Update: Allie is home!!

Yesterday was awful. It would have been bad anyway, but I was super sick from allergies and super emotional from, well, I was just super hormonal.
Around 7 last night, we got a knock on the door, and there were our NEXT DOOR neighbors. One was holding the flier I had made, and the other was holding Allie! When they were leaving for work yesterday morning, Allie was trying to get into their garage. Since she didn't have a tag and they didn't know who she belonged to, they were just going to hold on to her for a day or two and see if they could find her home. They had no idea she belonged to us! They said, we haven't seen her out in the yard with y'all, and I said, well, we just brought her home last night!
D'Laney was so glad to have her home, and Allie seemed to be glad to see D'Laney. After getting her situated in the bathroom, the girls and I headed to town at 8:30 last night (bad momma!) to get all the essentials for her that I had intended on getting earlier in the day. She now has her collar and leash, toys, and food and water bowls that didn't come out of our kitchen. I didn't have all that before we got her because she was a surprise for the girls, and I wanted D'Laney to be able to help pick her stuff out. I couldn't find any tags for her, but I'm going to try to find something cute and unique for them anyway.
Allie slept in the downstairs bathroom last night, and only cried for about 15 minutes, then was quiet for most of the night. When we got up this morning, the bathroom had ZERO puddles in it! No mess at all, aside from the food she had knocked out of her bowl. D'Laney took her into the front yard and she did her business right away. I think maybe this puppy is already house broken! Too bad she won't be spending much time actually IN the house!
I "fixed" her outside pen today. Can you say redneck?!

It is standard dog kennel, which she climbed out of, with a storm door on top, to keep her in and let the sunlight through. There is a pipe preventing the storm door from butting up next to the fence, so there is a box, anchored by bricks, and an old "for sale" sign on either side of the pipe to close any gaps. The long box and wooden fence are to break the wind and keep her from digging out.
It's worked so far. She's been in there for the better part of the afternoon, and she'll start yapping every now and then, but for the most part, she seems fine.
So we're happy at the Holifield house today! Now I just need to get to the housework that I was too distraught to do yesterday. Boo!

I'd love to introduce you, but...

This is Allie. She is the most precious little boxer I've ever seen! My mom picked her up for us last week, and we were finally able to bring her home last night. Because our fence is only half way completed, we rigged up a temporary cage for her to get us through the next couple of days, until Cameron gets home from a job and can finish the fence. When we first put her in it last night, she promptly found a corner and climbed right out. We put a portion of the old fence on top of the cage, cover the two corners that didn't butt up next to the new, wooden fence. We figured she couldn't climb a straight side and wouldn't be able to get out.
At 6:30 this morning, I heard her barking outside, and was so relieved that she was still there! When I went out to feed her at 8, she wasn't.
I don't know what happened. I think that she must have figured out how to climb out again. I really don't think that someone walked into our back yard and took her.
I loaded the girls up and we drove around for an hour and a half looking for her, with no luck. I thought I might ought to feed my own children, so we came home and while they were finally getting their breakfast, I called a friend that works at city hall. No one had seen her or picked her up, but she would sure let all of the water and sewage guys know to keep their eye out for her. I made some fliers, too, and put them up at the convenient store, grocery store, post office, and city hall.
Since we just got her last night, we didn't have a collar or tags on her yet. She didn't even have a name until Friday!
My prayer is that someone saw her running around this morning while they were leaving for work, and took her in until they could look for her owners this evening when they get home. It's now 1:15, and I haven't heard anything yet.
I'm just beyond devastated. D'Laney has been asking about her all day, although she hasn't cried about it (I can't say the same thing about myself.) She keeps saying Where's Allie? Did someone take her? She even told me that Allie would say to them, I'm not your puppy, I'm D'Laney's puppy! That one broke my heart.
Please, please say a little prayer for us. Pray that Allie is safe. Pray that no one stole her. Pray that whomever found her sees a flier and has a kind heart. That they return her and not decide to keep the beautiful, sweet little girl for themselves. Pray for me not to be angry with my husband for not finishing the fence in the 8 weeks that we've known that we were getting her. And mostly, pray that if we don't find her, D'Laney (and her momma) will handle it well.

I wonder who she takes after?!

I have lots to blog about. Our amazing anniversary weekend, Brynna hit 15 months, D'Laney is the funniest kid on the planet, our upcoming getaway to Gruene, and the new addition to our family, whom we will be bringing home sunday! (The puppy, y'all, no babies!)
But not today.
We are very well aware that Cameron and I each have a mini me, but you just can't grasp just how much until you see side by side, same age pictures.
I snagged a copy of a picture of Cameron as a toddler, and had to share it. I cropped it down, it's actually a picture of all three of the Holifield kiddos. Isn't he the most precious little boy you've ever seen?!



She is so pretty. It's kinda creepy to me how much she looks like her daddy. I'm absolutely thrilled that those blue eyes were passed down.



And, to show just how much D'Laney looks like me:

I was pouting a little bit wasn't I?


So is D'Laney. Even pouting, she's gorgeous. It's weird to me to recognize that D'Laney looks just like me, and think she's so beautiful, but not think that about myself.


I think Cameron and I are in for some trouble in about 12 years!

Favorite things

My vacuum cleaner finally croaked, and so I broke down and bought a Dyson, and I do mean BROKE! My goodness those things are expensive! I got it all put together and vacuumed just the two main rooms downstairs. Apparently, my old one had been going out for a while, because this new thing sucked up a whole lotta stuff!
It's pretty much stinking awesome! The attachments, WOW! And, it's red, which ups the awesomeness a bunch.
So, since it's my new favorite toy, I decided to do a favorite things. Chey-anne does them every now and then, and I always think it's a good idea.


I'm in love with this thing.


I'm feeling a need to take better care of my skin. I had the "mask of pregnancy" show up in the form of a big brown blotch on my left cheek. My skin is also a lot more blotchy than it used to be. So I'm using a spot remover serum from Clinic for the brown spot, but the thing that makes it the most effective is wearing sun screen every day. I found this one that has an SPF, and takes a little bit of the redness out of the rest of my face. It works pretty well, and my makeup goes on a lot smoother on top of it.


All four of us love these things. D'Laney calls them the leaf crackers, I guess that's what she thinks they look like.


This wind has been killing my allergies and sinuses. I've taken Advil PM every night for a solid week!


The whole wheat aspect of these yummy things is sort of canceled out by the amounts of butter that I slab on them.


I've always said that Jane Austen is my favorite author. I love her stuff, I'm a bit of a romantic. But I realized that I've only ever read one of her books, Pride and Prejudice. I've seen several movies based on her other books, but I've never read them. I hope to read her entire collection by the end of the year. I hope.

Are you gonna kiss me or what?

Have you heard this song? I think it's so cute. Thompson Square is a husband and wife duo, and while I'm not a huge fan of their style of "country" I like this particular song. It reminds me of us.
Cameron and I were on our sixth date is as many days when he very shyly and sweetly asked if he could kiss me. I was anxious, a little scared (serious lack of dating, thus kissing, history) and said, "would you, please?!" As in, get the first kiss over with, the anticipation is killing me!
Fast forward to our wedding, and when Steve Sherrod pronounced us husband and wife, instead of saying "you may kiss the bride" he turned to me and said, "Amy, would you please?" I didn't catch it at the time, Cameron told me about it later, but I thought it was the sweetest thing ever. Sweet that Cameron remembered, and that he asked Steve to say it during our wedding.
So I absolutely love this song.

Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not - Thompson Square - Thompson Square Videos