We originally had plans to go to a family reunion over the week of the 4th of July, but Dad didn't feel like he could leave work for the whole week, so we decided to take a little trip of our own. Despite our intentions of leaving on Thursday night, we didn't actually leave town until Saturday morning. We spent the 4th of July at home swimming in our little blow up pool and bar-b-queing and making homemade ice cream. We put a mattress in the bed of the truck and drove to a clear spot to watch the Kingman fireworks, which were surprisingly good (considering being a small town). Megan loved them. We headed over to Flagstaff (just a short little journey) - we wanted to get out of Kingman and escape the heat. We took a long route there and stopped at the Grand Canyon Caverns (some dry caves). We went and saw Wall-E, and swam in the hotel swimming pool and just relaxed. The next day we found church to go to and then made our way home. We stopped outside of Williams at a deer farm, where the kids fed the deer and saw all sorts of other neat animals. Megan is our little animal lover. She is fearless. She'll go right up and put her hand under the mouth of any animal with no hesitation. They loved it. It was a fun family trip, which we all needed (even if only for a day).
As we were getting ready to leave the farm we heard some workers in the gift shop talking about some puppies that were being given away at a nearby RV park. Dad wanted to go and check them out.... and we ended up taking one home. Now we have a new addition to the family - Bruno. He is part Lab and part Rottweiler (we think - they aren't sure who the father was). He made a good first impression - traveled very well on our ride home with no potty accidents in the car. Good puppy! The kids LOVE him, and he is pretty fond of them too. He is especially drawn to Megan (maybe it's because they are similar in size). And she is also QUITE FOND of him. So far he has been a good little pup. He is young so we are trying to teach him all sorts of things that puppies need to learn, but he is getting the hang of things. We are happy to have a new addition to our family. Megan loves to go out to the covered patio first thing in the morning and get some lovin' in on the dog.
