Tricky and Lucky... our first PETS!

While Jared and I hiked the Grand Canyon this weekend Carter and Gage stayed with my cousins. These are not ordinary cousins, these girls have adopted my boys as their nephews - and they spoil them as such! The boys get so excited to go to the Walker's house and they get especially giddy when they get to spend the night. Carter was counting down all week, 5 more days, 4 more days, 3 more days... til Mommy and Daddy would leave to go on their hike and he would get to stay with the Walker's. It's no wonder that they love being there, all of my cousins and my aunt and uncle dote on them and there is never a dull moment. After Carter's soccer game on Saturday they managed to fit in a trip to the pet store, the park, a picnic, a game of baseball, the dollar store, swimming, pizza at Nello's and popping popcorn in the big old fashioned popper! Well my cousin, Julie, got the bright idea to go to the pet store to get frogs and take them to the park and race them. Carter and Gage each picked out their own frog and named it. I'm not sure where Gage picked up the word "tricky" but they said that he was saying it the whole time he was at the pet store and that is what he decided to name his frog while Carter named his frog Lucky. With Tricky and Lucky in tow they headed out to the park for the BIG RACE. I got to watch the video footage when we got back and all I can say is that I am surprised that Lucky and Tricky are still alive! Although they had good intentions my boys were not so gentle with those frogs, they were batting at them to get them to go, picking them up, dropping them, and holding them by their legs; it was all very comical. It was so fun to see their excitement and watch them hold the frogs for the first time (Carter had to be the brave one because my cousins didn't want to touch the frogs). Well, Carter's frog won the race and needless to say we have now acquired our first pets. It's a good thing we are moving across country in 7 weeks and we will be able to give them back! (Assuming they SURVIVE that long, but with names like Lucky and Tricky they just might!)

The froggies with their breakfast, yep they eat live crickets! (I'm super excited to go to the pet store once a week to pick up a new batch.)

Carter and Lucky, this little guy is a wiggler and a pretty high hopper.

Gagers with his frog Tricky, he gets so excited every time he gets to hold him and giggles with delight as he hops up his arm.

I don't know what kind of frogs these are but their under side is fluorescent orange and black, pretty cool looking!