The sunset, viewed from the pier.

One of the neighbors in their sailboat.

We did a bit more sightseeing this year. We spent some time in Houston at the Zoo and took a couple of pictures there.
Giraffe

Baby Giraffe, he was about a year old.

Meerkat

Meerkat

Meerkat

Interesting bird

Koala

Monkeys

Bird

All zoo pictures were taken by Harley

Thanks to my Uncle, we got to see a baseball game at Minute Maid Park. Astros vs the Nationals. The Astros won 3-2. Sorry, no pictures from the game!

On to the important stuff, the girlies! They all had a lot of fun, this was just the break we needed before college starts and life gets even more hectic.
Each dog has her own style of photograph. Rumor is the action girl. She loves the camera, but isn't much for standing still, so most of her shots are action shots. Carrie loves to pose. If shes busy swimming, or running you better believe she isn't going to be bothered with the camera, but when shes still she will pose all day. Terra is elusive. She does her own thing, so she rarely gets pictures taken of her. Enjoy the massive amount of photos!

Carrie

Rumor launching after the toy.

Terra getting some lovin'

Carrie enjoying the view

Carrie getting splashed!

Rumor retrieving her wubba

Rumor fighting the waves

Pretty shot of Rumor

Rumor

Rumor playing

Rumor playing

More loving for Miss T

Carrie "Oh, whats that?!"

Carrie shaking

Terra Relaxing

Terra, hard to photograph black dogs

Terra relaxing some more. (Does she ever do anything else?)

Carrie trying to stay dry

Carrie, pretty headshot

Carrie, similar to the one above, but slightly different

Carrie, different angle/lighting

Rumor sitting, waiting for me to throw the wubba

Rumor getting the wubba

Rumor, letting her horns show

Rumor Turning

Rumor, going after the wubba

Rumor bringing it back. (Can you tell she lives to take action shots?)

Sitting, waiting for the throw

Rumor

Rumor tugging

Rumor, after a swim

Rumor sitting

Rumor, closeup

Rumor finally relaxing

Rumor standing near the water's edge

Rumor fetching some more

Rumor relaxing on the balcony. (Yes, see, she DOES lay down)

Ahh, more relaxing

Looking at too many of these may cause someone to fall asleep!

Her favorite pasttime!

More Water!

Rumor in the water

Rumor retrieving

More retrieving

This time with a stick. Her wubba got left out on the beach one afternoon when the tide came in and sure enough it got washed out. It was lost out in the bay for two days and then it washed back onto our beach. Rumor was grateful that it came back, and Harley and I were completely stunned!

Rumor diving, did I mention she loves water?

Ahh, the wubba came back home!

Carrie spends most of her time posing, this makes for awesome still shots, but not so many action shots of her

Carrie the poser

Carrie

Carrie

Carrie

Aha! Caught in the act! See, she does swim.

Carrie, getting out of the water

Carrie getting back in the water

Carrie swimming

Getting out of the water

Rumor and the stick

Rumor again

Riding the wave in

Rumor getting ready for me to throw her wubba

Rumor standing near the neighbors porch

More water pictures

Rumor looking out from the balcony

Looking for fish

Rumor standing in the water

I was trying to bribe the dogs into posing together. This would have been great except for the gigantic string of drool Terra has.

Now shes licking her nose

Eh, this is as good as it gets, they looked scrunched down, but no one is drooling!