Mid-Week Puppy Smiles

Well it isn't exactly Monday - but Wednesday is pretty close right?!?! As much as I wanted to have Puppy Picture Monday - somehow being trapped by the snowstorm made the puppy picture update pretty much impossible. Never fear though! First thing this morning, I got out my trusty camera and the puppy picture-a-thon began! Look how adorable our doodle babies are!

Nutmeg's Red Caramel Baby

And her sweet Chocolate Babies

They are the sweetest little chocolate bundles of love

Birdie's Goldendoodle Puppies are just starting to open their eyes

They are getting their first glimpse of their sweet mommy

So snuggly!

AND Our Double Doodle Babies are finally here!!!!

We have 5 new Double Doodle puppies to love!

I say today is one happy Spring Day of Puppy Doodle Cuteness!

Happy First Day of Spring!

I MADE IT BACK!

What started out as a simple puppy delivery turned into a battle of the winter storm! As I was driving home, the ice and snow just got worse and worse until finally I had to give up.

The roads weren't exactly clear!

Thank goodness I listened to Mr. Yesteryear Acres and brought my winter coat!

The view from my front windshield. This made me think that continuing to drive was not in my best interest. 

I decided that I might as well enjoy the weather! What's more fun than walking in a mountain winter wonderland?

My hood kept filling up with snow

The woods were so peaceful and beautiful as giant snowflakes continued to fall from the sky

Safe and WARM in my room for the night!

The early morning view from my room. I couldn't believe how beautiful it was! You couldn't even see the mountains yesterday!

The drive home today was MUCH better. Despite the fierce wind, the driving was easy and......I AM FINALLY HOME! YAY! Oh home...how I missed you!

Winter Storm

I definitely thought I would be home by now. I definitely thought the worst of the winter weather was finally behind us.  I mean it IS mid-March! Well it looks like the snowstorm and ice storm in the mountains has different plans for me.  The winter snowy ice-filled storm in the mountains is keeping me from getting home to my sweet Mr. Yesteryear Acres and my son and seeing Mr. Yesteryear Acres Mommy (and Dad too).  When my older daughter was at the Naval Academy there was a horrible blizzard that really hit the mountain pass hard.  I ignored all the storm warnings.  I ignored all the blizzard warnings.  I drove about 25mph as my top speed through a blinding snowstorm and vowed never to do that again.  It took me over 15 hours to get home and I passed so many overturned cars and trucks.  It was the scariest drive of my life.  And so I read the freezing rain, ice and snowstorm warnings and unlike last time - I believed them! I will have to wait it out until the storm passes before tackling the mountain route. When they say "winter storm" here, they mean it!

Puppy Love Found!

Olive's sweet puppies looked at me with blinky sleep-filled eyes when I turned on the lights at 5am this morning. I felt the same way! It was way too early to be awake! Mr. Yesteryear Acres and I loaded the puppy mobile with a few of Olive's precious baby and off I went.  The drive today was long as I was very worried about Mr. Yesteryear Acres Mommy.  She isn't doing so well and it literally breaks my heart to see her in such pain.  I just hope she starts feeling better soon!  The puppies were FANTASTIC travelers though!  They all get gold stars for the day! It was such fun to meet the new puppy families. Mr. Orange Collar boy even got to meet his new family! After I posted his pictures on my blog, he was chosen right away by a super nice family. When I pulled into the puppy meeting place,  one boy was eagerly waiting for me with his leash and collar in hand.  He was so full of pure joy, it just made my day.  He was the picture of complete happiness. The puppy felt the same way too! It was so adorable! The other puppy families were equally as happy and it was a great puppy time!

Looking for Love

This morning will be my son's first outing since his concussion.  Yesterday afternoon, he finally started feeling much better. I was so happy to see his smiling joking happy self! He even went on a walk with me.  He was so glad to be outdoors and the doodle doggies went crazy because they got to go on a walk with him.  They have been waiting forever! It was literally the best walk ever. Me and my smiling happy not-in-pain son! This morning my son is still feeling great so we are heading out the door to go visit Mr. Yesteryear Acres Mommy in the hospital.  She is really not feeling well.  We are bringing movies with us so when we are not with her, she has something to do.  My son and I are both really looking forward to spending the day with her! Tomorrow I will be driving ALL DAY LONG. I have to deliver some sweet doodle puppies.  Sadly, we did just have a last minute cancellation on a puppy.  He is ready for his new home starting tomorrow and is looking for love!  I can deliver him tomorrow if anyone is interested. He is a happy-go-lucky sweet puppy who just loves everyone!

