a chip off the old block

some of you may not know that i am married to an award winning photographer. in 5th grade, colin won a state contest in his age division in photography. both of our girls decided to enter a few pictures in the local county-wide contest. each participant could enter up to 5 entries. out of 150 entries, only 30 total entries were chosen for all of the kids' divisions. i made collages of each of their entries.

reese won 2nd place in her division for her picture of the sunset.

in her division, mackenzie won 2nd for the misty forrest, 3rd for the baseball and honorable mention for the orange gerber daisy.

they both scored some cash too!

so proud of my girls!!

we r serious about hunger games

so serious that we went to the midnight premiere! (for those of you who know deneise, it doesn't get more serious than that! )

although half of us are team peeta and half team gale, we all agreed the movie was fabulous!!

beware of the zoo in spring

jack and i decided the weather has been so pretty that we would take a trip to the waco zoo. we had a fabulous time! the cameron park zoo is a wonderful place to visit. however, i totally forgot about mating season in the spring. we saw several animal breeds enjoying the nice weather too. i'm just glad jack thought they were wrestling!

i can't help it...i love meerkats

jack is a big fan of the otter slide!

snake hunting

well, i decided to conquer one of my biggest fears and go rattle snake hunting with some friends. we gassed some dens on his property, but nothing came out. less than a week later this guy was caught at a lake near our house.

thank you Jesus that something like that was not on our snake hunt!

since we didnt find any snakes we decided to have some shooting practice. here is a pic of jack shooting a .22 for the first time.

and this is random, but an adorable pic of my friend's newest little donkey...

living in the country suits me just fine!!