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Our Puppy's Hospital Visit

So on Friday when I was driving home from work I was thinking about how I was going to have my full attention on Waffles and potty training her and getting her to understand simple commands. So when I got home I went to the back door to let her in and she was laying in her dog house and didnt want to come out. When I opened the door and called her she came over to me slowly. She looked deathly skinny and I know she wasnt like that yesterday and I called Correy to ask him if he forgot to feed her or something and he said that he fed her. So I decided to try and feed her again. She ate slowly and couldnt really stay standing and was really worrying me. I was hoping all she needed was some food and water and she would be back to her old self. But she only seemed to be getting worse so I called the vet and they said that it might be parvo and to bring her in right away. I hurried and gathered up some stuff and drove to the vet. They ran the parvo test and the good new is it wasnt parvo, bu...

Thanksgiving

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So our Thanksgiving did not go as planned. Before we planned to go to Wyoming to be with Correy's sister and her family and then go down to Salt Lake for Black Friday shopping. Well the whole week of Thanksgiving it decided to snow, and snow hard. And it was only getting worse, especially the day before Thanksgiving and the roads to Wyoming got really bad and we would have been driving in the dark so we opted to stay home. Which meant a one day notice to prepare Thanksgiving dinner. So we ran to the store and bought the smallest turkey we could find, which was still 12 pounds, then bought rolls since I burned the ones I made the day before, ingredients for yams and potatoes and pumpkin pie, then cheesecake stuff, and of course the olives, cranberry, sauce, cheese log and some beverages. Then we just sat the turkey on the counter to thaw overnight, and of course we didnt read the directions on how to properly thaw the turkey. The next morning we got up around 8 or 9 and set to work,...