Wanted to post a few pictures of our newest family member. Travis, Macey, and I traveled to Oceanside California to pick up Ms. Joycie and spend two weeks training with her. She's been training for us for TWO years!!! She is incredible! She is the sweetest and best behaved skilled companion dog you would ever hope to find! Macey loves her dearly and already we can see her speach improving and she stays with us in public because she is holding onto her handle on Joycie's vest -- we call it making a Joycie sandwich (me and Macey w/ dog in the middle). I can not wait to see all of the things she is going to do in Macey's life. Having a great time getting to know her!!! Thank you so much to Canine Companions for Independence and all the trainers there!!! Also to her two puppy raisers - Maureen & Barbara!! You guys all did an awesome job and we couldn't love Joycie any more if we tried :0)

Macey reading Joycie a book about Marley :0)

Oh, my! I haven't updated this since before our crazy summer. So much has happened! We went to Disney in July to attend a Down syndrome conference and hit the parks for about a week -- Nana Pat & Pepaw went with us, too. On our way home we detoured through Georgia and visited with best friends from Seminary. Three sets of friends were all along our route -- it was so cool! Two of them that didn't know each other at Southwestern actually wound up about 20 minutes apart from each other. We had a WONDERFUL time and rarely a day goes by that one of the girls doesn't ask when we are going back to Disneyworld....