A New Addition to Our Family

(you thought it was gonna be a baby, huh?!)

We finally relented (actually, it was husband who was the limiting factor) and decided to get a dog. Meet Cooper, our new 4-legged 2-yr-old. As you can tell from the pictures, he suffers severe neglect here - nobody in our house likes him (u-huh.) He is the sweetest, smartest little boy ! He's got excellent manners both inside and outside of the house, and he's very obedient. I'm hoping he'll be an example in this way for the people kids in the house:).

Gardening Triumphant!

We dug up half of our front yard this spring and put in a HUGE vegetable garden. Because it's in the front yard and we're on a corner lot, it's been quite the neighborhood attraction. I have secretly been feeling a little pressure to make things grow because my failure to do so would be witnessed by everyone who walks by or pauses at the stop sign at the intersection. Thankfully, earlier in the week I woke up to see my sweet lettuce and spinach plants peeking their little heads out from underneath the compost and Zoo Doo. I'm now officially a successful gardener, at least in my own head! Here they are in all their glory (the garden actually extends way beyond the picture in an L-shape. It's HUGE!):The lettuceMy uneven rows