This weekend I drove to Austin to return Gracie-kins to my mom and pick her up from the airport from her "oh so terrible" week long business trip to Vegas.  Dell and Intel choose some pretty horrible spots for business trips, don't they ;) 
This weekend being my mom's weekend, my sister also came home early this morning. I've been dying to try out a few things that have been popping up on pinterest lately, one being the crayons glued to canvased and then melted with a blow dryer. They all look so very cool on these blogs that I thought I MUST try it. I knew my sister would appreciate something out of the norm, so I've saved this project for her:) 
Needed for the project are, some crayons (new or old), canvas, hot glue gun and glue sticks as well as a blow dryer. We also used a fair amount of news paper to make sure we didn't get crayon everywhere when melting them.  
The crayons then get hot glued to the canvas at the top and heat them away with the blow dryer to get them to melt. Ours came out a tad bit different than the mentioned website above, but I still think they come out pretty cool.  My sister's is going on wall above her piano and I will definitely find a spot in the house to hang mine. Can't wait to get back to San Antonio and get it up on the wall. I will definitely do it again....maybe more the example next time. Theirs came out cool.

I've noticed a lot of people do the 365 day projects in regards to their favorite items, hobbies, pets, etc. Well, going through Pinterest today, I stumbled upon a 365 day pet project of Lulu and Wally. They are also part of Woofboard, which is an online forum for Boston Terrier's and their crazy parents and anything boston terrier related. I've been on there for a few years now despite being without a boston terrier. The people are wonderful and there are so many threads about SOOOOO many products. Going back to the original thought, I think I might go ahead and do this 365 day project with the boys:) Frank has changed so much in the past 3 years, I can't believe it. When I got him, we guessed his age to be about 2, but when he came in for his 2 year of vaccines, Dr. L found nuclear sclerosis in his eyes. This means that he has a cloud eye lens (not to be confused with cataracts) and is much older than 2-3 years, which was the original guess.  He then jumped to about 7-8 years of age!!!! Oh my! That meant that my time with my baby was much shorter than anticipated. This past year he has really began to show his age with a few other age related changes. 
This project is a must and am definitely willing to give it a shot...so stay tuned!

Here is where I got the idea! This is a link to Lulu and Wally's 365 day pet project! Enjoy all the Boston love!!!

I chose to make "cupcakes" for Oliver's Birthday today for him, Frank, Sadie and Snoop. Timon will probably enjoy some too, I'm sure. So here is what is in them:

Cupcakes:
2 cups shredded carrots
3 eggs
1/2 cup applesauce, unsweetened
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup rolled oats
3 cups whole wheat flour

Icing:
8oz of fat free cream cheese
1/4 cup applesauce, unsweetened

*Preheat oven to 350 degrees
*Mix together the carrots, eggs and applesauce. I went ahead and used the food processor to make it more of a mach and to break down the carrots some more.
*Mix the dry ingredients
*Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix together well
**The mixture will be very sticky**
I used a small muffin tin since the dogs in the house are very small. You may fill the pan fairly full, as the dough doesn't rise all that much.

For the icing I made sure the cream cheese was room temperature and then mixed it with the applesauce.

Bake for no more than 25 minutes. I only baked for 20 since my muffins were very small. Then I used a pipping bag and tip to put icing on and done!!!

My oh my...why have I not posted anything is so long?! I've been a slacker, that's why. So much has changed since I last posted in December. I've had a new addition to my fun filled pack! OLIVER! He is a Boston Terrier, who turned 1 today:) I adopted him from a client at the clinic who was very ill and was very much over her head with a Boston Terrier puppy. Oliver has been such a joy and despite being sick the last couple of days (with an Upper Respiratory), he has been a ton of fun, puppy energy. I'm glad he's trying to rest being kind of sick. Some dogs seem to think they can still run around like crazy while being sick (...sounds like a lot of people I know).  He's been in his cage for a majority of the time so he's not running around the house contaminating everything and spreading it to my roomie's dogs.
Oliver, for not have been exposed to much or trained, has been so great! He loves to play and loves going to Camp Bow Wow and the local dog park. He is learning how to play fetch and loves chewing on his nylabones, rawhides and rawbones. I've had fun training him and he is slowly beginning to learn more tricks. So far he knows sit, stay, shake, other paw and we are slowly learning high five. Now this brings my pack to Frank, Oliver, Timon (the cat) and the 75 gallon salt water tank. Fewww....that's a lot of work:)

School has also started, which has been crazy and I CANNOT wait to graduate with my Bachelors of Science in Biology:) On my way to apply for veterinary school as well as trying to find a "big girl" job. I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. My roommate is also almost done and she is doing her student teaching this semester at an Elementary school and a Middle school. She wants to be a P.E. teacher as possibly apply for graduate school for special education.  Chris, my boyfriend has also made it into Texas A&M San Antonio and is working on finishing his degree in Teaching with a specialization in Special Education. I'm very excited for the both of them and can't wait to see what the future holds:)