Mr. Orange Collar Boy 

Has an awesome coat

Loves to play

Can give High Fives

Is great at fetch

Comes when he is called

Even from far away

And is great at going potty OUTSIDE.  He is a sweetie!

Puppy Pack Time

Today I am getting all of Olive's puppies ready for their big weekend. It is time for them to meet their new families!  Olive's puppies are getting baths and nails trimmed and the whole spa treatment! It is beauty spa day!  I also am getting the Yesteryear Acres Favorite Things Puppy Care Packages ready.  I have food and blankies and toys and brushes plus other adorable puppy things that go into each care package. My living room floor looks like a Pet Store! I have a pile of blankets, I have a pile of collars, I have a pile of leashes, etc.  I suppose it is good exercise! I have to walk from puppy pile to puppy pile picking up one item and putting it into the care bag.  I always have to count out loud to make sure I don't miss anything.  I mean you can't send a puppy home without a snuggle toy! The only hard part about putting together the puppy packages is keeping the doodle doggies out of the living room while I am doing it.  They LOVE to "HELP" me.  "OH BOY! A FRISBEE! I WILL GO PLAY WITH THIS FOR YOU!"  It is all I can do to get all the puppy toys into their care packages before one of my doodle doggies runs off with one of their favorites.  It never fails.....I always seem to turn around and a rag bone or orange bunny is clearly MIA. Doodle Doggies COME BACK!  Those are for the PUPPIES!

No food at ALL????

Poor Mr. Yesteryear Acres Mommy!  She is back in the hospital.  She had to go to the emergency room last night and was admitted.  She will be there for at least a week! I feel so sad for her.  She really isn't feeling well and there isn't anything I can think of to make her feel better.  She is not allowed to have ANY food or ANY water. Not even ice chips! She is not allowed to eat a thing and it will be like that for days and days. What can I do?  I am the "I will make you a loaf of fresh baked bread" person. I am the "I made you chicken soup with homemade noodles or chicken and dumplings or fresh baked chicken pot pie" person.  I don't have any ideas on what to do for her except tell her that I love her and that she is SO important to me and no matter what she needs, big or small, she just has to ask and I will do it! Feel better soon.  We miss you!

It's On

To say I am a little competitive would be a gross understatement.  I love to win.  I mean I LOVE to win.  In any competition between my sister and I - it is ON.  Full on blitz!  Since the beginning of this year I have been sporting a pedometer of sorts.  It is an AWESOME little gizmo that calculates how many steps I have taken in a day, the distance traveled, how much of my day was active, how much of my day was me sitting on my chair barely moving and how many flights of stairs I have gone up. The goal of every day is 10,000 steps and 10 flights of stairs.  Whenever I go way over my goal, I get an email that says, WAY TO GO OVERACHIEVER" and I LOVE that.  My younger daughter has the same device and we are linked together online so that I can see how she is doing and she can see my progress as well.  She has SERIOUSLY been beating me while she is in Europe.  I will feel fantastic and reach 15,000 steps in a single day, log on to our account, and she has walked 24,000 steps and 16+ miles.  Yes she is REALLY beating me.  So far it has been a contest between my daughter and me......until today!  My sister now has one! YES!  Now it is really on!  My sister and I have been obsessively checking each other's stats all day long.  I can tell when she is on her 18th flight of stairs and I have to JUMP up out of my chair and run up the steps for good measure.  Mr. Yesteryear Acres asked me if the goal was always to out walk my sister. Ummmmmm?...... YES! It. Is. On!

Midnight Snack

Oh my goodness.  How can I resist? How can I find the willpower?  How can I find the strength to ward off the deliciousness that awaits me in my kitchen?  Sitting on my counter, in my kitchen, are mouth-watering delights of goodness.  My mom had a long, long, long, drive and late last night at 11:30pm, she dropped off some goodies on her way home. What goodies you ask?

Caramel Covered Marshmallows
Caramel Covered Rice Krispy Treats
Homemade Caramels
and
Mr. Yesteryear Acres favorite.....Milk Chocolate Bear Claws

Oh no!  They are so goooooooooooood! They are so yummy!  They call to me all day long!  I can hear the marshmallows saying, "I am so lonely. Come and taste how yummy!"  Last night there was simply no will power to stop.  There Mr. Yesteryear Acres and I sat, at midnight, with our box of heavenly goodness, and we ate.  And smiled.  And ate some more.  AND to make it even more perfect, Mr. Yesteryear Acres sat with me as I watched the season finale of a ridiculous show that I love. It was a THREE HOUR finale.  I didn't even get to sit down to start watching it until 10:45pm!  And we saw the whole thing.  True love?  I think so!  And as luck would have it.....we have just enough goodness left for round two tonight! Midnight snack?  Yes please!

