mmm Mexican Night!!!

Hey everyone! So I had some trouble with the blog for a few days but now it's back to normal...Not too much has happened in the past week...Wes had a game against a Croatian team on Tuesday and they won by 30! He had 15 points 2 rebounds and 1 assist...so he had a pretty descent game. They play in Knokke tomorrow, which is about 45 minutes from Oostende (the coast). It's still preseason so i've never even heard of half of these teams... 

Tonight we had a mexican get together with the team and their families..everyone brought something, we made enchiladas and cheese dip, but there were tacos, chili, 7 layer dip, and yummy spanish rice! So american, we loved it!! :) We always have those get togethers, and it's fun cause right now it's the beginning of the year and we still don't know some of the new guys that well, so this gives us a chance to hang out and get to know one another..even some of the Belgian and Croatian guys came so it was a lot of fun! 

The dogs are doing great, Stella is almost done with all her medicine so that's good..and she's really doing a good job with the whole potty training thing...I give her a few more months and she'll have it down! ;)

Other than that, not much else going on here...we've been exploring the city a little bit more and finding new things to do...we also went to Antwerp the day before yesterday and found a mall!! Just like an American mall!!! It was crazy,  we also found a Sbarro Pizza in the mall so we for sure had to get some of that! haha! Ok, well i hope everyone is doing good..i'll let you all know how tomorrow nights game goes..you can also check the Spirou website for Wes' stats...

Love you all!!! xoxo

Brussels...

Hey ya'll! I'm a little disturbed today but i'll get to that in a bit...as for good news, Wes' back is feeling much better, he actually had an xray done today and the doc said everything looks good and normal..so that's a relief! He had a good practice thismorning too, so let's hope it continues to get better and heal!
We ended up taking both Bentley and Stella to the vet today for kennel cough, Stella's been on her meds for a week already and it seems like it's gotten worse, and now with Bentley coughing we were convinced that he caught it also...we got more medicane so both doggies should be ok ;)
On to tonight...Charlotte met Wes and in Brussels at a really good restaurant called "Amadeo" it's a rib place (go figure!) Ribs are our favorite! We had a good dinner and it was really nice to have Charlotte come up and join us.. as we walked to our car, we joined Wes who had went outside to the little square in the middle of downtown to play fetch with Bentley, when a nice dog came up to him just to sniff him out, and all of the sudden the owner (who is homeless, and drunk..might i add) proceeds to scream and yell and KICK his dog as he yalped in pain!!! I was so angry I got my mase out and wanted to mase his face! Wes stopped me though...I just don't understand people. Wes was outside earlier than Charlotte and I and said that he had been kicking and beating his dog the whole time he was out there...This is very upsetting to me..i know there is nothing I can do to stop ignorant people who treat their animals like dirt but it's just so hard to see a poor innocent animal get treated like that by their owner. I wanted so badly to snatch the little guy up and take him to the nearest shelter...I have a feeling that scenario could've ended badly though.. Charlotte said that a lot of the homeless people have dogs and she's seen that happen before..that is just too sad for words. So tonight ended up not being a very good night. If it were up to me, i'd own 500 animals if it meant not ever seeing that again, it's too bad there are people in the world like that. So sad!

Going to Ireland!

Hey!! So i'm gonna start this one out with basketball news right off the bat....Spirou won their first preseason tournament..they beat Paris lastnight for the overall win! Wes didn't play lastnight though because on Friday night he hit the floor pretty hard and hurt his back, it's nothing serious, just had some pain in the muscles in his lower back...his coach thought it was better to just sit this one out and let it heal. It's already feeling a lot better today :)

In other news, I'm super excited, Tiffany Matela and I have booked a trip to Ireland in early October..the plane tickets themselves cost 2 euros! We couldn't pass that up! We're going for 3 days/2 nights...should be soo much fun!!! This way I can kind of check things out and find the fun things to do before I go back with my parents in March...which I am so excited for!! 

As for the new little one, Stella, she's getting healthier and stronger everyday...she's a little ball of energy now! Her and Bentley have been playing together a lot more ... I knew she would grow on him ;) 

Although it's been raining a lot lately here, today is actually beautiful outside! A little chilly but atleast the sun is shining! We'll take that over rain anyday!! Well that's all i have for now..hope everyone had a good weekend..wish we could've been cheering on the Huskers, can't wait for a game to be on regular tv!!! Go Big Red!

Man Bites Dog...

Hi everyone...so today was an interesting day. Awhile ago my friend Annelore had asked Wes and I if we wanted to be on a popular belgian tv show called "Man Bites Dog"..she said that all it would be is a camera crew coming to our apartment in Charleroi and asking us 100 questions that would be aired all throughout the season of this show..we thought it sounded like fun so we agreed to it....they came today to tape us, it took about 3 hours and we answered a little over a hundred questions...they asked us all sorts of things, from our favorite belgian and american food to what song we want played at our funerals...kind of weird, we weren't expecting some of those questions..haha. The show aires every Tuesday and Thursday all over Belgium so it will be fun to see it :).... They said there's a possibility that we can have a dvd of all of our questions so if we get it we'll be sure to show everyone...

As for little Stella, we took her to the vet yesterday, she's on 4 different medications, 2 for kennel cough, one for her eyes, and one for another issue she's having..let's just say it wasn't pretty and we've had our candles and room sprays workin up a storm! :) Now after just a day of the meds she's doing much better, almost 100%...so it can only go up from here... she's very energetic and is still trying to get on Bentley's good side... 

As for basketball updates, Wes won his first pre season game against a team in France...I wasn't there but he said that he played pretty well the first half... he had 8 points. He has a tournament in Namur this weekend where I think he plays an Amsterdam team and a Paris team. I'll let you know how that all goes...

Well I think that's it for now... Hope everyone is having a great day!! :)

Back in Belgium!

Hey everyone, so by now i've finally reunited with Wes back here in Belgium...3 weeks was way too long to be away from eachother but really makes you appreciate one another more. :) We have a great apartment which we're making more homey everyday.. we've retrieved all our belongings from Charlotte's house, where we kept everything all summer, and things are coming together nicely! We've added a new member to our family in the last couple of days.. an 8 week old min pin named Stella...she is so adorable and we love her so much already! Bentley still needs to warm up to her a little bit but it'll happen soon enough...she's got a lot of energy and is a little pistol, she chases Bentley and tries to play rough, although she's a runt and probably only weighs a pound... It'll be really fun when she grows up a little and her and Bentley can play all day long! Wes got back from Croatia last Thursday.. the camp was 11 days, he said it was pretty hard and he gave it his all... he has a game against a french team tomorrow, not sure what the name is, but it's just basically a practice game.. He has a lot of tournament and pre season games coming up so i'll have to keep everyone posted on those...Not sure if I've said this before but you can read the Spirou website in english if you google babelfish and type in the website (www.spiroubasket.com) and set it to translate it from french to english..it's actually really neat how it does it...makes it a lot easier! As for me learning more french this year, I'm not going to be taking classes again, they were too hard when the teacher didn't speak a word of english...but I'm borrowing a french cd and brought along my french dictionary..i also get alot of tutorials off the internet...so we'll see, if i have 2 more years in this town, i better be learning some more french! haa!  Ok, better go but i'll be posting again soon :) Love, lins xoxo