Can't Believe its been 2 years

I CAN NOT BELIEVE WE HAVE LIVED IN TEXAS FOR 2 YEARS NOW.. JUNE 23RD MARKED 2 YEARS AND IT JUST SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY WE MOVED HERE AND SAID GOODBYE TO ALL OF OUR SWEET FRIENDS IN MISSOURI. I HAVE TO SAY I TRULY MISS ST LOUIS AND ALL OF OUR FRIENDS BUT TEXAS HAS BEEN GREAT AND WE HAVE CERTAINLY BEEN BLESSED.. WE HAVE EXPERIENCED THINGS WE NEVER WOULD HAVE IN MISSOURI SUCH AS HURRICANE IKE...WHEW.. NEVER WANT TO DO THAT AGAIN..WE HEARD THE WARNING AND EVERYONE SAID IT WILL JUST RAIN REALLY HARD BUT IT WONT REACH US.. WRONG IT REACHED US, IT STARTED AT MIDNIGHT WITH THE HEAVY RAIN AND THEN IT ALL STARTED, IT WAS BAD... LOTS OF DAMAGE WAS DONE AND SCHOOL WAS CLOSED FOR 2 WEEKS BUT THANK GOD NO DAMAGE WAS DONE TO OUR HOME, THE ONLY THING, WAS THE BIGGEST OAK TREE ON OUR LOT WAS UP ROOTED BUT YOU DID NOT HEAR US COMPLAINING.. POWER WAS OUT FOR 4 DAYS WHICH WAS GOOD CONSIDERING SOME PEOPLE IT WAS WEEKS... WE ACTUALLY TOOK A FAMILY TRIP TO WACO WHERE WE WERE NEVER SO EXCITED TO SEE ELECTRICITY, AIR CONDITIONING AND HOT SHOWERS.. WE LEARNED IN THAT EXPERIENCE TO NEVER EVER TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED, THE TOWN RAN OUT OF WATER, ICE AND GASOLINE NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD APPRECIATE THOSE ITEMS AS MUCH AS I DO TODAY..HOPEFULLY WE WONT EXPERIENCE ANOTHER HURRICANE FOR MANY MANY YEARS IF EVER..BUT WE LOOK BACK AND SEE WHAT GOD TAUGHT US DURING THAT TIME AND IT WAS TO BE THANKFUL FOR ALL THAT HE PROVIDES AND CHERISH THE FAMILY THAT HE HAS BLESSED YOU WITH..WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH LOTS OF NEW SWEET FRIENDS WHO WE TRULY KNOW THAT GOD HAS PLACED EACH ONE IN OUR LIVES FOR A REASON AND FOR THAT WE ARE SO BLESSED..THE BOYS HAVE JUST ADJUSTED SO WELL, THEY HAVE MADE SOME REALLY GOOD FRIENDS AND THEY BOTH LOVE SCHOOL AND HAVE DONE EXCEPTIONALLY WELL. THEY ARE BOTH INVOLVED IN SPORTS AND LOVE THEIR NEW TEAMS. ON TOP OF MOVING TO TEXAS WE ADDED 2 NEW MEMBERS TO OUR FAMILY A LITTLE BOY SHIH-TZU NAMED MAX WHO WE GOT THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL HE WAS 7 WEEKS OLD WHEN WE GOT HIM AND HE IS PRECIOUS, HE IS A GREAT DOG WHO IS JUST A DREAM AND WE ALL JUST LOVE HIM VERY MUCH, AND THEN THIS PAST APRIL JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO WE ADDED A LITTLE GIRL BLACK LAB NAMED MOLLY WHO WE GOT FOR PHILLIP FOR HIS 16TH BDAY, WHEN WE GOT HER SHE WAS 5 WEEKS OLD AND NOW SHE IS 3 MTHS AND SHE IS SOMETHING.. I AM PRAYING SHE WILL BE THE DREAM PUPPY LIKE MAX IS SOOOOOOOOOON:)WE TRULY LOVE OUR LIFE HERE IN TEXAS AND WE LOVE WHEN OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY VISIT SO THEY CAN SEE HOW GOD HAS BLESSED US.. PLEASE COME VISIT, WE MISS AND LOVE YOU ALL BUNCHES AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU SOON!! I GUESS WE NOW CONSIDER OURSELVES "TEXANS"

The Tails of Miss Molly Part 2

So Sorry it has taken me so long to post stories about Miss Molly.. All I can say is she is growing so fast and doing things in a blink of a eye that it is hard to keep up with her.. She is full of spunk and energy and keeps us laughing all the time. She is truly precious but wow I think we had forgotten what it was like to have a puppy.. To give Max credit he was so good from the day we brought him home, he honestly is like a dream puppy, he was potty trained in 2 weeks, will not go to the bathroom in the house no matter how long you are away and loves to cuddle and loves belly rubs from others.. He goes to bed when we do and wakes up when we do, he travels out of town with us and does so good in the car so needless to say we have been spoiled.. Now Miss Molly on the other hand, we always think she is doing great with the potty training and she is but she sometimes well ...has accidents..All in all she is a good puppy she is just a puppy with a BIG personality.She has learned alot of commands and behaves pretty much most of the time. She loves Max, they have truly become the best of friends. Sometimes I am afraid that she plays to rough with him because she is now lot bigger than him but he pretty much holds his own and lets her know when enough is enough! She loves the water and it is very hard to keep her out of the pool.. The boys had a Schools Out for Summer Party and had kids over to swim and she was right there in the middle of them, every time I would take a picture there she would be, so I would say she has truly adjusted to being a part of The Ray Family.If she is not in the pool and its hot outside she will do anything to get to water, the other day I filled a big plastic bowl of ice water up for her and she drank some and then she took her paws and played in it for a bit and then I noticed she took the bowl in her teeth and flipped it on to her head and back, it is so hard not to laugh at her but I do have to correct her, so I got the bowl away from her and I was getting a towel to wipe the floor and she honestly was playing like it was a slip and slide, running and sliding, like I said she keeps us laughing. If the sprinkler is on in the yard she will run and run thru it, over it,around it until it goes off.I guess it is true when they say Labs are " Water Dogs" I guess it was last week we had so much going on with the boys and I was worn out , I told Chuck I was going to take my bubble bath and go to bed so I went in climb into my bath, turned the jets on and laid back and relaxed, well about 5 mins after being in there with silence and total relaxation GUESS WHO JUMPS IN... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH so I start yelling Chuck Chuck come get her and she was loving it so finally we get her out dried off and put to bed, I have now learned to lock the doors when its bubble bath time. Stay Tuned for more adventures of Miss Molly the Water Dog...