Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Thanksgiving - a month late...

Guess what I did this year!?!?!?

I made Thanksgiving dinner.


With my sister.  She came into town to spend Thanksgiving with me.  And we cooked.


 Gracie and Katie watched us cook - hoping for a taste.


Of Ruth Cris sweet potato casserole (I made it from their recipe online).


Pumpkin Pie - from scratch, except the crust.




My tastee, tastee turkey!  I stuffed the cavity with two sticks of butter then my sister put another stick under the skin.  You know, the secret of life is Butter.


After we prepared everything we took the girls to the park.  Isn't Gracie cute!?

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

My Babies

How fricken' cute is this?!

 Little Katie Marie snoozing...


And here... Gracie and Katie hogging the bed.  How comfortable does Gracie look...I mean really you'd think they were in their own bed...


And here they are again chillin' in the living room - of course you can tell it's a bit of a mess.
Oh well...


Demon eye in her baby bed...I can't believe she got her big 120lb body into this bed I bought her when she was only 30lbs.



I can't find a photo of her in the bed when I first bought it for her but you can kinda see here that she was small enough to fit into it with room left over...


Waiting for treats....

My sister with Gracie - can you believe how big Gracie is compared to her?  She's 5'6" and looks like a midget.


So sweet...Gracie asleep.
I love my furbabies....

Monday, June 20, 2011

How Come I Love...

My husband so much?


Maybe because he's awesome at taking self portraits on vacation? Or that he loves me in spite of, or because of, my craziness?!

Houston?


Because of the hippy art?  The great park system?  Both?

America?


This is the cemetery above the beaches of Normandy.  There are almost 10,000 Americans buried here.

What's not to love?  After living in Europe and the Middle East I know now that there is no better country in the world.  And I thank God everyday I was born here.

Thank you to all the veterans who make my freedom possible, especially:

My Grandfather who did 4 years in the Army during WWII, he survived the Battle of the Bulge.
My Father who was a door gunner who survived 2 tours in Vietnam, physically not mentally.
My Sister who's division supports the Marines, she did 2 tours in Iraq.

Gracie Jane?


Who in the world could resist this? I just want to smother her with hugs!

UGH!

Katie Marie?


Oh My GOSH!  How cute are my babies?!  What's not to love!?  And she's my little shadow, always at my heal.

And together....well look at them!~

CUTE! CUTE! CUTE!


My sister...


Oh yeah, because we laugh about everything and nothing.

My life!


 Breakfast at the Chateau in France...

Switzerland...

Koh Sumui Thailand...
Vienna...
Prague...
Edinburgh...
Brussels...
Santorini...
Istanbul...
Salzburg...
Germany...

What's not to like about my life now that I'm back in the USA!?

I have a husband who loves me as much as I love him, we travel all over the world, and have jobs we like.

Life is good...really good.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Memorial Weekend

Well I'm still getting up at 3am to let this little one out.


It's a good thing she's so cute and cuddly.

And she's a total trip.  Today she decided she was still hungry so she dragged her entire food station over to my husband.

Hint. Hint.

So he fed her.

Then when he was taking Gracie out to go potty Katie took her food bowl out of the station and brought it over to me and dropped it at my feet.

Hmmmm

I think she's going through a growth spurt.

That was 4 cups of food she had today.

Gracie eats about 4.5 cups per day.

Gracie weighs a little over 100lbs.

Katie weighs about 25lbs.

So I guess we're upping her food intake.

At least we know she knows how to communicate if she feels like she's underfed!

Anyway this post was going to be about Memorial Day - It's a bit late...but better late than never right?!

My father in law came into town to celebrate his birthday.  In the Hindu way.

So we got up a an ungodly hour on Memorial Day Monday - to be in Pearland by 7am.

Where the Hindu Temple is.


Interesting that this is in Pearland...why Pearland?!

Anyway my father in law turned 71 this year and Hindu's celebrate the 70th birthday on the 71st by having ceremonies in the Hindu Temple.

I like my father in law, he's a very nice man.

But this is not exactly how I wanted to spend my Memorial Day.

I wanted to sleep in and have a cook out with friends.

But he did fly all the way from Dubai.  And I do like him.

And this is how I spent the day...



 The parking lot - I'm not sure what this is for...maybe to bless your car?


The priest came out to say hello and to dot us.

We've been dotted.


My father in law.


The priest doing the ceremony.


My father in law at the end of the ceremony.


 Me and my hubby at the end of the ceremony.

We promptly went home had a few drinks then took a nap.  We had been at the temple for about 7 hours.  His dad didn't leave until about 4pm.

Long, long day.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Well I'm still here...

The world was suppose to end on Saturday.

At 6:00 local time.

Wherever you were.

The Rapture you know.

So...I had some cookies.

Some Martinis.

And didn't clean my house, because, well...why clean it if the "Rapture" is coming.

I figured I was either going to ascend to Heaven or die when the Earth blew up.

And really in either of those scenarios I was pretty sure I wasn't going to care what my house looked like.

Well guess what?!

It didn't happen.

So I'm here - with a tummy ache (I'm assuming from all of the cookies and alcohol I ingested) getting ready to clean my messy house.

Next weekend my father-in-law is coming to town and we get to spend our Memorial Day, not eating BBQ at my best friend's house, but going to the Indian Temple for a religious ceremony.

It's to celebrate his 70th birthday (which happened last year), so we can't say no.

Because

1.  He's having it here in Houston specifically so my husband and I can (will) go.
2.  It's his 71st birthday.
3.  He's flying all the way from Dubai to have the function.

My brother-in-law is coming too (he's not my favorite person, lazy is an understatement), his wife (really not a fan of hers), and their demon spawn (they never say the word no to the kids so you can just imagine - they are horrible and we can't stand them).

So the house needs to be spotless and doggie mess free, looking good so I can give them the virtual finger.

Here goes nothing....

btw if you are worried about your pets after the Rapture but before the world blows up.  Don't worry! Apparently you can pay a one time ten dollar fee to have a non-christian volunteer (who shall remain nameless due to privacy issues) take care of your animal.

Just Google "After the rapture pet care" you actually have choices.

Now the person who thought of that was a smart person...