Cell Phone Dump

Cell phone dump for the month of June :)

 

The window at Daycare where we wave our goodbyes! Oh & it was Superhero Day :)

Look who got a new bike - Spiderman, of course! 

Looked out the front window one morning & saw these two beautiful animals in the front yard! Now I know where all the bird seed has been going! 

Took the afternoon off for a little pool-time & a cocktail! 

Who got a hair-cut??? This cutie pie :) 

Who knew watching movies inside forts would be so much fun?  

 Fun with co-workers & the Snapchat app!

Taking a stroll around the neighborhood in his truck!

Sick Bubba :(

Bentley (aka: Bubba) is 11 years old now & lately has definitely been showing his age :( He has been slowing way down, has trouble going down the stairs to potty & has been passing out for no reason for the last couple of months. It is pretty scary when he passes out but will usually come to after a long, scary couple of minutes.

It has started to happen more frequently so I decided it was time to make an appointment for him to see the doggie Cardiologist.

Waiting to see the heart vet :)

 

We went to Blue Pearl Vet Specialists (who are amazing by the way) & the vet tech went over everything they were going to do to Bubba to assess his heart & overall health which was an EKG & an Echocardiogram. He was back there for about 30 minutes & then the Cardiologist talked with me about his results.

 

Turns out that Bubba has been passing out due to an irregular heart rhythm called ventricular tachycardia. While he was hooked up to the heart monitor the Dr. said he was in & out of this rhythm quite frequently & definitely explains why he would pass out. Then she told me the Echocardiogram showed he had a cardiomyopathy, right-sided heart failure & coronary artery disease which is all pretty normal for an aging 11 year old bulldogs heart. Add the irregular heart rate to it & it makes for a bad combination. He is at an extremely high risk for sudden death.

 

Luckily for Bubba there is medications he can take to help stop his fast heart rate, to help strengthen his heart muscle & increase his pumping function. And lucky me all his heart medications I can get at Target pharmacy as a generic for $4.00 each - win win!!! He will be sent home with 4 heart medications & we are to go back in a month for another EKG & see if the medications are helping.

 

In the meantime, we will continue to take good care of him, love on him as much as we can & smooch those flaps until it is time for us to say goodbye!!

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to one awesome Daddy!

This little boy already looks up to this amazing Daddy & loves to "help" him in the garage & the basement, play Hide & Seek around the house with him & spends many hours "tackling" each other. He loves to ride in Daddy's "big, black truck" & tells everyone he knows that his Daddy works at P.U.S (which is actually UPS :)

Mase made this super cute picture for him at daycare & on the back the teacher asked him several questions & this is how he responded:

1) My Dad's name is: Shane
2) How old is your Dad? 8 years old
3) What do you like to do with your Dad? play with him
4) My Dad is as strong as: the Hulk
5) What is your Dad good at? playing superheroes
6) My Dad likes to eat: yucky stuff
7) My Dad likes to drink: pop
8) What does your Dad do at work? drives the big brown truck with Jason
9) What is something you would like to tell your Dad? that he is silly

SO fun - can't wait to read these back to him when he is much older! Hoping you all had a wonderful Father's Day with the special men in your life!

Date Night

It doesn't happen as often as it should, but this evening the hubby & I had plans for a much-needed date night. I ended up taking a 1/2 day at work today so after lunch I headed to the nail salon for a pedicure & got my toes done in my favorite OPI shade...Cajun Shrimp!

Then I headed home & met my Mommy friend Sara at my pool for a couple of hours of relaxing & cocktails. It made me realize that I should be taking more of these "Heather Days" & soaking up a few hours of time to myself more often!

Awhile back I had gotten concert tickets for the "Lover's Night Out Tour" featuring R&B artists Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill & Joe. Shane & I loved listening to Joe back when we were dating so I thought it would be a fun date night to get tickets & go. I had told a few of my Mommy friends about the concert & they were interested in going as well so we all decided to make it a fun night out.

Mason ended up spending the night at our dear friend Maggie's house so we had the entire evening to whoop it up like we were college kids once again.

I got in from my relaxing afternoon at the pool, got all dressed up for the evening & made our way downtown to the Power & Light District where we met our group.

We clean up nicely :)

My Mama Tribe

 

We made our way into the Sprint center, grabbed a drink, took our seats & patiently waited for the concert to start. It was to start at 8pm & by 9pm it still hadn't started. People were starting to get upset & the crowd was booing.

 

Around 9:10pm the lights go down & the crowd goes wild. We all thought the concert was about to start & then a comedian walks out on the stage & proceeds to tell jokes for 20 minutes. RIDICULOUS!

 

We didn't think the concert was ever going to start. Around 9:45 the concert got going & the first to open was Joe. He was the main person Shane & I cared about seeing out of the 3 groups so I am glad he went first. He is still an amazing singer & sang all of our favorites!

 

After Joe played the comedian came back on again for another 20 minutes. People were starting to get pissed & boo & it was just awkward. Johnny Gill finally came on & he was just ok....nothing too exciting. After he was done here comes the comedian once again....UGH!!! Keith Sweat finally got started around 11:15pm. Half our group decided to head home & Shane & I stayed for 3 songs & bailed out of there ourselves.

