Wow.... What a week!

Last Saturday I was scheduled to to fly to Buffalo with Abby (my oldest). We were going North for a couple of reasons. First, to see my nephew get his black belt in Taekwondo (I was going specially to take photos). Second, my mom wanted to take Abby to get her first Manicure/Peticure done and an appointment for a hair cut. Or in the words of my mom, her first "Princess Day".

THEN, my grandmother-in-law passed on Friday... So I boarded a plane with TWO children under 4 and no wife to help. YIKES!!!! Rebecca was going to drive up to Rochester with the dogs and we would meet up later on during the weekend.... Well, everything worked out perfectly. I mean, the girls were perfect angels on the plane. Then Saturday morning my sister took Abby to get her nails done... (You will see photos later) and my mom and I took her to get hair cut. She was so happy and Madi had a good time also.

It was a huge blessing to be "home" for a couple of days and I know that my wife was a bigger blessing in Rochester for her family. Then we went to Rochester for the funeral of Grandma Lewis (or as Abby says "Gigi"). It was beautiful service and I got to sing with my sister in law (It is Well With My Soul) and if I say so myself I think we sounded great! Then, yesterday we began our long drive back to Baltimore.

As soon as we got home, my second worst nightmare happened. I had left the front door open in an attempt to bring the luggage. As I walking back towards the house, I see a flash of a stray cat running from our front yard and right on it's tail is my BEST BUD Watson... The Cat makes it across the street but Watson is hit by a pick up truck. I am powerless (and yelling on the top of my lungs NOOOOOOO) and only can see Watson disappear in front of the truck and what seemed like a life time later, Watson bounced up to his feet and ran in the house... Then the pain came and the blood was everywhere.... So we (Watson and I) made a late night trip to the emergency vet clinic. It wasn't until 1 am that we returned with the best news possible... He hurt his right front paw, the dew claw and the pad underneath his paw. After a few days or so he should be fine. No broken bones or anything... Absolutely a miracle..... Thanks God!!!

So needless to say, our week was full of ups and downs... But most of all - full of God's faithfulness!!!!

Well, below are some of the photos!!! Please feel free to comment and

Watson... Man's best friend????

Well, a couple of nights ago Watson was not my wife's best friend!!! Let me do a little set up for you...

On most nights Watson ends up on our bed (mostly at my feet). He will start the night sleeping on the floor but because I am such a heavy sleeper, he will jump up on the bed at some point in the night. He also won't get out of bed in the morning until I wake up... He really does enjoy sleeping in the morning.

So the other night the story goes like this:

It all started around 6:30 am on thursday... My wife had enough of being crowded on the bed, so she decided since Coco is an unmovable object while sleeping, that Watson had to go. So Rebecca kicked Watson off the bed and he protested like usual. He wandered around the bed looking for a place where he could curl up... Rebecca, said "lay down and go to sleep". Well, instead he went across the hall into Madi's room. He walked over where Madilyn was sleeping and nudged her swing with his nose. Of course Madilyn woke up and started to cry... Rebecca got up to get Madilyn and realized that Watson was coming out Madilyn's room very proud of himself... Almost with his nose stuck up in the air and waging his tail. While Rebecca started to take care of Madilyn; Watson took her spot of the bed and curled up next to me and went to sleep... He is such a smart dog!


Thanks for Reading!
~ Justin