i started working on my classroom:

cooley got a buzz cut:

here's the best picture i could find with cooley's old hair cut (the biggest difference is the tail - his rat-tail is no more! i'm mourning)

i found these shorts in the bottom of a drawer. i am in love with them.

i went on my first backpacking trip and our first camping trip as a *family* (cue the awwww). we drank a large amount of homemade snake juice (actually grape juice, sprite, & rum); lounged in a creek; and unsuccessfully stopped cooley from consume large quantities of poop/random piles of dog food.

side note: if you don't watch parks & recreation, you should
i randomly babysat (holla to betsy!) for some extremely cute children. this was my babysitter's club kid kit:
it was a hit & included chocolate chocolate-chip muffins. yes. i'm that good.this guy came to visit!
we love when that happens (even more when his lady comes, too). mdt was doing some brew-work & this is what i find when i step outside:also, i love the crap out of this guy:

