Friday, February 26, 2010

Catching up and meet Sampson!

It has been such a long time since I last wrote on our blog! Just to give you all a little update on Rich and I since Christmas, we are now living in Lexington, Kentucky. Rich was offered a job to be the Director/Coordinator of the Kentucky Baketball Arena here with some of our good friends. He also does ticket sales on the side to events around the world with them and actually just spent two weeks in Vancouver for the Olympics! He is really enjoying being around so much basketball for his job too! Since we have been in Kentucky I have been job searching which has not been fun! Still working on that and trying to enjoy not being so busy although I am getting a little anxious! When Rich found out he was going to Vancouver I decided two weeks in Kentucky by myself in the cold weather would be torture so I packed my bags and drove to Myrtle Beach to stay with my parents. We had such a great time and Mom and I did lots of shopping which is always the best! While I was there my Mom and I flew to Los Angeles to visit my sister and her boyfriend Kyle too! It was so great to see them and spend time with them. We had a blast. Spent the weekend eating the most amazing food, shopping, riding bikes to the beach, and best of all.... we went to a park where they were having a pet adoption from the shelter my sister works at and I got a dog! (I called Rich first of course to make sure it was ok... I had been begging him and working on getting a dog for the past year! :) ) Anyway, our little Sampson is a Chihuahua/ Dachshund mix. Since he is from a shelter they aren't sure of his exact age but they are guessing he is about a year and a half old. Poor guy looked like he hadn't eaten in weeks and was shaking in the cold. I knew I had to have him when I saw him and he has already been the perfect dog! He was so scared when I got him so he got really attached to me right away. He follows me everywhere and cuddles me to death! Not sure how he feels about men yet... he is so sweet and doesn't bite but he hides when a man is around. I hope that doesn't mean he was abused by one or something?! He is slowly warming up to Richie though and we are completely crazy about him! The pics below are of him in our apartment laying on our bed and happy to be loved and in a warm home!


7 comments:

Rach said...

What a darling dog!! I grew up with a dachshund & I loved it!I'm so glad things are going well! Sounds like Rich has a fun job!

The Nash's said...

Cute Dog Kristen!-- I must say it sounded like a questionable mix to me when I heard it, :) but he is darling! Glad you had fun with your mom and sis!

Christa and Randall said...

he is adorable. i'm glad he's already warming up to rich! and i love his little outfit! lol love ya girl.

Fuller Family said...

My kids are loving looking at Sampson on the computer! He is darling and I am so glad you finally got your dog. We will be praying for you to find him. Love you guys a lot! You will find him!

emily+brett said...

he's a chiweeny! i love him. brett said you guys got a dog but i didn't know he was going to be so cute. remeber when you thought you bought a pug and it was a lab. we still laugh about that! i would take sampson home too! i hope your loving kentucky. we miss you guys!

Karly said...

Hey friend! So glad I found your blog! And ur dog is so darling! I'm glad Richie didn't take teds advice

Karly said...

Ok, I realize that I was the last comment, but I just had to say, I finally had time to go through and read about your european adventures (I cant believe I didnt know you had a blog!). HOW FUN! All the cities you got to see, and all the friend you met, wow that is really an experience of a life time! I am so happy for you guys!