For those of you bored with our garage and house updates :)

Contrary to what our recent blog posts may lead you to believe, we DO in fact have a life outside of working on the house and finishing the garage! Since our engagement, one of the things we have been busy with is initial wedding planning. We have chosen our date and booked our venue (Burke Mountain in East Burke, VT) and photographer! It's been fun thinking about the details and how we'd like everything to unfold. David has been busy with his new go-kart, he participates in races at F1-Outdoors a couple of weekends a month with his friend Matt. In addition to keeping up with rock climbing, I have had one two week trip to Seattle, a lesion surgically removed from my tongue (OUCH) which luckily turned out to be benign, and the first of two gum grafts. With my two surgeries and our bathroom renovations I've spent some time "living" with my grandparents, which has been a nice scenery change. We have also had Coal stay with us for a few weeks (he and Ash had a grand time), Sam has visited, and David spent a week in Iceland for work. I'll be in Illinois this coming week to re-do an experiment I did last fall.

Ash has also been getting even more comfortable as a member of our family. David likes to say that he is finally "acting like a dog". He LOVES to have his ears scratched, and he has started nudging your hand when you stop or if he is laying next you and wants to be scratched. Two things that he needs to work on now are walking better on the leash (he doesn't like it when there is tension so lays down / "puts the brakes on" if you walk faster than he wants to walk or in a direction he doesn't want to go) and if he is leashed and tied to anything he immediately chews through the leash - we have gone through more than 5 leashes at this point I think! Thankfully Lupine leashes have a guarantee even when chewed. I took a couple of videos today of Ash playing in my grandparents old tennis courts, he's such a cutie!