Our EAST Coast Trip

Michael and I know that a day will come when traveling will not be so easy. So we started taking advantage of not having kids by taking our first big vacation. We started planning this trip back in January. Michael planned just about everything including the 8 ball games we went to. That's 6 baseball games and 2 basketball games. But since the vacation was almost two weeks long, that's not the only thing we did. We started out in New York visiting the major sites: Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, 5th Avenue, Central Park, and lots of other places. Then we road a train to Massachusetts to visit the Basketball Hall of Fame and Boston. Another train ride later, we were in Baltimore for an Orioles game. Next was Philadelphia where we ate as many cheesesteaks as we could... yum, yum. For fun, we hopped over to Hershey, PA to visit the Chocolate Factory. Finally, we cruised around D.C. We did so much and had so much fun... too much to tell!

Here are only a few of the hundreds of pictures we took.

Central Park

On the field at Yankee Stadium

Where everybody knows your name, Cheers in Boston

Liberty Bell

Rocky Statue, where we got hustled into taking these pictures. One dollar well worth the laughs.

The Mall in D.C. taken from the Lincoln Memorial

D.C. Temple

Surprise! We Added a Puppy to our Family!

Surprise! It was a surprise to even us, we got a cute little new puppy. After a few comments like "Wouldn't it be fun to have a puppy?" and "If we had a puppy, we could do this...." Michael and I started looking at the newspaper posts on line. At first it was just for fun to look at the cute puppy pictures. Then we saw a picture the cutest puppy and Michael made the call so we could just meet the puppy. After the "meeting" we went home with puppy.




Cooper is a spunky little guy. He's always surprising us either by how quickly he learns new tricks or by escaping from his playpens. Most of the time, Cooper is happy just chewing and playing with his toys around your feet. But when he gets tired he loves to curl up in your lap and go to sleep. When we're sitting in bed, he'll use his nose to push the sheets out of the way to sleep under the comforter.

He is almost potty trained. He knows how to tap a little bell at the door when he needs to go outside. But he still has accidents every once in awhile which frustrates Mike SO much. Shortly, Cooper will be enrolled in Puppy School. Thank Goodness!

We love our puppy!

Finally Starting My Own Blog

So many of my friends and family have adorable blogs. I love reading about what's going on in their lives and especially seeing the pictures of the latest family events. So, I'm going to join the club.