Comfort and Joy

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and is enjoying the New Year.  Bentley got a new bed for Christmas, and he has pretty much spent all of his time in it.  The weather has been too cold for us to do much of anything fun outside.  

In other news, the year started with an Auburn victory!  We enjoyed this football season, and we're looking forward to next season!  All of our games this year either had a severe storm or a drizzling rain.  This is Mark enjoying the beautiful weather at the Ole Miss game.  At least we won!

I hope 2010 is good to all of us!

Home for sale

I'm sad and excited to say that we're selling our home.  I'm sad because this is our first home together, and we've made a lot of memories here.  We're proud of all the renovating that we successfully accomplished.  We think it's a pretty cute home in a great neighborhood.  We will miss our sweet neighbors.  If you know of anyone looking for a cute 3/2 in Vestavia, please send them our way.  If we find a buyer, we have a lot to build on in Ross Bridge.

http://www.forsale-byowner.com/listings/4700-4799/4734.html

Orange Beach

So much fun!

Family portrait

Cutie pie

Best friends

Exhausted

Our sweet friends, Cayce and Andrea, invited us to go down to Orange Beach with them for a weekend.  Even Bentley was invited!  We just love the beach!  I wish I could live there.  The weather was gorgeous, and of course no traffic since it's fall.  We took the dogs down to Fort Morgan to play, and Bentley had the best time!  He hasn't been to the beach since he was a puppy, so it was fun to watch him play in the sand and water.  We had a great time enjoying the beautiful weather and some fun football games.  

Bentley is famous!

When we took Bentley to my 5K run at Veteran's Park, we met a lady who runs a website for labs.  She just loved Bentley, so she took a picture and made him "Lab of the Month"!  I love it!

http://www.gottalovealab.com/

Burnt Orange

That was the headline in the Knoxville News Sentinel after Auburn beat Tennessee. Away games are so much fun, especially when we win. I was so proud of our team to come out of that stadium at night with a win. So the streak continues to five in a row against Tennessee!

We tailgated with my family, and we even put up with all the UT decorations and cups, and yes even their own special beer. My brother, David took us to see the new basketball practice facility, where Mark was able to show off some serious skills. Yes, that is my dad in the background making fun of him.

Then we went to Tiger Walk. Kiffin tried to tell us we couldn't have Tiger Walk there, so that only inspired our fans. We had Tiger Walk there in 2004, but there were more than double the number of fans there this time. Unfortunately our players didn't actually get to walk and the band wasn't allowed, but it was still fun to support our team!

The game was fun even though we were surrounded by UT fans. We just laughed while they booed their quarterback. My brother was a sore loser and refused to take a good picture of us. We had a great time on our visit and thanks to my family for hosting!! We'll see you in Auburn in four years... for another Tiger victory!

Birthday Boy

Bentley turned 6 years old on September 27th!!  We can't believe it has been six years since that adorable little puppy came into our lives.  He has filled the last six years with laughter and fun adventures!  He is the BEST!

His birthday was Sunday, but we had friends come over for the Auburn vs. Ball State game on Saturday.  Bentley's friends Lily and Guinness came over to play while we watched the game.  They had the best time playing together!  Then on his real birthday, Bentley enjoyed a nice refreshing bath, doggie ice cream, and his favorite people food, watermelon!!!  Later that night, he got to unwrap his present, a rawhide bone!  He's pretty easy to please since he loves to unwrap any present.  It's tradition for him to have a birthday picture taken each year, so here are some from this year.

The happy birthday boy!

Fresh and clean

Present time

Daddy and B-dawg are best friends!

I love you, Buddy!

Unwrapping is more than half the fun!

Got it!

Winning Weekends

Fall is here, which means FOOTBALL!!!  It is always so much fun going back to Auburn.  We feel at home each time we step out of the car there.  We both have such wonderful memories from our time in Auburn, and we still wish we could go back and do it all over again.  The whole atmosphere of game day in Auburn is worth the wait all year.  We have really enjoyed watching our team actually score some points this year.  I am proud of how hard our team has fought so far.  Just minutes before the West Virginia game it poured to say the least.  We were "under" a tent, which didn't help much since the rain was coming in sideways and the top was blowing off.  We got soaked, but that just added to our fun!  It was all worth it since we ended up winning.  So far we are undefeated, and Mark and I are traveling to Knoxville this weekend to watch Auburn beat the Vols!  

In other news, I ran my 5K for the Humane Society.  I felt awful for some reason, but still somehow got a PR (since high school) coming in just under 25 minutes.  I placed third in my age group!  This race was extra special because there were a ton of dogs there and Bentley got to come watch me!  He was quite the hit!  Everyone loved him and was taking pictures of him.  One lady runs a website and B-dog's picture will be featured on it soon.  I'll post a link as soon as he's up there.  It was so fun having Bentley and Mark cheering me on.  I love my boys!

What a fun win!

Soaked and still smiling!  I think the beer helped!

Celebrating with my buddy!

Aren't we cute??