Cutie

We weighed Marvin a few days ago and he was a whopping 68 pounds! Can't hardly believe it...when he first arrived, he was 14 pounds. I guess we can't say we don't feed him :-)

It's been a long time!

Wow...I've totally neglected this blog! Lots of exciting and new things happening! Thanksgiving and Christmas came and went and now we are in the year 2010! Unbelievable! For Christmas I had decided to undertake way too many projects and many of them are still unfinished. However, I was able to complete some card designs and made 3 of each and wwrapped them up and gave them as presents. It was really fun! I hope the girls are able to find some use for them. Some of the designs are below:

The Beginning

It is the start of a new beginning - is that contradictory? It's exciting to start a new phase in life. The planning hasn't quite taken place yet, but it has started. Lots of things to research and look through and choose.

I'm looking forward to it all.

Something that is needed...

Patience. It's something that is needed everywhere you go, but sometimes can be lacking... It's needed when you buy something online, when you help someone who doesn't know as much as you, when you make something, when you wait for someone slow, when you are cooking something new, when you listen to someone say something you don't want to agree with, when you are fixing something, when you want to buy something, when you need someone to help you...the list goes on and on...

Happy SysAdmin Day!

Today is SysAdmin Day! How fun...here's an interesting website that explains what a systems administrator is: http://www.sysadminday.com/whatsysadmin.html

Busy Bee

Lots of things happening this month...between work, marvin, events...there's definitely no dull moment. Our tomato and squash plants have been doing well and got lots of pictures.



They are all delicious and useful :-)




I'm hoping things will wind down a bit, but there's still plenty more things to plan, organize, and figure out. Hopefully all goes well. Now here's a picture of the pup now on his first trip...didn't go as well as I'd thought, but we all had fun. It'll be a while before we take him on a long car trip again, but hopefully this was not his last.

Softball

Today we start softball again. It was nice to be outside and run. It got warm pretty fast and by the end...I was ready to go back into the icy air conditioned office. I can't believe I just wrote that.

Update: Marvin is doing well...except he continues to have selective hearing when outside. He is growing rapidly. I'll post up some pics later on.