New Pet. Introducing LEO The Lionhead Bunny

When we got Piggy, she has always been kind of mean and incredibly independent. She hates to be touched and likes to be left alone. She gets into a lot of mischief. We decided to get a cute new baby bunny. It's a newer breed called lionhead. The fur is not typical fur, it's almost like fine cotton. We named him Leo. He doesn't mind being held for long periods of time. His favorite thing right now is to test everything with his teeth. He licks it first, then nibbles. There have been a few "Ouch!" instances where the nibbling was our skin. He is so cute though. He is the cutest pet I have ever had. I have some really cute pictures of him on my camera. These were the pictures used on KSL. It is the blue-eyed white bunny. We washed his paws off when we got him and they are almost back to white again.

GOP Republican Debate

On Thursday night, Chris and I watched the Republican Debate! It was so fascinating! It was more entertaining than a comedy show. A lot of the candidates were absolutely cornered by some of the almost accusing questions. I thought a lot of them handled it well, except for Rick Perry. He was applauded less and less as the night went on, and at the end he was getting booed. I thought that Rick Santorum is too young in politics to know what he is doing. He seemed way less educated than the rest of the candidates. Newt Gingrich has a really messy personal life. He left his first two wives after they were diagnosed with serious illnesses. My favorites so far are Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, and Mitt Romney. I am going to study out their issues in depth a little better. I found Herman Cain very refreshing. He is a guy that started at the bottom and worked hard to get his way to the top. His wife has no desire to be in the limelight either. He is very genuine. I like also really liked Mitt Romney. When the debate was over, I was sad. It went by too quick.

A whole bunch of exciting things all at once!!!

First on the agenda, we are closing on our house tomorrow. Hurray! It has been a bittersweet experience. Annoying at times, disappointing, but all ended up well at the end. We will finally be homeowners, and one more step towards building our family. Another step for us is getting sealed on the 13th. We are extremely excited to be able to be sealed together. Chris has wanted to wait to do sealings at the temple until we have gone through our own first, and I am excited to see him go through that experience. Another step to building our little family, is that I am finally going to start doing a round of fertility drugs and see what that will do for us. Everyone knows we cannot have children naturally, so we are taking a different approach. I am scared, nervous, etc.... for the whole experience. So many what ifs...... but we are excited to take the challenge. I am overwhelmed with excitement for so many new things in life. Things are going well for us, and we feel very blessed.

Hawaii

I posted all of my pictures on picasa since there were too many to post. I only posted very few on facebook. The link is www.picasaweb.google.com/karleebateman to see my pictures. There are some videos too. It was a great and well needed trip. The pictures tell the story.

New add to our family: Piggy, the bunny

I don't know how it happened, since it happened so quickly, but we ended up with a new little bunny. Not a pet I ever thought I would ever own, and not something I ever really wanted. Our neighbor that also has PTSD talks about his bunny all the time, and how it is therapeutic. He showed up with bunny babies today, and Chris instantly took to the one we now own. The guy was giving them away. We gave it back, saying we will talk about it. Well, I knew that Chris had his heart set on it. He wanted a dog, I wanted a cat. I guess it's meeting in the middle. It is low maintenance, doesn't make noise, poos and pees in the same exact spot, easy to train, and will be therapeutic to Chris. We bought a little starter kit with a cage, food, bedding, dish, toys and water bottle. We named her Piggy because Chris always says she looks like a piggy bank with the stripe on her back. She has a little stripe of black down the back of her.
Chris and I are ready to take care of a little animal.

Piggy the baby bunny

Chris excited and ready to go pick up the bunny

Stripe down the back