M Happiness

I've been feeling a little bad that about the way that M's actual birthday went down since all her parties were head of time. Luckily, she didn't mind in the least, was TOTALLY psyched to eat left over Halloween candy instead of birthday cake on her birthday, and now that she's four is spreading happiness in new and exciting ways.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Happy Birthday dear M

What a magnificent 4 year old you are :o) I'll work on rounding up pictures from someone who took some during a party, but needless to say it's been a fun couple of days.

Peek Spring Performance

M perfomed in Peek's spring performance extravaganza this morning

It was AMAZINGLY cute and far better to my camera skills, but here's one of the numbers anyway.

M Birthday 4.1

May is just going to be the month of birthday parties for M. We started early this year in order to do a joint party with a friend from school who's birthday was at the end up april. The other mom brillantly recommended the rec center which involved a whole lot of this:

Followed by plenty of this:

Everyone had a good time, but no one more than Alex ;)

Party 1 successfully in the books! 2 and 3 to come :)

Welcome Colt

While not very many blog posts have been posted over the last few months, we have been busy here in the blue house. One of the biggest changes is the adoption of a new friend, Mr Colt.

We adopted him a couple of weeks ago from a rescue in Salt Lake and have had so much fun getting to know each other. Billed as a "lab mix" our vet is going with ~3 y.o. lab/dane/hunter mix. Which makes sense because he plays fetch like a lab, has the legs of a dane, and barks like a hound dog :)

He loves the backyard and will play fetch indefinitely.

Even when it's snowy/rainy and we make him wear boots.

He's learning to tolerate the crate

But much prefers when one of us is working from home

Or better yet, relaxing at home.

But fair warning to those of you with visits on the calendar - don't trust this face anywhere near your food...

...currently a counter surfer and food theif extrodinare - we definitely have some training yet to do.

Welcome to the mad city / park city Provan crew Colt!

blast from the past

It's so fun to remember a book from when you were little. A while ago dad sent me this gem...

...which I apparently got when I was two...

...and is apparently timeless :o)