Zootoo Makeover Contest

Thanks to all who have signed up. The Austin Humane Society just moved into 7th place!! When I first joined back in December, the shelter was in 49th place and I thought we'd be lucky just to crack the top 20. Check THIS out for more info on how the contest works, but here is the skinny. Read the last blog for more info and remember to use my referral link when join up and finish the registration process by clicking on the link in the confirmation e-mail you get after you join up. Thanks.

Phase I: This is the phase we are in now. It working on point accumulation. Thanks to you all the shelter is steadily climbing up the rankings in points! This phase ends on Mar. 13, 2009 -- 59 days left!

Phase II: Top 20 shelters are visited by Zootoo officials and they determine which 10 shelters are most in need of the makeover. Points don't matter here. This phase ends on Apr. 1, 2009.

Phase III: This phase starts Apr 4, 2009 and ends on the 24th. This is the public voting phase to determine the winner. So if we make the top 10 in phase 2, please be ready to vote and spread the word!

If we can stay in the top 20 in phase I, then we are guaranteed at least $5,000 for the shelter. If we make the top 10 then we get at least $10,000 - first runner up gets $50K and second runner up gets $25K.

A volunteer at AHS is tracking point totals for us on how we our doing in phase I...here is is last update:

Up another place to 7th! We gained 9633 points yesterday, even though it was a school day, and now have 224,657 points. We're on track to march past both 6th and 5th places before the week is over.

And we continue to gain affiliated members. Just a couple days ago, I wrote that we had increased by 134 in the previous 5 days to 715 members. Well, when I looked this morning we had 841 affiliated members, up 126 members in just two days. Way to go!

T-Bone and Austin Humane Society Need Your Help!

Check the vid...all the info will be repeated below...



Austin Humane Society needs your help to win a contest for a $1,000,000 shelter makeover. Lots of doggies and cats need your help. Its easy and free. If you join up, just use this link:
http://tinyurl.com/8r8v7f

That's my referral link, so I get extra points when you sign up...all of which goes to the shelter's point total. Once you join, upload pictures, videos, blog/journal, write reviews and comment one articles...all those things earn you points. If you don't have time for that, then please just sign up...that will at least get the shelter an extra 100 points. If you have time once in a while, you can share pics and stories of your pets, use this as a reference to see how you can help earn the shelter points:
http://www.zootoo.com/makeover/points

63 days left in this phase of the contest. At the end of the 63 days, the top 20 shelters are in the finals. After that, ZooToo visits these shelters and determines who wins.

I hope to see a lot of referrals...I know y'all have e-mails! And I promise you, this site does not send out any spam. If you have problems, just let me know and I will help you out. Please forward the link too (http://tinyurl.com/8r8v7f). Thanks for the help! You might not notice, but it will make a difference to a lot of homeless animals in central Texas. Austin Humane Society is a non-profit, NO KILL animal shelter. They take in a lot of animals from Town Lake so they don't have to euthanize so many animals.

Week 35 and Counting...

"Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew melon). Because it's so snug in your womb, he isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times he kicks should remain about the same. His kidneys are fully developed now, and his liver can process some waste products. Most of his basic physical development is now complete — he'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight."

Multiply that times 2! Even more crowded and one big giant heavy belly. Holly's belly is measuring the size of a woman in her 42nd week of pregnancy. Everything is going great and we are hoping the boys come any time now. Getting a mass e-mail ready to send for when the day comes.

These are pics and video from our practice run through at the hospital. Check out the blog back in November for our night at the hospital.

This is a vid the monitor monitoring the babies' heartbeats and Holly's contractions. She had like 4 thing-a-ma-jigs hooked up to her belly:

T-Bone's 2008 NFL Playoff Predictions

The big dog didn't do so well in the final Yahoo! Pick'em standings...but he thinks he can end on a high note with his playoff predictions. The two teams he picked to go to the championship game faced each other in Super Bowl XXXV.

Betting on the babies

We are placing bets on when we think the boys will come. We have some already, but you can send in yours if you want.
Here are the facts to help you decide. As of Tuesday we were 34 weeks. Most twins are born between 36-38 weeks. We will induce at 38 weeks if they don't come before. And as of Tuesday I am 1 cm dilated which means they could come now or in 4 weeks.

So far the bets are:
Frank- January 7
Mari- January 9
Cindy- January 10
Holly- January 12
Poppie- January 13
Emilie- January 15
Grandpa Andy- January 15
Jessi- January 17
Emilia - January 18
Mom (Nena)- January 29


(if I got any of these wrong let me know)