Christmas weekend

The dogs got a bunch of nice toys from my mom and dad and from My sister.  We left them home this year - even though it was Dozer's first Christmas, I didn't want him hurting anyone cause he is still a spaz.  We did take him over Sunday night so we could meet my cousins and my uncle lee - they all have had or do have boxers.  They all loved him. We took him home before dinner was ready so Bryan and I could relax and eat.  He did ok but you could tell he was never going to relax.  Bryan gets a little over stressed about the dogs, I try to tell him they will be fine.  But there were a lot of people there so I was a little uneasy about l.letting him roam the house.

Day 111 - 12-22-2010 Wed

By the time we got home it was done raining.  It had not rained at my work that much, but Bryan's work looked like they got a bunch.  It didn't really rain again till the middle of the night.  Dozer wanted to go out aat like 4:30am and it was pouring down rain - had to dry him off.  Now I can not get back to sleep.  This weekend it going to be a bit stressful but fun.  Get to see some family we have not seen in a long time, that will be nice.

Day 110 - 12-21-2010 Tuesday

Dozer is loving his marshmallows - little does he know they all have a Benadryl pill stuck in them.  His  skin looks much better - he no longer has scratches above each eye.  He still has lost some fur from around his eyes that needs to grow back.  Tomorrow and Thursday we have a chance of rain again.  I hope it is nice for Saturday - I am not going to bring the dogs to my parents this year for Christmas. First reason is that it is stressful on Bryan and I cause I have to watch them to make sure they don't get into stuff (Dozer is still a curious baby) and second is that My parents have my Great Grandmother there and thats all I need is to have Dozer push her over, the third thing is that my sister is bring over her cat.  Well in true doggy fashion, Portia hates cats. Dozer has never been around them so I have no idea what will happen if they meet.

weekend update - Days 107-109

Friday - We are going over to Colts after work today - we try to go over to his house every other weekend cause he had his daughter over there and she loves to see us.  We aunt and Uncle to her - as we are to most of our friends kids.  I love being an aunt to the kids.  She was being very cute - a little cranky during dinner but she was super tired. We were there till almost 2:20am.

Saturday: We are going to a friends for a BBQ

Sunday - we got home after 5am - yes I said 5am - the friend we hung out with we have not seen since our wedding 7 years ago - we spent most of the day sleeping - we did watch two movies.  Tosh.0 Movie and Shrek's newest movie.

Dozer got a new toy this weekend - it has 9 squeakers in it - and he is having a blast with it.

day 106 - 12-17-2010 Thursday

Not much has been going on here - we had rain today and it was kinda cold.  We lost power at 3am early Friday morning - it did not come back on till we were already on our way to work.  I hope it is not too cool in the house for the dogs today.  it only got down to 65 in the house before we left.

Day 105 12-14-2010 Tuesday

The adorable, free holiday e-card you create starring your own family - pets and all. Fun to make and even more fun to share. Create yours today.

Day 104 12-13-2010 Monday - 6 months old!

Today Dozer is 6 months old!  He is about 36lbs and growing up to be such a good boy.  Still a bit of a spaz - but he is getting there.  I cannot wait for racing to start again so we can take him back to the race track, he loves it there.  If the weather holds out we might go to Bowie for New years - we shall see.  We have done that before and froze - so I am not going to go unless it stays nice like it has been.  My parents will get Gizmo and Portia and we will take Dozer with us.  First we have to work on the little bit of car sickness he had the morning we went to the Vet.

weekend update

Sunday was Portia's birthday - We hung out at the house all day cause I had a bad migraine.  Dozer got his last pain pill Sunday night - so now it is just 3 allergy pills a day he will get.  He loves his marshmallows.  I swear I don't even have to remember what time he needs them - he will let me know by sitting like a good boy by the kitchen and wait for me.  I am all out of sliced cheese now - I will get some this weekend, and another bag of $.99 marshmallows.

Day 100 - 12-9-2010 Thursday

Day 99 - 12-8-2010 Wednesday

Day 98 - 12-7-2010 Tuesday

The vet called me back today- they want me to give Dozer 25mg of Benadryl 3 times a day for a few weeks to see if that helps with his allergies.  The poor guy is scratching his face and tummy really bad.  I have spray but that only helps so much.  He is still on his pain killers till Sunday - so I am only giving him 2 Benadryl a day for now till he is all done with the pain killers- I don't want to give them to him together.  The pain killers make him sleepy and so does the Benadryl (well to a point)  He is not like Portia, I can not give her Benadryl - it is like giving her crack....she can not settle and goes nuts.  Luckily she doesn't have allergies like Gizmo and Dozer do.  I am going to a neighbors house on Saturday to play Bunco - a dice game that seems to be a lot of fun.  Bryan can go too, but he doesn't get to play, he can hang out with her hubby and drink some beer.  They are going to make a replacement panel for the skirting around our house, Bryan had to remove some of it to fix a water leak, and now a neighbor's cat can get under our house, that is not a good thing.  I don't want anything to happen to the cat and he gets stuck under there.   Well it is late but I wanted to wathc the news - 78 on Saturday, 80 on Sunday and 81 on Monday!  Only in Southern AZ will it be in the 80's two weeks from Christmas!

