Ella was bitten by another dog!

so we took Ella to the dog park over the weekend, and before we even got into the park, a dog off leash came over and they started sniffing and before i knew it they were growling and the other dog bit ella on the back! Luckily it didn't break the skin, just made a welt. I didn't take a pic, and the welt is already starting to go down in size, so it wouldn't make a very drastic, interesting picture anymore. The worst part was the owner didn't even say he's sorry or anything, and just continued on to take his biting dog into the dog park while we went home and iced Ella! Some people!

Jay's new shirt

Jay picked up this shirt the other day and I was laughing my aspen off...just wanted to share...

Mike's #10 idea for blogging subjects: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow...African?

Well, Mikey, I have done some research and instead of just copying and pasting the info I found, I thought I'd post the links I found, so here's the research to the answer of the ultimate question:

http://www.armory.com/swallow.html
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow

(now, the second link is also found on the first link page, but to make it look like I did more research, I just put them both on here.) If the links don't work from this page, just copy and paste them into the address bar.

have fun....

since you all asked for it...

...here's the latest horse news. I think you all know that we had to move the horses when the El Toro Stables closed, so we moved to Anaheim Hills Saddle Club. We've been there for 4 months giving it a fair chance, but it's really not that great (I could use much stronger language, but I'll keep it family-friendly here). The have "run out of hay" twice now since we've been there, and that's completely unacceptable! How can a stable with over 100 horses run out of hay!? It's like they wait till the last minute to order more and then don't factor in the time it will take to get the delivery. When we moved there in the first place it wasn't really anyone's first choice, but with all the stables being full, there wasn't really another option that was close by. Now some spots have opened up at the OC Fairgrounds, so we're moving the horses there next week. It will be a pain in the rear to move again, but it will be a much better situation (we hope!)

Anyways, here are a couple pics to keep it interesting of me riding. It doesn't have much to do with the post other than the fact that it's a horse and I'm riding it. You can also see the covered arena which we have now which we won't have at the fairgrounds, but that's ok. We didn't have one at El Toro so no biggie.

testing again

since tara mentioned that our filmstrip appears in different locations sometimes, i wanted to do a test. Now i've noticed that it isn't the right width anymore. I think our posts have gotten wider or something. strange....

oh, simple answer that I just figured out. the post column is relative to what size the viewer's window is. the navigaiton column and the filmstrip is static no matter what.

why do things have to grow so much in socal?

So, Jay and I finally bit the bullet and hired landscapers to come and do some massive yard clean-up. Everything was getting way overgrown (which doesn't take too long to happen here). They basically did a ton of weeding and trimming (or hacking, more like it) of all the bushes/shrubs/wall cover and edged the lawns. Then Jay re-shaped the borders while I filled with bark so hopefully the weeds don't grow back so easily. Jay also hacked back some tree branches and moved the little bird house that was hidden in the front to a nice spot in the back where, as he put it, "awww, looks sooo cute!" (think of Jay's semi-sarcastic tone of voice). I also fixed the bent and dented solar lights that somehow got all messed up (it couldn't possibly be from Jay running into them with the lawnmower, now, could it?...) I also tried to cut back/prune the sickly flowers in the back planter, hopefully they come back ok. The last thing we want to do is plant some little flowers in the front walkway border, where there is just bark now. Then lastly there is the picture of the yard waste that has been piled up in the side yard. Now, why didn't we do the tree trimming before the landscapers came, since they could have hauled away our mess as well as thiers?! I only wish we would have taken some before pictures so you could really see the difference. I'd say it looks darn good now, darn good!

Leadership Retreat

Well, unfortunately we didn't bring our camera, so sorry Joshua, no pics. We had a good time up in the mountains (near Big Bear) for the Rock Harboar life group leadership retreat last weekend. We learned about our "strengths" and "talents" and how to use them within our life group and for God. We also had to do these hilarious skits where we were given a strange object that we had to make up a use for and then act out an infomercial. Some were so funny they made me cry! My group's item was salad tossers and we used them as self-defense tools. Jay's group got this big wrench thing, and they used it as a hobbit hip replacement. It was sooooo funny! Of course Jay played a hobbit and went up there barefoot - That's when I really wished we would have brought the camera! So, inspite of getting no sleep whatsoever, we had a good time!