well it has been awhile....so let's catch up!

Landry had a blast with Parker!  Tim took Parker to the airport on a Friday and spent the night at the camp.  Landry moped around here all weekend - I mean MOPED, just the saddest thing you have ever seen!  For 5 days that dog slept in his kennel, would just sit off by himself, look out the window, and sit in the driveway- waiting for Parker to come back.  Sad, Sad, Sad.  But then one day he snapped out of it and was his crazy energetic loving self again.  He still really wants me to play super rough with him when I get home, but I just can't!  I physically can not keep up- I have bruises all up and down my arms and legs and big ole scratches!  It gets rough, no matter how hard I try to keep it easy - the dog is just too big and crazy for all that!

 Here's a few pictures of them playing in the yard.

 

While Parker was home we went to the Braves game - and not just any ole game, but it was 

CHIPPER JONES Jersey Retirement night!!!!  

I still can't believe I got to be there.  What a thrill- and we had awesome seats!(thank you Tim)  It really was amazing to me.  Chipper is the only player that I actually ever followed.  I remember his very first game with the Braves.  I also remember that night, sitting on the floor with my 2 boys running around the house playing baseball- (They were so cute! They would watch the batters on TV and mimic their every move -if the batter tapped his bat, then they would tap the bat- if the batter would spit, then they would "spit", etc. When the batter hit the ball and ran the bases, that is exactly what Parker and Luke would do.)  But I sat there that night realizing that this new "kid" that just signed a MAJOR contract making MAJOR money was MY AGE!!!  It was such a strange realization.  I don't know a realization of what - but a realization for sure.

    I had the same type realization years later at the "Dawg Walk" (UGA) when Parker and Luke were either seniors or just graduated and I realized that those big ole football players were just kids- just like Parker and Luke- alot of them smaller than Parker and Luke - that was such a strange realization too!!

    Anywho, the game was AWESOME - Chipper was a fun player to watch and follow and that was made even better because he was a Bravo the whole time- that is really cool.  He also had the best walk-up song too- Crazy Train!  ALL ABOOOOOAAAARRD HAHAHAHAHAHA...AY AY AY AY AY... We also got to stay for the firework show!! This was not Parker or Tim's idea of FUN! but they were nice enough to suffer thru and let me enjoy the show.  Only problem was, the bottom fell out the minute it was over and we were drenched by the time we got back to the truck - and then got to drive 2 hrs wet and cold.

  Good times, good times, and great memories!!  Y'all can not rain on my parade :)

The only thing that would have made this day more special is if Luke could have been with us!!!!

He's the man!!  (it was so hot!)

I just think he is the cutest thing :)   ~ Proud mama

 Oh I failed to mention that I found out (by Chipper himself) that I could follow him on Twitter - 

NO WAY! So now I go around quoting him all the time :)   awesome...

Someone around here has hung the moon... and according to Landry it is PARKER...

Parker has been a big hit with Landry! Like- best friend status!! Landry wants to be with him ALL the time.  He follows Parker every where he goes, sleeps with him, and is so sad when he leaves.  Boy is he going to be in shock next week....but we won't dwell on that.  We have 3 more days to enjoy Parker being at home :) and we plan on doing just that.

Parker at the airport (John Buck behind him)

Parker's coming home, Parker's coming home, Parker's.....

coming home.... Yippee!!!  This will be the first time Landry has meet Parker, and we look forward to the day he will meet Luke (in 3-5 months!).  Parker will be here for 2 weeks, so they will have good bonding time together.