Day 97 12-6-2010 Monday 23 weeks old

Dozer is healing just fine from his surgery, little guy has not missed a step.  It was almost imposable to keep him still though.  They told me to restrict his movement for the week - HA!  Not gonna happen - he just does what he is gonna do.  I figured that if it hurt him he would stop doing it.  I can not wait till he goes back to sleeping through the night - getting up a few times during the night kills me.  It is not just him, Gizmo does it every now and then.  It has been so warm here the past week, and it doesn't look like it is gonna really let up anytime soon.  Mid to upper 70's into next week.  It is fine with me - I would rather have the 70's then be freezing.  Took Dozer for our walk - He is such a good boy, he sits when we come back in the house so I can take off the harness without me even having to ask him anymore.

Day 96 11-5-2010 Sunday

Day 94 - 12-3-2010 Friday

Sleepy baby after pain killers kicked in.

Had a nice day at home with my Dozer dog, man you can not keep a good dog down.  He hasn't really missed a beat.  They told me to keep him calm and limit his activity - now how the heck am I to do that?  Have you ever tried to keep a 5 month old Boxer pup still....it is not as easy as it sounds.  It doesn't seem to be bothering him, he has not been licking at it and there is not any swelling.  I just hope it heals with out any issues and by Monday life can go back to normal and he can go in his kennel.  My co-worker Rick is off next week so we will be short handed.  I just hope it is a nice week.  I have been so tired lately, today I am going to take some time to rest and try to get back to my normal self.  staying up till 11:33pm is not helping I am sure, but it is the weekend.  I do have to get up in the morning an go with my mom to get our nails done and do some shopping.  It is our every other weekend hang out time.  Her birthday is on Monday - I don't have anything planned - time kinda got away from me this year.  My grandmother wants to take her out on Sunday - we shall see how I feel by then.  My head has hurt a lot today - it has not gotten any worse, but it also has not gotten any better either.  I wish the Dr's would figure something out that didn't have side effects that were worse then what they were trying to fix.  well I am off to bed - I hope you all have a wonderful weekend - I will be back at my normal time come Monday morning.  Orrrr, I might just feel like typing later this weekend and do my updates before Monday.  We shall see.  From Dozer, Portia, Gizmo, Bryan and I - Good night!

DOZER IS ALL DONE

Dr John said he did just fine. The blood work looked good and his eyes look OK. But if he shows signs of his vision getting worse then we need to see a specialist. I can get him anytime after 2pm. I get off work at 4pm so it will be around then.

Surgery Day - 12-2-2010

Not much happened yesterday - So I will just update today as it happens.
Surgery Day:
  We just dropped Dozer off at Dr John's - he got a little car sick on the way.  We were trying to get him used to riding byhim self and not in my lap - that didn't happen.  We Didn't even get to the free way before he got sick.  So Bryan cleaned it up and he rode in my lap the rest of the way.  He walked right into the Vet's office like he owned the place.  All the front desk girls were ll over him - "what a cute face!"  He didn't even look back as they walked him out of the room.  Now my nerves are shot till I get the call that everything went well.

Day 91 11-30-2010 Tuesday

OMG - I am so cold!  We plugged in the truck last night to make sure it starts in the morning and so we have heat.  It is a diesel so it takes a long time to warm up and it if is below freezing you need to plug them in.  Today was a busy day at work again - the only good thing about days like this is they go fast.  I hope Thursday goes by that fast, I am gonna be a nervous wreck that day, my poor baby is gonna have surgery! But it is for the best.  I hope Dr John is as nice as he sounds on the phone - all of his staff that I talked to sounded really nice on the phone.  Bryan was there one day to fix Dr John's truck, he said the place was very nice and clean and everyone there was super nice.  The house was a little cold when I got home, Dozer's room was nice an warm, the heater in the living room just can not keep when it is that cold.  With two heaters in the main part of the house it is not too bad.  It is 56F in the house - I got it up to 68F by the time we went to bed, it was about 66 in the morning when we got up.  so it is not too bad.  Might be too cool for some people but it feels nice to us now.  I go to someone's house who is running the heater and I roast.  Work is still cold during the day - about 66, but 66 with heat on and 66 with AC om are two different feelings.  Well I better go to sleep - it is after 10:30pm.

Day 90 - 11-29-2010 Monday - 22 weeks old

Sorry this update is so late- I had to reformat my Lappytop.  It is so much faster with a clean install of Windows 7.  I had too much crap on there.  Now it should run on my home network better as well.  My lappytop is out of warranty in 10 days and Dell is unwilling to extend it for me cause the laptop is over 5 years old now - poo!  it runs just find!  they tried to tell me it is due to the lack of spare parts.  Then I should get a Big a$$ discount one a new one!  Enough of my ranting.

