MY PRECIOUS SAMMY BOY

 My precious Sammy Boy. I miss you so much. You are everywhere I go, everywhere I look.

 You have been beside me for almost 16 years and I dont know how I will do the rest of this life without you. Theres not words enough to say how much this hurts. Heartbroken, sad, depressing, tears, lots of tears, my life will never ever be the same. 

You have been with me through so much, good times and bad. You have always been incredibly loyal and my best friend. When I decided to find you, I looked a long time before I said he's the one. I flew you from South Dakota to Tampa when you turned 9 weeks. I had to wait weeks to get you.  The lady that had you thought  I was crazy because every week I would ask her to photograph you from all sides on a newspaper with the date showing.

       I knew I wanted you and wanted to make sure you weren't mixed up or if something had happened to you before I could get you, that another puppy would be send instead. I didn't want another puppy, I wanted you. That first second I saw you, curled up in the back of that cage, scared, I couldn't get that cage opened quick enough. The second I held you, I loved

          

 you. All I wanted was to make you feel safe.  You were so precious. I knew I was meant to be your mom.

 I took you home and the next morning we were off to the vet to have you checked over.  You had a clean bill of health and off to South Carolina we went for work. From that day on you traveled everywhere with me.  You have seen and done more than most people have. 

We have been best friends ever since.    You have been one of the greatest gifts of my life. You have done more and seen more than most other dogs. You have flown all over the states with me, traveled everywhere with me, you have been on boats and slept in more hotels than most people have. You have played in oceans, lakes, creeks and ponds. You were the perfect travel companion.

  One of your favorite places was the airport.  You would prance through it like you owned it. You were so happy. You would jump on and off the escalators like a pro.  Everyone would look at you and smile when you would walk on the plane and get your spot under the seat. You knew exactly what to do. You would wait for me to put your blanket down, then you would get on it and sleep until we landed. You were the most amazing little guy.  

 You loved riding the elevators in the hotels, you loved traveling with me and my knee was your pillow in the car. I can't tell you how much I miss you being there..

. I loved taking you to the beach. You loved it. You were so cute. You would play at the waters edge, get all wet, then rub all over in the sand. You were my little mess. 

I taught you how to be the perfect little gentleman when we entered restaurants, airplanes, malls, stores, casinos, and zoos. You went everywhere I went. You made many friends everywhere you went. 

One of your favorite things to do was ride the Harley. Your dad would start that bike up and you would go crazy barking until he took off with you. You wore your harley hat and sunglasses so proud. You looked adorable in them.

Everywhere we went, people were taking pictures of you. I do believe you are the most photographed dog in all of Houston. 

Another one of your favorite things was going to the movies.

 

 You always had to have your popcorn and would lie in the chair and watch the movie with us. 

You loved going to Hooters every year for your birthday. The girls always loved you and would sing happy birthday to you.

 

  Once they put you on a stool in the middle of Hooters during a ballgame and had everyone help sing Happy Birthday to you. You were always so special wherever you were.  

 

  We had so many awesome, fun adventures and life was great. After a few years, Cody found us.We were only going to adopt him if you accepted him. I didn't think you

would at all, but you surprised everyone. Cody became your buddy and a member of our family. He slid into our hearts and then we were a foursome.  Cody loved his new life.  His favorite thing to do was eat. anything, everything.  He loved traveling and doing all he things we did. He did not want to be left behind.  He became your dads best friend also.  So while my heart was exploding with happiness, I still wanted one more puppy. So we found Chaos, He was the same size as you and Cody when we brought him home

 And because of that, he never realized how much bigger he was. Our family was now complete.  We were a family of five.  

You loved going for walks so once Chaos cam into the picture, your dad insisted we take you boys out every night after 9 so you could run, sniff and play with no leash. Dad said he wanted you to be real dogs with no leash and you were, almost every night. No rush, sniff as long as you want, just be a dog.We always ended our walks with frisbee for Chaos. It was his favorite things to do. 