Every Monday is Full of Puppy Smiles

Olive's puppies will be going home this weekend.  They are SO sweet and SO adorable!  We just love them!

Playing out in the warm sunshine is always fun!

We can tell stories

And play fetch with Mr. Yesteryear Acres

He has the best toys

My name is going to be "Sully"

  

I'm going to fly on a plane to Arizona!

Smile!

We have brand new chocolate and red caramel puppies to love.

They look like a box of chocolate and caramel delight!

So many beautiful colors!

And our sweet golden Birdie delivered the most beautiful goldendoodle babies!

Happy Monday!

One Hour LESS? ACK!

Oh my gosh! Who ordered one hour less sleep today? I could REALLY use that hour.   I miss it so!!!!  Let's see....here at Yesteryear Acres we have....

Cared for our recuperating son

Cared for Mr. Yesteryear Acres Mommy

Said goodbye to some of our adorable double doodle babies as they left for their new homes

Said hello to some new doodle babies that were born....in the middle of the night

And made lots of food and care packages to take over to Mr. Yesteryear Acres parents' house. Mr. Yesteryear Acres went over this evening as his Mommy just got home from the hospital!  YAY!  We had homemade breads and rolls and dinners and side dishes and more dinners.  I am pretty sure they are set for the week!

All with one less hour to the day! Man. I am tired! And for everyone that can't wait for tomorrow......
Introducing our sweet Birdie!  She is McGyver's daughter and our newest Mommy!

She is the sweetest girl

With a heart of gold

She loves everyone

And will follow you wherever you go

She is a faithful, stay-by-your-side, doggie

AND here are her new Goldendoodle babies!

Awwww....so little

AND because we had one LESS hour......

Nutmeg had her Red Caramel and Chocolate Babies too!

She totally didn't want to be left out of the fun!

I wonder what I would do with that extra hour?

Hmmmm.... I think.......SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!

THREE Year Blogiversary

Today marks my third year anniversary of writing my daily blog. This will be my 1,109th consecutive post - as I have not missed one single day of writing since I started writing my blog on March 9th, 2010. Some days writing my blog is SO easy! I have a million things that are "blog-worthy" and I can't wait to write my blog of the day.  Other days, all that has happened is that I cleaned up puppy poop, I cleaned up the house, I cleaned up puppy poop, I washed dishes and then I cleaned up puppy poop again. It is a little harder to be creative on those days.  Everyone here at Yesteryear Acres is VERY conditioned to know that if something remarkable happens - either good or bad - I will write about it.  Sometimes my son will say, "OH NO!  This will be in your blog won't it!?!?"  My response? "YOU BET!"  It is all fair game here! In reading my blogs, I think you get a good sense of our life here at Yesteryear Acres.  The good.  The bad.  The happy. The sad.  You know.....LIFE!  Life is definitely a mixture of all of that.  The hard days make you even more grateful for the easy days.  The sad days make you more grateful for all the happy days.  I can say that I am grateful for every day. I am grateful for every day I get to spend with my loving family. I am grateful for every day I get to spend with my sweet doodle doggies and sweet doodle puppies. I am grateful for every day I get to write my blog and share our life here at Yesteryear Acres with you. A grateful life is a happy life and I know for sure - I am one lucky happy blog writing, family loving, doodle puppy lover! Happy Three Year Blogiversary to me!

Heading Home

Tomorrow Eloise's sweet Double Doodle puppies start heading to their new homes.  Our first puppy leaves here at 9am and our last puppy heads home late tomorrow afternoon.  It will be puppyful puppyfun puppytastic all day long.  Today I got all the puppies groomed, puppy nails trimmed, puppy food ready, puppy care packages ready and still had time for the puppies to have some nice recess breaks outside.  The sun was shining and although it wasn't warm, it was still a good day for puppy play.  The puppies have been SO good about going to the bathroom OUTside and are such loves! They come running when they are called and are just the sweetest bunch. I am excited for them to meet all their new puppy families!  I know it will be love at first sight! Puppyriffic!

