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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Too Cool for her Pool

Or should I say, a pool to KEEP her cool??? :)

We keep Bailey outside during the day in a covered/shaded dog run in the back yard....has her dog house for her to crash out in, water bowls, she takes her chew bone out there every morning etc etc and she does really well with that setup. Well, it has been pretty WARM here in Houston lately, so we decided to get Bailey a hard plastic kiddie pool to put in there with her and fill it up.......she IS a lab after all...a water dog so to speak....so she should love it right?

Well it was quite funny when we got it and brought it home...filled it up and we tried to show her what to do. It took me getting in the pool, and taking her by her collar and lifting each paw into the pool and dragging her in there, a few times actually...till she got the hang of it. Which she finally did and she DOES like it! LOL!!! Except over every other trait she has...this dog is both a digger and a CHEWER....and I mean that big time!!! She has had the pool about 3-4 weeks now and Freddy came inside last nite and told me he filled it up.....but that it was leaking out...why? Cause silly Miss Bailey decided to chew a hole in the BOTTOM of the freakin thing? How the HELL did she manage that? SHEESH!!! crazy dog!! So, we let it drain out and are gonna duct tape the bottom of it and see if that holds...our luck we will come home to an empty pool once again tomorrow afternoon, and a dog that is gonna have silver poop in a day or two when the duct tape re-surfaces.....anyone willing to wager a bet on that one? Don't bet against it...you are pretty much bound to lose.....HA!!!

Daddy trying to coax her in without getting in himself

testing the waters....

one paw at a time.....

got the front in now.......what about the back?

ah ha! back was in, now the front is out!

TA DA!!! All the way in at last!

HOORAY!!! Good job Bailey girl!!

Doesnt she look proud of herself? :)

And I look over, and there is my curious son...fascinated and thrilled with the hole in the hose....sneaking a drink....tee hee!

Gotta love that boy......

4th of July

So this year, the Fourth of July weekend was FAR different than those in the past.......unfortunately Hurricane Ike took Bill's beach house (was actually his full time residence that he lost there) which is where the Salinas family used to converge upon every July 4th for a fantastic family weekend of fun and relaxing. So, since that was not an option this year.....we just hung out at home and decided to ask Liz and Aidan if they wanted to come over and hang out with us, since Ken was offshore at the time.

So they came over, we hung out and let the boys play in the pool in the yard for a bit, we BBQ'd and then waited to watch the Freedom Over Texas fireworks display on tv that happens in downtown Houston every year. which was FANTASTIC on our big screen tv in HD let me tell you what! And no crowds to fight and traffic to battle to see it either...and in the comfort of the AC at home....couldnt beat it...even if it wasnt nearly as great as fireworks on Bolivar watching from the deck of Bill's beach house....

the grub....burgers, dogs, grilled corn, beans, chips and watermelon...YUM!!

gotta have watermelon on the 4th!

james and aidan getting their grub on

the boys hamming it up for the camera

james

aidan

liz wanting a bite of aidan.....LOL!!!

settled for a kiss instead....aaaawwwww.........

time for some fun in the pool!!

james having fun

sharing the hose...think it was the one moment they shared the whole time...HA!

oh nope...here's aidan "sharing" with james! hee hee!! :)

and james "sharing" right back at aidan!

bailey muggin' for the camera....silly girl!!

she's getting SO big!!!!

james decided bailey needed to cool off too!!

she liked it, so he went back to the pool for more water....

and there ya go bailey...nice and cool now.

the boys dancing to the music they were playing with the fireworks on tv.....

aidan the conductor....kid cracks me up.....like he is directing a symphony when there is music in a movie or on tv...its so cute!!

fireworks 2009

the boys dancing along with Clay Walker

they had a blast, and so did we...low key but we enjoyed it! Thanks Liz and Aidan for spending Independence Day 2009 with us!!! :)

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Cinco Ranch Water Park

One of my good friends from work (Robin) invited us to come out to her place in Katy to spend the day at the Cinco Ranch water park in her subdivision. Of course, James loving the water like he does (as Im sure you have all caught on to by now....hee hee) we sais YES!! Absolutely!!!

So we packed up the van yesterday morning, and made the hour trek across town from our place to hers. Packed up her boys and their friends in her car, then followed her over to the water park. What a COOL PLACE!!! Makes me want to move out there just to be able to take James all the time....we would be there every weekend if James had his way if we lived there....no doubt about it!!!! I didnt take a whole lot of pictures, but got some below that show how neat this place is with the water slides, the kiddie splash pad area, the diving boards off to the far left end of the pool, etc.....truly was a really neat place. James couldnt go down the big slides you see in the first pic below. cause he would be required to swim across to the ladder unassisted after coming down the slide, and he does not know how to swim...perhaps next summer...and some lessons in the meantime! But he still had a blast and it was great to get to spend some time with Robin outside the office. Thanks again Robin for having us over, we loved it!!! Let's do it again soon! :)

Fun in the sun with Daddy on Father's Day

So once we were done with the breakfast feast on father's day morning....I asked James what he wanted to to with Daddy that day that would be fun. He said LETS GO TO THE BEACH!!! Well since we were just at Stewart Beach the day before with Elizabeth, Ken and Aiden (kid is obvoiusly obsessed with the beach now! HA!)...I asked him ok, what about Palm Beach at Moody Gardens? He said YES!!! That's GREAT!!! So we got ready, packed the van and spent the day at Moody. James has SO much fun there and we love it because we get to stay cool in the water all day...so no complaints there! It was a beautiful day weather wise and we all had a great time!!

Breakfast for Daddy on Father's Day

So James and I planned on making Daddy a surprise breakfast the morning of Father's Day. So we got everything James wanted to make Daddy at the store the day before......pancakes, eggs, hash browns, and coffee for Daddy.

He and I got up early and left Daddy sleeping while we snuck downstairs and cooked up a morning feast for Daddy. James LOVES to help me cook now and he has so much fun doing it!

Then when it was all done, I had him go upstairs and go in the room and say SURPRISE!! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DADDY! BREAKFAST IS READY!!!! Well it worked, we startled Daddy awake as you will see from the pics below, and Daddy loved it all, enjoyed his breakfast, and reading his father's day cards from me, James, and even one from the dog (Bailey!!) LOL! :)