The other morning I had just come home after a grueling 12 hour night shift. All I wanted was to get all my clothes off and crawl into my nice warm bed. I walked through the door expecting to be greeted by my sweet little puppy. He came bounding down the stairs all full of excitement, but when he jumped up to greet me he was acting like he was drunk. I thought he was just tired because it was early so I called him up to jump on me again. He was still acting funny, so I took a good look at him. The poor guy's whole face was swollen up! I ran upstairs to Jordan and asked him if Rex had been into anything to eat, or if he had fed him anything weird. Jordan was just as disoriented as Rex was, and was basically good for nothing. I grabbed my car keys and headed back out to the grocery store in search of liquid Benadryl before my poor puppy's throat closed off. One store no luck, two stores still no luck, it took store number 3 to just find some children's benadryl in liquid form. I figured it was better than nothing and headed back home. It took both of us to hold down the stupid dog and shove the medicine in his mouth (this being said about the dog who thought it would be tasty to eat a battery...Why he was refusing the medicine i'll never know) Finally 2 hours later and after 4 tiny syringe fulls of nasty cherry syrup we had a passed out dog and 2 passed out owners. We still don't know if he was stung, if he eat something, or if he just has weird allergies but he sure looked pretty dang funny. Being the wonderful pet owner that I am, I snapped a few pictures before I put him out of his misery. :)

I hope everyone had a safe and fun 24th of July. Pioneer day isn't really pioneer day around our house. It's my dad's birthday, so we end up doing more birthday themed things around these parts. We started out the day by taking my dad on a mountain bike ride. For the record I am NOT a biker, but I figured I would give it another shot because it was my dad's birthday. It actually ended up being a really good, fun, easy ride. I only fell once, and got some pretty good road rash all along the left side of my body. Next up on the agenda was a great breakfast at Kneaders with the family. After breakfast we ended up taking Deker with us back to the dog park for some puppy fun. To say he loved it would be an understatement. 

Next stop was to go see the movie "The Way Way back." I recommend everyone drop everything right now and go see it. So GOOD.

 Later that night, we had a huge combined soccer party for my dad and neighbor Trace. We ended up mostly on the floor with Deker rolling balls around while all the big kids played a gnarly game of soccer.

 I went home that night so dead tired. It was seriously so nice to just have a day off to spend it with my dad and husband. Happy birthday to the best dad anyone could have ever asked for. He's the rock to our family, and we are so lucky to call him dad! Thanks for the great day :) 

p.s. Unfortunately due to the huge risk of falling off my bike, I didn't have my phone or camera with me for any of the morning activities so you get to enjoy a bunch of pictures of Deker...which isn't so bad right?

  ^^ Me, Amber, Lauren, Kenzie, Whitney ^^