Lots Of New Things

I haven't updated in awhile and there is so many new things going on. I went home to Florida in March and stayed 3 weeks. I went to Wind Creek Casino with Memaw, my first time at a casino. We went twice during that visit, the first time I won $200...and the second time I won $800 so that was a lot of fun lol. I came back to Washington and me and Tylor found a little girl Elkhound puppy who lived in West Virginia. She was born on March 2 and the very last female left in the litter, and the breeder only had one litter a year...so needless to say we are now the proud owners of a 16 week old monster puppy named Valkyrie. She came to us at 8 weeks old on April 26...made the long flight to Washington. We are absolutely in LOVE with her. She learned not to use the bathroom in the house very quickly. She goes to the door and barks every time she has to go outside. She is a good puppy...but going through all the puppy stages again, we have realized what a GOOD dog Jaeger is. Haha. Her personality is so different from Jaegers, Jaeger kind of does his own thing. He is affectionate...but only when HE wants to be. She is ALWAYS wanting to cuddle and wanting attention. Always wagging her tail, she is such a happy puppy. Jaeger and her absolutely love each other. This has been so great for Jaeger, he is no longer bored with a puppy always stalking and pouncing on him. I can tell he really enjoys having another dog as a companion. We could not have asked for a better outcome. They lay down together, share their toys, Jaeger grooms her, he has really taken her under his "wing". If she bites him too hard or gets too rough he will "snap" at her (without actually trying to get her, he just makes the noise and the movement to make her stop lol) and she will yelp without him even touching her (because puppies cry about EVERYTHING lmao) as soon as she yelps, he will quickly get up with his ears back and go check to see if shes ok. They are so great together. I had one of my sisters, Brittany, come visit us for a week. The rain stopped us from doing too much of anything that was fun, but we did get to go to Pikes Place Market in Seattle and go snow tubing at Snoqualmie Pass. We all had so much fun snow tubing, but by the time our 2 hours were up, we were ready to go and get warmed up haha. I really enjoyed her coming and seeing us, even though I'm sure she was bored out of her mind on the days we sat around the house lol And was probably starving to death by the time she got back to Arkansas. I was in Washington for about 3 weeks before I did another visit back to Florida. lol I was able to see my sister for her 18th birthday and able to see my dad one more time before he left for Afghanistan for a year. Alex graduated in May..which is weird to think about because it still feels like I am the one still in high school and her in middle school. lol It doesn't feel like I've been out of school for 3 years. Speaking of school...I am FINALLY doing what I have wanted to do for awhile and started school to become a vet tech. I have been going back and forth on the idea for over a year...talking myself out of it because of how bad I am at math. (theres a LOT of math and science involved in the classes) I started in May and am now over half through the first semester. I have 3 more courses to go and then I will take my proctors and will be onto semester 2. So far I have made straight A's in all the animal related classes, but in the basic classes (like Biology) I have made B's. I was  shooting for straight A's in everything...but I guess I can't complain...those grades are SOOOO much better than my high school grades. I think I passed biology with a 62 in high school. lol I am now starting Animal Anatomy and Physiology. I haven't done much more than flip though the study units online, I am waiting until my books get here because its much easier looking at a book than trying to look at the one on the computer. I wish I was going to an actual school, but with Tylor being in the military it is easier for me to do it online, and I like being able to go through it on my own pace. I do like this school though, it seems very involved and the instructors are great...most of them at least lol I have to have 2 hours of webinars a month and I absolutely love going to them. A lot of the time I go over the time needed because I attend more than the minimum. I really enjoy them. At the end of semester 2 and 4 I have to do a 225 hour practicum in a clinic. So I am hoping to find a job before I am at that point in the program. Bob helped me out SOOOO much by getting me a laptop as a present for going to school. Now Tylor can use his without complaining about all my girly music being on it lol. Other than that I can't think of anything new that comes to mind. We are in Washington...still. Ugh. Tylor is trying his hardest to get us out of here. He put in for Korea so he could get base of preference or a follow on base...so now its just the waiting game. We shall see. I am trying not to think about him possibly going to Korea for a year or I will get sad and tell him to take it off his dream sheet lol If he gets orders, he will be gone for a year, but halfway through he would get to come home for a month. We have done that before, it should be "easy"...but now I am so use to living with him and being with him all the time, I don't know what I would do without him there annoying me all the time. haha But before he accepted the orders, he would already know what his follow on base would be (he put Hurlburt for his number one, and I believe he put 8 other bases, all within 10 hours from home) and I would move home for a year. Then of course we would be better off with money because I would have a job back at home and he would get extra pay...AND we would be OUT OF WASHINGTON! lol So when we talked about it, we both agreed that it would suck, but the benefits outweigh the suckiness of not seeing each other for 2 six month intervals lol ..............I think thats all. My concentration is horrible right now so I can't think of anything else that has gone on..lol

