THe HoPPiNG FaMIiY--chasing bugs and eating dirt

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Pray for "Jack"

We have the most precious chocolate lab, Jack. We love and adore him so much! He has become a part of our family! This past week was a really hard week for us. We thought at one point we were not bringing our sweet dog home from the vet hospital, but with lots of answered prayers he came home on Friday. He was diagnosed with heart disease, an enlarged heart. The veterinarian, Dr. Dixon said he was definitely born with it, which is giving him major health issues now. He is fairly young to have problems according to Dr. Dixon. Jack is only 8 years old. He is taking several different medicines to see if we can control the heart. We go back on Monday for another ultrasound, so please say a prayer for him tonight, especially Michael. We have been taking really good care of him this weekend! Michael and I have cooked many meals trying to get him to eat. He did eat a little bit, which is great. Here are a few pictures of our sweet dog, Jack.

This is Jack when we picked him up on Friday. You can tell he has lost some weight.

GET WELL JACK! We love you!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Watercolor Beach

We had a wonderful family beach vacation to Watercolor resort. We stayed in a beautiful 5 bedroom home in the heart of Watercolor. It was the perfect house for our big group which included Nancy, Bryan, Greg, Callie, Michael, the boys and me. It was nice to get everyone together! My parents met us for a few days too, which was nice to see them. The boys loved going to the beach, and they made many good memories. We even had a chance to drive over to the Naval Museum of Pensacola. The boys had a blast seeing all the airplanes. We spent entire day there!!! Here are a few pictures from our trip--

Dawson

Love this picture of Parker

Mimi and Dawson on a beach walk

Beach talk!

Daddy and Parker swimming

Playing in the sand

Parker and me on a beach walk

Uncle Bryan and Parker relaxing on the beach

Parker being "Parker"

Dawson (The water was so beautiful and clear)

Love this picture of Dawson

Uncle Greg playing with the boys

Daddy and the boys

Mimi and the boys

Uncle Greg and Parker

Naval Museum

My boys! Love this picture of them, so sweet!

Our family *Hard to believe we will be a party of five next year!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

May Happenings at the Hopping's

Well, May has been a busy month for us! Dawson finished his first season of Tball at Briarcrest, Fun Day at Briarcrest, Parker's spring musical at GBC, took a trip to the beach, Mother's Day, and then Memorial Day. Wow! Lots of fun memories! Here are a few pictures from May! I will post Beach pictures in next blog post.

Last Game

Dinosaur Exhibit at Zoo

Parker Spring Picture Day at School

Fun Day at Briarcrest

Dawson is Mr. D for the letter people parade at school

Fun Day at Briarcrest

50s Day at Briarcrest

Parker's Spring Musical at GBC

Fun Day at Briarcrest

GBC spring musical

Beach photos on next blog post!

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Easter

Easter Egg Hunt at School

We had a wonderful Easter with family this year. We went on several Easter Egg hunts and saw the Easter bunny a few times. Dawson had an exciting school party. The egg hunt was inside due to the rain, but the children had a great time collecting all the eggs. The boys were excited to wake up on Easter morning to see what he left in their baskets. Happy Easter!