Tonight Mike and I drove out to BFE (Estacada, Oregon) to look at some puppies.  Mike decided for my birthday, I should get a puppy.. I’ve wanted a boxer for years and years and now we finally get one!  He’s almost 8 weeks old, but we’re not going to pick him up until he’s 10 weeks old.  But I gave the lady a check and we’ll go get him on June 7th!  He’s oh so cute.  The lady has named him “patches” for now.. but I’m sure we’ll pick a new name He’s the puppy on the left in the picture, the one with the patch around his eye

I can’t wait to bring him home!  We’re very excited.  I even went and bought “Boxers for Dummies” today and will read it front and back a few times before getting him!

Okay so we didn’t go to a show.. But we did do some work on our yard, garden and patio this weekend!

Started on Saturday morning with a trip to Lowes:

Left there and it was raining a lot.. Mike got home from helping Jim out at his house and we needed to go BACK to Lowes.. So off we went.

Came home and started tearing up a corner of the yard to put the garden.  That was a feat in and of itself, since all of our soil for the first foot down is chock full of pebbles and below that is very full of clay.. Lovely ‘eh?  So the odds of our garden flourishing are NOT in our favor.  Oh well!

After a couple of hours of digging in the dirt and moving it around, laying some top soil, mulch, etc.. We have a garden!

Sunday we got up and Mike mowed the lawn.. Then it was BACK to Lowes to buy a grill!

As you can see, we needed one badly, as this is our old grill.. ugh

That was our weekend.. Now we’re exhausted and just want to sleep, and eat food off of our grill

I’m pretty sure this is a conversation that has been had at my house