Tuesday, July 8, 2008

friends & fireworks.


today our friends paul, jen and their adorable daughter franny are driving back home to arizona. they and chris stayed with us on thursday night and i was surprised how easy it was to sleep that many people in our little apartment. in the morning the boys went for a bike ride and the girls had breakfast and took joey to the dog park.

after they left to visit with paul's brother for the fourth of july, mike chris and i drove up to big bear to see the fireworks at the lake. it was amazing. i love big bear, but especially on independence day. last year we stuck around riverside and it was just not fun. we drove up to a park on the top of a hill but there weren't any good fireworks worth seeing. while we were sitting on the grass and just starting to think of leaving, the sprinklers suddenly turned on and we had to make a mad dash to the cars.

we were able to spend last night with paul and jen again before they left and i was glad we did. we had a great time. hopefully we can return the favor and go visit them in arizona real soon. too bad it's about 114 degrees there!


although he doesn't show it here, joey was extremely happy to be at the park. really.


this is a friendly pug that we quickly made friends with. he was very chubby and couldn't breathe very well without snorting.

3 comments:

Xenia Kathryn said...

Those pugs and their poor little snouts! They sure are cute, eh?

Happy 4th to you! Glad you had a good time with your friends :)

Val. said...

retrospect, I'm glad you didn't get a pug. where's the firework pics? ;)

b said...

a pug!!!! i love them! a secretary at my dads work rescues pugs and @ her husbands funeral there was like 75 pugs and the priest sang the st. francis song and put holy water all over the pug heard :)