Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!

I hope everyone had a GREAT Independence Day. We had a nice day as well. Tim's brother Rob was here for a visit and we had a nice time going to Lake Lanier and then to the Mall of Georgia for the Annual Fireworks Show. I love Independence Day. I love what it stands for, I love the people who died to give us this day and I love that it's slap in the middle of Summer, my favorite time of the year!


Aww...brotherly love...

Here, while we wait for the action to begin, Tim and Rob debate the finer points of Farkle. Tim loves this game for some reason and plays it every chance he gets....I unfortunately do not follow in his love of this particular dice game.

I, however, had the last book in the series of my vampire chronicles to read. (The next one comes out in October!!) So I decided to for go Farkle. As I said before, not my favorite game...

Bendi also decided to get into the Spirit of 1776...she decided to sit herself on my table....A very big KITTY NO NO!!!!!

The fireworks show was beautiful, and lasted about 15 minutes. Now, just waiting for next year!

Hope every one has a great week!

New Week, Some New Pictures...

This past weekend, I actually went camping. Yes, I, Victoria Dahl, went to sleep in a tent on the ground. It was....shall we say, unusual. Being that I only like camping at the Hilton it was quite an experience for me. Thankfully we camped at the Astin's lake house and I was not far from the house or kitchen or the bathroom or the living room....

I did not take many pictures. I wasn't looking my best all tired and wild eyed from a night of hearing scratching and sniffing at my head. I can only imagine that it was a dog...or a raccoon...or a doe...being the animal professional that I am, I opted to remain calm and wait out the unwelcome sniffer by holding my breath and not moving for 10 minuets. Below is the only existing picture (I think) of me camping.

We did have fun though. Had a nice campfire grill dinner, huge campfire with smores and a nice white wine sangria...it was fun for all of us. As soon as dusk hit, Christian was the first one at the fire to make Smores. I have never seen a child so excited to build a fire and eat a chocolate cover marshmallow graham cracker cookie!!

Leah followed closely behind, however if you look ever so carefully in the background, you can see that Brady beat her to it and is chomping on his smore...

I do have some other pictures to share. Some are of lake fun, others are of my wonderful and beautiful and loving felines. Hope everyone had a nice fathers day...Tim got kitty kisses...and have a great week!

How YOU doin'?

Go away...I'm trying to sleep!

Cats and Camping

For the last couple of weeks, Tim and I have enjoyed Scot, DeAnn and the kids as they came over for a visit and some camping. Since Scot is allergic to the dust mites we call cats, he and DeAnn "roughed" it in a tent in the backyard! You can't have camping with out a campfire and Smores...

Here Scot and the boys are getting the campfire ready, Brady is guarding the Marshmallows.

Although not much into camping...DeAnn and I got into the groove by roasting marshmallows for our smores...

...and Brady just flat out burned his!!!

Some fun was also spent with Emmett. The kids just adore him and he loves them!

Look Ma...no allergies!!

I love him...he's so cute!!!

Can I have him mommy? He wants to come home with Piper!!

I am awfully adorable.....

Hope everyone has a great week!

It's a cats life for the Dahl's

Well, as some of you may know, Tim and I have been fostering an abandoned kitten I found at the front door of my clinic. His name is Emmett.

He is absolutely adorable. He's tiny, black and full of vigor. He is a kitten after all...

Our house if full of cats, which actually is very beneficial when raising an orphan. Since Emmett didn't have his mother or litter mates to learn from and play with, he had my cats, most importantly he had Maverick...this way Emmett can learn the important cat stuff like fending for yourself, hunting and covering his poop in the litter box. (Maija is desperately trying to teach Emmett to cover his poop. She can't stand uncovered poop...I digress)...

Maverick has the patience of a saint. Which for a cat is most unusual. I think it's because Mavie is a Ragdoll and by nature they are patient cats...and very loving...and HUGE. Mavie is 17 lbs now.

Here Emmett is peeking over the top of the Kitty Condo...he's just tall enough to peek over the edge. Mavie was tired so he moved to the luxury suite at the top. Even Tim has gotten used to having lil Em in the house. Much to his dismay...I think Emmett is growing on him.

So, thus far we have success in raising this precious orphan kitten who has seeming adjusted very well. All in a days work for the Dahl House!

No pictures

No pictures for this week. Although, we did have fun...Delaine came for a visit and we went to Lake Lanier. I forgot my camera which is probably for the best. I managed, yet again, to get sunburned in a bizarre stripy kind of pattern...I even have a finger print where I forgot to put my 50++ sunscreen. Not a pretty site. Oh well, we had fun! Hope everyone has a great week. New pictures next time!