Wedding #4 Congratulations Graham and Andrea!

We had a great time in Evergreen at the Ward/Lemmond wedding.  It was nice to travel to Monroeville for the weekend and just ride over for the wedding. 

Wedding #5 Congratulations to Cory and Hayley!  We were not able to make it to the wedding but wish them the best!

Aunt Aspen

I have been meaning to post pictures of Aspen's cute little nieces.  My aunt and uncle breed huskies and they bred Aspen's brother to another husky they have, Vallie.  I had forgotten how fun and cuddly they are as puppies!!  One of them (Andi) is just down right naughty but so stinking cute.  They are all three black and white females so my cousin named them after the Black sisters in Harry Potter - Bellatrix (Bella), Narcissa (Cissa) and Andromeda (Andi).

Andi and Bella

Cissa (she's my favorite!)



They are worn out from their photo shoot and just napping with Mom. Well, all except for Andi in the back.

This is Basil, their dad and Aspen's brother.



It's so fun to play with Basil because he and Aspen have the same mannerisms and facial expressions.  I love the similarities knowing they grew up completely separate.  Nature vs Nurture has always intrigued me, even in dogs!

Wedding #3 Jeremiah and Ashley Culwell

                                                         Me not looking at the camera, lol

Wedding #2 The Royal Wedding

So, I wasn't actually there but I did get up at 4:00 AM to watch all the coverage.  I know, I'm crazy but I've been so into this wedding.  I think because Prince William and Kate are so close to my age.  The wedding was just beautiful and I absolutely love to watch the formality and traditions that are so important to the royal family.   It's all such a fairy tale and I couldn't resist getting sucked in :)

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!

Weekends

The next weekend after the wedding we headed off with the Myers family to Barber's Motorsports for the Indy Race.  We got to go last year and had a really good time so I was excited about going again.  It was almost identical weather both years - beautiful and hot!  Oh and my camera battery was still dead from the wedding, oops!  We had to use the camera on our phone.

The girls

Clay

and as Clay says... Big Tom Candler

My parents were here the weekend after that during some of my mom's spring break.   The Saturday of that weekend we went to Tuscaloosa (roll tide) for A Day.  We had another weekend of beautiful weather (after we survived some horrible storms on Friday night).  More iphone pics.

Mom and Dad at A-Day.  It was a little cool that morning so Mom bought Dad a sweatshirt hoodie.



Wedding #1 Stacey and David

I've been a little out of pocket lately in my blogging world.  Here are some pics from our first wedding of the season.  My camera battery died before I got to take a picture of the me and Tommy or me and the bride for that matter.  Congrats to David and Stacey Boussiere!

Jennifer and me



Amy and me
(Stacey is in the background)



Our Little Rugrats

We don't have any kid rugrats running around but we do have these two pups. 

This is my girl, Aspen.  I got her about a year and a half before I graduated college.   Wasn't she so stinking cute?!?  She still is but she keeps me on my toes.  Oh and yes, she does cross her legs when she lays down :)  If you ever tell her you want kisses she'll run up to you and lick your chin, sweet.  She is laid back kind of lazy much like me, lol.

This is Cooper, Tommy has wanted a Weimaraner named Cooper ever since I met him.  So once we got married we got little (now huge) Coop to give Aspen another dog to play with.  He's the funniest, quirkiest dog ever.  His tail wags constantly, even when he is scared at the vet.  His bark is LOUD and he barks often. He's very active and so much like Tommy. 

From these descriptions of our dogs you can tell we love them very much.  Seriously, we do.  But here lately I've been ready to strangle them both at times. 

About two weeks ago, I ran some errands after work and by the time I got home to feed the dogs it was maybe 6ish.  I go out back to find that Aspen is not there.  I frantically look all over the yard and find a tiny hole near a gate we never use - she got out.  I'm hysterical, Tommy comes home to help me look, our friends Rachael and Clay come over to help (love you guys!) and our wonderful neighbor rode around looking.  7:00 comes and goes... no Aspen, 8:00 same, 9:00 I'm getting really sad/depressed/upset and then Tommy walks in.  He finally found a neighbor that said she had spent the afternoon with them until animal control picked her up.  omg, I felt so relieved yet so mad at her!!  She spent the night in doggie jail and we bailed her out the next morning for $40.  Shew... what a night!  Our thoughts, Cooper dug the hole and Aspen got out.

Last weekend we came home late to find out that Cooper had been sick while we were gone.  I was afraid they had killed some animal while we were gone so I sent Tommy out in the yard to see but nothing.  We brought them inside thinking that maybe he just ate too much but when Tommy went to let them out that morning he had been sick again (inside... ugh!  now we need new carpet in the basement sooner than later) AND his mouth was swollen huge.  I'm talking his lips were enormous.  Here we go off to the vet.  Cooper freaks out on the table at the vet but other than that he's pretty good.  The vet said he thought that he got stung by something and thought the throwing up was unrelated.  Lots of shots, meds and a vet bill of about $125 he's all better.  Our thoughts, Aspen tried to snap at a bee (bc she does this to all bugs) it stung Cooper, he ate it and made him sick.

Promise we love them but they are definitely our rugrats that are usually causing some kind of trouble.