Picnic in the Park

For date night tonight we got some good ol' FreeBirds, and had a picnic! It was such nice weather. And the company, well it was alright :)

The Burritos at FreeBirds are ridiculously enormous. Seriously, bigger than my arm. But dang it, they are good.




Our view. It was nice.


Roxie had fun too.

Duck Blind Complete

Ryan successfully finished the duck blind for this hunting season. I think it turned out really cool! Yesterday they took it to its new home out at the duck lease in Bonham so it is set up and ready to go! Looks like we will be hunting pretty comfortably this year:)

July

The month of July has been a busy month for us! We can't believe it is already over! Here is what we have been up to...The 4th of July was a relaxing day for us. We swam and ate BBQ at Alan and Jana's home, and later watched a fireworks show. Pretty American if you ask me....The dessert I made. It was pretty tastey.Dad, Mom, Ryan, Roxie, Cherie and Bill, enjoying the Fireworks show.

Ryan and I went with Bill and Cherie to Mamie's house for a day. I love the country life. Ryan shooting, just because he can.We did a little bit of fishing while we were there, too. I caught two, and Ryan caught one. Not that I'm rubbing it in or anything.....:)

I recently visited my good friend Julia at her new home. I realized that it had been a year since I had seen her! Too long! Well, she has a beautiful 4th month baby boy now, Cooper, so I was glad to be able to visit. This is Mr. Cooper. So adorable:) He looks just like his daddy.

Derik, a family friend of the Bassham's, and I share a passion for cooking. We decided we would make a scrumptious meal one evening, so we did! I must say, it was one of the best meals I have had in a LONG time. We make a great team Derik! :)Derik (Red Dog) and me cookin' it up!The AMAZING appetizer Derik madeMy yummy raspberry and lemon tart.

When the new iPhones came out, we had to have one. So, we got in line at 5am and waited until about noon. It was pretty rediculous, and actually we felt quite stupid. But hey, we have iPhones now.

Me and my mom in line. I was the 30th or so person in line....there were several hundred people behind us. Mandy and Matt were about 10 people behind us. Matt was the 2nd to last person to get one...and then they ran out. We saw several people from church in line. Kinda funny.

Ryan has been getting ready for the hunting season. He has been diligently working on a duck blind! I must admit I never knew he was so handy, this is good to know:)So manly.The floor of the blind.The finished product, complete with doggy door for Roxie. I will post more pictures when it has been painted. Way to go hunnie!

My parents recently had their 25th Wedding Anniversary. To celebrate, us kids took them to Maggiano's, a VERY yummy Italian restaurant. We surprised them with family there waiting to celebrate with us! Congratulations, Mom and Dad, we love you!

All of us at Maggiano's. Thanks to everyone that came! It was a really fun evening!

Ryan and I have moved!!! We are sooooo very excited to be in an actual house! We feel so blessed to have found this rental house when we did because it is exactly what we need. We loved where we lived before, but this is cheaper, private, and we don't have to deal with drunk students barging in our back door at midnight....long story and very scary. Anyway, I will post more pictures of the move later. Thanks Mom and Dad, Bill and Cherie for helping us. We couldn't have done it without you. Here's our cute little house:) We can't wait to go back to College Station, Yay!

And here are a few pictures of Roxie. I wish I had half the energy she does.

Jumpin' on the band wagon

Well, it has been a long time coming, but we finally invested in a DSLR camera. We are sooo excited about it! We have been going back and forth, trying to decide on a Canon or a Nikon. After a lot of research, we decided to go with the Nikon D300. It is AWESOME! We still have A LOT to learn about it, but the little bit that we have been able to mess with it, we have seriously fallen in love. Here are a few pictures that we have taken.Roxie keeps us on our toes...stay tuned and you will see why.... Sophie girl...oh man...she is a monster. A cute monster though.Usually we put Roxie in her kennel when we leave the house. We have been slowly letting her stay outside of the kennel. We started with 10 minutes, up to 30 minutes, up to an hour. Now she can stay in there all day. She was doing pretty well for about a month but one day this week she took some major steps back. I came home for lunch, went up stairs to let Roxie out, opened the door and saw money ripped to shreds all over the floor! She immediately knew she was in trouble! After I got mad at her, I decided I needed to take a picture. She felt really bad. Anyway, after picking up all the tiny pieces and trying to put them back together, we found out it was only 3 dollars. She no longer stays in the room...we have reverted back to her kennel.Smokey is loving life. She has plenty of room in the house to avoid any other specie of any kind.

We hope all of you out there have a wonderful 4th of July holiday weekend!

Our kiddos

Thought I would post some pictures of Roxie and Smokey. Roxie wasn't feeling so good the other day. She wanted to snuggle with me, and ended up falling asleep laying on top of me. So cute, but so heavy!

She has also out grown her doggie bed. She fits in it only if she curls up, but she usually sprawls out. When she lays on our couch she sprawls out, nose at one end, tail at the other. It's her couch, not ours.

Little Miss Priss is doing well too. She is much more tolerable of Roxie. It's fun to watch them interact. They can actually lay by each other now and get along. It has taken almost a year for that to happen! UGH! She likes sit on our towel rack and our hamper and watch us get ready.

Spring Break...over already??

We can't believe the week is over. It went so fast! Although Ryan still had to work, we were able to squeeze some fun in. Thursday we traveled to Houston and went to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. We had a great time walking, shopping, talking and the weather was really nice so that was bonus.

Danni came in town for the rest of the weekend. We enjoyed having her. With her, she brought her Wii. SO FUN. Ryan and I had never played it before, and it was surprisingly so much fun. Thanks so much for bringing it with you Danni! The weekend wouldn't have been quite the same without it:) I am actually thinking about getting a Wii, I would really have to talk Ryan into it though and I'd have to definately have plant a money tree or something. Cuz they aren't cheap. I never thought I would be asking Ryan if I could get a game system. I definately saw it the other way around:)
We were in the zone...This is Ryan playing baseball. I wish I took a video of this because he was getting so mad!

Roxie is just hanging out with Danni here. And you might notice that Roxie is wearing a diaper. It is true. Roxie became a woman this week but she is quite fashionable with her denim fashionista bottoms.

Cheap Entertainment

Random Thoughts

We hung out with our friends, Callie and Cash the other week, and I have been meaning to post this picture of their dog, Chloe. She is a sweetheart.

Smokey and Roxie are slowly becoming friends. In this picture, I like to think that Smokey is saying, "Hey Roxie, Sounds like you've had a hard day. Why don't I give you a back massage?"
Roxie the "Cowdog". Like Father like....dog.
Most of the time Roxie drives me nuts with how much energy she has. However, every now and again she surprises me and does something that makes me say, "Aww". Like here, After getting into bed, Roxie decided to join me. She jumped up on the bed, crawled under the covers and poked her head out and cut her eyes over at me. I had Ryan go get the camera (I was already cozy under the covers) and I quickly took this pic. Don't get the wrong idea though....she doesn't sleep with us. She's not THAT cute :):):)
Last Saturday morning we went goose hunting. We met my Dad there with two of his friends. There were nine of us all together I think, and we only got 6 birds. Not so hot....but, it was still really fun. I think my Dad, Ryan and I got at least one bird each. Dad got the first shot of the morning, it was pretty sweet. Here I am in all of my gear...I'm pretty hard core...don't be scurred.
Here is my pops. He's got a feva! And the only prescription is more hunting!
My cute husband. Those aren't real geese, Silly.