One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

I went fishing. Came home with cleaned, ready to cook fish. And never touched a fish. That's my idea of fishing. :)



I caught this fish, but Jimmy took care of it for me.



Slimy fish..

The Girls of Highland Ridge Reunited

As I was uploading this photo, I realized all of the girls in this photo are now married. Wow. We've come a long way. Will there ever be a picture of us four as moms? We shall see.



Just for laughs, the last picture I could find of us four before the "Mrs."...

V-Day

In years past, we haven't given Valentine's Day much respect. Last year was Blockbuster and Taco Bell. This year, Bo decided to spice it up with a suprise for this Mrs. We spent Valentine's at the Gaylord Hotel in Grapevine and had some much needed married time without puppies. We had some champagne and cake balls greeting us in our room followed by a dinner buffet where we ate ourselves sick. We returned again for breakfast buffet this morning and repeated the insane discomfort of too much food in our bellies. A great way to spend a great weekend. Love that man. :)

White Valentine's Weekend

I'm beginning to think the NBA all-star game should have been played in Vancouver and the winter Olympics in Dallas! Seriously, folks we have too nuch snow while those Canadians we're shipping it into town! Our record 11 inches at the Rickner house has turned us into mentally degenerative shut-ins. We did all things winter -


....built a snow giant...





....made homemade hot chocolate (twice)...





....and homemade ice cream from snow in our front yard!...





It's amazing how creative two people who spend their lives working 12+ hours a day get when they can't go to work and start to lose their minds! I finally had to get out this evening and braved the roads just for dog food. They turned out to be much improved from my inital attempt to drive in snow on Thursday...

I was heading out Thursday morning for work...we probably had 2 inches of snow at the time...left our street and made my way to the freeway, slid of the road slightly, made sure my heart was still beating and finally made it up to the freeway. I was having trouble stopping and decided the roads would only get worse - I would work from home. I made the turn to head back to the house (a different road than I can from in attempt to keep driving straight and not have to turn around). Well, I missed the sign and ended up passing it. I had to turn around and chose a driveway that appeared to be cement. Nope. As I was trying to back out, my tires spun into a mud ruts and I was stuck. Took a little maneuvering, but I worked my way out, got home, and didn't leave for two days!

The first inch of snow was pretty, the second required soup, the third was fun and demanded a snow man, the fourth made me unable to drive and missed my hair appointment this morning, and the fifth made Stella disappear when she went into the back yard. Every inch after that just sucked!

No No Bad Dog

My baby Shooter has discovered the toilet. And not for pottying. Bo and I were in our bathroom last night pick out his outfit for tonight's game and realized Shooter was drinking out of the toilet. How did this happen? Who taught him this...trashy tv, his friends, his sister? "Hey Stella, try this out. It's like a big water bowl." I sure hoped it was a fluke until when I got home thing evening, I was in the bathroom and he went straight for the toilet - and tried to convince his sister to do it too. She's not as tall as him though so she had her front legs flung over the edge teetering on the dive in. New rule in our house - toliet seats down!

Bang.

I hope everyone has had the opportunity to discover 'The Big Bang Theory' on CBS. The laughably awkward Sheldon Cooper should be a part of your Monday night as well. I have even conquered memorization of the theme song.

"Our whole universe was in a hot dense state.."

Unintentional Abandonment of my Blog

When I started this blog I felt it was at a point where my life would be important enough or at least interesting enough to document. Well, seems that I don't even value the day's events enough to scribe them. My apologies to you, Kristina, quite possibly my only reader. I know this because you are the only one attentive enough to inform me my posts are not frequent enough. I'd be interested to even see a comment on this post from my husband, a reader who ranges somewhere between occasional and never.

Well, my last post was Dec 18th - the holidays have passed and guilt pesters the average American to re-evaluate their weight/health, finanical status, and handful of other vices in hopes of temporarily eliminating them. Good luck you average Americans - it never lasts. But keeping with the new year's tradition, I will attempt to keep my exclusive follower(s) updated on life in Parker County.