Greg's Birthday Weekend !!!!

Friday was Greg's 35th Birthday !!! Above is a picture taken at dinner. We went to IchiBons Japanese Steak House with some friends. Thanks to Tom, Martha, Jenny, Mike,Tiffany and Jared for joining us. Then we invited everyone over to the house for Cake and Ice Cream. And of course gifts. We had a great time, and we hope you all did to.

Saturday was just as busy for us. The "girls" Shelby and Sierra had appointments at the beauty salon in the morning. And we were blessed with an afternoon of no dogs..... Below is a picture of Sierra showing off her latest fashion accessory ( ready for the move North) and Shelby all tuckered out from the salon.

Then on Sunday- We went Deep Sea Fishing. The adventure began very early on Sunday morning. We had to be in Galveston at 6:15am to check in and board the boat. It was rather chilly, but it felt really good. The boat left the harbor at 7:00am on a trek out into the Gulf somewhere between 40-60 miles. Our first stop was right beside a huge oil rig, where we saw a little activity from the fish, but not much. Then we headed out another hour or so, to another location where the fish were much more willing to take the bait. ( in my case, they just took the bait and left me with an empty hook) I only caught one "little" fish, which we threw back. Greg had a little better luck, with several angel fish, a few red snapper( which we had to throw back, because they were out of season) and then assisted in a hammer head shark catch. The lady next to him, hooked it, but his line was wrapped around it's head several times. At the end of the fishing time, Greg was given the shark. Yummy !!!! Below are a few pictures from the trip.

Sunrise on the Gulf

Leaving the Harbor in Galveston

An Oil Rig, that we fished next too

My one and only "little" catch of the day
Greg and his first Angel Fish

This week, Greg is back in Kansas City helping out the branch up there. Still no word on our possible move, hopefully we'll hear something this week. I'm on vacation this week, and get to spend the entire week home with the "furbabies" and preparing for a possible hurricane this weekend. As of this evening- they have Ike, heading right for Houston at a possible Cat 3 or 4. If that's the case we will pack up on Friday afternoon and head to Dallas to stay with a friend. If it's just a Cat 1 or 2 we'll board up and hunker down. We'll keep you all posted with our plans for the storm. It's still pretty early in the week, and anything is possible at this point.