Busy, Busy, Busy!

So its been a long time since I posted. Spring keeps teasing us with its start..almost.. We are definitely ready to get outside and play. Recently we got a new puppy. His name is Maico, after some old German motorcycle, and he is a Great Pyrenees. We got him about 2 months ago when he was 9 weeks and about 10 lbs. He is now 4 months old and about 40 lbs. His papa weighed in at about 130 so we expect him to be enormous. He is pretty good with the kids and he looks like the baby of our other Pyrenees mix Brodie. About 2 weeks after we got Maico, our baby Charlie became very sick with a strange unknown virus. The puppy was also very sick with what seemed like parvo. Charlie had to spend a few days in isolation at Primary Children's. They tested him for everything they could even remotely believe was making him sick. Everything came up negative. It was like an episode of house with all the docs around a white board comparing his symptoms with know viruses. It was scary and strange but all is well now and he is just a normal crawling busy 9 month old. Maico is also fine and maybe even more mellow than a normal puppy due to all his sick down time.

Max just got home from Japan where he was collecting images for his upcoming book. We don't expect its release until then end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011. It was a crazy 2 weeks with just the kids and I, but we did all right. We got some baby chicks to replace the our chickens that mysteriously disappeared. We also got some free turkens, also known as turkey hens, which are very very ugly. They have featherless necks with a tuft of feathers on top of their heads making them look like dinosaurs. I named them turkendactyl and turkenrex. I have been told they lay extra yummy eggs so I 'll keep them around a while.

Thats the condensed version of the Roach news. We are counting down the last 10 weeks of school and looking forward to a long summer with Max. I see lots of camping, hiking, and motorcycling in our future.

Just a reminder.. We enjoy having visitors if you're even in our neck of the woods. We'd love to share a meal with you.