Hershey Adventure

Ella and I have started going on "adventures." We get in the truck and just drive. We don't have plans or expectations, just spend the day together doing something far away that we normally don't do. Of course, I look ahead to see if there are things we'd enjoy such as a kids' museum or in this case, Hershey Park and her favorite music group The Imagination Movers. We were actually tipped off by one of the students in my class that they were going to be at the park. I didn't tell her anything, just drove to Hershey. When she saw the big signs of candy we decided to go there, then when we checked in they mention the Movers and her eyes jumped!
Ella was a Reese in height. This meant she could ride any ride with the Reese's sign. She was pretty excited to meet the Reese's guy.
A seal show? At Hershey park? Is he a chocolate seal?
Mmmmm boardwalk fries!
We played arcade games early on when it was raining and she actually won 2! She was pumped!!! The rain was nice because it kept the crowds down and made us try out things we normally wouldn't.
Right after getting her bunny face. She didn't want to take it off at the end of the night.


Ella rode her first real size roller coaster called the Super Dooper Looper. Can't believe that she is big enough to ride it and the she loved it! Half way through she yell's, "this is insane!" then keeps saying, "I want to go again." For that video and MANY others check our our Picasa page.

She seemed to be skipping the whole time we were there


I will post stuff about the Imagination Movers later. Even without that concert this was one of the best days of my life. What an amazing kid! Thank you God!

Ginger

I finally talked Natalie into a dog and it didn't take long for her to win Natalie over. Friday night we adopted a 6 year-old Lab mix named Ginger. Her previous owner passed away suddenly and his family had been searching for about 6 weeks to find a home for her. We found her through a colleague at work who had sent an e-mail out asking for a family for Ginger. I called Natalie right away because she sounded perfect for our family.
Danny and Jeff think she might have a little bit of Pit in the face and ears?

Ginger has been amazing! She jumped right in my truck, sat in the front seat and off we went. She is calm, sweet and very loving. She doesn't have accidents and can even be left out when we leave the house. The first 2 nights she has slept in the chair in our room. I have the crate set up, but she has never used one and I'm not sure yet if I want to introduce it to her.

I took her on a play date to visit my buddy and his Lab named Cali. She is young and hyper, but Danny has her really well trained. Ginger and I practiced some basic commands and made a few new friends. She seems to already know "come" and "sit." I'm working on "stay" and trying to get Natalie and Ella to feel confident with her. She responds really well to me, although she doesn't seem to like it when I make her run. After about an hour of playing she literally turned and walked away from me saying, "enough, where is my chair."
She has already brought so much joy to our lives. I've always told Natalie, "a man needs a big dog to lay around with and take running." While I'm not big on a lot of "man things," I do love having this dog. I am grateful to the Wade family for letting us welcome her into our family.
Samantha has warmed up to Ginger. The first time Ginger came over to sniff her and give her a kiss Sam freaked out. Now Sam is waiting her for her to play the drums. "Come on Ginger, I'll rock the maraca you hit the drum...follow my lead."

2 kids
awesome wife
big dog
truck


How do you explain how blessed I am?