vet asking us if we had a boy dog at home and or if we had grabbed the wrong one by accident. No that's the only dog we have. That's when we found out that our little he is really a she. We kept her name the same cause we thought it was cute. We had my little brother Matt and his family keep her until our home is done cause they don't allow dogs where we are staying. We brought here home with us when we came back, not knowing when we will make it back to N. Idaho. Then after finding out there is such a Mexican population here we decided unless we wanted problems we had to change her name. Coming from N. Idaho we had no clue. Boy is this area making us smart.(ha ha)

In short our boy dog is really a girl dog. Her name was Beaners and now is Trixie!

Casen and Cody love to crawl into here kennel with her. We all love our little Trixie!

We have had so much happen so quick. We got home from CDA very discouraged with nothing happening with our home. Then we finally got the approval from the city, it's a go!!!!!!!!

The next day they were out there digging. We now own a lot with a hole in the ground.(ha ha ha) Actually we have our foundation poured and the lumber package should arrive any day. We have been making runs to Boise for great deals...We found almost all our cultured stone for our home off Craigslist for $200. That a great find when it's required to have 30% of the front of our home stone. We also found shingles for the peak of our bonus room for next to nothing! Aaron is making a run back out there today to get more rock to frame in our gas fireplace. My garage is so full of everything.
They are doing construction across from us. The boys and the dog love to run wild after they are gone for the night. It's hard to let boys be boys when they come home looking like this....... (The pictures are somewhere I can't get them to set where I want them to today. They are making me MAD)

Aaron had to take a praxis test for science last weekend, not enough people here signed up so we had to go to Pocatello for it. No big deal except he would of had to leave at 4:00 am to get there in time, and that no way to start a big test. So we packed up and took off to Pocatello for the night and boy did we have fun!! We stayed in a hotel with a pool of course. There was a local family there celebrating a birthday. They were so much fun! Cody believes that he taught this young man a Jr. in High School how to penguin dive. We all had so much fun!!

HOT! HOT! HOT!

It is so hot here. I can handle 90* and better in Northern Idaho, but it is just different here, in Southern Idaho. They are doing a lot of construction across from us. We have made friends with the lead man on the job. We had him and his family for dinner last night we had a great time. They are very nice, they have 2 little boys between our boys ages. Nate 5 and Jake 9. They all stayed busy having fun and hanging out. Mark left early to finish up, when we walked out this is what we saw. All they boys went crazy!! Clayton and Cody thought it looked easy so Mark gave them the hose, they were just like ya see on cartoons flying around on the end of the hose. Mark was there to keep them grounded. They tried to united forces all 3 of the boys together but there was still too much force. Cody ran in front of where he was spraying and it threw him down, he didn't know what happened. Good times!!