Pre-School Graduation

Last week our girl graduated from pre-school. Although it was a bit anti-climatic as she will be going to the same pre-school until kindergarten starts.  I guess it's the experience that counts!

She had fun giggling with her friends on the top level:

They saved the best for last:

All grown up and so ready to start kindergarten in August:

The Rest of May 2014

The rest of May went like this:

We celebrated Uncle Johnny's marriage:

Ryan tells me this all the time - isn't he sweet?:

We hung out in our backyard and caught some bugs:

Everyday some new flowers pop up around our house.  We really love our previous owners for doing all this for us:

We had lazy mornings in bed:

Mom and Dad went on an adults only trip to Vegas:

Lots of trips to the park:

And Drew slept with his sword every night:

The Mack Daddy

A couple weekends ago we went back up to Horseshoe Bend and got to pick out our puppy.  It was actually a lot harder to do than I thought.  I mean how can you just pick one from this pile?:

After about twenty minutes of playing with all of them, we picked the winner.  Introducing Mack, or as we like to call him, The Mack Daddy (other names: Return of the Mack, Mack Attack, Mack & Cheese - I could go on and on people):

He snuggled right up to his Dad:

And he fell in love with Isla.  We put him in her lap and he feel right to sleep.  I think these two are going to become best buds:

We are going to have to monitor this one with the pup though - he loved the puppies a little too much:

Momma with her new boy:

I think we picked a good one:

Easter 2014

We headed up to Sun Valley for Easter this year as it was Aunt Anna's birthday the day before.  On Saturday we celebrated the nice weather by flying kites:

And then we went to the end of the ski season party at Baldy and took pictures with a dude that was passed out:

Speaking of passing out - this dude went from this:

To this, in about five minutes flat:

It was a tiring day.

I get a D- for my Easter pictures this year.  I managed to get one of each of the kids opening their baskets:

I have no idea why Drew had his jacket on backwards.  It just adds to the quality of pictures I got this year.

I did get a video of their Easter egg hunt though:

Puppies!

Ryan has been after me to get a new puppy for awhile now. I finally caved about a month ago and Ryan has been researching breeders ever since.  He finally decided on a breeder of English labs located in Horseshoe Bend.  The puppy we will be getting is from an English lab litter that is about two weeks away from being born.  We will select our male puppy (we get pick of the litter!) in late April and then take him home in early June.

The breeder invited us up to their house last weekend so we could meet the dad (Brody), review his papers and get to know them.  And to make the visit even sweeter, their American lab, Stella, just had puppies so we would be able to see them as well.

The breeder is way off the beaten path in Horseshoe Bend, which is already off the beaten path.  We traveled way up into the mountains and passed some wild turkey's on the way:

Right when we got there Ryan and Brody made an instant connection:

Right after this picture Ryan stood up and Brody fell over because he was leaning so far over on Ryan.  That could have had to do with the fact that Ryan had been rubbing his ears for about ten minutes.

Drew walked right up to the pen where the puppies were and settled in to hold them:

Isla took a while to warm up before she got in there to snuggle:

Whenever I have a bad day and need something to cheer me up, I'm going to pull up this picture on my phone:

I can officially say that I am ready to be a dog owner again.  Can't wait to go back up and meet our newest family member later this month!