Good Golly Miss Molly

This is the new addition to my parents' household. This is Miss Molly. She's a Shihtzu (not sure if that's spelled correctly or not). I can't believe how little she is. The first day she was home she was so scared. She would crawl behind furniture and hide there. By the next day she was running around outside, picking up pine cones and chasing after us and Piper. She's been doing very well with her potty training which really surprises me because she is only 6 weeks old.


She's hiding on me. She really does seem a little more advanced than most puppies I've seen.




I think Piper was a little offended that she had her ball, hehehe. She's so jealous of the puppy

Catching up

I LOVE this picture! I'm dissappointed that my background wasn't so appealing but I guess that's what snapshots are all about. My heart just melted when I saw her expression while looking up at Schyler. I grabbed a couple of these books for Peyton because they had such bright colors. Whenever she visits, we always give them to her and she loves to look at them.




Her daddy throws her around in the air and she giggles. You can see here how much she loves it. Hard to get a big grin shot with the full fist in her mouth lol!


I love this! Wish I could have got a better shot of it.

Some Sumo Fun!

I've been hearing so many good things about the new Japanese Restaurant and thought it would be so much fun to go there for Mike's birthday. So I let the kids know what time to meet us and they surprised him. He didn't seem too thrilled with the restaurant of choice but was surprised that the kids came.

They start us off with soup and salad after they take our orders. Once the orders are placed, the chef shows up to start the show. He started by singing and tossing his utensils around. Then gets everyone clapping.









Then it's time for sockey while the food is cooking. He would squirt it right in your mouth. While he was doing it to the girls, he would say "sockey make you sexy". Everyone got a kick out of that.








Even the birthday boy downed some sockey.


This was so cool. He stacked all the onions on top of each other. Then lit it and the flames came flying out of the onion just like a volcano. After the fire died down, it still had a lot of steam forcing up through it too.


He even started tossing broccoli for everyone to catch in their mouth. Shauna made a nice catch here!






Schyler wouldn't try to catch any of the broccoli. Everyone was trying to convince her. The cook even started singing...."come on you can do it, do it right"...it was so funny! You can see that Kayla is giving her the "why not?" look here.


Some of the delicious food that was served. The rice was amazing and the steak was awesome.




and here's our whole gang except our sweet baby Peyton

Snowboarding can be fishy ;)

Schyler is in ski club at school and goes every Friday after school. When we're home, she likes to snowboard. It takes 1/2 hour of preparation time...getting all her gear on, me getting dressed, getting my camera out and deciding on lenses and then getting the dog on her leash...then we're off. We walk up the hill and I usually let Piper lose so she can sniff every square foot of field space there is.

After a few runs (the snow really wasn't that great), I wanted to take some close shots. This is what I hear, "why can't I just have fun snowboarding without the camera in my face"? Me: "why can't I have fun too while I stand out here freezing watching you snowboard"? Dead silence. Must be she figured that has to be a fair trade off.









I brought my fisheye along. I haven't really felt the love for that lens yet but I really like how these turned out.






I wanted to play with this one and see what I could do. I sponged, dodged, and burned this one a lot.



I recently bought some of Nichole Van's vintage actions & textures. I tried one out. This is the hand painted vintage with a texture. Not sure if I like the blue but it kind of made me think of the movie Call of the Wild LOL!

Remembering

This is the second year without Grandpa Lee for Christmas. We have made a point to visit a few times a year and plant flowers, roses, etc. During Christmas though we like to bring a little something. This year it was a mini-Christmas tree. I thought it was such a cute idea. We trotted out there in freezing cold weather. It was the quickest display of tree decorating ever. Our fingers were froze trying to put everything on it and for me to take the pics. We love it and love doing it though. Wouldn't have it any other way!

Just a puppy {Alderick}

Yes, he really is still a puppy. I believe he's 10 months old. This is my girlfriend's dog. . .well her son's dog but you know how teens are, they're never around and the moms take care of the animals. I know my friend is attached to this one anyways.

I haven't seen Teresa in a while so I went up to visit and have a few cocktails out on the deck. The pup had been hit by a car about 2 months ago and had surgery on his back leg. Because he has to stay mobile, he's stuck in a cage and can only get out to stretch and relieve himself. So getting a decent picture of him was tough because he has so much energy pent up. He only had 2 more days before he was released from his medical restrictions.

I would love to go back and get some decent shots of him out in the fields, etc. But he must be walked first to tire him out a little LOL

Bronx Zoo {girls day out}

Schyler and I took a bus trip down to the Bronx Zoo for the day on Saturday. It was a fun girls day. The zoo was really big and a few times we ended up going in a circle but we managed to get through all of it. That day was very busy and it was hard to get in a decent spot to take a picture. We had a fun time and were pretty tired when we got home.
This gorilla sat right up against the glass eating and kept shaking her head like she didn't want everyone sitting there watching her. Another gorilla that was sitting up against the glass was just watching everyone. A little boy standing right in front of it stuck out his tongue and the gorilla did it back to him. Everyone started to laugh and told him to do it again just to see if the gorilla knew what it was doing. Didn't you know the gorilla stuck it's tongue right out again LOL!