 Valkyrie a day or two after Tylor picked her up from the airport (I was still in Florida)

This was taken last week. I love my puppies, I don't know what I would do without them<3

Holidays, New year, New opportunities

Haven't updated in a while. We have been pretty busy lately with the holidays and all. For Thanksgiving we went to a friends house and had a really good time. It wasn't home, of course...but it was a good time :) For Christmas me and Tylor spent the day together and that night we had Christmas dinner at a friends house. Mom and Memaw sent huge boxes of presents for me, Tylor and Jaeger so we had lots of presents to open under the tree. I love my family, it really did mean a lot to both me and Tylor that they wanted us to have something to open on Christmas day and for it to still feel like Christmas for us. We ended up putting up the tree like a week before Christmas, I never have been good at being on time or early for things lol. We were watching 2 male dogs...who marked in our house..UGH! Jaeger has been completely house broken, since he was a young puppy. Absoluetely no accidents in months and months...HE. MARKED. OUR. CHRISTMAS. TREE!!!! I was seriously in shock. He still squats when he pees like a female does! He does NOT lift his leg! And did it HAVE to be on our VERY. FIRST. CHRISTMAS TREE!?????! Come on Jaeger!!! Needless to say I was very upset with him and he knew it. I blame those other dogs for corrupting him lol He hasn't done it since...BUT we are still getting him neutered the end of this month lmao For my birthday Tylor worked, but we went out the next night to Red Robin. I felt weird sitting at the bar, people were looking at me like I was 14 lol For New Years me and Tylor sat at home and watched movies, we decided things were to expensive and too crazy. We had a good time though :)

I put up an ad to puppy sit and Jean, a trainer and the person who cares for a at the time 4 month old Golden Retriever named Liberty contacted me. She is from a starting out organization called All American Dogs, and they are training service dogs for veterans and troops. Started out with me watching Liberty some and now I am Secretary on the Board of Directors!!! This has been a GREAT experience for me so far and I have absolutely fallen in love with Liberty. I will be very interested to see where this goes. We have gotten very close to Jean and also her husband, very, very nice people. Its nice to find someone nice up here. This year is starting off to a great start.

Last time I posted, I was very worried that Jaeger had Megaespohagus...THANKFULLY I was just overreacting. He has not regurgitated his food at all since my last post. He sure knows how to worry me :)
My car should be here soon, just accepted a bid last night and just have to arrange a pick up date, I am SO excited. I am a little worried about driving though, after the wreck I have driven only like 3 times and everytime my hands get shaky, my heart races, and I think I have a mini panic attack lol but really, it sucks. Maybe with my car being here driving around base where theres not a whole lot of traffic will build up my confidence. I am planning on going home next month to see my family. I am so so so so so SOOOOOOOO excited! I miss everyone so much. And then when I get back to WA my sister Brittany is coming to visit in March...then its time to get down to business and start job hunting lol First places I am going to try are vets offices for veterinary assistant...sooo wish me luck :)

