8.22.2011

I smell...

FOOTBALL TIME IN TENNESSEE!  V-O-L-S GO VOLS GO!  In two short, oh so short, weeks Brandon and I are flying to HOTLANTA!  We will be back in The South, together.  Ready to take the Christmas Card picture, celebrate birthdays, go to see an SEC football game, see family and get to see the beginning of fall.  Do you even know what FALL looks like here in Texas?  It's so simply brown, it's so not fair.  In Tennessee and Georgia, fall is FABULOUS, orange, yellow, green and red.  Fall in Tennessee is bright and beautiful and festive and fun-filled.  I can't wait to be there in September and by golly I am going BACK in October.  For the big ole CE courses, the old memories, the law school, the pharmacy school, the dorms, the football field and the sorority house, I'm headed to Samford for Homecoming!  I love being here, in Texas, with my husband and puppies, but geez there are so many great things scattered between that lovely tristate area.  It's going to be nice to visit.

In other news:
 I looked back on the last post I wrote: the Buckley/Emily time.  That weekend has since made my really awesome awesome time list and at one point I totally took advantage  of the picture of health in that puppy.  Buckley is three years old and 5 Sundays ago Brandon woke up to a paralyzed dog.  Buck had lost all control of his back end including bowel and urinary function.  Brandon took him to the emergency vet, then we went straight to the MRI at the next vet, had a diagnosis of 3 ruptured discs, and Buck was in surgery decompressing 5 discs within a few hours.  His back was shaved, his legs were crossed, he was cooped up in a very small kennel for days.  We brought him home a week after surgery and have been counting on really great people to help us regain his ability to walk/pee/poo/stand/sit etc.  So the moral of the story: enjoy the health of your puppy.  He totally can walk/pee/poo today!
 It is officially two months into year 1 of Oral Surgery at the Stanley's.  It's rocking right along...
 I am bowling and volleyballing...it's awesome.

Have a great night!