Our New Addition and Berkley's New Doo

The Lassiter family would now like to welcome into their home, cable. Oh Food Network, how I have missed you! 

I may have mentioned before that Ben and I decided not to get cable after we got married.  Neither of us were big t.v. watchers and we had heard that it was better for your marriage to not have cable (the theory being that you spend time with each other instead of just sitting in front of the t.v.).  So, we opted to save the money and not do the "normal" thing.  Thus, for 1 year and 3 months, we have been without cable.  

Did we miss it? Not really. Sometimes.  It was probably missed more by our house guests than Ben and me.  You know how you have company over and you keep the t.v. on in the background? Well, we didn't have that.  No background t.v. here. I think that made some people uncomfortable.

I missed t.v. when I was home by myself and I was tired from work and just wanted to sit there. I missed t.v. when there was an Auburn game on and we couldn't have people over to our house to watch it with us.  That about sums it up. 

Now, don't be completely fooled.  Come February when it was time for the new season of LOST to start, you better believe we went out and bought an antenna.  We couldn't wait an extra day to watch the new episode on the internet.  

Anyway, Ben and I decided it's time to move up in the world.  Goodbye antenna, hello multiple clear channels! And, we are just in time for football season! 

Now, on to Berkley.  In case you missed a post or two, I have a 4 month old standard poodle. One major benefit of the poodle breed is that they do not shed.  However, dogs that don't shed must be groomed regularly, and you know that Ben Lassiter isn't going to cough up 30-50 dollars a pop for grooming the family poodle.  Therefore, I bought clippers and determined that I'd learn to do it myself. How hard can grooming a poodle be, right? So, my friend Katie called just as I had purchased said clippers and volunteered to come watch just for kicks.  Little did she know, she would be doing all the grooming.... here we go...

Berkley Lassiter, the "Before" shot

"Oh, this is going to be so much fun!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Behold, the "Lamb Cut" (4 hours later)

Thank you Katie, for your help and your excellent grooming skills. I don't understand why I haven't heard from you since. Just kidding. Stop begging me to let you come over and give Berkley another hair cut! Enough is enough!