The past few weeks

It's been awhile since I've updated...I've been quite busy between company coming and me going to Florida for 17 days. It was sooo good to be HOME for that short amount of time! I really enjoyed spending time with my family and taking Chase and Kenzie trick or treating. We went to Azteca (of course), hit up a few corn mazes, movies, etc etc etc. I miss home SO much. I wish Tylor was stationed closer. Two days before I left to come back to Washington my uncle had a brain anerysum. Luckily his friend found him in time and hes been in the hospital, slowly but surely improving. Now I'm back in Washington, it was good to come back to Tylor and Jaeger, I'm hoping to go home in Feb, when Tylor isn't working nights (yes, I am planning my schedule on what would be best for the dog lol) It will be interesting to see how this Thanksgiving goes with my homesickness....it will be different, thats for sure. BUT I am so happy I get to spend it with Tylor this year! This is our 4th Thanksgiving, but only 2nd one being "together" and luckily one of Tylors friends from work invited us (and Jaeger) over to their house. For everyones safety I'm not going to attempt to cook a bird or any other meat....we are just in charge of a green bean casserole...which brings us going grocery shopping at 7 tomorrow morning....the day before Thanksgiving because we have put it off. Are you surprised?! We went out to dinner with some friends last week, and seen Paranormal Activity 3 (for my second time) It was good to get out and socialize with people.
We also went driving around, in North Bend we saw a HUGE herd of Elk at the base of the mountain. We of course pulled over and took a picture. It was an awesome view. I love our little adventures. I am going back and forth on my thoughts of whether or not I want to go to school for a Vet Tech or continue my education/experience on office clerk/assistant. I really need to know billing and coding to work at another office. I would enjoy the vet tech way more in the long run...but from what I understand it involves a lot of math...and we all know I am HORRIBLE at math. On my college placement test I scored so high in English that I don't have to take any English classes, but so low on math that I have to take 2 math classes before I can even take college algebra! When I say I am horribe at math..it't not an understatment.
Tylors doing great, he is working the night shift until Feb...so that sucks. But he still only works about 16 days a month so thats a plus..he never works a full work week so I can't complain.
Our monster puppy is doing good as well, this past week we had a scare, well..2. 8 hours after Jaeger ate he regurgitated UNDIGESTED food. Concerned me..but I blew it off. Like Tylor says, "hes a dog, dogs throw up" 3 days later he did it again. I freaked, googled, freaked more. All my searches were pointing to Megaesophagus. Which basically means the food doesn't get to the stomach, it just sits in the esophagus until the dogs reflex's regurgitate it. Very bad disease...the dogs life span isn't as long, they have to eat a special way (standing on hind legs, basically) for the rest of their life, and about 20 minutes after they eat you have to keep them standing...YEAH RIGHT...have you met our dog??! And then is the VERY HIGH risk of them aspirating. So needless to say I made an appointment with the vet. She asked if he was a fast eater...yes, extremely fast...she suggested us slow him down eating by only feeding him about 5 pieces at a time. If that doesn't work...he will have to go back for a barium and xray to test for, you guessed it, Megaesophagus. I don't think I breathed for a whole minute after she said that. It scared me to death after reading all the tragic stories. I was upset for the whole rest of the day. I couldn't even think straight. I feel way calmer today, we have brought some new treats for Jaeger the past few weeks, one being dried sweet potato sweets...healthy, but very hard and rigged. And the other being a "senior" antler chew that has mainly the marrow (since Jaeger chews WAY too hard on his antlers, and has the chipped tooth to prove it) Maybe they just caused some irritation. He only regurgitated twice, and the last time was Friday. It is now Tuesday and we haven't had a problem. I am going to continue to hold back the treats. Just pray for our brat dog...if anything happened to him I think I would die from heartbreak. I know people laugh and make fun of me how "obsessed" I am with my dog. But nobody will ever know how much he has helped me with my homesickness. Theres been lots of times where he has been my only company...he has made me laugh every single day. Its not easy moving away from your family...especially when you go from sunny Florida to gloomy Washington. I feel a lot more confident that Jaeger doesn't have Megaesophagus...but if he did I would do whatever it takes for him to live as long as possible, as long as he still had a quality of life. Even if that means harder work and more stress. I love this dog....if you have me on Facebook then you know that haha Maybe Tylor is right....I do just need to become a damn vet :)

The rain is here. This is my first winter in Washington. I JUST got adjusted to the "summer" and that wasn't even the worst part! Wish me luck.

