Outside Dog

Joey has been doing this thing lately where he goes outside, but won't come back inside. Whenever someone goes outside and calls for him or even gets near him, he just looks at them and runs away. He will stay out there literally for hours before he comes back in. What gets really annoying is when we have to go somewhere but he won't come back inside. Sometimes I can get him in by tricking him into the garage by honking the horn of the car, shutting the garage door while he's barking at the horn, and then trapping him in the corner and grabbing his collar and yanking him inside. He has caught on to all my other tricks... like using treats, trying to get him into the car for a ride (which he usually loves) and pretending like I want to pet him. He doesn't fall for anything anymore and it is getting next to impossible to get him in... except occasionally the garage thing and when Kevin calls for him. Sometimes we end up just leaving him outside when we leave. I hate doing that because I worry he's going to run away. I swear I need to just build him a dog house and he can live outside all the time!

First Realtor Meeting

Today was an exciting day for us. We had our first meeting with our realtor! Our journey of house hunting has officially began. For the meeting, we had lunch with Kathy at the Cock & Bull up the street. At the meeting, we talked about the first steps that we had to take... and we planned to meet next week to look inside some of the houses we had picked out. So exciting!! I can't wait to be on our own within the next few months.

New Hat

My mom had a coupon for a free $20 to spend on this sports fan website. Everything Reds I wanted was too expensive, so I got a hat for Kevin. It got delivered today and he was pretty excited.... it looks really cool. Reds season is upon us!! Wahoo!

Houses

Today we went out with Kevin's mom to look at houses. We spent most of the morning and much of the afternoon driving around and looking through different neighborhoods. It's actually pretty exhausting when all is said and done! This house has been one of my favorites the past few weeks, but today, we found some new ones that I liked. It's easy to say we like the outside, but you can really only tell once you start looking at the insides of houses. Hopefully, we'll be doing that soon!

Night Sky

On the way out to dinner, Kevin and I noticed the cool sky. There was a perfect crescent moon and we think two planets.. or maybe a star and a planet. It was pretty neat to look at but unfortunately, the picture didn't turn out near as cool as what it really looked like.

Eating Playdough

While in Toledo, I went to a baby art class with Jack and Nina. In the class, Jack did his handprints with paint, made a sensory plate, and got to play with playdough. He didn't really understand the concept of playdough though, because he was just interested in eating it!

Being Arteests

I drove all the way up to Toledo by myself so that Nina and I could go to a painting class. I had so much fun! We painted a lonely road. Not many people's turned out good, so the teacher gave us all a gift card to come back for a free class. I should say everyone's turned out good... everyone seemed to like mine. The teacher held it up for the class to see because she liked it and everyone else liked it and complimented it after class! I have only taken one painting class my entire life, so I was surprised people like it so much.