Go Braves and Lake Weekend

Braves vs. Pirates after some rain...
We arrived at the stadium early to watch batting practice. And guess what, the Jones' were on time. :-) However, the weather was not cooperating. It really is incredible to see how the ground crew works together so quickly to cover the field. Below is the video during the rain. You can see the air blowers working to keep the rain off the middle of the field. A perfect time for dinner: Subway subs, trail mix, and beer!


The rain started to slow down and the seats were fairly empty so we actually moved from our awesome outfield seats to really good covered, dry seats. While the rain continued, Emily, Doug, Daniel, and Trippe went to have some fun in the rain while Evelyn and I sat, talked, and watched the rain.

Emily takes the mound..


Trippe with the wind-up...


Daniel with the pitch...

Doug hurls himself off the mound!


Andrew McCutchen is on Doug's fantasy team. He was torn between McCutchen earning fantasy points and the Braves winning. We left as the rain started again late in the game. Braves win, but no Friday Night fireworks.

We headed down to the lake after the game. The next day, Doug and I took Dellaina and Wyatt out on the boat to fill up all the gas tanks and for a boat ride. Before we headed back for dinner we stopped by Goat Island and did some swimming.

What an incredible weekend: Braves Baseball, the Lake, and family!

Girl Power

Monday afternoon, Morgan decided to go for a run without the dogs. Doug was going to finish up some work. Then, Doug and Morgan were going to have a romantic date night. :-)

Let's see what happens as Morgan runs and Doug tries to finish working...

Who knew that Bela could sing too?! So, needless to say, the girls got to go for a walk after Morgan ran so that Doug could finish working and decompress from his personal serenading.

All the ladies of the house got what they wanted...

Morgan got a run and Moxie & Bela got a walk. And Doug was more than ready after the girls got back from the walk to go out to dinner.

Just a routine Monday night.

Braves Opening Day

It's the Braves opening day for the 2010 season! And as of this minute they are up by 7 runs!

Doug has joined a fantasy baseball league with several college friends and spent some time on Sunday drafting players for his team with Levi. I was excited to hear that they drafted Escobar from the Braves! Now all we need to do is go watch a game in person....Anytakers?!

A picture from our last Braves game in 2009. Looking forward to more fun and games this summer. ;-)

Happy March 1st!

It has been awhile since we have published a post. However, we have many drafts. Looking through the drafts, I found the following about the girls first experience in snow from over a year ago. The pictures and videos we took were neat to watch and I thought I would share. :-)

And then it started to snow...

I woke up on March 1st to a lite drizzle that was beginning to stop. So, I thought it would be a good idea to continue to "prepare" for our upcoming camping trip and head out for the local horse park where the girls can run off leash and we all get to enjoy running some trails. Well, it started raining again about a mile before the park, but I thought we were going to get wet and muddy anyway, what could the harm be?

We explored two of our favorite trails and enjoyed splashing in the overflowing streams. However, it kept getting colder and the rain came harder in the woods so I decided to head for the car and the warmth of a hot shower at home.

Surprise Visitor

Over the Christmas break, we had some family friends from high school visit and have lunch with us. As we were talking in the living room, we saw the local animal control van pass by our house and then stop right in front of it. Our first thought was oh know, has Moxie jumped the fence....we made a quick look and she was curled up on the couch so it wasn't her.

We went out to inspect and found the animal control officer corralling a supermodel thin hound dog. The hound had tags and the officer was able to contact the owner who lived a few neighborhoods from our house. However, the hound was going to have to stay at animal control over night and the owner was going to have to pay a fine, a higher one because the dog wasn't neutered.

Well last night as we were heading to bed all of a sudden Moxie jumped out of bed and started barking. Normally, she responds pretty quickly and will come to us. However, this was different and she stood her ground by the front window. Guess who was outside in the dark, freezing night?

Meet Otis. The first picture shows a comparison of Otis and Bela to give you an idea of how big he is...he's large.

Using some peanut butter and a squeaky toy, Otis eventually came inside out of the cold. We were thinking that we would just simply coax him inside, look at his tags, and call his owner to come pick him up. Well, the best laid plans....Otis was missing his tags. Hmmm....is animal control open at 11pm? If we do call, what will they do?

So, we agreed that he could spend the night, after a few snacks and a meal. :-) The plan was to call animal control in the morning and see if they would give us the owner's phone number and then contact the owner.

Otis is definitely a puppy. However, he responds to sit, shake, and no. And we can happily say that he is house trained. The only accident was this afternoon, when Moxie finally got tired of Otis company and threw up. (We're not anthropomorphic, are we?)

Doug contacted animal control this morning and was able to speak with the officer we met over the holidays. And she happily gave us the owner's information and thanked us for helping her out. So it was quite an adventure but finally this afternoon the owner was able to pick up Otis, who likes to not only jump fences, but apparently dig under them too. Moxie and Bela were happy to see him go and resumed Lake recuperation mode....sleeping heavy.