Blogging from my phone.

So I got a new app that allows me to blog from my phone. I'm excited because I always take more pics from my phone then I do my camera so now I can just blog from my phone and upload my pics right onto my blog instead of emailing them to myself and then adding them to the blog. It may seem like a tiny step, but I'll take it. It's called

So anyway, I helped to choreograph the Henderson County Junior Miss program again this year and it's been so fun again! Well the program is Saturday so this week has been "hell" week. Practice Monday-Thursday for 3-4 hours each night. We are down to the wire. So last night while the girls were answering their question and it was quiet time, Lindsey (the other choreographer and very good friend) and I decided to take a photo shoot around the auditorium at South Middle School. Here are our pics. :)






















Yes, we are dorks, we know this. :)

Weekend Update

I've decided to start doing a weekend update on my blog every week. I've been really slacking at blogging lately, so hopefully this will help get me back into doing it more. So here we go...

Friday:

Immediately after work, I went home and Ty and I got our stuff together and headed to his parent's house for the night. We met his parent's and sister and her friend up at the restaurant right by their house for dinner. Hometown cooking. SO GOOD!! Gracie and her friend went to a movie night at their church, Anita went home, and Ty, Penny and I went up to the little ball field close to their house so that Ty could take BP (batting practice) since he was playing softball in Nashville on Saturday. His cousin was up there also and wanted to look at some of Ty's bats. I stayed until almost dark and headed back to the in-law's house. Anita was up there, so we chit-chatted until the boys got home. Gracie got back not much longer after that, so Anita and I rode with her to meet her friend's parents in Russellville to take her home. It was fun little girl time. We got back and watched some comedians on youtube with the whole family. It was fun! We finally laid down around 12:30.

Saturday:

Ty and I didn't sleep too well, so we woke up around 6:30 and just talked for a little bit before getting out of bed. He finally got me to get up around 7 and I started getting ready and he ran up to the gas station/store and grabbed us some breakfast sandwiches. We headed down to Nashville about 7:30. Got to the fields at 9:30 or so and Ty's team was there taking BP. They played their first game at 11. Since they were in Tennessee and Ty said that it was a "podunk" tournament he decided to wear his "jorts" (jean shorts) to play in. Wowzers! He's a mess. It was funny though. I definitely snuck in a few pictures though.

It was a fun day! Pretty warm, but not too bad in the shade. I pretty much did half sun/half shade all day so I got a little bit of color which was nice. I feel so pale this summer, it's so weird. Oh well. Anyway, after about 10 hours, 6 games and $20 spent at the softball fields, they won and we were headed to eat sushi with 2 of the guy's and a girlfriend from there team. The place was like a japanese/seafood/sushi buffet and SO SO good. We got done eating and headed home around 9:45. It was a pretty long 2 hour drive because we were both pretty tired. Ty drove most of the way and then I took over. We made it home safe and sound by 11:45 and showered and went to bed.

Sunday:

This was a super lazy day for me. And kind of Ty too, he was a little more productive than I was though. I woke up around 11:30 and stayed in my pj's all day, if that tells you anything. Ty got up around 12:30 and went back to bed, then got up at 2:30 and went to work to do a fantasy football draft. I slept off and on on the couch pretty much all day. Ty got back from the draft around 4:30 and went back to bed until 8:30. I did wash our new sheets that I got from Bed, Bath & Beyond and put those on our bed. Ty went to work and I watched Big Brother and The Real Housewives of New Jersey and went to bed around 11.

Introducing Zander Dale Rutz

One of my best friends, and bridesmaid in my wedding, just delivered a very healthy, very adorable baby boy on Monday, August 1st!!!

He was born at 4:46 pm, weighing 8 lbs 1 oz and was 20.5 inches long.

Anne, Nic and baby Zander are doing wonderfully!! They got to go home yesterday (which is in Highland, IL) and I'm VERY excited because I am going up/over tomorrow to visit for the weekend!! I'll update when I get back with TONS of pictures I'm sure!

