a lot has happened since my last blog post, so i'll start here!
we got a puppy!!
he is a chocolate lab and his name is RANGER!!
how fitting for a dog owned by donal :)
we got him less than a week after we got back from hawaii.
he was 9 weeks old, weighing in at a whopping 12 lbs.
now, he is 15 weeks old and is pushing 35 lbs!
his parents are both between 90-100 lbs so we are expecting him to be HUGE!!!
which is exactly what donal wanted!
ranger is a handful to say the least. we are totally in love with him, although there are definitely days that we wonder what on earth we were thinking! we can't say that he and kobi are the best of friends, although ranger would love for that. kobi... well, he has made it clear numerous times that he wants nothing to do with ranger.
next on the list of the carman happenings...
october 4th - i went to work. donal went to work. blah blah blah.
that night, i'm sound asleep until i'm woken up by a phone call at midnight.
those are never good phone calls, right?
exactly.
it was one of donal's buddies from work, whom i know well. he was calling to tell me that he was on his way to pick me up (in a patrol car) to take me down to the hospital.
where donal was.
he and his partner were on a traffic stop. they had just sat back down in their car when they were slammed from behind by drunk driver going about 45 mph. donal and his partner were okay, they just had really bad whiplash.
THANK YOU GOD!
what scared me the most about it was how much worse it could have been. i try not to think about that now, but in those moments - riding in the patrol car to the hospital, walking around the corner in the ER to see donal laying in the hospital bed - that's all i could think about... a fort worth officer was killed just a few years ago the exactly same way when his patrol car burst into flames.
(ok, i was trying not to think about it...)
so anyway, donal and his partner were off work for a week to recover. needless to say, it was very hard to say bye to him that first friday that he went back to work.
next...
my new hobby - photography - has turned into the beginnings of a little side business and i'm loving it!!! here are some of the pictures that i've taken so far!
these are just some of my favs :)
for now, us carmans are spending our evenings cheering for
texas rangers baseball team!!!
we are thrilled that they are in the world series (even though games 1&2 have been nearly embarrassing) and we'll be rootin' for them until the end!!
thanks for checking in!
