All right - what's new around the Bone compound...

Ok folks - here is the long awaited Bone compound update!!  I know everyone is eagerly gripping the edge of their seats!

Over the last few months, Kent and I have been keeping quite busy with Moxie and general homeowner responsiblities! 

Moxie joined us the end of September and we can hardly imagine life without her anymore!  She makes us laugh, grrrr and smile every single day!  Yes - I realize we are talking about a dog - but she is our child!  She is a spunky, little Shorkie - a mix of Shih tzu and Yorkie.  She is fuzzy and clever!  The first week we had her home, Kent and I both took several days off work in order to work on getting her comfy and potty trained in her new home.  Thank goodness we did that, because the first Monday, I got a call at work from Kent saying we had a pipe spraying water all over the basement!  It would have been MUCH worse if no one had been home to find it!  Well, after we got the plumber over and all was repaired, it turned out that we had illegal gas and water lines and a less than stellar water heater!  One would like to think that the home inspection would have caught such an important thing as copper gas lines and far too small of water lines, but I guess that's not necessarily the kind of things our inspector was looking for!  So our little leak ended up costing almost $2000.00!  Ah, the joys of homeownership!

Moxie was about 2.2 pounds at her first vet visit and is now a WHOOPING 5 1/2 to 6 pounds!  I'm pretty sure most of it is fluff!  She went to class at the local PetSmart and graduated at the top of her class in Puppy Training.  (Ok - she was the only one in her class but that doesn't change the ranking!)    She can do sit, down, beg, stay, come, leave it, take it - but mostly she does it when SHE wants, not necessarily when we want her to do it!  In the spring, we plan to go on to the Intermediate class to keep working on skills.  Hopefully, she will be behaved well enough to go to the hospital and visit patients when she is old enough!

Halloween was a fun time at our very own home!  We got around 50 trick or treaters and we had some pretty great costumes come through the neighborhood!  Moxie was also in the spirit with her Count Dracula costume!

Hmmmm - other news around the town - Brian got engaged to Aimee and they are planning a fall wedding!  Finally - I get another sister!!!  'Bout time, Brian!!

Of course, no update would be complete without a note about the Hawkeyes and their bowl win!!!!  AWESOME!!!  Too bad that makes next year's ticket more expensive and we will have to wait another year to introduce Kent to the blinding beauty that is Kinnick Stadium!!!!!!

The new year snuck in and here we are in February already!  No big plans for vacations this year - working on the house is the only big plan we have.  We are taking a short trip to Branson in May - never been but looking forward to any suggestions you Blog Followers may have for us!   

Kent and the snow blower have gotten quite a workout this year already!  We had a big blizzard the first of February and ended up with about 14 inches of snow!  Blowing and drifting and snowing like crazy - makes me think of Iowa!!

Looking forward to posting some photos of Moxie and the house as the Spring warms things up!

Getting excited to host my first House Party for Philadelpia Cooking Creme!  If you want to know more about House Party - check out my party page at:
http://www.houseparty.com/party/464302

Also - be sure to check out Lynn's shop on Etsy!!
http://www.elrbe.etsy.com/
If you tell her you saw it on the Bone Blog, maybe she'll send your order super quick!!!  Just kidding - I have no authority to give discounts or anything!!

Well - there it is -  6 months in a few paragraphs!  I know I've said it before but hopefully I will be better in the new year about blog updates!  Too bad life gets in the way!!

Keep smiling and see you around the compound!!!!!

Karen and Kent and Moxie!!!

Wow - been a long time!!

ok - so it haas been a VERY long time since the last blog entry and I wish I could say it was because I was SOOOO busy, but - let's face it - I just kept putting it off!  Well, that and I was waiting for some pictures of Moxie that I could post but I didn't get those either!

Well - this is just a quick hello!  Need to update all the Bone Blog followers with everything new around the compound!

See you soon around the Blog!

Karen