Sweet Pepper

To be fair, I thought I should blog about my own dog.


Pepper is a Cairn Terrier (the same as Toto in the Wizard of Oz) She will be 14 years old on May 3rd. She was easily the wildest puppy I ever had. She was even nicknamed 'Tornado' by my aunt who was visiting from Austria. Of course she has calmed down now at her age, except for when she tore her ACL jumping down the stairs about a year and a half ago. She sleeps quite a bit now, but still loves her dinner, treats, walks, and play dates with Willi. She is definitely 'Mommy's dog' and follows me around whenever I am home.

Here are a few pictures:

Here comes the 'Diesel'!

Meet Diesel. He is Beth and Tim's new puppy, a Great Dane/Black Lab mix. Mostly Great Dane. He weighed 19 pounds when they got him about 6 weeks ago and now he is 50 pounds at only 4 1/2 months!
The name Diesel came from Shaqille O'Neil who is playng for the Phoenix Suns now. Tim says Diesel 'has a lot of torque but not much speed' I think he will have plenty speed with those long legs!

Wild Willi

Everyone meet my new 'grand-puppy,' Willi!

He is a piebald dachshound adopted by Chris in November. Since then, he has wiggled his way into our hearts. I get to puppy-sit on weekends if Chris needs a chance to catch up on school work, or if he plays golf with Mark.

Go Suns!

Believe it or not, until December 6th, I had never been to any professional sports game. This was my first and it was great. And the Suns won. Go Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire, Shaquille O'Neal and Leandro Barbosa!

Thanksgiving 2008

Since we met in the Army, and have always lived far away from our families, we had a lot of Thanksgiving dinners with just the four of us.
Then we realized we were not the only ones in this situation, and decided to invite other 'lone' families for dinner on that day.

Each year the guest list has gotten larger. This year we had 21 people.

When we were done eating, we played a Thanksgiving trivia game and learned alot about Thanksgiving history.

For example:

What vegetable did the pilgrims have available for thanksgiving but did not use because they thought it was poisonous?

A. Beans B. Pumpkin C. Tomatoes D. Potatoes E. Cauliflower

Anwer to trivia question: D. Potatoes

Hmm... hard to imagine Thanksgiving without potatoes!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Wastin' Away Again

We had so much fun at the Jimmy Buffett concert last year, we decided to go back to Las Vegas and do it again. We did better with our costumes than we did last time. Maybe next year we will actually find the steet party!

Camping - Then and Now

When Mark and I were dating and engaged, we used to go camping almost every weekend with friends. We would get everything ready to go on Thursday night and set it at the front door. On Friday, after work, we would just load up the truck and head out for the mountains in southeast New Mexico.
We hadn't gone camping together in a long time, but a few weeks ago we decided to go up to Big Lake and camp for two nights. We had a great time fishing, hiking, getting a fire going, waking up at 3 a.m. to thunderstorms with a lot of lightning, thunder and rain pounding on the roof of our pop-up camper...

Just like old times, except for a few minor details.

These pictures will show you what I mean:

Mark & our tent in 1979

Me & our pop-up 2008

Mark fishing then and now: Camp cooking...... You get the idea!

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