FOR MY DOG!

This post is for Cooper who is more than just our best friend and mans best friend but Laurens big brother.
Cooper you have been there for Sony and I through good times like our biking trip around the west and all the hikes and Skiing trips since then. You have made life better during the hard times always happy to see us with unconditional love. Your are the best judge of charicter that I know (who would have guessed Mark and Doug were such bad people?). I PROMISE to take you for more walks and play with you as offten as I can. You deserve every minute of it!

For those of you that don't know Cooper suffered 5 major seizures yesterday. The first he was when I came home from lunch and had gone inside to check on Sony we heard something in the yard and saw him laying on the ground we ran out and when sony touched him he jumped up and freaked out bearing he teeth and foaming at the mouth, he was barking really furoshusly it was really scary he didn't know who we were. once I got him to calm down he realized who I was and was his loving self but really scared. we went back inside and about 10 min later he went down again. It was really hard to watch! we rushed him to the vet were he had 2 more. It took them 4 doses of Viciden to calm him down, and then more drugs to finally get him to sleep. we took him home 3 hours later he was still hardly able to walk because of the drugs but seems to be shaping up, and hasn't had another seizure since yesterday. The vet tested him for anti-freeze and that came back negative so we are waiting for the blood tests to come back which should be later today. To be honest it I hope it is something that can be fixed with a few drugs because cooper is only 6 and has lots of healthy years left with us. Unfortunately it could also be a brain tumer which is some thing that drugs can help with and he may live for quite some time but who knows. We are just waiting and keeping our hopes up for now. so any one with some prayers left sent them Coopers way he needs as much as we can give him!

WE LOVE YOU COOPER!

Bozeman Hockey tournament

So it has been a long time since I have entered anything in my blog and for that I apologize. I have been busy doing lots of stuff but not a hole lot worth writing about you know the day to day grind. But last weekend we took a team from Red Lodge to Bozeman for a hockey tournament it

was a great time. I had the best chearing section (check out the jersey).

The refs were really good which was a pleasant surprise due to the completely honorable job the refs in billings did during the tournament there last year. So Red Lodge tied one game and lost 3 doesn't sound so good but we only lost by 2 goals to the defending champs and tied the team that is mainly made up of guys from Summit Bike which felt pretty dam good!
Then we played the Wood Peckers from Missoula they had a few ringers and one guy must have scored at least 5 of there 7 goals. (tournament rules allow one person to only score 3 goals) when I asked the ref how many goals the guy had scored the ref said "I will ask" assuming he would ask the score keeper I said " sounds good" he proceeded to ask the player how many he had scored! the player obviously answered "only 2" ummmm? anyone else see a problem with this? so what ever. So after losing that game we were in a 3 way tie for who would play for 7th-8th and who would play the 10th place team for 9th-10th. so in true hockey fashion we held a drinking contest at center ice. we lost so we played for 9-10. early Sunday morning. after staying in the locker room until 3am drinking the team pretty much defeated ourselves 7-1 Sunday morning. We lost to a team that had only scored 1 goal the entire tournament until we played them. Amazing.