Sunday, May 15, 2011

Ballet

Yesterday was Raeley's year-end ballet performance. She was lucky to have both sets of grandparents come to watch her dance so beautifully! She of course LOVED her costume. I enjoyed seeing her facial expressions in the pics, how she's trying to be so graceful and looks like such a ballerina. Most of the pics are of the ballet portion, she also does tap in her class. She looked lovely and we are proud of her. It's too bad she tells me this is her last year of dance.....

Monday, May 9, 2011

Thor

You got a glimpse of our dog in my last post and I promised more pics. After ten years, I have given in to Scott and we have a puppy. He is a golden lab who is now 4 months old. I hate to admit it, but it is not as horrible as I imagined it being. He is a very good-tempered dog and learns very quickly. We have had him at home 6 weeks now and he's only had a few peeing in the house incidents. He will be an outside dog, but we wanted to kennel-train and potty-train him first, so he is in the house often. Good thing is, he is only allowed on the lino in the kitchen and he knows this. It's kinda funny to see him stop abruptly at the carpet when following/chasing kids. That being said, there is not a lot of chasing being done, he's a pretty lazy puppy, I keep thinking there is something wrong with him! He sleeps a lot. Just in the past week I've seen him perk up a bit more and he's wandering from home a bit. Before when we left him at home he would just sit on the deck all lonely. He's awesome with the kids. Cason hits and pokes and walks on him and he takes it all in stride. Scott's dream is now fulfilled - family, truck with dirtbikes and dog in tow!
Here, he is about 1.5 mths old, then right after we brought him home at about 3 months, and just this past weekend.
This is what he does a lot of.
Scott cuddles with Thor when he gets home from work, I think he loves him more than his kids!
Good thing we have this sandpile in our backyard, he's diggin' to China. This was a week ago, now all you can see is his butt sticking out. Then he gets really tired and has to rest!