Baseball & Beer

Katy, Abdi, and Alex came into town to see the Seattle Mariner's play their last spring training game of 2009. They play every year at Cashman Field and Alan and I have gone ever since (well, 3 years). To say we had a good day was an understatement. Chuck and Landon also joined in the festivities.

Cashman Field on a BEAUTIFUL day!

Katy & Shelly in our matching Seattle Mariner's hats.

Alex, Katy & Shelly (notice the cups? those were filled with delicious margaritas)

Landon & Alan

Abdi & Chuck

Shelly & Landon

Alex & Katy

After the game the fun continued, and we headed to Chuck's house for the rest of the evening. Chuck lives in a friendly neighborhood, so pretty soon we had a house full.

Abdi is enjoying the sun since he sees so little in Seattle this time of year.

Alex (while he was still standing) and his dad.

Some of the gang.

Chuck makes a mean carne asada that is why Tug is standing at his feet waiting for him to drop some!

The cute couple

Chuck has a great view of the strip but I have a crappy camera so you will just have to take my word that it's in the distance!

Sammy is one of my favorite dogs and he also thinks he is a lap dog.

Landon playing tug of war with Tug. He is a strong dog.

Some of the gang hanging around the 'bonfire'

Katy & Chuck getting their drink on.

Landon & Lola

Abdi

I put this picture in because not only is the fire out of control and unattended, but check out Katy's tongue.

And last, but not least, Alex...that's about all I will say about that. He just better remember who has pictures of the evening, and who has a birthday coming up in less than two weeks.

Granddaughter comes to town

Oh my holy hell have I been busy!! I started my new job two weeks ago and while I really like it I am going non-stop from the moment I get there until I go home. Which leaves me very little time for blogging, reading friend's blogs, Facebook, and email. I get home and I'm exhausted and after spending eight hours a day on the computer I don't always feel like getting back on it. Well, tonight is a different story. My lovely, lovely stepdaughter is coming to visit this weekend and I have her permission to NOT clean my house, but was told I better update my blog since her daughter (my granddaughter) came for a visit this past weekend! So, with margarita in hand here we go...

We picked Granddaughter up at the airport on Friday night about 8:00. Miracle of all miracles the plane was on time. On the way back home we went to the new BJ's restaurant (and NO it does not stand for Blow Jobs you perverts) that opened in Henderson. This place makes the best pizza (more than just a pizza place though). When we first moved here we would go to the BJ's in Summerlin. That's about 25 miles from our house. So needless to say, we were happy to have this location open up. Alan and I had worked a full day and were tired so we made it home about 9:30 and went to bed shortly after. I think Granddaughter never went to bed this whole trip before 3:00 am. She is quite a night owl. Saturday we got a late start (I think we finally drug the kid out of bed around noon) we headed down to the UNLV campus. Granddaughter is 14 (well 14 going on 25) and it's not to soon to be thinking about colleges. While it would be nice to have her go to school here I'm not so sure about the college and also the surrounding neighborhood is pretty ghetto (the show Cops?? Well, that is filmed around that area and north of town). Headed over to the strip after that. Many of you know Alan and I aren't huge fans of the "strip" but we did have fun walking around with Granddaughter plus we were promised a dinner at Margaritaville so that kept us going. Granddaughter wore really cute thongs, but soon found out you shouldn't wear new shoes for the first time when you want to do a lot of walking (thank god Grandpa had the bandaids in his wallet for the blisters). Here are some pics that we took.

Granddaughter and Shelly...too cool for words.

The new City Center is behind us

Posing in front of the Paris Hotel (remember the Paris Christy?)

A nice lady took our picture after we took a picture of them

We made a quick trip over to France to check out the Eiffel Tower

Granddaughter and Shelly waiting for our table at Margaritaville

I love posing teenagers

Grandpa also known as Alan

Granddaughter taking a picture of herself. I love how self-absorbed teenagers are--sorta reminds me of me! :)

Sunday after another late start (see a pattern here?) we met up with my FUN friend Grant. We headed over to Town Square for a little retail therapy then had lunch at Claim Jumpers. Grant suggested we get an adult beverage. He is such a bad influence especially offering one to Granddaughter (we kid, we kid). Next on the agenda was the movie "I Love You Man". It was a good movie to see at matinee price but not sure I would want to pay full price, however, I did acquire a new guy to add to my "Laminated List" and his name is Andy Samberg. Monday, Alan came home at noon and got Granddaughter out of bed so she could enjoy some of the sunshine she was missing. After he came home from work that day he was the good Grandpa and took her to Dairy Queen and down to Fremont Street so she could see the light show. Tuesday morning I took her to the airport and she safely made it back to Seattle. Now we are looking forward to visiting with her Mom, Dad, and Uncle this weekend! More posts to follow....

Aching buttockular region and other unrelated topics

We have 'desert' landscaping. So, grass/weeds shouldn't grow up between the rocks if it was done correctly. Now I'm annoyed at myself for not taking a before picture because you can't fully appreciate how much freakin' grass was growing. Let me tell you it took me HOURS to weed it all out and now today I can barely walk. We are just renting this house, but I still believe in taking care of business, so I didn't want to look like the white trash renter who doesn't give a crap about their yard. Although after writing that last sentence I had to laugh because this is the backyard that only Alan and I see. The front yard is bad, but I have sprayed the crap out of it several times with assorted poison and it is starting to do the trick. I just didn't want to poison my dogs in the backyard so I had to weed by hand.

A few weeds left that I need to tackle next weekend when I can walk and bend.

The front yard is completely covered in this grass/weed stuff. C'mon Round Up do your magic!

When Willy was sick we bought a doggie door to put in the slider, so the dogs could go out as needed. As many of you know Tug is starting to go blind and after falling in the little pool twice I knew we had to do something to 'babyproof' it. This netting does the trick. Now I don't have to worry about my little dog drowning when I'm not home.

A gratuitous picture of Tug soaking up the sun.

The Ultimate Bachelor Pad

Our friend, Chuck has the ultimate bachelor pad, and likes to host parties. Here he is posing with his new "fridge" he recently acquired.

Another angle. He had to remove one of the tvs to make room for the fridge, but he put that tv in his "beer pong" room.

Chuck, Shelly, and Landon.

Notice behind my head all the tickets on the wall. Those are all the losers from the sports book from the past football season.

The occasion for this party was two birthdays. Landon turned 23 and Chuck's brother, Jimmy turned 42.

Here are the birthday boys.

I love this baby. He is the sweetest, happiest baby.

Alan and Landon

Jaime and Shelly

The beer pong table. This game grosses me out. I don't think it's very sanitary throwing a ping pong ball that lands everywhere and then when it lands in your beer you take it out and drink. Yuck!

Marty and Brian are the beer pong champs for the evening.

We always have a good time at Chuck's. He is a great cook and we have met a lot of fun people since moving to Las Vegas. Always a lot of laughs!

Bark in the Park

I'm not sure what the deal is with the look on my face, but it's a cute picture of the dogs. It was the annual "Bark in the Park" and Alan, Tug, Lola, and I decided to check it out. There were so many cool dogs and different breeds. I was also surprised at how many Boston Terriers I saw. We walked around a couple of times and checked out booths, dogs, and people. I ended up carrying Tug most of the time since he can be so dog aggressive, and Alan ended up carrying Lola since she is so slow!

I think this was the funniest looking dog we saw (or possibly have ever seen). Seriously. This dog had a HUGE lab looking head and tail and the shortiest stumpiest legs like he is part Corgi or Bassett Hound. Definitely an ODD and humorous combination!

This bulldog was awesome. He had the most severe underbite I have ever seen.