Hope and greyz

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

More Humor, To Help Get Over the Wednesday Blues

Click on the picture to enlarge:

To be honest , I am Roman Catholic, so I knew this was fake.
Even though, some of us Catholics know that without dogs it wouldn't be "heaven", (and some priests DO have a sense of humor- not many- but some :-)- It's still fake.
Too bad though- I would SO go to that church!

As Larry the Cable guy, would say- "Here's your sign"-
Here's the sign generator-
http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/

So go ahead y'all- have at it.

seeing is bee-leaving

What is this?

Hero being musical !

Know why ???

That's a Bee-flat if ever there was one!

(corny joke)

Sorry

Monday, February 23, 2009

Everybody Loves Hero

Ok, so ALMOST Everybody loves Hero.

Actually, Alaina has not been too enamored of him the last few days

because when she held his head between her two hands to give him a kiss on his nose he actually DARED to give a little growl. (No she was not wearing the Batman mask at the time)

He did not snap, he just gave a noise to let her know that her advances where not really appreciated,
and those feelings were not reciprocated.

What's that movie? "He's Just Not That Into You"?

Poor Hero- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

But - these pictures were taken TODAY:

Everyone wants a turn Snuggling with Hero.

The story behind the pictures with Will; We threw Hero off the sofa (his usual spot) to allow Will to take his nap. When I checked in I saw that Hero had snuck back on the couch (without waking Will) , so the position of holding "hands" was all Hero :-)

Of course I ran to get my camera- I think there is a law written somewhere saying such things MUST be photographed.

Hero was his usual charming self yesterday at Dog Scouts.

We have started our video taping our "tests" for certification.

Hero nailed: down, stay, heel, and even sit (even though we are breed exempt :-)

Come was less impressive :-(

(We have to work on his coming STRAIGHT towards me.- no detours)

One of the other owners (of a couple of small mixed breed dogs) even expressed an interest in adopting a greyhound- so I chatted him up- telling him just how amazing they are!!!!

The weekend in review

Saturday February 21, 2009

We celebrated Alaina's birthday at:

The Japanese steakhouse,

Thank goodness it is Americanized enough that we didn't have to take off our shoes.

They Do however cook your food right at the table

Some of our party were more impressed

Than others

I can't dress them up- or take them out

(note how Alaina is wearing her new "haircut" lately)

Even Will had a turn trying to catch a piece of shrimp tossed by the chef

(No- he didn't it catch it, it bounced off the top of his head- of course his mouth isn't as large as some other people's :-)

For birthdays at Osaka's, one

"Makes a wish and hits the gong":

Alaina is good at hitting:

The thing she is flinging about is a stretchy rubber hand that is sticky on the end- it reminds me of a frog's tongue (ok- it loses something in translation)
So this is actually just Saturday in review, I will do Sunday next (but I keep getting the "could not contact Blogger" error, so if I can get this much posted I will take it and run

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Don't tell her I told you....

Next Saturday is Alaina's birthday - she will be 15. And like most fifteen year old girls her birthday "wish" list includes clothes, money, gift certificates for clothes -**(but only from the "right" stores), money, make-up and other beauty products, money, shoes, and of course- money.
But also- she also wanted to get her haircut.
Now, I had already made an appointment to get my own hair cut yesterday at a local salon, (since Doug had Presidents' Day off from work and could be pressed into doing babysitting duty for an hour or so). But I do have to admit that I am passed being overly picky about who cuts my hair...
We had found a WONDERFUL hairdresser in Annandale a while back:
http://www.paulmichaelshairsalon.com/
and both Alaina and I highly recommend him , if you happen to be in Annadale Va.- unfortunately, we AREN'T, we live in Fauquier County (that is easily an hour drive each way!). I know I am a terrible mother, but I continue to work under the assumption that there are some competent hairdressers SOMEWHERE between us and Annandale. I asked Alaina if she wanted to wait until we could get her to her hairdresser of choice/ or if she wanted to try one of the hairdressers at the salon where I was going. She said she would try the "new" hairdresser, since she just wanted "a few layers and her bangs cut".
Right- I saw you all flinch , you know where this is going...

Quite frankly, I thought the hairdresser did do a good job on her, though Alaina does have A LOT of thick hair that tends to puff up ( something Alaina tries to avoid like the plague )- she wants it sleek, and smooth,-and with all the mousse and blow drying that this women did , well....

You can imagine the hysterics in the car.... (so much for a mother-daughter day)

Though of course once she washed it and flat ironed it at home I think even she had to admit it wasn't a bad cut...

Now as for my hair, well I mentioned that I wanted to get the hair out of my face. my hairdresser dutifully made sure that it could NOT get into my eyes.

It pretty much looks like this: