Thursday, July 8, 2010

Meet the family...

Well let's start off with our four-legged friends...




This is Daisy, my orange tabby cat that I got in front of Vons grocery store on 4th of July, 2007. I was getting ready to move out and go to Lake Elsinore to teach my first year of school. She came with me and was with me through two different addresses in Lake Elsinore. Rich and Daisy have a love/hate relationship- I think she wonders why he got in the middle of me and her. haha I love her. She comes in the middle of the night and likes to sit right on me...She is a very special cat.




This is Bella- our 2 year old Beagle. She is lively and energetic (sometimes) and she is currently working on losing those dreaded 5 pounds...(which is a lot for her little 35 pound frame) We got Bella off Craigslist.com on Superbowl sunday 1.5 years ago.




This is Charlotte, She is a three year old Basset hound/beagle mix. We has such good luck on craigslist that we decided to try again and we found Char. She is a lover, she would love nothing more than to lay on top of you and put her head next to your face. Charlotte can jump 5 feet high and she does not like to swim (as Bella does.) When we got Charlotte she only weighed 14 pounds, a basset hound is supposed to weigh 40-60 pounds on average. We have since got her eating and up to 35 pounds which is still small but MUCH healthier.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Backyard Project

So this past weekend my parents came over and helped Rich and I break out concrete in our backyard.

We had a large palm tree in my backyard that we had removed about a year ago...it had lifted up the concrete. So this was a picture of our backyard before ...


(also notice those big bird-o-paradise)



and I will post an after picture when my camera finishes charging...

God, it feels good to get some hard work done in your own home!

Now this is what it will look like until Saturday when the cement truck comes with concrete...