Relief!

So, last night was probably one of the saddest nights for us. We have these frogs that live on our garage that we absolutely adore. Chris, more so than I do. Every night when we get home from work, we immediately check out the garage to see which frogs are out. We have named about 4 of them, but we usually recognize all of them, well, until all of the babies came recently. Now, there are some tiny ones that we don't have names for yet!

Well, anyways, last night, I had to put the garage door up to put something in. As I was going to do that, Chris told me I shouldn't put it up because our very favorite frog was on the door. I insisted that it was okay, because I had done it before and he just took a ride up and then back down when it shut. So, after I put the garbage can in, we went back out so we could make sure that King got back down okay. Well, we ended up watching in horror as the door came down and poor King's left front foot was in the crack between panels. Unfortunately, we saw it happen inslow motion. Chris tried to grab King. I ran to the car to hit the button to put the door back up and open up the crack, but we were both too late. King's foot got stuck in the crack. It was awful. When the door went back up, King quickly hopped down and we saw that his front paw had been cut off, and he wasn't moving. We knew we had to get him out of the garage so he wouldn't suffocate in there, so we approached him to put him in a jar and take him out, but he hopped away. We were both relieved to see him hop off. He didn't look healthy though.

So, I had several dreams about him last night, and in the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep, for fear that I had killed him, so I would get up to look for him in the bushes that he jumped in to- no King.

This morning, the whole drive home, all I kept thinking was, I would like nothing more than to see King on the garage door when we get home. I really didn't think it would happen, as the door crushed him good, but sure enough, he was sitting on our garage when we got in. His paw doesn't look to good, but he looked happy and still managed to stick to the side of the house! What a wonderful homecoming!!! I have learned my lesson and will be more careful with the frogs from now on!

Chris's Birthday

Well, we have had a really eventful past few weeks. Two Saturdays ago, I left work early to go to House of Blues with Chris to see My Morning Jacket- one of Chris's favorite bands. The show was absolutely amazing. We saw them a few years back in PA, and I think this show was even better. There is one song in particular that they played that I am now obsessed with- "Highly Suspicious." I have been playing it constantly on itunes since the show.

This past Friday, Chris's parents came in town to come to our cookout on Saturday. It was so much fun, and it was our first time hosting an event at our house! We had about 20 people over and we have never had some much food in our refrigerator. We are just now able to put stuff in without having to shuffle stuff around for a good 10 minutes before being able to close the door! I made some tasty desserts- Strawberry pie and candy pecans. That was fun. Travis and I also made some amazing fruit salads.

On Saturday evening, we had some evacuees from Key West come stay with us until this morning. Travis got to take them to Disney World with him several days that they were here, so we got to do our civic duty of introducing some new guests to Disney World!

Sunday was the opening day for the Eagles, so Chris and his parents went to a restaurant down the street to watch the game. I had the most wonderful afternoon off. It was my first day off around the house in about 7 months, so I savored every minute of it and watched Moulin Rouge about 3 times- it was great!

On Monday, we took the day off for Chris's birthday. We fed some birds at a lake near our house and then went to lunch at a little rinky dink place called "Jimbo's Pit BBQ," which is about 5 minutes from our house. This restaurant was so shady that they didn't even have restrooms in the buiding- we had to use outhouses. The food was amazing though! We met up with Travis and co. at WDW after that to ride some of our favorite rides- Expedition Everest, Rock n Roller Coaster, Toy Story Mania- and of course no trip to Disney World would be complete without a soft pretzel!

Things have quieted down a bit now, and we are looking forward to my dad coming to visit on Saturday. So, we will have a full house the majority of the month, but we like it! :-)

Looking forward, we have randomly just planned a weekend trip to Atlanta in October to see Ryan Adams, Ray Lamontagne, and take a Gone with the Wind tour. At my husband's expert advice, I waited to purchase the Ray tickets, and he sold out overnight, so we are going to have to find some from a scalper in the next few weeks! Lesson learned- don't ever wait to buy something you really want!