Oh Yes I Did

I told Matt I wanted to get one of these. 

He said okay.

But evidently, he was being sarcastic.

Oops.

It's a boy!

Introducing...Bando. 

 12 weeks old. 6 lbs. All chihuahua.

He has been called Banjo by the original owners and the name stuck with the boys. 

But Talmage still has the lisps and intonations of speech of a typical 3 yr old, and "Banjo" comes out sounding more like "Bando".

And thus, a new name has been given.

We have 3 very happy, or should I say, overly ecstatic, little boys.

They ran around the yard with Bando for about two hours tonight. 

I'm not sure who was having more fun...the boys or the puppy!

 

To The Day- 30.June

Ten years ago, Matt graduated from dental school.

We knew we were headed to North Dakota for the next four years.

And that's about it.

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These ten years have been way more adventurous than I could have ever imagined.

Lived in a tiny town in N.Dakota x 2 yrs.
Subzero winter.
Sascha the Basset Hound and Oskar the cat.
Sweet baby Kalvin born.
Move to Arizona and apartment living.
Hot weather.
Weekends four-wheeling Mexico's beaches.
Work as a Labor and Delivery unit nurse.
Buy a townhouse.
Lost pregnancy.
The intoxicating citrus blossoms at night.
Another lost pregnancy.
Another move while in Arizona, different town.
Rent a house.
Fish and shrimp tacos.
Buy a house.
Infertility.
Move to Montana.
Buy a dental practice.
Live in basement of business for 2 months.
Buy a house.
Morning sickness and gestational diabetes.
Vertigo and puking. And more puking.
Buy a condo unit to flip.
Xander joins our family, but decides he wants to stay in the ICU for a week before coming home.
Sell house and move back into basement of business (for a month-with 2 kids now).
Find a house to rent.
Sell the remodeled condo.
Buy some land.
At least three trips to the doctor (in as many months) for Xander to get stitches.
Feel strongly impressed to complete adoption paperwork.
Break ground for new house.
Talmage is born and we are asked to be his adoptive family.
Spells of vertigo.
Xander has his tonsils yanked.
Move into new house 15 months after start of build.
Walking with a cane. 
Living in Oregon x 2 months at my parent's house, recovering after major inner ear surgery.
Return to my new house that I don't remember the move into.
Buy the StrawHouse.
Xander breaks both bones in lower left arm-surgery x 2.
Scuba certification.
Hysterectomy.
 Move dental office to new location after extensive remodeling.
Service and scuba trip to Roatan.
Talmage gets his tonsils yanked.
Night of terror with Talmage hemorrhaging.
First official family trip-Mt. Rushmore.
Matt gets his tonsils yanked and "the works".
He also ends up hemorrhaging-Emergency surgery.
I vow that no one else in this family is allowed to have tonsils removed. Period.
Another birthday.

Ten years to the day we left Boston.