Connor gets 1st Place!

Way to go CONNOR!! Last week Connor competed in the Neil Elementary track and field day. He got 1st place and qualified to go to the 5th grade district track and field day to compete against 5th grades from the entire district. So we went to Armstrong High School today to see him compete. He did an AWESOME job! The teacher that was helping even complimented him on his form!
Look at him go!


He got FIRST PLACE!! Pushing the shot put to just over 33 ft! Way to go Connor!! We are so proud of you, you worked so hard for this! Congratulations!

Happy Birthday Chris

Happy Birthday Chris!

We had a great dinner last night, hanging out at Lowell's house. Great food and family! Also, a barking dog!

Animal Humane Society Walk

On Saturday, May 5th. Chris, Connor, myself and Bear did the Annual Animal Humane Society - Walk for Animals. We walked with my sister Sarah, Jim, Madeline, Elizabeth and Heike. It was a lot of fun. There were so many different kinds of dogs there. We even saw an alligator in a big plastic container being wheeled around.

Connor walked both Heike and Bear most of the way. Well, maybe they walked him! He had lots of fun running and playing with the dogs. Elizabeth was content hanging out with mom and Madeline did the "ride in the stroller, now I want to walk, no ride, no walk" routine.

We got home at about 12:30 and Bear slept the rest of the day. A tired dog is a good dog!

The Bear

So I mentioned that we have a new pet... BEAR! Our super cute, super lovable, black lab/chow mix puppy. He is about 3 months old, we got him from the Golden Valley Humane Society.
He is about 98% housebroken!! He loves his chew toys (lab) and his food. He literally jumps like a foot in the air when we grab his bowl to fill it. He loves to go for walks, and is learning to stay out of the way of Chris' size 13 feet. It'll be fun to see how big he gets. He's 22 pounds right now. The vet thinks he will get to be around 65 pounds!!
The only one that has not adjusted is Gus. He is not so sure that he likes Bear yet. He spends a lot of time upstairs now. He is super curious though. He just needs to learn to smack Bear in the nose and things will be good from then on.
Emily is now out-numbered 4-1 (4 males, 1 female) in our house. Total opposite from growing up!

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Wish I had a camera

With this new blog, I now realized that I need to carry a camera around. Just in case. Chris and I took Bear for a walk around Lake Harriet last night and then went and got ice cream at Sebastian Joe's. Bear, being a puppy, was trying to find anything he could to chew on. At one point he found a white stick. They way he had it in his mouth made him look like he was smoking a cigarette. You would have had to see it, but dang it was funny. Yep, really need to carry the camera!

Our First Post

We thought it would be fun to try this out. We may or may not have things that are fun or interesting, but with an 11 year old,a puppy and a cat we should have some fun things to say.