Gracie and Nature Sightings

burying her bones as an activity 

one of our walks

(I love our neighborhood.)

with her best friend, her bed (Reagan's old bed)

SO proud of FAU for making it into the final four! 

We love supporting our local team, mostly because we are friends with one of the coaches (Todd)! His wife (Micah) was my first real friend after moving here and their girls danced in Boca with Lainey for a couple of years! :)

a teeny tiny possum in our neighborhood 

a woodpecker

(I love to find them on trees and NOT burrowing into the sides of our homes.)

End of Walker's Basketball Season

Walker's basketball team finished the season strong and WON the championship! Congrats, boys! 

(And Coach Ben and Coach Matt!)

Top Row: Coach Matt, Zane, Chase, Charlie, Cayden and Coach Ben

Bottom Row: Blake, Walker, Jesse, and Ryne

pre-game

Winners!

with our good friends, the Clarys

(Elle, Matt, Meghan, Chase, Walker, me, and Ben)

Baseball Update

Walker's 13U Parkland Pokers team went to Melbourne, FL to play in a tournament a couple of weekends ago (March 25-26th). 

Walker in front of a sign that said "Gracie."

Their team got 2nd!

Back home, Lainey had to help Walker with some of his homework. 

Love this one...he's working, she's taking a selfie. :) 

Lainey's CCA Retreat

Lainey's 9th grade class took a 3-day trip to Umatilla, Florida for some class bonding. She had a blast!

On a separate note... I went to college with this doctor! She's been in town helping Ben's hospital open a wound care clinic! So fun to see her when I visited Ben's hospital the other day. :)

Gracie up a tree. Trying to get to a squirrel. A common occurrence. It's the Catahoula in her...

An actual Catahoula...it's NOT Gracie but it sure looks like her.

Gracie and Maple :)

Besties, eating vomit together (Maple's).

Gracie

Reagan used to do this! She would look out the door and watch for me.

Her little face. :)

We drove to Boca to meet up with her best dog friends - missing a few, but here they are! 

Daisy, Bindi, Gracie, and Zoey. :) 

digging her face into an iguana hole

watching a family of ducks

A second family of ducks off to the right - one mama still has lots of her babies...the other mama only has two of them. :(

Some snuggles - she is the least affectionate animal we have ever had. She would much rather be in a pack of dogs! With the occasional couch. ;)

Hagans Visit Florida!

This past weekend, a couple of days after the Harrises left Florida, the Hagan Family visited us!

Tom (5), Walker, Vivian (3), and Lainey at the Beach House restaurant in Pompano.

(Vivan's faces are my favorite)

We spotted our "backyard alligator" sunning himself. 

Viv loved standing on a pillow to see better. (Not really all that effective but toddlers are funny that way!)

Bear checking out the sights.

airboat selfie

not the happiest of campers

Tom's photo with an alligator (the black thing in the water in the background)

the alligator looks like a log in the background

We introduced Tom to MarioKart.

He loved it! Once he figured out who his "person" was on the screen.

hugging good-bye on Saturday night :( 

Headed back to Texas! Thanks for visiting, Hagans. We loved every minute!