It’s been forever since Cooper was featured on my blog so I thought I’d share.  He’s still the same freaked out furry boy that we love.  Yesterday he spent the morning skulking around my office growling and occasionally giving a low bark.  When I finally opened up my front door for the UPS man in […]

A lesson in patience.  That is what Jill just finished.  A lesson in will power too.  In June Jill decided that she wanted to save her money to earn an iPod touch.  All summer she has been saving her money and dreaming about all of the apps and accessories she would get for her new […]

We don’t actually know when Cooper’s real birthday is, since this boy was a rescue, so we decided that we are going to celebrate on the day that we got him.  That would be one year ago today! Coop fits in so well with our family and he is so loved that we can’t imagine […]

Here are a few shots from our visit to the Enebo Tree Farm.  Allen’s parents have owned a 10 acre Christmas Tree farm since Allen was in High School (maybe even longer!).  Every year we bring friends along for the annual tree hunt.  When we spend Thanksgiving with Allen’s folks (like this year) we get […]

Last Monday the school district gave us a gift in the form of a big yellow bus.  Kate goes to all day kindergarten at a different elementary school in our district because our school has more than 900 (K-5) kids and there just wasn’t room to offer it. For the first five weeks of school […]

I just had to share this picture because it cracks me up.  It actually sums up their relationship perfectly.  Kate adores Cooper with all her heart and soul.  She chases him around giving him massive hugs all day long.  Contrary to how this looks, Cooper actually enjoys Kate quite a bit too.  He puts up […]