Josh

I just loved this picture of Josh. Not only does he have a great smile, but his hair looks super cool spiked up. This last weekend Jarod spent time cutting the boys' hair and styling it in a new awesome spiky do.

Happy Birthday Jarod!!

Jarod turned 30 yesterday, and now I feel like I'm living with an old man. Carly loves birthdays and when she saw me making a cake, she was excited to celebrate Daddy's birthday. She called him several times while he was out to lunch with this buddies to sing "Happy Birthday" to him. I think throughout the day she probably ended up singing to him seven or eight times. On Sunday we celebrated with a marble cake with my folks, and last night I made a cheesecake for him. Carly thought it was weird that Daddy's birthday lasted two days, when everyone else is just one.

Happy Birthday Jarod!

Carly's First Field Trip

A couple weeks ago Carly went on her first pre-school field trip to a local pet store. I hadn't ever been in it, and I was really impressed. They have on hand about 50 puppies, a ton of birds...including exotic, turtles, ferrets, bunnies, snakes, frogs, etc. It was a lot of fun. The kids got to play with a bunch of different puppies and bunnies. They had a great time. Carly was more brave with the puppies than Josh or Jack. They preferred to watch them from behind the glass.

There are six kids in Carly's preschool group. It is such a fun group of kids. Carly just loves all her new little friends.

This bird reminded me of Grandma Val's birds. So pretty! There was a bird there that looked just like Paco, too.

I fell in love with this Basset/English hound puppy, and was half way tempted to take him home, until he bit me. Then I remembered what a pain the teething phase is.