I was reading some of the very first blogs the other day - and I have to say, I am SO glad I decided to write this blog, so many things you forget, and he is growing so fast.  IF ONLY I had this when the boys were little, it would be awesome!!  For all those out there who have babies or even kids - you should start a blog - you will be so glad you did!  Enough said..... back to my original thought!  I can't believe all the things that he still does, that he did just as a wee little one.  One thing is that he still loves to play with sticks and leaves-  there is always a pile of "goodies" right off the porch. He will go gather sticks and leaves and bring them back to play - it looks like a mess out there.  We clean it all up each Saturday, so he has all week to go gather more.  He loves tossing them all around and running around with them - WHO needs TOYS!
He still loves his blankets.
He doesn't have the hiccups everyday any more, but he did just yesterday.
He can jump and leap over things like a deer - it is quite impressive.
He still barks and runs around anything moving - like you walking, the wheelbarrow, the lawnmower, etc...
He loves a BATH!  and it is a good thing because he needs one often.  Like last night at 8:50pm - I was not too happy about that one!!
He is still so clumsy walking up the stairs- he trips almost every time- doesn't bother him one bit. 
He is learning, even tho he doesn't want you to know that he is!  We can ring the bell or blow a whistle and he comes running.  and He knows when "Mr DoBetter" is on his neck, and then, and only then, he knows exactly how to stay - right there where you told him to.  He also knows what a flipflop coming off my foot means too - it is embarrassing to even admit that - but when we are out in the yard and he is torturing me - yes it is torture - all I have to do is take my flipflop off and he is instantly 5 feet away from me - with crazy eyes- and he will stay that far away until I put back on my shoe, and then he runs back to me- instantly. He usually stops his bad behavior tho. I always say I am going to have a spare ff tucked in my shorts.  We are about to use "Mr. DoBetter" to correct that.

Right now as I write this, he is out in the yard with a stick with pine needles still on it - his favorite kind!  He is tossing it up and then catching it, and swinging it around so it hits his back He is having a blast!!  Got to love that dog :)

Oh- we went to the Vet on Thursday, and he weighed in at 59.5 lbs!!  He will be 7 months old tomorrow, the 20th.

Just a Dog and his Man

oh my bad - it's A Man and his Dog ;)

Friday Nights! Aaaahhhh....

I do love Friday nights!  Especially when the weather is just right and you can sit on the porch with no bugs! That kind of night happened a few weekends ago :)  And I snapped a few pictures, playing around with the camera.  I have several blog ideas about the ole Landry I want to share, but I want the right picture that will go along with it, and can't seem to catch him when I have the camera. I know you are sitting on pin and needles awaiting the next story!! HA

For the mean time, sit back and enjoy these photos!

Crazy Eyes

taken from far off - testing zoom

4 O'Clock

the ole day-lily

Yes, you have to endure my flower pictures!

Gloriosa Lily

Happy Happy Happy

Today, as we were walking to the back of the yard and Landry was bouncing around us- yes,literally bouncing in circles around us, three words came to my mind - happy happy happy (in the voice of Phil Robertson, of course).  This is a great way to describe Landry -he is just plain happy!  He loves when we are all outside together.  He just runs, jumps, bounces along- usually going around us in circles :)  It doesn't matter if you get on to him or really upset with him - in about 2 seconds, he has brushed that off and is happy happy happy! I usually do refer to him as nuts or crazy - but someone may get the wrong impression - so happy is a better, more appropriate, descriptive word!

We went to the vet on Thursday to weigh in for his heartworm/flea med - he weighed 56.6 lbs!!! In March he weighed 36.9lbs. That's 20lbs- 10 lbs per month!!! Geez.... I really thought he had slowed up on his growing, guess I was wrong.

 

Riding to the vet and to trail.  He loves the bike trail! It was really hot, so we didn't go as far as last time.

  

Tim and Landry playing around.  Parker and Luke, dad is trying to get Landry used to the way you would pick up Pete - that way he won't go into shock when you start picking on him :)  *Right pic:  He loves to put his front paws on this stool (and the flower pot at the back steps - aka : his look out tower)

 

He went and got his blanket from his kennel and piled it up so he can lay on it -
right next to where Tim sits (of course!)

Love this shot.  Taken one early morning :)

 Oh, he did have a first this week!  Our AC went out - par for the course, 1st time it has been hot :/ , so luckily Parker has a window unit in his room (which we keep for events such as these).  So, Tim and Landry slept upstairs one night in the cool AC.  It was Landry's first time sleeping in the bed!  (well, except the 1st night we got him and we stayed at the camp).  Tim said he wasn't so sure what Tim was trying to get him to do- Jump on the bed? What? I usually get on trouble for such things, but ok...  Tim said they slept close for along time, but then Tim got up in the middle of the night, and that threw Landry off - really doesn't take much- so Landry came and slept on his bed in the room with me for the remaining of the night.  But today when we went up to Parker's room to straighten it, Landry was like "are we getting back on the bed!!" He kept putting his paws up on the bed like he was going to sneak on- but he seemed to always be in my way of folding the blanket, so he never got to.  He will get his chance soon when Hannah comes to stay with him :)

Party a success...blog update is lagging!

Jabbo sportin' his Kentucky Derby attire :)

Happy Birthday Mom!!! We love you!!!