I'm too sexy for this shirt

Sadie loves her Glamour Shots. She's such a party animal.

River Rats and Raccoons

Not quite the beach, but togetherness is what counts. My girlfriends and I had a great weekend on our annual trip, complete with our traditional spaghetti dinner. We spent the weekend in Blanco and hung out on the river. It is quite possibly the best weekend of the year - in a category of it's own. We had a surprise visit from three racoons that made us all silly and giggly.

Crazy raccoons.
Watching the raccoons out the window.

Boat Fever

We recently spent the weekend with Aaron's family at Lake Travis and we both came away with boat fever. Aaron and Trent fished until they could fish no more (which is actually impossible), we ate and ate and ate, and relaxed on the porch of the beautiful house (the brown one to the left of the steps) and enjoyed the view of the lake. We worked off all the extra calories we ate by walking up and down the steps to the boat dock. 106 to be exact. huff*n*puff Aaron and I rented a jet ski (that little dot in the lake picture is us), of which he was successful at throwing me off twice, but he came off with me! It was really fun!

Guatemala! It's UnBelizeable!

Here are a few pics from our vacation to Central America with Gillian and Scott. We started in Antigua, Guatemala then made our way North to Flores. From there we crossed the border into Belize for a night in San Ignacio, then on todabeach! in San Pedro.

Baby Brewer's Big Debut. . . well, almost

A lovely shower for the mommy-to-be was had in Longview. Baby Brewer and Kristen and Rhett received lots of nice things and LOTS of love.

Chilopoda

A.K.A. Giant Centipede - just one of the many joys of living in the Texas Hill Country. Trent and Aaron discovered this wiggly relative of the insect in our yard yesterday. It was HUGE! Aaron went straight to the Texas Bug Book (thank you, Dre). They have a bite about as powerful as a bee sting, but a bite is rare. They are actually considered beneficial around the house because they feed on roaches, ants and flies, among other things. Ewwwww. . .
We also found a tarantula the other night, but we didn't get any pictures of it (not the first one we've seen around the house). Trent scooped it into our big washtub so we could inspect it. All I have to say is, GROSS! Aaron is adept at finding them under rocks when we are hiking, so we've seen them before, but they are still always icky to see.
Apparently Sadie got a taste of a tarantula Wednesday night. Aaron saw her corner one and get a quick snap at it, but the hairy critter must have bitten back because Sadie started rubbing her snout and decided to leave it alone. I hope she learned her lesson.

Sweet Niece

A few pics of Aubrey in the past few months.


Pretty in Pink (May)


Grandad with his next UT Grad? (April visit to Austin)


With Uncle Harness and Aunt Gi (April visit to Austin)