That and swim. Boy, those were the days. You boys had the best dog dad ever. He loved you all so much. He now misses you all so much.

When we were at home, it was very plain to see, you were the big dog, the boss.  Chaos and Cody both knew it. 

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Here you go Laci. :) Sammy is not in the mood to play lolLenetta:

 It was so funny to watch you scare the monster, Chaos.  He was so big but he didn't buck you.  You had your favorite chair, you had it from the first day I got you and it has been your chair for 16 years. You sweet dad even made you a name tag and put it on your chair. You would not allow Chaos to get near it ever.  But you did allow Cody to get under it with you. I loved the days where Chaos would aggravate you and pounce at you and Cody under your chair. You would growl and snarl at him. it was so funny to watch. 

If someone had told us we would lose all 3 of our boys within a years time, I would never have believed them.

But we did and it's been such a struggle for your dad and I. We cant begin to tell you how much we miss you everyday. We love you Sammy Boy. We love you  Chaos. We love you Cody.

  I love you my precious Sammy Boy. Thank you for coming into my life. I have loved you all of your life, now I’ll miss you the rest of mine. I cant wait to get to that rainbow bridge and have you in my arms again. Sayng good bye to you even for a day has always been hard for me. I miss you so much so saying good-bye this time, I dont know how to do it. I just dont know how to do this. This is one of the hardest things I will ever do in my lifetime. I dont want to look beside me anywhere and you not be there looking at me with eyes of love. 

 You may only be 15 pounds but you have had the biggest impact on my life. How do you say good bye to your best friend. I dont know how. I have done more crying and praying over the last few weeks.  I have had so many people tell me  I needed  to prepare for losing you but how do I  prepare for the loss of a big part of my heart, It will never be full again, it will ache forever. I so much want to believe in that rainbow bridge. I want to believe there will be pets in heaven. I do believe dogs will definitely be in heaven. God loved you enough to give you his name backwards. Pretty darn special. DOG-GOD. Think that says it all. You’ll be there. I cant wait to get there to see you and hold you again.

Sweet boy, I love you. 

 

Can't wait to see you again

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We love you and miss you forever

 

  

 

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Farewell our beautiful Chaos

I will add pictures later, just can't right now. 

Today at 12:30 we will say goodbye to our beautiful Chaos. This is going to be one of the hardest things I will have ever had to do. So much prayer has gone into this decision and while Don and I are at peace with it, I can't imagine not bringing him home in the backseat. I don't know how to do this, so all prayers are welcome. Please pray for Chaos as he crosses that rainbow bridge. He has been the best sweetest boy ever. 

We have known this day was coming for a long time. The vet told us we needed to make some tough decisions over a year and a half ago. We weren't ready to let you go, and you weren't ready to go. We feel blessed to have had all this time with you but today you let us know it was time to say goodbye. So here we area at the end of our precious time together. I try not to let myself go there. It hurts my heart so much. 

I couldn't get you up this morning to go out, then when I did, you made it to the front door before you fell. I helped you back up and walked you to the grass. You immediately fell and just stayed there.

 It broke my heart to see you like that . It was at that moment that we knew it was time to help you cross over the rainbow bridge.

  I have never had to make this kind of decision and Don and I both have been torn for awhile as to what to do. We have spent a lot of time praying about this This morning we knew it was time to take away your pain.

 We decided to spend a couple days with you doing all the things you love. We wanted to take you to the beach, your favorite place to be is in the water. t there. We wanted to gt you Dairy Queen ice cream and then drive around so you could feel the wind in your face one more time. We wanted to take you  swimming in the pool with your water frisbees. God, how you loved to play water frisbee. We wanted  to go to the different parks you loved and play with your red frisbees. We wanted to play basketball, your new favorite game, thanks to Amelia and Gianna. They love you so much. 

But we got up this morning and knew we couldn't let you stay any longer.  We did get you McDonalds cheeseburgers this morning. 10 of them.   You gobbled down the all 10 of those things.

