addison savannah.

we picked up the newest member of our family on the way home from new braunfels today. we decided to name her addison savannah and call her addie. we liked savannah but thought it was a mouthful when you are trying to call two goofy weims. rylea and addie seemed a lot easier. they have played like crazy since we got home and seem to be attached at the hip already. we even had wrestling matches on the bed brought on by their daddy. they are so cute!

some pictures of rylea & addie (addie's the dark one :))

to add to the madness, my parents are going out of town and brought their two dogs down for us to watch until sunday. just call us the crispy kennel! it actually hasn't been bad. our two pair up while peaches and baley sit back and watch. maybe i've found a new calling :) i'm sure we will have plenty of stories while we run our little kennel.

floating the river.

we just got back from floating the comal. it is a yearly vacation with the crispy's and is soooo relaxing! not a lot of pictures since taking my new camera on the river is not high on my list of things to do but i did get some fun pictures in gruene last night. i got to eat at grist mill where they have the world's best "gruene" beans. so yummy!!

addition to our family.

for everyone that hasn't heard already (not really sure how the word got out but oh well - so much for surprises:)), we are adopting a sister for rylea. her foster name is savannah (we may be changing it) and she is a young weim. the vet that she is seeing now estimated her at 3 but we all think she is younger - we will see what our vet thinks when she visits him for the first time. she is very similar in build to rylea. savannah is a blue weim which means that she is a slate colour.

we don't know what her story is but her foster parents, jim & carol, picked her up from a shelter in houston and she was extremely underweight. to give you an idea, rylea weighs 65 pounds and savannah weighed 49 pounds after a week of heavy eating to try to get her weight up. she is now up to 53 pounds and is looking so much better!

we all went to meet her - rylea included - at her foster parents house. strangely enough, her foster dad taught at my junior high - random i know!! rylea is very submissive and we wanted to make sure that whatever dog we adopted didn't come in and bully her. that was quickly addressed. after playing for awhile, rylea had had enough and told savannah off. we were shocked as we had never seen her do this before but it was a great thing to see. savannah was fine with it and went off on her own for awhile until rylea showed her she was ready to play again.

as we left, savannah tried to climb the fence to get to us - carol said she even had her back paws off the ground trying to come with us. so cute!!!

we were also worried how she would do with kids. jim & carol have grandkids that came to visit. one is 2 and savannah was extremely calm and gentle with him which was exactly what we wanted.

the reason we don't have her right now is that she was just starting her heartworm treatment. the good news is that she didn't have a bad case but that did mean that we had to wait a while to get her. we should be picking her up in the middle of next week and are really excited! we just hope we can decide on a name before then :)

***savannah***
a link to savannah on the weimaraner rescue of north texas website

july 4th weekend.

this weekend was so fun, i'm just now getting around to posting :) it took a little while to recover!

my family headed down here friday morning. if anyone was in southeast houston on friday, the weather was less than perfect. we hooked up the waverunner and headed down to galveston. our crew (mum, dad, james, brian, rylea, & me) drove through some insane rain but when we got down there, the rain was cleared off and it was a perfect temp - not too hot but not cold either. we took out the waverunner and played on the waves for awhile. rylea played in the ocean a little and then dug in the sand.

the only pictures i took all weekend - oops!

we headed home and got dinner ready. our friends, megan & byron, and their cute puppy, sammie (see post below) also came down and ate with us. quite a few dogs for our house (peaches & baley, my parent's dogs, also came down:)). after we ate, we went out to watch fireworks down at south shore conference center where we always go. we met up with our friends, troy & juliet, and their son jaxon (see post below), as well as our other friends tara & mike. we sat out there and saw the league city fireworks and then the kemah fireworks but after two hours, the clear lake fireworks hadn't gone off. there were tons of people waiting on them and no one knows what happened, but no clear lake fireworks for us this year:(

saturday, we rented two more waverunners for the day and spent the day on clear lake, taylor lake, on the creek, and out on the bay. we had a blast and plan on doing that again soon!

sunday we had a lazy day. i think we all finally got out of our pjs around 11 or 12 and made lunch about 2ish. it was fun having my family here for the weekend!!

rylea was more than a little pooped when everyone left on sunday. vanpa thinks she can handle two straight days of entertaining but anything beyond that kicks her booty! she slept all day and night sunday as well as most of monday - poor puppy!

so busy entertaining.

rylea & i have been busy entertaining these last few weeks.

last week, our friend's son, jaxon, was sick and couldn't go to daycare. rylea & i went to their house one morning to take care of him so that his mommy could go to school & his daddy could go to work. rylea & jaxon hang out a lot but it's been really cute really seeing jaxon interact with rylea. even though he was sick, he played fetch with her & even took her on a "walk." she takes it all in stride and was a very good girl!

yesterday, my friend, megan, and her puppy, sammy, came over to play. we went over to my in-laws house and swam while the puppies played (& rylea of course swam as well!). i got a few pictures of sammy & rylea running around the yard. they are definitely quite the pair!

last night, we went over to my in-laws for brian's pawpaw's birthday (after having a social event with brian's next crew - yes, we were out with the astronauts - how fun!). rylea is exhausted from entertaining everyone. other than the barking when no one was giving her attention, she was a very good girl - she even got to taste the beer her grumps was bottling. we think she may have weaseled her way into her pawpaw's heart!

nanny, vanpa, peaches, baley, and uncle james are coming on thursday to spend the weekend so there will definitely be plenty of entertaining to be done! as of now, it looks like the beach with the waverunner on friday, waverunners on the lake on saturday, and lunch with the family on sunday - what a weekend!!

happy 4th to everyone!