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Here is our little buddy playing in the yard. He is only 6-weeks old, but I know that he will get big fast.

A New Addition to the Berry Family

We would like to introduce you all to the newest addition to our family, meet HUDSON. Hudson is a six week old male Beagle. We have only had him for a day now, but boy what a day. They say the first week away from mom is hard, but I think it is actually harder on us. When he whimpers at night it just breaks my heart. I know that it will pass, but still it just pulls at your heart. He is a little spitfire. Loves running around the yard and smelling everything; but then again he is a hound dog and that it is what they do. Rob and I are both so excited to have the addition to the family.

Our Most Recent Excursion

A couple weekends ago Rob and I decided on a whim to go to Yosemite National Park. We only live a couple of hours from there so we thought why not. It is super hard to get a campsite in the park. If you ever plan on making the trip be sure to reserve your campsite about 3 months in advance (really they sell out about 30 minutes after they post the availability in the spring). We just happened to get lucky when someone cancelled their reservation. Either of us had ever been there but both wanted to go. We packed up the car and headed east. If you have never been it is totally worth the trip. I have been to A LOT of National Parks, but I have never seen anything as breath taking. Everyone has seen the Ansel Adams Black and White photos of "El Captain" and "Half Dome", but the photos don't do it's beauty justice. While we were there the Southwest portion of the park was on fire so we kept to the North end of the park and visited the Yosemite Valley area. We are going to try and make another trip back soon to see the rest of the amazing park. No bears this time around, but we did see a lot of other wildlife. We had a fun little ground squirrel that lived under our food locker (b/c of all the bears they have these heavy metal food lockers to store your food and anything else that has a scent to it).

Hello All

Well, I thought we should finally join the craze of blogging so here we go. Since we are so far away from our friends and family, and being in the ever relocating military life, we thought this would be a great way to keep everyone posted on the happenings of the newly formed "Berry Family". I am still getting use to saying that last name. I have to make a conscious effort when signing my name to things now, but I am happy to be a Berry. When people would ask for my last name I would have to say "Marsh, like the swamp" because they would always spell it MarCh, now I get to say "Berry, like the fruit" because people tend to spell it BArry. Could be worse, I could have have hyphenated it to Marsh-Berry, then I would have to say "like the swamp fruit".

Anyway, hope this will keep the friends and family posted about what we have been up to.