Princess For a Day

Abby had a fabulous day doing what she loves most!! The Paul Mitchell School was doing a charity event where they invite young girls to come and be pampered, while the money goes toward their choice of charity (i.e. cancer). Abby wore her Cinderella dress and received an "up-do", a manicure, make-up, beaded a necklace and bracelet, and collected some fun goodies like her tiara barret, flower clip and candy.

Thanks, Tyrina!

We ran erands together afterwards, and she kept thanking me for the great time she had. What a sweetie! She enjoyed her "girls" day and once again proved to me that she is more girlie than I ever was... ok, am.

Deep Sea Fishing

Last weekend was my long awaited deep sea fishing adventure with my friends Ian, John, and Howard. We headed down to Corpus Christi at 4:30 AM on Saturday and somehow arrived without a speeding ticket after pushing 100 mph the entire way down. We got on the boat and it wasn't too long before I started getting seasick, despite the Scopolomine patches that we had prescribed for eachother. As you can see in this picture, I'm not feeling well, but I eventually got over it.


We finally made it out to our deep sea destination about 40 miles off the coast and the good times began. We were fishing for kingfish, which are big time fighters and apparently take off going about 30 mph when they get hooked. This guy took me about 20 minutes to bring in.



One angry fish bit Ian on the ankle. He also later got bit on the hand after sticking his fingers in its mouth.


After a nice day at sea, we all caught our limit and headed back to camp at the beach. We grilled our prized catch over an open fire and headed home the next day with about 60 pounds of fish filets between us. Good times were had by all.