 We had Jaxson come see you. He is without doubt your favorite person of all. You slept under your dads side of the bed your entire life except when Jaxson was here. You slept beside Jaxson every night he was here. You never left his side. I think some of your happiest moments were when he walked in the door. You would become so excited to see him. You were such a worry wart when he was in the pool. You stayed right there with him.   He is so sad to say goodbye but he doesn't want you to suffer either.

 Sulli used to be afraid of you but she loves you also. She will miss you as so many others will also. You make friends everywhere you go, never meeting a stranger. 

Your two brothers, Sammy and Cody are going to be lost without you. You are Cody's tug of war buddy. You two use to drive me nuts because every time your dad walked in the door from work, you and Cody would start your tug of war game  every single night. Cody would get so loud growling at you and you always let Cody win. You were such an awesome big brother, 

Sammy was boss and you knew not to cross him. Not sure why but you just wouldn't. You somehow knew not to mess with him. But I also knew Sammy was safe if he was in your care. You watched out for them both. They won't understand when you don't come home and I know they will feel this loss also. 

A few things that we are dearly going to miss is first the love in your eyes when you would look at us. You were our sweet,  gentle monster. We will miss your inside bark. Your letting us know when you wanted to play frisbee, swim and go greet the ups lady. You had her had an understanding. She would stop just to say hi to you and you always wanted to get in her truck and go for a ride We will miss you in the back seat of the truck. You loved going anywhere. You loved traveling and meeting new people. Especially kids. oh how you loved all the kids. And they loved you back. You loved going to Indianan and visiting everyone. You especially loved  Jo and Rogers farm. One of your favorite places to be. Your other favorite place to be was Laci and Johnnys house. You loved the thought of someday possibly catching a kitty cat there. lol 

You really didnt care where you were as long as you were with us. 

While you will be missed by many, your dad and I aren't  sure how we are going to handle this. I am worried about your dad. You and him had such a special relationship. He drove us all to the parks almost every night between 9 and 10 pm. Why so late? So you boys could be dogs off leash and just go sniff and run without restraints. He  doctored you with such care when you needed it. He would let you in the pool in the evening knowing if you got wet, even blow drying you, we couldn't get you completely dry and on all those nights you always curled up on the foot of the bed and slept with us. That's the only time you slept on the bed. I thought the floor must make you cold but I put down a king size thick comforter that became yours but you wouldn't sleep on it if you had been in the pool. Nope you slept with us. 

You had your dad trained extra well. At night, if you shook your collar, your dad was out of bed almost immediately. He knew you needed him. He was up all hours with you, doctoring you, giving you ice packs, and just lying in the floor with you at all hours. I woke so many times to find him lying in the floor with you, loving on you. This is going to be so hard on him. He is losing his best friend today. 

And so am I. You were my baby that grew to be my beautiful monster. You followed me everywhere. I cooked your dinner almost every night and you knew when it was 5 o clock. Time for me to start cooking. You would wait very patiently for your food while your little brothers weren't so patient. They would sit and cry and bark for me to hurry up. I am sure they annoyed you but you just ignored it.  We are going to miss so many things with you no longer here. I am going to miss just trying to get in the door because you were always there to greet us. How I'm gong to miss you.

We feel like our hearts are being ripped out right now. It hurts so much but we have to do this for you. We love you our big beautiful gorgeous monster. We can't wait to see you again. 

 Forever in our hearts, 

Loving you always, 

Mom, dad, Sammy, Cody,  Jaxson and so many others. 

Have fun running abd playing frisbee and basketball. We'll see you soon, buddy. ❤❤❤

 

1st House Flip

Don and I have talked a long time about maybe trying our hand at flipping houses.

Well, this one sort of fell in our laps so we decided to go for it and give it a try.

      

There was a lot of needed work inside and out. 

First thing was to have...

Free Cruise to Cozumel, No, OK!

