* The 2007 Nebraska State Fair *

Corndogs...Funnel Cakes...Fresh Squeezed Lemonade...Hot Weather...Rides...Farm Animals & 4-H exhibits...every type of home improvement display you can imagine...concerts...and, last but not least, all the people watching you could ever want (including the 'carnies')!! Yep, it's State Fair time again! Mom, Zoie & I went to check it all out and it wasn't too bad. Zoie enjoyed all the animals - we saw the Budweiser Clydesdales, baby pigs (11 of them, only about 3 hrs old!) & chicks, and there was an exotic petting zoo where Zoie & Mom fed a camel, a zebra & a giraffe and had quite a pecking experience with an emu or ostrich!! But what she liked even more than seeing the animals was her first funnel cake - she truly does take after her mama. Ha!

The Lincoln Zoo with Friends...

Zoie & I met our friends, Vonda & Connor, at the Lincoln Children's Zoo one Saturday morning for some fun...and fun we had! Connor gave Vonda quite the work-out as he likes to run! The kids also enjoyed looking at the animals - especially the monkeys! My favorite thing was the Butterfly Pavillion...it was beautiful and peaceful and the butterflies were just flitting around us...

Connor tells Zoie all about how monkeys climb...

Zoie taking her time to get close to the goats.

Zoie petting a guinea pig...so soft!

In the Butterfly Pavillion...butterflies everywhere!!

Look who just hatched...cute 'chicks'!!

Easy does it, Mister! I'm not THAT kind of girl!!

Zoie, Zoie Quite Contrary...How Does Your Garden Grow?

Better put a little water here...don't want it to get dry!

Gotta water the flowers, too!

Gardening makes me so happy!

Off to take care of more nature!

A Day In the Life...

These are just some sweet pics I took of Zoie playing and at bathtime the other night...it's the simple, sweet, everyday moments with her that take my breath away!

^^ Indie's New 'Do! ^^

100 degree weather...99% humidity...hot thick hair on your neck...what's a dog to do? Well, to beat the "dog days" of summer...get a haircut!! Check out the 'before' & 'afters'!!!

Here are the BEFORE pics:




And here are the AFTER pics (looks like a different dog)!!

Fibromyalgia - Important Information!!!

As most of you know, my Mom has a condition called Fibromyalgia...but very few people understand this condition. It's very important to me that people know and are informed about Fibro....so I wanted to post this website for all of you to view and read to educate yourselves. Thanks for taking the time to do so!

http://www.fibrohope.org

Love to all~
Heather


This is a pic of sweet Baby Lucy!!

+++The Lancaster County Fair+++

Lindsay & I took Zoie out to the Lancaster County Fair one afternoon/evening while my Mom was visiting my brother, sis-in-law and nephews. I thought it would be nice for her to see the real animals whose sounds she can make (except that I don't know what sound a bunny makes!?)...In our walk around we looked at the rabbits & poultry, some sheep, beef cattle, the 'exotic' petting zoo where there was a kangaroo and a monkey playing in a tire swing, and then saw dairy cattle and HORSES! Zoie went nuts about the horses...she loved them! I was glad because I thought she would be frightened. Then we went and had some ice cold watermelon while listening to an Elvis impersonator and finished up the evening with a yummy spaghetti dinner...as Zoie says, it was "nummy-nummy"!!


Hey! It's Granny D's double!! HA!


Hi, Bunny!


Whattid you say? Baak, Baak Chicken?!


Hello, little goat...don't eat my clothes!


Pretty horsey...neighhh!!