Snoops

Today, my family dog, Snoops, went to doggy heaven. She was born February 3, 1996 in Pennsylvania. My dad and I brought her home to our house in New Jersey in April that year. She lived a long life for a Basset Hound, 13 and a half years. She was a good dog, well except when she was stealing food from the counters. She stole and ate pizza crusts, loaves of bread, meat, anything she could from the counters. She loved to try to get into the trash. She would come running the second she heard a bite being taken out of an apple. She had a beautiful basset howl. She loved to sleep and eat! She curled up beside me in my bed to help calm my nerves the night before I went to college for the first time, before I went to Africa, and before I went out to Oregon for college. She was a woman's best friend! She will be dearly missed. We love you Snoops.

Here is a typical picture of her from this past year belly up soaking in the sun!

Short little story

Sorry it's been a while. Quick update...Jake has 2 teeth.

Our awesome friend Dave from college, George Fox University, came to visit for a few days this week. He lives in north eastern Washington (the state) and rode his motorcycle to Colorado to visit Travis and Eva-Lynn (from GFU) and then to Arkansas to visit Dane (from GFU too) and then to see us! He is then going to NY, Milwaukie, Colorado again, then California for Dane's wedding. It was so great to see him. Such a blessing to see a close friend who we haven't seen in a long time!

We decided to all go to the zoo. It was a lot of fun. We just walked around talking, looking at animals, and Dave took pictures. The trip was pretty normal until we were standing the African bird dome thing. We were standing right at a railing that looked down at a little pond while Dave took pictures of a Scarlet Ibis. Chad was holding Jake when...Jake grabbed his hat and trew it over the railing into the water! We stood there trying to figure out what to do. There were signs everywhere saying "DO NOT THROW THINGS IN THE WATER!" Well, Jacob can't read! I took Jake and Chad went over the railing and retreived the hat! It was pretty funny though. Jake had been the hat all day and had not touched it at all until the exact moment when it would make the most trouble!

Anyway, we had a blast with Dave and hope to somehow see more of our friends from college soon...we don't have plans to go to see them, but we desperately want to!

I will try to post some more pictures soon.