New Blog! My trip home, and update on Guinness!

Well first off, I've decided to start a new blog, because the other one I was using decided to erase all of my photos... I'm hoping it'll return them, but I still don't like that they're gone right now.  Plus, I think/hope that with this blog, it can just email any new blog entries to my friends and family, rather than people having to stop by this website!  We'll see how that works...

Anyways:  Life has been busy!  I went to visit my amazing friends and family in CA for about a week, during the hottest week NorCal has seen this summer!  Apparently we broke a record for the most days over 105 degrees... Sooooo happy I was able to be a part of that record ;-)  It was so awesome to see my family and friends.  While I was there, I went with my mom and nieces to FairyTale Town!!  I haven't been there for atleast a decade.  It was extremely hot, so we only lasted about an hour early in the morning.  Cassidy looooves going on the slides, and Addison is starting to get into them but she isn't 100% sure about them yet.

I've come to the conclusion that I have the cutest and sweetest nieces in the world.  We also all went to Sausalito for a nice Sunday afternoon to escape the heat for a bit!!  The weather was SO beautiful there, and we were enjoying the nice cool breezes and sunshine.  We went to the Marine Mammal Center, and it was very cool but we were bummed that we didn't get to see more of the animals there.  It makes sense why we can't see them, but it was still a bummer.

And I got to celebrate July 4th with my family!  That hasn't happened in many, many years.  We had a lovely BBQ at Brad's house, and all of the food was AMAZING.  Brad's quite the griller, and Amanda made delicious macaroni salad, and my mom made homemade ice cream!  We ended the evening with some fireworks!!  It was SO good being home.

It was hard being away from Guinness for a week, but McGee did a wonderful job of taking care of him while I was gone.  He's now about 5 and a half months old, and he's almost lost all of his puppy teeth!  The whole teething process has been pretty horrible for him I think... His mouth seems to be bugging him quite a lot, and we keep finding spots of blood on his bedding (he loves to chew on his bedding/towels) and toys.  We're not sure how much he weighs now, but we think he's definitely over 40 lbs.  We also ended up scheduling a make-up solo class for him with his Puppy Class trainer, and I think the solo class was really great for him.  The teacher was SHOCKED at how much he's grown in the past 3 weeks though.  She'd thought that his full size would be about what he is now (so did we), but there's no way he's even close to done growing.  When the class was over, she put a graduation cap on him (he did not enjoy it... and I'm quite sure that'll be our one and only time putting any sort of hat or clothing on him), so I had to snag a few pictures.

That's all for now!