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?

Blog for a Cure

Follow the link above for bloggy ways to fundraise for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society...and win prizes:)

And if you are local:
LLS Light the Night Walk is Oct 17 in San Mateo and Oct 24th in Downtown San Jose, Green Arena Park. Come take an evening walk in the park with glowy balloons and support LLS.
http://www.lightthenight.org/

Queen of the Tide Pool

She is often doing her own thing. Imagining. Daydreaming. In class and during soccer practice. Sometimes missing what everyone else is doing. But those are also the qualities that made her Queen of the Tide Pool when she found a baby octopus, or maybe it was a squid.

And then there is this rock formation that the little guy compulsively created.

I love summer

We enjoy it so much that I don't have time to write about it, though I do still make time to visit friend's blogs regularly:)

So when the signs that summer is coming to an end show up, like the sunflowers wilting and the kids class rosters and soccer schedules being posted, I can't help but feeling torn between the excitement of whats to come and the melancholy of no more relaxed and fun-filled summer days. Seasons change, I guess all one can do is go along for the ride.

Tidbits of July

Because it flew by so fast...

Bits of Colorado

Bits of the boys rafting trip...no that rock is not a good place to be perched, but the alternative free-floating route that Sean was taking (the direction they are all looking concerned towards) was not any better.

The trip that made Ryan's summer. He still talks about his "big choo choo ride" daily.