How many lives do dogs have??

So I know that cats are supposed to have 9 lives, but what about dogs? Because I am pretty dang sure that Rosie our oldest dog is running out of lives and luck.
This 24th of July she got spooked by the fireworks and hopped the fense on the deck.
Sadly, she found her way to a very busy street and got hit hard by a car.
Her whole front leg is completely torn apart. She has no skin left at all, and the bone on the top of her arm is totally exposed, as well as the wrist area.
Here is a picture...as I said before she is very scard of cameras so I had to take this with my phone so it didnt have a flash-



Its one of the sadest things I have seen in a long time. The Vet doesnt know how much nerve damage was done to the leg so he isnt positive she will be able to walk on all four legs again. Luckily, she hasnt had any fluid in her lungs and no sign of internal bleeding but the vet did say she isnt out of the woods yet.
Sean is so sweet about picking her up and taking her outside in the morning and evening to use the ladies room.
The doctor gave us hunter green bandages and I wasnt a fan of that, so they were kind enough to switch it out for yellow and pink...she is a girl.
The hardest part has been changing her bandage every day. Its a method called wet to dry where we have to put wet gauze on her wounds and wrap in up once a day. The next day we have to literally rip it off her. It is so painful for her and she just cries and cries. Its AWEFUL. Its not a pretty site at all.
The cutest part of this whole story is Sean. It was the day before the house had to be finished and there were a million people up at the house frantically trying to finish and Sean rushed home to take Rosie into the vet and he just sat there with us the whole time. I thought it was the sweetest thing ever.

Wipeout

Ok, I havent been a huge TV watcher since I was in high school. Sean and I were talking the other day how we dont have any shows we ever watch excepts the animal channel before bed.
But I saw a preview for the show Wipeout on ABC and watched it last night. I seriously couldnt stop laughing. Did anyone else see this show and did anyone else think it was as funny as me? When I laugh really hard I pull a really ugly face and I could feel that ugly face through the whole thing. I dont know what it is, but I naturally LOVE to see people attempt to do stupid things, and especially "wipeout". Call me insensitive or call me my fathers child but I love it. I have never added a video so I hope it works.
I hope it gives you a good laugh like it did me.
(Sorry I could only find a preview or else the videos were really long).

Grandma & Grandpa Kemp

This weekend was a really fun/emotional time. My grandma and granpas house that my dad and his sisters, and in later years me and my cousins grew up in has been sold.
It is going to be so hard to see the house go. Not only has it been sold, but it will be torn down in the next couple of months.
This house holds SO many memories. I could go on and on about my grandma and grandpa and that house. My grandpa died about 5 years ago on this September 11 and my grandma died on Christmas Eve of 2006. Their house has a big beautiful yard that was just too hard for everyone to keep up. Its going to be so sad to see that house go but I am so happy for the millions of memories I have at that house.
For the past year or so all my dad and his sisters have fairly drawn for certain items in the house. This weekend we took everything out of the house and the grandkids were able to draw for some items. Here are a few treasures we got!
Left To Right- Kaysie got a cool piece of pottery, Julie got a sweet mug with a bonus, grandpas glasses! Ashley got grandpas homemade money holder for his travels and I got another sweet pottery piece and grandpas winter hat!




We roasted hot dogs and smores..



And sat around the fire telling our favorite stories of the house and our grandparents...

We stayed up late as 2:00 AM rolled around we had our last family sleep over in the back yard

I think our family is incredibly lucky for how close we all grew up. Our aunts were like moms to us,and our cousins like brothers and sisters. Someone once joked that our family got together 364 days of the year. I wouldnt have traded it for anything.






My top 10 favorite things about Grandma, Grandpa and that house
*Grandmas rice pudding
*Grandpa taking me ice skating
*4th of July sleepovers and grandpa waking up singing and dancing in his PJ's
*Sleep overs with Merz
*Golfing in the back yard
*Picking raspberries from the garden
*Grandmas famous brown bowl filled with a little something for everyone
*Playing cards with grandma eating wheat toast
*Christmas in the front living room and bugging the parents in the back living room
*All the traditions they passed down to us