{"id":3210,"date":"2010-11-16T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2011-11-17T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T22:53:24","slug":"dinosaur-world-rawr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/dinosaur-world-rawr\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur World : Rawr!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wouldn’t be family month unless I posted something about our<\/em> little family! :)<\/p>\n

I know I haven’t posted an official update on Huck’s eye, but I promise I’m going to next week. On the 21st, to be exact!<\/p>\n

Huck turns six on December 15th.\u00a0 SIX! I can’t even believe it, especially seeing as that only means he’ll be SEVEN next year. Which is only one short year away from EIGHT! I think that’s the oddest thing about having an eternal puppy-looking dog- Since he always looks like a baby, I forget he’s a big kid now! :)<\/p>\n

Before getting Huck, I never thought I’d be a small dog kinda girl. I never thought I’d buy clothes for a pet, let alone have a “purse dog.”<\/p>\n

Then Huckleberry Elias Finn fell into our lives! Or, we<\/em> fell into his<\/em> life, depending on how you look at it. When we first met Huck, I held him and he fit in the palm of one hand. He lovingly nudged and snuggled into me while we spent some time getting to know each other. Now<\/em> I know that was all part of his master plan- he sensed me coming from a mile away! We signed adoption papers, money was exchanged, and the second<\/em> he got in our car, he started gnawing on my fingers and toes like it was his job! Soon enough, I was being peed on. Then he let us know his bark- His small dog, high-pitched, annoying bark- Over and over and over and over…<\/p>\n

To be honest, for the first few months, I didn’t think Huck would be in our lives long-term! He was such a nightmare of a puppy- Whining 90% of the time, peeing everywhere except<\/em> outside the other 10%… But before we knew it, he slowly transitioned into our dream dog. And I do mean slowly<\/em>. ;) Now I can’t imagine how boring our day-to-day lives would be without this little guy. I’ve never known a dog to be busting at the seams with such personality. And seriously… You cannot<\/em> have a bad day looking at that face!<\/p>\n

This year has only made me love Huck more; Many of you may recall his misadventure from earlier this year<\/strong><\/a>. He really is my little superhero, and to say I appreciate him more now is such an understatement. :)<\/p>\n

In honor of his 5th birthday last year, we took Huck and his girlfriend, Mary-Kate, to Dinosaur World<\/a>. Yes, DINOSAUR WORLD! You Orlando \/ Tampa residents know exactly what I’m talking about- The place with the neon orange, concrete dinosaur next to I-4! Nate and I pulled up one day to get a brochure, and as soon as we found out dogs were allowed, we couldn’t wait to go. :)<\/p>\n

If this isn’t the cutest 5 year old birthday portrait, I don’t know what is. :) (We have this one printed on the cover of our Flip <\/a>camera.)<\/p>\n

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Mary-Kate and our best buds, Lorie and Jon!<\/p>\n

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Happy Day, friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wouldn’t be family month unless I posted something about our little family! :) I know I haven’t posted an official update on Huck’s eye, but I promise I’m going to next week. On the 21st, to be exact! Huck turns six on December 15th.\u00a0 SIX! I can’t even believe it, especially seeing as that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,8],"tags":[219,180,101,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-3210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-personal","8":"category-travels","9":"tag-birthday","10":"tag-dinosaur-world","11":"tag-dog","12":"tag-huckleberry-finn","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}