Happy Monday - I called today and scheduled Dozer for his surgery - we drop him off Thursday morning at 7am.  Then my Mom and I will pick him up after I get off work.  I hope he doesn't hate me for too long.  Gizmo took about a day to get over it when I had him fixed.  I hope it will calm the little spaz down,  He is very sweet but a goof ball.  I am taking Friday off work to be home with my little guy - just tot make sure he doesn't hurt his stitches.  They are calling for a hard freeze tonight - 24F they said on the news tonight - that is freaking COLD!  I am going to leave the radiators on tomorrow when we leave so the dogs don't freeze.  I have had to get up 3 times tonight already - it is 1am and I hope I can sleep the rest of the night without a dog wanting to go outside.

Thnaksgiving week 2010

Day 85 Wednesday 11-24-2010:
    Dozer is getting so big - it makes it hard to remember that he is only 5 months old.  He is almost as big as Portia.  Can not wait for Turkey tomorrow!  I just hope I am able to maintain my weight - most people start to gain weight back during the holidays.  Today was a little busy at work, we went to a really nice restaurant called Monkey Burger - YUMMY!  I had a turkey burger and it was the best I have had in a long time!  Tonight we are going to hang out with Colt, he sounds like he needs some company.  We do not have to work tomorrow so we can party!

Day 86 Thursday 11-25-2010 Thanksgiving Day:
   Did some laundry and a little bit of cleaning around the house.  Getting ready to go to my parents for a bit then to our neighbors for a block party.  We had talked about Bring the kids, then we talked about just bringing Dozer, but I do not want him to knock someone over then get blamed for that the rest of his life.  It was a good thing I did, my grandmothers husband was there and a large jerk.  My dad had to yell at him and put him in his place.  My mom was in bed all day Wednesday and most of today.  She did make it out to have dinner, but by the time Bryan and I got home Dad was on his way to take her to the hospital.  Poor thing, I just want her to be better.

Day 87 Friday 11-26-2010
   It is so nice to have to time off to rest - I have been so tired lately.  Tonight we are going to the neighbors house behind us to partt - drinking some eggnog and rum and play the game taboo.  Sounds like a bunch of fun - she gets off work at 10pm so we will wonder over there at 11pm.  Bryan and I both took a nap to make sure we were up for staying up the late too many nights in a row.  We lasted till 2am - then it was time for bed.

Day 88 Saturday 11-27-2010
    Mom gets to come home from the hospital today!  They still have no idea what was wrong with her, like normal.  I forgot to call the vet this past week - so Monday first thing I am going to call and schedule Dozer for his operation.  Dr John told Bryan to have me call him directly so I hope we get a discount.  That would be very nice this close to the holidays.  Tonight we thought about going back over to our neighbors for somemore eggnog, but I thin 11pm is a little too late - last night was fun but I was very tired.  Bryan and I were in bed like really early, and it felt nice.

Day 89 Sunday 11-28-2010
    Today we are taking our Neighbor Rich and My Dad out to do some 4 wheel driving and some target practice.  I love spending time with my dad and he needs a break from all the stress of the week.  He seemed to have a good time.  Rich is a lot of fin to hang out with too, he is our British friend. Today I just want to rest and go to bed early - it is back to work tomorrow.  We watched Death at a Funeral - very funny movie!  Dozer is itching again - I hope it is just the weather change, it made my skin get all dry and itchy too so I hope that is just the issue he is having.  I wonder if they make like a lotion for dogs to help their dry dkin.  I have some itch spray but it only helps to a point.

Day 85 - 11-24-2010 Tuesday

I hope my paycheck goes in the bank tomorrow - last payday was by a holiday and we didn't get paid till Saturday.  Just two more days - today and tomorrow, then it is a four day weekend Baby!  I hope the kids enjoy the next few days we are home with them.  Dozer will not have to go in his Kennel for that long.  Just here and there if we need to leave the house.  Not sure if we are going to bring them to my parents or not for Thanksgiving.  Bryan and I never relax while they are there.  Giz and Portia I don't have to worry about that much - but Dozer is still in the get into everything stage.  Plus my Great Grandmother is living at my parents and thats all I need to to have a 5 month old Boxer pup take Grandma down.  She really doesn't leave her room that much anymore so she might not even be out for him to get to.  My sister might try to bring her pets over - and if she brings the cat, I will not be responsible if Portia eats it.  So I may just leave the kids at home.  I need to weigh Dozer this week to see how much he has grown - I feel like everyday I get home he is bigger and bigger.  He is still my big baby that loves to sit in my lap and be held, I love that.  all Boxers seem to be big babies, and that is how I like them.  Big cuddle bugs!