Carnegie Science Center

Here's some pictures from Sunday at the Carnegie Science Center. It was a fun place! Even though it may be a little bit more for kids, we had a great time exploring!

Ben and Caleb making paper airplanes.

Joanne and I touching a piece of Mars!

Joanne, Caleb, and Ben building on the earthquake machine.

Chris with his 'wings' feeling what it feels like to fly!

Pittsburgh Zoo!

On Sunday we headed to the Pittsburgh Zoo with some friends. It was a perfect day, and we managed to also squeeze in the Carnegie Science Museum! (Pictures will come later of that!) Chris and I on the drive to Pittsburgh! We had to go up a giant escalator to get in....and apperently it threw off Ben's sense of balance!

Ben, Joanne, Caleb, Me and Chris at the entrance sign!

This peacock was really strutting his stuff!

Kodiak bear-this bear is bigger than the grizzly! It was huge!

They had a great shark tunnel to walk through. We even got to go through during feeding time!

They had a lot of elephants, and two baby elephants! They were so cute!!

Polar Bear! They also had a polar bear tunnel, but the bears didn't swim, so it was a little disapointing!

Always Chris' favorite-monkeys!

All in all, it was a great day with great friends!

Memorial Weekend Cookout!

We had a cookout on Saturday with our friends. It was a great day with perfect weather! Our great group of friends here, Ben, Joanne, and Caleb. Joanne and Caleb brought their dog Sam Houston. All the dogs played great together! Although Emma tended to stay back on the deck with all of us!

Ben and Emma are buddies!

Clarksburg Office

Here are a couple of pictures of my office for those of you who have been wondering. My walls are pretty bare. I definitely need some pictures of friends and family on the wall. But in the mean time I just have my Right-of-Way Training certificates from courses taken at our corporate office. I don't have many pictures on my Mac so if you have any good pictures......you should email me some so I could put them up.

Strange Turn of Events

As you all know, in September we got this cute little puppy, Marathon. She looked so sweet and innocent, right?

Well, as much as we loved her, she made things pretty stressful. She was so wild, and couldn't help but attack Emma all day, every day. We hadn't had Emma around other dogs, and it showed. She had no need for Marathon, and generally hated her. Poor Marathon wanted to play, and play hard. She didn't understand her size, and hurt little Emma if we didn't watch them every minute. For our own sanity, it got to the point of us keeping them in seperate rooms all the time. We discussed giving Marathon away, or to a family/friend that could take care of her until she was older and calmer.

As a last effort, we put Marathon through obediance training. We went to Cindy at Green Hills Animal Hospital. It was amazing to see the difference in Marathon. She wanted so much to please us and she learned quickly. The training helped so that she could finally run with me. Once she started running with me we finally saw a decrease in her energy level! We could slowly see a change between her and Emma. We still kept them seperate a lot, but finally, they could be together some.

Since we moved here, however, they are together all the time! I think the cramped space in the hotel was actually good for us. It made all of us deal with the problem instead of just keeping them seperate. FINALLY, they are sisters, and they actually enjoy being together! They still play wild, but Emma likes to play now, and Marathon has learned her size and doesn't play as rough. It's so great to finally have two dogs just like I thought it would be when we got her! It only took 9 months, but it was totally worth it!!!

This was them this morning....sleeping like this! It's cold this morning and there's a heat vent right there, so they're cuddling for warmth!

Chris and I had some time yesterday so we went up to Morgantown to go to the zoo. We knew this zoo was small, but after looking it up on line we decided it could be fun. They listed tigers, lions, and bears; so we didn't think it could be to bad, right? Boy were we wrong! I'm pretty sure this zoo is how many 20/20 episodes start. You know those episodes that end with half the people getting eating by a bear or tiger that they thought wasn't strong enough to get out??

The animal cages were pretty scary....I really believe that any of the animals could have gotten out if they got mad enough. It was also one of those zoos that makes you hate zoos. The animals didn't have enough room to exercise, they were filthy, and the whole place stunk. But here's some pictures anyway!

You can tell by my face that I was praying the bear didn't barrel out and eat me!

These poor bears just paced in circles around their cages
Beautiful tiger!

This was a miniature horse. It was super cute, but its fur was matted and falling out in spots.

This was a chimp that used to act in some movies, but is now retired. When Chris held

up the camera he sat down and grinned ear to ear, it was so cute!

It was an interesting experience to say the least. It wasn't very big, so we litterally saw all the animals in 30 minutes!

We're Cooking Now!

We finally got a grill last night! We got it home, and Chris started putting it together.....then we see on the box it says 'ask about free assembly!' Oops....with all the pieces lying about, that would have been a lot easier!!


We were both surprised at how many pieces it came in!



Now it's looking more like a grill!



Yay! He did it! Seeing as how it took him the entire evening to put it together, we didn't grill out last night. However we're looking forward to having some friends over tomorrow night for a cook-out!