4.1.2008 - 4.30.2008

April 24, 2008:  Good evening everyone, hope you've all been well.  Things have been nuts around here but are starting to get a little better by the day.  Stella has the house training thing down, only has an accident once in a while.  She started puppy class last week and has her second class tomorrow night after work, I'm sure she's very excited.  She got to play with one of her sisters last time so that was fun, sure looked like fun anyway.  After the fourth and last puppy class she is going to start right into the obedience classes.  Lisa is off this weekend so she gets to come to class with us too, she's psyched to see the other two pups from the litter that will be there, last week they were so much bigger than Stella but I'm sure she'll catch up soon enough.  In between chasing her and work I've been able to get a few things done on the shed, the goal is to get it totally finished before my parents arrive here this Saturday night, we'll see if the weather is good enough for that to happen.  I was able to get the wiring finished last week so I had lights to work on the rest of the inside stuff.  I had to run conduit down the side of the house and into the garage and ended up doing it in the rain one night after work while Lisa kept an eye on the pup.  I've been quite the slacker lately and haven't been doing decent updates.  I got an email from Tom the other day with pictures of his new son Kael, pretty cute kid too.  On the baby front Kyle and Naomi had their baby last weekend, a little girl named Indiana or Indi for short.  We're planning to stop by and see them tomorrow sometime, maybe we'll get a few pictures then.  Other than all that not much is new really.  I added a few pictures to Stella's page and will probably get more over the weekend when my folks are here.  We're going to do a bunch of sight seeing and stuff so as long as the weather is ok it should be a great week.  I'll update the shed page when I get the paint finished, it's about half done now.  I might drag my Dad out to the stone yard to get big granite stair tread to put in front of the door, I'll grab pictures of that too.  Have a great week! 

April 14, 2008:  Hello everyone, sorry it's been so long since I've done an update but as you can probably imagine we've been very busy with Stella, work, and everything else we have going on.  Stella is doing well, she is starting to get the potty training thing down and is getting huge much faster than we expected her to.  Work for both of us has been crazy as always so nothing new to report there.  Gregg just left late last night after his trip out to help me with the shed.  We were able to catch a Mariner's game this time and even do some tourist stuff around the city.  We closed the weekend off with a few miles of trail riding with the mountain bikes.  The shed is 95% finished but I still have to do a few things like caulk a bunch of seams, prime a few areas, paint the whole shed, and do the wiring.  Hopefully I can get to some of that this weekend and before my parents get here at the end of the month.  Other than that I'm so tired that I can't really think of anything else to say so check out the pictures of the shed and some of the new ones of Stella and have a great week.