The Girls First Party

We started this past weekend off with having Tom over for some drinks and salsa making on Friday night. Tom makes the best homemade salsa I have ever eaten. Andy and I have tried to duplicate his salsa recipe before but it just didn’t turn out right, so we asked Tom to come over and show us how to make it. We had a pool party on Saturday to go to and we wanted to bring his homemade salsa, but we wanted it to taste like Tom makes it. We learned what we did wrong and now we are hoping the next time we make the salsa it turns out great.

Since we were going to be gone most of the day on Saturday for the pool party we got up and took the dogs for a nice walk to help tire them out. Then we let them play in the backyard for a while to help tire them out even more so they wouldn’t do any damage in the kitchen while we were gone. To ensure no damage we went to PetSmart to get some chew bones. When we got back our friend Amber, who was hosting the pool party, called and told us we could bring the dogs so we wouldn’t have to leave at a certain time to get home to take them out. Initial reaction…bad idea, I mean, didn’t she read last week’s blog about the naughty girls? When I asked her about how naughty our dogs are, she said it still wasn’t a big deal as they would be outside all afternoon with everyone else. Still, this wasn’t making me feel any better. I told her I had to talk to Andy about this one. Andy’s first reaction was definitely a “No.” After much discussion we agreed to give the girls one shot to prove to us they can be well behaved around other people. So, we packed up an arsenal of supplies in case if they were very naughty. We needed treats, bones, their favorite toys and of course a busy bone. Got the bag of supplies and the dogs in the car and as we were pulling out of the driveway we were still second guessing ourselves and Andy said “Here goes the number one bad idea for the day.” I agreed with him.

We got to our friends house and of course the girls were pretty excited to be around the people and the newness. Izzy trampled over Amber’s freshly planted flowers and there was no stopping her. I apologized to Amber and let her know she probably would not have any flowers by the end of the day. Amber is so good because she said it was no big deal and she didn’t care. Man, she is better than I am because I think I wouldn’t have been so calm about somebody’s dog destroying flowers that I just planted that morning. By the end of the day most of the flowers survived Madison and Izzy. It was pretty impressive. Izzy only be-headed two of the flowers and they trampled over them numerous times and the flowers for the most part survived all of this chaos. Madison found a target on this cute five year old boy who was carrying pita chips in his hand out of the house. Madison obviously is smart enough to know that she can get the pita chips from this defenseless little boy. It was cute to watch because the little boy didn’t even care that Madison just stole the chips from his hand. Every time the little boy had food Madison was right there trying to take advantage of him. It was too funny! There was so much going on that the girls didn’t even get into trouble or destroy anything, which by the way was very impressive. They did jump quite a bit on people, mainly the two women holding the babies that were there. For some reason Madison and Izzy were fascinated by the two babies. I don’t know if it’s the smell of babies or their diapers, but they were very interested. All-in-all it was a good day. We didn’t leave until just after midnight so Madison and Izzy were up all day long with no naps and plenty of activity. These two dogs crashed as soon as we got home and they slept until 7:30pm on Sunday night. We couldn’t get them up for anything. Andy even vacuumed and they didn’t even move. It was great! We didn’t have to deal with their shenanigans at all on Sunday. Taking them to the pool party was the best idea ever! I think we need to take them to Camp Campbell more often so we can have more quiet Sunday’s. These two have proven they can behave themselves at other people’s homes so bring on the party invites as these two girls are ready for more parties.