Happy Birthday Sandy!

Today we celebrate my dog's 2nd birthday! Well there isn't really a celebration, but I thought I'd make a post just for Sandy. We also don't know the exact day of her birthday, it's supposedly in March- so we decided March 15th would be her birthday ;) Travis brought Sandy home in June of 2007 from the pound. The pound told us she was a lab mix (aren't they all) and that she would get to be about 40-50 pounds. Well as you can see in the picture below, she is about 90 pounds and she supposedly has some great dane in her as well as cattle dog. She is a constant adventure in our lives. There has been many good and bad times, but overall I'd have to say that I love having her around and she really is a sweet dog and tries hard to be good. She has had a few run-ins with other dogs and then there's dogs that she absolutely loves, so it's sometimes hard to figure her out! She is such a big dog that it took me a while to get used to her size when she began to grow so quickly- I had a hard time getting her to obey me. Travis doesn't have a problem getting her to listen and I have worked harder to be more stern with her. The last 6 months or so I have really gotten to enjoy her more becuase she does listen to me more. I get to take her to work with me and she has her own yard and she just loves it so much- she's always so excited when she gets out of the truck at work.

Here are some pictures from a few months ago (you can see our old carpet...eww!)

This picture is of the first day Travis brought her home- she was about 3 months old.

Celine Dion

Last weekend my great friend Kristen and I went down to Walnut Creek to visit Katherine and we saw Celine Dion in concert at the HP Pavilion center in San Jose. It was an awesome girls weekend and Celine Dion was so great- she's got such a powerful voice and is very entertaining. The concert was supposed to be in November but she cancelled because she had laryngitis- so it has been a long wait to finally get to see her! She sang every song I wanted her to and changed her outfit like 6 or 7 times! She's got quite the body and definitely knows how to perform!


We didn't have the best seats, but the stage was set up so that there wasn't a horrible seat in the whole arena. This picture is of her dancing and singing on top of the piano.


The next day our friend Erin came into town and we all went shopping and stopped to get manicures/pedicures. No- I DID NOT get a pedicure- I hate people touching my feet and I don't understand how that can be a good feeling ;) The manicure was great though!

I had such a great time visiting Katherine. I really miss that she doesn't live closer but it's so easy for Kristen and I to take a weekend road trip to Walnut Creek. It's such a nice town and the shopping is so awesome! We always have so much fun planning where we are going to eat too because they have all the chain restaurants that we don't have up here (thank goodness!). We enjoyed PF Changs, In-N-Out and The Cheesecake Factory! I'm looking forward to the next trip!

Mom's Birthday

We had my family over for a barbeque on my Mom's birthday, February 19th. We had a blast playing Rock Band and pool with Travis's new pool table. It was a lot of food, laughing and an all around good time! Travis barbequed some great ribs and Whitney made twice baked potatoes that were so good.

The best part of the night was watching Wes play the drums! He actually kept the beat for the most part;)

I guess this picture is also a good one to show off my new carpet!! We had carpet installed in the entire house at the beginning of February and I painted the living room a light tan- it's probably hard to tell the tan on the walls but I'm really happy with how everything turned out.