Sophie graduated TOP of her class tonight! That's our girl!

The Flood

As the honor befalls upon myself to continue our blog and keep the world posted on our latest and greatest adventure, I suppose it is up to me to tell you the tragic truth. The latest, and the least greatest.
Friday September 19th I came home from a half day of work and ate my lunch. While I was sitting at the table reading my book (New Moon, very good) I heard the dreaded noise. The noise that every large dog owner hates to hear. The noise of the drinking out of the toilet. I hollered at Sophie to stop drinking from the toilet and got up to physically remove her (I knew she would not come willingly) when I noticed her sunbathing outside. Curious I went down the hall to see what the noise I heard was. That's when I realized, the hallway was swampy with water. The guest room toilet had flooded. Flooded for 5 hours! The foot prints from when I came home from work were still embedded into the carpet. Panic hit me. I could not for the life of me figure out what to do. I stood there staring, staring at this huge disaster.
I snapped back into reality and ran for the phone, dialing as fast as I could I called my parents to come over as fast as they could (my nearest and dearest disaster relief) Kip was at work for the first time in a day or so from being sick and I knew he couldn't come rescue me this time. I hung up with my mom and grabbed every single towel that I had nearby. I laid them all on the floor and within moments they were completely destroyed and full of water. So now I just had a swamp-like floor and and four loads of laundry to do and no resolve to either! Then I just stared. Waiting for the answer to hit me across the head. And it did (well not literally), I realized I had my mom's carpet shampooer from earlier in the week when my dear husband shampooed our carpets. I plugged it in and started bailing out the water. The rescue team was there momentarily and dad took over the bailing. Hours later and we had a lot of the water out of the carpet and Kip and my dad had rebuilt the toile (to prevent future disasters). I called our homeowners insurance and after the message "Due to current disasters in the southeast we are experiencing an increased number of calls... I was promtly put on hold with the promise that my call was important! I hung up, I didn't have time for this! So for days and days we fanned out our home. Last Monday Kip asked if I wanted him to turn the fans off, and we did so. Then the next worse thing happened. THE SMELL. The only way I can explain the absolute horendousness of the smell is to tell you to take a wet moldy sock, put it in the dryer, and then have your dog pee on it! That's what my house smelled like. Gross hu? I bet you never want to enter my home again, I don't blame you, I feel the same way. So I begged Kip to take out the carpet, I was convinced some monster was hiding under the carpet and we had to release him! So Kip, being the most patient husband ever, took the carpet up in the hall and revealed the subflooring was wet. Fans back on! And so they stay.
Needless to say Kip and I went two days after the flood and bought lots of square footage of Pergo. Our whole home is now going to be Pergo. All we need is the Pergo to get to Boise (they had to order it) and four lovely men to install it! (Thanks Kip, Kyle, Dad & Brian) I hope that it goes smoothly and anyone who wants to learn how to install Pergo plllease let us know! We can use all the help we can get!

I'm Cristina

Grey's is upon us

I can't believe it's finally here! I am so excited. Join me in counting down to the premier of the best show!

Fall Line-Up

Here are just a few shows I will be watching during the next few weeks to decide which ones make the cut! My DVR will be busy but it will be worth it to see what's coming this fall on TV. At the bottom of my post there are links to schedules! If you have any input or advice on which shows to watch this fall please comment and we can all see! Thanks and enjoy premiers!!

The Mentalist Tuesdays 9/8c on CBS NCIS Tuesdays 8/7c on CBS
Ugly Betty Premiers Thursday 9/25 @ 8/7c on ABC
Grey's Anatomy Premiers Thursday 9/25 TOMORROW!!! at 9/8c on ABC

Life Premiers Monday Sept 29th @ 10/9c on NBC

Lipstick Jungle Premiers TONIGHT! Wed Sept 24th @ 10/9c on NBC

http://www.nbc.com/Schedule/

http://www.cbs.com/info/schedule/index.php
http://abc.go.com/

Jersey

This is Deney's new baby "Jersey" she's just adorable and hung out with us at work the other day. I can't believe how cute she is! Little Cutie!

Dopy-kins

A lot of people have been asking how big Sophie is lately. Well here are some pictures to show you. She is too big for us to pick up anymore so we can't weigh her at home like we used to be able to. However we are thinking that she is probably 100 pounds. She has averaged 10 pounds/month since we brought her home and she will be 10 months tomorrow 9/11/08. She has been going to puppy school and the fact that she sleeps through class justifies to me now why my teachers never approved of that. (She has learned squat!) Lazy dog! But we are getting there and she is calming down a bit! She's a sweetie and she likes to lay with me before Kip comes to bed, and then she's upset because he kicks her off the bed.
I have no idea how these pictures got in here...sorry Kip! (This is my lazy Sunday, Kip on one couch out, Sophie on the other couch out!)

(love the tongue)

Kip's Birthday Party!

Jenessa & Jovan

Jovan

Lynn, Marilyn, Patxi

Mitzi & Jovan

Grandpa Philliips, Kip, Terry & Amanda

Marilyn, Lynn, Grandma Tracy

Dave, Patxi & Larry

Tara, Amy, Kip, Terry & Amanda

Suzie, Grandpa & Grandma Phillips, The Hansens

Bonnie, Larry, Dave & Patxi
Neola, Mitzi, Kica, Suzie, Jenessa, Chad & Jovan
Tasha, Angie, Grandma P, Grandma T, The Hansens
Bonnie, Patxi & Dave Kerns
The Hansens

Grandpa Tracy & Doug
Amy, Kip, Terry & Amanda
Marilyn, Brian, Cindy & Jay
Mike
Grandmas

Doug, Mitzi w/Jovan, Suzie, Cindy & Jay
Christopher, Robert, Larry, Patxi & Dave
The Kerns
Dave & Patxi Kerns
Jenessa & Jovan
Tara, Amy, Kip & Christie, Terry & Amanda
Kica, Larry, Doug & Chad
Tara, Amanda, Kip & Terry
Marilyn, Christie & Brian
Larry & BBQ

Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate Kip and his 33 years on this earth! Just as a disclosure to this email sorry if you were captured in your swimming suit and published online without your permission, I do take suggestions for picture removal should you wish and or have enough money to pay my picture removal fee! Just let me know! Thanks everyone again Kip and I appreciate you coming and spending the day with us!