Cooper's Haircut

OK, last pictures containing dogs...promise. But I have to post one of Cooper since he got his haircut. He looks a lot less scraggly! Isn't he cute???

More pictures of the dogs...

I know, you're tired of seeing pictures of them...
Cooper & Rio with some bones we'd bought them.

Swimming

Friends of ours put in a pool over the winter so we've been over to swim a few times this summer. They are the ones with the autistic son and the pool has really been awesome for him. On this particular evening, Spencer was able to come with us, so he & Sydney had a great time together - in the pool, on the trampoline, playing in the yard and later playing video games.

1 - Me & Brigitte. In my defense, I hadn't been on vacation yet and she just got back from Jamaica. She kind of had an advantage with the whole tan thing (though I'm lily white most of the time anyway).

2 - Sydney playing in the pool

3 - Dalton had just learned how to jump in with this ring. I love how this picture captures the splashes.

4 - My handsome husband

5 - Spencer playing in the pool. Thought this was a cool "action shot"

Lazy 5 Ranch - Round 4

OK, here are some people pictures. I love the shot of Spencer & Sydney leaning out the window.

Lazy 5 Ranch - Round 3

And even more animals...
- Zebra...this guy came out in the road, behind our truck and in front of the one behind us, and wouldn't move. It was funny.
- There were a lot of emus there (and those are pretty spooky animals) but this was only white one we saw. Had bright blue eyes too.
- They had several beautiful, bright birds
- The turtles and the rabbits were in cages beside each other and they had them labeled "the tortoise and the hare"...clever.
- I think this is a mountain goat

Lazy 5 Ranch - Round 2

More animals...
- Big ugly bull...is this guy scary looking or what???
- Camels
- Gazelle (I think)
- Giraffe
- Bunny

Lazy 5 Ranch - Round 1

The Lazy 5 Ranch is a local place where you can drive your car through and see wildlife. You have a bucket of food and can feed the animals from the car. It's pretty awesome. We took Spencer and the daughter of a friend. I took a tons of pictures...bear with me. They're just too cute to not share...

These are all "baby" pictures. We were there at a great time because almost all the animals had little babies running around. Here you see baby deer, baby pig, some kid of big baby (not sure what it is)...and then my favorite picture: the baby emu peeking it's head out from within its mom's feather.

I love this girl...

This is me with the daughter of a friend of ours. She is 9 years old and I just love her to death!

The Dogs

Just a quick shot of the dogs...this was before Cooper's haircut so he was still looking a little scraggly...

Just goofing off...

One day, Matt's niece swung by for a visit. We were showing her some photos by hooking the camera up to the TV. Once Spencer realized that I could take photos and videos and see it "live" on TV as we were doing it, it was all hamming it up after that. I got some super cute videos, especially of Spencer dancing! But also some randoms snapshots of us just hanging out. (Spencer took the photo of me).