Charlie is finally home!

Charlie arrived last Thursday and it's been an adventure around here. He is very sweet and loves playing and exploring around our new place. We wanted to make sure he is comfortable around people so we take him everywhere we go and try to have people over as often as we can. So far he is being great! Every since we got Charlie people are a little nicer to us, we are guessing is because he is so little and so cute. Everyone that meets him falls in love with him and we even got some volunteers to baby sit him while we are out of town.Sometimes people don't think he is real, they think he is teddy bear, but he loves meeting new people and kisses everybody he meets. He also enjoys watching tv and falling asleep in people laps. He is great! He really does make our days more interesting.

Kangaroo farm

We went to a kangaroo farm during the weekend, we were lucky enough to take our nieces Liv and Ella with us. We had alot of fun with the girls. It felt like a good experience for us, taking care of those two felt very confortable and natural for us. We realized that we are a good team and even though we only took care of them for 4 hours, it made us think about our future children and about how ready we really are. We really can't wait to have our own and take them to cool places like we did we our wonderful nieces. Thanks to Tiffany and Tore we got to play a different role, the responsable adults and it was fun! During our driving to the farm the girls were singing "Chicken noodle soup" and other fun songs that made our day more interesting. It took us a little bit more over an hour to get there, so the children's cd from McDonalds was a good distraction for the girls. Once we got there we took a tour around the farm. Nils was in charge on Liv and I was with Ella. We took a lot of pictures and enjoy every moment we spent at the farm. We feed the wallaby, kangaroos, donkey and llamas. I think everyone's favorite part was feeding the llamas, because we feed them with our mouths and got to kiss them as well. We were very surprise when little Ella put a pellet on her mouth and wanted to feed the llama with her mouth and "get a kiss". Liv was a little more hesitated about it, but eventually she gave in and didn't want to stop. At the end of the tour the girls and I got to hold a baby wallaby. On our way back we stopped at McDonalds for lunch and the girls were lucky since we found a McDonalds with a playground so they played for a lil bit. We expected the girls to be tired and whinny on the drive back home but Ella falled sleep and Liv was happy singing her songs. We had an awesome time and I even got to change a diaper, which I thought it was funny, because I wasn't expecting it, but I'm glad I was there because I found out that Nils doesn't know how to change one. So thanks for the good times girls!

The secret is out

Afew nights ago I watched the movie "The Cove" It was a very emotional movie for me because it's a documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. At the beginning I didn't want to watch it because I knew how hard it was going to be for me to see these wonderful creatures being killed, but even though I teared up alot during this movie, I loved it! I loved that someone was trying to do something about this, someone was trying to stop this slaughter from happening, someone was trying to show the world what was really happening in Japan. Ric O'Barry helped me understand a little more about dolphins. He is using this film to spread a message to the world. Dolphins are smart and very beautiful whales. I admire them and adore them and I feel the need to doing something. I don't know what it is yet, and it may not be as big as what O'Barry did but I need to help them. Every September 23, 000 dolphins die at the cove. The fishermen in Japan pick the dolphins they think are going to sell to aquariums around the world, looking for the perfect "Flipper" , while the ones that don't make the cut are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed with spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats. Then they sell dolphin meat to the community and the aquariums in Japan. This movie made me think of the importance of the message. Now that the movie is out, everybody can see it, but how many of us will do something? How many of us care enough to stop this? We can all start somewhere : http://www.takepart.com/thecove

Our puppy

We went to visit Charlie for the first time, and got to see him with his mom and siblings. He is super cute and very friendly, he started playing with us as soon as he got close to us. We can't wait to have him with us and see him playing with Wendy. He is going to be a really good dog, we can feel it, we just have to wait a couple of weeks to have him forever. We are so happy with him, he has the rarest color of the shih tzus and his personality rocks! So we are counting down the days for him to arrive to his forever home.