Busy Busy Busy

A lot has happened the past few days. Almost 2 weeks ago we adopted a little black lab puppy we named Ozzy. (8 months old) He had the sweetest personality but just wouldn't stop attacking Jaeger...it was more than just a growl or snap...that we could work with and fix...this was a full blown attack with no warning. We unfortunatly had to make the 6 hour drive (which we somehow turned into 10) to Moses Lake to return Ozzy. That was a pretty sad day. We can't have a dog that unexpectingly attacks. Blue, my moms Catahoula (rip) was like that...he had to be seperated from males his whole life, even after being neutered. (which Ozzy was). Me and Tylor take Jaeger with us EVERYWHERE...as with our next dog. With our lifestyle we can't keep them seperated their whole life. So....the search is still on for our next dog. I wouldn't mind having another Elkhound...or a Lab, Golden Retriever, or Klee Kai...or anything with 4 legs and fur :) haha Tylor is wanting a more "manly" dog and just DOES NOT want a Golden Retriever...lets see how long until I can make him break and agree with me :) haha We've driven in the mountains a few times, went to Snoqualmie Falls...BEAUTIFUL! Tylors mom comes 2 weeks from today. It'll be so nice to see a familar face! Then we move into our new house Oct. 13. We are wanting to have our entire house packed by the time his mom gets here so we won't be super busy during her whole visit...and of course we've done nothing so the next 2 weeks are going to be super busy. I'm so excited to move and actually have a yard with grass and a privacy fence! Not to mention the safe area...it gets old hearing sirens ALL the time. I go home to Florida for a few weeks October 19th. I am SO excited! I miss everyone sooo much! So October will be a very busy month for us. I'm already stressing about leaving Jaeger with Tylor...I'll have to make a very detailed list of everything he eats lol Tylor is still liking his new job...and LOVING his schedule. Can't beat being off 16 days a month...that makes me feel a little better about Jaeger staying behind...but next time I still wanna take him with me! lol He had a 6 month vet check up 2 days ago...the vet was very impressed with his coat and his teeth...hes in excellent health!! :) Better be....the dog eats better than us! I think I've pretty much summed up the past 2 weeks or so...I'll write again when something else interesting happens lol

Just an update

Nothing too big or exciting has happened since my last post. Tylor did find some hunting land, its about 2 hours away but atleast he found something around here. Its so different than hunting in Florida...SO many rules and about 50% of the land is privately owned. Jaeger hasn't had anymore bee incidents, although he has come extremely close. He likes to stress me out :) Tylors doing good, he started his new job and so far he likes it. I am loving his schedule...he only works about 15 days a month but its 12 hour shifts, so thats no fun. We have decided to move on base, we went Thursday to get put on the list. Right now we are number 4 out of 22 so hopefully we just keep moving forwards instead of backwards. I am sooo looking forward to the grassy yard and 6 ft privacy fence! No more pine needles sticking in Jaegers hair...and no more incidents where he eats pine cones. I'm not sure how he's going to react to grass haha I think I will feel safer too. I won't be nervous to take the dog for a walk down the road which is near impossible in the neighborhood we are in now. I have decided not to take Jaeger with me when I visit home for a few weeks....I tried to tell myself to stop being so nervous and paranoid but theres still too many horror stories out there for my liking soooo Tylor will be in charge of Jaeger for the few weeks I'm gone. I hope the house is still standing when I return lol The weather has been great this month! No more rain! It's almost been too nice, this week has been in the 80's and since Washington doesn't believe in air conditioners me and the dog have been very uncomfortable. Hes in front of the fan eating ice cubes as I'm typing this. Still looking into companies to ship my car from Florida....ugh why does everything have to be so expensive?! A few months ago when we checked we could have done it for $900 and now some of the bids are up to almost $2,000! I NEED my car here before I go crazy! And I can't get a job until I actually have a way to get myself there lol Not a huge update, our lives have been pretty boring the past few weeks...time to do all the fun wifely duties like cleaning and laundry...fun!

