Hats and Horse Races

Drove down to DC to go to a horse race with Cindy, Frank, Maddie, Evan and Francis.

so excited to be wearing hats!  Made the day much more comfortable!  I'm considering doing this more often! 

trying to find our tent

lovely couple Francis and Evan

kilts!

random group of people with (real) stuffed animals on their cars

at our tent

all the girls!

 

proud of my name!!!

lovely girls (frank said my dressed looked nice against the grass!  haha)

other side of the table 

lots and lots of people were there!

near the winners circle

self portraits

steeple races

hats hats and more hats!

winner circle

this little girl won the first race!  she is only 13!!!

 during the races everyone came from the tents to watch!

 here they come!

over the jump and water feature!

This is where the other tent was we went to... notice the trash bags in the background.

Maddie with a bunch of her work friends!

Showing her battle wounds while taking GA on a walk earlier in the day...  I guess GA wanted to take a big stick home with her and it attacked Maddie

having a ball!

Maddie!

the view from the other tent!

a bunch of the horses lost their riders and i guess they just wanted to continue the race!

i love this picture!

betting stats book 

our souvenir! a blanket that folds up!  

perfect to keep in the car

It was a great first time to the horse races!  I had a great time hanging out with the extended family!!!

 Thanks to Frank and Cindy for being my surrogate parents!  Love them!

love her!

"Do I have something on my lip?"

Ga loves to chew on cardboard so I thought I would be a good dog mom and indulge her while Chris is gone.  I was reading in bed this morning when she came up to me looking like this.  (ignore the pile of cloths behind her - note this is only because Chris is out of town :) )

How could you not love this face?!

higgins's best friend baby

I just came across this photo.  Its from about 3 or 4 years ago when I used to live with my friend Cat (a girl not a real cat) and she ended up getting a kitten named Magnum (who everyone just calls Baby)(and is sitting in Katie's purse).

Love this pic of my sister taking a picture of her on my old phone so there are two images!  

Miss living with you and the baby, Catty!

loved this sign

finally stopped raining

Crazy weather these past few days!

Poor baby girl has been stuck inside because of the rain and wind!

I decided to test Georgia by leaving her inside the house while I went to ruin errands...  

mistake!

She decided to pull our table runner to pull the thank you cards I have been working on down, and chew on the envelopes  :(

apparently she can't be trusted yet!

Today was the first day that it wasn't raining so we decided to go play at the dog park and then go on a "hike" which is basically a long walk around a lake at the park.  

Such a happy girl to be back at the park!!!

So after she played a bit with her friends we went on our hike when suddenly I saw something...

snake!

It kind of looks like a stick... or that it was dead so i'm glad GA didn't see it before I did!

Adventures of living in virginia i guess!

I went to petsmart with GA the other day and let her pick out her news toys!  She got two, both on sale. 

First...  BOBO!

She loves her camo doggie toy!

The other was a rope toy with a tennis ball attached... she already tore that to pieces... guess she really loved it!

Lastly, Chris sent me this pic today of him and our friend Brady at the Air Show.

 cute :)

i miss him...