Trip'd Up: 1Pet, noPet, 3Pet ,2Pet

At one of our favorite places to go....

The Compton Gardens is a great place to go with the family and just walk around, look at flowers and trees, and squash bugs :) That's our kiddos favorite part. They play the find the bug and squash it game every time we go there! And they love all the rocks to climb. I'm so happy our kiddos are so easily amused and just love to be out in God's creation. We love being out there.

This is Gabriel break dancing. We were listening to some Britt Nicole and Gabriel loves her upbeat music! Usually he just jumps around, but this time he decided to really break it down....

This last week we went from 1 animal, to 0 animals, to 3 animals, back to 2 animals all withing 3 days....
So, this past Thursday our one of our fence gates got opened while Jacque was outside. There were several in our neighborhood that got opened and several dogs that got out so we are thinking it was just a kid thinking it would be a fun to open people's gates. So Jacque was gone. We couldn't find him that night at all. But that evening we had this turtle that was in our driveway on it's way to the street, so I grabbed it and put it in our backyard....

It was a cute turtle and the kids thought it was the coolest thing ever. The plan was to keep it in the backyard, then after the kiddos went to bed to take it outside the fence and let it go after the trafic slowed down. But when I went out, it was gone. Then come the next morning I looked out our bedroom window and there was mr. turtle coming back into the yard! It made itself a couple little homes under our slide for the day. We put a bit of food out for it and watered the turtle down a bit to cool him off. He stayed with us a couple days, then on Saturday afternoon moved on to another home.

Back to Jacque....On Friday afternoon Animal Control called me back and said they think they found our dog! Thankfully a friend of ours was able to help us out and go pick him up....

Poor little Jacque in doggy jail. We were so happy to get him home! As soon as he got here I gave him a bath and got him all nice and clean. He didn't even budge while I was drying and brushing his hair. I think he was happy to be clean! And he definitely missed his toys and his bed and all of us. It reminded me of one of our kids favorite books "Harry the Dirty Dog". lol

And last but not least, the new kitten "Belle"

The kids are loving the cat. It's a bit hard to keep them from wanting to play with her 24/7 lol! And I'm honestly more worried about it hurting them than them hurting it just b/c of it's amazingly sharp claws, SO.....

Miss.Belle and I went for a ride Monday morning to get her nails clipped. In 3 weeks or so we will be able to get her de-clawed. And that will be SO nice! She has the loudest "meow" ever. She kept us up the other night more than a newborn baby. She did much better last night though. She just needs lots of attention and cuddles or she is not happy kitty :)

Having fun playing outside! Kiddos hadn't been out in the pool in almost a week so they were so happy to get out and play, and then they decided they wanted me to take their pics....