Dock Dogs Fail

I have been bragging and bragging about what a great jumper Shelby is. It's true!! I have a whole post that shows her skills.

So, when I found an "Intro to Dock Dogs" class online I was so pumped! The dogs run and jump off a dock into water for distance. We headed out to Meadowlake Pet Resort in Pearland and Shelby seemed ready to show off her skills...There were 4 dogs in the little class.

Me and my little jumper

Here is Lily, a dog doing the big jump! She was really good.

Shelby, waiting on deck to jump...

Daddy getting her ready...

Shelby's up! Hmmm... maybe not?

Thinking about it.... kinda cold huh?

"I'll fetch, but I won't jump off that dock!"

Even without making the big jump, Shelby had a great time...she jumped off the ramp and got to swim alot....maybe when it's warmer she'll do it! The Houston Chronicle was there, so she may be a newspaper star in the future, I'll be looking for that!

My 28th

We went to Taste Of Texas for my 28th birthday. I am so lucky to have all these people in my life!! We had 15 people come but boy was I stressed out about getting a table together. This place doesn't take reservations, so Josh and I put our names down an hour before my friends came and everything worked out beautifully!! This is defintely a one of a kind place that everyone should try. The free desert and sparkler candle ended the night beautifully! Here are the pics...

The whole gang...

Hubby N Me

Rob and Jill (to be married soon!)

Mel, Karen, FeFe, Emily, Jill and Me!

Tate, Josh and James

KALIN!! (soon to be married!)

FEFE AND JIMMY (now married!!)

EMILY AND RIAN

our yumz cheesecake.

I hope 28 turns out to be a great and prosperous year~!!

Shelby's New Room

So, you all know my darling child, Shelby, sweet little thing, can do no wrong.

But...much to her parent's dismay, Shelby did a number on our bottom floor. We consider it "her room" when we're gone and have a baby gate to keep her down there. So apparently she thought that we needed to do some renovations, so she got the project started a few months ago.

See exhibit A:

So, while I was off during the break, good ole Pedro (nooo i'm not being funny, that's his name!) and crew came over and finished what Shelby started. She checked in on them and made sure they did it JUST the way she liked...

No more nasty carpet.

Starting to lay down the tile. This room is our study/excercise room/Shelby's domain.

All finished! Wonderful job! They took 2.5 days to do this and paint our bedroom, I highly recommend them if you need work done at your place.

Now with all the furniture back in...

I'm so excited to hang Josh's diplomas that I got framed for his birthday... so that is left to do, right above the desk. But I'm very happy with the results.

Carpet sucks, thanks SHELBY for the idea!

Quick Holiday Overview!

Emily and Shelby....fun Christmas Cookie tradition!

I am a little late, but I wanted to leave a quick note about the holiday. We had a number of fun little parties before Christmas, many of them "tacky sweater parties." I also hosted our 2nd Annual girl's pot luck dinner and that was SO much fun. I love my girlfriends!

Later on, we were in San Antonio twice, for Xmas and for New Years. Christmas was a little tough this year, my grandpa, POM, fell and hurt his hip pretty bad. My mom was stressed out beyond belief, so we did a few things differently to accomodate checking on him and GANNY. We still went out for Mexican food on Christmas Eve and it was awesome! We got so many nice gifts and had alot of fun!

We had our second Christmas in Katy and had a great meal and fun White Elephant game with gift cards. I have no pics of that! We stopped by Josh's Godparent's house and saw his cousin's new baby! Landon Oliver ("Ollie")

The next weekend we went back to San Antonio for the 10th Annual ShrimpFest! We love this tradition with all my highschool friends and Josh's college friends. Lisa and Clifton made shirts this year and it was at the Horgan's house. Now that we're getting a little older, and slowly but surely there are kids coming to Shrimpfest, how old are WE!?

The 'Berg

Deep in the heart of Texas

We had a fun and relaxing time in the sleepy town of Fredericksberg. It's full of cute wineries, anitque shops and laid back country folk.

We stayed at Chuck Wagon Bed and Breakfast and we would gladly stay there again. The owners Sam and Becky were super sweet and had delicious breakfast food they make from scratch. Sam also had a mustache that wouldn't quit. No pic, sadly.








Our first night we took advantage of our fire place and made s'mores. I really wish we had a fireplace at home, it's so nice in the winter and looks so pretty.

The town has many cute wineries and the Circle E Candle factory. Josh was such a good sport and let me do the wine tastings and shop around. He doesn't even like wine and made crazy faces when I made him taste some.

These are my second fave smelly things. Scentsys are number one of course.

We had the wineries to ourself pretty much... look!

There were a few activities that Josh was more into. They had the Fredericksberg Brewing Co. there, so he had some different type beers to try.

We also went to Enchanted Rock, a cool state park where you hike and stuff. I was a good sport with this adventure. He was hiking so fast! I had to stop a few times along the way.

So YAY for our non-flying on an airplane trip. I like road trips a lot better (for now)!