Things we've learned about Rouge:

• little fur ball of love, fun, and curiosity
• barely whimpers when we put her in the crate
• sometimes it feels like we're in the witness protection program because we have to dodge all the strangers that want to hold her, etc. when we take her anywhere.
• we've been stopped all over town by people who think she's adorable
  
• people always want to take her picture (not sure why..)
  
• she's extremely friendly and good natured with anyone
• stays calm when she's in a new place
  
• i've only heard her bark about 10 times
• a picky, picky eater (but we aren't giving into it...)
• she loves to snuggle up and take a nap especially in the morning
• loves loves loves being outside and thinks she is a huge dog most of the time
• can make any man melt with her cuteness
• attracts LITERALLY swarms of children wherever she goes (and who would blame them?)
• freaks out if a doggy dress comes anywhere near her
• convinced that our pant legs are going to attack her and will do anything she can to chew them
• beware of wearing socks and walking at the same time she also thinks its her personal mission to attack those as well
  
• LOVES chewing on cedar blocks like the kind you put in your shoes. I think we're on to something here....
• sleeps through the night, every night
  
• is SUPER smart and can do several tricks that she learned in one afternoon
• learned her name by the first day she was with us
• sometimes sleeps with her eyes open
  
• likes to ride in my lap in the car and she immediately goes to sleep
  
• has a precious little "hmmph" noise she does when she doesn't like something
• we love her, we really do, and even if C doesn't always admit it he really does love her to.

SO if you're still reading this 1) you know more about Rouge than you did at the beginning and 2) you must really love our little family to have made it to the end. :) I have more pictures of our Rougie, but they're on Caleb's phone but I will post them soon!

New Posts!

I've posted a lot of new happenings in our lives, but Blogger is not putting them in the order I want or the actual day I wrote them for that matter! But rest assured its all here...including pictures of ROUGE!!! Her post is at the bottom of the new ones so be sure to scroll down!

I gave her her first bath this morning and she did really well! She was shivering because she was so scared and I felt so sorry for her. Rouge is playing as I write this and is back to her normal fun loving, teething, hippity hoppity self. :)

Emerald Isle (from July)

Every summer we go to EI as much as we can. We love how peaceful it is there. These pictures were on C's iphone and I just found them and wanted to post them. The first picture is from one of our walks on the beach at dusk (my favorite time to walk out there). We took these at the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium when we went with Taylor, Betsy, Emily, and Rebecca. We had so much fun with them and it was nice to be out of the heat for a little while!

This one above of Emily seriously looks like it should be in an Anne Geddes calendar!

Fabrik Agency

Caleb started a new job about a month ago as the Senior Web Developer at Fabrik Agency (FA) in downtown Raleigh. I'll let C post about the specifics of his job, but here's the office on his first day there. I'll post more up to date pics of the rest of the office soon. Just a sneak peek!

Caleb's desk on the first day. More pictures to come!!

A little nature, a bit emo, and a great guy's camera

There is a lake behind our place and we usually take walks on the trails after dinner. There are always beautiful sunsets. These pictures are from C's iPhone and I'm always impressed with the camera, which takes really good pictures in my humble opinion and its so convenient!

Caleb made me take this emo picture....so I agreed, haha.

This picture was just after it had rained and we thought these puddles looked so awesome.

A bit emo.

"Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." Genesis 9:16

Our Rouge

Well of course I wouldn't leave you faithful blog readers without more pics of our new puppy, Rouge! She is such a fun dog and has adjusted really, really well. When they weighed her at the breeder she was at 1lb., 9 oz. Her favorite toys are our toes (...), her hot pink towel that she proudly pounces around, and a couple of cute chew toys.

She doesn't whimper much at night and falls right to sleep in her crate and is making the first steps in being potty trained. Her little "bark" is a squeak its precious. She loves to snuggle but is FULL of spunk at the same time.

This was taken on her first day on the way back to Cary.

When Rouge runs it looks more like a Bambi hop. :)

Exciting news!!

So what's the news?? For our 1 year anniversary we had planned on going to Charleston this Saturday-Tuesday, but since Hanna decided to 'rain on our parade' (good pun I know...) we had to cancel our plans last night in order to get the full refund on the hotel. So all that sounds depressing....but here's the GOOD NEWS on Saturday we're going to Charlotte for the morning to......

Bring home our new puppy!!

Meet Rouge. She's a 10 wk. old Yorkiepoo weighing in at a whopping 2 lbs. and isn't expected to weigh more than 3-5 lbs. by the time she's all grown up! This is the only picture I have of her off right now, but will definitely take more pics once she's home!!

So here's how it all went down....we already put down a deposit earlier but didn't plan to get her until November because we were saving up for two upcoming trips this Fall. But now because we had to cancel one trip, we can finally bring Rouge home this weekend instead of waiting two long months as well as enjoy some other fun things on our anniversary as well!! This is definitely going to be "my dog" and Caleb will be getting his "man dog" after we get a house someday so don't doubt his manliness haha.

I'm SO excited!!