Meet Miss Bentlie

As many of you may know we had a loss in our little growing family...
Our puppy Harlie was put down after a bad accident.

I had a very hard time with that and felt like a huge chunk of my life was missing, if anyone has every had a puppy before you know that they become a huge part of your life with all the attention and potty training, pooper scooping and so forth.

It was coming to a time that I really felt like I needed a baby because technically, I lost mine. Well Chase started to panic a little and lo and behold he surprised me with a new baby....


Meet Miss Bentlie (no we do not have a fascination with naming our pets after vehicles, it just happened that way)
Bentlie is now 8 weeks old and has been part of our life for almost 2 weeks. She loves to army crawl under the coffee table, hide under the bed when it is time to go in the basement and chase her little stub of a tail. She is still pretty young and gets really scared/sad when she is alone. We have had a lot of fun with her so far and welcome her into our home.

Tag Your it!

1. Where is your cell phone? On the coffee table.
2. Your hair? down, straight, with a dang cute black headband.
3. Your mother? hard working, creative and determined
4. Your father? patient, understanding and loving
5. Your favorite food? Anything Spicy
6. Your dream last night? Dang I can't remember.
7. Your favorite drink? Diet Dr Pepper soon to become water again
8. Your dream/goal? To continue to move up in the company I work for, have some mini Nortons and live happily ever after.
9. What room are you in? Family room aka the TV room.
10. Your hobby? Running, boating and I am starting to get into making crafts.
11. Your fear? Losing my husband
12. Where do you want to be in six years? A mommy of a couple of kids, a part time Events Coordinator at Zrii, and possibly in a new home (although I'm loving the one I'm in)
13. Where were you last night? Watching the Ugly Truth with my husband.
14. Something you aren’t? Patient!
15. Muffins? Almond Poppyseed from Costco.
16. Wish list item? New Car, a baby and summer!
17. Where did you grow up? Draper, roaming the neighborhood barefoot with my childhood friends.
18. Last thing you did? Rescued my yelping puppy then took her out in the freezing cold to wait for her to do her thing!
19. What are you wearing? Black dress with leggings (typical outfit of mine)
20. TV? Off, but I love the Office and House.
21. Your pets? Bentlie and the late Miss Harlie
22. Your friends? Girls
23. Your life? Very Blessed.
24. Your mood? Excited because Chase just got home!
25. Missing someone? My sister and Niece
26. Vehicle? Mazda 3 yo!
27. Something you’re not wearing? Earings (I really wish I could say undies)
28. Your favorite store? Costco
29. Your favorite color? Blue
30. When was the last time you laughed? Just barley when I thought Chase kicked Bentlie across the room when really he picked her up with his foot.
31. When was the last time you cried? The day Harlie died and the whole week after.
32. Your best friend? My sister
33. One place that you go over and over? Besides work, I'd have to say Costco
34. One person who e-mails me regularly? If IM's count, Chase.
35. Favorite place to eat? Cafe Rio, Yoshi's and Pei Wei

*I tag Jodie and Kelsie!

Dear Miss Harlie...

Dear Harlie,

Last night was tough baby girl, one of the toughest I have gone through in a while, but from each of our trials and hard moments in life we come out stronger, I will come out of this with a greater understanding of love, loss and and never taking any life for granted. You are the first thing I have lost that is close to me, and if the movie is true I will see you again in heaven. Daddy told me that you were up their watching over our little babies, please take good care of them and let them know we can't wait to see them. I am going to miss you Harlie girl, you brought so much joy during the short time we had you. I will always remember our first night together and how you instantly cuddled up next to me. I will miss my lunch buddy and taking you for walks during my hour break. I will miss you licking my legs when I get out of the shower and sitting on the rug next to me until I leave for work. You were always excited to see us no matter if we left for 3 hours or 10 minutes, you would wag your short little tail as fast as it could go. You never got mad at us and anytime you were in trouble you would cuddle up to us letting us know you were sorry. You were learning so well and finally learned how to go potty outside. I will miss racing up the stairs with you and watching you wrestle with Dad. He was so proud of how well you were learning and was almost done teaching you how to run with me. You were such a joy to be around and we will truly miss you. We put all of your stuff away this morning and it was so hard to let it go, but between you an me I kept Mr Giraffe and will keep him safe for you until we see you again. I have never seen Dad cry before but I know it is because he loves you just as much as I do. We know you are in a better place today and are in no more pain. We love you baby girl and will wait for the time that we can be together again.



Harlie Norton
July 26 2009- November 1 2009
"Every Little Thing's Gonna Be Alright"