O. M. G. The. Heat.

My grandma's twin brother was in town this weekend with his wife, son, and son's girlfriend.  Ok, not in my town but in my hometown.  So of course I went home for the family barbecue.  The high today was 93.  With 77% humidity and a 110 heat index.  The drive home is about an hour.  I don't have air conditioning in my car.  Have I mentioned that before?

My brain is so fried right now that I have already forgotten what this post was about.  Oh yes, the heat.  The drive with no AC wasn't so bad because I got a breeze from having the windows down.  And even though the kids were in and out of my grandparents house that wasn't so bad either.  It was later when we went over to Iowa to fill up my gas tank.  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa.

Even though I was back last weekend for the 4th the only trip we made into town was to get fireworks (my roomies parents live south of town and in the country) so I hadn't seen the flooding yet.  When we crossed the Platte River I noticed that you could see the moisture in the air.  It wasn't foggy necessarily but there was definitely moisture in the air.  And yes, I live in Nebraska it is humid all the time but this was a new one for me.  The dew point was 82.  Crazy Business, I tell ya.

And the flooding, the water is actually starting to go down.  but it is still crazy.  Even though I knew they were there it was weird to see the sandbags along the highway.  And there were pumps everywhere to attempt to keep the water under control.

I feel like this post is all over the place and I didn't really update on the flooding. And I forgot my camera so I couldn't take any pictures.  Boo.  But yeah, it was really hot and EXTREMELY humid and my poor poor Max.  I had to give him a cold water bath when we got home because he was so hot.  Ok guys, random post over.  Sorry about all the ands in this last paragraph.  My brain is seriously mush right now.

Five!

Today is my baby's birthday.  Max is 5 today.  I love the munchkin to pieces.

He was my 16th birthday present.  Why a dog and not a car?  I wasn't really interested in driving yet so why by a car that wasn't going to be used?  Yes I had my license.  In fact I had taken drivers ed nearly 2 years earlier the summer after my freshman year of high school.  But that's really a whole different story.

I knew I wanted a dog instead.  A small dog.  We started out by looking at the humane society.  There was one dog there a terrier mix.  She had the coloring of a yorkie but she was bigger.  I decided that she was the dog I wanted.  Since we had another dog at home we had to bring her into the humane society to make sure the dogs got along.

When we got to the humane society Nikki was so excited by all the other dogs she barked a lot.  The other dog, poor baby, was terrified of Nikki's barking.  We tried bringing them outside so Nikki would calm down and that didn't work.  So we couldn't get the dog from the humane society.  So much for trying to do the right thing.

My mom knew that one of her customers at the bank bred yorkies so that was our next stop.  Both of her females gave birth to their litters on the same day, May 14th.  It was mothers day that year.  We originally went thinking we were going to get the runt of one of the litters for cheaper.  It turned out that she (or he I don't remember) was going to be more expensive.  The way we ended up with Max is because the boys were slightly cheaper.  We brought him home 8 or so weeks later.

He gets along fine with Nikki and with the 2 cats we also had.  I think that Nikki and the humane society dog would have gotten along just fine but I wouldn't give Max back either so I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to.  Even though hes a dog I can't imagine not having him.  Even though he drives me absolutely crazy sometimes I really do love the little bugger.

I mean how can anyone resist this face?  I sure can't.