In the last 16 days...

...Buddie graduated from puppy classes with honors on the 15th!
...we have celebrated Randy's 32nd Birthday on the 15th.
...celebrated our friends son Dylan's birthday on the 16th.
...I decorated for Christmas on the 18th.
...On the 19th Buddie took his first trip as a therapy dog to the nursing home in town and loved it! (I tagged along)
...my friend Elizabeth (roommate from Ft Hood), her daughter Sami, and my new friend Michelle visited from the 20th-23rd. I miss her and we had so much fun!
...I got really sick from the 21st-26th...ughhh. I even had to go to the ER because my heart did not like the meds they put me on, I am okay though, just a very high heart rate for a few days. I think Baylee knew I wasn't feeling well the day I went to the ER, she just kept laying on me and sitting on my lap, I guess I should have paid closer attention to what she was doing since she usually only sits on Randy's lap.
...I made a Thanksgiving feast for 2, turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing from a box, corn, rolls, pumpkin pie for Randy, and Chocolate pie for me.
...We saw a couple of movies; Twilight and Bolt (The hamster was hilarious!)
...We got Phoebee a cat climber thingy on Black Friday and some new dog toys, somehow they are destroying their old ones.
...We bought some new video games and played video games all weekend, so much fun!
...I groomed Buddie yesterday and Randy went skeet shooting for the first time.
...Buddie went for his 2nd trip to the nursing home today, the 1st of December. He loves the attention and is so good for everybody when they pet him. He isn't scared of anything and makes the residents smile, even if they don't want to pet him. I think we will be doing this for a long time. He even had one personal request for next time from a sweet lady named Maybel.
...We did the same stuff we normally do also; Randy worked, I cleaned, we talked to our friends and family, and we played with our animals.

We wish you all a wonderful Holiday season! Happy December 1st! I get to open my advent calendar today and eat the chocolate out of it!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everybody! We are all doing well and enjoying the Fall here in Alabama. We have gone through a corn maze and Randy picked out his very own pumpkin. This blog entry has a lot of pictures...so hang in there.

It was his first time ever carving a pumpkin! He did a great job!

I then tried to take some Halloween pictures. Which as you will see, were a little more difficult than I anticipated.

We also went to a Howl-o-ween party at Petsmart last week. The dogs got treats, had a parade, and had a costume contest. They did not win but I think they were great

Last Saturday, Buddie, Baylee, and I went to a fundraiser for one of the animal shelters here in Enterprise. They had some contests and both dogs got lots of ribbons. Buddie got first place for best trick in the small mutt category! What a performer! Baylee got first place in the tiny mutt catergory for jumping! She jumped over one of those white pvc pipes they use in agility competitions (it was about 4 inches off the ground) but we are so very proud of her. Buddie also got 1st place for: Shortest small Mutt and Hairiest small Mutt. Baylee also got 1st place for: Shortest tiny Mutt

Last but not least, the pictures from Halloween night. They were so good even with the doorbell ringing. They didn't even try to dart out the door. I do have to say that their costumes were better than some of the ones that I saw come to my door. Also, I think that My animals must have been possessed last night, their eyes were glowing in almost every picture!

We hope you all enjoyed the pictures and catching up on what has been going on in our lives over the past few weeks. Have a wonderful holiday season!

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

This is where our Friday started!! This was both mine and Randy's first trip to Six Flags and Randy's first time on a "real" rollercoaster. Apparently the one that I took him on before wasn't a "real" rollercoaster because it wasn't big enough. So, we went on some big ones! He definitely got a little "thrilled' later on in the day! I wasn't at all "thrilled" though because I am a daredevil! Oh yeah, I think the date stamp on my camera was a little off! The real date was 05/26/06.






The first ride of the day was the Superman:Tower of Power. We started off slowly so that we could warm up into the larger rollercoasters.





We then went on a couple more coasters, even one that was completely in the dark. We both liked that one. You could not tell when there was going to be a turn or a drop, it was awesome! My mom would love it! Just kidding mom. :-)

This was us waiting to go on Spongebob Squarepants 4-D the Ride. It was a fun virtual reality ride. "I was scared like a little baby girl!" said Randy in between sobs. Nice shades!!









We even saw the King himself, Elvis Presley! Fun Factoid: I was born in the same town as Elvis, Tupelo, Mississippi.






The yellow and blue coaster is Batman the Ride and the light blue ride in the backround is the Mr. Freeze. Both Randy and I decided that the Batman was our favorite coaster. The Mr. Freeze was probably one of the shortest rides. Here are a few facts about the rides. Batman: The Ride- 109 feet 6 inches high, 2700 FT long, 50 MPH, and many many loops.
Mr. Freeze- 238 FT high, 1480 feet long, 70 MPH in 3.7 seconds, and worth the wait.









We even got to hang out with some of the Warner Brothers characters. I can't tell if the character is the one in the orange shirt or the rooster?! I stuck with bugs. We also say Sylvester and Daffy! I tried to get Randy to get pictures with Wonderwoman but he said, "No, I don't want to make her look bad." (Okay, so maybe that was a little bit exagerated on my part.)



We went on the Texas Giant which was a huge wooden rollercoaster, that has been repeatedly named the #1 wooden rollercoaster in the world. It was fun buy jerked you around a lot and wasn't a very smooth ride. We also went on the first ride that was ever at Six Flags Over Texas Theme Park. It was a nice calm rollercoaster with rolling hills. We went on another ride that took you straight up as if you were in an elevator and then dropped you straight down, short but what a rush. We also went on Yosemite Sam's Gold Rush Adventure (or something like that). It was like a Small World but with guns, gold, the roadrunner, and of course the wiley coyote. We went on a few more rides but that is enough explaining...ON TO THE FINALE!!!

TITAN

Height of First Drop: 255 Feet Length of Track: 5,312 Feet (over one mile)
Top Speed: 85 MPH Duration of Ride: 3.5 Minutes
Fun Facts: 120 Foot Underground Tunnel, total steel used to build Titan would build 16,000 cars, enough electrical cable to wire 40 homes, approximately 45,000 bolts used, and 175 sensors monitor the trains at all times.
*all technical info about coasters was found on the Six Flags website

Now knowing all that...who wouldn't want to ride?!

Of course this is only part of the rollercoaster but that huge climb you see was what started the ride. It was a blast!!!

All in all it was a great day; hot, thrilling, and death defying...what more could you ask for?