Complete Randomness

 Welcome to the most random post possibly ever.  Nothing seems to connect here, but I will try!  Daddy likes to have us take a picture each year next to the flowering crabapple tree.  The tree continues to tower over us, so in reality, it looks like we are shrinking.

 My first photo with the crabapple at age 1 above and below....

 Cooper and I have been busy with watering the newly planted flowers.  One day, we heard Mommy scream and jump back.  While winding up the hose, she saw two beady eyes looking at her and discovered it was a tree frog.  Cooper tried to speak froggy to it, but it stayed put in the hose reel.  I think Daddy had to get him out in order for Mom to touch the hose reel again.

 Mom's principal and his family have become friends of ours the past several years and they have decided to move to Sarasota.  They decided to sell a lot of things, so we picked up a new smoker grill and ironically, a pet frog.  The frog needs to be fed once every 3 days and it lives in a small, spring water aquarium.  Seems pretty easy so far.  He is noisy when our house falls quiet and he makes silly squeaky/croaky sounds.  On our drive home from getting him (or her, who knows), I decided to name him Sandy.  We don't know any Sandy's, Mom/Dad aren't sure what prompted this name, but it stuck.  So Sandy has now joined our family on our living room shelf.  You can see the little critter in the corner (NOT the big green rock) in the picture above.

 Cooper likes him a lot.  He checks on him to make sure he is swimming around each day.

 The weather finally seems to be cooperating, so we made a quick decision to hit a local park.  It was a nice day.  I insist on walking out on this "scary" dock that hangs above a creek.  The scary dock does not sit on stilts, it is suspended from the ground/ledge.  It creeps our Mommy out.

 Nice cheesy smile Coop!

 We stopped by the animal cages to see what was going on.  The black bear was sitting up and staring at us while chomping on some green leaves.  Borderline cute and scary.

 My parents received this picture text from Dan and Nancy in New Mexico last week.  They are flying out to visit them for a long weekend in July.  They are going during the Spanish Market, so they are super excited for the visit with good friends while experiencing their amazing view from their backyard and exploring their culture.

Mommy's college roommate, Rita, came home from California for a family/friends hosted baby shower.  Mommy hasn't seen Rita in a few years now so she was so happy to see her.  Rita is having a baby girl (Ruby) in August.  We can't wait to meet the little princess!

 Daddy developed a wound care/hyperbaric clinic at the hospital he works at and they received an award.  I am quoting the hospital's announcement here... "St. Joseph’s Hospital’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric medicine has received the prestigious Center of Distinction Award from Healogics, Inc., a leading wound care management company. The award marks the Center as one of the top wound care centers in the country and is given to facilities that have outstanding patient outcomes for 12 consecutive months."  Way to go Daddy!

 Mommy survived her 13th year of teaching.  Survived is maybe not the right choice as she had a wonderful group of Kindergarten learners this year.  The last few days was the survival part because thanks to 2 additional snow days, they had to go into this week.  In all of her teaching years, she has never finished school in mid-June.  Summer sure is going to fly by!  Cooper and I went to Mommy's school for their last day awards ceremony.  It was very, very, long and Cooper became annoyed with all of the clapping.  We stayed long enough to see a really cool goodbye slideshow students and staff made for their exiting principal.  Mommy quickly snapped this photo of Cooper and I above because she thought it was cute and funny how we just went and sat down on the rug like the "big" kids.  She didn't even have to ask us to sit down quietly with criss-cross applesauce legs :)

 I started instructional t-ball this week.  It is only once a week for 8 weeks.  We practiced throwing, catching, hitting and running the bases.  I have 3 buddies from preschool also in t-ball, which made the loooong 60 minutes go by quickly.  We won't play any games this year as it is only an instructional and basic skills program.  I did ask where the rest of my equipment was when Mommy handed me my glove.  After playing hockey this winter, I didn't know some sports could be so simple!

 Maybe the best part of playing t-ball is playing at the park afterwards.  I am working on using the monkey bars with minimal help and Cooper is working on climbing the tallest and most dangerous apparatus.  

We hope you enjoyed our most random photos from these past two crazy-busy weeks.  We look forward to sharing pictures next week from our combined birthday party this weekend and Cooper's 3rd birthday this week.  Where has time gone?!?!?