::scenes from provo pt 2::

We're back in Rhode Island now, but still enjoying the fun of our trip--through pictures of course. Here's part two of the fun we had in Provo!
On Max's birthday we got to go and visit my lovely friend Megan. She made him a special birthday peanut butter sandwich complete with candle. Yay!

I have some more fun pictures from that visit, but they're not ready for posting just yet.

Here's Maxles communing with one of my parent's new puppies (well, they're not really puppies anymore, but compared to Sultan they'll always be puppies!)

This one is named Tucker. He's adorable. So is the other--Toby.

Tucker looks all innocent, but look out. When he first sees you he gets so excited he might jump up and smack you in the eyebrow with one of his teeth. You might bleed, but it's ok because he's your best friend after that.

Here's Max playing Give Said the Little Stream with Grandpa. There wasn't as much guitar playing as we'd planned on, but as usual with traveling, plans are hard to follow through on.



And some more dogs. Max out in the light snow shower playing tug of war with the goofball crazy puppies. They all got along well.



We had so much fun. I thought I'd have more photos of other family members--Char, Cammon, Lorri & Scooter. But I get a yucky stomach bug one night and nobody really wanted to come over after that. So we watched a lot of olympics, played and lot of cards and hung out at home. That was nice too.

::skye::

My parents found out a few days ago that our old collie dog Skye was really sick.
They had to make the tough decision to put him out of his misery.
We've had him since I was seventeen.
He was such a great dog and a good friend to all of us. Especially Piper, our Australian Shepherd.
We'll miss him. I'll especially miss his goosing--his head was at just the right height to hit most people right in the crotch with his nose when he was going about his customary greeting.
We'll also miss his ridiculously high pitched yip. It wasn't very manly but it was cute.

Dogs are such good friends and fun to have around, but they sure do remind us of our mortality with how fast they age, don't they?


Love you Skye.

::a boy & his dog::

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Did you know that dogs can laugh?

Yep.  That's all I have to say today.  Good night!

::where we are::

So Max and I are "out of town." As some of you might guess we're in Utah visiting family!
Being here is so nice. Two regrets though. Number one and biggest is that Kris is still at home working. Boo. We miss him! But he's coming to meet us soon, so we're just trying to hold out until he gets here.
Number two is that I know I won't be able to see everybody I want to out here. So sorry in advance friends if I don't make it to you. There's just never enough time. It stinks!

So we've been doing some of this:

(this is Max's best friend Robbie the robot. He lives at the Hendricks and vacuums the floors when Max isn't around)

we've been enjoying similar tastes:

(Max's guitar shirt, Grandpa Ken's guitar shirt. They think they're pretty cool.)

Hanging out with some of these:





(Charlotte always seems to put herself and her chin/nose/face in compromising positions with little boys in her lap. Here she is getting bonked in the chin by mr. Scooter. I have some pictures of her getting accidentally punched in the nose by Max last summer when he was in her lap. I wonder if she'll ever learn?)

We've spent some time with some fuzzy things such as this:

and this:


We're eating yummy food and having a super time. More details to come hopefully so we can keep Kris posted until he can make it out here to join us.
After he comes he and I will be taking a road trip to Northern CA and down the coast to scout out possible moving places for when we get done in RI. We've gotta be educated on all our options. Max is staying here with all the grandparents. It should be fun.

(can you see Skye singing in the background of this photo?)