Photo of the Day: Catchup!

Wow time has gotten away from me this past week. Here are some of my photos of the day:

Tuesday, March 3rd: I visited my Ear, Nose & Throat doctor and came home with $70 worth of prescriptions.

Wednesday, March 4th: My current favorite shoes. Sketchers!

Thursday, March 5th: Golden Tee with Dean & Pat. I almost won... came in 2 strokes behind Dean. At least I got 2nd place!!

Friday, March 6th: Bella. These "kong" chew toys are hollow. I found putting pieces of hot dog inside keeps the dogs busy for a while! I love how she hold it with her paws.

Look at that tongue!

Saturday, March 7th: Our first Texas chili cookoff.

and I made Dan take some new pictures of me for my profile photos. So far, I have only edited this one, but I think he did a great job! Thanks, Honey!

where does the time go?

Crazy busy these days. Here is the proof:

Thursday, Feb 26:  Bella likes to lay under the piano while I am practicing.  This time, she didn't run away when I got up, so I snapped a quick photo!

Friday, 2/27: Dan came home with treats - Sprinkles cupcakes, my FAVORITE!!  Red Velvet!

Saturday, 2/28:  We attempted to give Bella a haircut.  Here she is half way thru.  Not a pretty sight...

Sunday, 3/1.  March already!  We watched a movie after Stake Conference.  "Cube" - not recommended.

Monday, 3/2:  Back to "normal."  I have been wanting to organize the DVDs since we moved in.  When I originally unpacked them, I just randomly put them on the shelves, and it's been bugging me ever since. :)  OCD?  Maybe a little... now they are in proper alphabetical order.

Have a great week!

I try hard not to be political, but...

you've got to watch this.

POTD... and a bug story

I'm getting worse about posting my photos, but at least I am still taking them each day!!

Quick story before the photos.  There is a little porch off the back of the house that I have to walk thru, and open the far door to let the dogs out.  When I got home tonight it was dark and I grabbed the handle and to my surprise some kind of (large) flying insect was on the handle!  I didn't scream (yeah me!).  It flew to the floor and the dogs immediately went to find it.  Turns out it was a rather large green grasshopper (well, it looked like a grasshopper anyway.  Here in Texas who knows what kind of large strange bugs they have!).  Anyway, the dogs loved it.  They pawed at it and played with it and finally Bella picked it up in her mouth and took it outside.  What a good dog!  I'm sure they frightened the poor bug to death.  Either that or their little

 dog teeth did the trick.  Either way, it is out of my house so I am happy.

(For the record, I did grab my camera to try and get a photo of the chaos, but they dogs were moving so fast and by the time I could get a shot, they were outside.  Plus, I wasn't about to get too close to said bug!)

Saturday, 2/21:  We made calzones.  From scratch.  (Yes, even the dough.  Aren't you impressed?)

Sunday, 2/22:  Dan and I both like gnomes.  We have them in several rooms of the house to watch over us.  These little guys are in the kitchen.

Monday, 2/23:  My new favorite candle scent.  Pear by Gold Canyon Candles.  Yum!

Tuesday, 2/24:  I call this "the puppy and the pea".  You know, like Princess and the Pea...

Wednesday, 2/25:  I snapped this shot on my way to the car this morning.  I sure wish it were in focus... but a beautiful pink flower, right in our own front yard!  In February!

time for posting!

This post is going to be a bit random. :)  Like my friend Lyn, I have been spending just a little too much time on facebook these days!

First, my photos of the day for Thursday and Friday.

Thursday night I worked on this:

and Friday (all day) I worked on this.  Sorry for the bad photo.  All I had was my P&S and taking photos of a whiteboard isn't the easiest.  There is only so much Photoshop can do. :)

And this is what I finished last night, for a challenge at Jen Wilson Designs.  We were supposed to use imperfect photos!

One more little piece of information for all you photographers, if you want to win a free photo editing class, check this out!

of rain and accessories

Yesterday (today too, actually) it was rainy.  Now, we are familiar with rain (most specifically Portland, Oregon rain, which is a steady drizzle most days!), but Houston rain is different.  First of all, it is upper 70's, and so humid (even before it starts raining) that heaven help any hairstyle you're trying to accomplish.  And second, it's a strange sort of sticky rain.  Hard to explain.  At any rate, when the puppies came in last night, I just had to stick them back in their kennel because they were wet from head to toe.  I think they had been rolling around in a puddle or something!  They weren't very pleased about it, as you can see.

Today I took this shot (in the mirror).  This is one of my very favorite necklaces.  My Grandma Tritz gave it to me a couple years ago.  I can remember her always wearing it!  Love you, Grandma!  (I say that like she's reading this, which I know she is not. She has no desire to learn to operate a computer!)

{holiday} weekend

Well this was a sort-of holiday weekend for us.  Saturday was of course Valentine's Day (we don't really celebrate), and Monday is President's Day (neither Dan or I got the day off).  

But here we go to catch up the past few days.  {Warning: Lots of photos}

When Dan got here Friday night, we went out for Mexican.  We thought we would miss the Valentine crowd by going on Friday (the day before Valentine's), but no such luck.  We waited almost an hour for a table.  But we had a lot to catch up on, so it wasn't too bad.

Saturday was Valentine's Day.  I already mentioned that we really don't celebrate Valentine's Day.  Every day should be Valentine's Day, right?  :)

But I made a little Valentine page anyway.  (It's for a challenge at Jen Wilson Designs.)

Also on Saturday, Dan made his "famous" peanut butter candy.  It is soooo delicious!!  Plus, I had to snap a few photos of him in the kitchen...

After such a busy day, Bella crashed early on the couch.  I couldn't resist shooting this:

We had to speak in church on Sunday.  Neither of us was really looking forward to it, and we're both very glad it's over!  :)  But before church, I caught Dan the puppy-man.

And that brings us to today: Monday.  A little surprise showed up on my doorstep.  Jessica Sprague's new Computer Tricks for Scrapbooking!  Yippee!

And now, I'm off to clean the kitchen.  *sigh*