Alley is so Good

I know that it's human nature to like babies, to protect them. It's instinctual. But somehow my cats know that Cadence is a baby and no matter what she does to them they don't act...well cat like. She body slams them, pulls their tails, grabs chunks of hair out and bites them. And still they do not hiss or scratch, they just run away or tolerate. Now if only humans were more cat-like~!

A New Little Ponce

Ariel and Kelly had their beautiful baby girl, Isabella. We were so lucky to be able to see her and them. She is such a doll. We stopped by Bangkok in Ferndale, our Favorite Thai place during undergrad and brought Ariel a fiest! He was loving it, Kelly isn't much for the spicey food. New babies are so fabulous, I love that new baby smell.

SLC

So sad today is our last time hanging out with Nick and Jackie in Michigan. They are moving far far away to Salt Lake City, Utah. Of course we've spent the last few months teasing that they won't be able to find anything to drink and if they do it will be watered down. And Jackie better watch out that Nick doesn't pull a "Big Love" on her :) We are really going to miss them. At least we'll have a nature friendly place to go visit!

Cadence Takes a Dip in the lake

Well we were so excited to put Cadence in the lake, but the water was cold and baby did not like it! She loved her trip up north to the cottage and watching all the birds and walking. She can go 10 steps or more now and loves to walk holding onto your hands. We were pretty impressed that she went to sleep easily and stayed down for the night! I guess it's a go we'll come back up and have a friends trip again this year.

Michael's Residency Graduation

I'm so proud of Michael. He's been in school or training for 13 years and finally has graduated from Residency. He has three weeks of vacation now too! My parents came and stayed the whole weekend so we could go out and party as late as we wanted Friday and Saturday. That was so nice of them. Too bad for us we ended up getting the flu! Tamiflu saved us from it being severe but it did make us pretty tired after all our our partying. We have way too many shots of these event you'll have to check out Michael's facebook for a full account. It's sad it's the last weekend we'll all be together. People are starting to move out of state as early as Monday!

TP Trails

This was the first time Cadence discovered the toilet paper. Of course in the future we don't want to encourage this but since it's the first time Michael yelled go get the camera! Now if we were trailing tp is would be oh so embarrassing.

Birthday Invite is Complete!

So you can order fancy birthday invites online with pictures for about $2 a pop. That just seems so expensive. My friend Jodi told me about having invites printed at Kinkos and it's way cheaper and you can make any design you want. For this invite I just used Microsoft Publisher and I think they turned out really well! Of course I had to edit out the phone and email for rsvp so just pretend it's there. It's like a little filmstrip showing her doing her favorite things: walking, crawling and playing with anything that feels cool!