Posts Tagged ‘Gypsie’

After I last posted I was emotionally exhausted from even looking at my blog, because I didn’t find any humor in posting anything whatsoever. Roxie’s death was such a changing event in my life that nothing took importance over blogging something after her. So, with the rollercoaster ride of 2008 starting with her death and ending with a shitty December with a broken leg and a miscarriage.

Revolution Mother & NOLA

So in early January Gypsie, Tate, Kelly & I went for a quick trip to New Orleans to see Revolution Mother play. Tate and I enjoyed the next morning with a photo session throughout the Quarter and as we were leaving we got caught up in early beginnings of Mardi Gras parades.

Roxie
Then in February we lost Roxie… She was a wonderful dog and if you read the post before this one, it really took a lot out of us… She now has a beautiful memorial in our bedroom, where her bed use to sit.

Tornado
Oh the wonderful April showers bring Tornados! We got a good portion of this at my office and some at our house, which I opted not to have trees in our yard which meant we only lost some shingles at the house. As for the office, it was an all out rebuild internally, which resulted in my getting my new office, former storage room. I need to get some photos of the office to post, which looks AMAZING now, but we were on plywood floors or a many many months!

Tattoos
I only made it for one tattoo in this year, which kinda disappointed me, but I can live as I plan to increase that this year. Chris Thomas did this for me in Arkansas.

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This was the “theme” for our wedding. I am still very proud of this tattoo. He freehanded the type in about 10 minutes and it still look beautiful.

Joon
In June we had some discussions about getting another dog, looking at our neighbors German Shepard puppy. So we decided to get one from the same breeder as Adam & Laura across the street… We called the breeder and went for a visit because the mother just happened to be pregnant again by accident. Meeting the GSD parents who were wonderful we decided to get one.

A week later our vet called and said they have found the perfect dog for us since they knew how special Roxie was to us. She was supposedly a Border Collie mix. So we went to CARA to look at her… This stinky ragamuffin walks out on a leash and I am floored… I was expecting more of a Border Collie look, which other than the eyes and colors that is about all that looked like one. Gypsie fell in love with her right then and there… I on the other hand didn’t want to have anything to do with her. But after a night of thinking how she made G-lynn smile I agreed to get her, thinking I wasn’t going to get my GSD… What do I know?

Turns out after you bath the ragamuffin and shave her she is a pretty great dog… VERY HUGGY HUGGY!

Birthday
I had a WONDERFUL birthday weekend down at the lake with my parents. Gypsie unfortunately didn’t get to come because she was with Kelly at the bachelorette party. But Tate did come with and we had a blast in the rain…. crazy videos and some photography.

I have some great “Monster” video that I still need to finish editing that was a great idea. I am glad my dad had such creative visions!

Dita
It turns out Gypsie wanted both dogs and since she is the boss, who am I to say no?

Now she is a bit larger… to say the least…

Bachelor Party
I am not going to say anything other that what an interesting time with all the boys… even some new ones… Who’s getting married next so we can do it again..?

Wedding
Tate and Kelly got married in Oxford, Gypsie and I drank too much… We had a blast though… Oxford is a beautiful city!
DAMMIT I CAN’T FIND ANY OF THE PHOTOS!

Broken Leg
After ALL these YEARS skateboarding… I was help in breaking my first bone. I will say that I am still in want to put some pain into this kid who should have known better! I will get my revenge!!

I am just a week off my crutches now and this happened in early December… don’t recommend it for anyone!

Miscarriage
Such a tragedy for two people who have been trying to get pregnant for awhile… although why stop now?
I will mention that this happened the same night as I broke my leg…

Christmas/New Years
Needless to say, we didn’t have the best Christmas or New Years…

Positives of the Year
We are on a serious plan to pay off our debt… and have accomplished so much so far in such a little time.

Ok the site is finally back working.. I think… since they decided to move my site it screwed up everything I have been working towards… SO in lieu of everything I decided to redo it all. It has changed in the last couple of hours in how it was all layed out. so TA-DA!

I got my first Christmas present on Saturday and I am so so proud! I designed it like 3 weeks ago and have been dying to get it. I also designed it to extend however larger I may want to get it, but we will see. In all of my rules I broke the one on where to get it, so I went to Squench’s Tattoo on South 55, but I have to say, he did such a great job, that I will go back and get the rest done there.

Here is our chritsmas tree, Isn’t it pretty. I think so and that is all that matters. So Gypsie & I decided to go ahead and do christmas EARLY this morning. And so I gave her her main present first. She has this thing with reading Tate and my sites; constantly, so since Tate and I can’t always update every day, I bought and built her a site so she can feel free to put whatever she wants on it.

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After I teach her how to use it I am SURE she will be blazing with whatever her mind is filled with. Check it out frequently.

She got me a TON of new cooking tools, I love it… now I will have no EXCUSE for having what I need to getting my cooking projects done. And also my favorite… she bought me 18 pairs of black socks. You have to understand that I have been asking for 50 pairs of black socks for Christmas for the last 5 or 6 years… but noone has ever stepped up to the plate to do it, she did and I am pround *grins*.

Two more family christmas’s to go WHEEEEEE!!!

Saturday night I decided I wanted to make it a special day for Gypsie and I, so I bought flowers, made a night candle-light dinner, with Billie Holiday in the background, then dancing… so what you see here is the place-setting I did for the dinner. mmmmm… and dinner was good too!

My (almost finished)Dining Room

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This past weekend Gypsie, Me, Tate, & Tucker we to Geyser Falls way out in Choctaw, MS… I have to say… even though I spent the entire day out in the sun… I had an amazing time, it doesn’t hurt to have a beautiful woman to walk around with either. They have a Hard Rock Cafe there as well, and we partied on their beach and had a few drinks and rode the rides. Thanks for driving Tate!!
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