Ashlee Kent: We Are Who We Are

The holiday's are starting and this year things are going to be a lot different. Craziest part about it is that Derek and I aren't married yet, or even engaged but we are splitting up the holidays to spend time with each others family. It is going to be so different not going up to my Grandma Kay's house this year or spending Thanksgiving with my family but I am super excited to spend it with Derek's. I guess when Christmas comes we'll figure out a good enough plan for spending time with both our families. Its also hard having our parents divorced but seems to be perfect that our Dads live 5 minutes from each other down in Lehi. I'm not sure how this Christmas will go, I usually have a lot of money to spend on people (and myself haha) for gifts but this year I find myself completely broke since I bought a car. I really liked the car before I had to make my first payment on it... dang it. I'm hoping that this Christmas my mom and I would be able to take our little girls trip down to Salt Lake for Christmas shopping and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. We'll see if we can even get tickets to go this year though.

So, on Monday night I noticed Chloe's eyelids were really puffy and she was looking/acting really weird. I didn't think too much about it- because like me- she gets sick a lot from random things but always seems to heal herself. Tuesday night Derek noticed that Chloe's belly was kind of red and splotchy, he mentioned it but neither of us thought anything more about it. Then Thursday, I think, we ran home from lunch together and both Derek and I noticed that Chloe's eyes were really puffy, her belly was really red and her skin was burning up. I called the Vet and made an appointment for later that day. The vet took blood tests, telling me that she probably just doesn't have enough platelets in her blood which means she wont clot if she starts bleeding. Well great that is just what I want to hear- but it just so happens that the test came back negative (thank goodness) and the only other thing the vet thought it might be was a spider bite. Well Saturday Chloe's 'blood rash' and everything else was gone. Woop woop! $125 later she is fine. Although you can tell she still isn't feeling very well at all, which still freaks me out. If I could find the suspected spider that bit her, I would make him suffer a painful death. Or at least find a way to make him pay me back my $125 I had to spend.

And DANG IT. I'm mad at myself for not bringing my camera to work to upload these pictures!! My good friend Brittany and her boyfriend Aaron found a little Shih Tzu dog out in some field. We think she was dropped off by her family because she is pregnant. Friday Aaron brought her over to hang out with Chloe, and my friend Lindsee brought over her dog, Sophie, so it turned out to be a freakin' dog party! I took a great picture of Lindsee, The Dog Whisperer, with all three dogs. We should have thrown Coco in the mix too but she didn't want to come out of Bre's room. Its a classic picture, I'll have to post it later this week sometime :)