The beast...

Maggie. Oh my dear sweet Maggie. I can love her and hate her at the same time. I practically have to drag her out of bed to go outside when I leave for work in the morning at 5:45 but on my days off I want to sleep in but she wants to get up at 6:00!!! It's ridiculous! When she was a puppy Bradford and I got a laser light and she would chase that little red dot like there was no tomorrow. So now during the day she can have the same satisfaction of the red dot but without me even having to do anything. My dad made her a little gold name tag with her name...needless to say we didn't realize it would cause such an uproar. During the day the light comes in through the windows and reflects a little white flash onto the floor or the wall and she goes CRAZY!!! She chases that little reflection all over and barks and growls! It's the funniest thing! I don't have a video so you can get the full effect of it but I have play by play photos of her in action.

On the prowl for the light...

Still prowling...

Caught the scent...

POUNCE!!! Nose straight into the floor...

She can get HOURS of entertainment from this. It's almost like sitting a kid in front of the TV for hours just so you can get chores, homework, or blogging done. The only trouble I get from her when she is doing this is it's a little hard to mop around her when she is so focused...

PS-I just re-read this and I can't believe my life is so lame that I have to blog about my dog...oh the woe's of lameness...sigh...

4th of July

4th of July weekend is finally over and I am barely starting to recover. It all started Friday morning with my parents and brothers coming into town for a party/BBQ at Bradford's parents house in Virden. So the weekend starts...

I was trying to brag to my mom about my shooting skills (I hit more skeets than I missed, pretty dang good eh?)

Bradford and Derek

Friday after Bradford got home from work we got ready and headed out to Bradford's parents house in Virden for a "big bash". The night was filled with horseshoes, shooting skeets, food, and fireworks. We only had one injury all night and it was Annie's poor little boy Isaac suffered a sparkler to the eye and now has a burn around his eye making it look like he got punched. All in all it was a VERY fun night!

Garrett

Saturday was the 4th and like my father, he was up and ready to go at 5 while the rest of us were still trying to recover with some extra sleep. We started the morning off hitting up the local antique stores looking for a present for my Grandpa Brown's birthday. We went swimming and I suffered the first sunburn of the summer. We ended sitting in Aunt Sharon's front yard watching the fireworks while drinking Coke's. (ah the sweet nectar of life!)

Dad working the thrower

I am glad my parents got to come and visit for a weekend and I never turn down a chance for my mom to buy me a new dress! HAHA! Spoiled, I know!

Derek (trying and wishing he was as good as me! :)