What a Monday

Yesterday, Mer and I thought we would attempt to take fall/halloween pictures of our darling little angel pups. Let me tell you, it was an adventure.

It all started around 5 pm, when Mer and Chloe (her Boston Terrier) stopped by my house to pick up Lily (my Scottish Terrier) and me, as well as load up the fall/halloween decor for the pictures. Our goal was to find a wheat field, a rustic fence, field of hay bails, or anything that would make the perfect fall backdrop for our pictures.

Well, I knew just the place, or the road rather. I can't exactly tell you where it is, because I do not know the name of the road, nor do I know the general area of the road. I just know you have to drive twenty minutes out of town to get there.

Loading everything into the vehicle was a mission all on its own. Two puppies + arms full of pumpkins + long leashes + oncoming traffic + two uncoordinated mommies = CHAOS. It took us about fifteen minutes to get everything loaded and into the vehicle, only to find that our sweet little puppies wanted to not only call shot gun, but drive the car! We finally got everyone situated in their proper seats and off we went! What else could get worse???

The ride over there was a mess! It started off normal, in fact, I can honestly say that the first half/ten minutes of the trip was completely normal! However, I can not say the same for the second half. Not only was there a viscious, blood sucking bug in the car attacking Meredith, who just so happened to be driving, my "darling, angel" pup peed on me! Okay, I will be fair, she did not just pee on me, rather, she was over excited and trickled urine on my pants. It was enough to make it appear as if I had messed myself! In the mean time, Mer has cornered the blood sucking bug into a corner (all while driving down the road) and squished it. Blood was everywhere! The mosquito was apparently full of blood and literally burst when she killed him.

The last five minutes of our drive (which, by the way, seemed like an eternity) was complete with the both of us gagging, coughing, and nearly dying from laughing, all while Mer continued to drive down the road!

Our destination (somewhere 20 minutes out of town) was the perfect spot. The road I had chosen was perfect. There were fields of hay, there were fields of beautiful trees, rustic fences and grown up fields. It was the perfect back drop for our pictures. So, Mer and I chose a location, pulled over and proceeded to unload all of our decorations, and our pups. After two minutes of decorating the scene, we both realize that not only have we chosen the perfect location, we have chosen the breeding grounds of a gazillion mosquitos! We were covered!!! After minutes, which seemed like hours, of flailing about, we threw everything back into the car and drove furiously down the road with the windows down to get all of the viscious, blood sucking bugs off of ourselves, and out of the car!

On to Plan B.....

Somewhere down the road, once all of the mosquitos seemed to be gone, we pulled into our second location. It was a nice paved area that had pretty trees, cut grass, and a pond with tall grass growing in the far distance. We decided this would have to work, so we got out, unloaded the pups and walked around. There appeared to be no mosquitos until Mer popped the trunk! I swear ten billion of the suckers flew out of there, all trapped in there from our first stop. I think we were there a total of five minutes before we had to leave. Not only were the pups having too much fun to obey any comand, Chloe was eating Mr. Scarecrow, Lily was wrapping Mer and I together, and the mosquitos found us!

We gave up....

You would think that after all of the chaos, we would be able to just relax and enjoy or ride home, with the windows down. You would think this, however, this was not the case. Somewhere between the Mall Exit and the Bastrop Exit, Chloe decided to go potty potty on the backseat. The smell nearly ran us all out of the vehicle, however, there was no where to pull over. After we finally were able to pull over and clean up the mess, we went home!

FYI: Our puppies normally are little angels! They have never done some of the things they did yesterday, therefore, I would like to blame everything on the mosquitos and the craziness/excitement of the whole afternoon! It was a rodeo!!!

Here are some of the attempted pictures......we plan to try again later in the week.