Are you ready for some football?

Well, I sure am!! All this talk of training camps starting is REALLY starting to get me amped up!! I don't want to wait until October!! At the same time, I have some real internal conflicts happening. I'm a Cowboys girl through and through...and I am fighting the urge to go throw on my Tony Romo jersey.

But I've really grown to like the Broncos! And I can't wait to see Tebow get some on field action...hopefully he gets a chance and does well!

Don't worry - when it comes down to it ... it wil always be GO COWBOYS!!!

Before and After

It’s time for yet another chapter in my wonderful hair story. My hair has been dyed too many times to count. It’s been everything from Strawberry blonde to black. It’s been a short little chin-length cut, and halfway down my back. Thankfully, though, I’ve never had a bob or shaved it all of. However, I’ve even received chili-bowl haircuts as a child (thanks mom and dad), complete with my dad combing it exactly like his hair when my mom was out of town. Talk about traumatic. I even blow dry it daily and use a good mix of my straightener and curling irons regularly.

So needless to say, my hair hates me. I don’t think I’ve had more than half a dozen good hair days in my entire life. And technically, part of it is genetics – my dad has thin hair – but I have put it though a lot of abuse over the years.

Long enough story short, my hair has really been getting long and I haven’t had it cut for a while. So it was long and probably not really healthy. I took the big “plunge” and told the lady to chop off all the bad stuff.

So...Before (not my best shot, but shows how badly I needed a cut):

After:

Taylor Park Camping - Weekend #2

We loved camping at Taylor Park Reservoir so much that we went back!!! I didn't take near as many pictures this time, but we got some great shots of an amazing rainbow!! (And check it - you can see 2 rainbows in the 2nd and 3rd pictures!

Camping at Taylor Park Reservoir

Justin and I went camping again this past weekend, and boy was it a trip. It actually almost ended before it even began!

We were supposed to leave work at 4, and be on the road by 4:30, and then hit the campsite by about 7:30 pm. What we didn't calculate was the fact that we had to toss our bags with toiletries in the car and stop for groceries. We didn't get on the road until 5, didn't hit Walmart until 5:30, and weren't even on our way until 6 pm. At that point, we had to decide if we wanted to drive 3 hours in the rain to a place we'd never been (mostly on unpaved country roads), and then set up camp in the pitch blackness. We voted no.

So we had 2 options - drive all the way back home and go up the next day or find a campsite near where we were and camp for the night. We figured since we'd already packed everything, already had all the groceries, and were already about halfway there to just camp. So we drove to a nearby campsite we'd been to before and enjoyed and then our trip started!!

Here's Justin working on getting our dinner started - we hadn't eaten since about noon, and that's another reason why we didn't want to drive 3 hours and then set up camp. Who knows when we would have eaten?

Bailey would not wind down! This is one of those rare moments where he wasn't up and alert. I LOVE camping!!!

When we finally made it the next morning, here was our amazing view!

It was a bit physically demanding to set up and tear down our tent and equipment twice in one weekend, but it was worth it!

This is my new desktop background - Bailey and I went on a hike after we set up camp.

There were some amazing flowers all around - this was my favorite shot!

I took a picture of myself just so I would have proof that I was there, and Bailey just happened to turn up in the background!!

The guys getting dinner started on Saturday after they went fishing.

Here are the "kids" - Cooper, Bailey and Shelby!

Saturday night Bailey kept pacing back and forth by the tent and wouldn't relax. Turns out he wanted to go to bed. So I let him in the tent and went to check on him 10 minutes later. He was passed out on my cot with all the blankets and pillows. So I helped him out by throwing a blanket on him and he never emerged!

Check out this first video for my discovery of my silly dog:

The next morning, we had the car all packed up - I think Bailey wanted me to know he was ready to go home!

We stoppd at a lake on the way home so the boys could go fishing one more time - Bailey wanted to run in the water of course!

I had Bailey tied up next to me so he wouldn't take off after Justin. He didn't like it at all:

He vigilantly watched after Justin and wouldn't stop crying!! Here's where he was...

And here's where Justin was.

So for fun, I let him off the leash to see what Bailey would do. He TOOK OFF after Justin like a bat out of hell! I caught some of Bailey's trip back to the shore:

So I finally had enough of the crying and put him in the car. He remained alert for a while...

And then he finally got sleepy after he lost sight of Justin and took a nap...

Camping really takes it out of him. But what he doesn't know is that I'm the one that has to clean up all this mess!!!!!

4th of July Festivities

As I pass the one month mark from blogging (*GASP!!*) and realize that my last blog was about camping, I have recently gone on another camping trip - so be sure that there will be pictures to follow.

But on that note, let me share a few pictures from the 4th of July festivities from my parent's house. I hope you had a great 4th!!!

Baxter and Bailey hanging out while we ate.

Sophia (my niece) and I - great self-shot, if I do say so myself!
We ate outside on my parent's new patio!

My sister , brother-in-law, and their kiddos!

Bailey with my parent's puppy, Cody. My dog has a big butt.

I always have pictures of Bailey, but NEVER me with my dog - this one turned out great!

It's nearly impossible to get all three dogs in one shot looking at me - so I had to take an "action shot".

One of the only good shots of fireworks from my balcony...they were pretty far away so they're all pretty small.

Hope you had a happy 4th!!