9 Years and counting!

As of yesterday, the count stands at 9 years of happy matrimony, 8.5 years of domestic secuirty, many world travels, 3.5 sweet kiddos, 2 goofy pound puppies, and a future that holds many more adventures with my super husband, Scott Morrison. Who would've thought 1/19/03 would lead us to all of this? xoxo

Happy Epiphany!

Happy Epiphany! I should be taking down "Christmas Past", but I can't help but give a glimpse of what "Christmas Future" will be like for the Morrisons...

A Much Needed Transformation

One of our favorite places to spend time is our backyard. Unfortunately, years of wear and tear, 160 lbs of dog running on it, sprinkler issues, drainage problems, Texas clay, etc. really left us in sad shape. Scott worked with some hardscape designers and came up with an awesome plan-- we hired a company to do the manual labor of it (took about a week) which included excavating, filling, placing, and dealing with drainage and more sprinkler issues.

Alas, it is almost complete! It is definitely usable-- the kids LOVE racing their pushcarts and scooters sround the tree wells and lining up the cars/toys on the border. We kept the swing(s) and will move back in some of the equipment.

Laid sod this morning-- it has 30 days to grow and took root as per laws governing our water restrictions... c'mon, grass grow!!

Birds are slow to come back to the feeder, but our friendly yellow-bellied sap-sucker has made a daily appearance!

I'm going to try and see if this link works-- any of you tech people, feel free to comment.

http://www.kizoa.com/slideshow/d2169268k8142794o1/the-backyard-overhaul

Merry Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Great day at the Dallas Zoo!

Gypsy, the elephant
Cheetah resting

Lemur summoning the sun gods

Wow! We had the zoo entirely to ourselves! I guess everyone was at the malls, doing Xmas shopping! Mima joined us for her last day in Dallas. We got to feed Katie, the giraffe, and saw a couple of "Animal Encounters" which was pretty cool. All the animals were extremely photogenic.

Monkeys in a Wheelbarrow!

The backyard renovation has begun-- yipppeee!!! The Dust Bowl shall be no more!

In an attempt to get everything ready for the workers, we had to move a lot of things... one of the things being our children...

Princess Paws...

I'm not sure what possessed Carly to get on top of the table on the patio... or how she climbed up there... but all of a sudden, I saw these puppy-dog eyes staring at me through the window at eye level-- kinda freaked me out-- but had enough time to go get the camera.

Reese had his 10 wk post-op checkup on Friday-- and all looks well! His knee has healed nicely and he is allowed to continue to step-up his exercise routine. Yay! Just in time for all the wintery cold weather!