Here are some pictures Anne has sent me of my new, sweet "nephew". :)

Trip to the 24 Hour Vet

So...last Wednesday night I had to take Baxter to the 24 hour vet in Evansville. Not fun!

Here's the story...

Last Wednesday was my only night last week (Mon-Thurs) that I got to go directly home after work. I've had Junior Miss stuff going on every other night and haven't gotten home until have 9 o'clock or so, so I was really looking forward to getting home around 6:30 and actually cooking dinner for once.

Anyway, I get home and get out some chicken breasts to thaw and Baxter comes downstairs. He eats a little food and gets a drink, maybe, and is over by the kitchen table. I go to pet him and he looks up at me and I see a quarter sized area under his neck where their is no hair and raw skin is exposed. I freak out immediately and pick him up to see what happened. It was bleeding, just pink and it looked like there was a little puncture wound in the center. Almost like he had been poked with an ink pen. I take a picture and send it to my mom and call her. (Ty's playing golf and I can't get ahold of him.) I talk to Mom and Gerry and they both think that I need to take him to the vet immediately. I looked and didn't see that there were any 24 hour places in Owensboro, so they said to take him to the one in Evanvsille and they would meet me there.

So I get some stuff together and grab Baxter and we head back to Evansville. He's scared and hiding under my seat the whole 45 minute trip there. We finally make it and they take him back to check him out. The vet comes in and he said it looks like he's been in a fight and probably got scratched and it's infected. He has 104 fever and they need to put him to sleep to flush it out, because he wouldn't cooperate while he was awake.

He said it would only take 20 minutes or so and we would be able to go home that night, so I said go for it. I could hear him back there growling and meowing, not loving what they were doing and it made me upset. I just felt so bad for him. I'm his protector and I didn't protect him. Darn cat is bullheaded and just thinks he has to go outside. There will definitely not be anymore of that in his future. Sorry buddy.

So while they do that, they see that he has basically lost his front 2 thumb claws and one on one of his back feet and those are infected too. So they clean those out and give him antibiotics and pain meds.

They bring him back in to the room and he's still a little drugged up and is so confused and it was just sad. Bless his heart. It was heartbreaking. I felt so bad for him, but I knew he would be better.

Oh, and we decided he probably would need a cone too so that the can't get to his paws or his wound on his chest. Yeah, he loved that. :(

So since his paws were sore too and had cuts on them, they suggested we get the Yesterdays News cat litter. By this time it's after 9 pm and PetSmart who would defintely have it, is closed. So we head to Target (my parents come along too b/c they don't want me to leave Baxter in the car by himself). No luck there. Start heading towards the westside Walmart, calling them on the way to see if they have it, no luck. Head towards the eastside Walmart, call there, no luck. So then I suggested Schnucks, and we got lucky, they had it!

Finally at 10 pm, we're on our way back home. He slept off and on, thankfully. But was very happy once we got home. Lexie on the other hand, was not. She was not liking this new Baxter we brought home. Not sure if it was the cone, or if he smelled differently but she wasn't having it. She camped out upstairs in our bedroom for the last couple of days.

He laid on the kitchen floor while I cleaned out the litter box and got his food and water in cups and elevated so that it would be easier for him to get to.

So anyway, they sent me home with some pain meds so I gave him that Thursday and Friday twice a day, so he slept most of the time. I tried to give him as much love as I could while I was home. I even fell asleep on the floor next to him on his little bed that I made him Wednesday and Thursday nights.

He really started acting like himself Saturday and Sunday, so that made me feel better. I decided to take off his cone last night and I'm pretty sure he was RELIEVED!! That thing was really annoying to him. But now, he can scratch his neck and chew on his feet, so I hope they can still heal well. Let's hope.

Oh and let's hope I never have to take him to the emergency vet again!!! Darn cat! :)