 

Overall, the concert was pretty disappointing. I was glad I didn't pay a lot for the tickets & I felt bad for putting everyone through such a horrible concert. Shane kept saying to me throughout the evening "you owe me". It was just awful.

 

Oh well, it was fun to get all dressed up, go out with my man & have a date-night together despite the awful concert! We had fun hanging with the Mama Tribe & a couple of the husbands as well.





Melvern Lake

With a super busy month of May behind us, we finally got to get the RV out & spend a weekend camping! We headed down to Melvern Lake late morning which is about an hour south of where we live so not too far away. We had invited our friends Mike & Kristi along with their 3 kids to join us & they actually have a pontoon that they keep at Melvern Lake so camping & boating were on the agenda!

Once we arrived it only took a couple of hours of setting up camp. We had an awesome site with a ton of room for a tent & room for the kids to play. We hadn't been at this campsite before but as we ventured out & walked around we soon decided it was going to end up being one of our favorites in the future. 

There is a huge fishing pond separate form the lake you could fish in or kayak in, lots of park equipment, walking nature trails, big roomy sites & inexpensive to stay.

I have a sad story to share & after reading this the people of PETA may or may not come after us but honestly there wasn't anything else we could do.

We store our RV about 20 miles south of our house. Shane had gone to pick up the camper early in the morning & brought it to the house so we could load her up with our stuff. As we were loading it up Shane kept complaining that some bird had pooped all over the hitch & caused quite the mess. I didn't think anything of it & honestly just tried to tune him out.

We got going down the road & stopped at the Walmart to get some ice & a few groceries. Shane was checking to see that everything was hooked up correctly & thought he heard a bunch of birds chirping but figured they were in the tree we were parked by. Again thought nothing of it.

We get to the campsite an hour down the road, back our RV in, drop the legs, unhook it from the hitch & we discovered this:

Baby birds inside the hitch pissed off, hungry as hell & chirping at extreme decibel levels. The best part - the Mama was 60 miles away. I felt sick. Shane was upset. Mase had no idea what was going on.

We sat there for an hour googling baby birds, what to do to save them, how to feed them, how to rescue them, how long they would live without food...all the meantime they are chirping extremely loud because they are literally starving to death. It was awful.

 

So with all our research we discovered that:

1) the Mama bird feeds them every 20 minutes during the day

2) they can live 24 hours without food or water

3) you can't give them water from a dropper because they will drown

4) they eat chewed up worms only

5) our baby birds were Robins & were about 10-11 days old

6) holding wild birds in captivity is illegal

 

We both knew deep down what the end result was going to be & unfortunately we didn't want to have to listen to them chirp & die a slow death for the next 24 hours. Especially with the kiddos around.

 

After 2 hours of deliberating what to do a park engineer just so happened to be walking by so we told him our situation & asked what we should do. He offered to call the park ranger & he said he should be able to take care of them for us. About 20 minutes later he shows up with his bucket & shovel & removes the baby birds.

Mason was in the camper watching a movie so he didn't see what was going down outside & our friends hadn't arrived yet so that was good. I couldn't help but feel so sad for these little birds & especially for the Mama who was flying around trying to find her babies. It was SO upsetting & kind of put a damper on the day.

 

The park ranger was able to rescue all 6 babies & drove off with them. I like to think that he took them back to their office where other wildlife is rescued & fed, rehabilitated & raised them until they were ready to fly on their own but deep down we all know what happened to them :(

 

So after that "Debbie-downer" incident we decided to get away from our campsite  for a bit & go for a walk to take our minds off of what just happened & explore the campsite!

Ugh - RIP baby birds.

 

Mike, Kristi & the family ended up getting there around 6pm & we spent the rest of the evening setting up their tent, eating supper, making a campfire, having smores & then sent the littles into the RV to watch a movie so the big kids could hang around the campfire & have a few cocktails!

 

The kiddos went to bed around 11pm while the adults stayed up until at least 1am. We all slept in late the next morning & got a late start to the lake which was a-ok! 

 

Mike & Kristi had bought a brand new pontoon boat last year & keep it slipped at Melvern Lake. So we spent the day Saturday on the boat & had a great time. Shane & Mase even got to drive which Mase thought was super cool!

It was a beautiful day out & we had so much fun hanging with this awesome little family :) 

After we got back to the campsite, we fired up the grill & threw some brats & hotdogs on for supper. We got the kids fed first & while they played the adults got to finally eat! That evening we made more s'mores around the campfire & the kids ended up going to bed earlier than last night as did the adults. For some reason, everyone was super tired?!

Sunday morning we all slept in again, had breakfast & then Kristi & Mike started packing up & made their way home. We ended up hanging around the campsite until mid afternoon so Shane could do some maintenance on the RV.

While he was doing that, Mason & I took a walk & stopped by the lake to throw some rocks into the water. That boy would throw rocks all day if you let him!!

We headed back home around 3pm & said goodbye to Melvern Lake. This campsite & lake area was awesome & we can't wait to book another weekend here in the future!