The Joys of Pet Ownership and Visitors

Gotta love that Carlos. Friday, I came home from work and found Carlos in the kitchen with this:

Innocently, he looked up as if to say, "Wanna play??!" Ben and I just laughed and left him there. He continued to play on and off with his new toy for the rest of the night. Whatever makes him happy right? Really its more like whatever keeps him from running crazy around the house and playing jungle cat all over the furniture. We love him though and he's learning what's ok to do in the Cooper house. Some of the newest things he's discovered is the window blinds and those wonderful strings that hang down from them and hair twisties that he kindly leaves in his food for us when he finds them.

On anther note, I never got a chance this week (it was in insane, fly-by week) to post about Easter. This year, we got the treat of being visited instead of traveling ourselves. It was such a blessing because we got to go to our own church and see the Easter service there. Ben's family - his parents, and his brother and brother's wife, Luke and Cherish - came down to us from Arlington to celebrate Easter. When they arrived on Friday night, we went out to dinner with them and then came back and watched the new James Bond movie. Saturday, Pat, Cherish, and I went out shopping. We had great plans to go to the mall but got distracted by Mardel and then Ross and then Old Navy and then tried to conquer HEB the afternoon before Easter. Not the greatest idea, but we made it out of there with fixin's to grill hamburgers and an Easter lunch. The Easter service at First Baptist was great and was so encouraging and worshipful. It was a great Easter holiday.

The ladies - Me, Cherish, and Pat at Lupe Tortilla

The guys with Pat - Luke, Pat, and Ben

The Cooper Fam - Mark & Pat, Ben & Lynn, Luke & Cherish