Laughter and Good Friends

I am so thankful for the many emails, posts and texts asking how my son is doing.  I really appreciate all the love!!!!!  I have to say - they are definitely the highlight of my day.  Today I received the FUNNIEST email from an awesome  friend of mine.  She said, "This will be you in 40 years" I opened up my email and it was a video of a very elderly lady dancing.  I mean she was breaking it down!!!!  It was AWESOME!  At the end of the video she said, "I could dance all @%*&!@ DAY!"  Oh my gosh!  I cracked up out loud!  I had just finished vacuuming the upstairs and of course I had my music on and of COURSE I was dancing while I was vacuuming. I literally had just been thinking about how much I love to dance.  It was great timing and an awesome video and so awesome she thought of me!  I laughed all day long every time I thought of it.  Another good friend of mine asked me how my son was doing.....followed by asking me how my son was doing. She has the short term memory situation down!  She totally summarized my day with that! I love my friends!  THANK YOU!

Video Chat

This morning my older daughter was lucky enough to get a real bona fide snow day! The Marine Corps Base was under Code Red and she didn't have to report to duty. She was so excited. She thought her snow days were long behind her.  The timing was great as she just got back from being out in the field since last week and hadn't slept for days.  She had the whole day to catch up on sleep and get some much needed food and she was able to finally warm up. This afternoon she had time to video chat with me and that was AWESOME! I haven't talked to her in a long time and I loved seeing her sweet face.  She got to talk to me, she got to talk to Mr. Yesteryear Acres, she got to check up on her brother AND she got to talk to the doodle doggies and doodle puppies. Guess who she was MOST excited about seeing on the video chat? Was it me, her sweet Mom who loves her so dearly? Nope.  Was it sweet Mr. Yesteryear Acres who loves her so dearly? Nope. Was it her brother who is still at home recovering from his head trauma? Nope. WAS IT THE DOODLE DOGGIES?!  Of course it was.  She had the BIGGEST smile on her face when the doggies came on the camera.  She talked to all of them.  She talked to every puppy. The doodle doggies were SO excited to see her.  The second they heard her voice they all came running.  The puppies were pretty happy with all the extra attention as well.   I love snow days.  To me, they always bring extra special family time and snow filled happy memories.

The Orange Juice is Beautiful

The past few days have been exhausting to say the least.  I have been super busy with the puppies and taking care of my son and making some extra meals for my mother-in-law.  She hasn't been feeling too well and needs surgery this Friday.  She will be in the hospital for a few days so I wanted to be sure to get enough meals made to take care of Mr. Yesteryear Acres parents.  I finally sat down last night at 12:15am and was going to relax and watch some TV but instead just went to bed and collapsed.  I was still tired this morning when the alarm went off but Mr. Yesteryear Acres had my coffee all ready as soon as my feet hit the floor. It was so good that it wasn't too long before I was back in action. I have been busy crossing things off my list all day. I have a couple of roaster chickens in the oven, roasted potatoes and carrots. I figure that will make a few nice meals.  Everyone loves slow-roasted chicken when they don't feel well.  Remarkably my son REMEMBERED what was for dinner tonight!  He told me twice that we were having chicken!  This is huge progress! Yesterday he could not remember the word bicycle no matter how hard he tried. When I brought him a glass of Orange Juice - he took a sip and said, "The orange juice is beautiful".  Now I know the color orange IS beautiful but what he meant to say was delicious. Yes, we still have some progress to make BUT he does know we are having chicken for dinner! I think we are on the way to feeling better! Hurray!

Puppy Break

Today I really enjoyed my puppy break. The SUN was shining when we went outside! It felt like a miracle! It snowed all day yesterday and tomorrow we are supposed to get a big snowstorm so I thought it was particularly kind of Mother Nature to bring out the sun for Puppy Picture Monday.  The puppies loved it too!

We are coming Mr. Yesteryear Acres!!!!

Three Chocolate cuties!

We are perfectly in sync!

Our Double Doodle puppies are almost ready to go home

They are complete snuggle bears!

Here they are trying to make a Greeting Card cover

Is this how you do it?

How about this one?

We are so adorable!

Happy Monday!!!!

