funny or sad?

Some puppies, like this big fella, don't like laothe would rather die hate going to the vet. 

This reminds me of another scared-y-dog named Norman...after running out of the vet's office like a bat out of hell, he proceeded to gallop towards the frontage road for I-35 as three vet worker ladies and the vet (bless their hearts) ran after him in their scrubs. As you can imagine, I was MORTIFIED. Our new vet "protocol" is this: I call ahead, park around back, and one of the workers props open the back door of the office and together we slip him in as quickly as we can...as far away from the interstate as we can get. Then we stand in the back hallway next to the surgery suite, out of sight of the front lobby, until it's our turn to be seen.  sheesh.

I'm going to tell myself that kids aren't this hard to deal with.

It's the circle, people

I always get "the circle of life" stuck in my head when really cool naturey things happen in my backyard, and I always picture simba somewhere around the end.

the Bees have been hard at work pollinating my cactus blossoms:

Go-kart

Today I packed up the go-kart to have a one woman adventure on the country roads behind our house. 

The breeze was at my back, I had a nice long peaceful ride, and everything was going fine....

 ...until I had a small, um, "accident".

 Luckily I have a handy man on speed dial...

...and then I walked home.  :)

Demo Derby (there's more ya'll)

I'm thinking this is going to be a yearly trip for us....

the best photo bomb goes to: pencil thin beard guy.

best couples photo bomb goes to: yep, pencil thin guy has a wife.

 "i could totally see myself doing this."

what'chu got there lady?
a piece of the demo car, that's what.

Adventures in Man Beards

Here's your Demolition Derby Weekend facial hair preview...

more pics to come!

This is Joe Dirt...the ultimate movie star:

This is Whatahusband.

The scary thing about this beard is it didn't look half bad...

And this is the PTDBB:

(In case you don't know what that is...it stands for the Pencil Thin D**cheBag Beard. A very thin beard that looks like it was drawn on with a Sharpie.)

K-fed and his PTDBB:

My bro-in-law.

Can you tell we had fun??



**Just so you know, my brother in law is the farthest thing from a Dbag, he is a sweet and wonderful man with a great sense of humor - which is what made his beard so hilarious. :)

Cute times three :)

 

 

 

New Decade, New Hairstyle

I'm thirty ya''ll

Yesterday was my birthday, and I was happy all day long.  Hands down, this was the best birthday I have ever had - start to finish.  It wasn't any one thing in particular, just the feeling of being completely happy!!   God says it better than me..."'I know the plans I have for you,' says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."  Oh yes. :)

My bday present from my AWESOME hubby was a fancy new camera, and I can't wait to start using it.  If you have ever been with me to open a gift, you know that I take EVERYTHING out of the boxes and want to start playing immediately, but I promised to wait until Saturday to start learning the new camera so we could enjoy the evening together. I have had this little canon point-n-shoot for almost 10 years!! It's been a good camera :)

And here are a few shots from my first day using my new camera!!