Hectic Few Days

The last week or so has been crazy! We took Jaeger to the beach, when we got home he kept sneezing and "blowing" out of his nose. I then realized he had a hard bump on his nose. We took him to the vet, she gave him some cortisone and benadryl...which the benadryl we were already giving him. We could already tell a huge difference the next day. After this went away, he started having diarrhea..Lovely, right? Soooo I figured it was from the benadryl, nope...wasn't it. After camping out on the floor with him (to make sure he didn't get dehydrated during the night) Lots of rice and chicken, canned pumpkin, ice cubes, and pedialyte....he pooped out a PINE CONE! Yep, a pine cone. Ok, so no sneezing or bump, check. No upset belly, check. THEN a few days later he decides to smell a bee....stung him right on the chin. We acted fast, gave him the benadryl, held ice on it to the way to Walgreens to pick up some baking soda to put on his chin. Do you know how hard it is to keep baking soda on a chewing puppies chin??? The next day it was 98% better. FINALLY this dog is better and cured from everything! Or not....he lost quite a few puppy teeth in the last 2 weeks, and 2 just in one day...so he decided to eat some cloth off his toy, we didn't realize it until after the fact...sooo more stressing out, more canned pumpkin, and more monitoring his poop for the next two days to see if he passed it all....he did thankfully. We did NOT was to spend 1-2 thousand on a dog to have a toy taken out of his stomach lol I guess needless to say we are going to have to get a muzzle for when he goes outside until he outgrows this stage, he just tries to eat EVERYTHING! But hes a very good, loyal puppy and I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world...he makes me laugh everyday :)
Other than that mine and Tylors lives have been pretty boring. lol We took a ride out in the mountains the other day and I LOVED it! I think I would like Washington way more if I lived more out in the country than in the city like we do now. Sigh, maybe one day. We went to the scenic railroad and ate dinner on a train that was turned into a resturant..it was really neat. I had my first elk burger lol. I finally got in some girl time! My first friend haha too bad neither of us can drive right now even though we have working vehicles...figures. lol Speaking of my car, it got done today, FINALLY!!! I can't wait to get it up here and look for a job! I miss having my own money so much and having to double check with Tylor to buy something...not that he ever says no, but I just miss having "my" money. lol Tylor started his new job today, I'm very excited for him and hope he likes it. It's a 3 year job, and he will work 2 days, have 3 days off, then work 3 days...or something like that lol I'm happy he will be home more. Tylors mother is coming in October, then I'm going home the month of November, I can't wait! I can't believe I've made it 3 whole months here so far, I'm proud of myself haha Some days it seems like I've been here forever, and other days its not too bad. An approvement from the first month, for sure! Well I have a dog and cat to feed and a kitchen to clean....Hopefully next time I write I won't have any "dog problems" to talk about lol

Playing Tourist

I have been bugging Tylor for the past 3 weeks to go to Seattle. He kept saying he didn't want to go because of traffic and blah blah blah. Today, he kept telling me to get ready, but not telling me where we were gonna go. After much harrasment he finally told me we were going to see some waterfall he heard about....I believed that until I saw all the huge buildings of Seattle lol We went to Pikes Place Market...which is sooo cool! We are def going to have to go back there. It was huge! Def not what I was expecting. We saw the gum wall, which was disgustingly cool lol Kinda gross to think about how many germs are on that wall though. We had lunch at the market also, we had gyros...go figure lol We also saw Andrew Zimmerman from the Food Network. It was very cool. Although he wasn't as friendly as I would have thought. We walked around for about 3 hours and decided it was time to go unless we wanted to pay for longer parking (ridicilous) only to find out one of Tylors tires were COMPLETELY flat. We called a tow, waited about 45 mins. The tow finally got there, then halfway to Good Year it broke down lmao but we finally got there alive. It didn't take too awfully long for them to patch on the tire and for us to be headed back home. Oh the Adventures of Tylor and Megan lol It was a very good day today and very eventful. Anytime someone visits us we are def going to hit up Pikes Place again. Seattle is def very different than anything I've seen..people were EVERYWHERE, I think there were probably more people walking than there were cars...which is weird to think about because the traffic is horrible. Well worth it though.

Yesterday we took Jaeger to the beach, saw some jelly fish and also saw 2 sea lions...or seals...we aren't sure which yet lol The one thing I like about this place is there is sooo much to do and to see. I'm going to see if next weekend I can con Tylor into going up to Crystal Mountain and taking the gondula ride...with Jaeger of course...I already made sure dogs were allowed lol It's been a very long and exciting day and we are exhausted. The bed is calling my name :)