Good Bye Edelweiss

Doug here..

I'm sad to say that Edelweiss passed away this afternoon. She under went surgery to remove a 13 pound tumor. She made it through the surgery well and even was able to stand up and sneak out of her cage this morning and walk around (without the doctor knowing at first). As Karen, Rochelle, and I went to go pick her up this afternoon we spent some time in an exam room with her, she wasn't doing very well then. We were told that they would call us if her condition improved unfortunately it never did. She was a trooper and a very heart strong dog. at the age of 13 (113-118 in dog years) she was a good dog. She will be missed. I ask that keep the Wolfe's in your hearts and prayers.

My prayer is that all of you keep safe on the roads this Thanksgiving and have a great time with friends or family.

Doug

A gorgeous sunset and a sad day(s)

This past weekend Doug and I went up to Hume to work for Jordan in High Adventure. On the way up we saw this gorgeous sunset up at Cherry Gap. Earlier up the hill it was really pretty too cause we could see a bunch of fog in between some of the hills. The picture doesn't really do the sunset justice because you can't tell that the gray area right below the sun is fog.

The rest of the weekend was really good. We were paintball refs and then did the Screamer for a couple of hours. We got to see Hume people too and hang out with the staff we were working with at night.

We came home late Saturday night though cause Edelwesiss isn't doing too well. My parents took her to the vet on Saturday and found out she has a 10 pound tumor in her tummy. Surgery is too expensive and she might only get a couple more months of life out of it. She's just been laying around though because walking is hard for her now. She hasn't eaten since Thursday and has to be coaxed to drink water. So she's going to have to be put down in the next couple of days. Sad day. She's almost 13. On the charts at the vet's the highest age was 11, which is 100 in dog years (for large dog breeds). So she's almost 118. She's had a good, long life, it's just hard to say goodbye.

Winnie the Pooh

Doug and I both like puzzles. There's just something about a cold day, a fire in the fire place, comfy clothes, hot drinks, and a puzzle. A couple weeks ago when we were at Target we saw these cool Photomosaic puzzles. There were 1026 pieces to the puzzles, and each piece was comprised of many smaller pictures to make up the color of the picture. We thought that would be fun and challenging, so we picked out a Winnie the Pooh one. We started it last Friday and it took a whole week to complete. Although we found out that our puzzle only had 1025 pieces. So we took it back and got a Thomas Kinkade one for the holidays haha. But here's what the puzzle looked like when it was done:

Pieces of the puzzle, showing off the photomosaic-ness...

Neat, huh?

Welcome baby party

Last weekend just was a busy weekend for us. In addition to Doug's 2-day birthday (see blog below!), on that following Sunday Reagan had a Welcome Baby party! Doug and I came over earlier to help clean up and decorate the party. Doug was then able to go and have lunch and hang out with his mom who came down to visit him. Devonna and Joe had HiCee cater the party (at least I think that's how you spell it?) with really good barbecue meat balls, pork, potato salad, and a southwest bean salad. There were about 20 people there so we all just hung out, ate, held the baby (who was rather fussy that day), and they opened some presents. I didn't take any pictures during the party, but this was the atmosphere:

One wall of the apartment is just a mirror so I stuck balloons and banners all over them

The suckers say "It's a boy", of course

Dangling stuff across the windows

Reagan's cake! Poor kid couldn't have any, but it was really good.

That's it. I had just realized that I hadn't put anything up about it, so I thought I would. Now go enjoy the other recent posts!

Halloween and a very fun Birthday.

So for the past month or so Rochelle and I have been looking forward to Halloween. Because with it comes the classic, costumes, candy, carving pumpkins, scary movies, and of course my Birthday. So on Friday we decided to have a laid back day and stay home and watch scary movies. Since I've spent my last two birthday's working and going to six flags I figured it would be fun to stay back with my Fiancee and enjoy the night relaxing. She went out to the store to get dinner stuff and we met back up at her place to cook one of my favorite meals: steak, potatoes, bread, broccoli, and a nice dinner salad. She asked if i could help her out with preparing the steak, since she's never done it I figured it would be fun to teach her. So we had grill lessons and how to prepare the steak.

Chelle working the grill.

After all the food was done we set up the table with everything we had prepared and enjoyed an amazing meal. In the amidst of dinner we were lucky to have Reagan come over so Devonna and Joe could spend some quality time together out with out having to have the little guy tag along.

The set up! Yeah, it was that good

After dinner we decided to dress up the dog in a fun costume, be ware of bride-zilla!!!!

Bride-zilla! Comes complete with veil, garter belt, and blood stained teeth

for your viewing pleasure

On Saturday I was surprised to see that the gang had set up the house and surprised me with a party with a bunch of people. Here is the cake Rochelle made from scratch, it was soooo Good.

The sad news two days later it was attacked by ants so we ended up losing half of it.




The cake looks like its on fire, yes, I am that old. All in all it was a really good weekend.

I love being an Aunt!

I absolutely love being an aunt. I love just holding Reagan and taking a million pictures of all the faces that he makes. Doug and I got to babysit him on Halloween and I just held him for about 3 hours. He left with mommy and daddy though for Colorado for a couple of months. We'll miss all of them.

Reagan with his pumpkin shirt that Doug got him. He also has a matching hat and socks.

I got him the blanket. You can't really see it, but it says "Boo to you!"

Sometimes when he's really upset the only way you can really calm him down is to lay him down on his stomach against you. He falls asleep pretty quick. He's a snuggler

They had mini pumpkins at the pumpkin patch that they ended up just giving us. So Reagan got his own pumpkin

Pumpkin head

Reagan came over yesterday when Devonna came to grab some stuff to pack for Colorado and to hang out. I watched him so she could go through some stuff. He was a bit fussy but he liked my waterbed, as you can see below: