It's HERE!!

I'm so excited because tonight is the premiere of the new season of Top Chef! It is the little things in life that get me excited.

The Faithful Servants

This is going to be a hard post to get through. My sister's much loved Golden Retriever, "Shuug", like sugar, died last week. It was so hard on their family. It's heartbreaking to hear my sister talk about her last days and how the kids reacted and to hear how much it hurt her.
Then last night I learned that Malinko, Lucy's brother, has cancer. Poor, sweet dogs. They do nothing but love, love, love their families. ALWAYS happy to see you. They put up with children coming in the house after they have been the center of attention for years and accept their tails and ears being tugged on, being climbed on, slobbered on, etc., all the while waiting patiently for their turn for affection from us because they realize that we have "new" priorities.
Before we had children our dogs were our lives, hence the birthday parties. Yes, we actually had birthday parties for them!! We love these dogs and I'm sad for Elsa and Ryan and the whole Dryden family. Malinko may be fine and I really hope he is but it seems there may be a real sickness in his body. It may be unstoppable. I just wanted to give him the limelight for a minute and tell him that Lucy and our family love him dearly and hope that he'll be okay.

Charades

Charades has been a new favorite in the family games that we play. Well, tonight I actually got my camera for two of the best portrayals. Can you guess? Do you know what they are? That's okay, we didn't either!!! Scroll down for your answers!!

"BOTTLE CAP"
"SANDWICH"

Rob and Big or Tony Hawks?

Thanks Grandma!! We went to Toys R Us with the gift cards that you sent and we got skateboards and another hockey set. They are so stoked about their new skateboards. Sam had to get on the phone last night with Mick and tell him that he had "skateboarding skills". And that he was "riding, LIKE really riding".

So once it started to get dark last night I made them come in and have dinner and bathe. We were talking about skateboarding going to bed and of course woke up at what I refer to as "the crack", talking about skateboarding and trying to convince Sam that he really didn't need his helmet and knee pads on because we weren't going to go outside until 9:00!! He decided he didn't need to take his helmet off.

Here are some pictures of them today on their skateboards at a parking lot with small ramps and stuff. It was a beautiful day and lots of fun!! They are actually pretty good for first-timers!