Bread Head

Brian sat down to dinner tonight in front of the TV. He put his plate on a TV tray and reached for the remote - mind you he's still sitting in front of his tray and I am sitting right next to him. Indy walks up to the tray, takes his bread off his plate and just walks away with it! Indy! Not Niya! We were right there!

Maybe Niya has been taking the fall all this time for Indy! Poor Niya....

My How They've Grown...

Back in May I took these pictures of the litter of 6 pups that Fondren Five Star Kennels graciously took in. I have watched them grow over the last few months from fuzzy little lima beans to energetic puppies.

It's almost impossible to take their pictures, when you go in the room with them all the do is try to jump on you. So all you get are nose close ups...

It's hard to tell where one dog ends and another begins!

Now here we are in August -- Can you believe it's the same pups? It's like theire little pudgy bodies were stretched into something long and lean. They are still impossible to photograph as they won't stay still. Here I've thrown treats in a pile to get them in one spot.

This one is Rexi - He was the fuzziest and fattest. Now he's tall and handsome.

Here we are on the last day of obdience class Rexi is the second from the left. I think he grew 6 inches over the 6 weeks of class...

Murphy Brown

Here's my boy Murphy....

Isn't he GORGEOUS?!!

Who ate the cake??

So I bake a chocolate zuccini cake. I take it out of the oven and put on a rack to cool. I go upstairs to fold some laundry when I hear the phone ringing. I run down the stairs and Pick up the phone and see:

ACK! Half of my cake is GONE!!
NIYA!

Needless to say I hung up the phone. I can't believe she ate exactly half of the cake! Is it because she's polite or because she was caught just in time? We'll never know. For those keeping score:

Niya: 1073
Mom: 0

Maybe I should rename this site to Dumb Debbie and the Bad Doggies...

MS150 Houston - Austin

Every year I say I'm going to take more pictures during the ride, but you get so caught up in the momentum of getting up one hill and going down the next that you never seem to want to stop to take a picture!

Here we are at 6:00 am before the ride, my father-in-law Bruce, my husband Brian, my friend Michael, me (with my Axl Rose doo) and my friend Chip.

Here's the whole team -- I'm in the front row on the right.


Here's a typical rest stop... people munching on snacks and bikes everwhere...


And here's what you spend most of your time doing at the rest stop --- waiting in the potty line!


Goofing off at lunch.

One small hill .....



One flat area ....


Finish line in Austin 2:10 pm -- Bruce, me, Brian and Chip. Michael finished a few hours before us, but hey we didn't have $3000 triatholon bikes...


We always stay an extra night in Austin, usually somewhere nice with a jacuzzi -- Here's the view from our balcony


And we finish off the evening with dinner on the lake at the Oasis restaurant!

More Sharing

The girls love to share with their grandparents.

OK she'll share

Kayla shares with Donna.

Keeping watch

The girls keep a close eye on the neighborhood...

And we also have issues with chairs....

Kayla has found that she likes the gold chair.

Get your own couch!

Sometimes it's a little hard to find a seat in our house...

Everybody loves a sun spot

Kayla and Niya share a rug in a sun spot.

Vacation in Anguilla

Returned last week from a vacation on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. It has gorgeous beaches, great snorkling and lots of 4 star restaurants.

The water is beautiful, this is the East Shoal Bay beach. That's coral just a few feet out.



One day we went to the northern most point of the island to Windward Bay.



Yes we were the only ones there!

The beach was quite rugged in some places:





There was a GIANT length of rope on the beach. The diameter of the rope was at least 10 inches. I could only lift the end of it:



We went to Crocus Bay Beach, and yes we were the only ones there:




Our hotel was beautifully landscaped.



The beach at the hotel.




And yes we were the only ones there (most days)




This is the view at the restaurant.




This was our patio.



We traveled around in a little jeep-like vehicle.



They drive on the left hand side of the road, but the driver side is also the left hand side (like here in the states) Needless to say it was confusing.


Boats on the bay:




Anguilla has some fabulous resorts. This is Malliouhana Hotel (no we didn't stay there)





This is Cuisinart -- no we didn't stay there either...







Another resport is Cap Juluca... no we didn't stay here either.










Rendezvous Bay Beach -- That's the island of St. Martin in the distance.



Coral sculptures on Rendezvous Bay Beach