Happy Birthday pup

Yep, the exciting posts continue to roll as we celebrated Cruz's first birthday. Lauren made a dog cake (recipe available upon request:) Dog owners out there, please tell me that it gets easier now? No more getting up at night to let him out, no more accidents, will start walking calmly on the leash at our side, right?

He is a great dog, Shelby our cat even thinks so, and we are glad he is a part of our family. Happy Birthday!

I added some pictures of Cruz at a lure coursing event. Danish Farmdogs are supposedly instinctively good little event dogs for flyball and luring and Cruz didn't let us down. On his first try he did fairly well following the lure, though the kids had their worries that he'd head for the hills vs follow the lure so they ran the 1/4 mile loop after him!

Jason

My bordering on unhealthy crush on Jason Mraz wasn't made any better by Bushwalla taking my camera on stage to get close up pictures for us. How do we get so lucky? I don't know. Maybe I was in the zone. More likely it was my cute 8 year old just being herself as we loitered in the exit foyer. Whichever it was, it was special and the real reason is because these guys are magical. Thanks Billy, you have a few more fans!

Unfortunately, Lauren now thinks that the MC will always be so gracious.

You may have noticed my photo quality getting worse the past month and yes, this is ultimate validation that my camera needed to be replaced long ago...these would have been so good on a decent camera!

Autumn and weddings

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We went to Tahoe this weekend to attend our friends' beautiful mountain wedding with hopes of taking in some fall foliage, but instead got to see the first snowfall! Grandma came along.

Those beautiful people are MY maid of honor, best man, and of course, my one and only, but I share...and that was 11 years ago. How do some people just continue to get better and better looking?