Late Wednesday evening Don's phone rang. It was a Miami phone number so he wasn't going to answer it as he didn't know the number. I told him I thought it was Carnival Cruise Lines so he answered it. They told us they were trying to fill the ship and we could take a free 4 day cruise to Cozumel on the Liberty ship,

Great Gatsby Halloween Party!

 Don and I decided to throw a

" Great Gatsby Party "

so there was much to do
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  Save The Date  

DIY Bed in Wall....Final Results!

We put wood floors upstairs in the man-cave, 
click here to see , so we didn't want to use the weights for exercising in there anymore. I decided we should make one of the bedrooms our exercise room. Since Don did not want to get rid of the 

New DIY Project! Bed in Wall!

NEW PROJECT!!! 

YAY!!! 

We are now going to make one of the spare bedrooms upstairs into our exercise room. 

We don't want to use our weights over the wood floors,

Now that we have 

Huge DIY Project Finished! Part 1-Results Below!

Here is all the painting I did-

Ceiling, crown molding, baseboards, walls, doggie door, window sills, and clock.

I am getting ready to start on my kitchen cabinets. They are going to be the same color as the ceiling and crown molding. I will put the results of them in Part 2

First thing I did was tape off for the ceiling to be painted. Don removed all 

New Wood Floors!

We have been wanting to get rid of the carpet upstairs and put in wood floors. We are now doing that this week. I am so excited to finally be getting them.

Don was going to do the steps himself because they wanted as much to do them as they wanted to do

Huge DIY Project!!

Don and I are getting ready to really make a big mess. We are going to facelift the kitchen-living room area. We are going to paint walls, ceiling, baseboard, cabinets, add curtains and a few other small things. 

And the best part -
We are going to do it all ourselves. 


I have wanted to change the kitchen cabinets

and the color of the walls for quite sometime now. We have decided to get it going.  Don is going to remove all the stuff off the ceiling for me before I paint. Thank you baby!

I am going to do all of the painting and Don will do all of the caulking and prepping the back door and the pantry door. 

I have a plug at one end of the island but I really want one at the other end also.

 Don is going to put that in for me.

I couldn't decide on the colors but I now have them. The walls are going to be a light green

 with a little darker accent wall.

The ceiling will be the same white as the cabinets. Right now its more yellow.

The cabinets are going to be a slightly off white color. Right now they are pickled and I am so over these.

Will also be painting the cabinets in the living room at the same time.

 I am not going to pickle or stain these cabinets. I am going to paint them. 

May paint the island a different color than the cabinets. Not sure yet. Let me know if you think I should or not. 

I also am thinking about painting that large brown and gold clock on the wall. 

I am going to add hardware to the cabinets. Not sure what just yet.

I think I am going to have the stools upholstered.

Also going to add some curtains. This is the material and colors of them.

I found these first and took my two colors from this.

Should look like a different room by the time it is finished.

If you have any ideas or thoughts, please let me know.

xoxo
Lenetta

Awesome Surprise-Benihana Chef!!

During our week stay in Florida after we got back from our cruise, Laci planned an awesome surprise for me with Don's help.

I have always wanted to 

Pecan Pie Coffee Cake!

Pecan Pie Coffee Cake

I was in search of something different to make for dessert. I came 

across this recipe and it just sounded so good I had to try it. It was

Paleo Greek Lamb Burgers!

Paleo Greek Lamb Burgers

I was looking for a good burger recipe and found this one. 

These are really good to just make and cook but I put the extra ones in the refrigerator with all the spices mixed in for a couple days and when I took them out to cook, 

Congratulations Laci Renee!!!

And so... The adventure begins! Again! 

Congratulations on your graduation from University of Central Florida!

What a privilege it is today for me to publicly tell our 

Body Beast - Final Week-Results!

WEEK 12!!!!

WE DID IT!!!

We are so happy and proud of each other for committing to it and sticking to it. We did get off track when we went on our two week vacation but we came home and finished it!!

When we started at Week 1, I weighed in at