Weekend and Louie

May is a very popular birthday month with the Grysen's. Michael's is the 13th, his uncle's is the 14th, his dad and Ryan (bro in law) share a birthday on the 18th, and his cousin Curtis has a birthday on the 19th. So we decided to go to Dallas Friday night and hang out with everyone on Saturday in celebration! We had a lot of fun playing with our nieces. As Hannah and Abby are getting older its really fun to see their personalities come out more. Its pretty cute to hear them call me "uncle kaywyn" in their little 3-year-old voices and I know I will miss hearing that when they are older and can say it right. Saturday evening, we all had dinner with birthday cake at Katie's house and they invited my family too. Both my family and Michael's family have been getting together more and its really cool that everyone gets along and enjoys each other. My brother Vincent even came over since he was at a convention in Dallas that afternoon. 

Kristen reading to the girls

We also got a new foster dog this weekend!
His name is Louie and he is 10 years old. He is very calm and sweet and gives me hope for Gaius calming down finally in about 6 years :).
His story is that he has had the same owner for his whole life, then all of a sudden they are moving and can't take care of him anymore so they gave him to the rescue. We are not sure if the move is forced (like going into nursing home) or they are choosing to move, but the vet found 2 types of ear infections in both ears and a bacterial skin infection that causes sores all over his body so someone was obviously not able to give him the care he needed. They also had not given him heartworm meds in several months, but thankfully he tested negative. He is a super sweet dog and we think he prefers women because he attached almost immediately to me and pretty much ignores Michael. He is very obedient, great off-leash, and someone even has taught him to stay off furniture! Having an older dog that is trained will be a nice change for us. The only thing we have to work on is getting him to lose some weight, he is about 8-10 pounds overweight.

Hopefully he finds a good home soon!