So, we've done it again. We got a new dog. Today Tim and I went to Whole Foods and they were doing pet adoption outside. I talked him into going over to look and we found a couple dogs that we fell in love with. I swear we spent an hour or more looking at the dogs, talking about which one we liked and how we could make it work. We are needing to get rid of the cats since we aren't supposed to have them here anyways and they are starting to reek havoc, so talked about maybe 'swapping' the cats for a new dog. By 'swap' I mean that we have to convince the girls to get rid of their cats and get a dog instead. Anyways, Tim came home, picked up the girls and went back. They didn't like the one that I fell in love with, but they found a dog that they loved. We are now the owners of a great part shephard (possibly part pit) dog that is currently named Jake. Being we have a Jacob that we call Jake, we need to change the name though. We are sort of thinking right now about calling him Kobi.

Anyways, he really is doing great with the kids and even with Rex. He sits and shakes on command. He retrieves toys and drops them when told to drop them. When he starts to get too rough while playing, you say "gentle" and immediately walks away and goes and lays down. From what we understand, his owners had to move out of the country for work and couldn't take him. The people were marathon runners so the dog loves to run.

Here's a couple pictures of him.

Friday Funny ~*~4/1/11~*~

My youth from high school is probably one of the funniest people I know! Today's Friday Funny is one of his cartoons. If you aren't already a friend of his, you need to add Dik LaPine on Facebook! He'll keep you laughing!

April Fools Prank

Mikayla can be quite the drama queen and prankster so with April Fools Day here, I knew she'd come up with something to fool her teachers. She didn't disappoint!!! She came home from school and was cracking up. Apparently she talked her friend Omega into helping her with her trick. Mikayla worked up some fake tears and Omega went up to the teacher and said "Did you hear Mikayla is moving back to Michigan over break??" The teacher called Mikayla up and said "Are you really moving back to Michigan?" and Mikayla answered that she was. The teacher said "Over spring break????" (which started today) and Mikayla started to nod her head then said "NO! APRIL FOOLS" and blew a loud air horn that she'd been hiding behind her back.

She takes after her father....I swear!!!! ;)

Katelyn-The Artist

Last week Katelyn went to a birthday party at It's this great place where they teach you how to paint a preselected picture. For adults, you bring in your own drinks, from pop to wine to whatever you want. Pretty fun place! Katelyn had a blast and created this masterpiece that is hanging proudly in our hallway. I can't wait to sign the other kids up for a class to see what they come up with as well.

You call this "Spring Break"??

Our quarter at school ended last Friday and after a horribly stressful quarter, I was really looking forward to the break. Here is it Friday night, a whole week later, and we start back to school in just 2 short days. It has been cold and rainy all week so there's been no hiking, no long walks, no relaxing outside in the sun! I had planned on doing a garage sale this weekend but the weather has been so nasty that I haven't been able to set it up, especially being that I can't actually use the garage and have to do a 'yard sale' instead. Tim and I start back early Monday morning....and the kids get the week off for THEIR spring break! Looking at the forecast, they get warmer weather and more sunshine that we did. I guess that's a good thing because they can be outside and run off the extra energy. I'm just NOT ready to go back to school yet and really wish we could have another week. My house hasn't gotten spring cleaned like I hoped, I haven't done the reading I had wanted to do and I haven't gotten to sleep in a single day. Seriously...this is spring break??? I guess this is what spring break is like as a mom of 5.