weekend fun.

this past saturday was somewhat eventful at the culpepper residence. we spent the first half of the day celebrating fender's 7th birthday! we arbitrarily set the date and are going to make it a tradition to have birthday parties for her. we took her for a picnic at lake eola park where she played among the ducks, geese, swans, and other dogs. she even took a brief dip in the water to our surprise, since she is usually opposed to any water activity. afterward, we took her to petco to pick out a new toy and a grab bag of treats.

the second half of the day was occupied with a trip to sea world. we now have season passes so we don't consider it a waste to go for just half a day. while there we went to the penguin encounter, the shark encounter (here mc learned the word shark and then called every fish, 'shark' the rest of the day), and the 'believe' shamu show. mary claire absolutely loves sea world! she is in awe of everything she sees. the only thing that upset her a little was getting splashed at the shamu show, which i take the blame for since i insisted on sitting in the 'soak zone'. as we were leaving, the wetness continued because it started pouring down rain and we were absolutely drenched by the time we reached the car. this, for some reason, did not bother mc one bit. as a result we did get to see a rainbow on the ride home! all in all it was a most excellent day!

here we are.

i decided to start a blog so that all those who are interested can keep up with our day to day. now that we live so far away from most of our friends and family it is difficult to keep everyone posted on our lives, so hopefully this will help. i'm not promising anything spectacular, but i'll do my best!