End of 2009

Well I suppose if Mr & Mrs Williams can finally update their blog then so can we. You know it has been a while when you have to go back and catch up with what you wrote just so you know where to begin. Well to sum it all up we have been busy. Spend Thanksgiving weekend down at the farm with a stinky skunk who decided that he wants to live under the house. Dixie had a great time getting to explore all that is the farm and gave a curious effort to get into the tank, maybe next time. December was full of events mainly our Home Team Christmas Chili Cook-Off Party where I might have committed myself to one session of Bikram Yoga.




Here is a picture of our Hometeam

For Christmas Day we had some friends and Heidi's folks over for a Christmas brunch and then kicked everyone out so we could take a Christmas nap after putting away a couple of cinnomon rolls, pancakes, & breakfast casserol. Due to scheduling conflicts we had our Headley Christmas with Heidi's folks and her brother and his family on Sunday but we all had some left over Christmas Cheer so fun was had by all.

Oh and we were bums for New Years Eve...

I know this was kind of random but Heidi is the writer in the family and there is to much to cover for my abilities.

Have a great 2010!

NEW FURRY KID

Well we did it, We finally broke down and got our dog Lilly a new sister to play with. After months of talking about it, searching shelters and rescue groups and everything else, we finally found our new, sweet, little puppy.

OK, so she is an almost 70 lb 10 month old Rottweiler puppy, but she is still a puppy none the less:)

Her name is Dixie. She and Lilly are very sweet with each other; are completely

inseparable and LOVE to play, running around the house, and into walls and sliding around on our hardwoods. Every once in a while we will hear a "kathunk" and one of them has managed to crash through our bedroom door that has never closed properly. Doggie bowling any one?

Dixie still has a lot of growing up to do and Lilly lets her know when she has had enough of the boundless energy a puppy, or in this case miniature pony of a dog, has!

Dixie is learning what is and is not hers to chew on.

Most recently I caught her lumbering down the hall with one of my Steve Madden shoes in her mouth. Hoping to rescue it from the attention only a puppy can give to a shoe, I called her and she brought it straight to me when she saw me, she was so proud, tail wagging. I however, was not. The back of the heel was completely chewed off. So long to my animal print flats.

She also likes to take items out of our dirty clothes basket and hide them in various places all over the house. I woke up a couple days ago and discovered she had carried a pair of Ryan's Boxers out and proudly displayed them in the middle of the living room, along with one of his shirts and a pair of socks. Seems all she was missing was the pants- oh wait she carried those into the office.

Even though she is a mess, we love her and she is here to stay. Welcome Dixie, our bear of a dog, to the McDow family!

Updates FINALLY

There have been a billion things we have done since our last update. Here is a snapshot.

Ryan celebrated his 32 birthday- I took him out to dinner at the really great restaurant that our friends Vim and Sarah recommended- 5 guys burgers and fries. Delicious, but HUGE!!! Note to anyone that wants to try them- order the Jr burger. The regular one is almost a pound of meat!!
You can see by the pictures how HUGE they are. The fries are to die for. Get a small and share. We did and still had left overs!!
















We went to Ryan's cousin's wedding ih Houston. It was a lot of fun, we had a blast with his family- Rachel and Mark took a "prom photo." Very cute:)














We had dinner with my brother Aaron and his wife and daughter. It was our niece Audry's first birthday a couple months ago and we were not able to make it to the party, so we brought Audry's birthday present for her to open. It was SO cute! I think she is a girl after my own heart, she was more interested in bag then the doll that was in it. She loved the doll too, but it was so cute to watch her walk around with the little pink bag it came in. Watch out little brother, you might just have a purse and shoe girl on your hands:)


After dinner I went upstairs and helped give her a bath. SO cute! She will kill her Aunt Heidi when she is older for this picture, but it is SOOOOO adorable. I had to put it in.





What else,
Oh yes we competed in a Triathlon last weekend in Keller TX - very fun. I think I am hooked. We don't have any pictures because I left the camera in the truck, but oh well..I looked pretty scary by the time it was over so it is probably a good thing:)
We were so exhausted and wanted to die by the time it was over, but I really enjoyed it! Ryan and I both won medals!!!
Ok, so they were completion medals, but who cares!!! We just competed in a Triathlon!!! After that we had our celebration lunch at BABES.It is the one time when I didn't feel gulity for eating fried chicken:) Our good friends Ginny and Neal Willams and my parents met us there for the celebration.

That is it for now good people, check in again soon!

Happy Birthday Taylor Made

Last Friday we celebrated our friend Taylor Made's birthday at Blue Fish. This has been a strong 4 year tradition of meeting up for sushi and T-Made birthday. Heidi and I do not eat as much sushi as we would like so this is always a special treat to get out and indulge at Blue Fish. This year our friend Amanda brought the birthday cake that she made herself. I think she has a talent here.

The cake

Ready for some sushi

Happy Birthday Taylor Made!

Club Thumping

I know I am posting last weekend this weekend but now seemed like the best time to make a quick post before I sneak out of here before my neighbor comes back and asks to borrow my lawn mower again.

Last weekend we boldly went where we have never gone before (as a couple)...to a dance club. Heidi had a promotion to do for Transformers and it was at this new hip, trendy club called Plush. We were only planed on being there for about 30 minutes but ended up staying there most of the night. Heidi got the hook up and we were seated in VIP and had a bottle brought over to our table (me thinks that is why we stayed longer). 3 of her co-workers came along with some friends and we ended up having a really good time dancing and looking down our noses through a glass of Goose from the 2nd floor vip at all the folks shaking their grove thang. (I use the term "shaking" very loosely; there might have been a time that I was shaking my grove thang.)

Sunday we went over to Heidi's folks house for some birthday fun and got to swim in our pool (well our pool by Dad's standards: to him owning a pool was having friends or family own a pool and you get to swim in it). We had so much fun that we are going to do it again this weekend.











***Editors note: Due to pending legal action from Team Heidi no pictures of anyone shaking any grove thang will be permitted on this blog. We must at all time protect the innocent and not so innocent.

New Paint

Well we finally finished our bathroom. We decided about 4 months ago that we would rip down the old wall paper and replace it with a fresh coat of paint. Well the wall paper took longer and was harder to get down than we had planned and since Heidi and I are great procrastinators it took us only 4 months to complete the job. Here are before and after pictures.

AA - this blog is for you

Last weekend was crazy busy with Interfaith, going to see my college friend Lindsay Holman get married in Austin and then a drive back to Frisco for a lunch honoring our Niece Audry's baby dedication, then to Heidi's folks house for pie! It was a great time espically the wedding minus the fact that I was put on BLAST my another college friend Alice Ann for not updating my blog enough. Something about that she was tired of reading about the TSO; so now I update more often. (Alice Ann, this blogs for you . Now you need to get on Facebook like the rest of the free world.)

A view from the wedding reception

Alice Ann fronting me out for not blogging.

We are super cool