Happy Birthday to Lance and Jackson!!

I've been really horrible about keeping up with blog posts. I can blame it on nothing else but having an incredibly busy life that leaves me exhausted and not wanting to blog at the end of the day.
But, today is the boys' first birthday- and it definitely deserves a blog post!

I can't believe they are already a year old- as cliche as it sounds, it seems like only yesterday we were picking them up at just eight weeks old! They've grown SO much in that time- it's just amazing. I haven't weighed either of the boys in a while, but would guess that they are around 75 lbs. each. (They were just over 10 lbs. when we brought them home). I look back at the photos and my heart melts when I see a photo of me holding one (or both!) of them - I definitely can't do that now! (Like this photo below):

While I miss their young puppy stage and being able to pick them up and cuddle, I love where they are at now. They are definitely still puppies- they have crazy amounts of energy and still do some "bad" puppy things. But, they really have matured a great deal in the past year. Lance and Jackson still get REALLY excited when people come over, but they calm down quickly. They are able to just sit around and be calm inside most of the time and finally do not destroy everything in sight.

Here's a photo of the sleepy boys this morning right after they woke up:

Anyway, so the big news for us is that we bought a house! We still own the townhouse (and have a tenant renting it) but we are living in our new single-family home and loving it! We moved on November 13th. I need to take some new photos of the house since we moved in, but older photos can be seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27484689@N05/sets/72157624924258265/ (I also posted this same link back in October- it's the same photos!)

The pups absolutely LOVE the new house. They made themselves at home right away. The best thing is the backyard- it's big and fenced in and they just love to run around and play. And we love it because it leaves them tired and exhausted at the end of the day!

I will try to take more photos today and post them later, and really hope to be better about blogging more often!