Happy Halloween!

French toast for breakfast!

Going trick-or-treating through the neighborhood

Sitting by the fire

Kisses for Daddy!

The Cutest Pumpkin!

The Halloween dog party got rained out today but that didn't stop Penny from being a pumpkin!

Midnight Snack

Chocolate chip cookies, fresh out of the oven!

This is how Penny sleeps between us on the couch

Casey's Prized Writing Award Ceremony!

Tonight was the award ceremony for the winners of the UC Davis Prized Writing contest and Casey was one of the honored winners! He wrote a paper titled "The Disadvantages of Shod Running for Modern Humans." He is one of a small group of people that are now published in the 2009-2010 Prized Writing book, and there were over 300 entries! He even got $200 in addition to his certificate and publication! Congrats Casey, we are so proud of you!

You can read his article HERE.

Can you find him on the cover of the book?

We caught you!

Where is Penny on this rainy Sunday? Under the covers on the bed!! Cute little goob.

Levi is planning on being a ghost for Halloween...

Rainy weekend

I worked on my next painting

How lucky is he to have someone who cooks yummy food all the time for him?!

orange chicken and white rice for dinner! (The first time we made rice!)

and peppermint cookies for dessert!

The coolest dog on the block!

Rainy day walk

The rain has finally come! Penny tried to wear her jacket from when she was a puppy, but she doesn't really fit in it anymore. The velcro would barely stay hooked! She has gained a healthy 4 pounds since we got her over a year ago!

A good mail day!

My UC Davis diploma came in the mail! I am an Animal Biology graduate, with honors!

My first mountain bike trail ride!

We tried to go to a beginner's trail but there was a mountain biking race going on. We decided to go to a nearby trail in Auburn called the Foresthill Divide Loop. It was pretty tough, but I managed to do it! We went 9 miles today. It is a lot harder than it looks! At the top we met someone who had done an Ironman and the Leadville ultramarathon race!

The American River is right next to it and floating down it on inner tubes seemed like a good plan to me....maybe next time :)

Painting my bike!

Black before....

And after... blue with a white pin stripe and yellow lizards and paw prints!

My new mountain bike!

My new mountain bike came today! Thank you Casey for putting it all together for me!

Some more of my paintings!

Here are a few of my completed paintings! They are best viewed full size, just click on them to enlarge.


close up:





And here are a few that I am still working on:

Mountain biking!

Casey took his new mountain bike for a ride in Auburn this morning. He had lots of fun and said it was beautiful. Next weekend I get to join him on my new bike that comes this week!