Slow and Steady

It looks like my son might be home for a while.  I don't see any signs of him returning to school quite yet.  He is unable to sit up for more than 20 minutes and doesn't have much mobility.  He is still in the "everything hurts" stage.  The biggest concern of course is his short term memory problem.  I am hopeful that this continues to improve because even though I like seeing him smile when I say I am making a big batch of Tapioca Pudding for him - it scares me a bit when it is the 20th time I have told him that. I have gotten a lot of thanks though! "OH THANK YOU MOM! I LOVE TAPIOCA PUDDING!"  I have heard that a number of times today.  I just brought up a small bowl of tapioca pudding, so hopefully he will remember that he ate it! I have homemade rolls rising in the oven but I thought I would just surprise him with that.  Actually every time I tell him something, it is a surprise (over and over again) so I thought I would wait until he had the rolls in his hands. Surprise!  I made you rolls! That way he can be eating the rolls before he forgets that I made them. I figured this is a good plan! Between the homemade goodies and the doodle doggies constantly by his side, he should continue to get better.  I am hoping tomorrow we will see a big improvement. Nothing says feel better than doodle doggies and homemade goodness.

Therapy Doggies

Yesterday was quite the long day.  I believe I made a minimum of 25 trips up and down the stairs checking on my son....and that was before lunch! My son is really sore and it is hard seeing him in so much pain.  I was reminded MANY times yesterday that he had a concussion and I have to say each time, it frightened me a little. For instance - my son asked no less than 12 times what was for dinner. "Hey Mom, What's for dinner?"  I replied, "Slow Roasted Pork, German Noodles and Green Beans."  5 minutes later, "Hey Mom, What's for dinner?"  The worst was when I came up to his room WITH his dinner and he asked me what was for dinner.  Then I gave him his dinner and he asked me what was for dinner.  Then his plate was on his lap, his fork was in the pork and he said, "What's for dinner?"  Head injuries are just so scary!  I managed to get some sleep last night and today seems to be a little better.  He made a plea to have a therapy dog by his side 24/7.

He said he really really really needs the doggies ON his bed

He sent me this picture so I could see how much therapy assistance he was getting

Blossom says, "I will be a therapy doodle doggie!"

"Choose us! We will never leave your side!!!!"

I have to say, the smile on my son's face when the doggies are with him is the best sight in the world. Our sweet therapy doodle doggies are making him feel better and hopefully today, he will remember what's for dinner!

Back Home

After a long night at the hospital we are back home.  My son has an acute contusion of his head, a severe cervical sprain, an acute contusion of his neck and  a concussion. He is restricted from all activity for the next 3-5 days and it will be some time before he is cleared for sports again.  He is in quite a bit of pain but we are so grateful nothing is fractured and so glad to be back home.  I am setting up a movie marathon for him and hopefully with the medication and neck support, he will get some much needed rest.  Thank you to everyone who was thinking of us.  That meant so very much to me.  I rushed out of the house so quickly, I left my phone at home and my ipad died shortly after arriving at the hospital so I didn't have any way to update or answer any calls or texts.  I was so frustrated at having left my phone at home. I couldn't even call Mr. Yesteryear Acres to let him know what was happening. I will have to do a better job of remembering my phone next time I dash out the door at 100 mph! Thanks again for all your support. Mr. Yesteryear Acres has made me a fresh delicious cup of coffee and I am all set for nurse duty! Glad to be home!

Hoping Not Serious

Where am I right now? If you guess Urgent Care - you win. Oh. My.  Can I  get a frequent flyer card or something? Can I have a dedicated room? My son was injured during track practice. He has what appears to be a severe head injury and neck injury. The doctors at the Urgent Care are thinking possible cervical fracture. Right now they are fitting him with a cervical brace and it looks like we will be transferred to the Emergency Room by ambulance. I just hope my boy is okay.  He is in a lot of pain.  We hope we can be seen here and it is something less serious like a soft tissue injury.  No scratch that - we are definitely headed to the emergency room. The doctors just came in and said he has to go. The ambulance just arrived and they are coming to get him.  I will be following behind. Looks like we are in for a long night.  

PuppyLaPalooza

Today was puppy shopping day! After all the neat things I got to see at the Global Pet Expo, I just had to order some for our sweet Yesteryear Acres Doodle Doggies and Puppies. I was lucky enough to receive several discount codes/coupons that expired at the end of this week so the shopping had to get done right away. I got to spend my day browsing through hundreds of cute toys and collars and leashes and everything doodle. Shopping for our Yesteryear Acres Doodles is always so much fun. I found some new toys that I think the puppies will really love and I stocked up on some old favorites as well.  I can't wait for the big order to arrive.  It will feel like Christmas.  My doggies are already well trained - they know that the Mail Carrier always brings something good - and this time there will be goodies for everyone.  So exciting!  It will be PuppyLaPalooza around here! Okay Delivery Man - The Doodles are Ready!