The joys of working as a dispatcher...

Yesterday was one of those days when EVERYTHING seems to get on your nerves
Here are just a couple random things that happened during my 4 hour shift

1-woman wants officer to come to her home for an unruly 13 year old. The child was being rude and running around ringing the doorbell. When he was told to go to his room he then threatened to spit on her (GASP!). This made her extremely upset, enough so to call 911. Seriously???? Your kid THREATENS to spit on you so you call 911. WOW, and we wonder what is wrong with America
~SIGH~

2-Winner #2-misuse of the HOV lane now qualifies as a 911 emergency-thank you sir, the county is safe now




3-Question of the day (asked several times by said minor) Is it legal for a restaurant to give a minor an aspirin? Hmmmmm...ponder that one for a while

Well, I think I've calmed down a little bit since my previous post. Everyone can sleep good tonight, I am not giving my dog away lol. I'm entitled to be able to threaten it every once in a while though, right? I decided maybe she is like one of those women that you see on those commercials who just ALWAYS has to go. Maybe she just can't help it. Anyway, she is staying. I haven't given up on her. I have decided that if I'm going to be gone for more than a couple hours at a time she can go outside in the kennel with the other dogs. I will consider that her exercise since she can't stop playing with them when they're together.

Ok, everyone can resume living their lives as normally as possible now :)

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!

Ok, so I totally need to vent about my little poop problem. My dog, Maisy, will be a year old this month and she is STILL not potty trained!!! She is constantly pottying in her crate and she still sneaks off and pottys in the house. I have contacted the breeder that I got her from and asked her to take her back. I cannot handle the poop anymore! I was pretty torn about what to do with her but yesterday was the final straw. After taking her out to potty in the morning around 8:00 am I put her back in her crate so I could run some errands. About two hours later I walked in the door and the smell of feces about knocked me over! Seriously....you can't hold it for two freaking hours Maisy?! I haven't actually taken her back to the breeder yet so if anyone has any suggestions please help! I am at my wits end.

Frosty the Snowman

This is our attempt at a snowman. I know, its pathetic but we had fun. Maisy has gotten into trouble a couple of times for trying to eat the poor things nose. We have saved it from her evil clutches more than once LOL.

Parker's First Field Trip

Parker's preschool class took a field trip to Jumpin Jacks. This was Parker's first school field trip and he had so much fun. They had pizza and played. Parker is such a sweet little boy. He loves school and he loves his friends. He is growing up to darn fast. Does anyone have any suggestions on slowing their growth down for, oh, maybe 30 years?

WALKING WITH THE DINOSAURS

Parker's big Christmas present this past year was tickets to see Walking with the Dinosaurs. It was absolutely incredible! Parker was fascinated. He was telling me all of the dinosaurs names throughout the entire show. He is such a smarty pants.

I didn't get any pictures of Parker looking at me :( He was to mesmerized by the lifesize dinosaurs walking around in front of him to be bothered to turn around for a half second snap shot. I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to convince him that those dinosaurs were just really really big toys and not really alive LOL.

Here are a couple shots of Parker's favorite dinosaurs.

Torosaurus

Stegosaurus

Brachiosaurus

Parker's all time favorite

Tyranosaurus Rex

Arizona Road Trip

Lake Powell

Me and Parker

John and Parker

Glenn Canyon Bridge

As most of you know my dog, Brandy, went missing at the end of August. She turned up at the Maricopa County Animal Shelter the week before Christmas. Some woman decided to steal her...but don't get me started on that. Anyway we were going to drive down and get her but one of my coworkers family members lives down there and offered to take her home until we could come down. So we agreed to that...how nice right! We were very grateful. So we made the long 11 hour drive down to Phoenix on Friday, stayed in a hotel for about 7 hours to get some sleep, picked up Brandy and drove home on Saturday. The drive is actually very scenic and the weather down there was a balmy 60 degrees! We stopped at the Glenn Canyon Dam on the way home and took some pictures. We are so happy to have our family all back together now. Brandy is a little thin and pretty tired but just in the past two days that she's been home she has already put on a couple of pounds...lots of eating and sleeping. We are so grateful to have our little girl back home where she is safe.