Our Musicalhouse: dog party

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

3am Wakeup

This past weekend we stayed with my parents b/c Amy & her crew were in town. I'll post more about that soon! Anyway, When are all staying at home that means there are also 3 dogs staying there. Tigger (my parents Schipperke), Seth (my Brother's lab/something mix), and Lucy (our crazy golden). When the 3 of them hang out they kinda take on that pack mentality which can range from crazy entertaining to well, annoying.

Example of entertaining:

We're all pretty sure they've chosen Dad as their pack leader & they all love him. I couldn't really get a good pic 'cause it was my phone & dogs move a lot, but here are all the beasties gathered around their favorite person.

BTW, Tigger would be the black blob on his lap. Some day I'll get a picture of where you can actually tell she's a dog & not the smoke monster from LOST.

Example of annoying:

I don't have a pic of this one b/c is was 3 am & I wasn't in the mood. Anyway, Lucy woke me up with the "I'm going to stand here with my nose .001 inches from your face until you sense something is going on & open your eyes" technique. I figured she had to pee, so I got up & opened the bedroom door where good ol' Seth was waiting ready to play.

They were all kinds of excited, but I managed to get them out the back door without waking anyone else up. I waited for a minute & called for them to come in. Only Seth came back. Annoyed, I stumbled out into the yard & looked around for Lucy (in case you're wondering, it's really dark at 3am). I finally heard her collar jingling in the direction of my parents bedroom window.

I kept calling her, but realized she was stuck behind the decorative fencing that lines the flowerbed by my parents room. I found a place where I thought there was an opening in the fence & called Lucy over. She got about half way & then just stopped & looked at me. She was stuck. I finally ended up lifting her back end over the fence & we were ready to go back in.

About this time I heard the door open & out ran Tigger going wild. Lucy had woken Tigger up by hanging out at her window & Tigger woke Dad up. The dogs couldn't have been happier. The people were not so entertained.

Eventually I got all the dogs back to their assorted sleeping areas, gave Lucy a lecture about waking up the whole house & got back in bed. I'm sure she'll think twice about waking us all up at 3am again. Oh yeah, and by 'think twice' I mean she had no clue what the heck I was talking about & will most certainly do it again.

Verses from Philippians

1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:14-15: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
3:7-8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
3:12-14:Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.