Coneheads

Roxanne is back from the vet today. She's got stitches and she's a little slow, but other than that she seams to be doing fine. The vet sent her home with a cone collar because she picks and won't leave her stitches alone. So, now we have two coneheads. They're too funny. At least Daisy's cone is fabric. It doesn't get in the way too much. Roxanne's is plastic. She keeps running into the walls. Of course, we do take it off when we're here. But, because she'll pick the second we're gone, it will be on when we aren't here. Just for laughs....her are some pics of our coneheads. :)

New Ears

What an eventful pet day today was. Roxanne was spayed. She's doing well according to the vet, but we cannot pick her up until tomorro morning. Daisy passed her blood test so she was able to have her ears cut today. I picked her up this afternoon. As you'll see from the pictures, she looks totally different now; like a true doberman should. Now we begin the long process of tape and posts until the ears stand like they should. While dropping roxanne off this morning, there was a HUGE doberman in the waiting room, so, knowing I was getting Daisy's ears done today, I had to ask her about her dogs ears. She said they had to keep the bangdages on for 8 months! Can you believe that? The vet who did Daisy's ears said it shouldn't take that long. Hopefully he's right!

These pictures were taken just after we got home today. If you look at her eyes, you can see how out of it she is! There are no posts in her ears yet, but they should be coming next week. For now, its just tape and a HILARIOUS blue cone! Down the road these pictures will be classics. Enjoy!



Just for comparison...Here's the before picture:




Here's After: 25 pounds now!


While speaking of ears, I just had to include this picture of Roxanne's crazy ear! No surgery required for this look! :)

Daisy is Growing

I just wanted to post some pictures of Daisy to show how big she's getting! I'm sure she's over 20lbs now. She was supposed to have her ears cut yesterday, but when we got to the vet they found out she had an infection, so they wouldn't do the surgery. Now she has to take medicine for a week and then we'll try again. Daisy and Roxanne both have vet appointments for surgery next Thursday. Daisy to get her ears cut and Roxanne is getting spayed. I'm sure we're going to have a blast with two sick dogs at the same time!

Here's Daisy on May 28th, the day we got her. (4 weeks old.)

Here she is on June 14th.

Here she is on July 11th.












Can you tell a difference?
I'll be sure to post pictures as soon as her ears are done. She'll look way different then, not to mention way funny with two bandaged posts sticking straight up on her head!

Just FYI, I noticed the time below says I posted at 5 something in the morning. Please be sure that is not correct. I was surely not up at 5am to post to my blog!!

We're Back From Hawaii

Our vacation has come to an end... :( Hawaii was awesome! After now having been to two different Islands, I can say that the Big Island is WAY better than Oahu (honolulu). The Big Island is almost like being on the moon. The entire island is made from lava and for miles and miles its all you can see. There are tons of miles where no one lives and nothing grows...just lava. It's not nearly as crowded as Honolulu and there's so many things to see and do. You know how you see pictures of the ocean and you say "there's no way the water is THAT blue"? Well, it is!


We went on a volcano tour and got to see many cool things. Unfortunately there was no lava flowing (we missed it by about 2 weeks!), but it was still awesome nonetheless. Aside from TONS of lava, we saw canyon-like craters, we saw hot smoke rising from holes in the ground, we saw caves created by lava and got to walk into them.


Other than the lava tour, we went snorkeling, parasailing, horseback riding, toured some coffee plantations, the boys played golf (on an AMAZAING course might I add...), went to a luau, and ate at some great restaurants.


Our hotel/resort was incredible. It was huge and so open. There was a giant pool in the back and just behind the pool was the ocean. They had a man-made beach and a lagoon. They also had a "sea turtle resting area" where the sea turtles would just come and hang out. That was really neat.


Probably the best part of this trip was that it was practially free! :) Matt and I calculated that we probably only spent $300 the entire time we were there. His boss paid for the flight, the hotel (which I think was $400 a night), all the activities, and breakfast and dinner every day as well as some lunches. All we had to buy was souveniers, a couple meals, and tips.


Of course, I got TONS of pictures. I'll include a few of my favorites!