Meet Finley

I have talked a bit about wanting to create a family and have a baby asap. I am beyond excited to extended our little family and take the next step. Recently, we decided to make a very grown up decision and take on a new responsibility in life. We decided to extend our family and take a baby step. Matt and I adopted a puppy. 

Meet Finley - a german shepherd/lab mix that we got at about 8 weeks old. She is the love of our lives. 


This is a big step for us. A puppy is a lot of work with training and keeping clean, all that stuff. We have to come home all the time to take care of her. We have lost a bit of our young freedom but have gained so much more. Plus, we are really lucky to be living with my Dad and brother who help with the responsibility. 


We have had Finley for about a month and it has been a lot of work. We are still working on house training, there are still a couple accidents every once in awhile. She has really only learned to sit so far but I almost got her to shake last night. What is the best thing about Finley, how much she already loves us. It started from day 1 - I am her Mom and Matt is her Dad. She cuddles with us, loves when we let her sleep with us, cowers between our legs when she is scared. What is more amazing is how much we both love her. Finley is our little baby right now and will be forever apart of our family. She is going to share in so many of our moments as Matt and I grow together and create a bigger family. 


There is a lot to talk about with Finley. From training to her breed questions, all the amazing things out there for a dog, watching her grown and develop...but for now here is some puppy pictures to drool over (she is my dog, I do think she is the cutest thing in the whole wide world) 

First day she came home - Finley was 6 lbs - so tiny!

First snow Finley experienced

She loves to chew (not good) and play with that weird piece of the vaccuum

Sleeping with Dad

Finley will give you this look when you talk to her, she lifts her ears & turns her head to say "What?"

My little baby

Why "lasts for always"?

One of the best things about our wedding was that I got to custom make our ceremony. Some people might not agree with that, but for us it made the ceremony (the most important part of the day) personally and intimate. One of the readings we used was from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. 

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.

"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

To me, that perfectly explains what falling in love and getting married is all about. To be in love and be loved back so much by someone - that makes us "Real". What is most amazing, being "Real" can only grow. By the joining of each others family, one day creating our own and living life. We will always be "real". 

the beginning

I just recently got married. It was a big, beautiful wedding that took months to organize & execute. Now what? We are left on our own, looking at each other and figuring what the #@! do we do? So here is a grand experiment in being married, getting along, creating a one day family and just living life. I wanted to share in our venture and get feedback on creating a fun & adventurous life, with all the ups & downs. So here I am. My goal is to share in the neat tricks I find in being a wife and one day mom, learn about what you out there are up to and probably vent about the frustrations of being an adult (really? I thought I was still a college kid?!?)