Gracie

We are fostering Gracie, a Galgo from Scooby in Spain, until she goes to her forever home. Before Scooby she was in Sevilla Spain. I picked her up after work on Tuesday. She flew from Spain to Atlanta on Sunday with Woody Jack, another Galgo and Oliver a puppy. She even has a passport, which I thought was rather neat!! Volunteers drove down to Atlanta and brought these dogs back to VA on Tuesday. Considering all the traveling she has done in the last couple of days, she is doing very well!! She is super sweet and a very pretty little black female. She is smaller than my Maggie Moo! She already knew how to go up and down stairs, which makes our job easier. She is a very easy foster. The picture above is from earlier today. We had incredibly nice weather today in VA, so we enjoyed some quality time outside!!

Just look at her sweet face, isn't she a beauty?

It did not take her long to figure out dog beds. This is a new one we just got from Costco last weekend. We put memory foam in it, in hopes that it stays nice, soft and fluffy for a while. Costco has the best dog beds for a really great price! We caved and got a membership to Costco just to buy dog beds. Yes, we are silly.
I love this next shot. Just look at that snout.
She is very pretty. She has some weight to gain and some scares on her, but she made it out and will be going to a wonderful forever home soon. She is on the third leg of her journey, next stop......forever home!!
As for Mitch and I.......we are so thankful to be able to share in this experience!!!!

Celebrating Booyah

We can't believe it will be one year tomorrow that we have had our big, beautiful, goofy oaf of a boy Booyah. Anyone who has met Booyah knows how sweet and special he is! He is a mommy's boy and we both love him very much! I can remember talking with Debbie about how special of a boy Booyah was and how we could foster him to see how it would work. She of course told me Booyah's story. For those of you who don't know, Booyah waited at Joan's kennel for about 7 months. No one could look past his birth defect, (one eye is sunken in a little and is a little smaller than the other, he is blind in this eye, but you can barely notice it) and see what a great dog he is. Joan and all the other volunteers at GPA-GO kennel really loved Booyah, took good care of him and he remains in their hearts. And, we are in contact with Joann and send them pictures of Booyah.

I can remember going over to Trina and Jason's to pick him up. We were going to foster him with the option to adopt and were originally not going to take him home with us that day. Once we met him, we just could not leave without him!! He really helped Maggie with her separation anxiety and she really helped Booyah learn the ropes. Booyah is very much a follower. It took him months to really get the concept of toys. It took him weeks to get the concept of going up and down stairs. Because of Booyah, I now understand how special, sweet and dumb (and I mean that in the nicest way) the boys really are!! We will always have a male greyhound as part of our family!

Special thanks and gratitude to all the people who helped bring Booyah into our lives!!! We can't express how grateful we are to be lucky enough to have Booyah as part of our family.

So here's to you Booyah! Happy gotcha day!!!!!!!!! We love you very much!!! =)

We are in the mood for X-mas!

Yeah!!! It is Christmas time!!

Tonight we opened up a bottle of Merlot (BTW, Boggle Merlot is very good....very smooth) and watched the cartoon How the Grinch stole Christmas (Poor Max) and then we watched the Wizard of OZ movie. Who doesn't like Dr. Suess?

And, I can't wait to start shopping for the kids....yeah!! Love shopping for them! Love to see their excited little faces when they get treats and toys. So happy!!!!

It is a family tradition to sit in front of the tube and watch these and others every year. We also always watch the movie Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story. One of our favorite movies is It's a Wonderful Life! I love black and white movies, there is just something about them.

In fact this morning on AMC at 6:00 a.m., they were showing the black and white movie of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...so I watched it this morning.

Okay....I know you are thinking it........Yes, I am geek!!! We will be putting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving and decorating the house the following week.

Oh and the most exciting news of all.....................OUR KIDS ROO!!! YEAH!!! We did not think they did, but tonight we were trying to get Cha Cha to Roo and unexpectedly all four started to Roo! It was incredible. We just sat there looking at eachother in Awe, we couldn't believe it. We tried to get them to do it again, because we wanted video of them, but they wouldn't do it. I am going to keep trying. Man....it was like a chorus. Absolutely Amazing!!!

Cha Cha

We have been watching Cha Cha (FKA RV Charity) for about a week now and she is staying with us for another week while her mom is in Israel. She is 2 1/2 and still very much a puppy. She wears my guys out. She was bouncing around the living room playing with toys and Maggie had a priceless expression on her face, of course I did not have my camera ready. But if she could have spoke, I know she would have said "ah.....kids. lay down.....I am trying to sleep."

She is an only dog, so she is having lots of fun at Ridlon Doggie Camp. She is a snuggle bunny. And, boy does she love blankets. She loves to snuggle under them. She is a very sweet girl! She is used to sleeping in her mom's bed so it has been a little bit of an adjustment for her sleeping on her dog bed on the floor. Her mom thought she was a shy little girl, but after she saw how her behavior changed while around our 3, she realized that Cha Cha is just lonely and needs a friend. Hopefully they will adopt another greyhound soon!! She is doing good, but she misses her mom! And I am sure her mom misses her too!
In other news....Cueball learns that he can roach on the couch too! After falling off the couch a couple of times, he did land on dog beds, he finally got it.
And Cha Cha shows us that 3 hounds do fit on our ugly blue couch. Now I guess Mitch won't let me buy a new couch for Christmas. Bummer!!
Unfortunately, no room for Booyah.
But, he does not seem to mind the doggie bed on the floor.
And as for our sweet KC, when Cha Cha came, KC had this sure fearful look on her face, she looked at me as to say "is she staying permanently too?". I have tried to reassure her that Cha Cha will be going home soon, but as for now.....she is not speaking to me.