New Baby!

Well, a four-legged baby. :) We welcomed Gunner into our family on Tuesday night. He is a very sweet boy. After looking for a puppy for about a year, we finally came across Gunner's litter. There were 11 puppies born to Gunner's mom, Josie (a black lab/golden retriever mix) and Gunner's dad, Dodge (a purebred chocolate lab). Even though both mom and dad are black, Gunner and 3 of his other siblings were golden. We love him dearly.

Tucker is extremely patient and we are thankful for his instruction and modeling for Gunner. Come by and meet him anytime.

We're DONE!!!

We officially finished the National Board process this morning. As of 11:04am, we both completed our three hour computer based essay test. This portion of the National Board process is worth 40% of our overall score. The huge portfolio we submitted at the end of March was worth 60%. Whew!

We both feel like this has been a valuable experience, but a huge investment of our time and energy over the course of the last year. While we don't find out if we passed until late November because of the huge volume of writing that actual people read and score, we are excited to be done! Some people thought we were totally insane to both be doing this at the same time. All the nights we sat on the couch typing next to each other, it made it easier to accept, because I didn't feel bad that he was on his own...we were both focused on our computers! :)

As to our celebration...we went to lunch after the test and then came home and took a nap. Sounds like a perfect way to celebrate to me!!

If you wand more info about the process we went through, check this link out...
http://www.bsd405.org/default.aspx?tabID=1525