More May Activities

Water guns!!  

Mother's Day

Love our neighbor girls

Taking a break from biking to blow some leaves :)

Had a great Sunday with our neighbor - a walk to the Ice Cream Shop, a stop by the park and some trampoline fun

May..... So far

May baskets

Garage Sale (& a tired/feverish Brady)

After lunch in the East Village I decided to show Brady the Capital

Two new books to add to my pile of books I want to read.

Fishing

We took Brady fishing on the boat last Friday night.  He loved it and used his new fishing pole we gave him for his birthday.   With help he caught two fish, touched the fish (even threw one back in himself), said he liked going fast and yelled 'Yeah baby' when he caught a fish.  It was so much fun!

Pictures

Playing bags the Brady Mart way..

 I told him to get in his car seat while I threw some stuff away.  And this is where I found him!

An Easter event at New Hope Village with his cousins!

His friend Charlotte and him at the library.  They are seriously in their own little world.  Glad we made new friends!

Drake

We have been missing Drake lately.  Brady brings him up once in awhile and has been saying that we need a new dog.  I had a dream about Drake the other week and it took a few days of sadness and constant thoughts of him to get through it.  It led me to go through his file folders.  I had been saving almost all of his receipts since we purchased him and always joked about figuring out the total cost of having a dog - a dog like Drake.  :)  And the final total is..........  $26,200.  Honestly, it's a lot of money but Chris and I thought it would have been more than that!  It was weird to read through everything again - all his allergy shot info, his purchase info, his breeding history, the fact that we bought him on October 17th and he died on October 12th twelve years later - almost the same date...

About a month ago when it was nice out, we were all outside on a Sunday.  As we were talking to some neighbors, Brady wandered off down the sidewalk.  I eventually followed him and he ended up sitting on the grass by the stop sign.  As I stood there with him while he sat, a neighbor pulled up.  She was laughing and said that while she was headed the other direction, she had to come our way because seeing Brady sit there (not on our lawn) reminded her of Drake.  He would always just "crash" when we were almost home from our walk.  Sometimes just a lawn away from ours.  And he wouldn't budge.  Some neighbors thought it was funny and her associating the two situations made me really laugh at the funny memory of Drake that I had seemed to have forgotten.  That's the sucky thing about a loss - before you even realize it, you tend to start forgetting things.  Things you don't want to forget.  It's so hard.