Coming Home

We are headed home early in the morning from our vacation. I will try to post pics when I get them uploaded tomorrow night or Monday. There are a TON, so stay tuned...

We are headed to the beach!!

We leave early tomorrow morning for a week in Pensacola, Florida.

We will try to post pics midway through the trip if we can!

Pickles!!

My children have inherited my LOVE for dill pickles. Pickle might have been one of my first words and I'm sure I was eating them in the highchair! SO yesterday when we found some great looking Kirby cucumbers at a farmer's market, Isaac and I decided to make pickles. It was our first time trying this. He loved doing it! He was involved with every part of it, except the use of the knife-of course! As soon as he woke up this morning he asked me if the pickles were ready so they both got to eat one at 7 a.m. Hee! We are going to enjoy them with BBQ sandwiches and cole slaw tonight for dinner. yummy!

Weekend Plans

This weekend Billy and I will be enjoying a night at the DoubleTree hotel courtesy of Lutheran Social Services, a support network for families who have adopted through CPS. They will be feeding us dinner and breakfast as well as teaching us about attachment and bonding issues in adoption. Since we have not ruled out the possibility of adopting through CPS again- we always like to take these opportunities when they come up. And who would turn down a night away with your spouse!!

The sad part is this will be the last time I see my dogs for a whole week!! When we get back on Sunday, we will be packing to leave for Florida before sun-up on Monday. So the dogs will be heading out and not coming back until we get home from our vacation. How will I sleep without my Oscar?!

The happy part is that we are going on vacation!! I'm so happy for Vivi to have her first of many childhood trips to Pensacola Beach. Billy's aunts live there so we get to stay with them....loving family members are always a bonus! We are going to Panama City to play on the boardwalk too. And we will be seeing Seussical the Musical. The aunts will get to enjoy 5 whole days of Isaac and Vivi sweetness (we can hope)!

Well, speaking of sweetness- Vivi is swatting my leg and squaking at me to get off the computer so I better go. I will post about our "pickling" adventure later tonight or tomorrow!

PUPPIES!

The Scribner's Veterinarian neighbor's lab had her second litter of puppies. We got to see them at 3 weeks old this time! They are so cute...there are 9 of them!! We carried them out of their box into the shaded part of the lawn and the mother, Chloe came over and let them feed for like 2 minutes. Then she shook them off and hid in the bushes. I feel that way with my litter too sometimes, and I only have two!

My favorite was the golden one, in the pic above with his tongue out. You can also see him in the feeding picture, he stands out from all the white labs. Of course "he" might be a "she"...I never checked! We will go back in a couple weeks when they are older and frisky. But then they will be over the cute and cuddly stage and into the nibbling and sharp nails stage so Vivi might have to stay in the golf buggy!

Vivi was in puppy heaven as "puppy" is her favorite word and her word for all animals. We went to a kennel over the weekend to check it out for boarding Lucy and Viv cried when we left! A girl after her mother's heart!

Family Fun

Billy and I took the kids to a waterpark for a picnic dinner Friday night. They had a blast, of course. I am beginning to think our kids have gills.