Before Kids

It's hard to remember the time before kids. Maybe because we were newlyweds and we fought a lot so we block it out on purpose. But there was a time when there was no crayon on the walls, pee on the carpet (just being honest), or little squares carved into our kitchen table.

So what did we do before we had kids? We had dogs.

We were one of those crazy couples that treated their dogs like babies. Everyone told me that once we had kids the dogs would be put out back and not spoiled anymore. I denied that it would ever happen!

Now our dogs live permanently in the backyard. It happened.

But today seems like a good day for a trip down memory lane. As they say, the proof is in the pudding.....




We taught them tricks. Yes, he does sit on his rear end with legs out.

We chased them when they ran away. Now I don't have time to chase them.


They slept on our furniture. Now they can't even look at it!


We took family pictures with them and gave these pictures away as Christmas gifts to family.

laugh, it's ok.

We took pictures of them with reindeer antlers for our christmas cards.

We started our family with them.

Don't worry, they are still well loved. This morning while I was upstairs getting dressed the princesses decided to feed them breakfast. They had a bag of oranges, a few tortillas, and an entire bag of dinner rolls. Life is still good, even when you have to sleep outside.