Rocket!

We always knew we loved having a dog in our lives. Smokey was the best dog ever and he was such a big part of our lives, after all we had him for 9 years. When he passed away it was way too soon and a hole was definitely left in our lives. With all the best intentions of "just looking" for a new dog to open our home to we began our search. What we came across surprised even us. We found a 9 week old Rottweiler. Too cute to pass up, this puppy truly chose us. Among the 6 puppies in the litter, one kept coming back to play with us time and time again. So we picked him up and took him home. On the way home we discussed many different names and at one point Isabelle started talking about a rocket. So we decided to name our newest addition to the family Rocket or Rocky for short.
What makes it even more wonderful is that he's already fitting in with the family and we have some other new puppy additions as well. We hope these two will be best friends.

ZOO

Cough + runny nose = no school
So what do you do with two kiddos who are too sick for school but have energy to spare? My guess was take 'em to the zoo!

my two little turtlesand of course the penguins! Nothing better to wear them out than walking the whole zoo. The weather was pretty good, aside from a few showers we stayed pretty dry and entertained.

Smokey

There was a family who had a dog and Smokey was his name-o.
What a good dog he was. Smokey you will be missed.




Smokey "The Bear" Germaine 1999-2010

Field Trip

Reptile ZooTyler and Isabelle got to go on a field trip to the Reptile Zoo in Monroe today. Amazingly enough both of the kids got to hold a snake, and they did it without any fear.

there were many reptiles to see, you could even touch some of the turtles (the kids thought that was awesome).


There was only one or two requests for mom to buy a snake or a turtle. I told them I'd be happy to get them one as long as it was a stuffed toy.

Isabelle

My Montage

kids grow up so fast....

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ROLLERSKATING!

I took the kids rollerskating for the first time this week. I wasn't brave enough to put on skates myself. I figured if I did the kids and I would all be on the floor.
Tyler was a natural. He started off going a half lap holding my hand and then he took off on his own. There was no catching up to him.
Isabelle took a little more time getting into the "groove" of things. She didn't want to let my hand go for very long but she hung in there like a champ.
They looked so cute out there :)