Gorgeous!

223/365 - I may be biased, but she is gorgeous!

And another catch-up...

Not a 365, but sharing just the same.

Lookie how big she is getting! At her first vet visit she was 15 pounds and three weeks later at her second visit she was 25 pounds.  Compare here.


216/365 - Smiley happy puggy.


217/365 - I liked how the moon was showing through the clouds, however, the clouds moved over the moon before I could get all the settings set up so this is the best I got...


218/365 - Went back to school shopping for Adam, which included new shoes of course. He had found a pair of Reeboks he liked that was unfortunately $120 and even though it was 40% off, they were still too much. He was still asking for them and was pouting about my no, so I resorted to saying, we'll ask daddy (since two no's leave no room for whining). Daddy, of course, said no as well and he whined again (just a few more whines just to see if he could change it) and I suggested maybe he would say yes if the other option was the ugliest shoe in the store - he grabbed this one and I texted the picture to Robert - "These ones or the Reeboks" as a little joke. We ended up going with a pair of Nikes.


219/365 - Remember how she fit in Adam's arms when we first got her. We won't be able to pick her up like this much more. She how she fit in his arms before here.


220/365 - Fish eye Timmy


221/365 - Work meeting and I parked at the top of the parking structure to get this view. The backs of my ankles regretted it though, my shoes gave me blisters. They never have before, I'm sad that they did...North parking structure (employees only) of St. Vincent looking west.


222/365 - Leia playing in the sprinkler.

Insert witty title #586

214/365 - Pretty sunflower.


215/365 - Watering the garden while filling the pool while Leia plays in the sprinkler.

Show me the button!

I was sitting on my patio talking with my Granny and enjoying how the wind was rustling through the leaves of this tree, and the way the sun hitting the leaves made them seem to be dancing.

Photo processed with a free action from Rita at The Coffee Shop blog, Golden Vintage.*

210/365 - We went and got a little wading pool for the kids and the dog. Okay, mostly the dog. The kids are more interested in going to the big pool. But Leia LOVES it!


211/365 - Sleepy Leia.


212/365 - We went to Big Al's (an arcade/bowling alley/sports bar/sports restaurant/etc etc) for lunch and some arcading and while we aren't huge sports fans we couldn't help but get excited at all the TVs! Especially this big one that had 9 different channels going at once! (Actually 3 projectors, and a portion is not shown in the photo.) Not to mention the 15+ "small" TVs hanging up around the restaurant. Can you imagine the awesomeness of the Super Bowl?


YAY! The hummingbirds have found my feeder! Robert got this picture for me (only cause he wouldn't give me my camera and when he finally did the bird flew off).  Not a 365, but wanted to share all the same.  I was worried they would never find the feeder, but they have, and maybe someday I will have as many hummingbirds as Granny does.  (Which is A LOT.)


213/365 - Big grape, little grape. Didn't like it in color so changed it to black and white and now I'm all artistic and deep....or something.
Photo processed with a free action from Rita at The Coffee Shop blog, Splendor B&W (I believe).


*A lot of my pictures are processed Perfect Portrait action. It's my favorite action, but all of her actions are amazing.  And she does tuturials on how to use them and how to do many things in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, and others.

Poda Yug/Yoda Pug

208/365 - My sweet Yoda pug.

Can I get some free stuff now?

Hey PetSmart! Think I could get a little something something from for this little shout out? I'm in the market for both cat and dog products. Hint hint.

207/365 - Leia playing with her new frisbee. Best $1 I've spent this week, a total impulse buy.  She loves chasing the frisbee.  Then running with it, and the kids love chasing her for it.

Our favorite beach

Sunday we did go to the coast for the day to enjoy the surf and sun and have a picnic lunch.  We went to our favorite beach, Arcadia Beach, which is just a few miles south of Cannon Beach on Highway 101.



It was still a bit foggy when we first got there...


But it didn't take long to start burning off.


Leia enjoyed herself, but I can't wait until she has all her leash manners. The whole jumping on me and yanking herself in every direction got old quite fast. 


I love Adam's sense of humor, even when he is driving me batty with his sarcastic and smart-alec remarks to me.
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Lunch time!


View from the parking lot at the top of the trail down to the beach, looking south.


Since Yoda is such a momma's boy and doesn't wander far from me and I can call him back when he tries to go say hi to people, he gets to be lucky enough to be off leash.  He loves when the kids run ahead of me and he will run to them until he touches one of them or circles in front of them and then run back to me.  One downside to him being friendly was some guy was trying to coax him into following him home. Not joking around either, he was seriously walking away from me calling Yoda. 




206/365 - Jumping over the waves.  When did my baby boy grow up?!












Seagull floating on the waves.


My baby doll, who is also growing up way too fast...


Adam running with Leia - he was having a bit of a time keeping her from jumping on him.


Floppy puppy happy to be on the beach.