Kylie's First Family Outing

Last week we went to Zach's grandpas cornerstone setting ceremony. As I have said before, his grandparents were in a house fire back in January where they lost everything. His grandma was in the hospital for 5 months. But she's one persistent woman, made it through and is home doing wonderfully. Now they have to rebuild their home. The foundation is set and the masons gave his grandpa a plaque to set into it.

I had to get this picture!

This was also an occasion for Kylie, because this was her first time at a family gathering. Trinity has been to many family parties and even was at their house for Christmas last year. I was nervous that Kylie wouldn't react right. She's a little skittish around new situations and I didn't want to overwhelm her with new faces in a new setting. But, of course, she surprised me and did really well. She let people pet her head and didn't try to move away and most importantly didn't growl when someone came near me while I was holding her. She stayed calm throughout the ceremony and only barked once.

Kylie in her 'ascot'. It's just Trinity's bandana that looks huge on her. She looks like a little old lady.

Trinity, on the other hand was a little hyper but laid down and was calm when I needed her to be. But then again she's they hyper one out of the two.

Our first, somewhat, family photo with Kylie!

It was really warm out. Both girls drank plenty of fluids and I kept wetting their bandanas throughout the day. We had a good time seeing our family and our girls enjoyed being apart of the festivities.

Come Drink Our Water!

"Come drink our water!" -Zach

This year we decided that our water was just to gross. We had someone come over from basement technologies, the people who finished our basement, to test our water. He found a lot of minerals in it. So we decided to buy their rain soft water cleaning system.

It makes our water taste good, so no more bottled water for us. It's also portable and we get to take it with us if we ever decide to move. YAY for having awesome tasting water for the rest of our lives!

A Little DIY Project

I am not much of a DIY person. Strike that, I am not at all a DIY person. Zach and I have owned our home for two years now. Besides buying furniture and putting pictures on the walls, we have not done much to make our house any different than when we bought it. The only things we have changed are the paint color in our spare bedroom, aka our niece's room (she doesn't live with us but calls it her 'room' whenever she comes over). We also re-contact papered the linen closet last month (no pictures, it wasn't that exciting) it had the same paper from when the house was built back in 1979, to give you an idea, it had reveling images of Greek statues on it, eww I can't believe I looked at that for two years!

But apparently Zach is a DIYer, who knew!?  When he put in our air conditioner last weekend he noticed that it was dripping right onto our deck. So, he fixed that and look out MacGyver here comes Zach!

I don't have any pictures of him putting it up because he was being very suspicious when he was doing it. But I'm pretty sure he would have made a wonderful member of the Swiss Family Robinson!