Family Easter Hunt 2008!

The Easter Egg Hunt was especially intense this year. With Noah making his first appearance the other kids were especially alert to grab their share. And, as you'll see, the family was especially weary that the Easter Bunny would come back with a vengeance to reclaim his eggs.


Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

Mickey & Mulan's Easter Hunt for Doggy Cookies

"'C' IS FOR COOKIES! 'C' IS FOR COOKIES!" - was the doggy chant heard as Mickey and Mulan waited for us to finish hiding their delicious peanut butter doggy cookies. This was Mulan's first Easter Cookie hunt, and she was a natural. Mickey appreciated that unlike previous years he couldn't casually chew his cookies, and instead swallowed them like a mad-doggy.

Mickey and Mulan wish everyone a Happy Easter!

Happy Anniversary to Ken & Laura...Chinese Style!

Missi, Sarah and Emie threw their padres a 30th Wedding Anniversary party. The party had a Chinese theme to it (note the hats), and we had authentic Panda Express to fill all our tummies. We confirmed the authenticity of the Chinese food by consulting our good friend Chris- who agreed that yes indeed orange chicken is a genuine Chinese dish.

As we speak Optimus Prime is transforming.

By the way, Missi would probably want to make clear that the Transformers is not going to be a theme for our baby.

Anyway, here is some more proof that things are progressing very well!

And Baby Makes 5

After weeks of eager anticipation, we are officially announcing that a Baby Bustarde is on the way! Baby Bustarde (aka Optimus Prime aka OP) is expected to grace our presence around September 28.

These photos are OP's first photo shoot from Week 7. OP is the little white fuzz inside the black bean shape. We have a more recent ultrasound, but haven't scanned it in yet.

Mommy and OP are doing much better now that we're basically through the first trimester and aren't sick as a dog anymore. (Mickey and Mulan do not understand the concept of being as sick as a dog-they say that they feel great as doggies...)

More updates and photos to come!

GRADUATION DAY!!!

Mulan and Mickey graduated today from their very advanced doggy obedience college. Today was their "final exam" and commencement ceremony. The session began with a very rigorous review of every single command that we learned over the past 5 weeks. From "leave it" to "stay", intermixed with eager kissies and pleading glances, our boy and girl obeyed beautifully.

After the review the whole class was rewarded with a chance to run around, jump over, slide on and weave through a whole doggy agility course. Mulan enjoyed hopping through the hoops and over the hurdles, and Mickey very happily climbed up a kiddie slide and slid down it twice! They proved themselves to be naturals.

After play time the class received their diplomas, and as you probably would have guessed Mickey was the Valedictorian! Well, his name was called first to receive his diploma, which as we all know, reflects the time honored tradition of all commencement ceremonies to bestow the first degree on the top scholar of the class. Mulan was a close number 4.

Mickey and Mulan are happy that they made it through and look forward to continue training to achieve the ultimate goal of ... being off-leash at the beach! Actually, Mickey is pretty good off-leash at the beach, but Mulan still needs some work before we dare try it.

Next time you visit be sure to bring some congratulatory milk bones for them!

Political Action!

For all you Hillary supporters here's something to jazz you up, and get ACLU people mad.
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/02/01/hillary-hecklers-heaved-from-rally/

btw- We know that big guy (the bearded one) who grabs the Hillary pic away from the kid. He's much more of a big ol' teddy-bear in real life.