Our Trip to Orlando

We are recovering from a trip to Orlando. We stayed in the Nickelodeon Hotel which was pretty fun. Magic Kingdom was nice but very crowded. The line for Peter Pan (my favorite ride there) was 90 minutes long and the ride itself was only 4 minutes. We must have been crazy. It was raining most of the day last Tuesday that we were there. Then on Weds. we made it over to Universal, which by contrast was stifling hot and miserable. We lasted longer in the rain than the heat. LOL! The last day we just shopped and the boys and Tim spent the afternoon just at the hotel swimming at the Lagoon. The pools and waterslides at Nick were great! We came home and stopped in Daytona to eat breakfast and to walk out on the beach. Nice but it put us behind and we got in tons of traffic and finally got home around 9pm. Loooong day Friday. Jen and Dave enjoyed their trip to NYC with the high school. They got to do a lot and were very well supervised. There were 51 on the trip. It did them good to do a trip on their own.

Short Spring

More photos from the outside. When I get home from my walks I enjoy throwing the ball for the labs and strolling around taking photos of the new life blooming around. With 80 degree days forcast for the week, I think our spring will be very short this year.

Changes are coming!

Spring is here and in just about two months our baby girl will graduate high school. When did this happen? It wasn't supposed to go by so quickly. I've put it in the back of my mind for so long now, and I guess I need to accept it and move on. In the meantime, spring is blooming all over. The dogs have been enjoying the warmer weather and I've been out taking loads of pictures of all the blooms. I cannot wait to get my basil and thyme in the ground. My rosemary looks fabulous. It wintered rather well. Yum my herbs!

Yes Indeed, Spring is Here!

We are officially into spring. Gorgeous weather lately. Turned on the air Saturday. So much busyness coming up. I think I might lose my marbles. Wowza! Orlando, NYC, Prom, Play and Graduation, then Kiawah, Ocracoke and a lot of Boone. Aaaa! Help! Somewhere in there I've got to clean the house real good for guests and I really should paint the walls but I give up on that. Too much. I knew my soul soared too much the other day. :) Okay, well, on with the day!

This is my Father's world....

As I walked along this morning, it was very cloudy but after about 20 minutes the sun began to peek and spring was springing out everywhere. I was listening to Larnelle Harris on my ipod and just as I saw the sun through the trees he was singing in my ear "This is my Father's world". So perfect. I was so pumped up with joy I walked for over an hour! Praise God!

See How He's Grown

Just like kids, puppies grow up...despite our wishing they wouldn't. He is still a sweet puppy, pretty calm considering he is a male lab puppy. The other big dog's don't think he's so sweet. Maybe the fact that he is obnoxious to them, he saves sweetness for us. He still loves to lay across our laps, but we have to be on the floor now.

There are some photos that are random shots of Charlotte I took one day when Tim and I visited a running store to pick up his 1/2 marathon packet, which he ran last Saturday. His time was 1 hour 50 mins. Eight minutes better than the one he ran 11 years ago. Good job Tim!

There have been several write ups in the local papers about Tim becoming chief of staff at the hospital. It comes at a controversial time with an imminent hospital merger about to occur, otherwise, we doubt it would have even made the paper. Anyway, I included an article with his photo.

What have we done now?

Check him out! We now have the most adorable puppy. He's now 7 weeks old and is so sweet. He has the most adorable puppy smell and he thinks he's human. Here's why:

His mother nearly bled to death and his siblings all died at birth. He and his mom were rushed to the hospital where with blood transfusions they both survived but mama couldn't nurse so he was hand fed until he could eat solid food. Is'nt that just so sweet? He loves to snuggle close and lay on your chest to snooze. I don't think this will be so cute when he's 70+ lbs! We are hoping he will be a good mate for Baby and in the process we should get some beautiful chocolate lab pups. We love him already!