Our New Baby Girl

Yesterday we got a new baby girl, Chelsea. She is a Yorktese just like Kobe. In fact, she is Kobe's half sister. She was born on July 13th. She will be 8 weeks old on Sunday. It was kinda ironic that we were looking at getting another puppy, a playmate for Kobe, and the breeder that we bought Kobe from e-mailed me the said that I might want to see some pictures of his newest puppies. We were looking for a girl since we already had a boy. I e-mailed him back to ask him if they were the same parents as Kobe and it is the same father, different mother. So, there it was all layed out for me to get this puppy. Since he lives on the other side of Columbia (Bishopville) I asked him if he'd meet me in Columbia and sure enough he did.

She looks a lot like Kobe when he was a baby except she is a lot darker. I think she'll look more like the Yorkie instead of the Maltese.

We are excited to have her. She had a good first night and day today. She thinks Kobe is her mama. Kobe has had a lot of fun playing with her. He runs and she chases him everywhere.

She is so tiny (like 1lb.), it's hard to believe that Kobe was that small. Even though he only weighs 5 1/4 lbs. he looks huge compared to her.

I know those who know me are like...are you crazy? Like you didn't have enough to do already? But, I really wanted to get Kobe a playmate for when we aren't home. I asked the vet and he said that if we were thinking about getting a new puppy now is the time. The older he gets the more attached he will get to us and won't want another dog in the house. Of course the kids were excited, especially Cassie, my animal lover.

I'll upload a video tomorrow of Kobe & Chelsea playing in the grass...it's so cute.

Happy Labor Day to you all!

This weekend we went camping at Lake Hartwell State Park. We need to pray for more rain for that Lake. It was very sad to see how dried up that lake has become.

There used to be water all the way up this bank... The boat ramp has been closed in the campground because it is so low.

We took Zack's friend, Griffin, with us so that Zack would not be too "bored". They pretty much played XBox the entire time we were there. They did go on the jetski once and took five minute breaks to eat.

It's sad that kids these days do not know how to have fun without electronics. When I was a kid and went camping we used to play all kinds of games and have fun and didn't even have a tv in our camper.
My sister and her husband came up from Georgia to visit us at the campground. We hung out with them, even though it is still a little too hot to camp. We couldn't build a campfire because we were just too hot. Maybe in another month it will be good camping weather. They brought their dog, Rowdy to play with Kobe. He is a maltese.

Cassie says that we need to get Kobe a playmate. I told her that it will take lots of convincing her daddy of that one.

We got back from camping on Sunday night. Scott wanted to work today. I told him that he isn't suppose to labor on labor day but he says when you have work you need to do it. I guess with this economy we have to be thankful that he does have work.