Chandler's Not a Salt Water Dog

We went to the beach yesterday, and it was a lot of fun! (We’ve actually been going to the beach almost every Saturday and Sunday for the last month or so.) We decided to take Chandler to the beach yesterday, since he’d only been once before. That’s when we found out that he’s not a beach dog. First of all, he doesn’t like the car because we think he gets motion sick. When we got to the beach, however, he looked like he was ready to have some fun. I had brought him some water so that he wouldn’t have to drink the ocean water, but that didn’t stop him. The first thing he wanted to do was go get a long drink from the ocean. He had a good time for the first 45 minutes to hour. We would throw his Frisbee into the ocean and he would go get it. Then all the sudden he started going to the bathroom, if you could call it that, all over the place. He totally went to the bathroom right in front of a little boy who’s eyes got really wide. The mom immediately called the little boy away from Chandler…I was totally embarrassed. I gave Chandler some water and he drank it up within minutes. He then proceeded to throw up all the water (plus some salt water, I’m sure) and looked at me with these big sad eyes. I gave him some more water and the same thing happened. I walked him around for a little while to get it all out of his system, and then we decided to go home. He was fine until we got home, where we gave him more water. He was drinking and then decided he couldn’t wait to go pee. He just lifted his leg and peed all over my floor…WHILE STILL DRINKING!!! It was the most disgustingly funny thing I’d ever seen. I yelled at him and he stopped until Justin took him out to finish. We took his water away and left for about 2 hours, and came home. He still looked really sad, but he hadn’t peed anywhere else. As soon as we gave him more water, he sat by the door to go out again, though. Justin took him out and he peed a bunch then. I took him out about a half hour later, and he peed some more! He peed a bunch this morning, too, when I took him out.

I really hope he got it all out of his system! We will not be taking him to the beach for a while, which is sad really…since he’s a lab, a.k.a. “a water dog.”

I think it's really funny how people assume one thing about you or your husband or your family or your friends, when the exact opposite is the real truth! Justin and I get a lot of assumptions made about us here in LA, when in turn they really don't match up to the real us!

No one ever expects my answer when they ask what my husband does. My answer of, "well, he's a pastor" tends to shock everyone...even if they haven't ever met him. Once they meet him, the idea seems even more ludicrous. Here he is, typically unshaven, with long, shaggy, unmanaged hair, who wears his hat down low over his eyes, and in a old t-shirt and baggy shorts. He's a pretty decent athlete, very good poker player, surfer, computer geek, creative designer and a pastor all in one! It's not the norm for that last characteristic (being a pastor) to be associated with the rest. Usually you get maybe one of those in the mix, but not usually all of them. I know I'm biased because I'm his wife, but he's a pretty cool guy!

When people meet me, even if they have some sort of pre-conceived notion about me, I tend to not be what they expect. The number one thing that shocks them is that I'm a pastor's wife. After all, most pastor's wives don't work, they stay at home. Not me...I have to work to help pay the bills. Besides, I'd be bored if I didn't have anything to do during the day. That might change after we have kids (a long time from now!), but for now that's the way it is! I have a pretty decent amount of sports knowledge for a girl. I am almost always willing to try something new, even when it obviously scares the crap out of me! I look way younger than I really am. The last time I got told how old I look, it was almost insulting...16! How crazy is that? I'm 24, THANK YOU!

I don't know, I guess I'm getting used to the shocked faces when I'm asked about myself and Justin.