Meet the newest member of the family...

ZOEY!!!  She is Uncle Blake and Aunt Casey's new daughter...hahahaha!  Uncle Blake, Aunt Casey, and Popa made a five hour car drive down to Kentucky to pick her up from the breeder last Friday.  She is a miniature Goldendoodle (she should end up between 30-40 lbs.) and just the cutest thing ever!  We went over Saturday night to visit and I took a ton of pictures...I couldn't narrow it down, so I posted a lot of the pics!  So far she has done excellent with the house training and crate training...she hasn't cried at night or had any accidents in her crate!  Hopefully, she will continue to do so good.  Zoey has a very sweet personality and I can't wait to watch my little furry niece grow up...because she won't be little for very long!

Everyone in my family LOVES dogs and Crewsie is no exception...he loves snuggling up to her!

I think she was glaring at me???  haha!  She was already sick of me taking her picture...

She was so cuddly!

Uncle Blakey and his daughter...

Aunt Casey is so happy!!!

She was getting ready to run...she looks like a little bunny...

I love this shot of the back of her furry little head...

Then she turned and caught me taking more pictures...

The next series of shots cracks me up...she starts running and then I distract her...

there she goes!

then she spots me and gets distracted...

Love her little profile...

Daddy is definitely a sucker for puppies...

Puppy kisses...

and puppy hugs...

She is so ADORABLE!  Congrats guys!

Friday night lights...

We had promised Crew last week that we would take him to his first football game, so Friday night we headed to the stadium!  Aunt Tay, Yaya, Greg, Crewsie and I all ate dinner at Angie's first and then headed to the game.  We had not been to a game since we graduated highschool and a lot had changed.  They have built new "home team" bleachers, new locker rooms and new concession stand areas.  We got there a little after the first quarter started and stayed until the beginning of the fourth.  I think Crew would have stayed through the entire game, but we wanted to beat the crowd.  Crew sported his new Grizzly hoodie from Yaya while eating popcorn and M&M's while he watched the game...and he also loved the mascot!  We thought he was really going to like the bands at half time, but he kept telling them to go away and that he wanted to see the football players!!!  Oh, and we won!

Go Wadsworth Grizzlies!  He loved the Grizzly Bear mascot!

Two new concession stand/locker rooms/restrooms/booster club booths at both ends of the field.

Our band was huge!  I couldn't believe it.

Loving it!

Our band is really good and really big!  They do a dance in the middle of one of the songs...it's fun to watch!

Mommy and her future football player?!?!?!

Just Crewser...

Nothing too exciting going on in the Eddy household this week.  Crew had his second day of preschool on Thursday and continues to LOVE it!  We are starting to get in the Fall spirit...Crewsie already suckered me in to buying 8 pumpkins ...they are the tiny little ones but still he cracks me up.  He likes to go for bike rides on his tricycle so every night I take him on a little ride around the neighborhood....I follow by foot usually steering him in the right direction or being told to "push harder Mommy" so he goes faster!  Last night he wanted to collect acorns...we ended up with a grocery bag full!  Now I need to figure out what to do with them!  I really need to get out my fall stuff and decorate the house a little because before you know it we will be decorating for Christmas...haha!

Tonight we are going to the highschool football game...Crewsie loves football and literally has been begging us to take him to a game.  Every time he sees a football game on t.v. he tells us he wants to go!  We will see how long he actually sits still and watches the game!?!?!

The above pic he was looking into my lens so I snapped a pic...gotta love the inquisitive look on his face!

Such fake, cheesy smile...what a goofball!

He draws with his sidewalk chalk almost everyday...everything has been drawn on with the chalk...my tires, his tractor, shoes, EVERYTHING has chalk dust on it!

Such a cutie...even with a slightly runny nose!

September 11th

I didn't want to completely let September 11th go by without saying anything...I usually try to keep this blog positive and it's normally all about Crew and our family...but I would be remiss not to say anything...afterall, it is a part of all of us.

Like my parents generation of recalling where they were when JFK was shot, I will always remember where and how I felt when first learning about an airplane hitting one of the World Trade towers.  I had just dropped Greggy off at a McDonalds because a friend was picking him up to ride in to work together and I was on my way to school alone.  Every morning I listened to stupid Howard Stern to give me a few laughs before heading in to class.  This morning was no different until all of a sudden he said there was a report that a plane had hit one of the towers.  At first, they thought it was an accident, but then the second one hit.  I was so scared and didn't know what to do.  I remember sitting in my car talking to my Dad and Greg on the phone and asking what was happening.  My school was very close to an airport and I remember watching through my sunroof the planes landing one after another, after another.  I went into school and everyone was standing in the hallways watching the t.v.  After they started to realize it was some sort of terrorism attack I ran out of there scared to death and went home.

I have to be honest...I was only 20 years old and I had heard of terrorism, but really didn't understand what it meant until that day.  I lived in the United States and didn't think anything like that would ever happen here...that crap only happened in far away places, right?  I remember sitting with my Dad watching the news all day, crying because I didn't really understand what was going on and what it would mean for the future.  I remember watching the towers crumble, people running...everyone was so confused and so many conflicting reports.  Then hearing about the Pentagon and a plane going down in Pennsylvania.  I feel like I grew up in a way that day that I can't really define...I've never looked at the world the same...I started paying much closer attention to the news and would come home every single day from work or school and the first thing I did was turn on the news.

I watched a lot of the coverage of the 10 year anniversary over the weekend and in a way it seems like it was just a year ago.  It is beyond heartbreaking when you hear the stories of family members recalling the last moments that they talked to their families that were on the planes.  Like the story of the people who were talking to their son and their daughter-in-law and their 2 1/2 year old little granddaughter who were on the plane who hit the second tower.  Every time I see that little girls face I feel sick to my stomach and cry.  I also think about how it started the war we are still in and I think about all of our troops fighting and all the ones who have lost their lives.  I pray for everyone who was involved that day who lost their life, who lost a loved one, all of the volunteers that helped and for all the soliders who went to war.  I also pray that we will never know this kind of loss again and pray that we are vigilant as a nation, so that my little guy will never have to "remember" a day like this.  I know I will never forget September 11, 2001.

I think the new memorial is beautiful and would love to visit it one day.