Sabrina

Last weekend, we had the cutest little dog with us! We were dogsitting Sabrina while her owner, our friend Cheryl, was having fun in New Jersey.
It was a pretty quiet weekend, just walking around the lake and relaxing.

The frisbee was as big as her but she didn't mind.

And after all that running and walking, a little nap on the couch with Jay was very welcome!

The new grill

I just realized that we uploaded pictures of grill night and kept talking about our new grill to everybody, but we didn't show you the new grill!

So here it is, our new grill:

I know, it is amazing!

And now, some news of the amazing banana tree:

It's getting really big, and there's two banana trees now!

And a pretty flower grows with the banana trees, some sort of lily, I guess.

Grill night

Last weekend we had some friends over for a last minute grill night. Jay was the chef and he did very well, we still lack some essential ustensils but it is getting better!

All the pics were taken by Brad and Adam

Jay, Cheryl and me

Elisabeth and Jay

Adam. Tiffany and Kim

The feast! Shrimps, asparagus, sausages, lentil salad, potato salad...

At the arboretum

Now that we live close by, we got a membership to the arboretum. Last weekend was the start of the spring blooms, it was very colorful and the smell of all the flowers was really wonderful.

Enjoy the pictures!

Jay saw something!

Do you see it too?

Here it is!

It's a hummingbird. At first we thought it was a bee.

So cute!

A chinese snowball

This is a Hardy Amaryllis or San Antonio rose

Roping lesson

On sunday, Laurel and I went riding and then we went to a roping lesson. And yes, that's what the cowboys do to capture a cow to brand it or take care of it. They have a calf roping competition at the Fort Worth rodeo, where they have to lasso the cow and then tie its feet up.

Our roping teacher, Glen, is a team roping champion. He's a header and doesn't rope calves but young cows, too heavy to be tied up, that's why you have a team with a header and a heeler.

We didn't actually rope any cow but we saw Glen do it, and it's very fast! What we roped was a dummy pulled by a horse, and it was already pretty hard. But we had lots of fun, it was a great day!

Back from the ride with Cody and Twister in the back

Ready to go!

This is Zeus, he's Laurel's mom. I usually ride him but he was missing a shoe so we couldn't take him on a trail ride. He was a little upset to be left behind.

At the roping lesson, trying to rope a non-moving dummy

Laurel is trying first!

My turn now!

I got it! Yeah!

A little double ride around the propertie before going back home.

Snow and banana tree

So it snowed yesterday during the night, our backyard is all white! It's like we are living in the Alps with Nanite and the Yeti! (Not exactly but very close, the snow melted really fast)

For Dallas, this is A LOT of snow, it was all over the news!

And now, some news of the banana tree. Remember a month ago how small it was?

It got big! And this is just the beginning, AMAZING!

Oscar party

Last sunday was Oscar night, so because we're really fancy down here in Dallas, we had an Oscar party with a red carpet and really good food.

Here's some pics!

With my good friends Liz and Cheryl

With Tiffany

Liz, Dorothée, Cheryl and Sam