New Year!

Well it is now 2009! Can you believe it? Shouldn't we be flying around in cars by now? It's even more of a new year for me as I turned 28 a few days ago. Sheesh...shouldn't I be married with children by now??? Life sure doesn't go the way you think it should or plan it to be! Thank God for that though. :)
A new president was inaugurated into office this week....Obama. ehhh it's bittersweet. I think it's wonderful that we have come this far as a country to have our first African-American president. It's amazing! But, I do not think that Obama was the best choice. I believe he was voted in solely for the color of his skin, and not for his ability as a leader. Enough of that!
Gidget begins much needed obedience training this weekend! Yippee for that! David enlightened me to that fact that Gidget believes she is "Alpha" over me...meaning she is above me and has no respect for what I say! After some reading into the subject, I realized that this is my fault. I have treated her like a real baby since the day I got her. :( She sleeps in bed with me, sits on the couch next to me, I hug her and kiss her and cuddle her all of the time and NEVER follow through when I tell her no about something. I tried to work with her yesterday...I made her sit before I gave her food, I pushed her off the bed & the couch at least 2.5 million times, I stood up and firmly said no as she was biting my ankles. And all the while she looked at me like she just couldn't understand. I tried very, very hard not to cuddle her and love on her but I couldn't not do it. What is the point in having a dog if you can't love them and treat them like a person? I can't think of anything. David wants her to be a good guard dog, which she already is....except when she's in the warm bed with me snoring under the covers and kicking me off!!!
I am very ready to start this new year off with my sweet little Doodle & Gidget! I love them both very much, and couldn't imagine life without them. David has already told me that this will be the best year of our lives...and I belive him. As long as we are together I am ready for whatever is in store for me!

Good Bye Weazel Babies! :(

This is an extremely hard day for me. I have decided to give my sweet ferrets Lucy & Gizmo away to a new family. I have had these little guys for a year. One crazy Thursday night, David and I went to dinner at a Mexican restaraunt and had a few toooo many margaritas! While buzzing, we discussed the fact that I wanted an animal that I could name "Gizmo", because I thought that was the cutest name ever! Well David, feeling a little loose, decides that we should go to Pet SuperMarket and get ourselves a hampster and name it Gizmo. I thought this was a wonderful idea! We went home, and took a few more shots and headed off to Pet SuperMarket. David used to have a ferret that he loved when he was younger, so we walked over to see the ferrets. I of course decide that the one ferret that is jumping at us really "loves" us and wants us to take it home! David's response: "well he's probably going to get lonely, so we better get 2"! A few hundred dollars later we were on the way home with our 2 new friends "Gizmo & Lucy" and their HUGE ferret home! We eventually regretted this decision after I realized that ferrets are ALOT of work! They poop ALL the time, and EVERYwhere! I loved them so much though. If you have never been around a ferret you just don't know what amazing animals they are! I think we got the best one's ever born! They became 2 of my best friends over this year and I am really,REALLY going to miss them! I'm going to miss the ferret dance they do when you let them out of their cage! I am going to miss finding them curled up asleep in the most random places (my kitchen drawers, my dresser drawers, behind the kitchen cabinets, in a pan, inside the couch!) I am going to miss watching them play with each other and having them follow me everywhere around the house! But most of all I will miss the love they gave me and the love I have for them! One thing I won't miss is the POOP! And that is the reason I have to let them go! I live in a small house which the smell can take over very quickly! I plan on hopefully having kids in the next few years, and I cannot have a baby crawling around on floors where ferrets have gone to the bathroom. I will miss them terribly, but am thankful that I had them in my life at all! I have found a nice family to take them! They have 3 kids who are incredibly excited to meet Lucy & Gizmo, and I hope they have a good rest of their life to come! I love you & will miss you always!

Our New Addition

We have a new addition to our family (zoo)! Her name is Gidget and she is a sweet black lab pup. Someone sent out a MySpace bulletin about some free puppies and I immediately had to have one! After a long hour of negotiating with David, we decided to go get us a puppy! She is very calm and sweet and seems to be very smart! She met the other members of the family, Gizmo & Lucy (our 2 ferrets!) last night and seemed to like them a little more than they like her. Actually the ferrets don’t even really acknowledge that she’s there. They are not scared, they don’t run away, they just keep doing their own thing! Gidget is enthralled with them though, and likes to try to bite their tails! I am a little nervous about her playing with them, but everyone I talk to says that they will be fine, and that she needs to play with them now so that she knows that they are part of the family too.
Gidget is kind of a whiny baby so far, but she is only about 5 weeks old. I feel like a mother with a newborn baby waking up at all hours of the night! David has to remind me not to spoil or “ruin” her by picking her up every time she cries. She LOVES to be held and cuddled. I have a feeling that it’s going to be hard training her, not because she’s stupid, but because I just want to treat her like my little baby!
Here’s to good times & pooping outside of the house! Welcome to the family Gidge!