Our Dog has class

At least that is what our bumper sticker says. Zeus graduated from obedience school yesterday. They had a little ceremony of sorts. We got to take pictures with a little graduation hat on and they played musical paws...like musical chairs but you have to get your dog to do a trick before you can sit down. It was a little lame, but the classes were great! Zeus learned how to sit, lay down, shake, come, stay, do push ups (sit and lay down over and over again), and he is just a more obedient dog over all. We still have our struggles...like he wont leave one of my decorative pillow alone (he likes to eat the buttons) and rarely we will have an accident :( but it has been a long time. He still chews on fingers when he is really excited but he doesn't really try to hurt and he is getting better at that. We are taking a break from the classes for a bit, but the next class we are going to put him in is a trick class. He will learn to play patty cake, crawl, take a bow, and jumps and stuff. We are excited for that, but are glad to have our Saturdays without a class in the middle of the day. Good Job Zeus!

Bountiful Baskets

Check out our latest find. Its a co-op for produce. It is called Bountiful baskets and it is all over the phoenix valley. Basically, this company buys produce wholesale because they buy in bulk for all the people that join. Some of it is fresh from local farms and other products are the same are you would get a store. This was our first week trying it, and we love it! It costs 16.50 each time you do it. (the first time there is an additional 3.00$ charge) Pick ups are on Saturdays and you select your location from about 30 different location choices. you go to the location at the designated time and they have 2 small round laundry baskets full of food ready for you. The food is different each time, but basically you get about $50.00 worth of fruits and veggies for 16.50. This week got a huge bag of potatoes, a huge bag of broccoli, a giant cauliflower, a carton of cherry tomatoes, 3 very large cucumbers, a carton of strawberries, about 4-5 oranges and 4-5 apples and 4-5 plums, 2 big peppers, a large package of ready made salad, and 2 bunches of bananas and a cantaloupe. I think that is everything. Anyways, it was a lot of stuff( ps. its hard to tell from the picture, but the laundry basket is a large one....it takes up half my table) which made us wonder if we would really eat it all. So far we are doing really good. We figure as long as we eat at least 16.50 worth of it, we are doing good. Everything is really tasty and helped us at least this weekend to eat healthy. If you want to check it out go to http://www.bountifulbaskets.org. I definitely recommend it!!!

New Neighbors

So the house next door has been vacant since we moved in, unfortunately, we now have some new neighbors that we hate! Bees!

The home is still vacant, which makes this an even bigger problem. No one want to take responsibility to take care of it. Fortunately, we do live in a neighbor with an HOA, so they are giving the current owner 2 weeks to take care of it themselves or they are getting a bill from the exterminator that the HOA hires. Still not fun! We havent been stung yet, but last week when Eldon was trying to mow the lawn they kept bugging him! Yikes!