Happy Birthday to You!!!

First, all I have to say is wow to whoever commented on my Trop-A-Rocka blog. That's exactly how I feel, whoever "Anonymous" is? I can't wait until Sunday to see how Bret is doing after all of his illness. He will be on Oprah today for those who don't know. :) Thanks for your comment!

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6 years and 2 days ago someone special entered our lives. Chad has been calling him our six-year old all week, hehe. Our birdy Jack turned 6 on Monday. I can't believe that it has been 6 years. When Chad and I first met on February 25th, 2004 we knew that we had a lot in common. All through art school I had a passion for drawing, painting, photographing tropical birds like macaws. I have tons of artwork in the closet of macaws that I had done. I didn't know at the time of meeting Chad that he loved macaws too. One day a few months into our being together we walked through this pet store in Monroe called Pet Palace; it is no longer there anymore. They had Scarlet Macaw and we went many times to play with him. Then we thought, we could handle one of these on our own? So we started to look around; we weren't going to settle for the first one we saw, he was $2000. We found a breeder in Wesley Chapel, NC called CCBirds; a family who had the same love for birds we had. Come to find out she just had 3 blue and gold macaws hatch. We went over to visit and as soon as I walked in the door she had me wash my hands she handed me a paper towel and she put Jack in my hands. He was no bigger than the palm of my hand.

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Now, 6 years later, he's a big boy. He has been saying some new things lately, like "Hold on," and his name, "Jack." Here are a couple of pictures we took of Jack and Charlie together, brothers. They try to play with each other but Jack doesn't realize that his can-opener can hurt someone and Charlie doesn't realize that he has 40 lbs of force behind his paws so it's kind of funny to see them 'try" to play together. He's 6 years old, I can't believe it! Happy Birthday Jack!