Happy Birthday, Hugh Hefner (yesterday)

An awesome family picture: Ben, Jesse, Penny, Me and Bodi. Click for a larger version.

I just got this amazing photo from my brother. In it you can see my two brothers, my mom and I off on some hiking adventure with Bodi, the best dog in the world. We got Bodi at probably my seventh birthday or so. There was an ad in the paper offering a pure chocolate lab away to a good home. The couple that was giving him away was doing it because of relationship problems (a very strange situation) and got 64 messages by the next day. After narrowing it down to four people who seemed to have plenty of land out of the city, they came by and visited. I was so excited...we bought biscuits that day and I served them to him on a silver platter. After strange tension on the couples part, they ended up giving Bodi to us.

He was named Bodi because they were both physicists. His full name was actually Boltzmann Brownian Motion (a great pun, since he did look like a brownie in motion), after a famous physicist and his theory ("Brownian Motion"). After playing tug-a-war with his rope chew toy, he would run full speed three or four labs around the outside of our house. It was as if a train was coming through, you had to get out of the way. Then, to finish things off, he would take a swim in our tiny pond filled with goldfish and do a couple more laps in there.

On other cool news, today is my brother's birthday. Ben just turned a whopping 42 years old. Makes me feel young.