kitchen adventures

Chris and I have been on a peppermint bark kick... well actually we had to make another batch because we had leftover chocolate.  We always seem to get fresh strawberries from Sam's Club so we thought we would try to make some chocolate covered strawberries as well as another batch of peppermint bark.

all the ingredients

dark chocolate first...

 white chocolate... i was proud that chris picked up the camera so i could be in some pictures :)  that weren't self portraits

 finished product cooling...  not as good as edible arrangements but i think its the quality of the chocolate... i'd have to say they were better than i was expecting them to be! 

 and of course... chris cleaning up afterwards

As everyone knows, Katie made painted champagne glasses for everyone that attended her wedding.  Some people ended up not coming or not taking their glasses so I ended up with a set of 4.  :)

all these pictures make it look like it was a really romantic night... in reality it was a tv watching kind of night followed by chris playing xbox.  oh the chris gag level... the wine was a 5 :) but i liked it.

window watchers

this is one of higgins favorite places to sit.  We have an odd window in our kitchen that faces the parking lot.  We like to have the blinds down but the animals just dont let that happen.  To prevent them ruining them we usually have them pulled about a foot of the ground.  

higgins spies on the neighborhood here... or sometimes while sitting on top of the fridge.

Georgia always seems to think she is missing out on something.  I don't think she 

realized that she can see people out there if she looks (saw her looking at me as I 

was leaving for the store yesterday).

throwing this one in because i think its cute.           .    

new location

so many of your know i was volunteering at the San Angelo Human Society.   Well I haven't been as active with it as I would have liked to be but we ended up going to the grand opening of their new offsite location- in none other than the SUNSET MALL!  (this is the only mall in the town and it doesn't have many stores...  at least 3 of them are recruiting offices for the airforce, marines, and army...)

This is amazing for this to happen because this humane society doesn't work like the ones i was used to.  The rely mostly on foster parents to homes the dogs til the are adopted.  They only (with some exceptions) take in dogs and cats that are on the kill list from the pound.  To have a facility that they can house cats and have the dogs for the adoption events really helps.  It really made me happy to see how far the Humane Society of Tom Green County (not the actor) has come in the months since I have been here and originally started volunteering.

They had at least 4 kitty rooms.  All of them were decorated very cute and had lots of things for the cats to play with.  This kitty was sitting in a boat!

You can see the boat a little better in the bottom picture.

This room had a staircase that went up with wall.  very creative I would have to say.  All the kitties looked really relaxed and happy.

They also had a lot of extra room for puppies to be displayed and other smaller dogs.  Mostly the large dogs all the volunteers that constantly walk them and give them potty breaks outside.

  





these pups were in a pac-n-play... these puppies looked a lot like a litter that was abandoned outside the humane society a few months ago...  i hope it wasn't from the same parents.

this is the other kitty room.  this one is set up so that when the site is closed people can still see the kitties.  Kind of like a pet store would normally do.

it made me really happy that we could go to the grand opening.

  

surfing the net

i went into the bedroom and left the animals in the living room...

came back to find this... thought it was kinda funny looking.  doesn't it kind of look like Georgia is thinking about changing the channel and surfing the net? :)

i heart them.

Lily Gardens and Dog Walks

So I have been trying to take Georgia on more walks lately to try to improve her manners and try and get her "tender feet" a little more rough.  Usually I would just go one walks through the neighborhoods by our house or down by the river, but today I decided to go down near the river...

The water lily gardens.  Too bad I didn't take my camera along earlier in the year when the flowers were still out and blossoming.  We still enjoyed our walk...

I don't know if the pictures do the garden justice but it is a really pretty place.  There was even a family here taking christmas card pictures!

This one you can kind of see the flowers peaking through...   

Below I actually found some flowers that we still out even though of the 44 degree temperature outside! 

We walked down furthur where we ran into the river and they had so many pretty walkways.  I wish that I knew someone to take our picture out here because this place would be beautiful.  As you can see Georgia didn't really want to get her picture taken. 

        pretty girl decided to sit for a picture

another view of where we went walking.... you can barely tell this is a bridge.

Here you can tell there IS A BRIDGE!

this is one of Chris's favorite things to do... PART 2

this is a video of georgia escaping from all her toys!

this is one of Chris's favorite things to do...

whenever Georgia is sound asleep Chris finds it entertaining to pile all of her toys on top of her...

She woke up this time after having a blanket and then all her toys piled on but this time she stayed still long enough for me to get my camera.

note:  she didn't used to have this many toys until my dad insisted on bringing a bunch of toys from their house to texas for her to play with... i would have to admit, she plays with EVERY single one of her toys.

these pictures remind me of Full House when Michelle tries to hide a dog in among all her stuffed animals...  katie, amy, cody, and sara.... i know you know what i'm talking about :)