Millie at the Lake!

I love summer and taking Millie to the lake. Being in the water is her favorite thing. Anytime we are near water she dives in and I have a really hard time getting her out.

It was a beautiful day and I was just as happy to be outside in the sun.

Millie gets really distracted by the ducks.. She almost caught one!

Can't wait for many more summer trips to the lake...

New neighbor....

So a new guy moved in across the street. He has a dog and well meet...

KING


He is an Alaskan Malamute and he is HUGE!

I came home from work yesterday to King hanging out in the backyard with Millie. Apparently they are new best friends. He is always trying to escape and come over. Millie can pretty much walk under him. It is funny!

10 weeks... count down begins

I have committed to do a full Olympic triathlon in August in Bear Lake. So I have 10 weeks to get in shape. Training started this morning. Millie and I headed out for a run this morning. I came across this picture and it made me think how little Millie used to be.



I spent the first half of the run fighting Millie. She would run faster than me, so I would have to pull her back. Then she would find something and stop and I would keep running to only get yanked back when we hit the end of the leash. I think she got a little tired because the second half of the run she was a much better. She was tired and when we got home she just layed on the cold cement. All in all the first day of running was good.

Took Millie for a swim...

The other night I took Millie up to Deer Creek for a little swim.. She was in Heaven! She loved every second of it.

She just kept wanting me to throw it again and agian.

Millie checking out a fish that had been caught..

The water was so calm that evening. I wish I had taken up my wet suit and done an open water swim.. I will definitely be going up there next week to swim.

This is a video of Millie fetching the ball in the lake. She is so funny!

New things... an update.. and a disaster

It was Emily's birthday on Mother's day. The family all got together to celebrate and have dinner. It was a lot of fun.

Baby Owen looking at the candles

I will post more about Mother's day Weekend. I had the kids for the night so we had some good adventures.

Jen and I went to St. George to do the St. George Tri. I will post about that later as well... upon arriving home I left my bags in the front room for a bit. (I have a hard time unpacking after trips.) When I returned home from work on Monday this is what I walked into.

my oh so special Millie had found a few items she wanted to get into. One of which was my antibotic. Little pink and blue pills were everywhere. I was a little freaked out that maybe she ate them, but as I put them all in the container it appeared that not one single more pill would fit (it was a brand new perscription). So I assumed she was ok!

On that flip side of my crazy dog, she is the best dog at night and loves to cuddle up and watch tv. This was her doing just that!

Spring/Summer has approached us and that means it is always the best time to own a shedding dog.... Wait I am kidding. Millie is shedding like crazy. She rubs up against my green chair and it is so funny to watch. So after watching her do this for days I decided to give her a nice brush. This was after two times.... Can we say GROSS!

Oh the joys of being a single GIRL and owning a house... I decided to get the sprinklers going for the spring.. Turned them on and was soaked from the backflow having a crack from the winter. I hate sprinkling systems.

On a much lighter note, I got some new kicks.. I sure like them (Thank you Jen and Kim for inspiring me)

so that is just a brief little bit for the blogging world!

The Bird... The Mow

Today I got a lot accomplished around the house. I finished the fire pit (pictures later). In order to mow the lawn I had to clean up all Millie's toys.... I didn't realize there were so many hidden in the grass. So when I finally got them all out this is is what I ended up with.

Millie had been hanging around the base of the tree and when I finally went over to see what it was there was a little bird running around... I made Millie stay away and I started up the lawn mower. After my first pass around the tree I noticed the little birdie was down for the count but still breathing. My heart broke. I couldn't just sit there and watch it suffer, but I was so afraid to touch it. So I finished mowing the lawn and by the time I was done it wasn't breathing. Poor little one!

Ticket

I got a ticket today... not for speeding, running a stop sign or anything dealing with a car for that matter. So how is that possible? Good questions. As I was leaving for work this morning I was greeted at the door by a Provo City Police officer. She was coming by to give me a ticket for Millie running around the neighborhood. That is right... Apparently yesterday while on a bike ride, Millie got out and was running around the neighborhood. The conversation with the police officer went as followed

Police: "Your dog isn't very smart. I chased her for an hour yesterday and she ran back home"
Me: I just gave her a weird look.... I mean sounds like a smart dog to me.
Police: "You really need to train your dog"
Me:"Right... You don't know my dog... she jumps over my 6 foot fence, she climbs my backyard tree, she jumps out my bedroom window. I have tried."
Police: "Well did you know about the Provo City leash laws?"
Me: "Yes, but I didn't know my dog was going to run away.. hence no lease."

Citation: Running at LARGE.. (are you kidding me) $50 dollars later and I wonder why I have a dog!

Millie is a unique dog and I feel am like Marley and Me. She always is causing trouble. The other night while laying in the hammock outside she was going crazy for her ball in the ball thrower on the BBQ. She was so close to pawing if off, but she just could not reach it. So she just jumped up on the BBQ. Then she was stuck and could not turn around... So she just sat down. It was pretty funny. She couldn't even turn around to get her ball once she got up there. Silly dog





Anyway after she was tired and just layed in the chair and relaxed as it poured rain outside.

Long Time...

So I haven't posted in forever... Life, work and everything else has been crazy busy, plus just lack of actually sitting down and taking the time to write a post. Needless to say I am going to try and do better. So I am sure the next few posts will be catching up. So I went on a cruise (not to Mexico), but to Catalina. It was a lot of fun and I will post about it later.

Last night my Nephew was in the Freedom Festival concert at the Marriott Center at BYU. Prior to the show we took Kennedy to the park and I lost my camera... Bummer about the whole thing is that it had all my cruise pictures on it that I hadn't save to my laptop yet. So I am sad.
Anyway the Concert was so cute and I was so glad I went. All the kids wore color shirt that made up the flag. It was really impressive.




Lately Millie has had allergies and it has made her really tired. She sleeps all the time (Poor Pup). Anyway the other day in the car she was so tired...

One night while the roomies and I headed out for dinner we were driving to eat and I turned around to see Chels like this... Cracked me up. She was just chillin in the back with a cat woman mask.

Heart Rate Monitor

I purchased Polar F11 heart rate monitor for biking. The last several rides I have noticed that I have let my heart rate get a little to high. So to help me better track it I took the plunge and bought one. They can be price, but I found that is pretty reasonable. I opened it earlier in the week, but hadn't really had the chance to play around with it. So today got it all set up. You wear a strap around your chest, and it is really comfortable believe it or not. I put it on and did a fitness test to see when I am completely calm and resting what my aerobic fitness measures at.
Since then I have had it on. Nifty little toy. It tells me my heart rate monitor, the calories I have burned, how long I am in my target heart rate zone. Anyway it is really cool.

I took Millie to the park and did some running. I wore her right out, and about half way through my running she just stopped and layed down at one end of the field. Poor dog is passed out now on the couch. Anyway it was fun to do sprints and run and watch my heart rate. Excited to get on the bike and try it out.