devin and katie

twentysix | eleven

Big news! After about a year and lots of hard work, I have finally opened an etsy shop! I am really excited about it, and feel like it's been pretty well received so far. I have a lot of ideas and plenty more to add to the shop over the weekend, hopefully. It has been so much fun to design my own products and work with my husband, as well. He has been showing me the ropes in taking pictures with his fancy camera and editing with photoshop - I'm still a beginner! So far, this shop is everything I wanted it to be, and it has turned out better then I thought it would! I am so grateful for all the help I have had while getting everything together, and all of the support from my family and friends I've had over the last few weeks! Go ahead and visit my shop! There's more to come - trust me!

cooper update

Cooper is almost 7 months old! I can hardly believe it. He is FIVE YEARS OLD in dog years. And trust me, he acts like it. He is the greatest dog. He is so smart and always so sweet. He's definitely a mama's boy. He hasn't learned any new tricks lately, unless you count humping, because we are now officially dealing with that. He is 100% recovered from his neuter - you'd never even know it happened! This week has been pretty rough for him. We have been making him sleep on his own bed (instead of ours) and he is finally getting the hang of it, but he has also been waking us up to go to the bathroom several times a night, which he hadn't done in months (i think it's his revenge). He has also chewed up some carpet this week so.... we'll be using our tax return to replace the carpet in our bedroom! awesome! It's hard to be mad, but he definitely got in trouble. It could have been worse, so I'm not going to dwell. We haven't weighed cooper recently and it seemed like he sort of plateaued around 35 pounds for awhile there, but I bet he's 40 pounds by now. He is sleeping right next to me while I write this, all snuggled up. He is really great at nuzzling his cold wet nose right into you when he is sleepy. It's the cutest thing. And he snores like you wouldn't believe! We've started going to a new dog park, and everybody there loves him and he makes friends with all the other dogs every time, even the ones that are ten times smaller and ten times bigger than he is! We always joke that Cooper really knows the dog park etiquette, because he is such a gentlemen when we go, and always so well behaved. We are pretty lucky to have this little guy.